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"Report~~ Huiji County Guards Emergency!"

At the end of October, although it was already the cold winter season, Xianyang was still as calm and lively as ever.

Although there are rebels in the southeast, but the emperor successively sent Xiongshan Hou and Tongwu Hou two generals to suppress the bandits, it can not be said that it is not imprudent, and even many people feel that it is a bit overkill to use Tongwu Hou by thousands of bandits, and through the military reports transmitted back every day after the departure of the two large armies, it seems that the bandits in the southwest have been quickly suppressed, and the southeastern counties have begun to slowly restore calm, so in Xianyang City, the civil and military officials are working as usual every day. Even the Ministry of War has begun to plan the reward documents for the two generals after they return to the court.

But under this relaxed and lively atmosphere, a four-hundred-mile urgent military information from Huiji County suddenly made Xianyang feel like he was electrocuted, and it exploded in an instant.

Xiongshan Marquis Tu Sui was unfavorable, although within half a month the rebels occupied the two counties of Wushu Taimo, but when attacking Yujiang County, he suffered an ambush and a fiasco, General Tu Sui was killed by poisoned arrows, and almost all of his 6,000 soldiers and horses were lost......

This news was like thunder, and it instantly stunned the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

Hearing the news, Huo Ran, the emperor who was in the upper court, stood up and stayed for a long time, his face twitching.

This era is not the next generation, thousands of miles away with a phone call can quickly understand the details and control the overall situation, this urgent report from the time the meeting arrived in Xianyang, the matter has been at least half a month.

In other words, this is still the news half a month ago, and as for the latest situation, it is still a mess of black and dark, and I don't know anything.

The sudden arrival of this news naturally disrupted the arrangements of the emperor and the three provinces and six ministries, but at this time, he could not make more decisions, so he could only wait for follow-up information.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the emperor returned to the Zichen Palace, walked back and forth in the room anxiously, and only after half a moment did he give an order: "Quickly invite the Marquis of Qinghe into the palace!" ”

"Oh~" The waiter retreated.

Qin Shi Huang was extremely upset, although he listened to Chen Xu's suggestion to use Wang Ben for insurance, but he didn't expect Chen Xu to become a prophecy, Tu Sui really underestimated the enemy, not to mention the loss of his life and lost 6,000 soldiers and horses, although this loss was not large, but it was unprecedented for the Great Qin army and people, and it also had a huge impact on the emperor's prestige in the land of the Six Kingdoms.

Chen Xu has been very comfortable for more than a month, playing with his wife and daughter at home all day long, listening to songs, reading books, cooking some food, or going to the Academy of Sciences and factories, and occasionally taking time to go to the farm to arrange winter sowing and spring sowing that is about to begin, as for the last dynasty, he doesn't worry about this kind of thing, and he can't worry about it, and even he didn't pay too much attention to Xiang's rebellion, and he began to ask his servants every day to inquire about the court recitals from the southeastern counties, and later Tu Sui and Wang Ben arrived in Jiujiang counties. The banditry in the south soon began to subside, so Chen Xu didn't bother to care.

Qin Dada is still sitting in Xianyang, plus Wang Ben, the imperial military god, Xiang Liang even if he has the ability to break the sky, he can't resist the army of the imperial court, because according to the recital that has been sent back, there is no court chief official in the southeastern counties who participated in the rebellion, which is almost the death hole of the Xiang rebels, and the time and opportunity for the Xiang clan to rebel in later generations are completely different.

And the Xiang clan's early rebellion is also a good thing for Daqin, the sooner he jumps, the less chance he has of success, and at the same time, he can also give the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty a head start, letting them know that Daqin actually seems to be stable but is not at peace.

Li Shun sent the Yue clan back, although he was attacked on the road and almost couldn't come back, but the few grenades he sent finally blew up the bandits arranged by Tu Nan Wang and others at a critical moment, and the escorted forbidden army and the guards of the Yue clan royal court successfully counterattacked and successfully escaped a small life, and after Li Shun returned, he arranged for someone to send a large cart of various strange plant seeds and rouge and other specialties to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion from the Yue clan.

Rouge Chen Xu didn't care, and gave it to a few of his wives, but the many seeds of Yue's specialties made Chen Xu very excited, most of them couldn't be recognized, and what made Chen Xu the most happy was that there were two sheepskin pockets of sesame seeds and a few large baskets of walnuts, and even some garlic was cleaned up.

This made Chen Xu simply surprised.

Although these garlic are still wild in the Western Regions, garlic cloves are very small, but as long as they are continuously improved and cultivated, they will definitely become the main food ingredients in the future, and garlic is indispensable in the cooking of food, not only has the effect of killing viruses and sterilization, but also can improve the body's immunity, and the effect is not the same as the wild garlic produced in the Central Plains.

Garlic can be said to be a treasure all over the body, all of which can be used in dishes, and there are different ways to eat them, so in order to be able to eat fragrant garlic sprouts back to the pot meat and fried shredded pork with garlic sprouts next year, and with authentic garlic, you can taste it no matter whether it is steamed, boiled, stir-fried and stewed, and you can even make delicious seafood such as steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli that you have been thinking about for a long time.

Therefore, in order to plant these precious garlic, Chen Xu personally led the servants to dig half a vegetable field in the Qinghe Courtyard, digging the ground, ditching, weeding and accumulating fertilizer, all of which were done by himself, so that the masters and servants of the Qinghe Hou Mansion were like watching the Qinghe Hou labor, and after this incident was seen by Chen Ping, who came to eat, he also personally wrote a press release and published it in the Daqin Metropolis Daily.

"In order to prosper the diet of the Central Plains, 'Eat Xiang' personally cultivated the land and sowed garlic!"

If there is a camera, Chen Ping will definitely take a few pictures of Chen Xu's personal labor and publish them together, but unfortunately not, but this does not prevent Chen Xu from becoming a topic of concern and hot discussion among the entire Xianyang people because of a small labor scene, which attracted some princes and princes to follow suit and specially invited a reporter to write a few sentences, and even the emperor asked what garlic was in the court, after learning that it was an important food ingredient comparable to pepper, He also specially arranged for the military department to mention in the letters to and from the Longxi military camp that a large number of garlic seeds would be collected from the Western Regions and brought back for cultivation and planting.

Because a single pepper has stirred up the Xianyang food scene now, countless princes, princes, dignitaries and nobles are proud to be able to eat a piece of fragrant and delicious pepper steak at the Qinghe Hotel, and they will relish it for several days.

However, pepper is precious, almost all of what Chen Xu planted last year was used to make seeds, although this year the farm still planted a lot, and harvested a lot, but in Chen Xu's opinion, it is still not enough to eat, most of them are still arranged to be sent to the south to plant, so it is very difficult to buy, and the value is still comparable to gold.

According to Chen Xu's arrangement, if pepper wants to become a daily spice on the table, it will be at least more than ten years later, and the yield is very low, but the planting cost is very high.

In the miserable era of Daqin, when 99 percent of the people were still struggling for their stomachs, every family had dozens of hundreds of acres of farmland and crops to serve, and they were in no mood to plant, and pepper seeds were valuable, ordinary people could not afford to sell them, and one or two seeds were the price of one or two gold, Chen Xu could only hope that those wealthy businessmen and dignitaries who could afford to buy them would arrange for servants to plant some in their farms after they bought them back, so that the promotion would be even slower.

However, this matter is not urgent, because ordinary people have fewer opportunities to eat meat, even fewer opportunities to eat beef and mutton, and pepper is not needed, and those who can afford to eat it are still those who are rich, and the production and sales volume are not large and do not affect the country's economic development and prosperity.

In addition to garlic, what surprised Chen Xu was naturally sesame seeds.

Although the black, white, yellow-brown color of these sesame seeds is very messy, it is indeed not much different from the sesame seeds of later generations, except that the quality is too poor.

Sesame, this is a good thing, with sesame seeds can be planted on a large scale and then refining sesame oil, so that you can get rid of the dilemma of insufficient oil in the food of the people of Daqin, although Chen Xu has developed tea tree oil, but the yield of tea seeds is scarce, and the cultivation of camellia also takes a long time to hang fruit, and the yield is not high, not suitable for large-scale planting and promotion, but sesame seeds are different, this is a typical oil crop, one season a year is similar to other grains, although the yield is also not high, But what is the advantage of agricultural civilization, that is, industriousness and stability, as long as you can always harvest some after planting, even if you don't use it to squeeze oil, pounding it into sesame paste is also an excellent seasoning seasoning.

Therefore, after getting these sesame seeds, Chen Xu couldn't wait to make a fine mesh sieve to filter the sesame seeds, let the housekeeper put away the full particles screened, and wait until the beginning of spring to choose a piece of ventilated and sunny fertile land for planting, as for the remaining weak particles of shriveled sesame seeds, after frying, boiled some fructose mixed with rice to make a large piece of sesame rice cake, this kind of food with a strong flavor makes people who have tasted it full of praise.

As for the walnuts produced in Yueshi, the style is similar to the pecans in the Central Plains, but the size is much larger, the skin is thin and the kernels are large, and the oil head is full, and it must also be used to squeeze oil, but after all, it is a nut, not suitable for planting every season like crops, so you can only choose a big one to send to the agricultural college, so that after the beginning of spring, you can choose a hillside to plant, and you may be able to eat the walnuts with thin skin and big filling in the last ten or eight years.

Just when Chen Xu accompanied his three wives to eat fragrant sesame rice candy at home, the palace attendant came to pass the decree to let him enter the palace, so he had to wash and change his clothes and clean up and enter the palace, and also brought some newly made sesame rice candy.

After entering the palace, Chen Xu knew that it was Xiongshan Marquis Tu Sui who had already hung up, and he was also killed by poisoned arrows, and the 6,000 soldiers and horses he brought with him were also killed by the Xiang rebels.