Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 132 Entering the Treasure Land

In the later generations, Sun Xiangfu did not have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam. Therefore, after setting foot on this land for the first time, he was still a little curious. At this time, there was no unified kingship here, and many tribes controlled it. On the land, on the coast, there are many coconut trees, and on the beach, some cochin people who only wear a single piece of clothing are still a little dazed when they see a big ship like the Happiness approaching.

Because the weather is too hot, the people here are all lazy. Sun Xiangfu asked Feng An to send a young man named Zi Chief to communicate with these Cochin people. After the Jiaozhi man said something, he turned around happily and said, "Master Sun, they have food, as long as the Lord is willing to give them this kind of cool cloth to wear on their bodies, they will change it."

Zi Chief shook a piece of silk on his crotch to preach. This guy, since Sun Xiangfu saw him, has been shirtless. He likes to walk birds when he is fine. The shorts were given to him, but he didn't want to. As soon as he got ashore, his loincloth was spotted by the Cochin people.

"Have you agreed to change it?" Sun Xiangfu asked.

"They said that if they gave each of them a piece of this cloth, they would let us fill the boat, but we would have to harvest it ourselves."

It's no wonder that the chieftain is laughing. There are only a hundred people on this beach, and more than 100 loincloths are exchanged for a boatload of food. There is no better deal than this. How big is the internal space under the roof, but it can hold ten thousand stones!
"You tell them, if they can take me to the best growing fields here, I will have better things for them. If they can help harvest, I can give them at least two clothes like this."

After a while, Zi Chief went to send a message, ran back, nodded and said, "They agreed, but the journey is a bit far away, we need to give them fabrics first, and they will use elephants to take us there."

"Okay, Zhao Long, give them the two pieces of cut silk. In addition, arrange thirty people to wear armor and bring weapons. Come with me. Junmai, you will follow me and protect me closely."

Soon, the silk quilt was distributed to the Cochin people on the beach, and the leader of these people, a black-faced and yellow-toothed man named Bamu, was happily brought to Sun Xiangfu.

"Zi Chief, tell him that if we get what we want this time, we will definitely not treat him badly. The thing in this small bottle is a meeting gift."

Sun Xiangfu took out a small porcelain bottle with a strong alcohol smell, pulled out a piece of cork on the thin bottle mouth, and beckoned Bamu to come over, then poured out some flower-scented alcohol and poured it on Bamu's forehead After wiping off both sides of his temples, Bamu immediately felt his mind cool down and his body felt a little lighter.

Seeing that Sun Xiangfu had put the cork in place and handed the bottle to himself, Bamu bowed down happily to thank him as if he had found a treasure, and whistled. Immediately, there was the sound of an elephant yelling from the jungle behind the beach. came.

Toilet water is a way that Sun Xiangfu came up with to deal with mosquitoes in Lingnan these days. Anyway, after distilled wine was produced by Wangjiang Tower, a lot of alcohol was naturally produced. As a healing reserve, happiness was also brought Quite a lot, but Li Shimin was afraid of wasting too much food, so he limited the amount of wine brewed in Wangjiang Tower, so high-grade wine cannot prevail in Datang at the moment.

After a while, heavy footsteps sounded, and a dozen elephants came out of the forest one by one.

"This, is this the elephant you mentioned? It's really tall."

Xi Junmai just saw the size of the elephant, so he dispelled his previous thoughts of wanting to compete with it. Such a big guy might weigh ten thousand catties.

An adult Asian elephant weighs about five tons, or about [-] catties, and it can crush a person to death if it is crushed casually. Moreover, elephants are very sensitive to sound and can often communicate with their own kind more than ten kilometers away. In the era of large-scale hunting of elephants, the number of elephant herds was very large, and in places such as Jiaozhi and Nanzhao, elephants were regarded as totem beasts, which were much more noble than the status of farming cattle in the Tang Dynasty, so there are everywhere here. Elephants can be seen.

"Let's take a few baby elephants back to raise when we leave."

Sun Xiangfu is not afraid of elephants like Xi Junmai and Zhao Long, because he knows that domesticated elephants have a gentle temperament and a high IQ, second only to several kinds of orangutans and wide-mouthed dolphins, and they are about four or five years old. Children's intelligence, in later generations, there are often elephants playing football in zoos, and you can watch arithmetic performances.After seeing Bamu's love for toilet water, he felt that it should be possible to exchange toilet water for baby elephants.

Riding in the basket made of rattan, it didn't feel too bumpy. At the request of Sun Xiangfu, Bamu also cut a few coconuts for them to quench their thirst. If there is a pair of sunshade glasses, it will It is exactly the same as traveling and vacationing in later generations.

If South America is the darling of heaven, then the land of Cochin is the darling of Asia. Bamu and a few of his subordinates sat lazily on the ivory to guide the road, and Sun Xiangfu found it from both sides of the road. Lots of babes here.

Wild Baiyao is everywhere, and Jinshen and Agarwood, which are difficult for a person to surround, are also growing in patches here. Although these woods are not as expensive as gold in later generations, these things are very valuable. Living in a house made of agarwood furniture, Sun Xiangfu feels that he can live for many years, these are all wealth!
"Junmai, I have a feeling that I'm going to make the most profitable business in my life."

"Uh, two batches of silk for [-] shi of grain?" Xi Junmai, who had been looking back and forth at the elephant team, said in a daze.

"No."

"Then, exchange a bottle of toilet water for an elephant?"

"Not at all."

"What exactly is that?"

"Exchange a piece of silk or a bottle of toilet water for tens of thousands of catties of gold." Sun Xiangfu said proudly.

"Tens of thousands of catties of gold? Are you dreaming? The people in this place are so poor that they can't even afford to wear clothes. How can there be so much gold? Not to mention, it's nice for women to show their breasts."

"Vulgar, ignorant, have you seen that, the agarwood that is as thick as a water tank has been brought down at least several tons, tens of thousands of catties. This thing will be more expensive than gold in the future."

"Wood is more expensive than gold? Are you stupid or am I stupid?"

"I can't explain it to you, but the agarwood tree just now, without thousands of years of growth, it is impossible to grow to such a big..."

Sun Xiangfu eloquently instilled the benefits of agarwood to Xi Junmai, saying that Xi Junmai wanted to draw a knife to cut down trees.

"No rush, wait until we get the grain planting done, and then find a way to get these trees. The things here can be planted in most places in Lingnan. In the future, we will transplant some more back with soil and roots."

The nature of the soil, although there is no professional instrument, but based on Sun Xiangfu's experience, it is not difficult to distinguish a general idea. These things such as fine rice are to be passed on, but things like agarwood and red sandalwood can be kept by themselves. To pass it on to future generations, at that time, pick a suitable place in Lingnan, plant a piece of agarwood forest, and pass it on from generation to generation. As long as the descendants are not too prodigal, they will generally become richer and richer.

Soon, Sun Xiangfu, who was dreaming of beautiful fantasies, was taken by Bamu to a mountain depression, where the ground was wet, and there were mountain streams flowing through, and a large area of ​​rice was not planned, and it was uneven like weeds growing here. After Sun Xiangfu got off the elephant, he began to observe the rice leaves and rice ears.

"The ears are long without awns, and the grains are small. That's it. It's a pity that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not have a corresponding civil rule after he conquered Jiaozhi. If the south is well managed, the strength of the Han nation will crush any foreign race."

In Sun Xiangfu's view, this kind of rice should have been promoted throughout the Han Dynasty as early as 800 years ago. Unfortunately, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty at that time only knew how to fight, and did not have the same mind as Li Shimin to integrate all ethnic minorities. Later, so many ethnic minorities rebelled and even entered the Central Plains.You must know that the basic conditions of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were many times better than that of Li Shimin. Not only did he have rich reserves left by his ancestors, but also, the combined population of the ethnic minorities around the Han Dynasty was less than half of that of the Han people, so it was easy to divide and integrate. period.

And Li Shimin, from the beginning of conquering the world, took the path of defeating the strong with the weak, and conquered one powerful enemy after another with a strong cultural tolerance. In the end, he made the Chinese civilization take a big step forward.

Sun Xiangfu was reborn in this glorious era, so he must contribute to this era. With Champa rice in hand, first grow food that can feed the people of the world, then it is not far from ruling the world. This world refers to Everywhere under the sky.

"Zi Chief, tell them, to harvest rice, as long as the ears of wheat are full, put them in the bags we brought, and let the elephants carry them back to the pier. Our people can walk back when the time comes."

Following Sun Xiangfu's order, including the guards he brought, they also began to get busy. The successful introduction of this kind of rice is of great significance. The actions of this group of people may be recorded in the history books and be praised by future generations.

Even though the weather was very hot, it couldn't resist everyone's enthusiasm for harvesting. Soon, the bags full of wheat ears were put on the backs of the elephants one by one. An elephant started to walk to the pier with one or two thousand catties of rice on its back. .

Two to three thousand catties of rice are enough for Sun Xiangfu to plant all the more than 5 mu of paddy fields he has opened up, but Sun Xiangfu has no intention of stopping harvesting. There are too many places in Lingnan that are suitable for planting Champa rice, even if it is not like him. Intensive farming, taking it back and spreading it, can also grow a lot of food, so he talked to Bamu about hiring their elephants to work and buying their baby elephants. It went well, and he only used a few horses Silk and a few bottles of toilet water settled the matter.

(End of this chapter)