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Episode 768: [Corn]

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Just now, Li Chengqian asked him if he was sending chrysanthemums?

He said no.

Li Chengqian thinks that he is not engaged in the foundation, but he will be wrong.

But when he saw that there was a stick of corn in his box, still with whiskers, exposed in front of him, Li Chengqian had to explode.

This is a base, don't send chrysanthemums and corn!

He shouldn't be attacked?

Damn, my uncle can bear it, but my aunt can't bear it!

Li Chengqian raised a kick and was about to kick Cui Ru, and then beat him.

"Your Highness, don't be excited, if you break this golden vertebrae, it will be broken!" Cui Ru felt Li Chengqian's abnormality, but instead of protecting his body, he hugged the corn and yelled at Li Chengqian.

Is it just a hint of corn that needs to be protected so much more than your own life?

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment.

He stopped, looked at his corn, and looked a little strange.

The corn he was holding as a baby was not fresh, and the corn kernels were a little deflated, obviously losing too much moisture.

The most important thing is that since Li Chengqian came to the Tang Dynasty, he has never heard of corn in the Tang Dynasty, and he does not know that the origin of corn is the Americas, and the Tang Dynasty is impossible to have now.

And Cui Ru's name for corn just now turned out to be golden vertebrae, which is strange.

He asked curiously, "Where did your corn come from?" ”

Cui Ru was stunned for a moment and retorted: "This is called the golden vertebrae, why is His Highness called corn?" ”

He looked down at the corn. said: "The golden vertebral grains are like jade, and they should be called corn." That's considerate, but I'm just the shopkeeper who gave this treasure below. It's called the Golden Spine! ”

Li Chengqian stretched out his hand and patted him on the head, saying, "Don't play these illiterate tricks on me, you tell me where this thing came from?" ”

"Ahh Cui Ru screamed, seeing that the prince was really serious, so he said: "This is the shopkeeper of my family who went out to Dongying to do business and brought it back, I heard that it was exchanged with a Dongying merchant, and the Dongying merchant was also a treasure bought at a high price with a foreign merchant, I heard that this thing can protect the safe navigation of the people who walk the boat!" ”

He said with a somewhat embarrassed face: "It's just that this golden vertebrae is exquisite." Can't get dirt on it! ”

Li Chengqian was stunned.

Cui Ru continued: "Come to think of it, there is no soil on this sea, and if you want to maintain the sacredness of this sacred object, of course, you can't touch the soil!" ”

Listening to him talking nonsense, Li Chengqian rolled his eyes, he really knew how to talk nonsense!

He guessed that this thing must have come from somewhere through a merchant, but because of the strange relic-keeping method, it could not be touched by the soil. Therefore, corn was handed down, but it did not take root in the Tang Dynasty, so Li Chengqian did not see corn in the Tang Dynasty.

When Li Chengqian saw the corn, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

This corn must be taken from Cui Ru. Then plant it, and then you will be able to grow a large field of corn in the Tang Dynasty!

"Are you really going to give me this?" Li Chengqian asked. At this time, he didn't think about corn to such a dirty thing as popping chrysanthemums. And I can't help but be ashamed of my weird idea just now!

Cui Ru nodded and said, "Your Highness." That's right, that's for you! ”

"This thing. It did cost a lot of money to buy it, and it was only recently delivered. It was placed in the lobby of my Cui family as a holy relic to worship. This one, but I used two boxes of cat's eyes to change it! Cui Ru pointed to the box where the corn was placed 18 centimeters wide, 35 centimeters long, and 15 centimeters high.

In this way, two boxes of cat's eyes were exchanged for a piece of corn!

Loser!

O profiteers!

It's dark!

Li Chengqian is in pain for the Cui family!

And thinking that the Cui family actually gave such a thing in exchange for a lot of money to Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian couldn't help but feel surprised and moved.

This Cui family's investment against himself is too big!

Cui Ru said at this time: "At the same time, this golden vertebrae is also for His Royal Highness to take to the queen mother to watch, my Cui family has rich experience on the sea trade route, if the queen mother let me Cui family join, then my Cui family will definitely have an important help to the queen mother's sea trade route." ”

Li Chengqian listened, and it turned out that the Cui family had this idea.

Indeed, the Cui family can even get corn, and they have communicated a lot with other maritime merchants at sea, so they have the opportunity to get it. So it can be seen from here how extensive and experienced the Cui family's maritime business is, and letting the Cui family join in will definitely be of great help to the queen.

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian also understood what Cui Ru was holding himself for just now!

Not to build a foundation, but to send this corn to show his Cui family's status at sea.

Yes, the Cui family is very good.

Li Chengqian accepted the corn that Cui Ru was reluctant to make, and then went back to the palace.

When he returned to the palace, Li Chengqian was tempted to plant corn.

Now in March, spring has just come, it is the season to plant corn, plant it now, and you can eat corn after one season!

He smiled.

Is there any place in the palace where corn can be grown?

Li Chengqian quickly thought of hemp palm food, so he went to find hemp palm food.

When Ma Zhangshi heard this, he was stunned, the prince wants to grow things in the palace?

There are a lot of flower beds in this palace, find a place, focus on protection, and then plant the things that the prince wants to protect, that's completely fine.

Asked the prince what he wanted to plant, Ma Zhangshi saw the yellow thing, and couldn't help but be stunned, this is something he has never seen before!

Li Chengqian didn't explain to her, he rubbed the corn kernels, and the corn kernels fell off.

However, Li Chengqian didn't want to plant all the corn in one place, so he planted it separately, so that it was easy to protect.

Even if there is an accident, it will not be all gone all at once.

And there is also a geographical problem, if you plant in the palace, you can't sprout, and you may sprout outside the palace.

So Li Chengqian gave one-third of the hemp palm food and let her plant it.

Ma Zhangshi immediately mobilized people to put a flower bed in a corner of the East Palace, where you can see the wind, the rain and the light, it is a good place.

They removed all the flowers from the altar, then changed the soil for the flowers, planted the corn kernels, and finally fenced them with fences.

Li Chengqian nodded.

After returning to the main hall of Li, he was able to have dinner, and Li Chengqian told Xiao Chen what Cui Ru said.

and told Xiao Chen about his idea of partnership.

After Xiao Chen and Su Mi heard this, their eyes lit up, and they immediately agreed to agree with Li Chengqian's partnership idea.

However, Xiao Chen thinks that she can wait for the data from her side to come out before going to the queen.

After telling the queen about the assets first, I exchanged the money, and then talked about Cui Ru!

…… (To be continued......)