"Hu Wanhu went to Nanyang this time, did he find corn and potato planting?"

Hao Ren got a lot of knowledge about navigation from Hu Boyan who returned, and he couldn't wait to ask about the introduction of crop planting that he was concerned about. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Qingfengjun's hybrid rice has doubled the yield of rice, rice in cold regions is in the process of being cultivated, and the planting area of rice is gradually increasing.

However, the space for growing rice is limited, and not all land can be cultivated with rice, and in the mountainous areas where there is no water (terraces are too labor-intensive) and dry land, rice cannot be cultivated, so it is necessary to use other disease-resistant and cold-tolerant crops to grow.

It is not that before the introduction of corn and potatoes, there are no other crops planted in China, the ancients have long selected and bred the five grains 'rice, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean' to divide the soil moisture for planting, since Hao Ren understands the knowledge of planting, knowing that corn and potatoes have high yields, there is no reason not to want to introduce planting, which is a great event that benefits the people in the present and benefits the future.

Moreover, rice has an extinct disease - rice blast.

Rice blast relies on air transmission, the speed of infection is extremely fast, with the chemical level at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is basically impossible to control the onset of rice blast, once the rice blast epidemic, especially the spread of ear neck blast, will inevitably cause the extinction of a large area of land, so many people in China will inevitably fall into famine, causing new domestic contradictions.

Hao Ren has mastered the lessons of history for hundreds of years more than the ancients, and naturally he cannot let the ****** under his rule break out in the style of 'European potato late blight' and starve tens of millions of people to death.

"My lord, do you want something like this?" Hu Boyan said, and cautiously took out a red cloth bag from his close-fitting clothes, as if he had taken out a rare treasure.

When the red cloth bag was opened, Hao Ren couldn't help but be overjoyed.

It was a packet of corn kernels, but the grains were obviously much smaller than those of later generations, and the color was not golden yellow, as if it had been fried in an iron pan, and it was somewhat charred.

Hao Ren never expected that the corn originally produced in the Americas would actually find a place to grow in Nanyang, and he took the cloth bag excitedly, and even the hand holding the cloth bag trembled with excitement.

Hao Ren shouted excitedly: "Yes! That's it, that's it! ”

"Hey!" Hu Boyan sighed helplessly: "But, unfortunately, this bag of granules can't be planted!" ”

"The growth of this crop has very low environmental requirements, why did Hu Wanhu say this?" Hao Ren was excited, and was given cold water on his head, and asked quite puzzled.

"Because this kind of seed has been fried!"

'Huh?? Hao Ren was stunned, "Fried seeds? What's the use of bringing it back? ’

Hao Ren couldn't help but put a corn seed in his mouth, and with a 'crak' sound, the bite was finely chopped, and the fragrance of popcorn immediately overflowed his lips and teeth.

The corn seeds were indeed artificially fried into popcorn!

Hao Ren's heart suddenly rose with anger. 'I finally found the corn seeds, but I let Hu Boyan fry them and bring them back, play? ’

Hao Ren knew that Hu Boyan would not be ignorant enough to bring popcorn back, and naively thought that popcorn could grow if he planted popcorn in the ground.

In the hopelessness, there was a sudden hope seen, and this hope was shattered in an instant, and the blow to Hao Ren was quite huge.

Hao Ren still suppressed his anger and said in confusion: "Hu Boyan Wanhu, can you give me a reasonable explanation?" "Swallow a lot of angry and blaming words in the back.

Hu Boyan sighed and explained the truth of the matter.

Corn was planted in a small area in Annam, which may have been brought by the merchant ships in the past, but it was planted on the high mountains as a holy object by the king of Annam, and guarded by heavy soldiers, and the corn seeds were never passed on.

"The subordinates are incompetent, please punish the lord!" Hu Boyan saw that Hao Ren's color was not good, so he hurriedly clenched his fists and pleaded guilty.

"Hu Wanhu worked hard, you did a good job in this matter, at least let me know how to find corn seeds!" Hao Ren comforted Hu Boyan and said: "This King of Annam is too brazen and insults me too much!" actually exchanged a handful of popcorn for my twenty bronze mirrors, which violated business ethics so much, aren't you afraid that the army of my Qingfeng army will destroy his country? ”

Hao Ren does have plans to go to sea for a long journey, but the sailors of the Qingfeng army do not yet have the conditions for going to sea for an expedition, and he is now angry, so he can only say big things!

Liu Bowen, who joined the army, saw Hao Ren angry and wanted to use his current strength to come up with the idea of destroying the country of Annam, you need to know that the powerful Mongol Empire has destroyed countless countries, but there are two places that have not been completely conquered, one is Fusang in Haidong, and the other is Annan in the south.

"The lord wants to be angry, I can hear, Annan is a wild land, lofty mountains, not suitable for human habitation, there are only monkeys in the mountains, the king Hu Boyan said, is just a monkey king, the lord has no need to be angry with a monkey king, the lord is weak and wants to play monkeys, there are many mountains in China, there is no need to work on an expedition!"

If you want to whip the whip of revenge on the body of the enemy who is not inferior to you, you must first have excellent capital!

South of Annam, this is the land of the Han Dynasty, the earliest can be traced back to the Qin State, the Qin State was once in the land of Annam, set up Xiangjun, the Qin Dynasty perished, one of the main reasons, because there were two strong armies, one in Annam, one outside the Saiwai, resulting in Liu Bang being able to enter the customs smoothly and shake the rule of the Great Qin State.

After the fall of Qin, the southern army of Qin was established in the south, and it was not long before it was incorporated into the Han Dynasty, and when the Western Han Dynasty, the general of Fubo Ma Yuan sent troops to pacify Annan, and the bronze pillar swore sovereignty 'forever for the Han land'.

Mengyuan Zhennan Wang Tuhuan once commanded the army to the south, because he was not accustomed to the mountains of Annan, he won first and then defeated, as for Annan and other countries, he became more and more arrogant, and he boasted that he was the emperor of the heavenly kingdom, and he had no fear.

"At present, there are no conditions to whip the small country that occupies the city, but Ben Shuai's determination to promote the planting of corn remains unchanged, sooner or later, the small country of Annan will be destroyed, and the king of Annan will obediently hand over the corn seeds!" Hao Ren said firmly.

At present, the Qingfeng army has not been pacified in the country, and it is not appropriate to take too big a step and pull the balls under the crotch if they do not have sufficient conditions.

"From today on, the Qingfeng Army and Navy will be renamed the Navy, Yu Tonghai will be appointed as the Naval Governor, and Hu Boyan will be appointed as the Deputy Governor of the Navy and the Chief Instructor of the Han Army. Hao Ren ordered.

"Mr. Liu, draft two documents for me, respectively to Yangzhou Taishou Fu Youde and Hangzhou Taishou Yu Tongyuan, and order the two to build 50 pointed bottom sea ships in Chongming Prefecture and Hangzhou Bay respectively, the speed does not need to be too fast, so as not to work the people and lose money, but the momentum must be big, so that Zhang Shicheng of Gaoyou and Fang Guozhen of Taizhou must know that I have plans to go to sea." Hao Ren ordered again.

"Lord, if the main force of our army goes on an expedition to the sea, regardless of the victory or defeat, I am afraid that Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen will know that they will take advantage of our main force to go on an expedition and attack the land of our Qingfeng army!" Liu Bowen said thoughtfully.

"You don't have to worry too much about joining the army, this commander has his own opinions!" Hao Ren said. (To be continued.) )