Chapter 265: The Meaning of Corn

The advantages of corn as a crop are high yield, drought resistance, high utilization rate and high starch content. For a place like Shandong, which is mostly hilly terrain, it can be said to be the most suitable crop. Because hills and mountains often mean that water is not readily available, maize is naturally more resistant to drought.

Jiang Feng's current troops, the number of horses can be said to be a lot, the problem of forage has always been quite a headache, corn stalks just solve this, as for the utilization rate and starch content, maybe you don't know, the corn cob noodles in the past were not only corn kernels but also ground together with the cob.

In modern times, Jiang Feng learned all kinds of encyclopedic knowledge about corn in those inconsequential courses, which were not relevant at all, and he didn't even have any impression in the heart of Jiang Feng, a representative of bad students, but after coming to the era of the Ming Dynasty.

The former bachelor man has become the master of a huge force of nearly 10,000 people who eat with him behind him, and the soldiers are only simply consuming materials in the non-combat state on weekdays, and similarly, the horses of the Dengzhou battalion and the other four battalions in Shandong are even greater.

Controlling the smuggling and smuggling of salt at sea, if the silver earned every year is compared with the financial plate of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that it will make those officials of the household department dumbfounded, of course, maybe these officials have long seen the profits made by the smuggling and trade of those wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River, and may not be surprised.

This astonishing profit bought an astonishing amount of materials, which was converted to these soldiers and horses, and the people around them, including Zhang Liang and Zhao Xiucai, were quite incomprehensible, according to common sense, a person makes money and fights for power, and in the end, what is it for, isn't it brocade clothes and jade food, beautiful wives and concubines. Jiang Feng has earned so much money, and it stands to reason that it is not impossible to live more comfortably than the emperor.

In fact, even if these emperors of the Ming Dynasty were so-called reckless emperors, their lives were not much better than those extravagant merchants and nobles, and what they won was just holding the power of the world. But Jiang Feng and his family are now living a slightly better life than the prefect of Dengzhou, the family and servants are all from various Tieding families to take turns to serve, and later the family members of the artisan families in Weishan Island and Tianjin, if they can go in to serve, it is even a symbol of honor.

But having said so much, according to Jiang Feng's current identity and income, life is too hard, and it should be more comfortable.

But no matter how the cronies around him persuaded each other, Jiang Feng, who was very fond of food and beauty, was unwilling to let go, and invested a lot of money in shipbuilding and workshop research without saving, and the improved version of the Fu ship was launched one by one, and artillery and arquebuses and various cold weapons were constantly born in the hands of craftsmen who burst out with enthusiasm for research.

To be honest, these things are not in line with Jiang Feng's character of the reckless and bold bad student in his previous life, and even Jiang Feng's character as a guerrilla in Shandong now, and the Sanpin military attache likes to enjoy the beautiful woman who likes food.

Now Jiang Feng wants to protect his woman, protect his family business, and make the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses who follow him, and the huge family business stronger and stronger.

These things can be said to be Jiang Feng's strength, but also Jiang Feng's responsibility, in order to make the Dengzhou camp more and more powerful, Jiang Feng is now alone, always desperately recalling the past in the modern times, but he is also quite frustrated to find that he has seen a lot of martial arts back then, learned a lot of martial arts, and is not bad at cooking, but he almost doesn't know anything about history and science and technology.

It may not be possible to know nothing, so he used almost, some of the indoctrination given to him by the modern information explosion society is still quite effective, at least he has seen the appearance of old-fashioned muskets and artillery and ships recorded in some film and television works and records, and knows that sea trade and illegal salt can make a lot of money.

The rest are mostly in cooking, and the hobby back then was also working towards this convenience, according to reason, Jiang Feng didn't know much about corn except for dishes such as corn roast and pine nut corn, salt and pepper corn, but when he was interning, Jiang Feng's master said seriously that if the taste of the noodle sauce is delicious, you also need to add a piece of corn cob, so that the taste will have that wonderful taste. In addition, scolding people nowadays for forgetting their roots and the like.

Some time ago, Jiang Feng recalled this, and his mood was still quite excited, thinking that he had found a solution to the problem of eating people and horses, but after finding his subordinates and inquiring around, everyone said that they had not seen the kind of crop that the guerrilla adults said, and wondered if it was a fantasy, Jiang Feng was extremely depressed at that time, but he was also very puzzled, thinking that corn was everywhere in his previous life.

In fact, in history, in the fifteenth century, European colonists who discovered the Americas brought corn back to Europe from the Americas. Then it began to spread throughout the world, and when it appeared in China, it should have been recorded in history in the middle of the sixteenth century, that is, twenty or thirty years later.

We may be able to explain that Jiang Feng came to the Ming Dynasty to belong to the butterfly flickering its wings, and then where the wind began to blow and other mysterious words, in fact, in the era of great navigation has begun, the circulation of various materials is relatively developed, and there are not many exchanges between Western merchants and the Ming Dynasty.

Maybe corn has appeared in the land of Daming for a long time, but it has not been promoted. However, these are all so-called theoretical speculations, and after Jiang Feng saw the corn, the ecstasy was as if he was going to blow himself up, and more than a dozen corn plants were planted on the edge of the simple wooden house.

There was a golden glint in his eyes, this is a treasure, as long as this corn can be produced in large quantities......

When he was infinitely expanding his association here, the white people kneeling behind him were quite crying and laughing, of course, more of a wry smile, Andrea kneeling there was also a little daze and embarrassment, to put it seriously, a little embarrassed, for a girl who knew that she was going to be dedicated to the general, naturally there was a lot of reluctance and sadness in her heart, but it was not that Jiang Feng had any domineering spirit or how handsome and chic he was, in fact, Jiang Feng looked like a rough man who didn't understand the amorous style of the people around him.

It was a girl who knew that she was going to be dedicated to others, she must have known that the reason why she was dedicated to Jiang Feng was because of her beauty, and confidence in her own beauty was the most important belief for every beautiful girl, but now the proud Andrea's confidence was shattered by a dozen crops behind her.

Jiang Feng really doesn't have any problem with beauties in his eyes now, you must know that when you see such a beauty on weekdays, you always have to carry forward the tradition and look up and down, but now he is already shocked by the corn in front of him.

In the rather surprised expressions of these people behind, Jiang Feng turned his head and asked excitedly:

"Who planted this corn?"

At this time, the people behind were sure that Jiang Feng, the general, was indeed paying attention to more than a dozen plants, and Jason smiled bitterly, thinking that the beauty was useless, and the crops were very useful. His companion's Chinese language skills were much worse than his.

Jason Hogan muttered a few words in his native language, and Jiang Feng saw a rather honest man standing up in front of him, with a thick beard on his face and looking quite old, but the wandering and fleeing at sea made these people look similar.

Generally much older than the actual age, this man is quite restrained, there rubbing his hands and bowing deeply respectfully, muttering something in the innermost, his voice is still quite soft, Jason introduced on the side:

"This is Wisconsin. Sanchez, who was a farmer in our hometown. ”

Wiscon was wearing homespun clothes, and he was talking about something there, and Jason was speaking in Chinese, which was not fluent but clear enough:

"Master Jiang, Wisconsin said that this thing is the only thing he brought with him in his hometown, some crops that came to us in the New World."

Wisconsin's voice gradually deepened, and the expression on his face was also tinged with sadness, although Jason Hogan was translating there, he could also see that he was not comfortable, but his words continued there:

"My lord, he said that his farm and family were destroyed by the evil Spanish army, and that he was the only one who came to your land with his sister and these seeds."

Farmers must be people who know how to plant and all kinds of agronomy, although it is more majestic to build ships and make cannons, but planting and agronomy are also real things, and the more grain they grow, doesn't it mean that they can gather more people.

The more people there are, the more people who make money and fight wars, thinking of this, the surprise on Jiang Feng's face has turned into a warm smile, coughed a few times, and said to Jason seriously:

"Tell Wisconsin, live in Dengzhou with peace of mind, this corn just now can be planted on a large scale as soon as possible, I can meet everything he wants, you can just open your mouth, Mr. Zhao will meet you, and you and your sister will be well taken care of."

Speaking of this, Jiang Feng opened his mouth and asked Jason:

"Which one is Wisconson's sister?"

Jason Hogan smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand and pointed at Jiang Feng's back, and said:

"Allow me to introduce you to the tulips from the Netherlands, Andrea. Sanchesh. ”

The beautiful girl who looked like a doll stood up with a look of longing.