Sometimes happiness comes so suddenly.

Xiao Cheng wants sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other crops like crazy.

Compared with other crops, they have the same outstanding advantage, that is, they don't pick places.

As long as you give him a little sunshine, he will shine brightly, that's all.

Regardless of whether the land is fertile or thalassemia, it can produce anyway. The difference is just the level of output.

But he also knew that it was too difficult to get these things.

The origin of these crops was too far away from the Song Dynasty.

Even though the Song Dynasty had achieved unprecedented achievements in navigation, at least Xiao Cheng had never seen anyone reach here from that distant place.

Even though the Song Dynasty could build large ships with tens of thousands of materials, they were still extremely small compared to the sea.

After listening to his own narrative and looking at the drawings he drew, the Xiaoguan family found the Zheng family through Liu Fengkui and sent a fleet to do this. In Xiao Cheng's opinion, it was just a small official.

The child was just curious for a moment.

With current navigation technology and the size of ships, it is impossible to cross the ocean and reach the other side.

However, it would not be bad for the small official family to have something to rely on and work tirelessly for it.

Therefore, Xiao Cheng did not stop this behavior.

On the contrary, Xiao Cheng gave great encouragement and appreciation to Xiao Guan's almost obsessive research on crops.

He hoped that the future official of the Song Dynasty would be a scholar-type agriculturist with a strong research spirit.

And Xiaoguan's family is now running wildly on this road.

Over the years, the small officials who have been studying this with the officials of Sinong Temple have already surpassed Xiao Cheng in their professional skills such as grafting and cultivation of crops.

There are specialties in the art industry.

While Xiao Cheng was concentrating on dealing with people, Xiao Guanjia was concentrating on studying how to make the ears of rice grow bigger and the grains to produce more and fuller grains.

Of course, both people have achieved fruitful results in their respective fields.

But sometimes, when you don't have any hope, what you want suddenly appears in front of you so inadvertently, making you think it is a dream.

Xiao Cheng knew this was not a dream.

Because in front of him, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, the things he longed for day and night, were laid out on the floor.

Some sweet potatoes and potatoes are already rotting. Even so, no one dares to throw away these spoiled items. They just put them in separate containers.

Xiao Cheng looked at these good things with intoxicated eyes. He was so excited that he was much happier than hearing that the front line had won a big victory.

"Chief Assistant, are these things really so important?" Yang Wanfu asked.

"Of course." Xiao Cheng said happily: "When this thing becomes popular, our Song Dynasty will no longer be in danger of hunger, and we can feed more people. And more importantly, these crops are not the same as wheat.

, like rice fields, they need fertile land, but they can survive on even the poorest land."

"How many kilograms of kilograms can be produced per mu?" Yang Wanfu still doesn't believe such a figure.

"That's the theory." Xiao Cheng said.

The leader of this lucky fleet, named Zheng Zhiyuan, is a distant relative of the Zheng family, and can be regarded as the brother of Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu. He originally served as a captain in Zheng Zhihu's fleet.

After the Zheng family received this task from the Xiaoguan family, Zheng Zhiyuan was honored to be selected to carry out this task.

In fact, for those who have been at sea for a long time, everyone knows that this is a life-or-death mission.

But Zheng Zhiyuan did not have a second choice.

He left with the mentality of never returning, and arranged everything in his home before leaving.

He indeed narrowly escaped death.

But luckily, he found these things inexplicably. Although he didn't find the continent that the first assistant mentioned, the important thing was the things.

After careful questioning, Xiao Cheng probably guessed the origin of these things.

The origin of these crops is in the United States. Under normal circumstances, it is definitely impossible to reach the Song Dynasty at this time.

But because of himself and the enthusiasm of a small official, Zheng Zhiyuan's voyage was possible.

The people on that island are most likely people who drifted from that continent, or people who have been there and settled on that island for unknown reasons.

So those crops began to be produced on the island.

After all, those things are really not picky.

Zheng Zhiyuan was so lucky that he was able to float to this island even in a storm in the vast sea.

Maybe it's not Zheng Zhiyuan's good luck, but his own luck, right?

In short, I got what I had dreamed of getting.

The words "feeding people full" are just a matter of touching the upper and lower lips, but it is extremely difficult to actually do it.

In history, no matter in the prosperous times that were touted as magical, this has never been achieved.

But now, under his own rule, even in areas as prosperous as the south of the Yangtze River, we can still see from various reports every day that there are people dying of hunger on the road.

Whenever he sees this, Xiao Cheng feels frustrated.

"The imperial court will honor its promise, and the imperial court will not hesitate to grant a title to anyone who can offer these things." Xiao Cheng said the words he had been waiting for for a long time to the middle-aged man who had returned from a narrow escape.

"Thank you, chief minister, and thank you to the official family!" Zheng Zhiyuan crossed his hands and lowered them to the ground, his voice trembling a little.

Of course what Zheng Zhiyuan brought back was not these things.

To be honest, Xiao Cheng felt that his eyes were going to blur now.

A golden pumpkin that weighs more than ten kilograms is also a good thing. Just plant it in any ditch and ridge, and it will take root and sprout, and then in a few months, it will produce melons for you.

There can be several knots on the root vine. Not only can it fill the stomach, it can also provide people with a rare sweet taste.

There is a hard shell on the outside, which opens with a slight pinch, and then there is a red-skin-coated nut lying inside. Isn't this a peanut?

There are also those dozen potted plants. One of them has many fruits the size of a baby's fist. Some are green and some are red. Aren't those tomatoes?

Of course, there were also those pots of red and slender things in the corner, weren't they exactly the chili peppers he wanted?

Zheng Zhiyuan's trip to sea gave Xiao Cheng everything he wanted. From this point of view, Xiao Cheng felt that it was completely worth it to give him a marquis.

Grabbing a handful of dried chili peppers from a leather pocket, Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Guan family, I'm here to cook today. I'll make a few more things you've never tasted before."

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Everyone knows that Xiao Cheng has a good appetite.

The idea of ​​a gentleman being far away from the kitchen does not exist for him.

He often cooks fresh dishes.

To say that iron pots for cooking quickly became popular in Tokyo back then, Xiao Cheng also deserves credit.

The iron pot produced by Tiangong Iron Art was also one of the best-sellers at that time.

More than ten years ago, wok cooking was not yet mainstream!

Zhao An couldn't help but talk a lot when he heard Xiao Cheng said that he wanted to cook by himself. He had been with Xiao Cheng since he was two years old. His tongue was as good as his master's.

It's just that he doesn't know how to do it.

The opportunities for Xiao Cheng to cook in person are becoming less and less, and it seems that there are only a handful of times in this year.

Only on the master's wife's birthday, my own birthday, and my little sister's birthday did the master cook a few times.

Seeing Xiao Guanjia's expectant look, Xiao Cheng had a smirk on his face.

That night, in the inner courtyard of the palace, Xiao Cheng was feasting on large portions of food, while Zhao An and Liu Fengkui, who were all red in the face, were holding kuaizi and watched in amazement as Xiao Cheng swept away several bowls of food.

Is this thing really edible?

Of course, he would never tell Xiao Guanjia and Liu Fengkui about Xiao Cheng's painful squatting in the pit the next day.

It will take a long time for a stomach that has not tasted the taste of chili peppers for decades to adapt to this new thing!

Xiao Cheng was pained and happy.

Although peppers seem to be dispensable compared to several other crops, they will definitely become indispensable in the future for people living in the humid south.

Yizhou is not afraid of spicy food, Guizhou is not afraid of spicy food, and Hunan is not afraid of spicy food. Chili peppers will soon appear on your dining tables, but how long will it take for these things to become your favorites?

Xiao Cheng, who was squatting in the toilet and wiping his butt painfully, was thinking in a bad way that after this thing is popularized, I wonder how many people will be like him now, right?

Now that the thing has come back, how to cultivate a large number of seeds? That is what Xiao Guanjia, an expert, has to do. What Xiao Cheng has to do is to vigorously promote this thing with administrative orders.

The advantage of not occupying good land will probably minimize farmers’ resistance to the uncertainty of new crops!

We still have to be on guard against some people who want to please themselves and petty officials and force farmers to destroy their original crops and plant such things. It is a good thing, but if you don't keep an eye on it, it is easy for the crooked-mouthed monk to make mistakes.

Singing out of tune.

The Military Recruitment Law, the Young Crops Law and the new tax law are obviously very good things, but during the implementation process, some things happened that made Xiao Cheng angry.

Fortunately, Hu Yi, the Prime Minister of the Supervisory Yuan, is working tirelessly to patrol everywhere. Anyone who catches a whiff of something will be investigated by him.
To be continued...