The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Before they sold out their products, the ship merchants were in a hurry to buy pepper.

Pepper, because the Great Xia Dynasty closed the country for more than 200 years, middlemen in Southeast Asia could smuggle a limited amount into the Great Xia Dynasty.

After finally reaching the Great Xia Dynasty, the market was monopolized by powerful families along the coast.

The amount of pepper currently circulating in the market in the Great Xia Dynasty is about 30 taels of silver per catty.

In the local market of Tianzhu, converted into Daxia currency, five taels of silver can buy a hundred catties, and the price can still be negotiated if purchased in bulk.

The boat merchants were so happy that they carried pepper to the fishing village every day.

Four hundred sailors, more than 20 shipwrights, Shangguan imperial physicians and dozens of doctors, who can resist buying?

If Master Cui hadn't repeatedly warned everyone to consider the weight of the ship, it is estimated that the pepper alone would be able to crush the shipwreck.

Everyone sighed in unison: This boat is too small, not enough to hold it!If time permits, please build ten more of them.

Even Huang Shangshu couldn't help but came to ask.

"Uncle, although the Sultan of Delhi sent us a lot of pepper in the spices, our cargo ship still has a lot of space, and we can load more! Anyway, the price is not expensive!"

Fifty Wen a catty, if you can't buy it, you will suffer a loss, and you won't be fooled if you buy it!
Hei Wa had planned for a long time, and asked with a smile: "Master Shangshu, do you still think that you will come to Tianzhu every year to sell pepper? And just because of our return to Daxia, how much can pepper be worth?"

"Hey, Uncle, there is something in your words!" Where is it going? There are so many people in Daxia, where can pepper be sold at such a low price?

"Hey, since the people of Tianzhu have such a strong taste and like to put all kinds of seasonings in their food, how can they miss the handle in the seasoning?"

"Hold the handle? What do you mean?"

"Of course it's chili! Didn't you find that there is no such seasoning anywhere except the Inca Empire?"

Hei Wa: Let Tianzhu people eat chili hundreds of years in advance, I am really a great virtue!
Worried that they won’t be able to eat spicy food? The devil’s spicy food of later generations is more spicy than the whole world!
Huang Shangshu, who has experienced several rounds of technology replacement by Uncle Zhongqin, his eyes lit up: "Uncle, what do you want?"

Swap chili for pepper?

The steps are still too small!
Seed for seed, planting technology for planting technology is the kingly way.

In later generations, peppers in Guangdong, Hainan, and Yunnan could take off, and Heiwa was not worried at all that it would not be able to be grown in the Great Xia Dynasty.

In fact, business is more flexible in terms of business, but the power of the Delhi dynasty is now complicated. Before leaving Tianzhu, it would be bad if it stabbed a hornet's nest.

No matter how weak the Sudan is, he is still the Sudan.

After discussing with Uncle Zhongqin and Zongbing Gao, Huang Shangshu went to the palace.

"Many Sultan, this is a condiment we brought from the Great Xia Dynasty, we call it chili!

It is several times more spicy than the pepper and turmeric in your country!
Cooked meat can be eaten directly with chili noodles, the taste of the meat will be richer and full of spiciness. "

The Sultan of Delhi frowned, looking at the big plate with red noodle-like condiments, noncommittal.

He winked at the slave who was sitting down, and the slave immediately took the chili noodles.

First, I dipped a little with my fingers and put it in my mouth to taste. After two breaths, my eyes brightened.

I also ran to slice a large piece of cooked mutton, dipped it in chili noodles, and it tasted delicious.

"Sudan, this is delicious and very spicy!" The slave dipped more than half of the chili noodles in a few strokes, and he didn't stop.

Seeing this phenomenon, the Sultan of Delhi followed the example of a slave. There was never a shortage of meat on his table.

What is the taste of beef sprinkled with chili noodles?
I didn't know it before, but now I know it.

When I tasted it for the first time, I didn't think it was very spicy, but I felt my appetite was whetted, and I couldn't help but want to eat more.

The more he ate it, the more spicy it became. By the time he realized it, he was already gasping from the heat.

Damn slave, why didn't he tell him that it would be so hot, there was a fine layer of sweat on the forehead of Delhi Sultan.

"Good! It's very spicy!" After drinking a large pot of water, Delhi Sultan's mouth was red and swollen, and he couldn't help eating another piece of beef dipped in chili noodles.

I just can't stop talking!

"Manny Sultan, chili peppers can not only be ground into fine noodles for seasoning, but also a vegetable in itself. They can be eaten as long as they grow to the size of a finger, and the more they grow, the more spicy they are. The taste of fried meat is even better. .”

"Oh! Can you still cook vegetables?!"

"Yes, Uncle Zhongqin brought a lot of chefs at home this time. They are very good at chili dishes, and they can teach your country's imperial dining room how to cook for free."

As for giving favors, Huang Shangshu counted Uncle Zhongqin's gestures and said he was very good at it.

"It's such a good thing, what do you guys plan to do?" The Sultan of Delhi was already sure that he would get it, but he asked in a calm manner.

"Manny Sultan, no matter how much chili noodles you buy, you will always run out. I wonder if you are interested in chili seeds and how to grow chili?"

"Can pepper be grown here in Tianzhu?" Needless to say the value of this pepper? How much income can a single pepper bring them every year? If pepper is planted in a large area, wouldn't it be
"We have grown peppers in Daxia for many years. With Tianzhu's climate, it is not a big problem to plant two seasons a year!"

"Okay, what do you want to change?"

"Manny Sultan, how about we exchange one catty of pepper seeds for fifty catties of pepper seeds? We will also provide the atlas of pepper cultivation!"

No wonder they took so much trouble to buy some pepper seeds.

Most of the pepper plantations in northern Tianzhu are now monopolized by the Forty Group or wealthy businessmen.

On the general market, there are no pepper seeds and pepper seedlings for sale.

The seeds of pepper are actually the same as the fruit of pepper that we see every day.

Why can't the bought pepper be used directly as seeds?
That's because when Tianzhu people process fresh pepper, they need to go through several times of high-temperature water sterilization and expose it to the sun for several days.

The high-temperature boiling water has killed the seed germ of pepper, how can it germinate and grow?

"One catty for fifty catties?" Delhi Sultan thought he heard it wrong, and confirmed the quantity of the transaction.

"Yes, Manny Sultan, the chili seeds are very small. One catty of chili seeds can plant fifty acres of land. One mu of peppers can produce one thousand catties of peppers!"

This output is astonishing. The Sultan of Delhi did not question Huang Shangshu's words. After careful consideration, he finally agreed.

Didn't Dashi merchants grow pepper in other places?
So far, they still purchase from Tianzhu, which means that pepper is not easy to grow!

Thinking of this, the Sultan of Delhi couldn't help but get excited. If his family grows peppers before other families, and then sells them to big cannibals.

His army can add a lot of weapons again, so his throne can be stable for a few more years.

The first batch is very important, and the Sultan of Delhi does not understand what it is to seize the opportunity.

They were very generous, and directly rounded up Huang Shangshu's pepper seed stock, ten catties of pepper seeds.

Huang Shangshu stored [-] catties of pepper seeds in a separate place and labeled them for fear of being confused with other pepper seeds.

What they gave to the Sultan of Delhi were two volumes, the map of pepper planting. How could the Sultan of Delhi have ready-made pepper planting books for them.

After thinking for a quarter of an hour, he allowed Huang Shangshu to take people to their family's pepper plantation, and learn it by himself!

Such a good thing, Heiwa took Feisal, the teenagers, and Gao Huaiyu all followed along.

Yuan Wenjie and the others are now able to talk to Feisal smoothly in Dashiyu, and they are still in the introductory stage of reading and writing.

When he arrived at the plantation, Heiwa was dumbfounded: "I used to think that pepper grows on pepper trees. It turns out that they are perennial woody vines!"

"Big Xia doesn't grow pepper, I don't know if it's quite normal!"

"But me." Hei Wa silently swallowed the second half of the sentence, what is the comparison between him and a native like Gao Huaiyu?After all, he had never been to a pepper plantation base in his previous life, so most people probably don’t know this kind of common sense!

"Ah, ah, look at him, he can climb like a monkey!"

Pepper likes to climb tall shrubs, and when the plantation slaves pick them, they have to climb up the trees with bamboo ladders.

Bunches of green berries, fast-handed slaves can pick up to twenty catties a day during the pepper harvest season.

It's a pity that they came in the wrong season. It's not yet the first month, and there are very few ripe berries that can be found out of flowering.

In order to demonstrate to all the distinguished guests, the slaves of the entire plantation were mobilized, and they searched the plantation of more than a hundred acres, barely scraping together more than three catties.

These plucked berries were placed directly on the ground covered with blankets by the slaves, and they kept stepping on them with their feet.

The meridian of the berry needs to be separated from the berry.

The green berries are soaked to remove the green husk and dried to produce less spicy white pepper.

With a green shell, soaked in high temperature water and then dried in the sun for three to five days, it is a black peppercorn!

The same species, just different ways to deal with it, really, I have gained a lot of knowledge!

After carefully looking at their growth environment, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion: pepper likes light, high temperature, and humidity, and is suitable for planting in sandy soil with good drainage.

With a sullen face, Feisal continued to translate to Hei Wa and the others: "Pepper is not only sown with seeds, but also can be planted by cutting off its vines. The slaves said that it is very easy to grow, and it will bloom and bear fruit in three to five years. The pepper vines on the plantation have been growing for more than ten years."

"Faisal, why are you so unhappy?" The teenagers asked without the composure of adults.

"Hey, our Dashi Empire can't grow peppers that are so easy to grow. Otherwise, why would we need to travel so far!"

"Imperial merchants can buy more plantations in Tianzhu. The most suitable and high-quality pepper must be grown by Tianzhu people!"

"That's true. Let me tell you, slaves in Tianzhu are also very cheap. Our largest food merchant family has [-] slaves in the plantation alone."