Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoDue to the limitation of the growth environment, all kinds of spices have their production areas, at this time, the artificial planting technology is not good, and there are few, which naturally leads to the output of spices is so little, and the price remains high.

As for why spices were so common in later generations, we have to mention the discovery of several major spice origins.

There are four major spice islands in the world, the Maluku Islands, the Banda Islands, Grenada, and the Zanzibar Islands.

The Zanzibar archipelago is located on the east coast of Africa, and Grenada is located in the Caribbean Sea, and these two places were not slowly known until the Age of Discovery, when the European route to the East through the Cape of Good Hope was opened, and the American continent was discovered.

The Maluku Islands and the Banda Islands, the two spice islands, were well known to people in China, India, Arabia and other countries many years earlier, but this was many years earlier and was almost in the Northern Song Dynasty of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

At this time in the Tang Dynasty, the Maluku Islands and Banda Islands were completely unknown and nameless islands.

Not to mention the Tang Dynasty, no one knows about these countries in Tianzhu, and no one even knows about the nearby countries of Japo, which are located on the island of Sumatra and Java.

The country is small and the people are weak, and the shipbuilding and navigation are very primitive, and these countries have not even seen all the islands where they are located, let alone the islands that extend into the sea, even if someone has visited these two islands by chance, after leaving, they are basically impossible to find again.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a virgin land that no one has ever visited.

But others don't know, Wu Yuanqing knows, Grenada, Zanzibar Islands are too far away to know the specific location can't go, but the Maluku Islands and Banda Islands are located in the Banda Sea in Indonesia.

Thinking that in later generations, the South China Sea was in an uproar, but Wu Yuanqing had a good look at the geographical location of those small countries in Southeast Asia on the world map.

Wu Yuanqing didn't have a map in his hand, but he remembered the geography around China and the outlines of several continents in the world.

Give him time, give him a sturdy and safe ship, and he can find Australia, America, and Antarctica.

For Malay, Indonesia can not be said to remember very clearly, but he still remembers the general direction, especially easy is to follow the route he is taking now, to the end of the Java islands and the Banda Sea.

Then diagonally in the past, all the way to Maluku Island, to here there is a reference, and then find more than 200 miles away from Maluku, located in the middle of the Banda Sea Banda Islands is much easier.

This is another reason why Wu Yuanqing bothered to go around so far, in addition to because it is safer to walk along the coastline, the most important thing is because if he starts from Guangzhou and goes south, he is afraid that he will find the wrong position if he has no reference.

Now there is no problem, with the reference of Java Island, Wu Yuanqing led the fleet for more than ten days, and finally reached the end of this long list of islands, which is almost the vicinity of East Timor in the future.

Then they turned to the northeast and walked diagonally for four or five days on the sea, and finally they came to Maluku Island.

Why are you so sure you're on Maluku Island?

It's very simple, I've been to many, many islands along the way, big and small, and occasionally you will see these spices like nutmeg on the top, but that's all occasional bushes or two bushes are the same as going into the mountains in the Tang Dynasty to find herbs such as yellow celery, bupleurum, etc., what do you look for.

But on the island in front of me, from the time I got ashore, the first plant I saw was cardamom, the second was cardamom, the third, fourth, and many, many other plants were cardamom, and the range expanded, cloves, pepper, and nutmeg appeared one by one, and then countless, all over the mountains.

This is the season when the spices are ripe, and everyone's nose is filled with a rich aroma.

Bai Shan, who wanted to transform into a pirate before, suddenly found himself very stupid at this time, really, stupidly, robbery, that is risky, and it will ruin the reputation of the Tang Dynasty, which is not in line with his identity as the sixth captain of the crown prince.

Staring at the spice trees and spice bushes everywhere with his eyes obsessive, Hakuyama decided to turn himself into a hard-working farmer, plucking the light with his own hands.

The steward Zhao Cai was trembling all over, trembling and carefully reaching out to pick fruit from a nutmeg tree, for fear that the scene in front of him was an illusion and a mirage.

Fortunately, the moment his fingers pinched the fruit, the solid and rough touch told him that all this in front of him was true.

Cutting the peel, peeling off the aril, looking at the familiar cardamom kernels, Zhao Cai took a deep sniff in front of his nose, and his expression was very intoxicated, just like the groom who peeled the bride into a little white sheep on the wedding night, deeply intoxicated by the charming aroma.

If a few leaders can hold on, others can't control their madness anymore.

Except for the hard-pressed sailors who needed to guard the ship, everyone else flocked to the shore and rushed into the mountains and forests with a whoa.

"Hey, don't run around, don't run around, watch out for poisonous snakes."

"Oh,, why aren't any of these grandsons obedient." Wu Yuanqing shouted for a long time, no one paid attention to him, even the people of the Wu family were crazy, not to mention the people who spent money to hire them, and Wu Yuanqing, who was ignored, jumped to his feet and scolded.

"Grandma's leg, since you don't listen, I'll let you die. You can grab it, just grab it, grab more, anyway, it's Lao Tzu who grabs as much as you want, and I'll leave you some if you're in a good mood, and I won't give it to you if you're in a bad mood."

Looking at Wu Yuanqing's angry appearance, Changle was amused and giggled.

"They're all gone, why don't you go?" Wu Yuanqing looked at the dynasty standing behind him who didn't move, Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu.

"We want to protect the young master's safety." Wang Chao said with a smile.

Wu Yuanqing was very satisfied with this answer, but Ma Han was stunned and answered: "Anyway, the ones that were robbed are all the young master's, and we are not stupid, so we have to rob them in a hurry."

"I went, I didn't see it, Mahan, it turns out that you are the one with the deepest thoughts." Wu Yuanqing glanced at Ma Han, and then said in an extremely disdainful tone.

Changle snorted and couldn't hold back his laughter, Wang Dynasty, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu also laughed when they looked at Ma Han's stupid appearance.

Mahan was embarrassed and opened his mouth.

"Alright, you don't have to explain it to me. Go back this time, the three of them will be rewarded, Ma Han" Wu Yuanqing shook his finger with a smile, and said word after word under Ma Han's gaze: "You didn't."