Killing system of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 383 Xu Xiake’s American Breeding

The problem of new types of food is also difficult to solve, because the world's high-yield food seems to come from the Americas.Whether sweet potatoes or corn, only hybrid rice is produced in modern China.

High-yield grains are temporarily unavailable, and Jia Sixie can only use relatively high-yield grains to cultivate.Zhang Yi also had to set his sights on the Americas. Since the tenth year in China, he has used Xu Xiake, his favorite explorer, to take a boat from Risi Island to the north, looking for the Asia-American Continental Bridge, and has been searching for the Americas.

But nearly ten years have passed, and Xu Xiake still hasn't arrived in America.This has something to do with Xu Xiake's frequent illnesses. He had basically never been on a boat in the first 40 years, and he suddenly went to sea, so of course he couldn't adapt.

Zhang Yi has made an order with Xu Xiake to ensure the health of Xu Xiake.Xu Xiake has always been the most adventurous of his men.When attacking Yizhou, the distance from Wuxian to Yufu was very short, but it was blocked by Xiongguan.

Historically, after Liu Bei's defeat in Yiling, he relied on Yufuguan to block Lu Xun's army.This place of Yufu may be unfamiliar to everyone, but if it is called another name, Baidi City, everyone will know it.

When Zhang Yi attacked Yufu, it was Xu Xiake who walked out of the path. After going around, he successfully reached the back of Yufu. The city wall was small, so it was easy to conquer.

The way Lin Fengxiang and others attacked Yizhou from Jiaozhi was also discovered by Xu Xiake.The roads there are all between big rivers and big rivers, and it is extremely difficult to get there. If Xu Xiake hadn't spent two years exploring the roads, it would be difficult for Lin Fengxiang to enter Yizhou in a short time.

Since then, Xu Xiake has been active in Southeast Asia, providing technical support for Fu Youde, Lin Fengxiang and others to occupy the Indochina Peninsula.

In the first month of the 19th year of China, Xu Xiake once again set out from Risi Island to the northeast. After completing the final supplies on Haibei Island (today's Sakhalin Island), they continued to explore northward.

A landmass of ice was discovered in February.With previous experience, Xu Xiake immediately told the fleet to go east.

During the previous voyages, I was almost trapped in the iceberg because I was sticking to the ice land.If it weren't for the low speed of the ship, the entire fleet might be loaded on the iceberg.

This time, I avoided the place where the iceberg might exist early, sailed for a month, and finally encountered land.However, there are many trees on the land, and there is no trace of human activity at all.

However, Xu Xiake was not disappointed. He led his people to collect some familiar wild fruits in the woods, hunted some animals, replenished his food, and continued heading south.

After walking for half a month, Xu Xiake still fell ill.The captain wanted to take Xu Xiake back, but was dissuaded by Xu Xiake.

"Your Majesty has given me the greatest trust in wanting me to find species that are not found in the Central Plains. Now that we have reached our destination, we are only one step away from obtaining the species. We cannot retreat just because I am sick."

Under Xu Xiake's insistence, the fleet sailed for another half a month, and finally found traces of human activities on the coast.

Xu Xiake brought people into contact with the locals, and found that the language of this person was similar to the language used in the Shang Dynasty.

There are scribes who can speak ancient languages ​​on board, and there are basically no obstacles after communicating with them.

The scribes learned from the natives that these people were actually immigrants from the Yin Shang.When the Shang Dynasty fell, the ancestors of these people were conquering Dongyi.

The ancestors of these people were unwilling to be ruled by the Zhou Dynasty, so they migrated northward, from Yandi to the northeast, from the northeast to the Asia-American Continental Bridge, and finally to the Americas through the Continental Bridge, and then migrated all the way south.

The Asia-American Continental Bridge is actually the ice layer around the Bering Strait. In ancient times, there was a very long period of time when the Bering Strait was covered with ice and snow.In this way, beasts and humans can cross the Bering Strait from the ice and snow, and travel between the two continents.The ancestors of these Yin and Shang immigrants came to America by chasing herds of beasts and migrated to America.

After language communication, these people also know that the development of the Central Plains is very good, and they are very happy.The two sides began to exchange cultures and exchange items.Xu Xiake successfully exchanged the corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes he was looking for from these wealthy immigrants.According to the descriptions of these wealthy immigrants, they are very in line with the conditions for high-yield crops.

Not only these three kinds, Xu Xiake brought porcelain, gold coins and silver coins on the boat and exchanged them for peanuts, sunflowers, peppers, zucchini, kidney beans, pineapples, cashew nuts, papaya, tobacco, and two plants with the same names as lychees and pomegranates.

Xu Xiake was sick here for four or five months, and when he recovered from his illness, he began to prepare to return to the voyage.

After three months, I finally returned to Shanghai Port in December.The seeds were transferred to a fighting ship in Shanghai Port and shipped to Shouchun.

When Zhang Yi learned that Xu Xiake had returned with the seeds, he immediately went out of the city to meet him.

"Your Majesty, I have fulfilled my mission!" Xu Xiake called on Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi said hurriedly: "Quick, let me see the seeds!"

Xu Xiake immediately opened the box containing the seeds and showed them to Zhang Yi.Zhang Yi grabbed the corn seeds, looked at sweet potatoes, potato roots, and other seeds.Zhang Yi immediately decreed: "Let Jia Sixie cultivate in the royal farms in Shouchun and Panyu, observe the habits of these grains, and choose suitable species for promotion."

Jia Sixie was right next to her, quickly bowed and said, "I obey the order!"

Zhang Yiyou announced the reward for Xu Xiake and others, "Xu Xiake and others went overseas and brought back the seeds for their merits. Now Xu Xiake is made the king, and the rest of the fleet are made princes according to their merits. The prime minister and Shangshu Sheng will discuss it and report it to me. .”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xu Xiake and the others immediately thanked Zhang Yi.Xu Xiake knew that the credit would be great this time, but he did not expect to be crowned king.The fleet personnel who followed Xu Xiake to Shouchun were also very happy. According to Zhang Yi's will, they will also be named Tinghou for the last time.You must know that the conditions for conferring a Marquis in China are very harsh. If you want to surpass the sergeants, generals, officials and lieutenants in front of you, you need to kill at least a hundred enemies. It is already the limit for a fierce general to kill ten people in a war. Now, Feng Tinghou must fight at least ten wars.

How could Xu Xiake and others know the functions of corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.As long as there is one of these three high-yield crops, with China's original land, it can ensure that [-] million people can have enough food.In the Qing Dynasty, [-] million people were fed by sweet potatoes alone, and it was no problem to feed [-] million people.Now China's arable land area is more than twice that of the Qing Dynasty, and there are more fertile fields. It is no problem to feed five or six million people at the current level.

(End of this chapter)