Shen Xili calmed down, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "The merchant ship has been back for a long time, you have been in Shuntian, I will make claims for other commodities on the merchant ship, and I have arranged to dispose of them, there is a high probability that they will be earned, how much did I make on this trip to the West, I brought the account book over, and I will wait for you to take a look." ”

Twilight didn't care about the question, "You know what I want is not how much merchant ships can earn." ”

Shen Xili didn't sell it anymore, and said with a smile: "On the list you confessed, only three things were found, two were found on the way to the Western Ocean, and one was found on the southeast coast. ”

Dusk lifted his spirits, "Which three?" ”

Shen Xili said with a smile: "I bought sweet peppers from the people on the southeast coast, and on the way to the West, I bought sweet potatoes from the people of the Sulu Sultanate who were doing business in the Western countries, as well as bud grains. ”

When I heard the words at dusk, I couldn't suppress the joy in my heart and laughed wildly.

But there are some doubts.

Pepper is chili, and bud grain is corn.

According to historical records, these two things were transmitted to China from the Americas after the Europeans discovered the American continent.

Sweet potatoes too.

Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, sweet potato.

Annual herbaceous plant, sweet potato native to South America and the Greater and Lesser Antilles, is a high-yield and adaptable food crop, closely related to industrial and agricultural production and people's lives, in addition to being a staple food, it is also an important raw material for food processing, starch and alcohol manufacturing industry, and the roots, stems and leaves are excellent feed.

According to historical data, sweet potatoes were introduced from the Philippines and were first introduced to China during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not time yet.

At this time, Luzon was still called the Sultanate of Sulu, and South America had not yet been discovered by Europeans, how did this pepper spread to the southeast coast, and how did sweet potatoes and buds flow to the Sultanate of Sulu?

It's very unscientific.

asked Shen Xili, "How did the merchant ship find the people who went there, and did you talk about the process?" ”

Shen Xili nodded, "I said it." The sweet potato and bud valley were held by the Sulu Sultans who begged for a living on the Western side, and it is said that in the early years, some people from the Sulu Sultanate and the Japanese side committed serious crimes, so they went into exile and went through a long period of wandering to a strange country, and later the descendants of these people returned to the Sulu Sultanate and Japan...... Of course, it is only said that the truth is unknown. ”

Dusk abruptly.

I think of some wild historical records, according to some wild history, it was not Columbus who first discovered the American continent, but some sea exiles on this side of Asia.

The earliest record of this matter in the wild history is that the Eastern Jin Dynasty monk Fa Xian went to India to seek scriptures from 399 to 413 A.D., and there is a "Biography of Tianzhu Ji".

On his way back from present-day Sri Lanka in 412 A.D., Fa Xian encountered strong winds and sailed east for 105 days to reach the coast of Mexico in the Americas, where he stayed for five months, and then sailed west for 115 days in May 413 A.D., and returned to Laoshan in Qingdao, Shandong, China, in September of that year.

According to the calculation of 100 nautical miles traveled by ancient sea ships day and night, supplemented by the introduction of local customs and customs, it is believed that the "Yavati" in the biography is the present-day America.

However, this argument is still quite controversial.

There's another argument.

In 2014, the British historian Mencis claimed to have discovered a map of ancient Chinese navigation more than 600 years ago ("Kun Yu Wanguo Quantu"), which was drawn by Zheng He.

It is a detailed map of the American continent, and this time is calculated to be the time period when Zheng He sailed to the West (1405-1433 AD), and he believes that Zheng He was the first person to actually sail to the Americas, 72 years before Columbus.

Menshes is not alone in this view, and some scholars even believe that Columbus's voyage may have been guided by Zheng He's nautical charts.

However, regardless of whether this statement is reliable or not, at least this time Zheng He went to the West and did not go to the Americas.

Therefore, the fact that sweet peppers, sweet potatoes and buds were brought to Asia should be the "supposed" situation in Shen Xili's mouth, brought back from the Americas by some descendants of those who committed serious crimes and wandered overseas for many years.

Quite possibly.

After all, in today's Asia, Chinese civilization is ahead of the world.

It doesn't matter!

The important thing is that I found the chili pepper, which means that it can be widely planted in Daming, create the Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot sect, and develop bean paste - the back pot meat without bean paste has no soul.

Mapo tofu, fish-flavored shredded pork and other famous dishes all need bean paste.

And chili pepper is also a traditional Chinese medicine.

As for bud grain and sweet potato, because of their ultra-high adaptability to living conditions and relatively high yield, after large-scale planting, it is to solve the hidden danger of food shortage after the outbreak of the Ming population.

This is an indispensable part of the Ming Dynasty going to the sky and going to the world!

This is agriculture is hope.

Especially sweet potatoes, what roasted sweet potatoes are just shopping artifacts, when sweet potatoes are planted on a large scale, its high yield and high starch have super high environmental adaptability, and it must definitely become the pillar of national agriculture.

No way.

At present, the agricultural level of the Ming Dynasty is not allowed to engage in hybrid rice, and the promotion of sweet potatoes is the most effective and fastest method.

Suppressing the ecstasy in his heart, Dusk patted Shen Xili on the shoulder, "Old Shen, to be honest, just rely on the merchant ship to find these three things, our Times Commercial Bank, your name Shen Xili, and my Dusk's name are destined to remain in the history books, and people will struggle for a lifetime, isn't it just for such a purpose." ”

Leave a name in history, four words.

It's simple to say.

But you must know that in the long history of Chinese civilization, if you want to leave a few words in it, which one is not a fish and dragon, it is difficult to do it without some ability and talent.

Those who are capable and talented also need super high luck to be possible.

And the Times Commercial Bank, which allowed Daming to enter the era of food and clothing in advance, as well as the helmsman of the Times Commercial Bank, Shen Xili and Dusk, these two names will also be remembered forever by future generations.

This is of epoch-making significance.

Of course, Shen Xili's vision is excellent, but it is in the same business, he does not have the vision of God at dusk in agriculture, and the most important thing is that he still does not understand the value of sweet potatoes and buds, and he is very surprised when he hears this: "Just these three things can make the Times Commercial Bank, you and I write books and history books together, and the owner is afraid that you are not teasing me." ”

Dusk didn't explain either, asking, "Where are these things placed?" ”

"Times Firm."

"Let's go, let's see, by the way, how many did you bring back?"

Shen Xili replied: "There are about seventy or eighty peppers, twenty or thirty sweet potatoes, and more than a dozen bud grains. After a pause, "It cost nearly a hundred taels to buy these things, so that others could bear to cut their love." ”

Dusk shrugged.

Doesn't matter.

Although one hundred taels of silver is equivalent to sixty or seventy thousand soft sister coins, this is simply a good money.

The value they bring is immeasurable.

The value can't be described.