Chapter 10 Shore Qiantang

In fact, it's not just Xu Qing who can't sleep alone, but also a boatload of people who haven't slept yet, after all, he has been busy for a long time but couldn't start the boat. There were so many suspected plague people on the ship, half-dead, all afraid of being infected.

Soon, a poisoned man was brought over, his face was pale, and he seemed to have diarrhea.

Xu Qing took a potato and asked excitedly: "How did you find this kind of thing?" ”

"I, I, I, my lord...... atonement," the man said in a weak tone, "I saw it on the island." ”

"Nonsense, where, is it this or that, how did you find out?" Xu Qing asked slowly, his tone calming down, so as not to make him nervous.

"Villain, I found ...... on the other side of the island," the man said: "At that time, the adults let us play by ourselves, and I waited for a few people to go to a meadow, but we saw a flock of long-necked birds pecking at the ...... there."

"One of the good eaters in the team said that birds can eat as well as people, so he took us to eat some. We thought it tasted good, so we dug up a lot of it and brought it back. The man hesitated, "Bird, bird." I also hit a few and came back and ate too. ”

"Thanks to the adults, we didn't dare to eat too much at first, so we didn't die."

Oh, it turned out that he saw the birds eating, Xu Qingyi thought about it, the birds on this island can dig out potatoes in the soil and peck at them, they should have eaten from this for a long time. So, there are still a lot of potatoes on the island?

However, why don't birds get poisoned if they eat it? Xu Qing didn't know, and he didn't want to explore, so he waved his hand to let the man go back to rest. He also ordered everyone to rest early, and to go to the island again tomorrow.

I slept like pancakes for one night, and the next day I took advantage of the tide to take people ashore to look for potatoes.

I didn't expect to arrive on the island again so soon, or for a small potato.

found the stick that Xu Qing had set up earlier, and called out those who had eaten potatoes, although they were poisoned, but the poison was not very deep, and they pulled it all night, and ate a good meal, and they almost recovered.

took Xu Qing to find the place where the potatoes were picked, and when he saw it, the land had been turned over, and there were some seedlings scattered on the ground, which were indeed potatoes.

The roots of the potatoes are so deep that the tubers can be buried in the ground, and they may not be able to dig them up with their hands.

Immediately, Xu Qing asked his subordinates to take out a pickaxe to dig the soil and slowly plane, so as not to let a potato be dug up.

Every potato now is the life of thousands of people in the future!

Sure enough, dozens of potato seedlings around here were not dug up, and all the way down, there were five or six fist-sized and three or four palm-sized dug up.

Xu Qing asked everyone to take the potato seedlings and spread out to find similar plants. To be able to find even one more plant is a great merit. What's more, potatoes are all clumped, and not a single seedling will stand alone.

Xu Qing himself, surrounded this small piece of grass, no, it should be a small piece of bushes and started searching.

This place is seven or eight feet in circumference, and it is a depression. There are many, many depressions like this on this side of the island, as mentioned above. And this one is different, it has a small ditch from the inside to the outside, which leads to the shore in a zigzag way.

Could it be that the potatoes drifted here with the currents and were carried ashore by the waves?

Impossible, Xu Qing recalled the global current distribution map in his high school geography book, but he only remembered one ball, not those ocean currents.

No matter what, even if you put a potato in the sea now, it should sink, if it doesn't sink, then there is a height difference of one or two meters in this depression in the sea, how can it come up?

Soon, everyone came back in a huff, bowing their heads one by one, but they didn't find it, they searched all around, and the bird's nest was dug up, but they didn't find it.

Alas, it is not easy to fall from the sky, and he is still greedy, Xu Qing laughed at himself and took people away.

A few months later, an earthquake struck the nameless island, and the entire island shook and sank to the ground as if it had never existed. So much so that when Xu Qing later looked for the island named after him, he scratched his scalp and didn't find it.

At the same time as the island sank, a strange coconut floated on the sea, and soon the coconut docked on the seashore, and soon a wisp of green seedlings grew from the coconut, which was a potato seedling.

It's just that this wisp of green seedlings was taken away by a stupid stinky bird, and the contents of the coconut will never see the light of day.

Xu Qing naturally didn't know about these things.

After leaving the island, Xu Qing happened to encounter a rising tide, and a boatload of people worked together to finally get rid of the stranded situation and sail towards the sea again. Xu Qing hugged Xu Wen with one hand and Xun Xue'er with the other, sighing at the subtlety of life and the mystery of the avenue.

On the ship, Xu Qing called those who knew the characteristics, such as Huang Shimei, Zhang Linlin and others, to start a secret guardian committee, formulated the rules and regulations of the secret guardian law of potatoes, and required everyone to strictly abide by them.

To the other people on the ship, Xu Qing only said that potatoes were harmful and poisonous, and he wanted to use them to deal with the enemy country, so as to improve the strength of our team and repay the kindness of the old man Li Yuan.

On the other hand, Xu Qing emptied many water tanks and cultivated potatoes with the sand and silt brought from the island. Although potatoes are cold-resistant, they are only in the south, and if they go to the north, they are stupid.

There are still some that have not germinated, Xu Qing carefully packed them in dry boxes, and after winter, they can be used for breeding.

The boat, going all the way to the southwest, a day and a half of effort, finally saw the familiar shore. As far as the eye can see, the shore is inhuman, and the people on the sand by the sea are planting turnips.

Without saying a word, he stopped the boat, let the people go down, and after replenishing the fresh water, he quickly got in touch with the members of the dark river who were accompanying him on the shore.

At the time of departure, it was agreed that he would meet with the people on the shore every three days to ventilate the situation on board. From the mirage, to the shark boat, to the stranding of Xugong Island, it has been more than ten days since I had contact with the shore.

On the shore, I'm afraid I'm already anxious to go into the sea to search, right?

Later, Xu Qing learned that the people on the shore were not in a hurry to go to the sea, but were so anxious that they had already taken out their anger on the bandits on the coast, and killed several unformed seaside thieves' dens in a row. Those thieves' dens, not even a broken ship, were suspected of hurting Xu Qing, which can be described as an unjust death.

After finding someone, hundreds of people on the shore breathed a sigh of relief, Yang Xin personally came from the south, and he must board the boat to see Xu Qingcai rest assured. Before leaving, he begged Xu Qing not to take the sea route and went ashore. But in the end, he couldn't impress Xu Qing, but Xu Qing gave him a task - to send three potatoes to Luonan.

Eggs can't be put in one basket, nor can they be placed in two baskets, three holes of cunning rabbits and eight holes of spiritual snakes.

Xu Qing continued to take the boat tour, walked down the coast, never encountered a mirage again, got lost in no sea fog, and no sharks followed the boat, calm and waveless. After walking for three or four days, a sea current rushed out from the west, and it took a lot of effort to get rid of the influence of this current. Xu Qing knew that this was the mouth of the Yangtze River.

In fact, after the mouth of the Yangtze River is the East China Sea, Xu Qing thought he was in the East China Sea, but in fact he was still in the Yellow Sea. Xu Qing's geography is actually quite badly learned.

No matter how bad it is, Xu Qing also knows that there is still a big river, although this river is not as big as the Yangtze River, but in terms of its cultural status, it does not show weakness to the Yangtze River.

There is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below, and Suzhou and Hangzhou are located on the bank of the Qiantang River. The tide of the Qiantang River is a magnificent scenery that is famous for thousands of miles.

In fact, Yuhang on its shore. It's the real great. Its living environment is desirable to the literati, and its economic status should not be underestimated.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the GDP of the eight counties in one state accounted for 4 percent of the entire Tang Dynasty, and there was a prosperous scene of "20 miles of Lu Qiao and 30,000 rooms". At that time, it was written: "The counties in the south of the Yangtze River, Yuhang is the biggest", which is simply the most prosperous place in addition to Chang'an. This kind of prosperity is not an overnight thing, to the Ming Dynasty a thousand years later, Zhu Yuanzhang that guy likes to seal his son, but he specifically proposed that Suzhou and Hangzhou are not allowed to be divided into kings, because they are too rich, and the country's finances rely on the taxes of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

There is also a key, the so-called "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal", Hangzhou, is the south station of the main artery of the empire.

Xu Qing planned to go ashore here, because further south, it was Fujian and Guangdong, not who he was targeting, and the land of Fujian and Guangdong at that time was still ......

In short, I went ashore in Hangzhou.

It turned out that Xu Qing wanted to secretly use a small boat to land ashore, because the ship he was afraid of was too "luxurious", and suddenly appeared from the sea, for fear of causing misunderstanding. However, when he arrived at the mouth of the Qiantang River, he completely lost this worry. A ship a third larger than his ship, set sail at the mouth of the river.

There are two richest places in Yuhang, one is this Qiantang and the other is "Yuhang County". Coming ashore from Qiantang, the richness here is far beyond Xu Qing's imagination. Xu Qing is also a metropolis such as Chang'an and Youzhou, and he has also cultivated a prosperous city of Cangzhou by himself, but when he arrived at this Qiantang, he was still shocked.

Chang'an has a lot of people and a big city, but after all, it has experienced war, and Chang'an is an "international" capital, and it is surrounded by a piece of farmland.

Qiantang is different, and the prosperity here is more "stingy". The streets of Chang'an are straight, the streets of Qiantang are lined up one after another, the goods of Chang'an are piled up, and the goods of Qiantang are in boxes. From the perspective of pork alone, Chang'an buys meat one foot at a time, but Qiantang is not, it is a one-day scale. It's over, it's going to be chopped, and wrap it with lotus leaves.

Buy five embroidery needles and wrap them in straw paper!

Everything seems exquisite, but it does not make people depressing, prosperous, but does not make people feel irritable. What Qiantang is closer to is the kind of "petty bourgeoisie" and the prosperity of commerce.

The big hidden in the city, such a hidden city must be like Qiantang.

Of course, if you want to live elegantly, you have to be rich. Xu Qing fell in love with this place from the beginning, and it just so happened that he had money.

Many supplies were removed from the ship, as well as 20,000 taels of silver, and Yang Xin and the others had already arranged their residences and cleaned them spotlessly. Stay comfortably, and then take the women to the street to buy, from the east street entrance to the west market.