Royal Gold Magistrate

After Wu Sheng left, Ao Chen's face gradually became serious: "Master, during your absence, the King of Wu sent people to attack Taoyuan County to take gunpowder by force."

"The people sent by the capital may have already discovered the clues, but we sent people to test their tone. They have lived comfortably in the past two years. And they haven't produced results for such a long time, so they shouldn't go back and talk around."

Fangzheng said, "I already know something about this matter, Xiaotao probably told me a little bit."

"We can't hide the gunpowder anymore, and there's no need to hide it anymore. Let them leak some real things in the past few days and get some results. I will report this matter to His Majesty when the time comes."

Ao Chen nodded: "Besides, master, do you still remember Feng Ya who was sent to King Wu's mansion back then? He came back and brought back a lot of strange plants from King Wu's house, which have been planted in the greenhouse now."

"The growth is gratifying, I have sent someone to pick it up in advance, and it will be delivered in a while."

Could King Wu's crop be potatoes?

Fangzheng raised his eyebrows, and instead of continuing to ask, he arranged: "You continue to talk."

"Penicillin has been largely developed, but... the research institute used captives for research, sir, look..."

Using captives for experiments, he has issued repeated orders to prohibit the use of humans for experiments unless they are volunteers and are safe and controllable. These lunatics really dare to do anything!

Fangzheng was sullen: "Hang all those involved on the city wall for public display for three days, and put them down when they are eating, drinking, and messing around. Don't blame me for being cruel if this kind of thing happens again in the future."

"But His Majesty has already rewarded..."

"I don't care about your Majesty. Things that exceed the bottom line must be punished! Didn't Xiaotao stop their funding? Let's talk about it in half a year." Fang Zhengyi said lightly: "Science must also be moral and human. After a long time, these lunatics Do you still want to cooperate with human traffickers?"

"There is nothing to discuss about this matter. We have to talk about human nature. Do you understand human nature?! In the future, if someone dares to do it, he will directly turn over the government and drive him out of Taoyuan County! How did those prisoners arrange it?"

"I threw it to the back mountain to dig coal."

"Good."

Ao Chen continued to talk, all kinds of big and small things in the county are trivial, but fortunately they are not of high importance.

Fangzheng rubbed his eyebrows and kept thinking, and when Ao Chen finished reporting, he said, "Call Feng Ya here."

Ao Chen responded, turned his head and went out to make arrangements.

Not long after, Feng Ya walked in vigorously, and when she saw Fangzheng, she said excitedly, "Master, long time no see!"

Fangzheng smiled and waved his hands: "You hid it deep enough, I sent people to look for you several times but didn't find it. This time I will mark you as a big credit, and I will let you have enough vacation."

Feng Ya smiled and said: "Thank you, master, but I can't be idle, so I don't need it. Anyway, it's quite relaxing to watch the casino every day."

"Okay, since you're willing to be busy, I have a big job for you!" Fang Zheng said.

Seeing Fang Zhengyi's serious expression, Feng Ya couldn't help becoming serious: "Sir, please tell me."

"Well, I don't want to talk nonsense. I went to Haiyuan City to steal a salt merchant."

"The salt merchants are very rich. At that time, the officials of the Yamen moved no less than one million taels of gold and silver from the Lu family's silver treasury. At that time, they were in a hurry to buy them because they were short of manpower."

"If you have experience, bring a group of skilled hands to do some "business" with them and get the dirty money back. No matter how many cents you get back, you will get [-]%! The rest of the money goes to the county and that is legal income."

As Fangzheng said, he took out an envelope from his sleeve and threw it over: "This is the list, and there are addresses on it, so check carefully."

Feng Ya opened the envelope and opened it twice, then raised his head and asked, "Master, did you give them the money?"

"That's right." Fangzheng rubbed his chin and recalled the scene at that time: "It's true that I gave it to them. Of course, how to spend it is their business. If they trade with you and lose money, then don't blame me."

"Money must be placed in the right hands to maximize its value. This is called acting on behalf of the sky."

Feng Ya was happy, and asked tentatively: "If I can take back 100 million taels, can I share 10 taels?"

"More than that, I have to reward you with a house!" Fang Zheng waved his hand!

Feng Ya was overjoyed: "Okay! Master, I can choose someone myself."

"You can choose whatever you want, if there is nothing else, you can go back and prepare now."

Feng Ya nodded excitedly, then hurriedly turned and left!

As soon as he stepped out of the door, the guard who was going to pick up the crops passed him and ran in, and put a small basket in front of Fangzheng's table: "Master, this is a new crop grown in the greenhouse, please take a look!"

As soon as Fangzheng poked his head into the basket, he stood up abruptly.

"Potato!?"

Ao Chen also poked his head over, pointed at the potato and said, "Master, is this what you're talking about? I heard from Feng Ya that King Wu called this thing potato. Have you seen it before?"

"I've seen... More than just met." Fangzheng murmured.

A little absent-minded picked up the potatoes in the basket.

He vaguely remembered that potatoes were a native crop in South America. Where did King Wu's fleet go?

This thing is different from sweet potatoes. Potatoes are a real staple food!The problem is not the nutritional elements, but the experience and taste.During times of famine, people can still rely on sweet potatoes to survive, but it is a kind of torture to live a normal life and let people eat sweet potatoes every day.And he has too much crude fiber, and his nutrient absorption is worse than that of potatoes.

In contrast, potatoes can completely replace traditional crops such as rice and wheat.

And there are many ways to do it, both as a dish and as a staple food.

Although the yield of potatoes per unit area is lower than that of sweet potatoes, in some places it can be planted for two seasons, so it may surpass sweet potatoes.

When he came back to his senses, Fang Zhengyi was a little emotional, swallowed and asked, "Why are these potatoes so small?"

"It hasn't grown well. Master, Feng Ya only brought back a few seeds, so why would it take a year or two to grow a large batch? Now there aren't many fields and I've already sent someone to guard the shed."

"Okay... well done!" Fang Zheng could not hide a smile on his face.

Here are the chips!An extremely important bargaining chip. To be honest, returning to Beijing this time does not have much hope of persuading His Majesty and his ministers to open the sea to build ships.

It can only be said that there are [-]% of them. After all, the power of ideas is really stubborn, especially if there are many old people in the court, it will be even more difficult!

Although opening the sea has huge benefits, no one will believe you if you talk empty-handed.

Although the Lu family copied a lot of money that could be used here, how many people in the court are staring at this batch of money?

The treasury of ancient and modern China and foreign countries has never been able to hold money!

King Wu fled, Lu family's money, gunpowder, penicillin, potatoes...Fang Zhengyi now has a certain degree of certainty in his mind.

After watching the potatoes, he lowered his head again, and Fangzheng couldn't help laughing again when he saw a few other things.

corn?It's also very good, but I'm afraid this little corn is useless right now. It grows short, small and ugly, which is very different from later generations, and the yield is probably not much higher.

And tomatoes!

The taste of tomatoes in later generations is relatively bland. I wonder how the taste of this ancient variety is?It should be delicious!

Thinking of this, Fangzheng picked up a tomato, simply wiped it and stuffed it into his mouth.

Ao Chen's face turned pale instantly, and he exclaimed in shock: "Master, you can't eat it! It's poisonous, spit it out!"

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