The things are brought back, even if the task of this exploration team is completed, after a few days of recuperation, they will escort some animals to Chang'an, but it is just the Yangtze River waterway, because Li Shimin should be working in Jiangling City now, they have to go over to report it first, and receive a reward!

After that, they will go to Guanzhong by Hanshui, and in the Lantian Vocational and Technical College over there, they will select and replenish some manpower, and of course, according to the wishes of some of them, they will also leave a group to teach in the Vocational and Technical College, or the Navigation College that will be built.

The trip to South America is not over at one time, the detailed exploration of it, and the follow-up more detailed exploration of North America, will be launched next year, after the relatively stable route has been explored, a round trip is about half a year.

Sun Xiangfu stayed in Lingnan Road and entered 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 disciples to take over, it could not be completed in a few months.

He first organized people to plant potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, tomatoes, peppers and other crops that could be directly planted in the ripe fields, and those Mayans brought from South America played a great role in planting these crops.

Datang's communication is now very smooth, only a few days, the return of the ocean-going exploration fleet, has been spread, slowly, even the details of the yield of those new crops, have a nose and eyes, Chang'an City's stock trading center, suddenly became the most lively place in Chang'an City, because there is such a thing, overseas exploration and investment companies will inevitably make a lot of profits, people in this era, but not stupid, so, within a day, the stock price soared three times.

Then, every day, a large number of people bid on the trading floor to buy shares, and there are different degrees of price increases every day, however, no one sells.

Those who believed in Sun Xiangfu's evil and bought the original shares of the overseas exploration and investment company had crooked smiles, and their worth had increased by four or five times because of the return of the fleet, but now, they are waiting for the follow-up profit dividends with peace of mind.

And when Zhao Long arrived at the dock of Jiangling City at the end of March with some of the seeds and animals, he could not have imagined that Li Shimin and his wife would personally lead the Manchu ministers of civil and military affairs to greet them on the dock.

It was a new crop with a yield of several thousand catties per mu, or even more than 10,000 catties, and there were several things at once, after Li Shimin received the report from Wu Shitong, Li Tai, Feng Ang and others, he couldn't sleep with excitement for many days, and he even felt that these were not true.

Therefore, he can't wait to see the real thing, and if he doesn't see the real thing, he doesn't feel at ease.

The battle he put forward 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 most grand in the world, but compared to Jiangling City, it was simply weak.

When the fleet arrived at the dock, there were hundreds of thousands of people crowded on the dock to watch the excitement, and the armored sergeants who were responsible for maintaining order exceeded 100,000 people, many of whom rushed from all over the country to see the fresh ones after receiving the news, which made those Mayans use their own brains to imagine how powerful this empire is, and this country has reached the point where the population of any city is several times more than the population of the largest city-state in South America?

After everyone went ashore, the first to read the opening sentence was, of course, the inner chamberlain Wang Deyong, whose lines were to the effect of:

Feng Zhaolong was named the Duke of Rongguo and the general of Zhenhai.

Zhao He is the county prince of Jiaozhi and the chief agricultural officer of Shannan Province.

Wang Erxiao is the prince of Rinan County and the chief agricultural officer of Lingnan Province.

There is also a captain of the ship, the crew who went to sea with the ship, the medical officer, and the members of the art troupe, all of whom were rewarded, and more than 1,500 people who returned, the lowest rank, were all maritime doctors from the seventh grade.

One step of the country, one step of the county, such a reward is simply no one, however, whether it is the people, or the court, no one has raised any objections.

"Your Majesty, you can't forget the real heroes."

After the announcement was completed, what Li Shimin was waiting for was not Zhao Long's thanks, but a reminder.

Who is the real hero, there is no need for Zhao Long to remind him, Li Shimin also knows that it is Sun Zhengming, who has been planning and promoting all this since many years ago, and is still farming in Lingnan at this glorious moment.

Li Shimin helped Zhao Long, who bowed down, and said with emotion, "I haven't forgotten him, it's just that I don't know how to thank him now, and your current honor is also what you deserve. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Long opened his mouth, and he didn't know what to say, on the official lord, Sun Zhengming is already the top of the Tang Dynasty, and money is just a number for him, with no practical significance, as for honor and prestige, he is also the second only emperor in this world, and if he is promoted to the top, 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 difficulty, Zhao Long bowed again and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Li Shimin helped him up again and said, "Aiqing doesn't need to be polite, let everyone bring things up!" My court, the princes, and the people can't wait. ”

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

When I was in Lingnan, everyone already knew that there would definitely be a welcome ceremony here, so Sun Xiangfu asked people to make the packaging of those crops look good, picked the best ones, and arranged them into various shapes, making these crops look very high-grade and precious.

Now, after the things were carried down, it really caused a certain visual impact on everyone, Zhao He, who was responsible for introducing the new names given by Sun Xiangfu to these species, after each reading the introduction, it caused a burst of exclamations from the princes of the court and the people who were stopped outside the cordon, as for Wang Erxiao, the son of another farmer who was named the prince of the county, he directly stayed in Lingnan to help, and the current title is just a level of taking the Lu, and the person who really wants to do things is not in his eyes.

In order to prove the credibility of these crops to the people, the ship has been prepared for a long time, Sun Xiangfu designed a tasting link, of course, not all crops are tasted, and the potatoes, sweet potatoes and tomatoes that have been planted by Zhao He on the boat are a few crops that Li Shimin wants to eat in front of all the people and ministers.

On the deck of the big ship, more than a dozen charcoal stoves and iron pots have long been erected, some of which are the leaves and stems of those sweet potatoes cultivated on the frying boat, and some are made of burned charcoal, roasted sweet potatoes, and a few are made of potato stewed chicken, potato stewed beef, tomato scrambled eggs, fried peanuts and so on.

From the beginning of the ceremony, the first crops introduced to everyone, the cooks have already begun to cook, and when Zhao He intermittently finished telling the details of the three crops, the incense on the boat has already spread to the dock.

At this time, all the dozens of tomatoes that were cultivated by Zhao He on the boat have been carried to the dock by the Mayans, and before, the tomatoes were actually regarded as inedible landscape objects by the Mayans, and the name of the fruit was called Wolf Peach, which was Zhao He and these Tang people, who confirmed that the legend that this crop was poisonous was wrong, and it was actually completely edible, and then they slowly followed it to eat.

"These big red fruits, that is, tomatoes, seeds, the minister has been kept, Lingnan has also planted, the current these, is planted by the minister on the ship, has been fully ripe, His Majesty can be rewarded to the ministers to eat on the spot, it can be eaten as a fruit, can also be used as a vegetable fried to eat crops, in terms of the varieties currently cultivated, a plant can bear about five or six fist-sized fruits, the yield per mu, can exceed 10,000 catties, after the cultivation of agricultural professionals, the yield per mu can exceed 20,000 catties." Zhao He pointed to dozens of tomatoes that were neatly arranged on the dock.

"Twenty thousand catties?"

Hearing this number, not only Li Shimin couldn't help but exclaim, but the bodies of many ministers also shook violently, in the previous report, he only knew that there was a crop called potatoes, and the yield per mu could reach 10,000 catties, but he never dared to imagine that there was a crop with a yield of 20,000 catties per mu.

"This fruit is very red, but it is somewhat similar to my persimmon in the Tang Dynasty, I don't know, how many years does it take for this fruit tree to grow before it can bear fruit?" After the eldest grandson queen saw that the tomato was erected with a large potted plant and a penny, it looked like a small tree, and thought that it would be like some fruit trees in the Tang Dynasty, which would take several years to grow before it would bear fruit.

But who knows, Zhao He replied with a smile, "From the minister planting it on the ship, to now, it's less than May!" Listen to the head of the house, not only does it not pick the ground, but also can be planted in the season, so that the people can eat it all year round, it is an annual, or perennial simple crop, but, if you want to be more productive, you need some cultivation research, the goal of the farm is to let a crop produce more than 20 such large fruits, so that the yield per mu is more than 20,000 catties. ”

In later generations, the high-yield tomato field, even can reach more than 25,000 catties, the experimental field, there is a record of breaking through 30,000 catties, as far as the current conditions are concerned, Sun Xiangfu feels that with infinite growth greenhouse cultivation, the yield per mu can reach 20,000 catties, which is already the limit, this is because in later generations, he was originally familiar with this kind of people who often plant crops.

When Zhao He said this, there was already a row of crew members, holding a basin full of water standing in a row next to the tomatoes, and the warrior Tong, who had already eaten tomatoes, stepped forward and stretched out his hand to show everyone how to pick them, and said, "Your Majesty, this fruit is delicious, but there are many ways to eat it, the minister picks a few, and let the chef give you a cold salad." ”

As he spoke, the samurai picked four or five fist-sized tomatoes, put them in a basin filled with clean water, washed them a little, and walked to the boat, and as he walked, he opened his mouth and began to eat one of them, he knew that if he didn't eat it now, he was afraid that he would have to wait a few months before he had the opportunity to taste it again, because the team of courtiers was very large, and these dozens of tomatoes were only a few hundred tomatoes, and he was afraid that he would not be able to keep them today.

Sure enough, seeing that the warrior Tong picked the fruit, Cheng Biting Jin, Wei Chigong, these old goods standing in the front row, where could they wait, rushed up to pick it wildly, and couldn't take it in their hands, so they put it in the basin held by the crew.

At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui, Wen Yanbo and other ministers directly washed the tomatoes they picked in the basin, and let those crew members bring them to Li Shimin and the eldest grandson and the queen couple together with the basin, of course, in their own hands, they did not forget to leave one.