Chapter 929: The origin of lima beans, Tawantinsuyo!
One day I was hungover and dizzy, and the other day I was uneasy. It was not until three days after the night of drinking that Priest Mekart received the formal king's order and was fully responsible for the task of recruiting and surrendering the black snake. The personal guard who was responsible for delivering the order also brought a
His Majesty's message told him to forget the complaints he heard that night and just pretend that nothing happened.
Priest Mecat breathed a long sigh of relief. He felt as if he had run around from the edge of the endless black abyss and came back alive again.
"God bless you! Accompanying His Majesty... is really like accompanying a jaguar in the jungle!..."
Priest Mecat shook his head secretly, and with a piece of royal order from His Majesty, he went to find Chihuaco, an old militiaman. He searched around the city, then came outside the city, and finally found the nearest farming village.
, I saw an old militiaman squatting in a bean field in a daze.
"Mecat, you came just in time! Help me find out what divine properties these three kinds of beans have...oh! Which one is better for fertile fields!"
The old militiaman wore a straw hat and held a long grass stalk in his mouth. After returning from Cuba, His Majesty also gave him an errand, which was to study the planting of different crops, water and fertilizer, growth, breeding, insect pests... and so on.
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His Majesty called this "agriculture", and the position given to him was the head of the Agriculture Department of Shenwei University, which is said to be equivalent to a second-level divine priest. In addition, His Majesty also gave him a textbook on agriculture,
A divinely inspired breeding "scripture" told him to find a literate priest and read it to him often.
Among the two books, the agricultural book is better. He has been farming for so many years, so he can generally understand it, such as seed selection, germination, water and fertilizer, and climate, but he has not learned it in such a systematic way.
As for the "divine scriptures" on breeding, they are said to point directly to the origin of all things, but they all sound mysterious, just like the mysterious inheritance of priests.
The old militiaman asked someone to read it, and his head was spinning after listening to it. It contained something like "the divinity of light and darkness are entangled in pairs", "the divinity of light is higher than darkness, that is, it is manifest", "the divinity of light and darkness is manifest",
"The sexes are freely combined and independently distributed, and each determines the appearance." "Twenty-three laws are gathered in the body, and twenty-seven thousand pairs of divinities are condensed into human beings"...these are mindless and very bluffing things.
When drinking at night a few days ago, he mustered up the courage to ask His Majesty again. His Majesty actually asked him to plant beans, saying that "beans are relatively simple and can best reveal the divinity and laws"...
"Captain Qi, why are you here? I've been looking for you in the city for a long time, but I didn't even know you were here unless Didi told me!..."
Priest Mecat wiped the sweat from his forehead and squatted side by side beside the field bank, leaning closely against the old militiaman.
"It's better to stay in the fields than in the city! It won't save you the time when His Majesty asks us to go drinking and assign us any dangerous work..."
Speaking of this, the old militiaman Chihuaco shook his head, his eyes full of sighs. I had thought well that when I came back from Cuba, I would not go to sea even if I was beaten to death! But I didn't expect that I would still have to go to the distant southern continent.
I don't know if I can come back alive... Thinking of this, he sighed again, staring at the three kinds of beans in the field, and talked about the farm work in the field that made him relax.
"Priest Mecat, you see, these three kinds of beans are the most common in the world. The thin vines that are twisting and climbing up are kidney beans (green beans), including green, yellow, and purple.
Black. The kingdom, the alliance, they grow it in every piece of Milpari, and the village eats it as a staple food. This thing is easier to grow, but it needs to be cooked and eaten..."
Hearing this, Priest Mekat hesitated to speak. He glanced at the attentive old militiaman Chihuaco and had to agree first.
"That's right! The Lord God bless you! This good-growing kidney bean is a crop given to the world by the Lord God... and it is also a bean for the common people!"
"Hmm... Common people's beans are easy to grow and easy to grow..."
The old militiaman's eyes flashed, and he stretched out his hand and touched another bean next to him. This bean has the same feathery compound leaves as kidney beans, with purple and white flowers like butterflies, and long, flat buds.
The pods look like obsidian knives at first glance, so they are also called "phaseolus lunatus".
"This sword bean is very similar to the kidney bean. It likes warm and moist soil. But they grow much taller than the kidney beans! It can grow forever and grow taller than a person! It can also carry pests better, but
Ah, just growing tall doesn't produce many beans..."
"That's true! Blessed by the Lord God! This tall and strong sword bean is also a crop given to the world by the Lord God...it is also the bean of warriors!..."
"A samurai's bean!...like a sword..."
The old militiaman shook his head slightly, not knowing what he was thinking. He continued to stretch out his hand and carefully touched the last kind of beans.
This kind of bean is very similar to the other two kinds of beans. The vines are very thin and the leaves are feathery. You can't see any difference. But the surface of the pods it produces is very smooth and feels slippery. The old militiaman peeled it open
A bean pod, the beans inside are flat and round, white or light red, and have a delicate feeling. And he took one and put it in his mouth, chewed it, and the beany smell was obviously much less.
"God bless you! These are delicious fine beans, and they are also sacred priest beans! The texture is very delicate and tender, and there is no earthy smell at all..."
This time, it was Priest Mecat who spoke first. He knew this kind of beans and had eaten them for many years. Before he became a priest's apprentice, when he helped his family farm in the village, he harvested such fine beans.
, but it must be given as tribute to the samurai team collecting food!
"Yes! The priest's beans are very delicious...but the yield is not large, they are not resistant to pests, and birds also like to eat them..."
The old militiaman Chihuaco nodded and handed another pill to Priest Mekart. Priest Mekart chewed it in his mouth and was about to say something when he heard the old militiaman's faint voice.
"Mecat, do you know where these beans come from?"
"Ah? This kind of bean...well, isn't it one of the crops given to the world by the Lord God?"
Hearing this, Priest Mecat showed some doubts on his face. However, he soon understood. Although everyone said so, there are indeed many crops, like potatoes and sweet potatoes, that come from...
"Captain Qi, are you saying that these beans also come from the Southern Continent?!"
"Yes! Your Majesty said so..."
The old militiaman scratched his hair and sighed sadly.
"Your Majesty said that this kind of fine beans, priest beans...is actually called a lima bean. And in the near future, when we go south to explore, at least the destination we must reach...is this legendary gift from the Lord God.
The place for beans!…”
"We will take the priest's fine beans and go all the way south, asking the tribes along the way...until a seaside land with a large river flowing...'Lima'! And there, we will definitely meet a prophecy of worshiping the sun.
A powerful kingdom...yes, it is a kingdom, not a tribe. It will be very, very large, controlling the inland plateaus and the seashores along the coast. It will be larger than the current alliance and kingdoms combined!..."
"And the name of this kingdom...according to what His Majesty said...is called 'The Kingdom of the Sons of the Sun', 'The Alliance of the Four Places'...what, oh!...'his bowl is very crispy'...Tawantinsuyo!..."