"This is corn?" Lu Qian held up the small and delicate corn cob in his hand and said with a smile.

The outsiders were dazzled by the brilliant gold, and the sailors and crew members who came off the ship became precious eggs. If you go to the restaurant at this time, no one will ask them for food, just talk about the Americas, talk about the sea customs along the way, I don't know how much popularity can be added to the restaurant.

As for the high-level officials of the accompanying ship, there were also those accompanying officials and scholars, such as Lu Renen and others, these people were all invited to the banquet by Honglu Temple first. Emperor Lu personally hosted a banquet to entertain them.

The ship's crew sailors, on the other hand, had to stay temporarily in the quarantine area of the port for a certain period of time.

Even Ruan Xiaoqi and the others who were invited away by Honglu Temple, one by one, before going to the banquet, they all had to take off a layer of skin in the hot pool!

But this isolation will not last long, and in a few days, the whole world will know what America is like.

A group of people who still lived in the Stone Age, their weapons were all stones, no iron tools, not even a few bronze tools, and the metallurgical ingenuity of the Native Americans seems to have been given to the smelting of gold and the making of gold tools. To this day, the barbaric and ignorant custom of blood sacrifice is still retained......

Such a wave of natives is simply uncivilized, it is not as good as the existence of the few people in the ravines and ravines of the Great Southwest, not to mention the Lu Qi army, it is the force of any maritime caravan, which has an overwhelming advantage over the indigenous people of the Americas.

Perhaps in the years to come, private exploration ships will be floating on the American continent.

But what Lu Qian values most is the products of the Americas, and chili peppers are just insignificant condiments, and their role is only to satisfy people's appetites. Tobacco, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc., these are the major events that are really relevant to the country.

China is not short of food now, but who dares to say that China will never be short of food? Who dares to say that the people of the Central Plains will always have only these things now, and will not become a billion or 1.5 billion like in their previous lives?

Lu Qian is a hundred experiences, so that the people can have more children. There is a large empty space waiting for them to dye yellow!

In the future of China, not to mention 500 million or 600 million people, in an agricultural society, this number is too much, but at least 300 million or 200 million people will have to be fed. Only by maintaining such a population ratio can the Central Plains be able to subdue all directions in terms of strength.

After all, it is an agrarian society, and the war potential of the agrarian society, the demographic factor is more important than the industrial age.

It can be said that the corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc. in the Americas are very important. In this case, Lu Qian looked at the small and delicate corn cob in front of him, and his heart should have collapsed.

The 'ignorant' Emperor Lu was completely ignorant of the evolution of social civilization in the Americas for thousands of years. If North America is topographical and tornadoes that prevent agricultural societies from sustaining for long, what about Central and South America?

The biggest reason why agricultural civilization could not be born early was none other than the defects and shortcomings of the American continent itself.

The reason mentioned in "Guns, Bacteria and Steel" is that the evolution and stagnation of American civilization is mainly determined by the environment of the Americas.

In the Americas, there is a lack of agricultural crops that can be easily domesticated, unlike the Eurasian continent, which has wheat and rice plants that can be easily domesticated. Corn, the main food crop in the Americas, while the original varieties of corn have ears that are only the thickness of a human finger, have a very low yield, and have a hard shell on the outside of the corn kernels. In fact, it wasn't until the Europeans discovered the Americas that corn was domesticated by Indian farmers to about one-third the size of today's ears of corn. Other crop varieties are also very difficult to domesticate, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, sunflower seeds, pumpkins, etc., which are not as high-yielding as later generations. The original sweet potato is also only slightly thicker than a human finger.

Another important reason is that the domesticable crops in the Americas are so scattered that they require a long-term process of diffusion and exposure. To support the development of an agrarian society, a variety of crops are needed to provide sugar, protein and oilseeds, and the lack of any basic nutrients cannot support an agrarian society. But the terrain of the Americas is elongated and narrow, from north to south, and the domesticated varieties that provide sugar, protein and oil crops are scattered and over long distances, and it takes much longer than the Old World to spread together to form a basic agricultural combination. Of course, none of this has anything to do with this book.

Emperor Lu knew nothing about this, so he had great hopes for the Americas.

Therefore, when he saw the small and delicate corn cob and the small and delicate sweet potatoes and potatoes, what kind of feeling did he feel? It felt like a lightning strike.

His brain was down.

But Lu Qian is actually lucky, because for thousands of years, the 'crops' of the American continent have crossed the geographical distance and combined with each other. For example, corn is native to the Mesoamerican highlands, potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown in the mountains of South America, and so on. If China had landed in the Americas thousands of years earlier, it would have been impossible to collect all species in a single voyage.

If nothing else, just a long-staple cotton and a fine-staple cotton, two cotton varieties native to the Americas, can bring China a lot of profits?

It should be said that it is bitter and sweet, or it can be said that it is unintentionally planted in the willows. After Lu Qian was greatly disappointed in corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc., he got redemption from cotton.

In order to improve cotton varieties, Lu Qian sent people to Tianzhu and Egypt to introduce new varieties, but the facts proved that the effect was not great. The latter two are actually all the way, both of which are Tianzhu cotton originating in Tianzhu, and they are not the long-staple cotton he expected at all.

But the two kinds of cotton brought from the Americas by Ruan Xiaoqi inadvertently made up for this shortcoming.

It was a huge surprise, and it was an unexpected surprise. Because Lu Qian did not know that these two kinds of cotton were involved in the Americas, he only had great expectations for the products of the Americas, such as tobacco and corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, and cocoa.

"Your Majesty?"

Le He whispered to Lu Qian. "It's time for a feast."

Lu Qian, who was shocked by the voice, let out a long breath, "Order the Agricultural Science and Technology Department to let them take good care of these seeds." Along with the delicate size of corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes in front of him, he no longer has the confidence to let the cadres of the Agricultural Science and Technology Agency must cultivate high-yield and excellent varieties. But good life care is a must. After planting a few stubbles, these species adapt to the climate and soil of Middle-earth, and then suddenly 'mutate'.

As promised, the music and silence went in.

Only Lu Qian was left standing alone in the hall, a little empty in his heart, and he was stunned.

……

Somewhere in the premises of the Office of Internal Affairs.

A group of people were looking at the yellow and tengning tobacco leaves in front of them at a loss, this was a tribute brought back by Ruan Dudu thousands of miles away, and the emperor attached great importance to it......