After making up his mind, Liu Hong wanted to go home. But as soon as he turned around, he suddenly found a foreign devil selling goods in the corner. Of course, foreign devils are Liu Hong's name, and people at that time called foreign devils Hu Ren.

Foreigners are still quite rare in this era, especially in a relatively remote place like the river. So after discovering this foreigner, Liu Hong immediately paid attention to him.

Coming to the foreigner, Liu Hong carefully looked at him and what he was selling. This foreigner is quite down-and-out, and he only sells some ordinary things like spices, and there is nothing surprising about it, so after Liu Hong saw it, he was not interested.

Just when Liu Hong wanted to turn around and leave, Liu Hong inadvertently found that there were sweet potatoes and corn in the foreigner's sack, which made Liu Hong excited.

"Is this also a 'newbie reward', and this foreigner belongs to the NPC that issues rewards? It seems that it is, otherwise, why did the two big killers of sweet potatoes and corn appear in the Han Dynasty? This is definitely going against the sky, with these two things, I'm looking for someone to get the Zhancheng rice, and feeding the 50 or 60 million people of the Han Dynasty is not like playing! ”

Liu Hong couldn't help but be excited about this matter, after all, this matter was a big matter related to his surname. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were people living in all directions, and the smoke was everywhere, in the final analysis, it was not that the common people could not eat enough. If all the common people are fed, who will have nothing to do and come out to rebel?

To put it mildly, the Han Dynasty did not lack land, and the population was not particularly large. Although the reasons for the starvation of the common people are quite complex, the lack of high-yielding species in the Han Dynasty is quite the main reason. If the Han Dynasty really promoted the high-yielding species of sweet potato, corn and Champa rice, even if there was no need for reform, Liu Hong felt that the Han Dynasty would be able to make do with it for another one or two hundred years.

In order to get sweet potatoes and corn, Liu Hong took the initiative to talk to the foreigner.

This foreigner is also a big Hantong, speaks fluent Chinese, and gives himself a resounding Chinese name, called Fugui.

Speaking of Fugui, this guy is also quite unlucky. He had come from the waterway to Dahan, and soon after he went out to sea, he was hit by a storm, and there were only two of the dozen boats left. When he finally arrived at Dahan, he ran into robbers on the way, and he ran out desperately, except for a small bag of spices, there were only a few sweet potatoes and corn left for food.

Fugui, although the level of naming is not very good, but this guy is definitely a great talent. Don't look at him now, he is not yet thirty years old, he has been to a lot of places. Not to mention those countries in Europe, even such remote places in South America, this guy has been there, and this sweet potato and corn are what he brought from South America. Now that Liu Hong has discovered it, he has directly let these two things take root on the continent of the Celestial Empire nearly a thousand years in advance.

Regarding talents, Liu Hong's attitude is "There is a mistake in killing, and I didn't let it go." "If you see one, you have to leave one. So Liu Hong not only bought all his belongings, but even Liu Hong directly recruited him.

Liu Hong knows very well that if you want to make a lot of money, you still have to develop international trade. He had long wanted to build a ship and go to sea, but he had only crossed it, and he had not had time to arrange it. Now that there is such a person who knows the way, it would be strange if he didn't take the opportunity to recruit him.

With such a big gain, Liu Hong didn't have the heart to go shopping, and immediately returned home with a large group of people.

Although it is not possible to carry out maritime trade now, those preparations can be carried out first. So as soon as he returned home, Liu Hong arranged for the housekeeper to find some people and let Fugui teach them foreign languages.

Of course, this kind of thing is just a small thing, and for Liu Hong, sweet potatoes and corn are the big things. And when the housekeeper learned that the yield of these two kinds could reach more than 1,000 catties per mu, he was directly demented.

Thousands of pounds per mu!

This is a myth in the Han Dynasty, where the yield per mu reached 200 catties. If it weren't for Liu Hong who said this, the housekeeper could directly whip him with a big-eared scraper. But even if Liu Hong's performance has always been magical, the housekeeper will be suspicious of this.

"I don't know! This yield of 1,000 catties per mu is just that I am afraid of shocking the world and saying it to less, otherwise, if you know that their production capacity per mu is thousands of catties, you must not be scared to death. Liu Hong was disdainful of the housekeeper's rarity and strangeness.

As the saying goes: there's nothing wrong with being careful.

Although the housekeeper will be suspicious, what if this thing is true, especially if Liu Hong said it so solemnly. So even if he was suspicious, he carefully took the sweet potatoes and corn out of the sack, and then immediately asked people to put them in the warehouse, and added two locks to the warehouse for insurance.

The sweet potatoes and corn were taken out, and the sack was of little use, so the butler picked up the sack and shook it to make sure that there was nothing else in it, and then threw it away. But unexpectedly, two shriveled red things fell out of the competition.

These two things are unknown to others, but Liu Hong is quite familiar, this is the chili pepper that everyone in later generations knows. Although chili peppers are not very important compared to sweet potatoes and corn, chili peppers, as a good condiment, are also a pretty good "extra bonus".

Don't look at Liu Hong's reluctance to eat spicy, but there are many dishes that are indispensable for chili peppers. Especially recently, the housekeeper wants to open a few restaurants, and this chili pepper is quite timely. With the stir-fried vegetables and pastries in the Hou Mansion, plus the current chili peppers, it is already a sure thing that this restaurant will make a lot of money.

Liu Hong doesn't have to worry about the affairs of the restaurant, and Liu Hong doesn't care much about the chili peppers. However, Liu Hong has to think carefully about the matter of sweet potatoes and corn.

These two things are unusual, this is in an era of lack of food and clothing, this thing is auspicious, if it is taken out like this, it will definitely change history. Therefore, before Liu Hong ascended the throne, he would never leak it out, and the housekeeper also had this attitude.

Although it cannot be made public, these two things must be planted, and they must be planted on a large scale. Otherwise, even if Liu Hong ascends to the throne, there will not be enough seeds to promote in a short period of time.

It is necessary to keep it secret and cultivate it on a large scale, in that case, the fief of the Hou Mansion will definitely not work, so it can only be carried out in another remote place.

In this way, the workload will be large, and there will definitely be no good land in remote places, and you will need to tidy up and clean up when you buy it, plus the planting personnel, you will definitely need a lot of people. Fortunately, it is now a natural disaster [***] at the end of the Han Dynasty, and at this time the displaced people are already quite large-scale, but they don't have to worry about not being able to recruit people.

Since he wants to buy land, Liu Hong doesn't plan to make a fuss. He wanted to build a large ecological farm directly. After all, as soon as you are busy, you can do it directly in one step, and you will have to trouble in the future. In this way, it can not only solve the current problems, but also summarize the experience of ecological farming, which can be better promoted in the future.

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