Chapter 721 The son who was born unrepentantly (25)
Zhou Tianci, at least until now, still trusted Shi Jiang very much.
After all, she is his savior.
Not to mention that Shi Jiang was also his banker and granary, constantly providing him with various supplies.
In addition, Shi Jiang was a woman. As a pure ancient, Zhou Tianci was congenitally unprepared for Shi Jiang's ulterior motives.
Princess An, on the other hand, secretly asked Zhou Tianci more than once if Shi Jiang did this because he wanted to enter Prince An's palace?
After hearing what Princess An said, Zhou Tianci was not unmoved.
However, he tested Shi Jiang a little bit, but Shi Jiang immediately changed the topic.
Naturally, Zhou Tianci would not forcefully bring the topic back. The fact that he could agree to Liu and Li actually proved one point.
For Zhou Tianci, who had been ill and had not been valued by King An all year round, he was actually quite sensitive and proud in his heart.
It's really impossible for him to easily say that he likes the other person.
After returning to the mansion, he went to find Princess An and directly told Princess An to give up her intention.
After hearing her son's words, Princess An breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Jiang had the same surname as her maiden family at this time and was helping her son a lot, she could tell from her son's plans during this period that his ambition was not in this small city in southern Shu.
In the future grand hegemony, the one who can stand beside his son must not be such a woman with an unclear background and a businessman.
The one who can stand beside his son must be the sweet girl of the day, from a famous family.
Because of Mrs. Liu's previous proposal for divorce, Princess An was holding her breath in her heart and wanted everyone in the world to take a good look at her son who was worthy of the best woman as his wife.
When Jiang returned to his room, he felt a little irritable because of Zhou Tianci's hidden temptation.
He turned around and asked the men sent to Luzon to inquire about the results.
The result is good. There are indeed two desert islands. There are two desert islands not far from Luzon. One is larger and the island is completely uninhabited.
The other place is smaller and remote, but slightly closer to Annan.
However, there are several freshwater lakes on these two islands, and there are all kinds of wild fruits on them. I don’t know if they are edible. My men also picked the wild fruits and brought them over. After all, this was also the time when Shi Jiang was with them.
Things to ask them to do when leaving.
As for the locals, there are no locals, but there are quite a few wild monkeys.
Seeing the wild fruits presented by his men, Shi Jiang looked at them and was so shocked that he choked on his saliva and choked on his trachea.
Among a bunch of unknown wild fruits, I actually saw tomatoes?
Logically speaking, these tomatoes should still be in South America, right?
Seeing Shi Jiang holding the bunch of red fruits connected together, he glanced at the red fruits with some worry.
"Reporting to the master, these red fruits are almost everywhere on that desert island, and there are so many of them. On the way back to Luzon, when I was passing through Luzon, some locals said that these fruits are extremely sour and poisonous.
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The local people in Luzon are not fools. If there is something edible on a desert island, they will definitely go to the island to pick it.
However, when someone went to a desert island and saw this piece of red fruit connected together, he picked it and ate it. Then he felt tired, weak, nauseous, and had a terrible stomachache.
From then on, no one would pick or eat the red fruit. After all, no one would have to live with their own fate.
When Shi Jiang heard these words from his men, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
It must have been the person who picked it and ate it, because he ate a lot on an empty stomach.
If tomatoes are eaten raw, and if you eat too much, you will definitely experience discomfort. After all, raw tomatoes contain tomatine.
However, you don’t have to worry about these problems with cooked tomatoes.
Shi Jiang's previous Bu Yu seemed to have disappeared. He called someone with a smile, picked two tomatoes in the basket that were a little bigger than his fist, and took them to the kitchen.
I called the chef and made tomato scrambled eggs according to her instructions.
The aroma when it came out of the pot made the men who had been worried about the master being poisoned look at each other and swallow their saliva.
Shi Jiang ignored them and directly filled a bowl of rice, poured half a bowl of tomato scrambled eggs on top of the rice, stirred it a little, and ate it with big mouthfuls.
Not to mention, it is sweet and sour, super appetizing, and tastes no worse than tomatoes grown in greenhouses in later generations.
Now, she had an excuse to take out the tomatoes from her purse.
However, there is only so much in the frame, you have to get the seeds first, and plant the seeds in Zhuangzi first.
As a result, you will definitely not be able to eat as much as you want in the near future.
In addition, Shi Jiang has other plans.
Not only do I have so many sweet potatoes and potatoes in my village, but now the people throughout southern Shu, including people in Yizhou, are growing these two things!
Of course, Shunan has more corn crops than Yizhou.
After having tomatoes, Shi Jiang could think of all kinds of foods made with tomatoes.
Besides tomato scrambled eggs, the only thing that popped into her mind was ketchup.
With ketchup, you can dip it into all kinds of delicacies, whether it's potato chips, sweet potatoes or corn.
Moreover, ketchup has a longer shelf life than tomatoes and can be shipped to all parts of the country.
When she thought of fried potato chips and tomato juice, Shi Jiang couldn't help but swallow her saliva. She hadn't eaten them for a long time and missed them very much.
The delicious food cannot be left behind, and as for the two desert islands found by his men, naturally they cannot leave it alone.
For the soldiers who had been training in the mountains, Shi Jiang asked Cao Jian to select five thousand elites and some unconcerned craftsmen to go first.
Such a deserted island can only be conquered first.
As for the opinions of Luzon or Nan'an, it depends on who has a stronger fist.
Shi Jiang believed that Cao Jian had not trained these soldiers in vain over the years.
When Zhou Tianci came to see Shi Jiang again the next day, the two of them had resumed their previous relationship, as if the previous temptation had never happened.
Zhou Tianci was very happy that Shi Jiang had found another profitable crop.
During this period of time, the number of soldiers under his command has increased from a few thousand to as many as 50,000.
The reason why so many people were brought under his command was naturally due to Shi Jiang's ability to make money and his continuous supply of money and food.
Because Jiang said that those who are willing to serve as soldiers will be given the protection behind their backs, so there will be so many people willing to join the army.
If someone dies in battle, the direct family members who have no labor force will be supported by the government, and those who have labor force will be given a job to ensure income.
If you already have a job, you will receive a one-time compensation of no less than one hundred taels of silver.
For those who are injured, it is much simpler. Depending on the level of disability, you will receive a lump sum compensation or a suitable job.
With such a guarantee, coupled with the fact that the food in the military camp was not bad at all and the pay was generous, many people flocked to it.