Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 210 Landing on Qiantang
In fact, it's not just Xu Qing who can't sleep alone, but also the people in the boat. After all, they have been busy for a long time but they can't start the boat.There were so many suspected plagues and half-dead people on board that they were afraid of being infected.

Soon, a poisoned person was brought over, his face was livid, and he seemed to have diarrhea.

Xu Qing took a potato and asked excitedly, "How did you find this kind of thing?"

"My, my, my lord's redemption..." The man said weakly, "We all saw it on the island."

"Nonsense, where is it, this end or that end, how did you find it?" Xu Qing asked slowly, his tone calmed down, so as not to make him nervous.

"Little man, I found it on the other side of the island..." The man said: "At that time, the adults let us play by ourselves. I waited for a few people to walk to a grassland, but saw a group of long-necked birds pecking there..."

"A foodie in the team said that what birds can eat, people can eat, so he took us to eat some. We thought the taste was not bad, so we dug up a lot and brought them back." The man stammered and said: " Birds, birds. I also brought a few back and ate them."

"Thanks to my lord, we didn't dare to eat too much at first, so we didn't die."

Oh, it turned out that I saw the birds eating. Xu Qing thought, the birds on this island can dig potatoes out of the soil and peck them, so they should have been eating them for a long time.With that said, there are still plenty of potatoes on the island?
However, why is the bird not poisoned after eating it?Xu Qing didn't know, and didn't want to inquire, so he waved the man back to rest.He also ordered everyone to rest early, and to go to the island tomorrow.

I slept all night like spreading pancakes, and the next day, taking advantage of the low tide, I hurriedly took people ashore to look for potatoes.

Unexpectedly, I came to the island again so soon, and it was still for a small potato.

I found the stick that Xu Qing had set up before, and called out those who had eaten potatoes. Although they were poisoned, the poison was not very deep. After pulling it all night and eating a good meal, they almost recovered up.

He took Xu Qing to find the place where the potatoes were picked, and saw that the land had been turned up and rotten, and there were still some seedlings scattered on the ground, which turned out to be potatoes.

The roots of potatoes are deep, and the tubers can also be buried in the ground. They may not be able to dig out with their hands.

Immediately, Xu Qing asked his subordinates to take out picks to dig the soil, and planed slowly, so as not to damage a single potato.

Every potato now is the life of thousands of people in the future!
Sure enough, dozens of potato seedlings around here had not been dug clean, and along the way, five or six of them were dug out, and some were as big as a fist, and three or four were as big as a palm.

Xu Qing asked everyone to take potato seedlings and spread out to find similar plants.To find even one more plant is a boundless merit.What's more, potatoes grow in clusters, and no single seedling will stand alone.

Xu Qing himself started searching around this small piece of grass, no, it should be a small piece of bushes.

This area is seven or eight feet in circumference, and it is a depression.There are many such depressions on this side of the island, as mentioned above.But this one is different. From the inside to the outside, there is a small ditch that leads to the coast in a tortuous way.

Could it be that the potatoes drifted here with the ocean current and were sent to the shore by the waves?
Impossible, Xu Qing recalled the global ocean current distribution map in his high school geography book, but he only remembered one ball, not those ocean currents.

Regardless of that, even if you put a potato in the sea now, it should sink. If it doesn't sink, then there will be a height difference of one or two meters in this depression in the sea. How can you get up?

Not long after, the crowd came back angrily, one by one lowered their heads and said, "I didn't find it, I searched all around, I dug out all the bird's nests, but I couldn't find it."

Alas, it's not easy to find strange things from the sky, but there are still too many, Xu Qing laughed at himself and led the people away.

A few months later, an earthquake broke out on the unnamed island, and the whole island swayed and sank to the ground, as if it had never appeared before.So much so that when Xu Qing searched for the island named after him, he scratched his head and couldn't find it.

When the island sank, a strange coconut floated on the sea. Soon, the coconut docked at the seaside. Soon after, a wisp of young sprouts grew out of the coconut, which were potato sprouts.

It's just that this stalk of green shoots was snatched away by a stupid stinky bird, and the contents of the coconut never saw the light of day.

Xu Qing naturally didn't know about these things.

After leaving the island, Xu Qing just encountered a high tide, and with the concerted efforts of the crew, he finally got rid of the stranded situation and sailed towards the sea again.Xu Qing held Xu Wen in one hand and Xun Xueer in the other, lamenting the subtlety of life and the profoundness of the Tao.

On the boat, Xu Qing called together those who knew the characteristics, such as Huang Shimei, Zhang Linye and others, launched a secret protection committee, formulated the rules and regulations of the Tudou Secret Protection Law, and asked everyone to strictly abide by them.

To the others on board, Xu Qing only said that potatoes are harmful and poisonous, and he wants to use them to deal with the enemy country, so as to enhance the strength of our Datang army, and to repay old man Li Yuan for his kindness.

On the other hand, Xu Qing emptied many water tanks and used the sand and silt transported from the island to cultivate the potatoes well.Although potatoes are resistant to cold, they are only in the south. If they go to the north, they will be a dull product.

There are still some that have not germinated, Xu Qing carefully packed them in dry boxes, and they can be used for breeding after winter.

The boat went all the way to the southwest, and after a day and a half, I finally saw the familiar coast.The north and the south stretch as far as the eye can see, there are few people on the shore, and the people on the sandy land by the sea are planting radishes.

Without further ado, he stopped the boat, let people go down, and after replenishing the fresh water, he quickly got in touch with the members of the underground river accompanying him on the shore.

At the time of departure, it was agreed that we would meet with the people on the shore every three days to give an overview of the situation on board.But from the mirage, to the shark besieging the boat, to the grounding on Xugong Island, it has been more than ten days since I have not been able to contact the shore.

On the shore, I am afraid that I am already anxious to go to sea to search, right?
It was only later that Xu Qing found out that the people on the shore were not anxious to go into the sea, but were so anxious that they had already vented their anger on the bandits on the coast, and shot out several shapeless dens of bandits by the sea.Those dens of thieves didn't even have a broken ship, and they were suspected of hurting Xu Qing, which can be described as an unjust death.

After finding the person, hundreds of people on the shore breathed a sigh of relief. Yang Xin came from the south in person, and he must board the boat to see Xu Qing before he can rest assured.Before leaving, he begged Xu Qing not to go by sea, but to go ashore.But in the end, he failed to impress Xu Qing, but Xu Qing gave him a task - to send three potatoes to Luonan.

Eggs cannot be put in one basket, nor can they be put in two baskets. The cunning rabbit has three holes, and the snake has eight holes.

Xu Qing continued to take a boat tour, walked down the coast, and never met a mirage again. When there was no sea fog to get lost, and no sharks accompanying the boat, there was no waves.After walking for three or four days, a current rushed out from the west, and it took a lot of effort to get rid of the influence of this current.Xu Qing knew that this was the mouth of the Yangtze River.

In fact, the East China Sea is just past the mouth of the Yangtze River. Xu Qing thought he was in the East China Sea before, but in fact he was still in the Yellow Sea.Xu Qing's geography is actually pretty bad.

No matter how bad it is, Xu Qing also knows that there is another big river after passing. Although this river is not as big as the Yangtze River, when it comes to its cultural status, it does not show weakness to the Yangtze River.

There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Suzhou and Hangzhou are located on the banks of the Qiantang River.The spring tide of Qiantang River is a magnificent scene famous for thousands of miles.

Actually, its shore is Yuhang.That's where it gets really amazing.Its living environment makes literati yearn for it, and its economic status should not be underestimated.

In the Sui Dynasty, Hangzhou had the status of "the throat of Wuyue, the mighty Jianghai". The prosperous scene of opening [-] rooms".The document at that time said: "There are counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and Yuhang is the largest." It is simply the most prosperous place except Chang'an.This kind of prosperity did not happen overnight. In the Ming Dynasty thousands of years later, Zhu Yuanzhang liked to entrust his sons, but he specifically pointed out that Suzhou and Hangzhou were not allowed to be entrusted to the kings, because they were too rich and the country’s finances depended on Su. Hang tax.

There is another key, as the so-called "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal", Hangzhou is the south station of the imperial artery.

Xu Qing intends to go ashore here, because further south is Fujian and Guangdong, and he is not targeting anyone. At that time, the land of Fujian and Guangdong was still...

In short, we landed in Hangzhou.

It turned out that Xu Qing wanted to use a small boat to go ashore secretly, because he was afraid that the boat would be too "luxury" and suddenly appear from the sea, and he was afraid of causing misunderstandings.However, when he arrived at the mouth of the Qiantang River, this worry was completely gone.A ship one-third larger than the other ships is sailing in the river mouth.

There are two richest places in Yuhang, one is Qiantang, and the other is "Yuhang County".Going ashore from Qiantang, the richness here is far beyond Xu Qing's imagination.At any rate, Xu Qing was from a metropolis like Chang'an and Youzhou, and he had cultivated people from Cangzhou, a prosperous city, but when he arrived at Qiantang, he was still surprised.

There are many people in Chang'an, and the city is large, but after all, it has experienced war, and Chang'an is an "international" capital city, and it is surrounded by a piece of farmland. Although it looks grand and full of awe, it makes people feel a little " Local tycoon".

Qiantang is different, the prosperity here is more "stingy".The streets of Chang'an are straight, and the streets of Qiantang are row upon row. The goods in Chang'an are in piles, and the goods in Qiantang are in boxes.In terms of pork alone, Chang'an buys meat with one foot and one foot, but Qiantang does not.When it's over, I have to chop it up and wrap it with lotus leaves.

Buy five embroidery needles and wrap them in straw paper!

Everything looks exquisite, rich but not depressing, prosperous but not restless.What Qiantang is closer to is the kind of "petty bourgeoisie", the prosperity of business.

The big hermit is hidden in the city, and such a hidden city must be like Qiantang.

Of course, if you want to live elegantly, you need money.Xu Qing fell in love with this place from the very beginning, and it happened that he was rich.

A lot of supplies and twenty thousand taels of silver were brought down from the ship. Yang Xin and the others had already arranged the residence and cleaned it spotlessly.Stay comfortably, and then take all the girls to the street to buy, from Dongjiekou to Xisitou.

(End of this chapter)