Liu Yifeng walked out of Dongshan Qianzhuang with a bitter face, he sold two more bags of Jinsha, basically the stock of Jinsha they had bought during this time was 70%.

"Spending money is like flowing water......"

People who have never led a team really don't know that once the number of people in the team comes up, the cost is a very scary number.

"You really have to find a way to be self-sufficient in terms of food."

Liu Yifeng took 3 silver tickets and gave Zheng Zhilong two, in addition to asking him to buy the materials that had been ordered, he also asked Zheng Zhilong to hire 20 more people with experience in farming and grazing.

"We have to find a way to solve the food gap."

After Zheng Zhilong left, Liu Yifeng took Feng Shuo to Jinshan City's commercial houses that concentrated on selling agricultural trade products, which were the most common in Jinshan City.

"Ladies and gentlemen, shopkeepers, come and see, freshly harvested vegetables, the first batch of vegetables after the autumn in Jinshan City!"

Liu Yifeng was originally not interested, but was forcibly taken over by the surging crowd.

Now that we're all here, let's take a look.

"The shopkeeper, if you want to buy something, it's the freshest vegetables."

"You guys planted this in Jinshan City?"

"Of course, when the vegetables from the mountain city are delivered, it can still be so fresh."

"Well, too."

The average voyage from Jishan City to Jinshan City is 5-10 days, except for those famous restaurants in Jinshan City, basically no one will transport fresh vegetables by sea ship, and the cost is too high. When Jinshan City was first established, the vegetables that everyone ate were pickles and pickles.

However, at that time, a trading company went to the foot of the mountain south of Jinshan City to open a farm, and these vegetables were the first wave of this year's harvest.

"The land is quite fat." Liu Yifeng looked at these vegetables that were only one circle smaller than later generations and sighed.

"That is, my family not only uses human and animal fertilizer, but also bird droppings."

Liu Yifeng raised his head in shock: "Do you still know guano fertilizer?" ”

Suddenly, the clerk was a little unhappy: "My family business has started to use bird droppings in the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, and now it's not the Jiaqing Dynasty, who doesn't know bird droppings in the grain business." ”

It was first discovered that guano manure was a very good natural fertilizer, and it was basically in the 18th century. Because guano is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, it is the most natural fertilizer. Basically, before industrialization, guano manure was one of the most fertile fertilizers that humans could find. Before the 18th century, guano was filth. How it was found to be a natural fertilizer, who found it is no longer exquisite, but at the end of the 19th century, human beings even launched a war for guano, and guano on offshore islands was called white gold.

Liu Yifeng suddenly understood what the reefs near the shore and the small boats on the shore were collecting on the way from Caoshan City to Yushan City.

It is no wonder that Dongshan Prefecture has no shortage of food at all, vast plantations, sparse population, and bird manure is used.

In fact, most of the guano produced in Dongshan Prefecture has been shipped back to the mainland, and very little is used by myself. Guano manure is one of the few products that can be exported in Higashiyama Prefecture, and the land of Ganshan Castle is very fertile, so there is no need to use guano manure in large quantities.

Liu Yifeng looked at the fresh eggplant, cucumbers, onions, leeks, weeds, peas and white radish, and couldn't help but sigh whether this wave was considered invasive species. I don't know how many products of the Old World have been brought to the New World by the Franji people in the south, anyway, the Han people have begun to bring everything around them to Dongshan Prefecture.

"It's ...... Pea tip! ”

"Yo, the shopkeeper's knowledge. It is indeed pea seedlings, also known as dragon mustard, which can only be eaten in spring and autumn. ”

The growth temperature of pea seedlings is around 20 degrees, and the best planting time is late summer and early autumn, and a wave of harvest is in late autumn. Plant again in late winter and early spring, and harvest in late spring. This also leads to the fact that the north of China is basically invisible, after all, it is difficult to maintain a temperature of 20 degrees in the early autumn in the north, and it is basically only available in the Yangtze River Basin.

In addition, pea seedlings are not easy to preserve, and it is best to eat them within 5 days of picking, which also leads to the fact that this dish will not be known to people outside the Yangtze River basin until the large-scale infrastructure construction of the Chinese land is completed in later generations. Whether it is boiled soup or stir-fried, pea seedlings can show their unique fragrance, which is a taste that is easily accepted by light taste areas, and was once sold for several hundred yuan a catty in Jiangnan.

As a Bashu person, Liu Yifeng is a crazy fan of pea tip, in fact, in addition to the childhood memory of every Bashu person, in addition to the houttuynia that makes most of later generations talk about Houttuynia cordata, there is also pea tip, but the former is not acceptable to some Bashu people, and the latter you are difficult to find people who don't like it.

Without any hesitation, Liu Yifeng directly bought all the pea seedlings in this stall.

"The shopkeeper likes dragon mustache very much."

"Well, I haven't eaten it in a while."

"Then come back tomorrow, I'll ask my shopkeeper to pick the rest of the mustache."

"Okay."

Pea sprouts have a characteristic, one pot before the pot, and one plate after the pot, so Liu Yifeng seems to have bought a whole 1 sack, which is actually enough for the 6 of them to eat a meal.

Before leaving, he also bought a large number of leeks with roots, spinach seedlings, and onions, ginger and garlic, all of which can be harvested in a very short time.

For this reason, he had to buy two donkey carts and two donkeys, he already owned 4 donkey carts, counting 6 horses and some on his back, this trip was really buying too many things, which made Liu Yifeng begin to doubt whether these things could be loaded on the ship and taken away.

If it is still the Karak ship of the king's shopkeeper, it is no problem, and now I can only hope that the ship of the shopkeeper Liu that he introduced to him is also big enough.

Thinking of this, Liu Yifeng found Zheng Zhilong: "Lao Zheng, if you want to give a gift to you people who run the sea, what is the most appropriate gift?" ”

"A compass, a model ship, or a good tea."

Compass Liu Yifeng can understand, it is for navigation, and he doesn't understand this ship model and tea.

"The ship model is something that only came out after Zheng He-class came out."

Seeing that Zheng Zhilong was about to tell a story, Feng Shuoyi pulled the reins to join him and Liu Yifeng's conversation.

"When the new warship was first designed, the Maritime Administration asked the Dutch to help. The Dutch people were very enthusiastic, and sent a lot of ship models hoping to sell them to us, and the ship models were popular at that time, and many captains and boat managers liked to collect ship models. ”

Liu Yifeng understood that when he was in the second half of this story in Yushan City, he heard the drunk Zhang Jun tell it.

After the Battle of Luzon, the navy decided to imitate the Europa ships first, and since they had lost to the Europa ships. This is actually the habit of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty in the history of the Ming Dynasty can actually be regarded as open, found that the Fran machine gun is advanced, and decisively bought the imitation. found that the Hongyi cannon was powerful, and decisively bought the imitation. I found that the bird was good and decisively bought the imitation. The same is true of the Ming Dynasty in this era, who found that the soft-sail battleship was easy to use, and decisively bought imitations.

The Dutch people were excited and cooperative, because they knew how terrible the demand for ships in the Ming Navy was.

As early as the middle of the 16th century, after the independence of the Dutch from the Francis, they were always a commercial state, and a hotbed of capitalism emerged. By the beginning of the 17th century, capitalism had begun to sprout, and the Dutch people did not have the slightest sense of crisis or vigilance about selling Europa's most advanced shipbuilding technology, and did not hesitate to bring more than half of the shipbuilding experts from the mainland.

Now it seems that in order to persuade the Ming to buy their warships, these ship experts must have sent a considerable proportion of ship models to the navy. At that time, the Ming did buy some Dutch Karak ships, but the Ming were not prepared to leave the navy completely to the aliens to build.

The maritime merchants, shipwrights, and captains of the Maritime Administration, the Ministry of War, and the Navy joined forces to thoroughly understand the various Karak ships of the Netherlands, and after mastering their technology, they submitted three proposals to the cabinet, and finally the cabinet chose the Zheng He class.

Aside from the disappointment that the Dutch people's expectation of a super big business turned into an ordinary small business, the model ship did indeed become the most popular thing among the navy people during the Zheng He-class project period.

The small hobby of the navy soon influenced the people, and the ship models made by the main navy commissioned by the folk craftsmen really looked very strange and spectacular, and there was an extreme lack of entertainment in this era, and the common people also loved to see the ship models.

Gradually, people who are interested in ships have a hobby of collecting ship models.

This is easy to understand, and later generations have also been deeply poisoned by the same scale of beautifully made models.

However, after Liu Yifeng inquired about the general price of the ship model, he stared at Zheng Zhilong with a dislocated jaw like Feng Shuo, confirming whether he had said one more zero.

"Look at what I'm doing, it's normal for a ship model made by Quanzhou craftsmen to cost 500 taels each."

Feng Shuo immediately complained: "That thing is not a real ship, it is so expensive to sell, who wants it!" ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "I want it." ”

Feng Shuo rolled his eyes: "Nonsense, 500 taels, if you give it to me, I want it too!" ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled, he didn't entangle with Feng Shuo, he knew that Liu Yifeng was going to visit the Fleet Chamber of Commerce, and he also knew that Liu Yifeng was going to use the Fleet Chamber of Commerce to get rid of the trackers. It is estimated that Liu Yifeng was choosing a gift for Boss Qiu, and after thinking about it, he said, "It's really not good, buy some tea." ”

Liu Yifeng also thinks so, but he is curious why people who run the sea like tea? Isn't this the favorite of literati?

"I don't know the specific reason, in short, I knew that people who ran to the sea liked to drink tea. Have you forgotten that the two captains of the Nanyang class both liked to drink tea? ”

"Well, Lao Feng, please take people and things back, Lao Zheng and I will go buy some good tea."