The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 370 Priceless Treasure
Before he could finish his emotion, Huang Shangshu continued to announce the good news:

"Your Majesty, there is also a boatload of cotton seeds and cotton cloth that my uncle insisted on bringing back.

Among the more than 1,000 slaves we brought back, several hundred of them were skilled cotton growers in Tianzhu, as well as skilled weavers.

Your Majesty, please see, these cotton cloths are made of cotton. Touch it and see if it's soft? These cotton fabrics are 80 to 90% cheaper than silk.

If corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes could be popularized in the Great Xia Dynasty, then the yield of our cultivated land could be increased several times.

The extra dry land can be used to grow cotton. By then, our people will really have no worries about food and clothing! "

"Very good, very good! These cotton cloths are good. They are indeed much softer to the touch than linen and kudzu. In the past, we didn't grow much cotton in summer. If we can make cotton cloth, it would be worth planting in large quantities!"

Xia Hongdi is not an emperor who doesn't eat minced meat. How can he not know the price difference between silk and linen?

With such a cushioning fabric as a choice between the two, you can imagine how popular it will be!
How can the silk market be affected?
Can't that be sold overseas?
Huang Shangshu spoke until his voice became hoarse. Xia Hongdi nodded to Uncle Zhongqin and continued.

"Your Majesty, I would like to introduce this to you! Well, it's pepper seeds!
In our Daxia, pepper costs dozens of taels of silver per catty, but in Tianzhu it costs only tens of taels of silver per catty.

Aren’t all the high profits going to the middlemen?

Don't you agree? Our Daxia Dynasty is so big, don't we have any land where we can grow pepper?
But this pepper vine must at least survive in a hot and humid environment like Tianzhu.

We decided to leave those pepper saplings in Anzhou!

Hahaha, Your Majesty, in a few years, we will even be able to produce pepper.

Who will buy this thing at a high price in the future?
Let ordinary people in our Daxia Dynasty use this ordinary seasoning, just like chili! "

"You guys are so! You are so capable! These are the things that those maritime merchants broke their brains to sell! Hahahaha, if we can grow pepper in the summer, what can they do to us?"

How could Xia Hongdi not know that pepper smuggling has been banned repeatedly, and the source is that this stuff is not produced in Daxia!
Gao Huaiyu also added how Uncle Zhongqin used peppers in exchange for pepper seeds and pepper cultivation methods in Tianzhu, which made Xia Hongdi laugh.

His beloved is so talented!
What's the point of exchanging silk and porcelain for real money?
The wisdom of genius is real money!
"Hey, Your Majesty, I also discovered a very interesting tree in the Inca Empire.

A lot of white sap will flow out when you cut it with a knife. The local people can apply it on their bodies to form a film to prevent mosquito bites.

I thought that if I study it carefully, there might be other benefits, so I brought back a lot of seeds, which can be planted in Lingnan and Yazhou! "

Xia Hongdi nodded in support without thinking. Next year, he will transfer Tu Sinong to Uncle Zhongqin. The two should get along well.

After talking about these gains, several people introduced the economic, political, and military strength of overseas countries.

Gao Huaiyu made a special explanation of the fact that the Sultan of Delhi in Tianzhu was a Tatar.

The Tatars are a powerful enemy. Xia Hongdi said that he has never relaxed his vigilance against them.

They can actually go overseas to usurp power in other countries, let alone underestimate them.

“The geographical location of Srivijaya, a vassal state, is particularly important, and everyone entering and leaving the Western Ocean must pass through this country.

Please forgive me, Your Majesty! We took it upon ourselves to acquire an island in that country, giving the navy brothers on Shield Fish Island an additional place to train! ""Hahaha! I will forgive you for making your own decisions no matter how many times you come! "

Xia Hongdi was almost too happy to set off firecrackers. He could go to the vassal country to garrison troops. Who wouldn't be happy?
The establishment of 50,000 navy troops seems to be a little short!
It can be doubled again!

Thinking of another vassal state, Xia Hongdi restrained his smile:
"As the legitimate son of the King of Jiaozhi, let him go to the Imperial Academy to study for a few years and learn what filial piety, etiquette, loyalty, and integrity are!"

Everyone praised it!
Zhongqinbo made a summary on today’s topic:
“Your Majesty, our Daxia’s sea-ship technology is mature enough, and our navy’s combat effectiveness is not weak either.

There are still so many barbaric lands overseas, some of which even have no natives, and there are more gold, silver and gems than you can imagine. There is a lot to do! "

Huang Shangshu nodded: "I agree, although it took us nearly three years this time, we have already figured out the route map clearly, no matter whether we are going east or west.

If we don't go digging, sooner or later those big food merchants will have to go. At the worst, we can dig gold mines there for decades! "

Gao Huaiyu was even more excited: "I second my opinion, they say that raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while, Daxia's navy can set off again at any time!"

"Okay! Well said!" Xia Hongdi laughed heartily again.

Not to mention that these people were reluctant to part with the gold and gems from Borderlands, he was reluctant to part with them too!
Jiangnan Shipyard's ships have never stopped working in recent years.

Ships will get better and better and bigger.

Not only for these gold and silver jewels, the food brought back by Uncle Zhongqin and the techniques they could not figure out for thousands of years are also priceless treasures.

There are also those textile slaves mentioned by Uncle Zhongqin. If more technical talents can come to Daxia, why worry about the Daxia Dynasty not being able to continue for hundreds of more years? !
On the last day of work report, Uncle Zhongqin did not forget to remind:
"Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the sky is round and the earth is round, but where did we start from and where did we end up this time? Does this mean that the land we live in is not square, but round?"

Huang Shangshu, a scholar, also had something to say about this:

"Yes, yes, yes, the officials of the Imperial Academy and the Qintian Prison on the observation ship also have doubts about this statement. Your Majesty, we have experienced this theory personally, so we have to believe it!"

This matter caused another heated discussion among the monarch and his ministers.

Speaking of excitement, officials from the Qintian Prison were invited to discuss the matter.

After all that needed to be explained, Xia Hongdi looked at the three of them, as if there were still things he had to say.

I couldn't help but be curious: "There's still a baby?"

Uncle Zhongqin and Huang Shangshu lowered their heads, while General Gao looked unhappy:

"Your Majesty, the Sultan of Delhi in India also gave you twenty palace maids, and I also brought them back to the capital."

"Haha! A beautiful maid from a foreign country? I know!"

Seeing the aggrieved look in his brother-in-law's eyes, Xia Hongdi held back a smile for a long time, what a fool.

(End of this chapter)