Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 194 Corn Harvest, Pyu Envoys Pay Tribute, Wa Envoy Soga Hyuga

Li Yuanji, who had been cheated, no longer thought about it. He could only wait until the next mission to get the territory without contribution points. Now, looking at the more than 100,000 contribution points in his hand, Li Yuanji directly opened the item exchange column.

After searching for a while, he finally found what he wanted to exchange. However, when he saw the price, which was 180,000 contribution points, Li Yuanji directly closed the system.

I thought the contribution points in my hand were a huge sum of money, but now it seems that it is not enough. How can this be considered a huge sum of money?
Li Yuanji stopped thinking about it and immediately asked someone to call Cen Wenben.

"Jingren, now that Zhenla has been conquered, do you have any idea about the division of Zhenla?"

Cen Wenben immediately understood what Li Yuanji was thinking. He thought about it for a while before shaking his head.

"Your Majesty, I have no idea yet. What do you think the name should be?"

Li Yuanji said without hesitation: "From now on, Zhenla will be divided into four states, divided by east, west, south and north. The west is Xizhou, the south is Wuzhou, the east is Taizhou, and the north is Zhenzhou.

In addition, the places that Yu Ming and his men conquered were named Yunzhou.

If the fief is expanded again in the future, you must change the name in time, give the new fief a name, and submit it to me for review before starting to use it directly."

Li Yuanji has learned a lesson from his failure and this matter must be resolved.

Cen Wenben listened quietly, and finally looked at Li Yuanji. The meaning was very clear. Was he called here just for this matter?

Li Yuanji's mouth twitched and he directly drove Cen Wenben out. He felt offended.

Time passed, and it was the day of corn harvest. On this day, Li Yuanji asked Cen Wenben to organize a few hundred people. Since there were not many people, a few hundred people were completely enough.

Most of the people who came carried baskets, and some held sickles. They stood outside the cornfield, looking a little at a loss.

Li Yuanji also came here. Cen Wenben stood beside Li Yuanji, looking at the cornfield with curiosity. He really wanted to know how to harvest the corn.

Li Yuanji looked at the cornfield and was very excited. He immediately called a team of people and began to teach them how to harvest corn.

Harvesting corn was really too simple. After a few words and a demonstration, these people immediately understood it and immediately took their people to start working.

The person in front started to pick the corn, and the person behind started to chop the corn stalks with sickles after picking the corn.

Li Yuanji came to Cen Wenben holding a corn.

"Jingren, look, after you peel off the outer shell, the yellow rice grains inside are corn. Unfortunately, they are old now. When they just grew out, they were really delicious when boiled or roasted.

There are a lot of things to do this year, so I forgot about it. I'll wait until next year and let you try it next year.

This old corn can be stored directly after being shelled and dried. As long as it is not wetted by rain, it can be stored for several years. When you want to eat it later, you just need to soak it again and then you can eat it as food.

There are many ways to make it, and you won’t understand even if I tell you. After the harvest, I will have someone make some, and then you will understand.

This food is very rare.”

Cen Wenben looked at the corn in his hand. Curious, he broke off a grain and put it in his mouth. He only felt it was hard and it cracked his teeth!

After Li Yuanji finished speaking, Cen Wenben was surprised. This corn can be stored so well? And there are so many ways to eat it?

Although he has not eaten it yet, Cen Wenben is shocked and happy, because there is a new kind of food, and it is so easy to store. How can he not be happy? Now he just needs to see what the yield of this corn will be.

"Your Majesty, this kind of food is truly amazing. I have never heard of it before, let alone seen it. When Your Majesty prepares it for consumption, I will definitely come and try it. I am so curious."

Li Yuanji smiled immediately and said nothing. No matter how much he said now, Cen Wenben would not understand and it would not make much sense.

After waiting for a long time, Cen Wenben went downstairs to take a look and came back. He saw Li Yuanji sitting on the ground, chewing a stick that looked like sugarcane. Cen Wenben was immediately puzzled.

"My lord, what is this?"

Li Yuanji immediately took out another one from the side.

"Here, have one, it's a corn stalk, it tastes just as sweet as sugar cane.

However, the corn stalks are not as sweet as sugarcane. They have a lot of moisture, but slightly less. Even so, you still have to pick them. If you pick bad corn stalks, they will have no taste or moisture at all.

Take it yourself after you finish eating, there is more here. "

Next to Li Yuanji, there was a pile of corn stalks. These were picked out and chopped by Li Yuanji when he had nothing to do. He still remembered that when he was a child, he harvested corn and ate a lot of these corn stalks as if they were sugarcane. Now that he saw them again, he really couldn't help it.

Several people started eating like this. Cen Wenben ate two and his teeth couldn't take it anymore, but Li Yuanji continued to eat leisurely.

Until the corn was harvested, Li Yuanji and Cen Wenben became excited. Now they just needed to count and they would know the approximate yield of corn per mu. Not only Cen Wenben and others were curious about this, but Li Yuanji was also very curious.

Cen Wenben and the civil officials he brought with him began to take inventory. After nearly an hour, Cen Wenben came to Li Yuanji with an excited look on his face.

"Your Majesty, this is great news! I have counted and compared the corns again and again. After calculation, I found that the yield per mu of corn is more than 700 kilograms. This is more than twice the yield per mu of rice and corn!"

Cen Wenben was really excited. He really didn't expect that the yield of this corn would be so good. When Li Yuanji asked him to plant it, he didn't pay much attention to it. When Cen Wenben thought about it now, he was full of regrets.

Nowadays, not only Lingnan is short of food, but all parts of the Tang Dynasty are short of food. However, they have corn with such a high yield here. Not only Cen Wenben, but everyone else became excited after knowing the news. These are all food!
Li Yuanji was not very excited after hearing this, because he knew that the yield of corn, although not as good as that of potatoes and sweet potatoes, was still more than a thousand kilograms, or at least twelve or thirteen thousand kilograms.

However, the current yield per mu is only over 700 kilograms. What is there to be happy about?
Looking at the excited Cen Wenben and others, Li Yuanji felt very emotional. When he took out the hybrid rice, these people would be so excited. If they knew the per-acre yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes, would they be jealous to the point of going crazy?
Cen Wenben looked at the calm Li Yuanji and gradually calmed down, feeling even more admiration in his heart.

"As expected of the king, this calmness and steadiness are simply different."

At this time, Li Yuanji's voice came.

"Jingren, have everyone carry these corns back. Remember, they must be dried well to remove all the moisture in the corns, otherwise they will sprout later. Be careful. Also, take all these corn stalks back. They will be very useful."

Li Yuanji didn't go to see it again. The yield was far lower than he had expected. It was really hard to accept. This was because there was no chemical fertilizer. Everything else was actually not bad. As far as the fertility of the land was concerned, the land here was still very fertile.

Even so, the yield is only this low. If we move to a place where the soil is not so fertile, the yield will be even lower.

Back at the palace, Cen Wenben came again later.

"See you, Your Majesty."

"Get up, what's going on? How's the corn drying?"

Li Yuanji thought it was a problem with the corn and asked Cen Wenben directly.

Cen Wenben's expression was serious: "My lord, the corn has been dried. After a few more days of drying, it can be stored.

I have come here for another matter. The envoy of Pyu will arrive here in two days. In addition, Japan has also sent an envoy. The envoy sent by Japan is Soga no Hyuga, the nephew of Minister Soga no Emishi.

"Shohei wrote to me that the power of the Soga clan in Japan has been greatly challenged. The Soga clan thought that the Tang Dynasty was interfering in Japan's affairs. Therefore, the envoys sent by Japan this time were not envoys in the strict sense, but came only for the Soga clan."

Cen Wenben took out Wei Ting's letter. After Li Yuanji took it and read it, he immediately understood the reason why Soga Hinata came.

It was not for any other reason, but because Kagami no Reiji, with the support of Wei Ting, gradually gained power and even launched an attack on the position of minister of Soga no Emishi. Especially on the issue of the future King of Wa, Prince Yamabe Nooe, supported by Marishi, gradually appeared on the stage, and Prince Tamura, supported by Soga no Emishi, fell into a disadvantage.

For various reasons, Soga no Emishi had to seek external help. In addition to sending envoys to him, Wei Ting also found out that Soga no Emishi had sent people to Baekje to seek help.

After seeing this, Li Yuanji's mouth curled up immediately. It was a good time. He just happened to have a new batch of military equipment that needed to be used. Since the advantage of the Mari forces was too great, it was time to let Soga no Emishi strengthen his strength.

"Jingren, send a message to Zhengping and tell him to prepare to start the second phase of the plan."

Li Yuanji had already prepared for all of this and was just waiting for this moment.

Cen Wenben agreed immediately, and the two chatted for a while, and then Cen Wenben left.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Li Yuanji dressed formally, not for any other reason, but just because the envoy of the Pyu State had arrived. The arrival of the envoy was nothing big, but the Pyu State was such a weirdo that they wanted to recognize him as their boss as soon as he arrived.

Everyone recognizes him as the boss, so Li Yuanji has to dress up and attend the event. He has his own face, so he has to give others some respect, otherwise who will follow him in the future?

"Foreign envoy Liu Xuanpeng pays homage to the King of Qi, may the King of Qi live for a thousand years."

Li Yuanji sat at the top, under the stairs, Liu Xuanpeng was kneeling below, and on both sides were officials from the Prince of Qi's Palace. This was probably the most formal time for Li Yuanji.

"Please stand up, foreign envoy. I am very relieved to see you coming from afar. The King of Pyu is thoughtful. I just heard your name. Are you a Han Chinese?"

Liu Xuanpeng stood up and answered respectfully: "King Qi, I am not a Han Chinese, but my king is a descendant of the Han Chinese. His surname is Zhou, and he also has a Han name, Tianpeng."

Li Yuanji was stunned when he heard this. The king of Pyu was actually a descendant of the Han people? Not a Pyu? Zhou Tianpeng? What on earth was going on?
Li Yuanji's first thought was surprise, and then he thought of Marshal Tianpeng. This time he was really surprised.

"Oh? I never thought that the King of Pyu was actually a descendant of the Han people. When you go back, tell the King of Pyu that if he has time, he can come back to visit.

What is the reason for your visit this time?"

After chatting for a while, Li Yuanji got to the point. During this period, he also deliberately learned about the Pyu Kingdom. After learning about it, Li Yuanji had a more intuitive feeling. It turned out that the current Pyu Kingdom was not a big unified dynasty, but a union composed of various tribes.

There were eighteen vassal states under the Pyu Kingdom, and as many as 298 tribes. It seems that the Pyu Kingdom is now ruled by the Vimalakirti Dynasty. As for its territory, it is adjacent to Zhenla in the east, Eastern India in the west, and the Mangbu that he is attacking now in the north, which is the direction of Dehong today.

As for the strength, Li Yuanji felt that it was not that good after learning about it, because the Pyu Kingdom could not even defeat Zhenla. After learning this, Li Yuanji did not pay too much attention to it.

Liu Xuanpeng did not dare to delay and responded immediately.

"Report to the King of Qi, my king has heard about the might of the King of Qi's army. Last time the King of Qi's army attacked Zhenla, my king took the initiative to send troops to help, which was to show his sincerity.

The purpose of the foreign ministers' visit this time was to sign a letter of credence with the King of Qi, stating that the Kingdom of Pyu was willing to maintain friendship with the King of Qi forever, and starting from this year, it would pay tribute to the King of Qi every year.

At the same time, my king heard that the King of Qi was using troops against the Wang tribe, the Mang tribe and other tribes, and my king was even more impatient because these people often entered my country and plundered my tribes. Now that the King of Qi is sending troops, my king is willing to send troops to assist the King of Qi and defeat the enemy.

This time, the foreign ministers brought national music to play for the King of Qi. In addition, there were many exquisite tributes and two ships of tribute grain.

This is my kingdom's letter and the list of tribute, please check it out, King Qi."

Cen Wenben took the letter and the list and presented them to Li Yuanji. Li Yuanji held them in his hands with amusement and curiosity in his heart. What was amusement was that the Pyu Kingdom had deliberately gotten to know him, and as for sending troops to help, it was just a show to avoid being rejected by him this time.

As for curiosity, Li Yuanji was more curious about the national music of the Pyu Kingdom. You know, Bai Juyi wrote a special poem named "Music of the Pyu Kingdom". This was before the Pyu Kingdom was destroyed by Nanzhao. The King of the Pyu Kingdom, Yong Qiang, sent his son Shu Nanda to lead the band to come. It could only be heard after a long journey.

After reading the letter, Li Yuanji looked at the list. However, he was quickly attracted by one item, that is, food. The food sent by Pyu this time was all rice, and the quantity was not less at all. Li Yuanji immediately guessed that it seemed that Pyu was also a very suitable place for growing rice.

In fact, Li Yuanji was not wrong in his guess. The agriculture of the Pyu Kingdom was not bad at all. They planted a large amount of crops such as rice and sugarcane, which was why they were able to offer these grain tributes. It can be seen that they really understood Lingnan.

After a while, Li Yuanji slowly put down the list in his hand and looked at Liu Xuanpeng.

"King Pyu is indeed thoughtful. I am very satisfied with all this. As for sending troops to assist, there is no need. My army is more than enough to pacify the situation.

However, if that’s all, it’s not enough.”

　There is no consensus on the Pyu people who founded the Pyu Kingdom. Some say they were Han Chinese and some say they were Khmer. However, neither of these can be verified so far. Here we choose to assume they were descendants of the Han Chinese.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)