All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 320 Are you the Cheng Yaojin who betrayed his brothers?
"Freeze said."

Chen Ran walked over, picked up a corn cob and threw it to the dancing county magistrate. "Look carefully, only the corn kernels on the cob can be eaten. The cob inside cannot be eaten. It is not heavy."

"It's just like the husk of grain. Who eats grain with the husk?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone around looked at him.

Xue Wanche scratched his bald head and said, "Master, the husks are the chaff, and many people eat them."

As the saying goes, "eat bran and eat vegetables", in the era of material scarcity, rice bran is also a good thing.

Chen Ran was speechless and simply waved his hands, "We can't eat this corn, we are not corn!"

After thinking about it, probably only Koreans eat Koreans, they also eat watermelon rinds.

Excluding the weight of the cobs, the yield per mu is about seven stones, mainly because the seeds are so good.

"Set up the pot, boil water, and have dinner."

A large iron pot was set up and the washed corn cobs were thrown directly into it to cook.

Chen Ran also introduced that "cooked corn is delicious, with a fragrant, soft and sweet taste."

"If you want to preserve it for a long time, you still have to husk it as soon as possible, dry it in the sun, grind it into corn flour, and then sieve and dry it to make cornmeal. It has high nutritional value and is no different from wheat. The most important thing is that it can be used as livestock feed and raised on a large scale."

Everyone looked at him as if he were a prodigal.

"Such good grain, you use it to feed livestock? Whoever dares to use grain to feed livestock in the Tang Dynasty will either be beaten to death by his family or scolded to death by outsiders."

Li Erfeng didn't say anything, just stared at the big pot.

He is a pragmatist and won't express his opinion until he has tasted the food.

After it was cooked, no one from the Tang Dynasty touched it.

It's not that I'm afraid of getting a stomachache. In times of war, the only thing people are afraid of is not having enough food to eat. Who would worry about getting a stomachache?

The emperor is here, so the first bite must be a fart for the emperor~
Chen Ran picked up one directly without any fear of the heat, and started eating it after it cooled down.

Everyone was speechless. It was really disrespectful to the emperor.

Li Erfeng rolled her eyes and reached out to pick one up.

'It's hot!'

The corn just out of the pot is very hot and needs to be cooled down a little.

Chen Ran has thick skin and strong muscles, and his physical fitness is there. Although Li Erfeng is also a warrior, he is not as good as Master Chen.

Fortunately, he was determined and endured it without showing any emotion, and even took a bite.

As expected, my mouth was so hot that it hurt.

"it is good!"

“It’s really food!”

The unique fragrance and taste of the grain made Li Erfeng praise it immediately, "It's great!"

If he wants to seek revenge on the Turks, he must have strength in his hands.

What is the foundation of a country's strength?
Of course it’s food!

The grain yield per mu is nearly seven stone, this is a godsend!
After taking a few bites, I confirmed its authenticity.

Li Erfeng nodded immediately and said, "This is the divine seed bestowed by heaven to the Tang Dynasty. Taoist Li has made great contributions in finding the divine seed, so I specially grant you ten thousand coins."

He had already expelled Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji from the family tree, so naturally they were no longer brothers in name.

Moreover, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji both declared to the world that they had given up everything in the world to seek the Tao, which was equivalent to taking the initiative to leave the mundane world, so naturally they called him Taoist Li.

When it comes to major issues, Li Erfeng never shows mercy.

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly in his heart. In this damn place, there was no place to spend the money. What good would it do to give me a million coins?

However, thinking about his family who were left as hostages in Chang'an City, he still bowed to express his gratitude.

Li Erfeng coughed and was about to order all the corn to be transported away and stored for use as seeds.

Chen Ran shouted, "What are you all standing there for? Put up the pots. We've been busy harvesting corn for so long, we should have a good meal."

This sentence made Li Erfeng lose her temper.

During the busy farming season, the landlords had to provide their farmhands with adequate meals, and as an emperor he could not send out hungry soldiers.

There was nothing we could do but watch so many people rush in and make corn.

"These are all good seeds. You bastards, you ate up an acre of seeds in one pot!"

So many people were eating the seeds crazily that Li Erfeng's eyelids were twitching.

In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he jumped on his horse and rushed to Chang'an City.

The rest of the arrangements were made by Changsun Wuji and others. After asking Chen Ran how to select, transport and store the corn cobs, they packed them up and shipped them away overnight, leaving no even the stalks behind.

"Taoist Master."

Seeing his elder brother Li Jiancheng being respected and thanked by everyone, who were grateful for him finding the divine seed for the people of the world, Li Yuanji found Chen Ran with a resentful look on his face, "I also want to go down in history."

"Don't worry." Chen Ran said, "Li Er has already seen the cotton field. He will come again tomorrow."

Sure enough, after experiencing the baptism of corn seeds, Li Er could not forget the cotton fields he saw in the daytime.

After going to bed, he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, so Empress Changsun thought he was too hot and fanned him with a palm-leaf fan for half the night.

The next morning, Li Er hurried to Lanqiao Posthouse again.

I walked through the bare corn fields and came to the cotton fields to look around. I even reached out to pick a cotton bale, pulled out a piece of cotton wool and put it in my mouth to chew.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem~~~"

"Hahaha~~~"

Chen Ran, who came over after hearing the news, burst into laughter when he saw this scene. "You must be stupid. You can tell from looking at this thing that it can't be eaten."

Li Erfeng, who finally managed to spit out the cotton wool, looked at him angrily with a dark face, "What is this?"

Chen Ran winked at Li Yuanji who followed him. The former King of Qi, now Taoist Li, hurried forward to claim credit, "Second brother, this is the magical seed I found in the mountains, called Huamian."

"That's not right." Cheng Zhijie, who was on duty today, came over and looked at it. "This is clearly Jibei (cotton)."

Cotton was introduced to China as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it was only regarded as an ornamental flower.

The reason is similar to that of other crops, which is that it takes a lot of time to continuously cultivate, domesticate and optimize seeds.

The crops used in large quantities in the modern world have been bred and optimized over thousands of years. It is impossible to use them directly right away. Even if it is fast, it will take at least 180 years to adapt.

The seeds provided by the system are of even better quality than the best in the modern world.

"You are the Cheng Yaojin who betrayed his brothers?" Chen Ran looked at Cheng Zhijie. "You look quite heroic, but how come you don't have any sense of loyalty at all?"

'I met the historical figure Cheng Zhijie. He was a man of sharp ambition, strong and resolute, with outstanding military exploits, and left behind the legend of the three axes. However, he was smooth-tempered, seeking benefits and avoiding harm, with a pig-like face, but a loud heart.'

'Note: You can modify two of the words.'

"What are you talking about?!" Cheng Yaojin jumped up and down in anger, his eyes reddened. "You said I have no loyalty?!"

"I'm just telling the truth." Chen Ran spread his hands fearlessly. "Shan Xiongxin was so good to you, but you still tricked him to death?"

"Nonsense!!" Cheng Yaojin was furious. This was a stain on his life, something he never wanted to mention.

He picked up the lance and rushed towards Chen Ran with a roar.

Chen Ran did not dodge, but continued to speak venomously, "Shan Xiongxin saved your life, and you called him your second brother."

"Wow~~~" Cheng Yaojin was so angry that he thrust his lance at him.

Chen Ran grabbed the shaft of the lance, and with the enormous force, no matter how hard Cheng Yaojin tried, he could not move.

He simply let go and rushed forward, waving his fist as big as a casserole.

'boom! '

Chen Ran punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground with a bloody nose.

Without waiting for him to stand up, he stepped on him and made him unable to get up. "They treat you as a brother, but you treat them as a stepping stone. Oh, and there is another person named Qin Qiong who is the same. Shan Xiongxin helped him so much, but in the end you guys rode your horses and trampled on him. How shameless."

Without hesitation, he changed 'smooth personality' to 'straightforward personality'.

"Ah~~~"

A strong sense of humiliation swept through Cheng Yaojin's body. He was stepped on the ground with tears in pain and wailed, "Second brother, I'm sorry~~~ Let me die~~~"

"enough!!"

This chaotic situation finally got temporarily calm with Li Erfeng's roar.

He looked at Chen Ran with a dark face and said, "I was the one who killed Shan Xiongxin. Yaojin and the others were just following orders. If you want to avenge Shan Xiongxin, just come find me."

Chen Ran raised his leg and let go of the crying Cheng Yaojin, and responded casually, "I just don't like people like this. I don't know Shan Xiongxin, and I haven't received any favors from him. Why should I avenge him?"

Li Erfeng's face looked very ugly. After a moment, he snorted heavily, jumped on his horse and left.

This time I really came with high hopes but left disappointed.

Li Yuanji was dumbfounded. "The divine seed I'm looking for"

Chen Ran smiled and called Li Yuanji, "Let's go back to class. Today we are teaching a course on battlefield rescue."

Everyone left, leaving only Cheng Yaojin lying on the ground crying loudly and his bewildered family generals.

'Cheng Zhijie's modification has been completed, and rewards are now being issued.'

'Note: A pair of Northeast Minzhu breeding pigs will be distributed (high reproductive capacity, strong resistance to adversity, good meat quality, tolerance to roughage, and high fat deposition ratio.)'

"They actually gave them a living seed." Chen Ran stroked his chin. "Is this the rhythm of solving the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation for the Tang Dynasty?"

After taking the battlefield rescue course, Chen Ran asked Li Jiancheng and others to "clean up the yard where the post station stored livestock."

Li Yuanji asked, "What?"

"Raising pigs. Ah, it's called pigs, pigs with strong legs."

"Raising pigs?" Everyone was speechless.

Pigs were not the mainstream source of meat in the Tang Dynasty. The main meat in the Tang Dynasty was sheep and dogs.

Of course, even in wealthy families like Cheng Yaojin's, cows would often fall and die.

The main reason why it failed to demonstrate the strong dominance in the meat market like in later generations lies in its breed and living habits.

Needless to say, the breed grows slowly and has a low meat yield.

Not many people are interested in raising a pig that only weighs a hundred pounds after a few years.

As for living habits, pigs were considered dirty meat by the people of the Tang Dynasty, and the pigpen and the toilet were together!

Because of this, it is difficult for people to understand why Chen Ran wants to raise such dirty meat.

"Don't ask so many questions, just do as I say. When have I ever let you down?"

(End of this chapter)