Although Almeida was majestic, after leading the fleet to the Strait of Malacca and conquering Manchuria, he established colonies in Sumatra, Java, Boni and Luzon, but these series of "great achievements" were not compared with the Ming Dynasty. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

What if all the uncivilized islands in Southeast Asia are occupied by you? The output is simple handicrafts, and then medicinal herbs and spices, even if people can be trafficked to the country of Franco as slaves, but the Malay race is generally shorter and thinner, and it takes almost a year to return to the country from Southeast Asia to the country of Franco, it is better to directly trade black slaves in Africa.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire blocked the east-west traffic and controlled the trade with the Ming Dynasty, so that almost all the goods of the Ming Dynasty were sold at sky-high prices in Europe.

Almeida directly sold the native products of Southeast Asia to the Ming Dynasty, and then obtained tea, pottery, porcelain, silk and other commodities worth a thousand gold in the eyes of Europeans from the Ming Dynasty.

In the past two years, Almeida has only brought back dozens of ships of ceramics, silk, and tea from the Ming Dynasty to the country of Franco, which has given him countless reputations, and if he leaves in such a disgraced manner, it will be tantamount to ruining his previous achievements, and he may not be punished by the king.

Now it depends on whether Almeida has the courage to engage in a military confrontation with the Ming.

Changing someone else to guard the southeast coast, Almeida has a high chance of taking risks, he robbed a lot of good things along the coast of the Ming Dynasty before, but after losing to Shen Xi in the battle of Quanzhou and escorting him to the capital, he began to know how vast the Ming land was, how rich the people were, and how strong the army was.

How much tea and ceramics can ordinary people on the coast have in their homes? Not to mention something like silk that ordinary people simply can't have! The robbery is thankless, and the income is only some low-grade goods, and it can't be sold at a good price when it is shipped back to Europe, so it is better to do business with Daming.

Shenxi is now fearless, Almeida will get out of the way if he has the ability, and when the time comes, I can take the fleet to include Luzon, Boni and other islands into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the salt farms are there, the plantations are there, and I can also use the manpower and resources of Southeast Asia to develop Dongfan, that is, the Taiwan Island in later generations.

Shen Xi sent the letter to the Franc Machine, and Shen Xi not only issued a warning order to the guards in Fujian and Guangdong in the name of the governor of the three provinces, but then waited for the news of the Franc Robot in Guangzhou City.

If Almeida had a little more normal mind, he would compromise with Daming. He didn't dare to come in person, and he would also send someone to reconcile with the Ming Dynasty, because a large number of goods he had bought before had been seized, plus the local products from all over the South Seas stored on Shangchuan Island, if he didn't negotiate to get it back, the Franc fleet would suffer huge losses.

At this time, Shen Xi's main concern was not the Francophile, but the corn and sweet potatoes he planted in the backyard of the post house.

After four months of cultivation, Shen Xi finally harvested the first crop of corn and sweet potatoes in the land of Daming before the first snow fell in Guangzhou Prefecture.

When he put the corn aside, looked at the yellow, orange and orange rice grains inside, and then saw the baskets of sweet potatoes, Shen Xi's mood could only be described as excited.

Sweet potatoes and corn as an invasive species in the land of the Ming Dynasty, there are no natural enemies in a short period of time, and there is no yield reduction after the planting of hybrid crops year after year, and there is a big harvest in the small back garden, and so on, a bumper harvest can also be obtained during the promotion period in the next few years.

harvesting crops, it was not Shen Xi's personal guards who came to work, nor the brothers of the Che Ma Gang, but the daughters of the Shen family.

Xie Yun'er and Xie Hengnu didn't have the temper of the eldest lady, and happily entered the field, Xie Hengnu, who was the most pampered among all people, liked this kind of field work very much, Lu Xi'er and Yin Wen also tried their best to help, only Lin Dai was afraid of getting herself dirty, so she used a hoe to cut sweet potatoes, and felt that her hands and feet were soft when she waved twice, so she broke the corn, and was cut by the corn leaves.

Zhou is like a commander in the back garden, and she is the only one in the family who works in the fields and has incomparable farming experience.

When he was almost busy, Zhou pinched his waist and said, "I said Han Wa'er, what is this doing?" You can't eat it, you can't see it, do you dry it and take it back as firewood? You're already an official, don't do farm work anymore, you'll be laughed at if you talk about it! ”

Shen Xi said: "Mother, this is what Your Majesty ordered the child to plant. ”

"Bah."

Zhou took a sip, "Are you stupid to be an old lady and lack heart?" The emperor is high, lives in the palace, and is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, will let you plant this thing? ”

"Han Wa'er, if you are short of money, you can save some food at home, and work hard for you to study, so that you can say goodbye to the fields, you are good, the officials who eat and drink well are not appropriate, and they come to farm?"

Before, Zhou didn't know that Shen Xi had planted some things in the backyard of the post house, and if she wanted to find out early, she had to take someone to bulldoze these things.

My son is the champion, a member of the imperial court, farming is self-defeating, self-degenerate, I, the mother, must not let him continue to fall!

Xie Yun'er wiped her sweat and walked over to explain: "Mother, it was really His Majesty who asked Xianggong to plant, this is a new seed introduced from overseas, we have not had it yet, our harvest here is the basis for reproduction and expansion of planting scale in the future, and it will be promoted to the whole country in the future." Mother...... Xiang Gong may become a famous minister in the annals of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Really?"

Zhou was suspicious, took a corn cob in his hand, peeled it off and looked at it, "The core is not small, can this yellow-orange thing on the surface be boiled as rice?" The emperor has nothing to do, let my son plant this thing? ”

Shen Xi said with a smile: "Mother, this thing is called corn, it can be crushed like wheat, it can be steamed and eaten." Don't underestimate this thing, one acre of land can produce six or seven hundred catties, as for sweet potatoes...... It's a sweet potato, which can produce thousands of catties! ”

"Are you fooling the old lady? One acre of paddy field produces more than 200 catties of rice, which is a bumper harvest year, and you actually say that it can produce six or seven hundred catties? ”

After all, Zhou came out of the field and was very sensitive to the yield of crops.

At this time, the farming technology is backward, there is no chemical fertilizer, and there is no generation of selection and hybridization, even if it is an acre of mature land, it can only produce about 200 catties of grain, and the harvest year is less than 300 catties, which is why the Ming Dynasty has been in the past 300 years of national fortune, and the population has been staying at about 100 million people.

Because of the limitations of backward production tools, irrigation conditions and cultivated crops, the existing land in the Ming Dynasty can only feed so many people, and the society is maintained in a relatively balanced state.

But since the introduction of corn and sweet potatoes to China, the population of China has begun to surge, which is also because there is more food, and the chance of children being born to feed has increased greatly.

Shen Xi said: "Mother, I didn't lie to you, you will know after the large-scale promotion of planting in the future." ”

Originally, the tender corn was delicious, but Shen Xi didn't dare to spoil the corn seeds, he also waited for the corn to be fully ripe before harvesting, and all the corn would be used as seeds for the next year's cultivation. However, the yield of sweet potatoes is high, and the rhizomes and tubers of sweet potatoes can be used as seeds, so Shen Xi is ready to work and let his own women try it.

"I'll roast sweet potatoes for you at night!" Shen Xi said with a smile.

Xie Hengnu's little face was covered with beads of sweat, but he was still full of joyful smiles, looked up at Shen Xi and asked, "Seventh brother, what is roasted sweet potato?" ”

Before Shen Xi could reply, Lin Dai interjected first: "It's just to throw the round thing that I dug up just now into the fire and roast it and eat it......"

Shen Xi, who was washing his hands, nodded: "That's right, it's just roasting sweet potatoes to eat, when I was in school...... Uh, I heard this stuff is delicious. ”

Zhou said, "Phew, what did you have when you went to school, did you have this thing when you went to school?" After being tired for most of the day, my mother went back to lie down first, and her body was not as good as before...... Alas, it's all made by your father! ”

A thirty-three-year-old woman, without a husband by her side, is fine for a day or two, and as the days go by, she can't help but think of her husband's goodness, especially a woman like Zhou who has affection for Shen Mingjun. When Shen Mingjun was by her side, she hated her husband for not being angry, but when Shen Mingjun was not there, she complained that her husband didn't love her.

She forgot that she had run away from home and walked to Guangzhou Mansion by herself, and Shen Mingjun didn't know where she was going.

At night, the Shen family was lively.

It was the second day Shen Xi returned home, and the first day he stayed at home overnight, where the family worked together during the day and enjoyed the fruits of their labor at night.

Shen Xi lit a fire in the yard, buried the sweet potatoes in the hot firewood and grass ashes, and then lit a fire on top, or directly set it on the fire...... He didn't know which way to bake the kind of roasted sweet potatoes he had eaten before.

On the other hand, he selected a few young corns from a pile of old corn that could not be left behind, and he was ready to taste whether the corn tasted authentic or not, and he was a guinea pig.

Since he agreed to introduce and try to plant new crops for the imperial court, Shen Xi had the consciousness of being a guinea pig, and if he wanted to promote corn and sweet potatoes, he must first prove to others that these two things had no toxic side effects.

After roasting the sweet potato, Shen Xi tasted it himself.

Peel off the burnt sweet potato skin, revealing the yellow-orange-orange sweet potato flesh, take a bite, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, the first second is still burning the tongue in the mouth, and the next second I can't help but send good things to the throat, the hot feeling from the mouth to the stomach, sighing, the refreshing feeling arises spontaneously.

"Dai'er, Jun'er, come out to eat something good."

Shen Xi shouted, and several little girls in the room ran out with their front and back feet, just like female soldiers waiting for the commander to review, lined up from tall to low, Shen Xi put a few roasted sweet potatoes into a large porcelain bowl, "Take it inside and eat it, first peel off the burnt skin outside...... It's too hot, be careful not to burn your mouth! ”

Lin Dai volunteered to hold the big porcelain bowl in her arms, the bowl was a little hot, she quickly wrapped her hands in her sleeves, held them in her arms, and a few girls entered the room, only after a while, there was a sound of "so sweet" and "so delicious".

"Give me a taste, don't be a fool...... Hmm, the taste is okay, give me another piece...... Hey, you damn girl left me an extra piece didn't you hear? ”

Zhou also joined the ranks of food grabbing.

When Shen Xi sent more roasted sweet potatoes to the main hall in a basket, there was finally no need to rush to eat here, everyone had enough.

Shen Xi took out two roasted sweet potatoes and gave them to Zhu Shan, who was desperately pursing his lips next to him: "Take them and taste them." ”

"Thank you, sir."

Zhu Shan didn't say a word, he sat on the small bench with the roasted sweet potato in his arms, tore the skin and went up to nibble on it, and soon showed a look of intoxication...... What is delicious or not is most obvious on Zhu Shan's face, because this is a complete foodie.

Xie Yun'er and the others were still eating sweet potatoes, Shen Xi dug out the roasted corn from the grass ash pile, removed the coating on the surface, and said, "Who tastes this?" ”

"I, I."

This time, Lin Dai didn't care about being reserved, and ran out of the house first.

"I'd better do it myself."

Shen Xi himself took a bite of roasted corn first, fresh tender corn, although it was roasted, it was still very watery, and there was a sweet taste in his mouth.

A familiar feeling arose, and then Shen Xi handed the remaining three roasted corns to Lin Dai, "Take them into the house and eat them separately, just eat two bites for one person, if you are poisoned, our family will be together, and no one will be lonely on Huangquan Road." ”

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Take the children out to play during the day, there are crowds everywhere, and when I get home, it's already five o'clock, and I hurriedly code a chapter out...... Everyone is free to accompany their families, don't stay at home and ignore family affection.

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