Chapter 336 The ship is back

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 336 The ship is back

After draining the water, Zhu Houzhao still looked at him with a frown. As we all know, this is a very private matter.

Even in later generations, I have never seen a man go to stand with others when the urinal is rich.

Not to mention this era.

Zhu Houzhao was not feeling well now. When he thought of being peeked at, he felt uncomfortable everywhere.

"you"

As soon as the words came out, he paused again. Zhu Houzhao hesitated for a while, and then asked: "You didn't raise a molester, did you?"

When he heard the word "child molestation", Xia Yuan's face suddenly darkened, and he cursed: "I will support you, uncle."

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was stunned at first, and then he became happy. If he said, Your Highness, stop talking nonsense, how could I raise a prostitute?

Zhu Houzhao didn't feel confident yet. It was obvious that he reacted so fiercely and even cursed, but he felt relieved.

This is definitely useless.

This also means that this guy has no hobbies in that area.

To be honest, if Xia Yuan is really a gay who has taken a different approach, Zhu Houzhao feels that he needs to re-examine the relationship between the two.

You have to stay away from him from now on.

"Then what were you looking at just now?"

Regarding this question, Xia Yuan really didn't know how to answer it. He couldn't say that I don't think your bird's skin has grown. It's not serious. Just as he was thinking about his words, someone ran in panting, "Master, the boat, the boat is back."

Already."

"What ship is coming back?"

Xia Yuan was startled for a moment, then his eyes lit up, "You mean the ship is back? Did you see it clearly? Is it really our ship?"

"That's the one. It's back and it's at the dock."

Zhu Houzhao was confused, "What kind of ship just came back?"

Xia Yuan ignored him and ran out. He was back after being away for several months.

I thought he died outside.

At this time, a large ship was docked at the pier.

It doesn't look good, and some places have been damaged, but it's still standing there.

There were spices and other items piled on the ship, and a famous sailor was carrying them down.

Xia Yuan ran all the way here without even looking at the spices. He looked around and shouted, "Lirbi! Leerbi! Someone, go and find me Learbi!"

"Master, the little one is here."

A dark and skinny man ran out of the crowd. Xia Yuan took a closer look and didn't recognize him, "Are you Li Erbi?"

"Small yes"

"Don't talk about this. Where are the things? Did you find what I asked you to find?"

"Found it, found it"

Lear Bi nodded repeatedly and immediately led Xia Yuan to take a look. There were several sacks with bulging contents.

Xia Yuan opened the bag and found that it was filled to the brim with dirt and canes.

Zhu Houzhao also ran over, took a look into the sack, and saw the dark things inside, and was stunned, "What are these?"

Xia Yuan ignored him, picked up one and rubbed the soil on it with his fingers, holding his breath and observing. Yes, even though it was different from what he remembered, it was definitely the same.

"Where did you find it? Was it Philippines, Luzon, or Siam?"

"It's Luzon."

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Xia Yuan nodded and did not answer, but carefully rubbed the sweet potato with his hands.

Yes, those are sweet potatoes in his hand.

Standing at the time point of the early 16th century, and pushing forward a few decades, the great voyage of the West has already begun, and an important reason for starting the Age of Discovery was to find India.

Because countries such as India and Southeast Asia produce spices, in the West, spices are charged based on granules, and the price is comparable to gold.

And at the end of the fifteenth century, in 1492 AD, Columbus accidentally discovered the New World while exploring the Southeast Asian shipping lanes. Now it is 1503 AD, only ten years have passed.

But there are no spices in the New World, so the great voyages will not stop. Xia Yuan guessed that Westerners may have arrived in Luzon in the past ten years.

And he brought the sweet potato crop with him.

So last year, he sent a merchant ship carrying sugar to try his luck in Southeast Asia.

I didn't expect to find it.

Today in the Ming Dynasty: the yield of rice and wheat per mu is only three to four hundred kilograms. Even in the modern society with developed agriculture in later generations, eight hundred kilograms is considered a high yield.

But for sweet potatoes, in later generations, the yield per mu was casually ten thousand catties, but in this era, it is not necessary to ask for ten thousand catties, as long as you can have five thousand catties, or even three thousand catties.

Rubbing the sweet potato in his hands, Xia Yuan asked: "How did you find it?"

"When the kids arrived in Luzon, the people there didn't speak Chinese, and they couldn't quite understand what they were saying. And just like what the master said, there were a lot of red-haired and yellow-haired barbarians there, and they were full of words.

The birds were singing, and even the little ones couldn’t understand what they were saying.

After the kids sold the sugar, they used the picture drawn by the master to show it to others, and then they found it and bought a lot from the locals."

"Then do you have any."

Just as he was talking, Zhu Houzhao threw the sweet potato back into the bag and interrupted: "What on earth is this?"

"Sweet potato."

"A vassal?"

"Ang." Xia Yuan responded casually and turned his gaze back. Just as he was about to ask more questions, Zhu Houzhao asked again: "This thing is so dirty. Why did you send someone to look for it?"

"I'll talk to you later. Have you found any potatoes?"

"No, the kids asked about it with the potato picture, and the people in Luzon all shook their heads."

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Xia Yuan suddenly felt disappointed, but he also felt that he really had to look forward to Shu, and he was lucky to find sweet potatoes.

What more bikes do you want?

And if he remembered correctly, potatoes were viewed very strictly by the foreign devils in the West and were strictly prohibited from flowing into other countries.

Although both can fill the stomach, potatoes can be used as a staple food, while sweet potatoes can only be used as a supplementary food.

So sweet potatoes have now been introduced to Southeast Asia, but potatoes may only be found in South America and Europe.

It will take another few decades for potatoes to be introduced to Southeast Asia, but they are still strictly controlled to prevent them from flowing into China.

Rumor has it that the overseas Chinese smuggled it back into the horse's buttocks.

Therefore, it is also a crop of the New World. Sweet potatoes were introduced to China in the early Wanli period, but potatoes had to wait until the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties.

He ordered people to put these sacks of sweet potatoes in the warehouse under strict supervision. Xia Yuan began to patiently answer Zhu Houzhao's questions. When he heard about the yield, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask, "The yield of this thing per mu can be four to five thousand kilograms."

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"Under the most ideal conditions, it can produce four to five thousand catties, but two to three thousand catties should be available."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't tell the difference between the grains and didn't know whether it was more or less, so he turned around and asked: "Gu Banban, how much grain can one acre of land produce at most?"

Gu Dayong thought for a while and said: "I'm afraid it can be four hundred pounds. No matter how many slaves there are, I have never heard of it."

"Oh" Zhu Houzhao said, and then he became thoughtful.

"What are you thinking, Your Highness? Are you wondering if I'm lying to you?"

"No, I am wondering if the master is crazy."

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Xia Yuan is not too rare to deal with this product. Now is the spring season, which is the best time to plant sweet potatoes. Once the sweet potatoes are planted, you can have a good harvest in more than three months at the latest.

Let’s see who the crazy person is then.
Chapter completed!