In Xianyang after autumn, the entire Weihe Plain is golden.

Millet rice has entered the season of ripe harvest.

Chen Xu's fiefdom and farm are also busy, Chen Xu has to take time to go to Keju Square almost every day to learn about the latest investment progress, except for the office of the previous court, most of the rest of the time is still soaked in his own fiefdom and farm to guide the harvest of various crops, garlic, sesame, pepper and other crops from the Western Regions have obtained a great harvest this year.

The sesame sowing area is more than 500 acres, although the yield per mu is very low, less than one stone, but it is also an extremely considerable amount when summed up, it is estimated that it will reach at least about 400 stones, these sesame Chen Xu also let the teaching and students of the Agricultural College all follow last year's screening method to first select the thick branches and more fruit pods as next year's good varieties to deal with separately, as for the rest that does not look very good, you can only make oil or make sesame cakes and other food, according to Chen Xu's calculations, after this year's sesame harvest, Next year, you can basically choose a large number of counties and counties to start promoting sowing, under the mandatory administrative requirements, sesame this oil crop to improve the people's diet structure can be promoted to almost the whole country suitable for planting in three years, and the production process of sesame oil is very simple, only need to be published in the newspaper to have a look at it, then the country's counties, counties and towns will inevitably appear a large number of oil processing workshops, with the popularization plan of the iron pot, the traditional Chinese cooking method of stir-frying will soon enter the homes of ordinary people.

As the food appearance of Daqin, which has long been famous all over the world, eating has always been the most important achievement of Chen Xu's efforts to promote, so that the people can eat well, and Daqin can be more prosperous and stable.

Last year, half of the garlic was harvested, and a lot of wild garlic was transported back from the Western Regions this year, after Chen Xu's special arrangement, the garlic in the farm this year was planted with a full five acres of land, and these five acres can be at least ten times increased next year, and then let the Agricultural College promote it, and it will become a daily condiment in the vegetable garden of ordinary people in a few years.

The same is true for pepper, but pepper is the same as pepper, it is a very low yield spice crop, and it is more troublesome to plant, and the people may not necessarily have demand, but for the wealthy class, pepper and pepper will soon become an indispensable daily condiment, the possibility of large-scale promotion of planting is not too great, but people with vision and leisure can also subsidize the family, it is a very precious cash crop, as long as the people begin to plant slowly, after ten or eight years, These spices will also soon enter the daily dining table of the common people.

Generally speaking, at present, Daqin's main agricultural production is still concentrated on grain crops that fill the stomach, but cash crops such as oil and spices will soon be greatly developed with the improvement of people's lives.

Chen Xu is now rich and powerful, he will naturally spare no effort to promote, with his participation, many things that originally relied on the development of the natural process of history will develop in a leapfrog process, just like the promotion of cement and steel, the production and life of the people of Daqin in recent years with the emergence of Chen Xu, has almost jumped from the historical Qin and Han dynasties into the Tang and Song dynasties, and the large-scale construction of cement roads, traffic problems have almost been promoted to the level of the fifties and sixties of New China.

After inspecting the fiefdom for an hour, Chen Xu rode back to the Qinghe Courtyard, there was a fertile vegetable field next to the courtyard, which had always been a place to provide various vegetables to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, pepper and garlic were planted nearby, and now there were more than ten neatly planned small vegetable gardens on this land, and some sparse green vegetable seedlings came out of it, and there was a wooden sign on each vegetable garden, some of which were written with watermelon, coriander, green onion seedlings, etc., but most of them had no name. Because many of the vegetable seedlings that have grown, Chen Xu doesn't know either.

"Master Hou, it's autumn now, and some of these vegetable seedlings that have just grown have begun to wilt!" The steward in charge of this vegetable garden and several domestic servants all gathered around Chen Xu and said gossipingly.

"It doesn't matter if the coriander and these green onion seedlings are autumn and winter crops, and the others don't seem to be!" Chen Xu squatted down and looked at the few vegetable seedlings that grew out of an indistinguishable variety, and shook his head very regretfully.

"Don't be emotional, there are still seeds left, wait until spring to sow seeds, and next year Hou Ye will definitely be able to eat the watermelon, cantaloupe and eggplant cucumber you said!" The steward hurriedly comforted him.

"Well, get some corn grass to cover these seedlings and let them continue for a long time to see what kind of variety they are!"

"Hou Ye, Hou Ye~~" Just when Chen Xu was checking these vegetable seedlings next to him, a steward of the Hou Mansion ran over out of breath.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Chen Xu frowned and stood up.

"Master Hou, the palace people have come to summon you, Your Majesty invites you to enter the palace immediately!" The steward wiped the sweat from his forehead and said in a loud voice.

Chen Xu was a little surprised, Xianyang has been calm recently, I don't know why the emperor is in a hurry to find himself for something, and there is nothing urgent when he just went down to the court.

However, in the face of Qin Dada's summoning Dafa, Chen Xu did not dare to delay, hurriedly went back to wash and change clothes, and then took a carriage straight to the Xianyang Palace.

When he came to the Zichen Palace, Chen Xu found that not only Feng Quji and Meng Yi were there, but also the imperial physician Ling Zhou Jiong, the imperial physician Cheng Xu Fu, and even a mighty general wearing a brocade robe and a military crown, it was Meng Tian, the Marquis of Jingwu, who led the army to attack the Western Regions, and there was a doctor wearing an official robe and a white hat beside him.

Everyone's faces looked serious.

"Aiqing came just in time, please take a seat!" Qin Shi Huang stood up to say hello, Feng Quji, Meng Yi, Meng Tian and others all stood up and bowed their hands, after a greeting, Chen Xu sat down, and the palace maid retreated after serving tea, Chen Xu looked at the serious expressions of everyone, and asked before he had time to drink tea: "Your Majesty, I don't know what is the urgent matter of urgently summoning ministers into the palace?" ”

"It's up to Marquis Jingwu to say this!" Qin Shi Huang sat down.

"Qinghe Hou doesn't know, since we started to attack the Western Regions at the end of February this year, we have conquered more than 40 city-states and tribes in the Western Regions in just two months, but the climate of the Western Regions is very different from the Central Plains, and many soldiers are not adapted, and the climate is gradually hot after the summer, and many soldiers are sick...... Meng Tian looked at Chen Xu after briefly explaining the situation in the Western Regions.

"Zuo Xiang, at present, the army is stationed near the plateau in the desert west, close to the border of Dawan, because there are many soldiers who are sick, and there are symptoms of an outbreak of plague, if you don't deal with it in time, I'm afraid that the army will be seriously damaged, and the Western Regions are thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and the grain, grass and supplies can't keep up, and there are already some signs of chaos in the military camp, and now because it's autumn, the Western Regions have begun to get cold, and there is a lack of clothes......" The military doctor sitting next to Meng Tian also explained.

Chen Xu couldn't help frowning after hearing this.

This kind of thing will happen in any era, not to mention far, even if Xianyang people go to Lingnan land, they will also be unadaptable, which is related to the environment, and also related to the difference in physique caused by different dietary habits of perennial life, the disease is easy to treat, but this situation is indeed a headache.

The water and soil adaptation also brings the infection of diseases and even the formation of plagues, because the physique and living environment of people in various places are different, and the pathogenic bacteria carried by the body are also different, the virus that the Central Plains people can resist to the Western Regions, maybe the people of the Western Regions will not be able to resist, and some common viruses in the Western Regions, the Central Plains people can not resist after contact, which belongs to a very common virus theory.

For example, in the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols invaded Bianliang, the capital division of the Great Song Dynasty, which led to a plague outbreak in the city soon, a sudden infectious disease caused the death of forty percent of the population of Bianliang, and with the fleeing crowd flowing around, the plague swept through most of China, and later the Mongolian general Meng Ge invaded Sichuan, and as a result, the plague also broke out within the Yuan army, because the Mongolian physique could not resist the virus carried by a mouse in Sichuan, resulting in heavy casualties in the Yuan army, and Meng Ge also died of illness.

In the development of human civilization, there are countless military defeats due to the lack of adaptation, including Alexander the Great, who conquered the West, also died of this disease, and the fever was incurable in less than ten days, and then the powerful Macedonian Empire soon fell apart, and a powerful empire across Asia, Africa and Europe collapsed.

No strong warrior can withstand a small virus.

This is the helplessness of human beings, especially this kind of labor expedition is most prone to this situation, and in the event of an irresistible epidemic or plague, the morale of the army will soon collapse.

What's more, if Daqin continues to attack westward, the altitude sickness caused by the thin oxygen on the Pamir Plateau will be more difficult to resist than the lack of adaptation to water and soil.

"Master Hou, according to the situation told by the general and the military doctor, the soldiers in the current military camp should have a plague!" The imperial doctor made Zhou Jiong nervous and said to Chen Xu.

"Do you know when this disease started and what the symptoms are?" Chen Xu turned his head to look at the military doctor.

"Back to the left phase, this disease began at the end of March, because most of the food provided by the countries of the Western Regions was beef and mutton and some collected mountain grass fruits, and after eating, the bloating was difficult to digest, and the climate in the Western Regions was dry and difficult to solve, and the soldiers could not bear the thirst and drank a lot of water, and at the end of April, signs of disease began to appear in the barracks, and in the hot summer of May, the situation became more and more serious......

"What does Imperial Doctor Xu think should be done?" Chen Xu is now the left minister, second only to the emperor, and the left minister in the past year has already accumulated an official spirit, and his speech has a strong momentum, and the language has become very direct and concise.

"Master Hou, it is common for laborers to go on expeditions to adapt to water and soil, and I think that we should start with diet first, let the soldiers eat the food familiar to the Central Plains, and then cooperate with the medicine treatment, maybe we can control the spread of the disease!" Xu Fu replied.

"What Tai Yi Cheng said is good, if you are not accustomed to water and soil, you still have to start with diet, as for clothing, it is still second, the Western Regions are rich in cattle, sheep, horses and camels, let the countries of the Western Regions hurry up to make some cold clothes!" Meng Yi nodded slightly.

Feng Quji's brows were furrowed, the 20,000 army was thousands of miles away, and if he wanted to solve the food problem, he would have to transfer a large amount of grain and grass from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, and the grain was okay to say, but to transport so much food, it was necessary to need more than 100,000 people and servants and tens of thousands of cattle and horses, the roads in the Western Regions were not smooth, the carriage transportation was difficult, and the manpower and material resources consumed alone were incalculable, which was a huge pressure on the imperial court.

"Your Majesty, the Western Regions is not an indispensable place for my Central Plains, and now that all the countries in the Western Regions have surrendered, I think that I can leave a small number of soldiers and the army can be withdrawn to the Longxi camp for repair!" Feng Qu thought about it for a while and then arched his hand.

Qin Shi Huang also frowned, and after a long silence, he ordered the chamberlain at the door, "Go to my bedroom and get the world map!" ”

"Oh~" The waiter bowed and left, and after a short time, he brought in a wooden box with a few palace people, opened it and took out a roll of cloth to unfold.