"Your Highness, it takes time to raise seedlings!"
Jin Feng said: "Moreover, Champa is too far away from Dakang. Even if the people I sent successfully found Champa rice, and each of them carried a hundred kilograms of Champa rice seeds back, I sent a hundred people and they could only bring back ten thousand."
It’s only a kilogram, and it won’t even be enough to make seeds next year.”
"By the way, there are also seedlings."
After all, the Ninth Princess was not a farmer, so she instinctively ignored this common sense.
"Sir, is Champa here? It doesn't look too far away."
Qing Mulan looked down at the map and said.
"Can the map be the same as the actual map?" Jin Feng said: "The scale I used is very large. A place as long as a fingernail is about a hundred miles away. How far are you using your fingernail to measure the distance to the city?"
"One fingernail represents a hundred miles?"
Qing Mulan really picked up her fingernail and measured it.
"No need to measure. Dazhao and Jiaozhi are both high in the mountains and densely forested. In many places, there is no one in the deep mountains and old forests all year round. The fallen leaves can be waist deep after rotting. It is extremely dangerous to drive in such places. There is no way to measure the straight line distance."
D."
Jin Feng glanced at Qing Mulan angrily: "I am going to send two platoons of escorts to Dazhao. It is unknown when they will come back and how many people will come back."
"Sir, if there is a shortage of manpower, I can send some people here to act as laborers."
After Qingxinyao heard this, he took the initiative to ask for help.
"I can also send some people."
The Ninth Princess also echoed.
"It would be great if His Highness and Lord Qing are willing to help."
Jin Feng nodded quickly: "There is strength in numbers. The more people there are, the more seeds we can bring back, and we can popularize Champa rice earlier."
"It seems that I still need to find a way to raise food!"
The Ninth Princess sighed softly.
Although Jin Feng and the dignitaries obtained a lot of food, it was far from enough for the entire Sichuan and Shu people to last until next year's harvest.
"I will ask Xiaobei and the Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with His Highness. If Your Highness doesn't have enough money, just talk."
Jin Feng said: "I can't guarantee anything else, but if His Highness needs Shui Yuzhu, I will fully support it."
Not only was the Ninth Princess concerned about the food and clothing issues of the people of Sichuan and Sichuan, but Jin Feng was also concerned.
Otherwise, Bala would not have bothered to get grain from the south of the Yangtze River and offended the powerful to death.
The Ninth Princess knew that Jin Feng's goal was the same as hers, and also knew how many water jade beads Jin Feng had in his hand, so she nodded with a smile.
"If necessary, Wuyang will not be polite to sir."
When Qing Mulan saw that the two of them had finished talking about cotton and Champa rice, he interjected: "Sir, where is the kind of grain you mentioned with a yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per mu?"
"here!"
Jin Feng pointed to the location of South America.
"Let me see how far it is?"
Qing Mulan subconsciously wanted to use her fingernail to measure it.
"Don't try it, it's at least tens of thousands of miles away." Jin Feng said, "And the danger involved is even greater than going to Champa."
"Yes, envoys from Jiaozhi would come to Dakang once every two years, but I have never heard of such a huge island tens of thousands of miles away in the East China Sea!" said the Ninth Princess.
"Your Highness, these are not islands, but two continents, which the expert calls North America and South America."
Jin Feng said: "Any continent is countless times bigger than Dakang today!"
Dakang said it was a kingdom of heaven, but in fact its territory was less than a quarter of Jin Feng's motherland in his previous life.
"The world is so big!"
The Ninth Princess looked at the world map and finally understood why Jin Feng always despised the imperial power.
Because he knows the bigger world, maybe in his perception, Dakang, Dazhao, and Jiaozhi are similar.
But Qing Mulan didn't think so.
In her opinion, Dakang is already very big.
"Wuyang, don't be fooled by him!"
Qing Mulan said: "Sir, tell me the truth, did you deliberately draw Dakang so small?"
"It's not that I make Dakang look small, but compared to this world, Dakang is really small."
Jin Feng said: "There are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky. The world is bigger than you can imagine."
"Sister, sir, you won't lie to people about this kind of thing."
The Ninth Princess said: "I have seen the Kan map around Dakang in the palace, and it is similar to the one drawn by my teacher. In fact, the territories controlled by the Khitan and Tubo are larger than ours, and the territory controlled by the Party members in Mobei is not small."
"Your Highness, there is no need to belittle oneself," Jin Feng said with a smile: "Although the territory controlled by the Khitan and Dangxiang is large, it is all a bitter and cold place. You have to wear fur coats for more than half of the year, and you can only grow one crop every year.
Far less good than the place occupied by Dakang.
Tubo is also a bitterly cold place, and no matter how big the place is, it can't support many people, so they keep attacking Dakang because they also want to live in a warm and comfortable place."
"Sir, what you said makes sense."
The corners of Princess Ninth's lips curled up again.
"Why……"
Qing Mulan saw this and covered her forehead speechlessly.
The previous Ninth Princess had always been noble and dignified, and her every frown and smile had a purpose.
But since getting along with Jin Feng, everything has changed.
His face would often change because of a look from Jin Feng, and his smile would start to smile again because of a word from Jin Feng.
"Sir, is this the Pacific Ocean you are talking about?"
The Ninth Princess's eyes were attracted by the large blank space between the Eurasian continent and the South American continent.
"Yes, as long as we cross this sea, we can reach South America and bring potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, peppers...all back!"
A glimmer of light flashed in Jin Feng's eyes: "Then the life of our prosperous people will be much easier!"
"How long will it take sir to build a seagoing ship?"
"I don't know either. When we left from the East China Sea, the dock had not been set up yet."
Jin Feng said: "However, I have sent several letters recently to urge them to speed up the construction progress, and also sent a lot of materials there. Hong Taoping comes from a shipbuilding family, so it shouldn't take long, right?"
"Then I look forward to your return, sir, to solve my worries about prosperity and hunger forever!"
"I'm looking forward to that day too!"
Jin Feng also looked expectant.
The situation in Dakang is now in chaos, and Jin Feng is also worried that he has some shortcomings.
In the afternoon of the same day, I went to find the Ninth Princess and explained to her Africa, Oceania and Antarctica, as well as the other three oceans except the Pacific Ocean.
Jin Feng explained very carefully, and the Ninth Princess also listened very carefully.
Finally, Jin Feng drew the route on the map and gave the map and globe to the Ninth Princess.
"Sir, what are you going to do?"
The Ninth Princess took the globe and frowned slightly.
Jin Feng's performance today made her feel a bit like he was explaining his funeral...
"what are you thinking?"
Jin Feng pulled the Ninth Princess into his arms: "This is my betrothal gift. If you accept my betrothal gift, you will be mine from now on."
In fact, he not only drew a map of the world, Tang Xiaobei had one in his hand, and there were several booklets compiled by him in the warehouse in the back mountain of Xihewan.
He also talked to Guan Xiaorou and Tang Xiaobei about what he talked to Ninth Princess today.
This way, if something happens to him, Guan Xiaorou and Tang Xiaobei won't be helpless.
Now that a tough-minded and thoughtful Ninth Princess has been added, he doesn't have to worry anymore.
[The author has something to say]
I'm not in the right state today, so I won't write anymore. I'll continue tomorrow.