As long as there were traces of local indigenous activities around him, he would feel relieved.
Because if you want to find things like sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, you can only find them from these local natives.
At night, everyone went back to the big boat to sleep.
Everyone got up early the next day.
At the same time, Li Xuan once again sent one hundred scouts to search outside.
After coming out of Japan, he distributed a drawing of plants such as sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes to each ship, requiring all soldiers and crew members to read them carefully every five days.
After such a long time, each of these soldiers and crew members could draw the appearance of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn with their eyes closed, and even recite the growth environment and conditions of these three objects.
In the evening, the soldiers who were sent out returned again.
Another river with gold was discovered.
At the same time, a team of scouts discovered clues to a town.
There will always be a few indigenous people from the surrounding villages heading in one direction with some things.
In the evening, we will return again.
So Li Xuan ordered that only a thousand soldiers be left on the ship, and then he took more than a thousand soldiers with him, along with enough arrows and bombs, and some salt, and started to move in the direction mentioned by the scouts.
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Finally, after walking for half a day, they saw the first village.
There are only a dozen or so houses scattered here and there.
These houses were built with tree branches and hay that had never been seen before in the Tang Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, do we want to wipe out these villages?"
Standing behind a hill, Li Xuan, Xue Rengui and others stared at the village for a long time with their clairvoyances raised.
Since he didn't know what Li Xuan meant, Xue Rengui asked tentatively.
"Need not!"
Li Xuan said quickly.
He had already seen that the soldiers around him, following Xue Rengui's words, had begun to take out their bows and arrows, with murderous looks on their faces.
"We are just looking for sweet potatoes, not for killing."
"Let's go, I'll go into the village and take a look!"
"Into the village?"
Xue Rengui, Cheng Chusi and others were all stunned.
"I think I found something good!"
Li Xuan said with a happy face.
"nice one?"
Hearing this, Xue Rengui, Cheng Chusi and others on the side also looked happy.
"Walk!"
Li Xuan did not answer, but stood up directly and walked towards the village.
Behind him, Xue Rengui quickly led a group of personal guards to protect Li Xuan.
Before walking a few steps, the indigenous people in that village also discovered this army.
Suddenly, his face was full of panic and he started shouting everywhere.
Soon, the entire village of indigenous people gathered in the village, looking at the huge army coming from a distance, with despair on their faces.
There were more than a thousand soldiers in full uniforms and armor, armed with horse spears or long knives. For their small village of less than 100 people including children, it was a complete natural disaster.
By the time Li Xuan and others reached the village, some timid natives were already paralyzed on the ground with fear.
After a while, an old man walked up to Li Xuan tremblingly.
Looking at these troops whose skin and appearance were different from theirs, the old man suddenly widened his eyes and his eyes became even more desperate.
Immediately, he knelt down in front of Li Xuan with a puff.
A lot of chattering.
No one understood it, but looking at the pleading look on the old man's face, Li Xuan could guess that the old man must be begging for mercy.
In response, Li Xuan chuckled, making the old man's expression calm down a little.
Immediately, he walked towards a hut nearby.
Under everyone's surprised eyes, he took down a bunch of red plants.
Red body, pointed horns, green stem.
"Master, what is this?"
Cheng Chusi, who had been following behind, asked with curiosity on his face.
"It should be chili!"
Li Xuan chuckled, gently picked one off, wiped it with his hand, put it in his mouth, and took a bite.
"hiss……"
Suddenly, Li Xuan felt a hot smell spread throughout his body, and his forehead was covered with sweat.
He couldn't help but feel overjoyed. After so many years, he finally had a bite of pure spicy food.
Immediately, he quickly took out the kettle and drank a few gulps of water.
However, there was still a burst of inhalation.
"Master?"
"King?"
On the side, Cheng Chusi, Xue Rengui and others all looked nervous.
"I'm fine. This chili tastes amazing. Do you want to try it?"
Li Xuan said with a smile on his face.
"Master, let me have a taste!"
A trace of curiosity flashed in Cheng Chusi's eyes, and as he spoke, he stretched out his hand, ready to pick the bunch of peppers in Li Xuan's hand.
Li Xuan quickly retracted his hand and said angrily: "This pepper is so precious, how can we waste it and eat this!"
After saying that, he bit into a small piece of chili pepper and handed it to Cheng Chusi.
"This chili tastes much spicier than Zhuyu, so bite less!"
"Master, don't worry, it's just chili pepper. I like spicy food the most!"
Cheng Chusi looked unconcerned.
However, when I took my mouth, I was still a little cautious and didn't bite too much.
Li Xuan, on the other hand, looked at Cheng Chusi expectantly. The little bastard actually took so many bites in one go!
Cheng Chusi just chewed it twice, his eyes suddenly widened, and he kept spitting out.
At the same time, he quickly took out the water bottle on his body and started drinking it with a big mouth.
"Hiss... Master... Hiss... Why is this chili so spicy... Hiss..."
After saying that, Cheng Chusi took another big gulp into his mouth.
At this moment, everyone was shouting.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian, Xue Rengui and others couldn't help but gloat over their misfortunes.
At the same time, looking at the bunch of chili peppers in Li Xuan's hand, he was a little curious but also a little afraid.
The natives around them all had suppressed smiles in their eyes.
"Who told you, you bastard, to bite so much in one bite!"
Li Xuan sneered, then turned to look at Li Chengqian and others.
"This is your first time eating this kind of pepper. You can only take a small bite at most. Anyone who wants to taste it can come and get the pepper."
Li Chengqian and Li Baoding took the chili peppers and carefully took a small bite, which was no bigger than a fingernail.
But despite this, it's still spicy and I can't help but breathe in.
"Here, bring me a small bottle of refined salt!"
Li Xuan raised his head again and shouted.
"yes!"
Soon, there was a guard holding a glass bottle smaller than his fist, which contained a full bottle of refined salt.
Suddenly, all the natives looked at the bottle with shocked faces.
They had never seen such a beautiful little bottle.
After Li Xuan took the small bottle of salt, he walked to the old man.
Then, in front of the old man whose eyes were almost glued to the glass bottle, he slowly unscrewed the glass bottle.
Stretch out your index finger, lightly dip it in some salt, put it in your mouth and taste it.
Then, he stretched out the bottle of salt in front of the old man and motioned the old man to follow him.
Seeing this, the old man did not dare to refuse. He carefully imitated Li Xuan's movements, dipped some salt in it, and just put it in his mouth.
Suddenly, there was a cry of surprise.
Immediately, he looked excited and kowtowed to Li Xuan while mumbling.
Similarly, the group of indigenous people behind them all looked excited and looked closely at the bottle of refined salt in Li Xuan's hand.
Li Xuan chuckled, and then slowly screwed the bottle cap on!
Then, he handed the glass bottle to the old man, then pointed at the glass bottle, then pointed at the bunch of peppers in his hand, and the peppers hanging on the surrounding huts.