Chapter 4 The First Men Who Discovered the American Continent
Wu Yuanqing was disappointed because he couldn't ask Miss Wang's name from her mouth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After saving her brother Wang Lun, Miss Wang left with her brother, and Wu Yuanqing could only watch Qianying walk away little by little.
The beautiful girl is gone, and Wu Yuanqing has lost the mood to continue shopping. Back in the house, the eldest girl led the second girl to find her mother to show off her shopping results. Wu Yuanqing returned to the room and opened the rag bag with the old name Hanako.
This look made Wu Yuanqing's surprise even greater. In addition to corn, there were 7 potatoes, 5 sweet potatoes, dozens of pumpkin seeds, more than 100 peanuts, and two small seeds, Wu Yuanqing didn't recognize them at once, and smelled them later and determined that one of them was pepper seeds, and the other was estimated to be tomato seeds.
I'll go, it's a big deal.
Wu Yuanqing looked at these things, his eyes were green. If peppers and tomatoes can only be used as ingredients and vegetables, then corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins are all high-yield crops. It can be used as a staple food or as a vegetable. And they are all very resistant to preservation, the requirements for the land are not very high, good land can be planted, slopes, poor quality can also be, and they are all drought-tolerant crops.
This kind of thing, in ancient times, the vast majority of people could not eat enough, and two meals a day were still years when they could drink thin and not eat dry, and it was completely priceless, and it was definitely not exchanged for anything or compared. Why do people rebel, the vast majority of people are definitely not for ideals, beliefs, or ambitions, but just because they can't eat enough and can't live. If there is a little hope, people will not think of rebelling, because rebellion also has to lose their heads.
Now that we have these things, everyone will be able to eat enough in the future, so there will definitely be very few such things as rebellions. Before, I was thinking about how to help my father get closer to ease the relationship with the emperor, but now with these high-yield crops, Wu Yuanqing felt that his previous thoughts were too negative, with these things, the relationship between my father and Gaozu Li Yuan was a floating cloud for Emperor Li Shimin, and it was not a matter at all. His own family is definitely Jane in the emperor's heart. As long as there is no rebellion, the future of the samurai is definitely very good.
After laughing silently for a long time with his mouth open, Wu Yuanqing's surging mood finally calmed down. It's just over Qingming now, and these things are not yet planted, so Wu Yuanqing can only ask the maid to find a few ceramic jars, carefully pack the seeds, cover them and put them on the side of the bed. And repeatedly told the maid to be optimistic and not to let people move, and the maid repeatedly assured that Wu Yuanqing's heart was put down.
Wu Yuanqing had to be careful, these are all unique things, if they were accidentally destroyed and lost, then he would really cry to death.
After settling down, Wu Yuanqing asked his subordinates to bring in the old man Hanako. He wondered where the old name Hanako came from, where he got these seeds, and if anyone else had them.
Only after this question did I know that the old name Hanako turned out to be a soldier in the 10th year of Emperor Yang of Sui's great cause, that is, in 614 AD, when he conquered Goguryeo for the third time.
Wu Yuanqing knew that Emperor Yang of Sui's three expeditions to Goguryeo ended in failure, and did not achieve the desired victory, which not only lost troops and generals, but also led to the misery of the domestic people. Because of this, there is now the Li Tang royal family.
He was always called Huazi and Wang Wu, and he fought bravely when he conquered Goguryeo, and he also became the leader of the team. Unexpectedly, once his team was ambushed by the army of Goguryeo, not to mention the defeat of the beaten, the team was also scattered, the old name Hanako and hundreds of people fled in a hurry, and the soldiers of Goguryeo behind were still chasing after the tail, this chase and escape all the way to the north, and actually ran into the white mountain and black water, the old man called Hanako and his group only cared about escaping, and they didn't pay attention to not knowing when, the Goguryeo people had stopped pursuing and retreated. When they found out, they were completely lost in the reckless primeval forest.
Once lost is thirteen years. These thirteen years were the thirteen years in which they searched for their way home. Along the way, they have been to the world of ice and snow, encountered perennial day and night, and encountered white giant bears. Walking across hundreds of miles of huge frozen lakes, I met people with bird feathers on their heads and ghost-like drawings on their faces, and snatched food from them, including those in bags. They are like a group of lonely ghosts wandering the world, finding their way home. There were more people who planted bird feathers and saw more things, and slowly they also came back to their senses, and finally knew that they had arrived at a place where they had never had contact with the Central Plains.
Someone proposed to stay and spend the rest of his life there, but the Han people's rural feelings are deep-rooted, and their homeland is difficult to leave, not to mention that this is a completely different world, compared with the Han civilization, this is the country of ignorant and backward, and the wild people who drink blood will go crazy. In the end, only a dozen people agreed to this proposal, and the rest wanted to return to their hometown, after all, there were not only their relatives, friends, but also familiar language and habits.
Only a dozen people couldn't survive in such a savage world, and in the end everyone set out on the journey home again. In this way, they went round and round and followed the way they had been, and returned to the boundless primeval forest, through the ice and snow world. At this time, there were less than twenty of the more than 300 people left in the country, with disease, starvation, hunting beast raids, and conflicts with the natives along the way. It's been a long journey.
This time, their luck was not bad, and after seven more deaths, they finally returned from the primeval forest to the familiar Liaodong realm. The place where they came out was under the control of Goguryeo. Before they had time to cry with joy, the locals had already regarded them as mountain bandits who were dressed in tatters and holding weapons in their hands, and under the pursuit of local officers and soldiers, they hid all the way and finally returned to the land of Datang. At this time, in addition to the old name Hanako Wang Wu, there were two people left. Or two wounded people. The two men also died one by one on the way west to Chang'an.
If he hadn't met Wu Yuanqing, Wang Wu would have died, either starving to death or being beaten to death by Wang Lun's little white face. As for why he didn't eat the contents of the package when he was hungry, firstly, Wang Lun had some utensils brought back from distant places in his hands, and he felt that they should be able to sell at a starting price, and secondly, he also felt that those things could be eaten, and he had never seen them, maybe if he could be presented to the emperor, he could be rewarded with a lot of things, and if he thought bigger, he might be able to make an official and a half-post. This is Wang Wu's small ambition in his heart, I have to say that Wang Wu is really stupid and naïve.
From Wang Wu's description, Wu Yuanqing understood that Wang Wu had really been to the American continent, and from Liaodong all the way north to the Arctic Circle, not only saw polar bears but also crossed the frozen Bering Strait, arrived in Alaska and then followed the Cordillera Mountains all the way to the Mexican Plateau, and then returned the same way. And the route he took was also the route of the ancestors of the Indians who migrated from the Asian continent to the American continent. It is said that it was not Columbus who first discovered the American continent, but the ancestors of the Indians, who came to America through the Bering Strait a long time ago, during the Quaternary glaciation.
Knowing the reason why Wang Wu got these things, Wu Yuanqing finally didn't have to worry about someone crossing over like himself. Let the subordinates arrange meals and houses for Wang Wu, and by the way, find a doctor to help him take a look at his body and recuperate.
The moment Wu Yuanqing saw the corn, he had already decided that the corn could no longer belong to Wang Wu. Not to mention how important this thing is to the samurai family. Just saying that this kind of thing can only be dusty in Wang Wu's hands, and he will never have the opportunity to dedicate it to the emperor. It is not possible to let corn and other things be fully promoted, and it cannot benefit the people all over the world, which in itself is what Wu Yuanqing does not want to see.
Although these seeds no longer belong to Wang Wu, even if these things are promoted to the whole country for the benefit of the people in the future, when the emperor rewards them, the object of the reward will only be the martial family, and will not give Wang Wu a reward, but at least Wu Yuanqing can guarantee that Wang Wu I will be rich and wealthy, and he will have no worries about food and clothing.
Between gains and losses, there is a fixed number.
This is the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of culture and education, the invincible soldiers, this is the most magnificent and majestic dynasty in Chinese history. Whether it is political, economic, cultural, military or any other aspect is a well-deserved number one in this world.
Wu Yuanqing knew that he was from a later generation, and he had a vision and knowledge accumulation that far exceeded this era. But he also knows that what he knows is not a blessing in the snow for this dynasty, at most it is icing on the cake.
Wu Yuanqing was an out-and-out otaku before he crossed over, and he didn't want to do anything big after crossing. His father is the Duke of the Kingdom, and he will be the Duke of the Kingdom in the future, with such a family background, eating and waiting for death is Wu Yuanqing's ultimate goal. Now that there are such things as corn and potatoes, the samurai family can be said to have peace of mind for a hundred years.
Eat well, drink well, sleep well, invent and create something by the way, make your life better, marry a few beautiful daughters-in-law, have a few children, this life is enough.
Thinking of marrying a daughter-in-law, Wu Yuanqing felt that the girl from the Wang family he had seen today was very good, and it was very in line with his own aesthetic standards.
Miss Wang, haha, so called, I can't help but think of Duan Yu in Tianlong Babu. Duan Yu has so many confidants, and he will have many in the future. Well, there must be a lot of them, and this can be used as a goal for the future.
Thinking that in the future, there will be a group of beauties who will stay at home with him and live without shame, Wu Yuanqing is in a good mood, don't want it.
"Eldest young master, Madame asked me to call you over for dinner" The appearance of the maid Zijuan interrupted Wu Yuanqing's shameful YY.
Hey, is it time to eat again?
Wu Yuanqing's mood instantly became much lower.