Back to modern times, Her Majesty the Queen and I are both laid off

Chapter 157 You went to find cumin.

The word "return" is categorical.

Lin Luo just wanted to communicate with Jiang Zi, but suddenly paused.

No, even if I really ask you to pay back, how much do you plan to pay back?
We've been living together for so long, and I haven't seen you holding a small book to keep accounts, so do you know how much you owe me?
You must not know that, right?

So, what's your intention?

Could it be that your so-called repayment, regardless of the specific amount, is that when you make a lot of money in the future and become a rich woman, you can just take out a large amount of money and slap it in front of me?
Thinking of this, Lin Luo suddenly realized that she wanted to support herself.
Jiang Zi, I really didn’t expect that you are quite ambitious.

He turned his head and glanced at Jiang Li, but did not try to expose her little vision. Of course, he behaved very naturally, holding the sweet potato and burying his head while I rode on horseback and ate, ate, ate.

The baked sweet potatoes looked very poor, they were dark and stained with a lot of soil, but they smelled very sweet.

Jiang Li was not in a hurry to eat. He wrapped the sweet potato in toilet paper, then held a paper towel in his other hand and carefully wiped the soil on it.

Wrong, big mistake!
Lin Luo shook his head secretly. Roasted sweet potatoes should be eaten while they are hot. The hotter, the better. When it was hot, he switched his hands back and forth. When Wei Wei got used to it, he gently pinched the top with his fingers, then peeled off the skin and took a bite. It was hot. Baring his teeth and cracking his mouth, the sweet taste is the strongest.

If you don’t eat the skin, why are you rubbing it?
Not only is this operation purely redundant, but it also misses the best tasting period of the roasted sweet potatoes.

madness.

After wiping all the dirt off, Jiang Li gently twisted the dark skin with his hands and began to peel the sweet potato. When the flesh inside was exposed, he took a bite.

It's a little hot.

But it tastes surprisingly delicious.

"How about it? Is the one I bake better than the one sold on the roadside?"

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Jiang Li couldn't answer these words. She said to her heart that you never bought anything for me from the ones sold on the roadside. Lin Luo also thought about it at this moment, "The sweet potatoes sold on the roadside are too shady. They only pay two yuan for something." If you dare to sell it for more than ten or twenty, whoever buys it will be a fool."

“These sweet potatoes cost two yuan each?”

"Two yuan per catty. This is still the market price. If it is cheaper to go to the village to collect it, you can get it for just a few cents. After all, this product has a high yield, and one acre of land can easily produce several thousand catties."

How many kilograms does one acre of land cost?

Also casually?
Jiang Li was shocked, "How many kilograms of sweet potatoes can be produced per acre?"

Seeing the shocked look on her face, Lin Luo approached her and said, "I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that if our country had these sweet potatoes, wouldn't everyone be able to fill their stomachs, right?" "

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Yes, if I have such sweet potatoes in Daqi, although they are not a serious food, they can always be used to satisfy the hunger.

After all, in years of famine, I heard that people who suffered disasters would even eat grass roots and tree bark. If there were crops like this that could produce thousands of kilograms per acre, everyone would be able to fill their stomachs.

However, even if it does occur, it may not produce a few thousand kilograms, maybe a few hundred kilograms. Just like the oranges in Huainan and Huaibei are different, these several kilograms may be obtained through modern technology.

Thinking of this, Jiang Li suddenly remembered that she had been in modern times for so long and had never paid attention to agricultural issues.

And now we are in the fields, but it is the New Year and the crops have not started to be planted in the fields. All we can see is stretches of wasteland.

"What crops are grown in this land?"

"wheat."

"How much can one acre of modern wheat produce?"

"Five or six hundred pounds."

Jiang Li was silent for a moment, then asked: "Where is the rice?"

"Eight or nine hundred pounds."

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so.
She lowered her head and looked at the sweet potato in her hand. It had little to do with technology, or maybe technology couldn't increase food production too much. Was it that this thing could produce thousands of kilograms per acre?
"This sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, is an exotic species and is not native to us. Its own yield is particularly high."

"Sweet potato. Come from a foreign country?"

"more or less."

“Can you produce thousands of kilograms per acre by planting just about anything?”

"Correct."

"Since you know that there is such a crop that can produce thousands of kilograms per acre in Fan State, why didn't you send people to Fan State to look for it when you were in Daqi?"

Jiang Li frowned with a questioning tone, and finally added, "You went to find cumin."

You have remembered the cumin thing again, right?
"It's not that I don't want to look for it, it's just that I can't find it. The origin of sweet potatoes is far away from Daqi."

"how far?"

"Go out to sea by boat and sail tens of thousands of miles on the sea."

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Unexpectedly, Jiang Li fell silent.

"With the shipbuilding technology of Daqi at that time, the boats built could only go in rivers and offshore, but that was it. On the real sea, the waves were rough, and maybe just one wave hit, and the boat was destroyed. The end of death.”

"You may want to say that sacrificing your life for such crops is nothing, but this kind of thing does not mean that you will be rewarded if you sacrifice it. In the vast sea, there are no specific coordinates, no clear channel, no idea where You can stop the ship to resupply, but no matter how you look for it, you won’t be able to find it at all.”

When I read historical novels in the past, the protagonists always wanted to go to South America to look for potatoes and sweet potatoes. That's it for the Song and Ming Dynasties. After all, the shipbuilding technology is there, so this matter has certain feasibility.

But if you push it further, shipbuilding technology cannot guarantee normal navigation on the sea. Of course, there is a certain chance that it can be achieved.

But how slim are the chances?

And there was another very important reason why Lin Luo didn't mention this matter.

Can't mention it.

You can't go to Jiang Li and say: Your Majesty, our family couldn't sleep last night. We watched the sky at night and learned that there is a crop overseas that can produce thousands of kilograms per mu. Why not send people to supervise the construction of treasure ships and then go overseas to search for it.

Is this appropriate?

As long as she says this, she will definitely be regarded as a fool.

It has nothing to do with anything else, just thinking and cognition. In a country where the grain yield per mu is two to three hundred or three to four hundred kilograms, no one can believe that there is a grain in the world that can produce thousands of kilograms per mu.

If you go out and shout on the street that I am Qin Shihuang, more people will believe it.

At least Qin Shihuang found the elixir of immortality, and maybe he really lived forever.

Taking a step back, even if her brain is really short-circuited and she believes this kind of thing and sends artificial ships to go to sea to search, the final result will be to go out again and again, using the experience brought back by her predecessors, Improve the boat, increase the distance it can travel, then come back, improve it again, and so on.

It seems to be a solution, but in actual operation, I am afraid that it will fail once or at most twice, and then people will be outraged. This wastes people, money, and lives, so the project was stopped.

Moreover, Jiang Li was different at that time than she is now. At that time, she was a high-ranking emperor. In order to appease the public anger, she might have been dragged to the downtown area and executed in front of everyone.

The kind that kills by a thousand knives.

But the modern classmate Jiang Jiang is different. He won't say anything when he kisses her, and he can only glare with his eyes.

Lin Luo tilted his head and kissed her on the face. Look, he stared again.

PS: I'm still coding Chapter 2 and haven't finished coding yet. Please wait a moment, um, about half an hour.

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