The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 217 Ivy Cassava
The first few branches of their own merchant clan contacted by Yuning, like Yuning, wanted to swallow the [Qingshi collar] business and make a fortune silently, but this kind of rare […] Jasper Jade Wares] were suddenly publicly sold in batches, which drove the Nanwan merchants crazy when they got the news, rushing in like flies smelling blood.

Even if you want to stop it, you can't stop it!In particular, the leader of [Qingshi Ling] is a guy who only recognizes food but not people, which caused several branches of the merchant clan to lose their monopoly advantage. However, the general distributor of Gu Ning was not affected, and instead made a fortune. They made a huge difference in price, and suppressed those branches that were originally arrogant.

For a while, thousands of sails gathered on the many waterways connecting [Qingshi Ling], all floating on the water were [round boats] large ships from the ocean, and the river surface was almost invisible as far as the eye could see, almost causing traffic jams on the waterways.

This kind of movement means that the large [round boat] ships that can transport [-] hu of grain come in groups. Of course, it is impossible to just load a few celadon vessels and go back with an empty warehouse. The manufactured products will go back again, which will greatly stimulate the productivity of all units under the name of [Tiangong Group].

The only thing that makes Guyi feel uncomfortable is that [Qingshi Ling]'s main product is table salt, but they don't want it. Thinking about it, it's right, people who come from the sea will not be short of salt if they lack anything.

It was in this situation that the grain pressure of [Qingshi Ling] was relieved, all kinds of strange [Nanyue 罭] grains were transported into the granary of [Qingshi Ling], all of them were from the Nanwan merchants in order to get from [Qingshi Ling] A "gift" brought by buying celadon.

Although it sounds like you have to give away a lot of food for nothing to buy celadon with money, it seems that it is a loss, but in fact, [Nanyue Yu], the ghost place called "Southern Wilderness" by the Zhongyou Taihua people, is really a unique product. Grain is big, all kinds of high-yield grain should not be too cheap.

I heard that the natives there only need to sow a handful of seeds in their lifetime, and their descendants within five generations can lie in the grass nest, eat and sleep, and sleep and eat for a lifetime, so that the natives are very lazy, like The grain that grows like weeds all over the mountains and fields, they are not willing to harvest when the harvest season comes, anyway, they wait for the seeds of the grain to fall by themselves, and it will grow again.

However, the fleet of Nanwan merchants did not need to pay for the purchase of grain from the natives of the Southern Wilderness. They only needed to give the local native leader a piece of iron, and they were allowed to harvest grain from a mountain to hold The full cabin shall prevail, which means that you can take as much as you can, as long as you can transport it.

Of course, the premise is to do it yourself, the natives are too lazy to work, and they won't do it for money, and the gold cakes can't be spent in their damn place.

In this way, those Nanwan merchants can obtain a large amount of food without paying any cost at all, and it is nothing more than consuming some transportation capacity.

And these grains have been transported from a long distance, it is of course best to sell them for money, if they cannot be sold, they should be regarded as ballast stones, and it is also good to exchange for [Jade Stone Jade Artifacts]. Naturally, they don't care about the free grain.

[Nanyue Yu]'s grain production environment made Guyi envious and jealous!At the same time, it's also strange, such a good place, why didn't anyone want to occupy it as a colony in the past?

The Nanwan merchants brought food and exchanged the celadon and the Tiangong products they liked. In Guyi's view, the price was already frighteningly high, but for them there was no problem at all, and they would not sell it for more than five times when they took it back. They are ashamed to call themselves Nanwan merchants.

This not only alleviated the food pressure of [Qingshi Ling], but also met the shopping needs of Wan merchants. As for how much they take these goods back and sell them, Gu Yi doesn’t care. Okay, let's eat according to our ability.

Under such circumstances, the food crisis in [Qingshi Ling] has been alleviated for the time being. As long as we maintain a good trading relationship with Wan merchants, I believe that we will not worry about food in a short time.

However, once food gets stuck in someone else's hands, it's as dangerous as if your own sparrow is tied and played with by someone. No one knows when someone will pull your life out with force.

Therefore, when the food problem was solved and a large number of people began to be recruited, Guyi began to think about how to develop agriculture while developing industry. Among the "external technicians" of [Tiangongmen], there were still a group of [ Wogong] and [Beastworker] famous craftsmen, when they were so free, they began to drink tea together every day, and catch lice and play with each other in the sun.

It can't be blamed that they don't work with the monthly salary of [-] yuan from [Tiangong Group]. Those famous craftsmen in the agricultural field came to [Qingshi Ling] in the cold winter, and they were useless. In the old nest, I studied the content of animal husbandry and farming in the "Heavenly Creation: Nai Li Juan" and "Qi Min Yao Shu" given to them by Gu Yi, and watched the masters of the same clan and the same school in "Twelve Pavilions of Heavenly Secrets" busy The heat was in full swing, and they were almost going crazy.

After finally waiting for the season of winter to spring, Gu Yi, the "Chief Engineer" of [Tiangongmen], was busy with work, which directly delayed the best season of spring plowing. They were so angry that they were about to vomit blood, shouting one by one They want to "run away from home", that is, quit [Tiangongmen] and go back to their original sect, it is better than staying in [Qingshiling] and not being valued by others.

Gu Yi, who was so busy, could take care of everything for a while. To be honest, if it wasn't for Gu Ning looking for him desperately, he couldn't remember it. He finally used the "Technical Confidentiality Agreement" signed by the famous craftsmen to threaten him. These famous agricultural craftsmen who have read "Heavenly Creation of Things" and "Qi Min Yao Shu" stayed behind, and then hurriedly found some work for these restless master craftsmen.

Due to missing the spring plowing, the first season of the four-season rice that Guyi originally planned to plant was obviously too late, and it was too late to reclaim the paddy fields, so he could only find a batch of crops that could be planted and plant them first because of the season.

Guyi previously asked the Wan Merchant fleet to help him collect all kinds of plants and animals from various places in Jiuyu while transporting grain, regardless of whether they are edible or not, as long as they have never seen them, they will bring some back to him. If you want to try your luck, see if you can find high-yielding crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

In order to cultivate these plants, Gu Yi also specially opened up a vast area of ​​[Wan Zhi Garden] and [Wan Beast Garden], and then threw away those famous [He Gong] and [Beast Work] craftsmen who were idle to catch lice. Go in and let them study the characteristics of animals and plants, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of these animals and plants, and classify them, which can be regarded as training the first batch of zoologists for [Tiangongmen].

Coincidentally, among the various [Nanyue 罭] plants brought by Wanshang, Guyi really found a crop that is more suitable for [Qingshiling]'s current situation than Four Seasons Rice. After inquiring clearly about the growth environment and characteristics of this thing, I immediately decided to plant this kind of thing called "green vine cassava" in an all-round way.

According to Wanshang who brought this thing, "Qingteng Cassava", a perennial cucurbit plant that looks like a watermelon vine, has extremely developed rhizomes, and one plant can cover an area of ​​ten feet.

Moreover, this "green vine cassava" grows extremely fast, as long as there is water and a little soil, it can spread wildly. The growth time is very short, but the survival time can last for decades!
I heard that the natives of the Southern Wilderness don't eat this stuff, and even pull out its thick, tens-of-foot-long rhizomes, pile them up and dry them in the sun to use as firewood.

The sailors on the merchant ship broke apart the rhizomes that looked like dry tree roots and tasted them, only to find that although the thing had no taste, it was edible, but the taste was slightly astringent.

At that time, Guyi asked Na Wanshang very curiously: Since these things can be eaten and grow fast, why don't the natives of the Southern Wasteland eat them?

Na Wanshang looked at Gu Yi like a fool: the natives of the Southern Wasteland don’t even bother to harvest the big ears of grain that grow all year round on the top of the mountain, who would bother to dig out these things that are buried in the soil and taste bad? ?
Guyi was sweating immediately, and asked again: Then why didn't the places where there was a shortage of food in the inner burrows not transplant this kind of plant back for planting?

It was only then that Wanshang told the truth. It turned out that although this kind of ivy cassava grows fast, it consumes a lot of soil power in the places where it grows, and other plants cannot grow. Once it grows, it is difficult to die completely.

To say that it can live for decades does not mean that it will die after decades, but because the soil power around the place where it grows is exhausted, and after it can no longer absorb any nutrients and water, it will "starve". dead!

And even if the ivy cassava dies, no other plants will grow in the place where it grew in a short period of time, and it will gradually become barren and deserted, eventually forming a dead desert.

The reason why those natives of the Southern Wasteland, when they discovered this kind of ivy cassava, would pull it out and dry it in the sun as firewood. It was not because they were too lazy to chop firewood, but to prevent their hometown from turning into a barren desert.

Guyi broke into a cold sweat when he heard it. Isn't such a domineering thing just a dangerous and aggressive plant?However, I like it!

Although no high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes have been found, this kind of ivy cassava, which should be a close relative of cassava, not only has strong vitality, fast growth speed, and high yield, but is also resistant to cold, heat, drought, and waterlogging. Strong aggressiveness and no pests and diseases, it can be said that it is the most suitable crop for [Qingshi Ling]'s current development.

As for the planting method of this thing, it is even simpler. Just cut its rhizome with fibrous roots into small pieces, and bury it in the soil according to the density of one tree in a radius of thirty renmin. Whatever it is, within a month at most, it can cover a radius of ten ren, that is, the surface and underground of nearly one mu of land.

(End of this chapter)