Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 687

After the things are brought back, even if the mission of this expedition team is completed, after a few days of recuperation, they will escort some animals to Chang'an, but they will take the Yangtze River waterway, because Li Shimin should be working in Jiangling City now. They have to go and report first, and get a reward!
After that, they will go to Guanzhong by going to the Hanshui River, where they will choose to add some manpower to the Lantian Vocational and Technical College. taught at the Nautical Academy.

The trip to South America is not over once. The detailed exploration of it and the follow-up more detailed exploration of North America will start next year. After the relatively stable route has been explored, the round trip will take about half a year. time only.

Sun Xiangfu stayed in Lingnan Road and entered into the busy work. The original planting of hundreds of crops and the follow-up planning, just to make a prototype and hand it over to the disciples under his sect, within a few months, all Can't finish.

He organized the manpower first, and planted potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, tomatoes, peppers and other crops that can be directly grown in mature fields. The Mayans who brought them from South America were planting these crops It played a very helpful role, and Sun Xiangfu only allocated half of the manpower to Zhao Long and the others to take them to Shannan Road.

Datang's communication is very smooth now. In just a few days, the news of the return of the ocean-going exploration fleet has spread. Slowly, even the details of the production of those new crops have been spread. , suddenly became the busiest place in Chang'an City, because there is such a thing, overseas exploration and investment companies will inevitably make a lot of huge profits, people in this era are not stupid, so within a day, the stock price skyrocketed three Double the situation occurred.

After that, a large number of people bid to buy shares on the trading floor every day, and the price was raised to varying degrees every day, but no one sold it.

Those who believed in Sun Xiangfu's evil and bought the original stock of Overseas Exploration and Investment Company laughed crookedly. Their worth has directly increased by four or five times because of the return of the fleet. Now, they can wait for the follow-up with peace of mind. Profit dividends.

And when Zhao Long arrived at the dock of Jiangling City with some of the seeds and animals at the end of March, he never imagined that Li Shimin and his wife would personally bring the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty to line up on the dock to welcome them.

That is a new crop with an yield of several thousand catties per mu, or even over ten thousand catties. Moreover, there are several kinds of crops at first sight. Excited and unable to sleep, he even felt that these were not real.

Therefore, he couldn't wait to see the real thing, and he was not at ease if he didn't see the real thing.

The battle he put up frightened the Mayan natives who passed by in amazement along the road. They originally thought that Guangzhou City was already the largest city in the world, and the welcome ceremony at the Guangzhou Wharf was already the world's largest city. It's grand, but compared to Jiangling City, it's simply weak.

When the fleet arrived at the pier, there were tens of 10 people crowded on the pier to watch the excitement, and there were more than 10 armored soldiers in charge of maintaining order. Many of them, after receiving the news, I made a special trip from all over the country to see the fresh ones, which made the Mayans use their own brains to imagine how powerful this empire is. This country has reached any city, and its population is larger than that of the largest city-state in South America. How many times more?

After everyone went ashore, the first person to read the opening speech was of course the internal servant Wang Deyong. His lines were roughly as follows:
Zhao Long was granted the title of Duke Rong and General Zhenhai.

Zhao He is the Duke of Jiaozhi County and the chief agricultural officer of Shannan Road.

Wang Erxiao is the Duke of Rinan County and the chief agricultural officer of Lingnan Road.

There is also a captain, the crew who went out to sea with the ship, the medical officer, and the members of the art troupe, all of which were rewarded. There are more than [-] people who have returned, and the lowest ranks are all marine doctors from the seventh rank.

One step for the Duke of the State, one step for the Duke of the County, this kind of award is almost unheard of, but no one raised any objections, whether it was the people or the court.

"Your Majesty, you must not forget the real hero."

After the decree was announced, what Li Shimin waited for was not Zhao Long's gratitude, but a reminder.

Who is the real hero, without Zhao Long's reminder, Li Shimin also knows that it is Sun Zhengming who has been planning and promoting all these many years ago, but at this moment of glory, he is still bowing down to farming in Lingnan.

Li Shimin helped up Zhao Long who was bowing down, and said with emotion, "I haven't forgotten him, but I still don't know how to thank him, and you deserve the honor you have now. You have set an example of outward exploration, inspiring younger generations to learn from you."

Hearing this, Zhao Long opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. In terms of rank, Sun Zhengming is already at the top of the Tang Dynasty. To him, money is just a number and has no practical significance. As for honor and reputation Well, he is also in this world, second only to the emperor, and if he is promoted again, it will be harmful to the country in the long run.

Therefore, even if Li Shimin wanted to give him something more, it was very difficult.

After understanding Li Shimin's difficulties, Zhao Long bowed again and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

Li Shimin helped him up again and said, "Aiqing, there is no need to be more polite, let everyone present your things! My court princes and the people can't wait."

After Zhao Long stood up straight, he turned around and waved to the boat, and the crew and the Mayans moved the things on the boat down one after another.

When we were in Lingnan, everyone already knew that there would be a welcoming ceremony here, so Sun Xiangfu asked people to make the packaging of those crops look good, picked the best ones, and arranged them in various shapes, so that These crops appear very high-grade, very precious.

Now, after the things were carried down, it really caused a certain visual impact for everyone. Zhao He, who was in charge of introducing the new names given to these species by Sun Xiangfu, every time he read the introduction, he attracted the court officials and was blocked. The people outside the cordon exclaimed. As for Wang Erxiao, another son of the peasant family who was named Duke of the county, he stayed directly in Lingnan as a helper. His current title is just a level of salary. He really wants to do something. people, don't put eyes on it.

In order to prove the credibility of these crops to the common people, the ship had been prepared for a long time. Sun Xiangfu designed a tasting session. Of course, not all the crops were tested. Zhao He had already planted a round of potatoes on the boat. , sweet potatoes and tomatoes are the few crops that Li Shimin wants to eat in front of the interviews of all the people and ministers.

On the deck of the big ship, more than a dozen charcoal stoves and iron pots have been set up a long time ago. Some of them are the young leaves and stems of sweet potatoes cultivated on the frying boat, and some are roasted with burnt charcoal. There are a few sweet potatoes, and they are making potato stewed chicken, potato stewed beef, tomato scrambled eggs, fried peanuts and so on.

From the beginning of the ceremony, the chefs had already started cooking the first few crops introduced to you. By the time Zhao He finished the details of the three crops intermittently, the incense on the boat had already spread to the pier. .

At this time, all the dozens of tomato plants cultivated by Zhao He on the boat had been transported to the pier by the Mayans in pots. Before that, tomatoes were actually regarded as inedible landscape objects by the Mayans, and the fruit name was wolf. Peach, Zhao He and others in Tang Dynasty, proved that the legend that this crop is poisonous is wrong, it is actually completely edible, and then they slowly followed it.

"These big red fruits are tomatoes. The seeds have been saved by the minister, and they have been planted on the Lingnan side. The current ones were planted by the minister on the boat. They are fully mature. Your majesty can reward the ministers on the spot. Edible, it is a crop that can be eaten raw as fruit or fried as vegetables. Judging from the varieties cultivated so far, one plant can bear five or six fist-sized fruits, and the yield per mu can exceed [-] jin If they are professionally cultivated in the farm, the yield per mu can exceed [-] catties." Zhao He pointed to dozens of tomato plants neatly arranged on the pier.

"Twenty thousand catties?"

Hearing this number, not only Li Shimin couldn't help but exclaimed, but many ministers also trembled violently. In the previous report, he only knew that there was a crop called potatoes, and the yield per mu might reach [-]. Jin, but I never dared to imagine that there is a crop whose yield per mu can reach [-] Jin.

"This fruit is very red, but it is somewhat similar to the persimmons of my Tang Dynasty. I don't know, how many years does it take for this fruit tree to grow?" Empress Changsun saw that the tomato plants were erected with large potted plants and pennies, and she looked very similar. Looking at the appearance of a small tree, I thought it would take several years of growth to bear fruit like some fruit trees in Datang.

But who knows, Zhao He replied with a smile, "Since I planted it on the boat, it is less than May now! I heard from the head that not only does it not choose the ground, but it can also be planted in different seasons, so that the common people It can be eaten throughout the year. It is a simple annual or perennial crop. However, if you want to have a higher yield, you need some cultivation research. The goal of the farm is to make more than 20 such large fruits on one crop. , let the yield per mu exceed [-] catties."

In later generations, the high-yield tomato field can even reach more than [-] jin, and the experimental field has a record of breaking through [-] jin. As far as the current conditions are concerned, Sun Xiangfu feels that with unlimited growth greenhouse cultivation, the yield per mu can reach [-] catties is already considered the limit, and this is because in later generations, he was already very familiar with this kind of people who often grow crops.

And when Zhao He said this, there was already a row of crew members standing in a row next to the tomatoes with pots filled with clean water, and the samurai who had already eaten tomatoes stepped forward and showed everyone how to pick them. , while saying, "Your Majesty, this fruit is delicious, but there are many ways to eat it. I will pick a few and ask the chef to serve you cold."

As he spoke, the warrior Xun finished picking four or five fist-sized tomatoes, put them in a basin filled with clean water, washed them a bit, and then walked on board, opening his mouth to eat one of them while walking, he I know, if I don’t eat it now, I’m afraid I’ll have a chance to taste it again in a few months, because the team of courtiers is very large, these dozens of tomato plants are only a few hundred tomatoes, I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep them today up.

Sure enough, seeing the samurai Xun picking the fruit, Cheng Yaojin, Yu Chigong and other veterans standing in the front row couldn't wait. Put it in the water basin.

But at this time, Changsun Wuji, Du Ruhui, Wen Yanbo and other civil officials directly washed the tomatoes they picked in the basin, and asked the crew to bring the basins to Li Shimin and Empress Changsun. , Of course, I didn't forget to leave one in my hand.

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