Li Shimin

After finishing speaking, he stopped talking to the shopkeeper and concentrated on cooking.

Soon, plates of seafood dishes with a strong aroma were brought up to the fourth floor under the leadership of the shopkeeper.

Then, seeing that Li Xuan didn't have any orders, the shopkeeper hurried out.

Inside the house, I looked at the table of fragrant seafood dishes, oysters bigger than bowls, green shrimps as long as palms, fresh sea cucumbers, abalones...

Li Xuan couldn't help taking a deep breath.

He picked up the chopsticks and started eating.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and the others couldn't bear it any longer, and started to eat.

"Hiss...delicious!"

"Master, I didn't expect there to be so many delicious delicacies in the sea!"

"Exactly, Master, I can eat this delicious food for 30 years without getting tired of it. It's so delicious..."

For the nagging of these little bastards, Li Xuan didn't pay attention to it, but ate it by himself.

He took a long breath until he was full.

Then, a look of regret appeared on his face.

"Unfortunately, there is no chili, otherwise this plate of grilled fish and oysters would be even more delicious!"

"chili?"

Hearing this, Li Chengqian and Cheng Chusi couldn't help raising their heads, looking at Li Xuan with some doubts.

"Master, what is the pepper? But the pepper you marked on the world map?"

"It's also this kind of delicious Haizhen?"

"Chili is a vegetable. It is as spicy as Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Cornus officinalis, and pepper, but it tastes much more spicy than Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Just add a little pepper to any dish, and these dishes will be more delicious. hundred times!"

Li Xuan smacked his mouth, looking yearning.

Soon, as long as those two steel giant ships are built, go out to sea to fight the autumn wind, earn more money, and then build a few more steel ships, then send people to directly occupy the Wa Kingdom, and then use the Wa Kingdom as a springboard , went to America, found peppers, and brought them back.

On the other side, Li Chengqian and Cheng Chusi couldn't help opening their mouths wide, looking at the plate of Haizhen in front of them, their eyes gleaming.

"These sea treasures are already so delicious, if they were a hundred times more delicious, how delicious would they be?"

"Master, in Annan, Leizhou and other places, there are also overseas merchants who come by boat. How about letting those merchants go to look for peppers?"

"If these hozen are not credible, I'll go and beg Aye, and ask His Majesty to send the Tang navy to search for the pepper in America!"

Cheng Chusi, Li Chongyi and others were all attracted by the delicacy described by Li Xuan.

"Send the Datang navy to search for peppers?"

Li Xuan sneered, and looked at Cheng Chusi, Li Chongyi and the others with mocking eyes.

"My master, I don't know that you and the little Zhenwei captains have such great energy? The ocean is so dangerous. Once you encounter a storm, a huge wave, or lose your way, you can only wait in the ocean." die.

If you are not well prepared and lose tens of thousands of sons to Datang, how should you apologize? "

Hearing this, Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and the others were all stunned and silent.

"Hahaha, don't be annoyed Xuanba, these bastards just want to contribute."

At this time, a laugh came from outside the door.

At the same time, the door of the private room was pushed open, and Li Shimin walked in slowly with Fang Xuanling and others.

While walking, Li Shimin still said: "Actually, I also want to taste how delicious the dishes made by that pepper are!"

Behind Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong, Fang Xuanling and the others stared angrily at Li Chongyi, Fang Yizhi and the others.

A group of evildoers are getting bolder and bolder.

He dares to talk nonsense about the use of water troops to cross the ocean.

Regarding this, Li Xuan did not show any embarrassment.

Instead, he stood up and gave a slight salute to Li Shimin.

"I have seen Your Majesty!"

"Ocean is extremely dangerous. Even if you manufacture steel ships, you can't say it's safe. As for the wooden ships in the Datang Navy, it is very likely that they will never return!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin chuckled, and asked slowly: "Then if you offer a reward to those Hu merchants from overseas, Xuanba will paint the pepper and hand it over to those Hu merchants from overseas, as long as anyone can find it, I will not hesitate to bestow him with the title of county male!"

Hearing this, the expressions of Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but change slightly.

But Li Xuan's eyes lit up.

"Your Majesty's method is wonderful!"

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Chapter 433 I will knight him!

"Not only can you find chili peppers, but you can also make county men if you find sweet potatoes and potatoes, and bring them back to Tang Dynasty!"

"Your Majesty, King Jin, the title of my Great Tang is an important weapon of the country, and it will not be granted to those who have made great contributions to my Great Tang. Moreover, those overseas hozen are so humble, how can they be awarded the title of my Great Tang?"

"Exactly, Your Majesty, King Jin, my title of Tang Dynasty, absolutely cannot be awarded to those hands of the hozen!"

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and the others shook their heads repeatedly, their faces filled with sorrow.

"Okay, then I won't grant it!"

Seeing this, before Li Shimin could speak, Li Xuan waved his hand indifferently.

"Anyway, if potatoes are planted on my Tang land, they will only yield seven or eight stones per mu, so it doesn't matter. As for sweet potatoes, they only yield fifteen stones per mu, so it doesn't matter if you want them or not!

After two years, when my steel fleet is successfully built, I can send people to look for it! "

"what?"

In an instant, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others were all stunned, staring closely at Li Xuan.

"Xuanba, is it true that potatoes can yield seven or eight stones per mu?"

"His Royal Highness, the sweet potato can yield fifteen stones per mu?"

"There is such a god in the world?..."

"It should be possible. As for whether there will be more output, I can't guarantee it!"

Li Xuan casually replied that the land at this time was extensively cultivated, but as long as the farmers were taught well, potatoes should be able to produce seven or eight stones per mu, and as for sweet potatoes, fifteen stones would be fine.

"Enough, enough!"

"Potatoes yield seven or eight shi per mu, and sweet potatoes yield fifteen shi per mu..."

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help trembling all over, their eyes were red, and they were extremely excited.

"Don't say seven or eight stones per mu, as long as six or five stones per mu, no matter where the barbarian is, as long as he can find this sacred object and dedicate it to my Tang Dynasty, I will definitely give it to him as a county man!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and the others nodded their heads repeatedly and never raised any objections. They all knew the importance of food to the Tang Dynasty.

Immediately, several people all stared at Li Xuan.

"Xuanba, where are the potatoes and sweet potatoes?"

"overseas!"

Li Xuan said slowly, "This kind of food is in America, which is thousands of miles away from my Tang Dynasty!"

"Xuanba, do you know what this fetish looks like?"

Li Shimin asked quickly.

"Of course I know!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly.

"Very good!"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"I also ask Xuanba to draw a pattern, and I will send it to Jiaozhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Dengzhou and other states urgently within eight hundred miles, so that the governors of these states will all issue notices, no matter who finds this kind of fetish, I will bestow upon him the Baron of Datang County!"

"Your Majesty, wait a moment!"

Li Xuan thought for a while, then nodded slowly in response, and walked to the table on one side.

Here, there are already prepared pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

Seeing this, Li Baoding and several people hurriedly ground and spread paper for Li Xuan.

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and the others couldn't help but walked over and looked at Li Xuan's painting expectantly.

Li Xuan frowned and thought about it for a moment, then picked up the pen and began to draw on the paper.

From top to bottom, stems and leaves to soil, and then to rhizomes, Li Xuan painted very carefully.

It's just that he is the only one who recognizes the plants in this world.

In order to let those overseas barbarians know the plants he painted in detail, Li Xuan was still on the side, and wrote a long paragraph of words in detail.

After half an hour.

Four pieces of paper and four plants were presented in front of Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others.

Although not as vivid as the court painter's, all the characteristics are quite obvious.

"Chili, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn..."

"Ok?"

When Li Shimin and others saw the blueprint of the corn, they couldn't help being surprised.

"Xuanba, corn is actually grain, and can it yield six or seven stones per mu?"

"Ok!"

Li Xuan nodded while rubbing his sore arm.

"Why are the corn fruits one by one, so there is a feeling of facing Buddha?"

Li Shimin asked again, "These corns are produced in Kapilavastu?"

"No, it is produced in the same place as potatoes and sweet potatoes!"

Li Xuan said again.

"A place of origin?"

After hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help being startled, and couldn't help asking enviously.

"What kind of land is it that can have potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other extremely high-yielding grains at the same time? Don't the people there never go hungry?"

"It should be America!"

Li Xuanhui directly shook his head, "However, I heard that there is also a wealth of gold there. In the clear river water, you can scoop up a handful of gold!"

"America is so rich?"

Subconsciously, Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others couldn't help but have red eyes.

"Your Majesty, I implore Your Majesty to rectify the navy and conquer America next year!"

"Exactly, Your Majesty, my Tang Dynasty has 50 elite soldiers. When necessary, we can recruit veterans, and Zhechong Mansions in various places can also mobilize 50 veterans!"

Changsun Wuji also had a fierce face.

The things Li Xuan described made Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others start to feel excited.

As long as one kind of food can be found for such a powerful country and rich people, it will be a great joy for Datang.

Li Xuan shook his head: "Your Majesty, America is too far away from Tang Dynasty, so there is no need to worry."

"However, America is full of gold. If those sea merchants find it, wouldn't they make wedding dresses for those hozens?" Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty, since they were able to find those places, they must have also found such grains as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn!"

Li Xuan chuckled and said slowly: "When they get there, they will definitely bring potatoes and sweet potatoes to Chang'an to ask His Majesty to ennoble you. And I expected that there are potatoes and sweet potatoes in the Americas. It should be a barren land, and the people in those places are still living a life of drinking blood and bare hair.

Therefore, those hozen must not know that my Tang Dynasty already knew that there would be so much gold in those places.