"Not only can you be made a county boy if you find peppers, but you can also be made a county boy if you find sweet potatoes and potatoes and bring them back to the Tang Dynasty!"
"Your Majesty, Prince Jin, the title of the Tang Dynasty is an important weapon of the country and will not be awarded to those who have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, those overseas hozenes are so despicable, how can they confer the title of the Tang Dynasty to me?"
"Exactly, Your Majesty, Prince Jin, I, the title of Tang Dynasty, will never be awarded to the hands of those hozens!"
Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others all shook their heads with sorrow on their faces.
"Okay, then I won't teach you!"
Seeing this, Li Xuan waved his hand indifferently without waiting for Li Shimin to speak.
"Anyway, if potatoes are grown on my land in the Tang Dynasty, they will only yield seven or eight dan per mu, so it doesn't matter. As for sweet potatoes, they will only yield 15 dan per mu, so it doesn't matter if you want them or not!
In two years, when my steel fleet is successfully built, I can just send people to look for it!"
"What?"
In an instant, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were stunned and stared at Li Xuan closely.
"Xuanba, those potatoes can really yield seven or eight stones per hour?"
"Your Highness, Prince Jin, can the yield of sweet potatoes be fifteen shi per mu?"
"Is there such a divine thing in the world?..."
"It should be possible. As for whether it will produce more, I can't guarantee it!"
Li Xuan casually replied that the land at this time was extensively cultivated, but as long as the farmers were properly educated, potatoes should be able to produce seven or eight dan per mu, and as for sweet potatoes, fifteen dan would be fine.
"Enough, enough!"
"Potatoes yield seven or eight shi per mu, sweet potatoes yield fifteen shi per mu..."
Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others could not help but tremble all over, their eyes turned red, and they were extremely excited.
"Don't talk about seven or eight stones per mu, as long as the yield is six or five stones per mu, no matter where the barbarian is, as long as he can find this magical object and dedicate it to me, the Tang Dynasty, I will definitely make him the county boy!"
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others nodded repeatedly and never mentioned any objections. They all knew the importance of food to the Tang Dynasty.
Immediately, several people stared at Li Xuan.
"Xuanba, where are the potatoes and sweet potatoes?"
"overseas!"
Li Xuan said slowly, "This kind of food is found in America, thousands of miles away from our country, the Tang Dynasty!"
"Xuanba, do you know what this divine object looks like?"
Li Shimin asked quickly.
"I know it!"
Li Xuan nodded lightly.
"Very good!"
Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but look overjoyed.
"I also asked Xuan Ba to draw a picture, and I sent it eight hundred miles to Jiaozhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Dengzhou and other states, and asked the governors of these states to issue notices to anyone who finds such a magical object.
, I will confer on him the title of Duke of Datang County!"
"Your Majesty, wait a moment!"
Li Xuan thought for a moment, then nodded slowly in response, and walked to the table on one side.
Here, I have already prepared pens, inks, paper and inkstones.
Seeing this, Li Baoding and others quickly ground and spread paper for Li Xuan.
Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but walked over and looked at Li Xuan's painting expectantly.
Li Xuan frowned and thought for a moment, then picked up a pen and started drawing on the paper.
From top to bottom, from stems and leaves to soil, and then to rhizomes, Li Xuan painted them very carefully.
It's just that he is the only one in the world who recognizes the plants in the painting.
In order to let the overseas barbarians know the plants he painted in detail, Li Xuan was still on the side and made a long paragraph of detailed notes.
Half an hour later.
Four pieces of paper and four plants were presented to Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others.
Although it is not as vivid as that of the court painter, all the characteristics are still obvious.
"Chili, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn..."
"Um?"
When Li Shimin and others saw the drawing of Maize, they couldn't help but be shocked.
"Xuanba, corn is actually a grain, and it can produce six or seven stones per mu?"
"Um!"
Li Xuan gently rubbed his sore arms and nodded in response.
"Why do the corn fruits look like they are facing the Buddha one by one?"
Li Shimin asked again, "Are these corns produced in Kapilavastu?"
"No, it comes from the same place as potatoes and sweet potatoes!"
Li Xuan said again.
"A place of origin?"
After hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help being surprised, and couldn't help but ask with envy on their faces.
"What kind of grand land can actually have potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other extremely high-yield foods at the same time? Don't the people there never go hungry?"
"It should be America!"
Li Xuanhui shook his head directly, "But I heard that there is also a lot of gold there. In the clear river water, you can fish up a handful of gold!"
“America so rich?”
Subconsciously, Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others could not help but blush.
"Your Majesty, I sincerely request your Majesty to rectify the navy and conquer America next year!"
"Exactly, Your Majesty, our Tang Dynasty has 500,000 elite soldiers. When necessary, veterans can be recruited. Zhechong Mansion from various places can also mobilize 500,000 veterans!"
Changsun Wuji also had a fierce look on his face.
What Li Xuan described made Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others start to feel excited.
It would be a great joy for the Tang Dynasty to recover even one kind of food that made such a powerful country and its people rich.
Li Xuan shook his head: "Your Majesty, America is too far away from our country, there is no need to worry."
"But there is gold everywhere in America. If those maritime merchants find it, wouldn't it be used as a wedding dress for those hozens?" Li Shimin said.
"Your Majesty, since they can find those places, they must also find potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn!"
Li Xuan chuckled and said slowly: "At that time, they will definitely come to Chang'an with potatoes and sweet potatoes to ask for your majesty's ennoblement. And I expected it to be true. In the Americas where potatoes and sweet potatoes exist, this will happen again.
It must be a barbaric land, and the people in those places still live a life of drinking blood and consuming hair.
Therefore, those hozens must not know that I, the Tang Dynasty, already know that there is so much gold in those places.
All we have to do is wait until those Hu merchants offer potatoes and sweet potatoes, Your Majesty will make them county men, and then find an excuse to let those Hu merchants take my Datang navy to dig out the gold directly!"
"This plan is indeed a clever one!"
Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others all nodded slowly.
"However, I think Your Majesty has oversimplified this matter!"
Li Xuan said again: "America is a wild land, very far away from all continents, and those overseas merchants may not have heard of it. Even if they have heard of this big state, it is still extremely difficult to cross the thousands of miles of ocean.
"
"well!"
Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others all looked embarrassed.
"Your Majesty and the princes do not need to be like this. How can we easily obtain the title of Tang Dynasty? Moreover, those Hu merchants are barbarians and not from our country. No matter how many casualties there are, it is nothing to our country.
It doesn’t matter!”
Li Xuan chuckled lightly.
"The shopkeeper here must be impatient to wait, so I'd better let them serve a table of food to His Majesty and others before we talk about this!"
"That's right, that's right!"
After Li Xuan said this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others also felt unbearably hungry.
Li Wei, who was standing on one side, quickly walked out.
After a while, the old shopkeeper of the seafood restaurant followed Li Wei in.
Facing Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others, they saluted repeatedly with fear on their faces.
Seeing this, Li Shimin was not surprised and simply asked the old shopkeeper to serve the food on the table again.
Anyway, when it comes to food, no matter how many of them there are, none of them are as professional as Li Xuan, so they can just follow Li Xuan.