You should write a letter to inform your parents first. If your parents think that “the parents are here, don’t travel far away”, you should still focus on filial piety. I can find something else for you. ”
Yan Zhen said: “Brother is at home to support his parents. Since I came to Dongdu, my father and mother laughed and said, “I don’t have my son, so I can find my future.” If I really can’t make it, I will go home and kowtow to admit my mistakes and give me a piece of property to go to business. So Sanlang can rest assured. “
Li Xuanba said: “Then come here and I will introduce you to what you need to do. “
Li Xuanba took Yan Zhen to the room where he rested in the printing workshop, took out a manuscript from his arms and handed it to Yan Zhen.
This manuscript records the situation of the countries in the South China Sea.
Li Xuanba said: “Your Majesty will send Chang Jun, the head of the military farm, and Wang Junzheng, the head of the Yu tribe, to serve as an envoy to the Chitu Kingdom. I have already agreed with the Changzhushi and the Wangzhushi that you should follow the envoy to the Terracotta Kingdom as a merchant and collect some specialties for me from the countries along the way. “
The Terracotta Kingdom was located in the later Malay Peninsula, that is, Southeast Asia.
Yan Zhen originally thought that Li Xuanba wanted to collect traditional seafood such as ivory and spices. The specialties that Li Xuanba wanted to collect in various countries were some crops that can be seen in the Sui Dynasty today, such as wheat, rice, sugarcane, etc.
Yan Zhen was curious: “Can Sanlang Jun tell me the reason for choosing specialties? Only by following the following will we know what standards should be set. “
Li Xuanba said: “Ling Zun Gengdu, have you followed him to the ground? ”
Yan Zhen said: “I can farm in the lower place. ”
Li Xuanbadao: “Do you know about breeding selection? “
Yan Zhen thought for a while, and suddenly realized: “The seeds of farming cannot be kept with the seeds retained in their own fields, and the yield will decrease year by year. My father often exchanged seeds with the surrounding farmers, and sometimes planted the same kind of seeds collected from different places in the same piece of land. Is Sanlangjun trying to introduce seeds from foreigners? “
Li Xuanba didn’t expect Yan Zhen to hit the point. It seems that Yan Zhen’s father’s “farming and reading” is not like it, but he is really serious about farming.
He was a little curious about Yan Zhen’s father.
The son of the county magistrate is also the son of an official. He also married the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The family is definitely not bad. Such a person can seriously think about farming, maybe he can train it well, and write a farming book.
Li Xuanba said: “I asked you to collect foreign crops, and I really want to try to mix with Middle-earth crops to see if you can cultivate better varieties. Furthermore, some of their local specialty crops may also be transplanted to Middle Earth. ”
Although Li Xuanba did not plant the fields himself, discussing farming online is a hot topic. He knows the basics and furs about simple farming knowledge. He knows that the more diverse the grain seed types in a country, the better, and many high-yield crops are hybridized.>
Although most of the high-yield crops that saved the wilderness in later generations came from the Americas, it would be very difficult for him to find the Americas unless his brother became the emperor. But there are also many crops that can be introduced in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Such as sugar cane and lint cotton.
Huaxia started growing sugarcane very early, but the technology for making sugarcane is underdeveloped, so sugarcane is mostly eaten directly with juice.
Southeast Asia and South Asia have better sugar cane varieties, higher juice yields, and unique sugar making technology.
The senior officials of the Sui and Tang dynasties were all sweet, and Emperor Taizong of Tang was the leader.
Emperor Taizong of Tang once sent people to India to seek better sugarcane varieties and learn sugarcane sugar making technology. After the “International Student” returned from his studies, the Tang Dynasty’s sugar-making technology quickly surpassed the Western Regions and India.
Li Xuanba first helped his brother do this, so that his brother would get tired of sweets at the age of being able to eat candy, so he should not be greedy when he gets old.
Most of the three highs and diabetes in the Li family are caused by their own desire to be greedy for their mouths. Li Xuanba was really worried about correcting his second brother’s eating habits.
Li Xuanba has low scientific literacy. Even if he introduced crops from Southeast Asia, he could not make any breakthroughs in the agricultural technology of the Tang Dynasty.
Let Yan Zhen go to the outside world to collect special crops, but it is just a guise to confuse others, and at the same time give himself a reputation of worrying about the country and the people.
Although he became the Prince of the Tang Dynasty in the future, his reputation in the Sui Dynasty was not important. But only by having a reputation of worrying about the country and the people can he better attract talents.
However, Li Xuanba asked Yan Zhen to go on a mission to the Terracotta Kingdom to collect characteristic crops from the East China Sea countries, which was just the first step in the plan.
After Yan Zhen traveled back and forth several times, Li Xuanba would find out what he wanted to do and ask Yan Zhen to collect some banned materials.