Villager of Daming

Chapter 1299: Factions are hard to guess

Not only Queen Ma found it interesting, but everyone else also realized that their idea of ​​learning to thread corn with chopsticks was not good enough.

Because Zhu Wentian was there with a skewer in one hand and chopsticks in the other.

He used an iron skewer to find a random spot and pierce it into the corn cob to secure it in place. He then put the chopsticks through it, but he still felt it was too hot.

"We are so smart!" Zhu Yuanzhang gave a thumbs up to express his praise.

"Hey! Hanhan, what about me! Um! Hehehehe..."

Zhu Wentian had already formed a conditioned reflex, and as he spoke he chopped a few more cobs of corn and shared them with others.

"Hanhan is the most hardworking, and mainly because he is very strong." Queen Ma followed suit and looked towards the market: "There will be more fruits and vegetables to buy and sell there in the future! This kind of kidney beans is delicious!"

After taking a bite of boiled corn, Queen Ma picked up some shredded kidney beans and praised them, saying that all American crops, as long as they were planted, must be tasted when they were ready to be eaten.

If it doesn’t taste good, there’s no point in promoting it because no one will like it.

Kidney beans are also known as string beans and green beans. The name originally came from kidney beans. The character “芸” is composed of “艹”, which means vegetable, and it is not a grain.

Calling it vegetable beans is a direct translation. If it is eaten as a vegetable, what else can we call it if not vegetable beans?

As for green beans, they have strong survival abilities, low environmental requirements, and can be grown all year round in the southern region.

However, don’t underestimate kidney beans. In America, locals eat them as a vegetable along with rice.

When they are immature, kidney beans can be cooked and eaten, provided that they are cooked thoroughly, otherwise there will be alkaloid poisoning.

When they are ripe, the outer skin is no longer eaten as it is difficult to chew, so people eat the beans as rice. At this point, it is not wrong to call them rice beans.

Kidney beans can be planted in the same season as cowpeas, peas and lentils.

Lentils are not very tasty, they feel numb and crisp in the mouth.

Peas are okay, whether you eat them with the skin or just the peas, but the peas fall off easily.

Cowpeas are small and have a special flavor.

Kidney beans are large and are suitable for stewing, frying, or braising.

This is the case with the varieties that have been introduced now. Xiaqiu Village will then start grafting and cross-pollination.

Kidney beans are pollinated naturally, while those grown in greenhouses need artificial pollination. The success rate of artificial pollination is much higher than that of natural breeding.

Artificial pollination is required during breeding, even if it is not done in a greenhouse, but rather planted in the field.

When people get the seeds to plant, it is impossible to artificially pollinate them.

Just like cucumbers, artificial pollination of cucumbers in greenhouses and releasing bees are also considered human intervention.

Artificial pollination is guaranteed to be better than natural pollination. The defective rate of greenhouse cucumbers is very low, while some cucumbers grown on the ground will simply shrink.

There are also tomatoes, strawberries, apples, peanuts, sunflowers, pumpkins, pineapples, guavas, cashews...

During this voyage, the team did not find everything listed in the atlas of Xiaqiu Village, but they found a lot of normal fruits, vegetables, and grain crops, including medicinal herbs such as American ginseng.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have liked to bring new varieties from other places back to plant, such as cotton, as flowers.

Historically, sunflowers were first grown as ornamental flowers, but shelling was troublesome and one could not always find someone to peel the seeds, and the technology for drying the seeds was also poor.

How could they know that when the sunflowers are ripe and need to be dried in the sun, they just need to be cut with a knife and then the flower disks are inserted back onto the vines to continue drying?
Zhu Wentian is familiar with the entire set of procedures and techniques, and even knows the most suitable sunlight time and temperature for growing sunflower seeds in Inner Mongolia.

These things were written down in a booklet, the kind with hand-drawn illustrations.

The Ming navy went out to sea and brought many good things to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Wentian even wanted to make the people in Guangdong and Guangxi like peppers, because it is humid! Especially after the beginning of spring, the south wind is back.

People in Qiongzhou love spicy food. Chili sauce is the most abundant there, and it is very spicy, comparable to millet pepper and chili pepper.

Empress Ma wanted to see the vegetable baskets and rice bags of the Ming people full.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already tasted the sweetness of foreign trade, was thinking about making money. He looked at the market outside and turned his head slightly to look at the head of the village: "Chief Yi, do we need to strictly control the outflow of seeds?"

"Your Majesty, is there any need to say this? Our warriors have worked so hard to bring the goods back from there, how can we let the barbarians take them for free?

That cocoa tastes bitter, like tea, but it tastes good and needs to be grown for several years before it bears fruit.

Chili peppers are the good stuff. Export them first. If people want to eat them, just sell them chili powder, chili oil and chili sauce directly.

They must not be allowed to get potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. easily. They must be checked and the foreigners are not allowed to go ashore outside the designated areas.

If the barbarians bring something new from outside that we don't have, we can give them money. If they really want to exchange it, it depends on the value of what they bring.

The barbarians know small etiquette but not great righteousness, are particular about small matters but not great virtues, value small matters but neglect integrity and shame, fear power but do not cherish virtues, and will surely rob and plunder when they are strong, and will surely be submissive and submissive when they are weak.

The head of the village gave the outsiders a bad name. What Hanhan said was not wrong.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood there thinking hard about these words. He felt that some of the sentences were very familiar, as if these words did not come from the same place, so...

"Yes, that's absolutely right." Zhu Yuanzhang agreed. He didn't understand that this was an ideological prejudice. He just thought that people outside were bad and always coveted the good things of China.

Take Japan for example, why don’t you develop your own country well instead of coming here to rob our Ming Dynasty?

You little forces lost the battle, so why do you come to rob us? I'll spoil your bad habits!

Is our Ming Dynasty's sword not sharp? Is the steam engine not hot?

Nahachu and the others who followed over looked at each other. Those who had sufficient literary background found that the masters of Xiaqiu Village were very complicated.

It is impossible to analyze what faction or family the master belongs to. Sometimes he acts like a military strategist with strong Gongyang School characteristics.

Sometimes Legalism is emphasized, and some techniques of Confucianism and Mohism are used in internal propaganda, but they are definitely not universal love and non-aggression.

I haven't seen any strategists at the moment, so I guess they don't need to form alliances. They can just attack anyone they don't like.

The Taoists cannot be seen, and there is no need to say more about the Buddhists.

Is he a generalist? No, the master of Xiaqiu Village gives people the impression of being very practical. You would say that he does not know other knowledge, how is that possible? He just does not use it.

But this is exactly what they think, that's how it should be, when you encounter an enemy, there's no point in saying anything else, just attack directly.

"Why do people come to see the dentist every day? How long has it been?"

Lao Wu’s focus is different from others. He likes medicine and uses a telescope to look at the most conspicuous position in the market.

It is a place specifically used for dental care, including teeth cleaning, tooth extraction, fillings, dentures, and orthodontics.

The most expensive thing is dental braces, the materials used are expensive, if it weren’t for making watches, the materials and technology would not be enough.

I started treating people's teeth two years ago, why am I still doing it now? There are 20 doctors treating one position.

"It means that the living standard has improved and people are starting to pursue a higher quality of life. There are free services and paid services. The paid services in the village bring in very high incomes!"

Ling'er knew the situation. There were more and more wealthy people, and they all wanted gold cores when they had their teeth implanted. The village was willing to provide services for them because the service fee was more than five times the material cost.

(End of this chapter)