Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 449 Return of the Fleet
Zhu Biao sent Zhu Di away, life in the palace is so boring and boring.

Early the next morning, Zhu Biao, who received news from the fleet, planned to tell the old Zhu and his wife about it.

The potato manor covers an area of ​​two acres, which is very close to the vegetable field in the palace. These days are the harvest time for potatoes.

Zhu Biao stood on the palace road on the ridge of the field, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Guangyang, Zheng Shiyuan and others who were busy in the field, and smiled.

People who can come to this potato farm are not ordinary people. This is Lao Zhu's hope. Only civil and military officials who have a good relationship with Lao Zhu and are favored can come here.

The officials in the DPRK and China were proud of this, and they all wanted to ask Lao Zhu for a chance, but they were all rejected mercilessly.

The reason given by Lao Zhu was that he was afraid of trampling on the ground.

Zhu Biao is different, he can come as many times as he wants, he was the first to advocate potatoes.

"Let's go, let's go." Zhu Biao said, leading the small yellow gate behind him towards the small pavilion next to the manor.

Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing a straw hat, the dragon robe had long since disappeared, and he was wearing coarse cloth clothes.

Under the tree, there was a little girl carved in jade, and the maid was watching carefully beside her.

Seeing Zhu Biao approaching, the little girl's eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on her face: "Daddy."

"This servant has seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Let Dad take a look." Zhu Biao lovingly picked up his daughter and wiped the dust off her face, "My face is covered in mud. No one cares."

The maid next to her immediately knelt down and kowtowed to ask Zhu Biao for forgiveness.

"Gu didn't tell you, get up."

Walking into the pavilion, Zhu Biao smiled at Empress Ma and said, "Mother, you just called them all here."

Looking at the potatoes all over the floor, the maids and maids, as well as Mrs. Chang and Shen, did they know.

"My mother didn't. It's their filial piety. Why did you come here?" Empress Ma asked Zhu Biao.

"Come and see if the potatoes will be harvested this year." Zhu Biao walked over and smiled at Empress Ma.

Empress Ma nodded. Her Majesty the Emperor is not just enthusiastic about the land, but very enthusiastic.

"My girl is almost turning into a potato." Zhu Biao looked at Shen Zhiwu and said.

"Crack."

An inaudible sound appeared in Zhu Biao's ears, as if something was gnawing on something.

"Fuck!"

Zhu Biao swears, and immediately goes over and throws down the potatoes that his daughter gnawed, "Don't eat indiscriminately."

Shen Zhiwen went over to pick her up, smiled and wiped her off with a handkerchief, with gentle and casual movements.

Unexpectedly, her dark peach blossom eyes stared at Zhu Biao, and then kept staring at Queen Ma.

Whether it's Queen Ma talking or doing things, in short, she just looks at Queen Ma with a cute face.

Empress Ma would come over and hug her with a smile: "Oh, you little clingy girl."

Compared with the harmony in the pavilion, the big guys in the manor outside are lively.

Zhu Di and Xu Da carried the potatoes into the bamboo baskets.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "This year, we weigh them. This land is becoming more and more fertile."

"Yes." Wang Guangyang's usually fair face was as hot as a monkey's butt.

Not far away, the officials of the National Academy of Scholars are sitting under a tree to select high-quality potatoes for trial planting next year.

Seeing Zhu Biao, Old Zhu shouted, "You come and dig one too."

Afterwards, Zhu Biao took the agricultural tools and went down with a hoe, and the whole potato plant had roots and fruits.

The branches of the potatoes had already started to wither, and there were seven or eight knots on the roots. It was no wonder that the Shen family called it Zisunguo back then.

Zhu Biao was squatting, and the little yellow gate next to him was holding a basket, picking potatoes from the roots bit by bit.

"Eating this stuff can make you hungry, just like wheat and rice."

"There is no white rice, but it can be steamed, boiled, fried, baked, or fried..." Zhu Biao said to the officials holding potatoes.

"Wang Xiang, Zheng Shangshu, the fleet has news that they could come back this month, but I told them to look for things. Today I received news that the few things they found are more attractive than rice and potatoes."

All the officials looked at each other in blank dismay. This potato is already miraculous enough. Could there be something even more miraculous?

"Can we still have this thing?" Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes at Zhu Biao, and looked at Zhu Biao with some distrust.

As for the others, I didn't believe it in my heart, but I didn't say anything.

Things went on like this for two months.
Less than half a month after Zhu Di got married, the Deming fleet successfully docked.

Daming, Hongwu seventh year, October.

The autumn is crisp, the sky is high and the clouds are clear. After more than two years, the fleet returned to Nanjing again.

In addition to the western coast, the north and south coasts of the Americas, and nearby islands, and vegetable crops, bitter melon and corn, peppers and sweet potatoes were brought back.

This is Zhu Biao's special order.

On the day when the fleet arrived outside Nanjing, the officials had just left the court.

On the steps and corridors of Fengtian Temple, there are officials in red robes.

"Zheng Bing and Liang Guogong have left the capital."

"Zheng Bing and Liang Guogong have left the capital."

"Zheng Bing and Liang Guogong have left the capital."

Passed from level to level, the voice reached everyone's ears in the majestic imperial city.

The officials who hadn't left the imperial city all looked sideways.

The servant who bent over to clean also raised his head to listen to the sound.

Zhu Biao naturally heard it too, as did Lao Zhu and Zhu Di.

"If you want to go to greet him, then go, this matter is your credit." Old Zhu said.

In Emperor Zhu's heart, he still didn't approve of the sailing, and he probably wouldn't bring anything back, so he handed it to Zhu Biao.

"Yes."

Zhu Biao turned around and took Zhu Di with him.

When they see what Sanbao brought back, they will definitely look at it with admiration.

The streets are full of curious people, and some want to see what the characters of the Deming Fleet are like.

After receiving Sapphire and Sanbao, the two went to see Zhu Yuanzhang first, and submitted all the treasure lists.

A banquet was set up in the East Palace, accompanied by Zhu Di.

Sanbao organized what he experienced, what he knew, and the countries he visited in the past two years, with some unofficial histories of various countries, as well as the water systems, mountains and rivers, customs and customs along the way.

In order to make the speech clearer, names were specially added to match the names that Zhu Biao had mentioned with him.

It is different from the customs of the Central Plains and the dwarf kingdom.Zhu Di was very surprised to hear these things about Hunter Island.

The current Ming Dynasty is just a corner of the world, and there are people living along the ocean.

Sambo explained everything clearly and paused slightly.

During this period.Sapphire just listened quietly, without any arrogance, and only started after Sanbao finished speaking.

"Your Highness, I don't know that the sheep of our Ming Dynasty are in some island countries, and one sheep can be exchanged for one stone of gem and emerald." Sapphire smacked her lips.

The things you like are worthless in the eyes of others. Zhu Biao knows that some overseas countries are rich in pearl agate.

But what Daming has is worthless, but to them, it is a priceless treasure.

"Dwarfland? How short are they."

Zhu Di visibly lifted his spirits, and began to chat with Lan Yu.

Lan Yu humbly said: "You should ask Zong Bing Zheng about this matter. The fleet relied on him during the days on the ocean. I just suppressed some pirates and people who live in the local area and want to rob our treasure ship."

"Your Highness, I will never forget what you asked my servant to find."

As Sanbao said, he took out the blueprint that Zhu Biao gave him two years ago from the small box.

"When I was in America, my slaves showed it to the local chiefs, and they said it was called pearl rice, not corn."

Sanbao took out five or six palm-length corn cobs.

This kind is much smaller than later generations, the output is not high, and the particles are also small.

But anyway, it is very good.

"It's okay to have a different name."

Different places have different dialects in different periods, and this corn has many names.

Like potatoes are also called taro, yam, potato
So is corn.

Corn, Baogu, Corn, Yuling, Yumai, Liugu, Pearl Rice, Red-faced Wheat.
Afterwards, Sanbao got up and took out a few green plants.

Zhu Biao, the sweet potato seedling, picked it up and looked at it: "Sambo, didn't Gu say that he wanted sweet potatoes, which are red in color and very sweet."

Sanbao immediately pleaded guilty: "Originally, the man from Xiao'an Island sent some slaves, but when the boat got halfway, some were broken, and some were dry. Ge Shuhan helped the slaves grow up."

Zhu Biao could also understand, so he said: "Winter is coming soon, these seedlings need to find a way to place them."

Seeing that Zhu Di was curious, Lan Yu said that these tasted very good.

"Where's the sea pepper?" Zhu Biao asked.

"In that jar, Goshuhan saved it for the servants."

Lan Yu said: "Your Highness, for these, Mr. Zheng suffered a lot. He led his men to sail alone to find them."

Zhu Biao nodded, indicating that he would not treat him badly: "Take it out and have a look."

　thank you all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)