This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 247 New crops

Several businessmen left happily. At this time, Cen Bingqian came to Niu Jichang and said in a low voice, "My lord, then I will arrange it like this."

"Hold on."

Cen Bingqian turned his head to look at Niu Jichang, and saw Niu Jichang smiling slightly.

"Wang Hui's matter can't just go like this. If he wants to plant land, he must recruit people in the city. He can talk to a few farmers in the city. Wang Cai's land is not easy to plant. , let them figure it out for themselves.”

Cen Bingqian couldn't help his face froze when he heard the words, he was secretly surprised that Niu Jichang was so vengeful, and he was still unwilling to let Wang Hui go when the matter in Tuyuhun was over.But thinking that Niu Jichang was his immediate boss and his backer, Cen Bingqian could only nod his head and hurriedly went on to do it.

In the Wang's house, Mrs. Yang and the steward Wang Ji stared blankly at the crops Wang Dong was holding.

Half a day later, Yang first pointed to something that looked like a vegetable, and asked, "Is this vegetable really as profitable as you said?"

Looking at the plant Wang Dong is holding, he always feels that it doesn't look very delicious.

Wang Dong smiled and said: "This is not a vegetable, this thing is called tobacco. It is grown and smoked."

"Smoking?" Wang Ji and Yang watched Wang Dong make a smoking motion, but they basically couldn't understand it.

Skip this thing and ignore it, and then the two of them looked at another thing on Wang Dong's table that looked a bit like a carrot head, but it had a weird reddish-purple color, and it didn't smell too bad. good food.

"Is this vegetable head also used for smoking?"

"This is not a vegetable head, this is called a beet, and it is used to make sugar."

Wang Ji looked puzzled: "Candy?"

"It's Shimi." Wang Dong said, directly took out a bag of fine white sugar brought back from modern times wrapped in linen from his pocket, opened it and put it on the table.

Yang Shi and Wang Ji leaned forward and saw the white thing. They couldn't tell what it was, but they felt that it was very delicate. They dipped their fingers in some sugar and put it in their mouths as Wang Dong said. The eyes of both of them widened instantly.

The main source of sweeteners in this era is maltose. In addition, the sucrose from the south of the honey is basically at the level of brown sugar. The white sugar made is more or less yellowish, and it is completely incomparable with the white sugar Wang Dong brought back from modern times, so that the two of them didn't recognize that it was actually sugar when they saw it for the first time.

The delicate sweetness immediately conquered the two of them.

Yang couldn't help looking at the dish on the table with bright eyes and asked: "Can this kind of sugar be made with this dish?"

Wang Dong nodded: "These are the methods handed down from my master. We have tried many times to grow them on Kunlun Mountain."

Both Yang and Wang Ji couldn't help being surprised. If they could make this kind of pure sugar by themselves, the profits would be unimaginable.

After speaking, Wang Dong took out a bag of dry products from his pocket, and the two hurriedly gathered around to have a look, only to find a white thing that looked like fungus inside, and Wang Ji looked at it for a long time, puzzled. However, Mrs. Yang recognized it after carefully distinguishing it.

"Is this tremella?"

Wang Dong nodded, Ping'er is a precious tonic these days, and most of the Wangs have never seen it before, but only people like Yang can recognize it.

Yang was very surprised and asked, "You can also grow this thing."

Wang Dong nodded again, this time Yang couldn't close his mouth. You must know that white fungus can be exchanged for half of it in Chang'an and other places at this time. If Wang Dong really knows how to grow white fungus, the profits it will bring are absolutely unimaginable.

"Does it cost a lot to grow these things?" Yang asked quickly, she glanced at Wang Ji, Wang Ji immediately understood, and hurriedly bowed his head and retreated.

After being beaten by Wang Dong once, Wang Ji is quite a wonderful person. Instead of hating Wang Dong deeply, he quickly succumbed after realizing Wang Dong's strength, crying and begging Yang to continue to fight. The Wang family was in charge, and after a few days of testing, Wang Dong felt that this person was still available, so when he recommended the new crops he was going to plant to the Yang family today, Wang Dong called them both.

After investigating Shanzhou City in later generations, Wang Dong found that because the place is located in the northwest, the population density has not been high until later generations. One of the local characteristic crops is potatoes grown in large quantities in the northwest, and the other is the famous local Ningxia. goji berries.

Wang Dong also thought about planting potatoes in large quantities. After all, this high-yield food crop has high economic value in the future market, but the profit that can be earned from growing food is limited after all, not to mention the entire Shanxi Province. The population of Zhoucheng is only so large. Selling these potatoes into Shanzhou as a staple food is likely to impact the price of food. In ancient times, food supply was a big business involving a wide range of interests. Wang Dong was a little worried that if he really wanted to plant If it is grain, it is likely to cause a counterattack from local grain merchants.

So after thinking about it, Wang Dong gave up his plan to grow potatoes. As for the wolfberry, the wolfberry tree itself will take several years to start bearing fruit. When the wolfberry is harvested for a round, Wang Dong's time travel has long since ended.What's more, this thing is expensive, and after it is planted, it will definitely not be consumed locally in Shanzhou. Wang Dong is not sure if he can organize the manpower and material resources needed to transport the 1000 mu of land and the grown goji berries to other places. So after all kinds of thinking, he finally made a difficult decision to give up the cultivation of potatoes and wolfberries.

Thinking that he still has an industrial equipment exchange voucher, and referring to the agricultural planting targets of Shanzhou City in later generations, Wang Dong quickly determined his planting targets into several directions: tobacco, sugar beet and white fungus.

These three crops are widely planted in Shanzhou City in later generations, and they are quite suitable for the climate here.Tremella is because Wang Dong first discovered after consulting the information that in ancient times, because there was no mature edible fungus cultivation technology, various mushrooms, fungus and other things in ancient times were once very precious ingredients.And tremella, which is already pleasing in appearance, once became a very precious nourishing product. In the Qing Dynasty, it was still recorded that a small box of tremella cost more than ten or twenty taels of silver to buy.

This can't help but make Wang Dong very excited. You must know that white fungus is definitely not a noble ingredient in future generations. When cooking porridge in ordinary families, no one will feel bad if you throw two pieces into it. If it is some canned white fungus and lotus seeds Putting less lotus seeds in the soup and putting too much white fungus is still a scolding behavior of cutting corners and replacing high-priced ingredients with cheap products.

As for tobacco and sugar beets, they were the crops that Wang Dong decided to plant after careful consideration.

First of all, let’s talk about tobacco. Before Wang Dong thought of bringing this thing back to the Tang Dynasty, his first reaction was a bit of a psychological burden, but when he was hesitating, the system directly gave a task to bring tobacco back as the main planting. The system was regarded as the lowest option. At this time, Wang Dong also understood that the profit of tobacco is too high, and growing tobacco may be an important means for him to return to Datang to break the game.

Moreover, as long as tobacco is discovered by people who came to America through the age of great voyages, it is basically destined to be popularized in the world. The impact that Wang Dong can have by bringing him to the Eurasian continent for thousands of years is actually only like that.

In fact, tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea are the first natural addictive agents discovered by human beings. The harm to human beings is definitely much lighter than those more effective addictive agents discovered artificially later, so that in the post-industrial era, people began to Before paying attention to the health status of human beings after advanced age, the damage of tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea to people's health has hardly been discovered.

Thinking of this, Wang Dong's psychological pressure was much less.

Moreover, growing tobacco to make sugar and using sugar residue to make wine is just in line with the commodity types of tobacco, wine, sugar and tea.

These four types of addictive products are basically the first enjoyment consumer products that can be produced by simple technology in all start-up light industries. Once they are introduced to the market, they can basically be sure that the sales will not be bad.

(End of this chapter)