Chapter 32: The Last Selfishness
Fengyun was still too worried, and after he explained to Jiang Xiang this kind of crop with a yield of 1,000 catties per mu, the question about the source of these things was directly ignored by Jiang Xiang. Jiang Xiang, who was indifferent, lost his luster for the first time, trembling and holding the corn cob and unwilling to let go. Although her surname is Jiang, as one of the founders of the Li people, what she said is the most mainstream way of thinking of the Li people: "These are ours!" The tone did not rise in doubt, but with a firmness that could not be refused.
Holding Fengyun's shoulders stiffly, Li Greed's eyes were red, and he asked in a trembling voice: "Can this corn really grow three meals?"
And without the concept of acres and catties, Fengyun can only be explained to him according to the standard of a bud rice cob and a meal, and there is no problem with three cobs growing on a corn in general, he still said it to less.
"Why didn't you tell me there was such a thing last time?" said Li angrily.
Fengyun said helplessly: "I just got it, didn't you? You didn't ask me last time?"
Li let go of him in a daze, and couldn't tell whether he was annoyed or regretful, if he had known that there was such a thing, he wouldn't have to go to great lengths to find the Kua Father clan.
For several years, every year in the severe cold of the snow season, there will be people who freeze and starve to death, and after he defeated the royal veins of the two tribes of Maoyu, he ordered his subordinates to stay away from the land of Jiuli as much as possible, in order to hunt more prey, the hunting team had to repeatedly expand the hunting radius. However, a long hunting line will cause most of the food to be consumed on the way, so in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the hunting team, food consumption should not be stingy. As a result, the prey that can be brought back to the city is less than 20% of the hunt, and the efficiency is very low, but it has to be like this.
And the reason for all this is because the fields do not produce enough to store enough food.
The Kuafu clan are descendants of the Dihuang clan, and they have not been seen for hundreds of years since the Fuxi clan inherited the throne of the emperor.
The Kuafu family has a sacred object inherited from the Dihuang clan, which is the cane used by the Dihuang clan back then, and can be turned into Deng Lin after entering the ground, and all kinds of miraculous fruits are knotted, and the food is inexhaustible, so that the Kuafu family can be satisfied. And Li Greed went to find Kuafu, also for the cane.
It was the ancestral training left by Emperor Fuxi that the Kuafu clan was not allowed to set foot in the Central Plains, but seeing that the output of the land was decreasing year by year, the hunting team was going farther and farther year by year, and the time to bring back the prey each time was getting longer and longer, and the clansmen were starving, and some even ate grass to fill their stomachs. And in the winter, there is not even grass to eat.
When the little beings he had hugged and seen with his own hands were frozen stiff in winter, and they could drop their arms directly when they fell to the ground, when they did not die on the battlefield but returned to the tribe but were starved to death, and when the venerable old men begged him to allow them to commit suicide so that the children could drink a bowl of broth, he wanted to kill himself.
Watching one's own people die because of their own incompetence is the most unacceptable thing to do.
When he angrily used his magic power to split the mountain peaks, but he couldn't find enough food to fill his stomach, he finally decided to go to find the Kuafu clan!
The staff of the emperor entered the ground into a forest, and was unearthed as a staff, which only the Kuafu family could control. And the result of it is really not stored, and it is eaten immediately, which means that the Kuafu family must be allowed to live in the Jiuli Kingdom.
The fruit produced by the Earth Emperor's Staff contains countless magical powers, and the vast magical powers of the Kuafu clan who eat the fruit as food, coupled with the mountain-like figure, make each of them worthy of an entire army of witch wars, and dealing with them is tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger.
The price of the Kuafu clan is not high, they only need a mountain to live in, and a river to drink.
Although he knew that they wanted to do more than that, if they violated the ancestral teachings, they could exchange the clan from suffering from hunger and cold in winter, and Li Greed could only choose to compromise.
In his heart, this was more important than the countless victories he had won, so at yesterday's send-off banquet, he took out so much meat so extravagantly for the first time to be consumed by Fengyun. Seeing his people enjoy their food so freely without worrying about starving in the winter and deliberately eating less is the greatest happiness for him.
However, now there is a kind of crop that is simple to grow, has an amazing yield, can feed countless people, and straw can be used as firewood for heating, which gives him a sense of frustration, which he does not like.
It was only a brief loss of consciousness before he recovered. In any case, the appearance of corn is a good thing for the Li people, if it is really as Fengyun said, if it can reach such a high yield, even if he is not a Li person, he can be worshiped by the Li people for a lifetime!
As for the Kuafu clan, they should have already set off on their way, right?
The oath he made with the Kuafu clan had been left behind him, and as a concubine from a side branch to the lord of a country, war was the thing he was not afraid of.
If the Kuafu clan could live honestly after migrating, he wouldn't mind dividing a territory within the country for them to live in. But if they dare to take the oath, hmph, then stay here forever.
As for how these things appeared, Li Yuan didn't care at all, as long as Fengyun was willing to contribute these corns. There is no other situation, these precious things have belonged to the entire Li clan since the first time he saw them!
The big witch tent has been blocked, even Li Xiaoyue has been driven out, and the old subordinates who were waiting outside the house to cook salt with Fengyun were driven out of the city to wait by the arrogant Li witch war, and at this time only Fengyun, Jiang Xiang, Li Greed, Li Chou and Li Rou who had just run in the house were left.
Li Rou, who had already heard the news, was even more excited than he was at the banquet yesterday, rushed in and threw himself on the corn pile, picked up one and gnawed on it.
These corn cobs were all sun-dried after the leaves and ears were completely removed, and all of them were full, and the flesh was gnawed and chewed a few bites, and only the words "can be eaten!" were uttered, and they began to cry loudly.
Li Chou whispered a few words to Fengyun, and he knew the reason why Li Rou was called this name.
In order not to be wiped out, the patriarch let the remaining warriors protect the old and weak women and children in the clan, and led the only eighty Li witches to fight directly behind the enemy.
The early snow season left the last farmlands unharvested, and the Li people, who had run out of food, had to settle down in the snowy wasteland. The warriors hunted like crazy, but they still couldn't keep up with the attrition within the clan. Soon, the hungry people began to eat grass and soil, and every day people died of hunger, and those who starved were soon eaten by the rest.
In that case, no one will blame the cannibals, not even the warriors, who will not choose to eat people if they can survive, they can only hunt more desperately.
Li Rou's mother gave him everything he could eat until news came back of his father's death.
The hunting warrior hit the idea on the body of a Mao spirit vein, which was comparable to the Witch War, and it easily killed a dozen Terran warriors who tried to kill him in vain, including Li Rou's father.
After her father's death, Li Rou's mother fell completely ill, and with her last breath, she ran out of the camp with Li Rou on her back, fled to the mountains, slashed her neck with a stone knife, and took out the last bit of meat she could give her son.
In order to prevent the clansmen from snatching her son's meat to eat, she dragged her sick body for dozens of miles, which was a mother's last selfishness.
Relying on his mother's meat, Li Rou survived the snow season, and when Li Rou came back from defeating the Jiuyi army, he found Li Rou, who was swollen from eating poisonous mushrooms in the mountains, and brought him back to the clan.
At that time, Li Rou had almost turned into a beast, he ate everything, especially meat, every time he ate meat, it was like a desperate effort, and he had to continue to eat until he spit out his throat.
Li said that he liked meat so much, so he simply named him Li Rou. Li Rou smiled and told Li Greed, he said that he was not alone, his mother was still alive in his body, in his blood, he had to eat more, and he couldn't let his mother go hungry.
During the time he lived alone in the mountains, Li Rou gained an ability that he was not afraid of any toxins. Whether it is the hairy claw venom from a foreign race or the grass and wood stone insects, the toxins in it will be accumulated in his body and turn into fat, and in addition to being extremely resistant to beating, that fat meat also contains extremely strong toxins.
When I grew up, I finally didn't have to worry about being eaten.
Li Rou hugged the corn cob like a leg of lamb, and he appreciated the preciousness of this crop more than anyone else.
After receiving Li Rou's affirmative reply, Li Ran's immediate dispatch to find the agricultural official Li Huang and asked him to stay in the tent to listen to Fengyun explain the method of planting corn.
Fengyun didn't feel inappropriate about Li Rou's behavior of looking for Li Rou to test the poison, and the emergence of a new thing would be too childish if he didn't even do a simple toxicity test. Otherwise, there would not have been the first person to eat tomatoes and the first person to eat crabs.
As for the method of corn sowing, there is no difference between the ordinary cultivation method, which is nothing more than turning over the ground, digging pits and planting, etc., and then applying fertilizer and weeding and watering.
The reason for the low yield in the fields of the Li nationality in recent years is mainly because of the excessive use of fields, corn planting needs to be cleared, and after the original covered grass and trees are burned into ashes, the ashes are natural potassium fertilizer, and the corn is not picked by the ground, and it is better to apply more phosphate fertilizer on weekdays.
After asking Fengyun what phosphate fertilizer is, Li Yuan ordered to inform the whole clan that from now on, everyone who and pee must be kept and used for fertilizer after planting corn in the future. Fengyun persuaded him to change the date to after planting.