Chen Xili calmly, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "The merchant ship has been back for so long, and you have been in the sky. I have made a good decision on other commodities on the merchant ship and have arranged to deal with them. It is likely that I will make a profit. I brought the account book here to see how much I made this trip to the West. I will take a look at it later."

Dusk doesn't care about this issue, "You know what I want is not how much a merchant ship can earn."

Chen Xili stopped keeping her back and smiled and said, "You only found three things on the list you explained. Two of them were found on the way to the West, and the other was found on the southeast coast."

At dusk, I was excited, "What are the three things?"

Chen Xili smiled and said, "The ones who bought peppers from the southeast coast were bought in the hands of the French. On the way to the West, they bought sweet potatoes and corn from those who were doing business in the Western countries of the Sulu Sultanate."

Hearing this at dusk, he couldn't suppress his inner joy and laughed wildly.

But there is also some doubt.

Chili peppers are chili peppers, and corn is corn.

According to historical records, these two things were transmitted from the Americas to China after Europeans discovered the American continent.

So are sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, sweet potato.

Annual herbs, sweet potatoes native to South America and the Big and Little Antilles, are a high-yield and highly adaptable grain crop. They are closely related to industrial and agricultural production and people's lives. In addition to being a staple food, they are also an important raw material for food processing, starch and alcohol manufacturing industries. Roots, stems and leaves are excellent feed.

According to historical data, sweet potatoes were transmitted from the Philippines and were first introduced to China during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not time yet.

At this time, Luzon was called the Sulu Sultanate, and South America had not been discovered by Europeans. How did this pepper spread to the southeast coast, and how did sweet potatoes and corn flow to the Sulu Sultanate?

Very unscientific.

Asked Chen Xili, "How did the people who went to the merchant ship find it? Have you ever talked about the process?"

Chen Xili nodded, "I said that the thing of pepper was discovered by chance on the southeast coast. It is said that it also flowed from the West. Sweet potatoes and corn were held by people who were seeking life in the West. It is said that it is only said that in the early years, some people in the Sulu Sultanate and Japan committed serious crimes, so they went into exile overseas. After a long period of wandering, they arrived in a strange country. Later, the descendants of these people returned to the Sulu Sultanate and Japan... Of course, it is only said that the truth is unknown."

It was suddenly cleared at dusk.

I remembered some unofficial historical records. According to some unofficial history, it was not Columbus who first discovered the American continent, but some sea exiles in Asia.

The earliest record of this incident in unofficial history is that Faxian, a monk from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, went to India to seek scriptures from 399 to 413 AD, and wrote "Biography of Traveling in the World" throughout the world.

Faxian once sailed across the Strait of Malacca from Sri Lanka in 412 AD and sailed 105 days a day to the coast of Mexico in the Americas. After staying here for five months, he sailed west for 115 days in May 413 AD, and returned to Laoshan, Qingdao, Shandong, China in September of that year.

According to the calculation of ancient sea boats traveling 100 nautical miles day and night, and supplemented by local customs and customs, it is believed that the "Yepati" in the biography is today in the Americas.

But this statement is still controversial.

There is another saying.

It has something to do with Zheng He, the protagonist of the voyage to the West. In 2014, British historian Meng Xis claimed that he had discovered an ancient Chinese nautical map ("Kunyu Wanguo Map") more than 600 years ago, which was painted by Zheng He.

The detailed picture of the American continent is drawn on it, and this time calculation happened to be the time period when Zheng He voyages to the West (1405 to 1433 AD). He believed that Zheng He was the first person to sail to America, seventy-two years earlier than Columbus.

Meng Xis is not the only scholars who hold this statement. Some scholars even believe that Columbus's voyage may have been guided by the navigation charts drawn by Zheng He.

However, regardless of whether this statement is reliable or not, at least this time Zheng He went to the West and did not go to America.

Therefore, the "sweet potatoes and corn" being brought to Asia should be the "sayed" situation that Chen Xili mentioned. It was brought back from the Americas by some Asians after committing felony crimes and wandering abroad for many years.

Very likely.

After all, in Asia today, Chinese civilization is ahead of the whole world.

This doesn't matter!

What’s important is that I found the peppers myself, which means that I can grow them widely in the Ming Dynasty, create the Sichuan-Chongqing hotpot sect, and develop the bean paste - the refried pork without bean paste is soulless.

Mapo tofu, fish-flavored shredded pork and other famous dishes require bean paste.

And chili peppers are also a Chinese medicine.

As for corn and sweet potatoes, because they are extremely adaptable to living conditions and have relatively high yields, large-scale planting is a solution to the hidden danger of food shortage caused by the outbreak of the Ming Dynasty population.

This is an indispensable part of the Ming Dynasty's journey to the heavenly kingdom and the world!

This is agriculture and hope.

Especially sweet potatoes, which are roasted sweet potatoes are just shopping artifacts. When sweet potatoes are planted on a large scale, their high yield and high starch have become extremely high environmental adaptability and must definitely become the pillar of national agriculture.

no way.

At present, the agricultural level of the Ming Dynasty is not allowed to engage in hybrid rice by itself. Promoting sweet potatoes is the most effective and fastest way to achieve results.

Suppressing the ecstasy in his heart, Wu Xu patted Chen Xili on the shoulder, "Old Shen, to be honest, just rely on the merchant ship to find these three things, our business company, your Chen Xili's name, my Wu Xu's name, will be destined to remain in history books. Isn't it just for this purpose for a lifetime?"

Leave a name in history, four words.

It sounds very simple.

But you must know that in China's long-standing civilization history book, if you want to leave a few words in it, it is difficult to do if you are not a mediocrity and talent without some ability or talent.

Those with ability and talent need super high luck to be able to do so.

The Times Commercial Bank, which brought the Ming Dynasty into the era of food and clothing in advance, and the helmsman of the Times Commercial Bank, Chen Xili and Dusk, these two names will be remembered forever by future generations.

This has epoch-making significance.

Chen Xili's vision is of course outstanding, but that is in the business of merchants. In agriculture, he does not have the vision of God at dusk. The most important thing is that he does not understand the value of sweet potatoes and corn. He was very surprised when he heard this: "Just these three things can make the Times Business Company write books and history books together with your and my names. I'm afraid you are not teasing me."

Even though Xun didn't explain, he asked, "Where are these things?"

"Times Commercial Bank."

"Let's go and see, by the way, how many have you brought back?"

Chen Xili replied: "There are about seventy or eighty peppers, twenty or thirty sweet potatoes, and more than a dozen corns." After a pause, "It took nearly a hundred taels of taels to buy these things before others can bear the pain of giving up their love."

Shrugged at dusk.

It doesn't matter.

Although a hundred taels of silver is equivalent to 60,000 to 70,000 soft sister coins, is this a good profit?

The value they bring is immeasurable.

It's priceless.
Chapter completed!