In the living room of the Marshal Qingfeng Army's Mansion, a wealthy businessman with white hair was none other than Shen Wansan, who took his eldest son Shen Wang, accompanied by Mu Youcai and Liu Bowen, and sat on the guest seat on the left. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When Hao Ren was planting rice in the field, he was bumped into by Shi Nai'an, who was the Taishou of Luzhou at the time, and was looked down upon by the literati who relied on him, and after that incident, Hao Ren finally understood that his image not only represented himself, but also represented the overall face of the Qingfeng Army.

When he returned to the mansion, he did not go directly to meet the guests, but first went to the backup to freshen up, took off the oily black dirty clothes on his body and was still outside the door, and deliberately changed into a decent satin robe before officially entering the living room to meet the guests.

Under the recommendation of Liu Bowen, the welcoming envoy, Hao Ren and Shen Wansan and Shen Wang answered each other in a courtesy, and the two sides sat down as guests, Hao Ren sat in the main seat, and the guard Chen Da and the Fei champion held a knife behind the guard, which became more and more Hao Ren's martial spirit.

"Mr. Shen has a good way of doing business, rich in the world, Guozuo has heard Mr. Da name for a long time, just because of busy military affairs and government affairs, he has not been able to take the time to visit, please forgive me, I am proud to meet today, it is really a blessing for three lives!"

Hao Ren took the lead in complimenting, without a bit of domineering, he gave Shen Wansan enough face, not because Shen Wansan was rich, nor because Shen Wansan was famous, but just because he was more than three times as old as Hao Ren.

"Where! Where! Shen Wansan said politely: "Although Shen has accumulated some assets in business, he is just a citizen under the generalissimo, how dare he let the generalissimo come to visit?" It was only because Shen came in and was not in Jiangnan that he came to visit the generalissimo today, and asked the generalissimo to forgive the crimes of the grass people. ”

The opening was all greeting nonsense, and Hao Ren didn't deal with Shen Wansan, but said openly and fairly: "Since Liao Yongan introduced the old gentleman to come, presumably, the old gentleman must have something important to discuss, right?" ”

Shen Wansan didn't beat around the bush, and said: "Shen is doing overseas trade, this time the fleet is going to go to sea for a long voyage, I heard that the generalissimo has strange copper mirrors produced, and he specially procured two ships of bronze mirrors from the generalissimo, as for the price, it is all according to the generalissimo's orders, all of them are traded in cash, I don't know if the generalissimo is willing to sell them to the Shen family!" ”

Shen Wansan is the richest man in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, recorded in the official history, it is very close to Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang, he once funded Zhang Shicheng, Zhang Shicheng also specially set up a monument for Shen Wansan, the wild history said that one-third of the city wall in the south / capital was built by Shen Wansan, it is said that he also had to pay millions of taels of silver to reward Zhu Yuanzhang's army, but Zhu Yuanzhang hated, and finally in his old age, he was assigned to Yun / South.

Shen Wansan is a mystery at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, where the wealth of the rich rival country came from, there are different opinions, there are reclamation theories, there are Lu family gifts, there are all kinds of theories.

No matter what Shen Wansan relied on to make his fortune, Hao Ren heard that Shen Wansan was doing overseas trade, but he was very excited!

From the very beginning of the shipbuilding of the Qingfeng army, the requirement is to sharpen the bottom of the sea ship, sailing has always been Hao Ren's dream, only he has in Yingzhou, once heard the introduction of the current situation of Dongying by the 'liar' Chen Sisong, Hao Ren's understanding of overseas is only limited to the geographical concept of later generations, Hao Ren knows nothing about Goryeo in the north, Annam in the south, Champang, Srivijaya and other places.

Hao Ren did not talk to Shen Wansan about the transaction, but became interested in overseas countries.

It just so happened that Shen Wansan had two fleets, the eldest son Shen Wang went north from the mouth of the Yangtze River to do trade between Dongying and Goryeo, followed by Shen Mao to do overseas trade south of the Yangtze River.

"Have you written it all down?" Hao Ren knew that he didn't have the situation yet, so he didn't ask anything, so he asked Liu Bowen, who was in the army behind him, Liu Bowen nodded, and said that he had written down all the overseas situations that Shen Wansan knew.

Hao Ren also asked Shen Wansan for one thing, he wanted to introduce two crops from overseas to grow in the mainland, one is corn and the other is potato!

These two plants were originally produced in the Americas, and at this time there was a long, long time before Columbus discovered the American continent, but it is said that before Columbus discovered the New World of America, the Vikings in Northern Europe had landed in the Americas and tried to conquer the Americas.

The biggest advantage of these two crops is that they have high yield, good drought tolerance, and are suitable for planting in mountains, cold lands, dry lands and other places that are not suitable for rice cultivation!

"Back to the words of the generalissimo, crops like corn and potatoes, Shen has never heard of them? Isn't the title of the brute different from that of the generalissimo? Shen Wansan was finally stopped by Hao Ren and asked puzzledly.

"Bring charcoal and rice paper!" Hao Ren commanded.

Charcoal is the pencil of later generations, Hao Ren because he is always involved in the development of science and technology, it is really troublesome to draw with a brush, so he invented the pencil.

Before Hao Ren moved bricks at the construction site, he was also a bachelor of agronomy, and drawing crop growth maps was his compulsory course, although he did not learn professional knowledge well, but it was enough to draw the main characteristics of crops clearly.

Hao Ren painted on rice paper and added his own explanation, Shen Wansan realized that the fruit of potatoes grows in the soil, and the fruit of corn grows in the middle of the straw, and he already knows the characteristics of the two crops.

Shen Wansan is doing overseas trade, mainly for money, for the crops that grow in the soil, it is true that he has not left, Shen Wansan shook his head helplessly, but Hao Ren was a little desperate, it seems that there is no cultivation of these two high-yield plants in Southeast Asia.

Hao Ren has cultivated high-yield hybrid rice, Shouzhou has carried out large-scale planting, grain production, enough for the people to eat, but rice cultivation in low-lying places, prone to floods, more importantly, there is a disease that can make a large area of rice extinction - rice blast.

After the potato was introduced into Europe, it was deeply loved by the people of Europe, and the original crops in Europe were all changed to large-scale potato planting, and as a result, an unexpected potato late blight caused a reduction in the potato production in Europe, and it is said that more than 20 million people in Europe starved to death.

Growing a single crop is like putting a lot of eggs in one basket, and it is easy to break them all at once.

Compared with these two, although the yield of corn is not as good as the first two, however, the corn harvest is basically guaranteed by drought and flood, and there is no catastrophic disease that leads to extinction!

"Shen has already written it all, when the dog goes to sea this time, I will definitely let them pay more attention to it, and strive to find such a plant for the generalissimo!" Shen Wansan said in a big way.

"The old gentleman can't be forced, do your best, and Guozuo will be grateful!" Hao Ren said.

"The generalissimo also has dozens of sea ships, why not go to sea with the Shen family this time?" Shen Wansan interjected.

(To be continued.) )