Li Shimin

Chapter 434 I will knight him!
"Not only can you find chili peppers, but you can also make county men if you find sweet potatoes and potatoes, and bring them back to Tang Dynasty!"

"Your Majesty, King Jin, the title of my Great Tang is an important weapon of the country, and it will not be granted to those who have made great contributions to my Great Tang. Moreover, those overseas hozen are so humble, how can they be awarded the title of my Great Tang?"

"Exactly, Your Majesty, King Jin, my title of Tang Dynasty, absolutely cannot be awarded to those hands of the hozen!"

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and the others shook their heads repeatedly, their faces filled with sorrow.

"Okay, then I won't grant it!"

Seeing this, before Li Shimin could speak, Li Xuan waved his hand indifferently.

"Anyway, if potatoes are planted on my Tang land, they will only yield seven or eight stones per mu, so it doesn't matter. As for sweet potatoes, they only yield fifteen stones per mu, so it doesn't matter if you want them or not!
After two years, when my steel fleet is successfully built, I can send people to look for it! "

"what?"

In an instant, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others were all stunned, staring closely at Li Xuan.

"Xuanba, is it true that potatoes can yield seven or eight stones per mu?"

"His Royal Highness, the sweet potato can yield fifteen stones per mu?"

"There is such a god in the world?..."

"It should be possible. As for whether there will be more output, I can't guarantee it!"

Li Xuan casually replied that the land at this time was extensively cultivated, but as long as the farmers were taught well, potatoes should be able to produce seven or eight stones per mu, and as for sweet potatoes, fifteen stones would be fine.

"Enough, enough!"

"Potatoes yield seven or eight shi per mu, and sweet potatoes yield fifteen shi per mu..."

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help trembling all over, their eyes were red, and they were extremely excited.

"Don't say seven or eight stones per mu, as long as six or five stones per mu, no matter where the barbarian is, as long as he can find this sacred object and dedicate it to my Tang Dynasty, I will definitely give it to him as a county man!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and the others nodded their heads repeatedly and never raised any objections. They all knew the importance of food to the Tang Dynasty.

Immediately, several people all stared at Li Xuan.

"Xuanba, where are the potatoes and sweet potatoes?"

"overseas!"

Li Xuan said slowly, "This kind of food is in America, which is thousands of miles away from my Tang Dynasty!"

"Xuanba, do you know what this fetish looks like?"

Li Shimin asked quickly.

"Of course I know!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly.

"Very good!"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"I also ask Xuanba to draw a pattern, and I will send it to Jiaozhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Dengzhou and other states urgently within eight hundred miles, so that the governors of these states will all issue notices, no matter who finds this kind of fetish, I will bestow upon him the Baron of Datang County!"

"Your Majesty, wait a moment!"

Li Xuan thought for a while, then nodded slowly in response, and walked to the table on one side.

Here, there are already prepared pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

Seeing this, Li Baoding and several people hurriedly ground and spread paper for Li Xuan.

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others couldn't help but walked over and looked at Li Xuan's painting expectantly.

Li Xuan frowned and thought about it for a moment, then picked up the pen and began to draw on the paper.

From top to bottom, stems and leaves to soil, and then to rhizomes, Li Xuan painted very carefully.

It's just that he is the only one who recognizes the plants in this world.

In order to let those overseas barbarians know the plants he painted in detail, Li Xuan was still on the side, and wrote a long paragraph of words in detail.

After half an hour.

Four pieces of paper and four plants were presented in front of Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others.

Although not as vivid as the court painter's, all the characteristics are quite obvious.

"Chili, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn..."

"Ok?"

When Li Shimin and others saw the blueprint of the corn, they couldn't help being surprised.

"Xuanba, corn is actually grain, and can it yield six or seven stones per mu?"

"Ok!"

Li Xuan nodded while rubbing his sore arm.

"Why are the corn fruits one by one, so there is a feeling of facing Buddha?"

Li Shimin asked again, "These corns are produced in Kapilavastu?"

"No, it is produced in the same place as potatoes and sweet potatoes!"

Li Xuan said again.

"A place of origin?"

After hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help being startled, and couldn't help asking enviously.

"What kind of land is it that can have potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other extremely high-yielding grains at the same time? Don't the people there never go hungry?"

"It should be America!"

Li Xuanhui directly shook his head, "However, I heard that there is also a wealth of gold there. In the clear river water, you can scoop up a handful of gold!"

"America is so rich?"

Subconsciously, Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others couldn't help but have red eyes.

"Your Majesty, I implore Your Majesty to rectify the navy and conquer America next year!"

"Exactly, Your Majesty, my Tang Dynasty has 500,000 elite soldiers. When necessary, we can recruit veterans, and Zhechong Mansions in various places can also mobilize 500,000 veterans!"

Changsun Wuji also had a fierce face.

The things Li Xuan described made Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others start to feel excited.

As long as one kind of food can be found for such a powerful country and rich people, it will be a great joy for Datang.

Li Xuan shook his head: "Your Majesty, America is too far away from Tang Dynasty, so there is no need to worry."

"However, America is full of gold. If those sea merchants find it, wouldn't they make wedding dresses for those hozens?" Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty, since they were able to find those places, they must have also found such grains as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn!"

Li Xuan chuckled and said slowly: "When they get there, they will definitely bring potatoes and sweet potatoes to Chang'an to ask His Majesty to ennoble you. And I expected that there are potatoes and sweet potatoes in the Americas. It should be a barren land, and the people in those places are still living a life of drinking blood and bare hair.

Therefore, those hozen must not know that my Tang Dynasty already knew that there would be so much gold in those places.

As long as those Hu merchants offer potatoes and sweet potatoes, His Majesty will make them county men, and then find an excuse to let those Hu merchants take my Datang navy to dig gold directly! "

"This plan is a clever plan!"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others nodded slowly again.

"However, I think His Majesty has oversimplified this matter!"

Li Xuan said again: "America is a wild land, very far away from all continents, those overseas merchants may not have heard of it. Even if they have heard of this big state, it is extremely difficult to cross thousands of miles of ocean. "

"Ugh!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others all looked embarrassed.

"Your Majesty and the princes don't need to do this. How can I easily obtain the title of Tang Dynasty? Moreover, those Hu merchants are barbarians, and they are not from my Tang Dynasty. No matter how many casualties there are, it is nothing for my Tang Dynasty. Nothing to do!"

Li Xuan laughed lightly.

"The shopkeeper here must be waiting impatiently, let them serve a table of food for His Majesty and others first, and then talk about this matter!"

"It's a pole, it's a pole!"

After what Li Xuan said, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others also felt unbearably hungry.

Li Wei, who was standing on the side, hurried out.

After a while, the old shopkeeper of the seafood restaurant followed Li Wei in.

Facing Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others, they saluted repeatedly, with fear on their faces.

Seeing this, Li Shimin didn't take it too seriously, and just asked the old shopkeeper to serve the food on the table again.

Anyway, when it comes to eating, no matter how many of them there are, they are not as professional as Li Xuan, so just follow Li Xuan to eat.

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(End of this chapter)