The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 349 Chili VS Pepper
Faisal kept waving his hands:

"It takes about a thousand cocoons to produce about two and a half cents of silk, and a sari made by a Tianzhu woman requires at least nearly two kilograms of Muga silk. How many cocoons do you need?"

"What a luxury!"

All the young and old men in Daxia gasped in unison.

If there were so many prodigal ladies in any family, it would be difficult to buy even one sari a year!

After the translator told the Tianzhu people about the Daxia people’s exclamation, they laughed again:
"The silk of amber silkworm is not only beautiful, but also quite strong and durable. A saree made from it can last until the end of the owner's life, and the color will become more golden with each wash."

Yes, one piece can be used as a family heirloom for a lifetime.

The more the silk merchant listened, the more interested he became: "We have been wearing silk and satin for decades, but we have never seen anything like this. I can't wait to buy a few pieces back."

Scarcity makes things valuable. If they could be sold to the Great Xia Dynasty, those big families would rush to buy them with gold in their hands.

The more I think about it, the more excited I become!
As soon as he asked the question, he was hit by Faisal.

"You can't buy it. The country can't produce many kilograms a year. Now, the only ones who can wear Muga silk as they like are the King Ahom and their powerful officials."

Faisal said regretfully, if it could be produced in large quantities, would food merchants still miss such a business opportunity?
Who wouldn’t covet such high-end luxury goods?

In order to conquer the Ahom Kingdom, the Delhi Dynasty has sent troops several times, but has not been successful so far.

Especially after the feud between the two countries, it became even more difficult for the men of the Delhi dynasty to wear clothes made of Muga silk.

If anyone could have a belt made of Muga silk, he would be able to show it off for many years.

It was the silk merchant from Eastern Daxia who gave them a big surprise.

Silk is much smoother and more noble than cotton!
Before their products were sold out, ship merchants were hurriedly purchasing Tianzhu pepper.

Pepper, due to the isolation of the Great Xia Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the amount of pepper that middlemen in Southeast Asia could smuggle into the Great Xia Dynasty was still quite limited compared to the market.

Finally, by the time of the Great Xia Dynasty, a powerful family from the coast had monopolized all the pepper sales.

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

In the local market in Tianzhu, converted into Daxia currency, five taels of silver can buy a hundred catties!

If you are buying in bulk, there is still room for negotiation based on this price.

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

The 400 sailors, more than 20 shipwrights, Shangguan imperial doctors and dozens of other doctors who were accompanying us saw such a high profit, who could resist not buying it?

If Master Cui hadn't repeatedly warned everyone, everyone must consider the load-bearing capacity of seagoing ships.

I guess you can buy a sunken ship just for pepper.

Everyone sighed together: This boat is too small and cannot be loaded! Not enough!

If there is time, I would like to ask the shipwrights to build ten more of them.

Even Huang Shangshu was not exempt from vulgarity and couldn't help but come to inquire.

"Uncle, although the spices sent to us by the Sultan of Delhi contain a lot of pepper, we still have a lot of space on the cargo ship, and we can carry more! The price is not expensive anyway!"

It’s only fifty cents per catty, so you won’t suffer a loss if you don’t buy it, and you won’t be fooled if you buy it!
"Such a good thing, I wonder what your plans are?" The Sultan of Delhi was already determined to get it, but his question was calm and calm.

"Manny Sultan, no matter how much chili noodles you buy, you will always run out of them. I wonder if you are interested in chili seeds and methods of growing chili peppers?" "Can chili peppers be grown here in Tianzhu?"

Need to say more about the value of this pepper?
Just how much money can pepper alone bring them every year.

Wouldn't it be great if peppers were grown on a large scale?
Huang Shangshu gave him a definite answer: "We have been growing peppers in Daxia for many years. With the climate in Tianzhu, it is not a big problem to grow two to three seasons a year!"

"Okay, what do you want to change?" Tatars are always direct and they just ask what they think.

"Mani Sultan, how about we exchange one pound of pepper seeds for fifty pounds of pepper seeds? We will also provide you with an atlas of pepper planting!"

I really don’t blame them for going to such trouble to buy some pepper seeds.

Nowadays, most of the pepper plantations in northern Tianzhu are monopolized by the Forty Group or wealthy businessmen.

There are no pepper seeds or pepper seedlings for sale in the general market.

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

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

High-temperature boiling water has killed the pepper seed germ, so how can it germinate and grow?

"One pound for fifty pounds?" The Sultan of Delhi thought he heard wrongly and confirmed the quantity of the transaction.

"Yes, Mani Sultan, pepper seeds are very small. One pound of pepper seeds can be planted in fifty acres of land. One acre of pepper can produce one thousand kilograms of peppers!"

Then the output is amazing! More than pepper!
The Sultan of Delhi did not question Huang Shangshu's words. He thought about it carefully and finally agreed.

Didn't the big food merchants try growing pepper elsewhere before?
We still purchase them from Tianzhu, which means that pepper itself is not easy to grow!
Thinking of this, the Sultan of Delhi couldn't help but get excited.

What if his family grew peppers before other families and then sold them to the cannibals?
It seems that soon, his army will be able to add a lot of weapons!
With the weapons and equipment in place, his throne will be stable for a few more years.

The first one is crucial. To seize the opportunity and so on, Delhi Sultan is still very knowledgeable.

They are very generous!

Huang Shangshu directly rounded up their pepper seed inventory, ten pounds of pepper seeds.

Huang Shangshu stored the 500 kilograms of pepper seeds exchanged for pepper seeds in a separate place and labeled them for fear of being confused with other peppers.

The baby has to look like something!
What they gave to the Sultan of Delhi were two volumes, maps of pepper cultivation.

Where can the Delhi Sultan have any ready-made books on pepper cultivation for them?

In the end, the solution he came up with was to ask Huang Shangshu and others to take people to study at the pepper plantation of the Sultan's family!
Can I enter a pepper plantation?
Such a good thing, Hei Wa took Feisal, the boys, and the idler Gao Huaiyu to follow him.

Yuan Wenjie and the others are now able to converse with Faisal smoothly in Da Shi language, and their reading and writing are still in the introductory stage.

Arriving at the plantation, Hei Wa was dumbfounded: "I always thought pepper grew on pepper trees, but it turns out they are perennial woody vines!"

General Gao, who also knew nothing about this, was disapproving: "They don't grow pepper in Daxia, so I don't know if that's normal!"

"But I." Hei Wa swallowed the second half of the sentence silently.

How is he comparable to a native like Gao Huaiyu?

After all, I have never been to a pepper planting base in my previous life, so most people probably don’t know this common sense!

(End of this chapter)