Bai Yutang and the two humbled each other, and finally ended their show of affection in Zhao Zhen's cough.

In the end, it was Bai Yutang who spoke first: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to complete this mission!" ”

"The cicada-clothed girl who won't accompany you?"

Bai Yutang nodded first, thought about it and felt a little wrong, so he shook his head again, it still didn't feel right, he simply said directly to Cicada Yi: "Is it okay to wait for me for two years?" When I complete the emperor's task, I will definitely come back to accompany you! ”

Cicada Yi didn't answer his words immediately, but saluted Zhao Zhen again anyway: "Your Majesty, the people's daughter has a question that I don't know whether to ask or not?" ”

Zhao Zhen waved his hand haughtily: "Ask!" ”

"Dare to ask the emperor, can you tell the people why they let him leave for so long?" Cicada was bold and tried to make her tone sound as calm as possible.

Zhao Zhen thought for a while, this matter was not a secret, so he told her very generously: "Wolfkoss! It's not a big deal, to put it simply, I want them to go to a far, far away place, and it will take about half a year to get there by boat, and there are many good things there, and I need them very much. As you know, there are still many people in our court who do not have enough to eat, and although we have several kinds of food ourselves, the output is far from enough. I'm already trying to figure out how to increase my rice yield, but it will take years and luck to do it. And the place where they go is rich in a variety of food crops, as long as these are introduced to our dynasty and planted by the common people, then the food shortage can be greatly alleviated. In short, this is a major event concerning the people of the world! ”

"Do you mean that as long as they can successfully complete this mission, the people of our Great Song Dynasty will be able to eat enough and live a good life?"

"Well, I still have that confidence!"

"Your Majesty, can you let the people go with you? The folk girls know some medical skills, and the way is far away, so the folk girls can give them a little help! ”

Zhao Zhen is a little worried about this, and he knows that women are generally not allowed to get on the boat on the sea, except for some superstitious reasons, it is inconvenient for women.

Bai Yutang had never been to the sea and didn't know the danger of the sea, but he began to listen to Zhao Zhen quite seriously, so naturally he didn't want to take risks with him. However, he persuaded for a long time, but Cicada Yi still stared at Zhao Zhen stubbornly, waiting for a reply.

Zhao Zhen couldn't resist her persistent eyes, so he reluctantly agreed to her: "You can go, it just so happens that they also have to equip Lang Zhong, and I will let Sien take you to Xinran and Wu Ren to learn some precautions at sea." I also wrote a method about how to make bean sprouts, and you should learn it well, and this will be your home-cooked food on the boat in the future. ”

"Emperor Xie!" Cicada Yi happily took the paper handed to her by Zhao Zhen, and if she got the treasure, she consciously hid behind everyone to taste it.

Zhao Zhen coughed, attracting everyone's (mainly Bai Yutang) attention to himself: "Now that everyone has arrived, I will start to assign tasks. Kind of Aiqing, I won't talk about your business anymore. I now appoint the person in charge of this mission as Liang Shi, and the operation is codenamed 'Treasure Hunting', you will all be the core members of this treasure hunting operation, and you will all have to obey the command of Captain Liang Shi during the entire mission, understand? ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

"Zhong Xian, this task is very heavy, and you need to be responsible for the entire overall planning work, which is also the purpose of I asked you to serve as a temporary logistics officer in the navy. Come and look at the map, you will enter the sea from the mouth of the Yellow River and then go all the way east, and I have drawn you a rough route, and on this line there are some small islands that you can use as temporary supplements. However, on the boundless sea, there is nothing to use as a reference, and it is easy to get lost.

However, don't worry, I have asked the Royal Research Institute to make a star locator, with this thing, as long as you can see the stars or the sun, you can know your location, and with the compass improved by Sinan, then there should be no problem...... It doesn't matter if you don't understand, Sso will learn how to use it, and it will be up to you to lead the way when he gets to sea. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Yang Sien coped with it easily, it was nothing more than some use of mathematical calculations, which was not too difficult for him.

"Next, I'm talking about Zhong Hao, you are in charge of the command of the sailor on this voyage, and it is up to you to protect everyone's safety. I have given you the go-ahead to select two squadrons (2,000 men) from your existing navy for two months of assault training, not only to learn how to handle large ships, but also how to use new ballistas and shells. You may meet a lot of local indigenous people on the way, you must pay attention to safety, communicate if you can, communicate if you can't, and avoid triggering conflicts, and don't use new weapons unless your safety is under major threat, understand? ”

"Understood!" Chong Shiheng is also used to saluting.

"Yutang ......"

"The minister is here!"

"I'm actually a test for you this time, to see if you're up to the heavier burdens in the future."

"Please rest assured! The minister will definitely complete the task! ”

"Well, it's good to have faith! I have sent you to the position of basically military judge, and you yourself have selected fifty members from several special combat teams and the Guoan Temple to supervise the behavior of the soldiers on board, and you cannot let them be lawless when they are outside. In addition, you are also responsible for dealing with some special situations, and I don't know what troubles you will encounter along the way, so you need to be fully mentally prepared! ”

"Obey the order!"

"As you can see, I've put a lot of effort into this, not just to get you out for a run. The core of your mission is on Ann, and I'll explain to him later how to find the things he needs, and you will do your best to help him find them and bring them back smoothly! If you encounter any trouble or disagreement on the road, you can discuss it, no matter what, ensure your own safety first! ”

"Obey the teachings!"

"Everyone else go down and prepare! In two months, I will get married, and you will have to leave after my wedding, hurry up! ”

"Yes!" Except for Yang Sien, everyone else bowed respectfully and left.

Zhao Zhen found a chair for himself to sit down and beckoned to Yang Sien: "Sien, you should be almost twenty this year, right?" ”

When there was no one else, Yang Sien was not hypocritical, just like when he was a child, he sat next to Zhao Zhen generously: "Yes, the emperor, the minister will be twenty after the New Year." ”

"Time flies so fast, more than ten years have passed in a flash, and you guys have grown up, and you can run around all over the world, but I still have to be locked up in this palace, and I can't go anywhere......"

Yang Sien persuaded heartlessly: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be sad, wherever you want to go, the ministers will go, be your eyes!" ”

Zhao Zhen ignored his unnutritious words, and posted his feelings: "You are different from others, you know more, and you also know that sailing is a very risky thing, you must come back safely!" ”

Yang Sien just nodded silently, it's not that he really has no heart and lungs, he just doesn't like the sad atmosphere.

"Let's take a look at what I'm going to collect, I've written it all down in this booklet, with simple pictures. I don't know what the people there call them, and it's not impossible that they look different from the image I painted. I call that continent the Americas, which means that there are no formal countries yet, and some are primitive tribes, which generally live by hunting and rarely grow food. So the species you want to collect should all be in wild condition, bring back more seeds, and keep track of the environment in which they grow......"

Zhao Zhen pointed to the unfamiliar things on the booklet, tried his best to remember, and explained to him in detail, and Yang Sien also listened carefully. The two chatted for a whole afternoon, and Zhao Zhen finished introducing those things.

Yang Sien put away the booklet: "Your Majesty, the ministers must try their best to bring these things back!" Chen is a little strange, you said that this potato is really different from our soybeans, it actually grows in the soil, no wonder you call it a potato! However, the minister is a little worried, you said that if the part of this potato on the soil dries up when we go over, it will really be difficult to find! ”

Zhao Zhen deeply agreed: "You're right! Originally, I should have handed over this work to the Department of Agriculture, but Xiang Zhongtian couldn't get out of it, and I only had to make you work hard. You said that the problem with potatoes is not only this one, but also sweet potatoes, jicama and peanuts are all underground, and they are not easy to find. I think you may still have to try to communicate with the local natives, they may not plant, but they should know that these things exist, anyway, you will have to figure out how to do it yourself, and I can't do anything about it! ”

"I understand! The minister will work with them to find a way to describe the rubber, corn, sweet potato, potato, pepper, green beans, tomato, zucchini, pineapple, papaya, sunflower, jicama, peanuts, pumpkin, bamboo shoots, chayote, lai beans, cashew nuts...... Wait, try to bring them back! ”

"Well, I'm waiting for you to come back! If it's too difficult, you can leave nothing else, but corn and potatoes must be found, even if it's one of them! And rubber can't be less! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! Did Nachen go back and prepare first? ”

"Don't panic! I'll tell you about the route. Zhao Zhen took out a ball-like thing from the box and put it on the table, and asked like him, "Do you remember the latitude and longitude mentioned when I gave you a geography lesson?" ”

"Well, Chen still remembers, it's an artificial coordinate system for our earth!"

"That's right! You see, this is a globe I made, and there are some places on it that may not be accurate, but that's pretty much it. The longest horizontal line is the equator, and the vertical lines are the meridians...... In short, I took our capital as a starting point, divided the earth vertically into 360 pieces, and then drew 180 circles from both sides of the equator, so that the earth could be divided into small pieces. You take this globe with you, make a reference along the way, and record your route and the events you encounter along the way for future generations. ”

"The minister wrote it down, and when he comes back, the minister will also get a travelogue or something, what do you think?"

"If you like to write, you can write, I won't stop you. And I want to tell you that sailing on the ocean is very different from being in the river. Especially for ocean voyages like yours, the monsoon and ocean currents are very important, and the route I have planned for you is precisely to use the ocean currents, so that going and going is equivalent to going down the river. In addition, when you set off in winter, the monsoon wind blows to the east, and if you dare to come back in the summer, you can borrow the wind ...... when you come back."

"Your Majesty, when you say this, the minister thinks of the poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, 'There will be a time when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds and sails will sail into the sea', isn't this what the minister is about to experience! It's so exciting to think about it, and Chen also wants to compose a poem...... "Yang Sien has not really experienced the hardships of the sea, and he will still have leisure to express his passion there."

Zhao Zhen couldn't help but give him a look at his head: "After I finish speaking, you go back to write your poems, after you arrive in the Americas, you will walk along the southern coastline from south to north, and if you are lucky, you will be able to collect those seeds, and then you will return directly from the north." Alright, that's all, go back and make your poems! ”

"Obey the order!"

As soon as Yang Sien came out of the door, Zhao Zhen heard his ghost crying wolf howling outside: "The sea is full of water, and the toad has two legs, oh, no, the toad has four legs, ah...... Who smashed me! ”