Potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, these food crops, at this time, the Central Plains, there are none, and Qin Zhen did not bring them from later generations.

But the circulation of goods has never only relied on traversers, but also merchants!

At this time, there were still some Persian merchants from the Western Regions who stayed in Chang'an. Qin Zhen hoped to be able to get the seeds of these food crops from them.

Although this is difficult, there is still a glimmer of hope. Qin Zhen wanted to start from these people.

"It's nice that you want to run those plots and experience what it's like to be in a strategic position. But the yield of crops is sometimes not subject to human will. If you only grow ordinary rice and wheat on those fields, it doesn't really mean anything. ”

Qin Zhen said to Jia Tanchun.

"If you don't grow wheat, what else can you grow?"

Jia Tanchun's words to Qin Zhen were a little strange, in her mind, there were actually not many varieties of grain. What else is there besides wheat?

All right! In fact, potatoes and sweet potatoes, in Qin Zhen's mind, are not food. The real grain is still rice and wheat.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes can be used as food in times of famine! But in peacetime, who will eat these?

At least in Qin Zhen's time, rice and noodles were staple foods. Sweet potato, potato...... Ahem, I haven't heard of anyone eating them for dinner.

These two things may not be suitable for the stomach of Chinese!

But at this time, the yield of rice wheat is really difficult to compliment, so as a supplement to the staple food, and it is a necessary supplement, it is very important for people at this time.

Sweet potatoes have very low requirements for the growth of crops and high yields. At this time, it is simply a divine weapon, a great hero of the country, and can survive countless lives.

At this time, everyone kills each other because there is not enough food and resources. If everyone has something to eat, even if there are people with intentions, careerists, etc., who try their best to instigate, I am afraid that they will not be able to provoke turmoil.

If you farm honestly at home, you will have food, who would think of going to the battlefield with a knife to fight hard? After all, most people are still ordinary people, and when they have a bite to eat, they are satisfied.

Qin really wanted to start from this point, or change something.

But the first thing to be solved now is the problem of seeds.

"You know, people in different places have different tastes, people in the northern region, they like to eat mutton, but people in some places, they like to eat snakes......"

Qin Zhen tried to slowly tell Jia Tanchun what he was thinking. But before he said this, Jia Tanchun interrupted him.

"What do you have to do with farming?"

Jia Tanchun asked.

Qin Zhen said: "Of course it matters, you know, our usual staple food is rice, or noodles. But I know that in some places, their staple food is not rice or noodles, but other things called sweet potatoes and potatoes. ”

"These things, in the land, are easy to grow, have high yields, and can be used as staple food for people. The land we grow now does not produce enough food for people to eat. With these things, maybe people will never go without food again. Then, perhaps, in this world, there will not be so much turmoil. ”

It took Qin Zhen a lot of effort to bring the topic to potatoes and sweet potatoes, otherwise, he suddenly said that he knew that there were two kinds of crops, how could he explain this to others?

Now I said vaguely, and others listened vaguely, well, this is a legend that Qin Zhen occasionally hears, maybe true, maybe false, who knows?

People don't look into it anymore.

I found it in the back, maybe it was Qin Zhen's shit luck. If you can't find it, forget it.

Qin Zhen didn't want to arouse people's suspicions.

"Sweet potato, potato, ......"

Jia Tanchun repeated Qin Zhen's words suspiciously, she had never heard of these two things. These two things can fill people's bellies?

"Even if these two things can really be used as food, but we don't have them, how can we grow them? We simply don't know where to look for them. A lot of things, in fact, are just legends......"

Jia Tanchun looked at Qin Zhen and kindly reminded him. There are not no people who are obsessed with legends in this world, if Qin Zhen really fell into it, saying that he wanted to find some sweet potato seeds, wouldn't it be bad?

Maybe it's going to be a joke like the elixir of life again.

"We can ask the merchants of the Western Regions, or offer a reward to collect ......"

Qin Zhen said to Jia Tanchun.

"Wouldn't it be nice if they really had a seed and gave it to us? We also give them a little reward, or a great honor, and I think that those who know will not fail to give it. ”

Jia Tanchun seemed to know what Qin Zhen meant.

"You want me to go to the merchants of the Western Regions and ask for these kinds of things. If there is, it is better, and if not, what is not lost? ”

Jia Tanchun asked Qin Zhendao.

Qin Zhen said: "That's exactly what it means, if someone gives a treasure, we can get a great benefit, if no one offers a treasure, we don't lose anything, at most, it's just a loss of a little manpower, time, this is not a loss, we can afford it."

Jia Tanchun thought about it, it was really like this.

Asking for food seeds is not like asking for immortal medicine, you will be deceived, this is basically impossible to be deceived.

Food is a very real thing, not illusory at all, how can the treasure giver deceive people?

"Did this work?"

Jia Tanchun asked suspiciously.

Qin Zhen said: "If you don't give it a try, how do you know?" If anyone knows the news of these things, they can also provide them, so that they can also give a reward. I think that if you solicit sweet potatoes or potatoes in all directions, it must be possible. ”

Sweet potatoes or potatoes were originally not available in the Central Plains, so of course, the ancient government would not make a big deal and bother to find them. They simply didn't know there was such a thing.

And the people of the other countries, who know that this east is a land of abundance, how can there be a lack of sweet potatoes and potatoes here? What people need here is pearl agate.

So they can't go all the way and pull a cart of potatoes and sweet potatoes to trade. They definitely traffic in things that are more valuable.

So, no one is going to do this sweet potato transfer job.

Therefore, before the Ming and Qing dynasties, sweet potatoes were not introduced to China.

But now that they're offering a bounty, it's a completely different story. This is government procurement, which is profitable!

Even if some merchants didn't have such a thing in their hands, as long as they knew where it was, even if it was thousands of miles away, they would try their best to find it for Qin Zhen and them.

"Okay, you can give this a try, but why not put a national bounty on this one?"

Jia Tanchun said.

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