After years of communication and exchanges, as well as some stories from students from various countries, even if the countries of the Western Regions do not know the whole picture of Datang, they also know a rough idea of its territory and administrative system, more than ten counties, at most in Datang are only two or three states, and Datang itself can now have a total of more than 300 states, that is to say, 400 million stone grains are just less than one percent of the output of Datang's territory.

The more you compare, the more you feel hurt, of course, not everyone feels hurt, those kingdoms that want to surrender to the Tang Dynasty are different, most of the barbaric civilizations in this period have the idea of respecting the strong, Li Chengqian came along the way to deliberately show everyone the strength, or played a certain role, not only made most of them more respectful to Datang in their hearts, subconsciously, they have regarded Datang as the lord of the world, they feel that only a powerful empire like Datang, to be qualified to be the suzerainty of all countries.

Then, after they have this subconscious, when their homeland is hit by war, they will definitely give priority to surrendering to Datang and asking for asylum, Datang is rich like this, follow Datang, it will not be impossible to live!

Look at the countries of the Western Regions such as Kangguo, Shiguo, and Tocharo, which were subjugated to the Tang Dynasty earlier, what kind of life they are living now, with houses and fields at home, and life is boundless.

And after having a house and a land, there is no need to pay any taxes, this sentence is a huge temptation, listen to those international students say, Datang will achieve full exemption of national agricultural tax this year, next year, but also to achieve full exemption of animal husbandry tax, in a country that does not have to pay taxes, do not have to worry about the war threatens life, carefree life, how happy! Even if they give up the throne and become an ordinary nobleman! In fact, being a small kingdom and being a king is not a state thorn in Datang at all.

For them, who is not to submit, why submit to Byzantium, the Great Eclipse, the Persian empires that exploit themselves!

It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and Li Chengqian let them see what is beneficial and what is harmful, so once the Western Regions really detonates a large-scale war, then it will almost become an inevitable trend for these kingdoms that are unable to compete for hegemony to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and seek refuge.

"This year's rice is about to enter the harvest period, you can watch along the road, don't get close to the trampling, in addition, I have sent someone to notify the Chamber of Commerce before, I believe they will soon mobilize people to come over, today's lunch, everyone will eat in our Jinan County!" Li Ke pointed to a straight cement road leading to the embankment not far away.

Only then did you notice that this straight cement road is the road leading to the embankment of the households in the center of the field, and there are rows of poplar trees and water sand trees on both sides of the road, and on the left side of this road, there is a straight, wide river with a width of more than ten zhang, and the water is very abundant. It is also a real waterway, and it is a quick row to this place.

And on the boats, most of them are loaded with two, or even three wooden carts with boxes such as Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce, Jiuyuan Fish Ball Powder, Jiuyuan Duck Neck, etc., after the boat docks, these cars will be carried down by the boatmen in groups of four, grabbing the handles of the four corners, and after reaching the slope on the shore, these boatmen do not care, and are pushed by a woman wearing a white apron and a white hat, and slowly walk up the embankment.

What is the situation, so people don't understand it for a while, they only know that there are more and more of these cars, just like the army that has agreed to come and assemble, constantly converging from the cement road, or the waterway wharf to the side of the embankment, and after a while, it will reach two or three hundred, and it is still coming.

When the steaming heat rose on the cars lined up on the embankment, Li Chengqian knew that what Li Ke had just said, 'Let's eat in our Jinan County today!' What does it mean.

He is going to arrange everyone's meals on the spot, you know, the fleet plus the local teams that followed along the way, there are nearly 200,000 people in this group, Li Ke wants to arrange so many people to eat on the spot?

However, soon, when Li Chengqian saw from a distance that there were more than ten folding tables and small stools around each dining car, which could be used for at least four people to eat, he felt that this did not seem impossible.

Then, after thinking about it, he realized how difficult it was to do this.

Even if a watchtower was built on the wharf and lookouts were arranged, the whole time from the discovery of their fleet to the time they docked at the wharf and went ashore to visit, it was not more than half an hour, and it can be seen from the fact that Li Ke also arrived after Li Chengqian and them went ashore.

In half an hour, how terrifying is the organizational efficiency of gathering hundreds of these things that set up food trucks in Chang'an, commonly known as the night market, and letting them rush to the dock?

Now, even if they use binoculars, they don't see the shadow of Jinan County, that is to say, the distance between Jinan County and the dock is at least ten miles, could it be that Li Ke has prepared for this?

The heads of the countries of the Western Regions are now focusing on those rice fields and rice ears, and what they are thinking about is to open up such fields in their own countries, introduce rice seeds from the Tang Dynasty, and grow such high-yield rice.

Li Chengqian, so he didn't talk nonsense with them, and walked to the side with Li Ke very affectionately, pointing to the embankment, where there are now hundreds of dining cars, lined up into a long bench road, "Our fleet, but nearly 200,000 people have arrived, are you here, have you arranged it?" ”

Li Ke smiled and said, "Big brother, please rest assured, don't say it's 200,000 people, some time ago, more than 500,000 workers from Tanmo Road came over, and the Chamber of Commerce can arrange it, you may not know that just the dozens of restaurants on our wharf mountain have to entertain tens of thousands of guests passing by every day, and the mobile food truck stalls prepared by these chambers of commerce are more than 1,000 around Jinan County alone, and these people will later provide the food needs of millions of spectators in Jiangling City during the sports conference." ”

The two chatted privately, Li Ke didn't need to follow the regulations, and Li Chengqian had a set of gentlemen and ministers, this big brother, but Li Chengqian was more comfortable, the territory and population of Jinan County are much larger than those of Jiuyuan County, and it is also the seat of Yingzhou, Li Ke's side has introduced the Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce to cooperate in the development of industries from the very beginning.

Based on the calculation of more than 40,000 households in Jinan County, more than 1,000 food truck stalls are not much, because on average, only one of the more than 40 households is engaged in this industry, that is to say, a large village of two or three hundred households, and only a few households, are doing this, and the proportion is much lower than that of several counties under the rule of Jingzhou, but Li Chengqian still feels very scary when he hears this data.

This is also the reason why he has never been to Shannan Road, these food truck stalls, in winter, not only to meet the catering of more than one million construction workers in the city, but also to meet the catering of more than two million migrant workers in the north who come to build a wall in winter, 200,000 people, just a fraction of their usual hospitality, there is no need to dispatch everyone, the county seat and several market towns near the dock are enough. Because, now the migrant workers in the north have already returned to the north, most of these food trucks are in the idle standby period, and with the upcoming sports conference, they have prepared all aspects and can be dispatched at any time, just waiting for the sports conference to make a lot of money!

After a while, the stalls on the embankment were already several miles long, tables and stools, surrounded the entire wharf tightly, the number of dining cars, not a thousand, but also 800, those women killed fish, pork bone soup boiled pork bone soup, and there were many directly open a large marinated pot, a ration of seasoning packets and killed chickens and ducks, cut bean skin kelp and other ingredients, put it in the big pot on the carbon stove, and after a while, it boiled out the fragrance.

In the past few years of operation, they have figured out a whole set of simple and fast management methods, just about half an hour, they have basically cooked the ingredients and are ready, and the representatives of the Western Regions are still watching the irrigation ditches of the rice fields, the design of water inlet and outlet, and other things!

Nearly half an hour later, when all the dining trucks were ready, the chamber manager called for everyone on the boat to come down and eat, and notified those who were still discussing at the edge of the rice fields to go to eat.

In this hour, Li Ke did not talk less, first told Li Chengqian about the situation in Yingzhou, and then talked about rice with the representatives of the Western Regions.

"Don't think that if you buy rice from us and go back, you will be able to grow the same high-yield rice, these rice, directly made into rice seeds, may not be very high-yielding, you need to specially cultivate and select high-yield rice varieties to grow such high-yield rice.

Moreover, even this king has studied here for four years before he understands how to grow it, and if you want to grow rice in your own country, you need to buy special rice seeds, and there are many factors such as climatic conditions, soil environment, planting skills, etc., which are very complicated.

Of course, if you can find a place in your country that is completely suitable for growing this kind of rice, we don't mind selling you this high-yield rice seed, but these rice seeds are very precious even in my Datang, so the price will be very high. ”

All right! Li Ke directly said that the rice seeds that Sun Xiangfu gave to the people of the Tang Dynasty for free before were precious things in the sky and not in the ground, which shows that after learning Sun Xiangfu's set of business ideas, he has become bad.

But these leaders of the Western Regions did not hesitate to believe his words, in their opinion, if there are really a lot of seeds, then why don't Datang plant a little more! Their lack of knowledge about agriculture and their values for these high-yielding crops dictate their mindset, so they take it for granted that the seeds of such high-yielding rice are more expensive.

"Anyway, we're going to buy some and try them out." After Heraclius took the lead in speaking, the representatives of the other countries also said that no matter whether they planted it or not, they would buy some and try it back, and the price Li Ke said was not as unacceptable as they imagined! Ten yuan per stone, one stone can be planted more than ten acres, and the average price of seeds per mu is less than the usual money.

If they can produce ten stone of grain like the rice fields of Datang, then they will make a lot of money, you know, the price of their purchase of Datang grain, the lowest is two or three hundred wen and one stone, and they have to pay a high cost of transportation loss, ten stone of grain, in their own country, is more than four yuan or more, so calculated, buying seeds and planting them by themselves is much more cost-effective than directly buying grain from Datang.

Li Chengqian could only hold back a smile throughout the whole process, looking at Li Ke's pit people, the price of ten yuan, those people actually agreed, and in order to buy a little more for themselves, they began to tie up Li Ke, but they didn't know what kind of competition they would cause if the seeds of those new crops were sold to the outside world.