Chapter 521 The Origin of Sweet Potatoes

A few days later, Yunzheng and the others met with the Royal Equipment Department.

After leaving the task of escorting the prisoners to Qin Qihu and Qu Zhi, Yun Zheng led his own bodyguards, plus a thousand soldiers in blood clothes led by Tong Gang, and brought enough livestock for them to eat on the road, and headed towards Sanbian City. Go.

Gayao is also with them.

On the way, Yunzheng also wrote a battle report and sent someone to send the battle report and Beihuan's letter of surrender back to the imperial city.

Yun Zheng originally thought that Jia Yao would play some tricks on the way back with them.

But contrary to his expectation, Ga Yao was so well-behaved.

It can even be said that he is gentle, pleasant and obedient!

Yun Zheng estimated that even if he found a deserted place and had a fight with Jia Yao using the sky as his quilt and the earth as his bed, Jia Yao would be completely obedient.

But Jia Yao's obedience made Yunzheng extremely vigilant.

He and Jia Yao have a deep hatred, but Jia Yao is still so obedient to him. Even a fool knows there is something wrong!

Yunzheng now really doubts that Jiayao wants to attack him and solve the problem from the root.

No matter how obedient Jia Yao was now, he would not dare to touch Jia Yao.

If you lose your kidneys first and then your heart, it's all over.

When you go back, you must first put Gayao under house arrest and try not to meet her.

Let’s just be a couple in name only!

Ugh!

While Yunzheng was thinking wildly, Jia Yao approached on horseback from the side.

"When you get back, take me to see those sweet potatoes!"

Jiayao looked at Yunzheng with big watery eyes.

This has become part of Jia Yao's daily operations. Yun Zheng was a little uncomfortable with it at first, but now he is immune to it.

Yunzheng didn't know what kind of mentality Jia Yao had now.

But he was certain that all the tenderness this woman showed was just an act.

If killing herself didn't cost anything, this woman would definitely find a way to kill herself.

Forget it, if she likes to act, let her act!

As long as she doesn't feel uncomfortable with it, it doesn't matter to him.

"It's already here, and you're still thinking about those sweet potatoes?"

Yunzheng looked at Jia Yao with a playful expression.

Jiayao nodded slightly, "I just want to see if you wasted those sweet potatoes."

"Don't worry, although I'm not very good at growing potatoes, I should be better than you." Yun Zheng smiled casually and asked curiously: "By the way, where did you find those potatoes?"

If you can find these sweet potatoes, you should also be able to find potatoes, right?

And pumpkins, corns, etc.?

It would be great if we could get all these high-yielding crops!

Jiayao hesitated for a moment before telling the origin of Dishu.

She first got sweet potato four years ago.

At that time, a ship from a far, far away place was brought to the eastern coast of Beihuan by wind and waves because of damage to its hull. Soon after the people on the ship disembarked and landed on land, they encountered Beihuan's tribe there. .

The tribesmen did not understand those people's words and regarded those people as invaders.

In the end, only two of the more than fifty people who got off the ship survived.

One of them was seriously injured, and the other was an old man who was not a threat.

At that time, she was inspecting the tribe over there with Bambu.

After getting the news, they rushed over immediately.

Those sweet potatoes were what they found in those people's backpacks.

Afterwards, they took the two people back to the royal court, but on the way back to the royal court, the seriously injured man died of illness.

In the end, only the old man returned to the royal court with them.

It took Bambu more than half a year before he could barely communicate with the old man.

Bambu learned the method of stacking rice on the chessboard from the old man.

The old man was very wise. Bambu admired him very much and even regarded him as a confidant.

Unfortunately, the old man got sick that winter and died before the next spring.

Before he died, the old man told Banbu that the yield of sweet potatoes was very high. Although Beihuan was not very suitable for growing sweet potatoes, it could be grown when the weather was warm.

The old man also said with great certainty that even in Beihuan, the yield of sweet potato can reach more than 600 to 700 kilograms per mu.

The old man even told Bambu how to grow sweet potatoes.

When Banbu learned about it, he was naturally overjoyed.

You must know that many of the Yuanmai grown in large quantities in Beihuan cannot even produce a hundred catties per mu.

A crop with a yield of six to seven hundred pounds per mu is simply a gift from God to Beihuan.

Sadly, they didn't know the value of the potatoes at first, and left most of the captured potatoes to the tribe's people to feed their horses.

Only then did Bambu know that this was the old man's revenge.

The old man deliberately let them know that the yield of sweet potato was very high, and deliberately told them the planting method, but he waited until they had eaten all the sweet potato, and waited until he was about to die of illness before telling Bambu.

Let them eat up Beihuan's hope alive.

Just because of this, Bambu was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Fortunately, there is no sure path.

After the old man died, Jia Yao suddenly remembered that she had brought back a dozen sweet potatoes before.

She originally wanted to taste it, but because she had something to do, she didn't touch the sweet potatoes. She just threw them into her tent and didn't take care of them.

Because it was relatively warm inside the tent, not only were the sweet potatoes not frozen, they even sprouted.

Gayao was ecstatic and began her journey of cultivating sweet potato.

Even if there was a locust plague in Beihuan, her potato fields were well protected with tents.

It turns out those sweet potato yields are really high.

Jiayao relied on just a dozen potatoes. After three years, although he experienced some twists and turns, he still managed to expand the size of the seedlings to ten acres.

Upon learning this, Yun Zheng couldn't help but laugh.

That old man who tricked Bambu still knows how to play!

It’s a shame that Jiayao didn’t eat those dozen sweet potatoes.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have a chance to get these sweet potatoes.

It seems that we still have to build a large ship suitable for crossing the ocean!

All crops that successfully pass the strict selection of the Chinese ancestors will be introduced as long as they exist in this world!

Thinking like this, Yun Zheng asked again: "By the way, which country do the old man and the others come from? How far is their country from us? How long does it take to get there by sea?"

Ga Yao smiled slyly, "You take me to see those sweet potatoes, and I'll tell you!"

Yo ho?

Just wait for yourself here, right?

This woman!

He obviously has a lot of evil intentions, but he still pretends to be stupid and sweet in front of himself.

"Let's talk about it after we go back!"

Yunzheng did not immediately agree to Jiayao, but instead asked: "Why don't you build your own ship and go overseas to find more sweet potatoes?"

Jiayao sighed softly and replied: "Beihuan is not good at building ships, and ordinary ships cannot withstand the strong winds and waves on the sea."

Is that so?

Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "So, what are you doing with us? Why don't you just follow Da Qian's ass and enjoy the good life? You have to have nothing to do all day long!"

Speaking of this matter, Jia Yao couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Even if we regret it now, isn't it too late?"

"not late!"

Yun Zheng shook his head gently, "It's a good thing to know that you regret, but I'm afraid that you won't know how to regret it when you die, and you will have to fight to the end..."