[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique":3,"chapter-eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-8":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1649159,2112,"Chapter 8 - 7: Reform Steps","eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-8",8,"\u003Cp>Although he had decided on implementing reforms, Shen Changchuan wasn’t in a rush to begin immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a top-tier corporate drone in his past life, he was all too aware of the consequences of an amateur leading experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some things might start with good intentions,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but during implementation, they could gradually deviate from their original purpose and end up making things worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had only been transmigrated for two and a half years, and his primary understanding of this world still came from the body’s original owner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the original owner had no experience related to cultivating Spirit Fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he simply acted on his own ideas,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would surely be out of touch with reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he messed things up, the twelve plots of Spirit Fields might yield no harvest at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When that happened, where would he find a hundred Spirit Stones to pay the Shen Family’s tribute?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan had a relatively prudent personality,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so he would not act recklessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided to get a clear picture of the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after several days of personally touring Dawan Village, and with the help of his maternal grandfather Han Qinhu and others, he gathered a vast amount of information about the village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan combined this with his experiences from his previous life in a high-efficiency society. After much deliberation, considering every angle, he finally devised a multi-step plan for reform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the initial step of the reform was to gain control over and reorganize the people of Dawan Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Shiyin’s grasp on Dawan Village had been far too crude; he hadn’t even known the total population. If this wasn’t sorted out, any further changes would be impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, with the help of Han Qinhu and the servants he had brought with him, Shen Changchuan spent a full day compiling a census of the entire Dawan Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The count came to a total of two thousand three hundred men, women, and children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, he divided these two thousand three hundred people into twelve teams, grouped by family and with a mix of ages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each team consisted of nearly two hundred people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each team publicly elected a captain from amongst themselves, while a member of the Han Family—brought by his grandfather, Han Qinhu—was appointed as a supervising vice-captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan planned to divide the twelve plots of Spirit Fields into twelve equal sections. Each team would be responsible for one section.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This would allow for more detailed management.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Dawan Village’s old system, whenever the Spirit Fields needed tending, all two thousand-plus villagers would swarm the fields at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Needless to say, this meant a large number of slackers were mixed in, showing up for work but not actually doing any, just trying to get by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Even after dividing them, a team of two hundred is still bloated, but at least it’s far more efficient than two thousand people working together.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’At the very least, each team’s duties are now crystal clear. The members can keep an eye on each other, which will undoubtedly reduce slacking and increase productivity.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Shen Changchuan’s plan for reorganizing the people of Dawan Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he also clearly understood something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But even though this will boost productivity and drastically cut down on wasted labor, it ultimately won’t have a major impact on the Spirit Grain yield!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Increased productivity only leads to a higher yield if you have more Spirit Fields to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only with enough land to farm can that increased productivity translate into a real increase in the Spirit Grain output.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, Dawan Village only had its twelve plots of Spirit Fields!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with higher productivity, at most they would just finish their work a few days earlier than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The total amount of Spirit Grain harvested from those twelve plots would remain the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It doesn’t change whether you work quickly or slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The amount of Spirit Fields is limited, and creating new ones suitable for growing Spirit Grain would take at least three to five years of hard labor.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So, to increase the overall harvest, the only way is to improve the current cultivation techniques and boost the yield per plot!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was precisely the second, and most crucial, step of Shen Changchuan’s reforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first step—dividing the villagers into twelve teams—was merely a preparation for this second step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I may have never grown Spirit Rice myself, but I know the basic ways to quickly increase crop yield are deep plowing, seed selection, transplanting seedlings, and fertilization.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Cultivating Spirit Rice should be more or less the same.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Shen Changchuan’s idea for how to increase the per-plot yield of Spirit Grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, you don’t need to have seen a pig run to know what pork tastes like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biology and history classes he took in high school in his previous life had covered the relevant points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principles should be universal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knowledge he remembered from his past life ought to be useful to some extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it came back to the same principle:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>leave specialized work to the specialists. An amateur must never lead the experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, despite having ideas on how to increase the per-plot yield,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan wouldn’t just make a snap decision and order everyone to follow his methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, who knew if his ideas would be incompatible with local conditions?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if cultivating Spirit Grain was completely different from growing rice in his past life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without real-world trials,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one could beat their chest and guarantee success.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he continued his research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the census he had conducted, he identified many villagers with experience in cultivating Spirit Grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went to each of them for their advice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carefully noted down their answers, comparing them with his own ideas and making adjustments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This process took several more days,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after which he had compiled two distinct proposals for cultivating Spirit Grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One proposal was primarily based on the scientific knowledge from his previous life, incorporating local experience with Spirit Grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other was mainly based on local cultivation experience, supplemented with suitable methods from his past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’All that effort, and it’s finally done.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Now, let’s hope these plans work!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan took his two summaries of cultivation techniques and gave them to Team Eleven and Team Twelve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan planned to use Team Eleven and Team Twelve as test subjects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would test how his two summarized cultivation methods affected the per-plot yield of Spirit Grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the other ten teams,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan didn’t intend to change anything for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were to continue farming using the old methods, sticking to established practices and past experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even after conducting his own investigation, Shen Changchuan still opted for a conservative approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His reasoning was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to avoid the worst-case scenario: a problem with the new methods leading to a total loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan was well aware that the production-enhancing methods he’d compiled were not guaranteed to be correct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he made rash changes that caused a major problem with the Spirit Grain harvest, he wouldn’t be able to meet the fixed quota and would find himself in serious trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Reforms can’t be rushed. Stability must come first!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it came to matters of life, fortune, and family, Shen Changchuan was as cautious as could be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the harvest from ten plots of Spirit Fields as a safety net,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the worst possible outcome was that the two experimental plots would yield nothing. Even then, he could still meet the Shen Family’s quota.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn’t cause a major disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>since he had this safety net and was only using Team Eleven and Team Twelve as experimental groups,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan didn’t mind letting them be a bit more radical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to ensure Team Eleven and Team Twelve followed his new cultivation guidelines as closely as possible, and to stimulate their initiative and motivation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Changchuan promised both teams that they would bear no responsibility if the new techniques failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if the yield from either of their two plots exceeded one hundred pounds of Spirit Grain, the surplus would be split. They would receive thirty percent of the excess as a reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit Grain was a food that contained faint Spiritual Qi. Frequent consumption gave Innate Martial Artists a chance at achieving Qi Introduction, allowing them to step into the Qi Introduction Realm and begin the path of Immortal Cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a Mortal Martial Artist, the value of Spirit Grain was self-evident!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the six years that Shen Shiyin had been in charge of Dawan Village,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not a single Martial Artist in all of Dawan Village had ever received so much as a single grain of the Spirit Grain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thirty-percent share of the harvest above one hundred pounds might seem exploitative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But compared to Shen Shiyin, by giving them a chance to obtain Spirit Grain at all,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he, Shen Changchuan, was already being an exceptionally benevolent master.\u003C\u002Fp>",1508,"2026-06-06T11:55:28.346Z",1,"novelbin.me","467e634ca6ef71ffc005084d4e8abc1ef31f95ebb45c01d1dfc71bda41fc2643","eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-9","eternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-chapter-7",85,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-life-from-the-golden-needle-technique-cover.jpg"]