Gao Shixin would definitely not go to Dongfan. If he was arrested, he would not be able to go back to Liaodong. It doesn’t matter in Kinmen, and the people here couldn’t hold him back. He wanted to go back at any time. With his water nature, he would be easy to swim back. But when he arrived at Dongfan, he would have no way to swim back. There were 130 kilometers at the narrowest point in the strait in the middle. Who could swim back?

But now he can't refuse Yan Siqi at once, otherwise Yan Siqi will definitely be suspicious.

Gao Shixin thought for a moment and decided to agree to Yan Siqi first: "Sir Yan, the junior camp will be with you. But I have an idea. Let's bring more sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes. These things have a high yield. When they arrive there, they will mature quickly and can feed more people with the least amount of time."

In fact, he had made up his mind to send himself back to the north with Yan Siqi's boat. After bringing sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes back to the north, he was preparing to promote these new crops.

There are also chili peppers, which cannot be forgotten. There are chili peppers and tomatoes on Kinmen Island, but they are not planted in vegetable fields. These things are planted in flower beds and are planted as ornamental plants.

Tomatoes are called wolf fruits. People at that time thought this plant was poisonous and could only be viewed but not eaten.

Chili peppers, tomatoes and sunflowers entered the Ming Dynasty almost at the same time, and these were all regarded as ornamental plants and were eaten by no one. Sweet potatoes and corn have already started to be planted in the south, and people know that they can be eaten; as for potatoes, there are potatoes on Kinmen Island, but after they were dug out, it disappointed Gao Shixin: these potatoes are very, very small in size, the largest one is the size of a ping-pong ball, and the smallest one is only the size of a glass marble.

"This is called potato. This thing is a bit toxic and needs to be eaten after selection." A local farmer told Gao Shixin that this kind of crop cannot be dug up and eaten after being planted and matured.

The farmers are right. The potatoes grown in later generations have been bred for several generations and become non-toxic. Only when they are planted as seeds, then mature and provided for people to eat. Most of the potatoes in this era have not been bred, and it is hard to say whether they are toxic. Some may be poisonous and some are non-toxic.

"Since this thing is poisonous, why do you plant it?" asked Gao Shixin.

The farmer replied, "No matter whether it is poisonous or not, as long as it is cooked thoroughly in the fire, it can be eaten."

This is what Gu Shixin knew that potato toxin is an alkaloid. When barbecued at high temperatures, it will destroy the biological toxicity and turn it into a non-toxic delicacy.

The old farmer dug out a basket of potatoes, took out part of them, dug a pit on the ground, buried the potatoes in it, covered it with soil, and then piled the collected leaves and branches on it, took out the flint and fired, and lit the firewood pile. After about half an hour of fire, the old farmer put out the fire, digged the pit open, and took out the potatoes.

"Brothers, we are here to eat!" Gao Shixin greeted Cai Jiuyi, Wu Liuqi and others who came with him.

The baked potatoes dug out of the sand exuded a fragrance. The potatoes are very small but the skin is also very thin. Hold the roasted potatoes in your hands and gently peel them while they are hot and tear off the thin skin like a piece of paper.

The little potato tasted really good when he ate it in his mouth. Since he came to the Ming Dynasty, he hasn't eaten this thing so far, and it really feels like nostalgia.

"Uncle, how many potatoes do you have here? I've collected them all. I'll prepare to load them in a few days." Gao Shixin asked.

"It's more than 2,000 kilograms." The old man replied.

"It's only more than two thousand kilograms? How many acres of potatoes are you?"

"Three acres."

Gao Shi muttered in confidence: The yield is not very high, only more than 600 kilograms per acre. When asked about the yield of sweet potatoes per acre, it was only more than 800 kilograms per acre, but it was not very high.

At this time, these high-yield crops have not been improved, and the yield per mu is not very high. However, compared with wheat and rice, the growth period of these plants is still much higher, and the growth period of these plants is shorter than that of wheat and rice, and the requirements for land are lower. Because of this, in the Qing Dynasty, when the luck is so good, these improved crops have been fully promoted, and the sweet potatoes have long been prosperous, which has reduced the number of people starving to death. In addition, during the Yongzheng period, the policy of integrating officials and gentry was adopted, and many hidden fields affiliated with scholars with fame were also cleared out, and some black households were also reported, which has caused the illusion of population growth, which has created the Kanggan prosperous era that the mite remains talked about.

When he returned to the dormitory of the barracks in the evening, Cai Jiuyi asked in confusion: "Boss, do you really want to follow Yan Siqi to the east?"

Gao Shixin shook his head: "Of course I won't go to Dongfan. I want to go back to Liaodong to kill Jiannu as soon as possible! But I didn't agree to him at that time, for fear that he would be suspicious. We will collect enough of these new crops first, and then move them onto the ship, and we will use his Yan Siqi's ship to send us back to the north, and take all these high-yield crops back, so that we can plant them in our own fields."

"Boss, how can we use Yan Siqi's ship to send us back?" Wu Liuqi asked.

"It's very simple. We are all on the same boat. At that time, I will tell Yan Siqi the truth and ask him to send us back to the north. If he insists on refusing, he will have to be sorry to him. We will hijack him, and you guys will go and deal with the sailors."

During the period before departure, in addition to collecting three high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, Gao Shixin also collected peppers and tomatoes. Even the peppers and tomatoes planted in Yan Siqi's home were stolen by Gao Shixin.

"I want to recruit more people to Dongfan. Zhang Sheng, can you call people again?" Yan Siqi asked. He wanted to open up wasteland on Dongfan Island on a large scale, carry out economic construction, and build ports and castles, which required a large number of people.

"Uncle Yan, I have a group of brothers on the other side of the shore. I asked a little brother to call them all over." Gao Shixin replied.

So Gao Shixin sent Cai Jiuyi back to Quanzhou first, brought all the more than ten young brothers who stayed there, and brought Gao Shixin's luggage with him at will.

After more than half a month of preparation, Yan Siqi recruited more than 3,000 immigrants preparing to go to the Eastern Ban, which was the first group of organized immigrants to the Eastern Ban. There were also Han people on the Dongban Island before, but they all spontaneously passed by, and the number was not large. According to his plan, Yan Siqi will organize hundreds of thousands of people to immigrate to the Eastern Ban to build his marine empire.

More than 30 large-scale boats were parked on the pier by the Kinmen Sea. People who were preparing to immigrate to the Eastern Banner brought their families and boarded the boat.

Gao Shixin was qualified to take the same boat as Yan Siqi, and more than ten of his little brothers came. They first brought sacks of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn onto the boat. Gao Shixin had already taken out the pepper seeds and tomato azaleas, put them in two ceramic bottles, and carried them with them.

Yan Siqi's flagship is a Chinese-Western warship that imitates the Thai-Si Hongmaoyi gunboat. The hull is a Western-style hull with two layers of artillery decks, but the sails are Chinese-style hard sails.

At the Kinmen Wharf, there were gongs and drums and firecrackers roaring, and the people who immigrated to the Eastern Band were about to leave.

With Yan Siqi's order to "set sail", the sailors pulled up the anchor chain, the sailors on the dock untied the cables, and the sailors on the boat took back the cables. The ships raised sails one by one, and the sailors supported the boat away from the shore with bamboo poles. The ships left the dock and gradually accelerated their speed. Under the action of the crosswind, they sailed towards the east.
Chapter completed!