The ship did come back, not as shining as when they set off, but a little rusty and scratched, which is also a scar on their heroes!

From the appearance of the ship in everyone's sight, to its real docking, there is still a period of time, Sun Xiangfu sent people back to the city to inform Feng Ang and Li Tai, not long after, Feng Ang summoned a group of officials and soldiers in the city to come to the dock to greet them, and vacated the best docking seats for them, and the officers and soldiers will also run over to stop the onlookers of the people boatmen, to the surrounding area out of a certain distance, hundreds of carts, along the coastline of the dock, neatly arranged on the road out of the block, just waiting for the fleet to dock, they can fish the supplies on the ship, Loaded into the cage on the car, these preparations were arranged by Feng Ang immediately after receiving the news of their return.

At this moment, the members of the 800 Lingnan Dao Art and Art Troupe, wearing full uniforms of the art troupe, have lined up neatly on the shore, and when the fleet is still more than a mile away from the shore, Ah Yue waved the red tassel and directed the musicians to play the welcome song, those who had already known that the fleet would come back in the next two days, and the people who were waiting to greet their families on the dock listened to these cheerful and shocking music, and wiped their tears, but their faces were full of smiles.

Zhao Long, who saw the shore scene with a telescope on the flagship, knew that this was a welcome ceremony prepared for them, so he asked all the crew members to dress up and show their best mental outlook.

However, when he saw the urns held in the hands of his subordinate crew members, even for a person like Zhao Long who had experienced countless life and death tests at sea, tears could not stop the large particles from scratching down his face.

"In a moment, let these brothers go ashore first."

After a somewhat choked tone, the crew members holding the urn began to line on both sides of the gangplank.

Three hundred and two boxes, three hundred and two lives, that's the price of the trip.

Even those exploration crews who were bitten to death and broken by crocodiles that suddenly appeared in the Amazon jungle, their bodies were all found, cremated and boxed, for this reason, Zhao Long once ordered to kill all the crocodiles in several small rivers with a crossbow and give them a disembowel.

"If we can come back alive, we should laugh and wipe away our tears." After adjusting his emotions, Zhao Long wiped away the tears on his face and shouted.

As everyone knows, these actions of his have been seen by the people who are watching them with binoculars on the shore, and no one will laugh at the way they look at the big men with tears and noses, and some of them are just sad.

Li Tai, who has officially taken over the position of the head of Feng Anling Lingdao, is now the highest official in the field, so he stood in the middle of the greeting procession, Feng Ang was on his left, Sun Xiangfu was on his right, Wu Shitong, Feng Zhiji, etc., according to their official ranks, lined up beside the two of them, such a greeting ceremony seemed very formal and solemn.

And as the fleet slowly approached the dock, Sun Xiangfu also reminded Li Tai, "They are all heroes and martyrs who have made great contributions to the country, so you should represent Datang and give enough courtesy and respect to those heroes and martyrs who died in foreign lands." ”

Li Tai asked, "May I ask Master Sun what exactly I should do?" ”

Sun Xiangfu replied, "For all the living crew members, the highest standard of performance and meritorious service, for all the dead martyrs of the sea exploration, build a martyr's cemetery, make a biography, erect a monument, pay regular worship, and enjoy the admiration of future generations forever." ”

If it is Li Tai in the past, he will not feel that there is anything this, but he has planted rice in Shannan Province for three years, and he has a very deep understanding of the importance of crops.

Li Tai nodded and said in a sincere tone, "I know how to do it." ”

Seeing his attitude, Sun Xiangfu knew that he really understood the meaning of doing this, Datang needs more people to take a brave step to explore all kinds of unknowns, and use honor to give them a certain incentive effect, today they did sacrifice more than 300 lives, but because of their actions, they may have saved 3 million, 30 million, too many lives to count in the future.

"Bang Bang ······"

The side of the ship finally docked, and a team of crews, under the leadership of Zhao Long, walked down from the gangplank, and the first to come down were the crew members holding the urns, starting from Li Tai, all the people who welcomed them, after touching the urns with their hands, they said 'Welcome home', and then, with the people holding the boxes, came to a big hug.

Such a ceremony, heavy, and warm, waiting for more than 300 crew members holding the urn, lined up on the dock, Li Tai, on behalf of the imperial court, made a speech, to the imperial court to report the victory and ask for merit such a thing, in fact, everyone does not care much, but the construction of the sea exploration heroes and martyrs cemetery, as a biography, erection of monuments, forever by future generations to worship, to pay homage to such a thing, but to all the crew members who came back alive shocked, they all feel that this overseas on their own, did not run in vain, all the efforts are worth it.

After Zhao He, a non-sailor crew technician landed, the time to take stock of the harvest of this offshore exploration has officially arrived.

"Boss, this is the booklet that I have compiled from the registration of all the species I brought back, the growth environment, the shape of the fruits, I have a record, the name or something, I may not get it right, some of them, the locals don't recognize them, I just made up a number, you can count them again, or, give them a name of Datang."

Everyone is mourning the martyrs who died in grief, and Zhao He is not good at acting too happy, and he is business-like.

In fact, he was very surprised when he saw Sun Xiangfu in the crowd that greeted him, you must know that when he went to sea, Sun Xiangfu was still a criminal who was restricted from moving! Looking at the current state, it should be that freedom has been restored, and maybe the official title has been restored.

"Well, you're doing a good job, just stand next to me, let's watch the physical check together!" Sun Xiangfu patted Zhao He's increasingly strong shoulder with relief, and said while motioning for Zhang Ke to bring the paper and pen on the table.

Zhao He smiled and scratched his head, then waved over the boat, and at this time, the Mayans who had already been assigned work by him began to carry the basket and got off the boat.

"Are these people indigenous to South America?" Sun Xiangfu looked at those young men whose skin was about the same color as Asians and whose body size was similar to that of Mongolians.

Zhao He replied, "They call themselves Mayans, I feel that they look similar to the Turks, but the language and culture are completely different from ours, but these people on the ship, after nearly half a year of our devilish teaching, have been able to do some basic communication with us in Chinese, as long as we don't say some obscure words to them." ”

The Maya belong to the yellow race in terms of skin color, their physique is strong, the legs are stubby, the shoulders are broad, the skull, and the brown eyes are similar to the Turks in the north at this time, the similarity of the Xue Yantuo people, as high as seventy percent, through the genetic firmness of later generations, they are the same as the Indians, they all belong to the Mongol race, Sun Xiangfu, a face blind patient, has a high recognition of them.

Then, while seeing the things they had brought down, Sun Xiangfu checked the booklet recorded by Zhao He on a new piece of paper, among them, there were many crops that he needed to name.

"You've found all the major species I've listed?" When Sun Xiangfu opened Zhao He's booklet, he was very surprised, and at this time, he also saw the first crop seed recorded, potatoes, from the basket carried down by the Mayans.

Seeing Sun Xiangfu's surprised expression, Zhao He's pride in his heart couldn't hide it anymore, and said, "Of course, we can't even complete the main task, how can we be embarrassed to come back." ”

"Hahahaha, good, very good, the results of your trip to the sea have at least increased the ability of the people of Datang to resist natural disasters by more than two times······"

When Sun Xiangfu quickly flipped through the booklet, he couldn't help but laugh loudly, attracting onlookers from the big guys, what crops are overseas, what are the yields of these crops, and what are the tastes, they have never been discussed within their farms, so even the well-informed Feng Ang and Wu Shi Tong didn't know it at all when they saw the lumps in these baskets, and they didn't know what it did.

Among them, Samurai Tong of the Overseas Exploration and Investment Company, who is the actual owner of these species, was the first to ask, "Why is Masaaki laughing?" ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled and pointed to the baskets that were carried up, "Wu Shangshu knows what this is?" ”

The warrior shook his head and waited for Sun Xiangfu's next step.

"This thing is called potatoes, can be grain and vegetables, planted without picking the ground, ordinary fields, can yield 3,000 catties per mu, good fields with strong fertility, six to 8,000 catties can also be reached, if it is my farm after variety improvement, intensive cultivation, the yield per mu exceeds 10,000 catties, it is not difficult."

"10,000 catties per mu?"

Wu Shi Tong and Feng Ang are not young anymore, after listening to Sun Xiangfu's words, they almost slipped and fell to the ground, you plant a rice with a yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu, it is scary enough, but now you are making a crop with a yield of more than 10,000 catties per mu, it is really going to scare people to death directly!

"Hehe, don't believe it, these two grandfathers, this potato! It is the staple food of the Mayans, although they are not very good at farming, but there is no problem in growing thousands of catties per acre. Zhao He explained to them, and the Mayans who carried the potatoes ashore also understood what he said, and nodded their heads in confirmation.

"This, this, no wonder Zhengming laughed just now, in the future, my Datang's ability to resist natural disasters can really be increased by more than two times, with this high-yield crop, as long as my Datang divides a state road field to plant, it can also be used by the people of the whole country!" Wu Shitong's mouth trembled a little, when he said this, he regretted that when he went out of Chang'an, he didn't find a way to buy more shares of the exploration investment company to his name, with this profiteering crop in hand, the shares of the overseas exploration and investment company are estimated to rise wildly.

Then, when he heard Sun Xiangfu's next sentence, he regretted it even more.

"This, called sweet potato, the yield is not inferior to potatoes, the same is a vegetable and grain, and the sugar content is very high, it can be used for beekeeping, it can also be used to squeeze sugar, made into vermicelli, its nutrition is very balanced, can make people have a certain ability to resist disease, and most importantly, its stems and leaves, is a delicious vegetable, but also a green fodder that livestock loves to eat, for the time being, its overall economic value, even more than potatoes ······"

All right! If Sun Xiangfu continued to talk about it, Wu Shi Tong was worried that he would convulsions and fall unconscious, because he felt that he had missed a legitimate, fast, and multiplied his net worth several times, however, Sun Xiangfu continued to count the new species brought back from overseas by the fleet, and he had no intention of stopping.

"Zhengming, you wait, the old man feels tightness in his chest and shortness of breath."

"You shouldn't have high blood pressure!" Looking at the state shown by Wu Shi Tong, Sun Xiangfu suddenly became nervous.