"Your Highness doesn't know, because of the hurry of leaving this time, the tobacco leaves planted have not had time to be harvested, and now these in my hands are still brought back from the continent over there." Kapil looked at the cigar that had been thrown aside, and said with some pain.

"Brought back from the Americas?" The corners of Li Chengqian's eyes jumped wildly.

From Tianzhu to Datang, if you bypass Tubo, it will take nearly a year, plus this ghost guy has stayed in Tianzhu for a while, it will take a whole year to calculate, and before that, he has to cross the ocean and return to Tianzhu from the Americas, and it is estimated that one year is not enough.

That is, the cigar he had just smoked was at least nearly two and a half years old.

"It turns out that His Highness called it America." Kapil nodded a little understandingly, but did not refute Li Chengqian's speculation, obviously Comrade Li guessed correctly.

Cigars have their own unique way of preserving, which is something that has been summed up in the past hundred years in later generations, and it is naturally impossible for the Tang Dynasty to pay so much attention to it at this time.

So Li Chengqian didn't have to guess to know that Kapil must have put the cigar directly in the bag and got it back, so that he didn't have to wait for two and a half years, and it only took five to ten days for the cigar to lose its original taste, not to mention that he had kept it for so long.

After figuring out everything, Li Chengqian mourned for himself for a moment in his heart, suppressed the smoking addiction in his heart and asked in a deep voice: "Listen to the meaning of your words, you have the seed of tobacco leaves, this king is not wrong, right?" ”

"Yes, there is, but when it settles down, it will be planted." Kapil is not a native of the Tang Dynasty, and he is not used to using self-titles such as 'villain' and 'small people', but he doesn't dare to call himself 'I' in front of King Qin of the Tang Dynasty, so he can only ignore the title of himself.

However, what Li Chengqian cares about is not these, what kind of title can be taught later, but ability is not something that can be taught, so he continued to ask after a long silence: "You said that you have mastered the cultivation methods of these fruits and vegetables, so your profession is a farmer?" ”

"No, I'm an explorer, I can be responsible for exploring some unknown areas, and I have a lot of experience in the wilderness." Being treated as a farmer by Li Chengqian made Kapil a little anxious, and explained urgently.

"Explorer? Travelers? Li Chengqian frowned.

"Huh? Donkey? Kapil was a little embarrassed.

followed Wu Chen all the way, he basically mastered a large part of the language of the Tang Dynasty, and he knew very well what a donkey was, so as soon as this donkey friend came out, Kapil had a feeling of being discriminated against.

Li Chengqian didn't bother to explain what a travel friend is, and waved his hand to interrupt Kapil and said: "Okay, you don't care what kind of friend it is, these things stay here with this king, and the king can arrange it for you where you live, and then you can be responsible for the planting work with peace of mind, and when there are results, this king will report all this to his father, and then your wealth will come." ”

"This ......" Kapil didn't expect such a result, and he didn't know whether he should agree for a while, and he hesitated to hear Li Chengqian say: "Most of these things you take out are seeds, and then there are some air-dried things, only these things can be trusted by the king, but do you think others will believe you?" ”

This guy must have been stupid by the expedition, it is estimated that he also gave the seeds directly to the King of the Ring of the Sun when he was in Tianzhu, and it was precisely because of this that the misunderstanding of the King of the Ring of the Sun was caused and he had murderous intentions against their group.

Otherwise, as a king, if he saw grain that could produce high yields, how could he possibly hunt down and kill them, the heroes who found the seeds.

Kapil also seemed to wake up to this point in Li Chengqian's reminder, but now that the times have changed, even if he regrets it, it is too late, so he can only nod his head and live in the place arranged by Li Chengqian.

Fortunately, Li Chengqian did not intend to break his promise, and immediately after settling Kapil, he wrote a letter to the old man, stating the whole thing in general, and by the way, he also introduced the yield and characteristics of each fruit and vegetable.

……

In the blink of an eye, three days have passed.

To Li Chengqian's surprise, the old man who was supposed to stay in Luoyang for more than a month suddenly returned to Chang'an, and on a sunny afternoon, he brought a group of old men into his Qin Palace.

"Where's that potato you're talking about? Where is the corn? And that ...... What a peanut. The first time he saw Li Chengqian, Li Shimin didn't wait for him to come up to salute, and pulled him to his side and asked.

"Father, you, why did you come back?" Li Chengqian looked at his anxious white-faced father in surprise: "Didn't you say that you would live in Luoyang until winter?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense with Lao Tzu, where is the thing!"

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian are different, potatoes, corn, peanuts and the like are very common things in later generations, Xiao Li has long been surprised by this, Kapil brought things back from another continent, at best, for him to be able to eat some delicious dishes in later generations.

But for Li Shimin, it is different, crops with a yield of thousands of catties per mu are simply unheard of, and even in the eyes of some people who are happy with their achievements, it is not impossible to call it auspicious from heaven.

Li Shimin is the emperor, he has experienced wars, and he has seen the scene of the people changing their children and eating, and his view of the crops that can live is completely different from that of Li Chengqian, a man who has been a man in two lives, but has never been so hungry that he wants to eat soil.

It is precisely because of this that Li Shimin will rush back to Chang'an with all the ministers around him hundreds of miles away, in order to see those new species.

Li Chengqian didn't know this, but looking at his father's eyes that wanted to eat people, he finally said honestly: "Father, don't worry, what Kapil brought from Tianzhu was actually some seeds, and even if you take them out at the moment, it's useless, and you can't see anything." ”

"I don't want to see those seeds, I just want to know if what you said in the excerpt is true." Li Shimin listened to his son's explanation and knew that he was indeed a little anxious, but his excitement was not so easy to calm down, so he continued to pull his son and twisted his eyebrows and asked.

"Father, rest assured, as long as those seeds can be cultivated, you will definitely be satisfied." Li Chengqian almost patted his chest in reassurance.

The old man rushed back from hundreds of miles away for that little seed, and even his wife was lost in Luoyang, if he didn't make a promise to reassure his father at this time, it is estimated that the result waiting for him would not be much easier than breaking his leg.

(End of chapter)