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Chapter 64 Overseas
Mao Xiang was completely dumbfounded. He stood there in a daze, not daring to move, for fear that His Majesty and His Highness would come up with some other tricks to torture him.

But it backfired.

Zhu Biao pointed at him with great interest and waved his hand at Zhu Yuanzhang:

"Look, Dad, didn't you say that there is no impenetrable wall in this world? But the Yiluansi is responsible for listening to rumors!"

"If we can find a few people from the Yiluansi who know how to farm and have experience in tending land, who are tight-lipped and strong enough to work, there won't be any problem at all!"

"We can spend a lot of money to hire a few experienced old farmers. The Yiluansi people can keep the secrets and keep an eye on the old farmers so that they don't leak the news. If anyone dares to make any moves, they will be killed first and reported later. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"

Mao Xiang: ...

Zhu Yuanzhang:! ! !

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped Mao Xiang hard, even more excited than Zhu Biao:
"Yes, Biao'er is right! In this world, no one can make me feel more at ease than you!"

The personnel composition of the Yiluansi is not complicated.

Except for Mao Xiang, who was Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant since he started his career, the young people among them were orphans who lost their parents during the war years. They were secretly adopted more than ten years ago. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the country and ascended the throne, they grew up slowly and became members of the Yiluansi one by one.

To put it nicely, these people are loyal guards; to put it bluntly, they are warriors who only care about Zhu Yuanzhang.

No matter who in the world, no one could leak the news, it would be impossible for them.

This is the truth, but...

Mao Xiang raised his head hesitantly and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang:

"Your Majesty, I have watched those young men in the Yiluansi grow up for more than ten years. They have been eager to be your knives, but now you ask them to be hoes... I don't know if they can farm. I'm afraid they don't have the energy to work."

Zhu Yuanzhang glared:
"Do you know how valuable this thing is? Do you know that I trust you by giving it to you?"

"If potatoes can really be grown well, how many mouths can be saved? Do you know?"

Mao Xiang shook his head honestly:
"do not know."

When Song Shen was explaining things to Zhang Wei today, he was lying on the beam and taking notes the whole time. He heard everything clearly. They didn't mention anything about the yield at all. They only talked about how to plant and take care of the crops. They said that the crops were very important and told Zhang Wei to definitely regard them as more important than his life. If he could succeed, not only would he be rich and glorious in this life, but he would also be remembered in history.

The pie is drawn quite big, but do Your Majesty and the others really believe it?

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed:
"Rice and wheat, one acre of land can yield three or four hundred kilograms, that's considered good, right?"

"This stuff can produce more than four times as much as the other two if planted on one acre of land. It can be used as food or vegetables. It can be stored in a cellar for a long time, just like rice and flour. It can be eaten all year round. Tell me, is it important or not? Song Shen didn't tell Zhang Wei, but Biaoer and I both knew about it. We were just waiting for him to bring it out."

"Mao Xiang, do you still think that the Yiluansi can't do this job? If it really can't work, let's find someone else..."

Before he could finish his words, Mao Xiang mustered up the courage to interrupt His Majesty for the first time in his life.

The veins on his neck and forehead were bulging, his face was flushed, his breathing was rapid, and he fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowed desperately.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, even if I have to whip them, they will do this job carefully!"

"If you fail to plant potatoes and bring them back, I will be beheaded. No, everyone who participated in the planting will be beheaded!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a long time before he hummed and patted his shoulder hard.

It's not just Zhu Yuanzhang himself... During the chaotic years at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, which family didn't have a few people starving to death?
In Mao Xiang's family and the homes of those young men in the Yiluansi, there were probably not many ordinary people who actually died in the war. Instead, it was the lack of food that could really take people's lives quickly and for a long time.

No one doesn't want more and better food.

Even though this thing is not as good as rice and flour, people can eat tree bark, wild grass, and even soil when they are hungry. If we have one more kind of high-yield food, I wonder how many lives can be saved.

Mao Xiang had no reason to refuse!

…………The weekend passed quickly.

During the short two-day break, Song Shen didn't actually rest for long.

According to the method he remembered, he told Zhang Wei to dig a cellar and store the potatoes for a while, and wait until the end of the year, soak the potatoes in clean water to make them sprout, and then wait until the germination is successful before doing the rest of the process. And not all of them can be germinated, some must be left to avoid failure in the first germination or planting.

As far as I can remember, if you want to plant potatoes in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, you can start around January or February, which is almost the twelfth month in the lunar calendar, so there is still some time.

In his previous life, Song Shen was a city kid who didn't know how to farm, but that didn't stop him from having a roommate from the Northeast. His roommate's family specialized in potato farming, and when he had nothing to do, he would chat about science with these lazy guys who didn't know how to farm, which was how he could accidentally tell them something.

If it were corn, sweet potatoes or rice, he would be completely at a loss.

The reason why he didn't tell Zhang Wei what to do next was because Song Shen remembered that his roommate said that the potato seeds needed to be disinfected with alcohol and potassium permanganate solution after germination, but he couldn't get 70-degree alcohol at the moment, let alone potassium permanganate, so this matter probably needed further consideration.

It's another working day.

Song Shen closed the door and pretended to take a nap, but actually entered the system space.

When he walked into the classroom, everyone looked at him eagerly, fearing that Song Shen would run away early like last time.

"I have already graded everyone's last exam papers."

"Come on, squad leader, distribute it for me!"

Song Shen called Zhu Biao over and waited for him to deliver the message while he said:

"Except for the new students, everyone's grades are very good. The full score is 100. In this exam, two students actually scored over 80 points!"

"Zhu Biao, Zhang Liang, you two are very serious. Keep working hard in the future!"

After saying that, Song Shen took the initiative to walk down from the podium and gave each of the two top students with the best grades a small red flower.

He ignored the different looks of the students below and continued:

"I went back and thought about it carefully. Although we need to take exams, there is no college entrance examination after all. There is no need to make education so exam-oriented."

"From today on, I will adjust my teaching methods and try to make teaching fun. If you have any questions during the course, please feel free to ask. If it is within the scope of my knowledge, I will be happy to expand on other knowledge points for you."

In the classroom, everyone looked at each other.

Unlike the previous times, this time, the First Emperor reacted the fastest. He raised his hand high, and when Song Shen signaled that he could ask questions, he stood up, straightened his appearance, and asked in an extremely warm voice.

"Sir, I want to know if there are really immortals overseas? Are there beings like you in this world who can make people immortal?"

Song Shen was stunned.

This question... well, it's indeed Zulong's style.

He hesitated for a while and decided to talk about this today.

"As far as I know, at least in your world, there isn't."

"There is no one like me overseas. People cannot live forever."

Seeing Zulong and Liu Che's obviously disappointed expressions, Song Shen changed the subject:
"but--"

"There are a lot of lands overseas, with countless wealth, gold and silver mines, all kinds of spices, and the high-yield crops I told you about last time."

"There are still a group of foreigners in those lands. Thousands of years later, they took advantage of our misfortune and destroyed our homeland, leaving corpses everywhere."

"You guys, are you interested in listening?"

(End of this chapter)