In fact, would it work?
Of course!
Although it still sounded ridiculous, the problem was that such a ridiculous thing had really been done in history!
During the Three Kingdoms period, Wan Zhen, who was in the Wu Kingdom, was unable to travel around the Southern Kingdom due to his background, so he could only collect books from all over the world.
Then, they would rely on the precious treasures brought by the foreign merchants from the Southern Kingdom to the Wu Kingdom.
He recorded and described them one by one, and wrote the first geography book dedicated to studying overseas," Records of Foreign Bodies in the South Region "!
What was amazing about this book was that it not only wrote about the Indo-China Peninsula and Kushan, but it also recorded parts of Africa and Rome.
One had to know that the book was written between 220-280 AD!
It had been more than a thousand years since the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty!
More importantly, this thing actually had extremely high accuracy!
Even in the Song Dynasty, Taiping Yu cited the records in it.
Even in the later generations, according to the collected parts of the " Records of Foreign Bodies in the South Region " that had not yet been scattered, they could compare them.
Compared to the modern data collected in the 2000s, the accuracy and authenticity of this book written by Wan Zhen during the Three Kingdoms period was extremely high!!!
What was a top-notch big shot?
This was called a top-notch big shot!
Although the top big shots had never been to any of the places recorded in the " Records of Foreign Bodies in the South Region ".
However, based on the oral accounts of others and his own investigation and evidence collection, he wrote an overseas geographical map that the descendants who had been to these places for thousands of years could not summarize and compile!
Compared to this top-notch big shot, Wei Zixian felt that he might have been too humble.
And with this real big shot's pearl jade in front of him, then the knowledge gained by this fake big shot was very reasonable.
Secondly, Wei Zixian was also very interested in the things on the overseas merchants.
Especially at the end of last year, when he was lucky enough to get a few potatoes from an overseas merchant, his interest in overseas merchants became even greater.
In the original historical records, the earliest record of potatoes came from Xu Guangqi's "Book of Agricultural Administration".
In the 28th volume of the Book of Agricultural Administration, there was the following passage:
"Tuyu, one is potato, the other is yellow dodder; The leaves are like beans, the roots are round like eggs, and the white skin inside is yellow. It can be cooked or steamed. He also cooked taro juice, washed greasy clothes, white as jade.”
It could be seen that potatoes had been introduced before 1633.
To be more precise, potatoes had already been introduced into China before 1628, and they were widely known and widely planted because 1628 was the approximate time when the Book of Agricultural Administration was published.
However, if one were to further trace the time when potatoes were introduced, then potatoes should be at least 1600 years ago!
After all, it was impossible for Xu Guangqi to teleport to the scene of the potato's introduction as soon as it was introduced into the country.
After seeing the appearance of the potato with his own eyes, he would write it into the 'Book of Agricultural Policy', right?!!
From the introduction of potatoes, to the planting of potatoes by the Chinese at that time, to the slow spread of sowing after planting, and finally to Xu Guangqi's discovery.
Given the efficiency of information transmission in ancient times, it would not be strange if it took at least a few decades or at most a hundred years.
Therefore, if one were to infer from common sense, potatoes should have been introduced to China as early as around 1550.
From 1550 to the 12th year of Hongwu (1379), the time difference between the two was only 200 years.
In these two hundred years, was it impossible for potatoes to be imported into the country?!!
As he flipped through the pages, he found that the book," Records of Foreign Bodies in the South Region ", written by Wan Zhen, had already covered the Indo-China Peninsula, Kushan, Africa, Rome, and other regions as early as 220-280 AD!!!
That was 1,000 years ago from the 12th year of Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (1379), where Wei Zixian was now!!!
A thousand years ago, foreign merchants from other continents had already come to trade with China.
In less than 200 years, a foreign merchant with potatoes appeared in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.
In Wei Zixian's opinion, this was a completely reasonable and reasonable thing to do.
As for why there was no record of potatoes in the 12th year of Hongwu of Ming Dynasty (1379), it was not until 1628 that there was a record of potatoes in the Book of Agricultural Administration.
Wei Zixian was more inclined to believe that potatoes had been introduced in the past 200 years, but because no one knew that potatoes were a food crop like him, no one was lucky enough to plant them.
Therefore, even though it might have appeared in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it had disappeared silently in the long river of history.
In the end, it was not until 1628 that he made use of Xu Guangqi's " The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration " to officially leave his name in history.
Of course, these speculations were all based on Wei Zixian's deduction from the potatoes he had bought from the foreign merchants.
It was also because he had obtained potatoes 200 years in advance that Wei Zixian was full of anticipation for the sweet potatoes and corn, which were also the three major crops in South America.
After all, if they could get potatoes, it also meant that they had the opportunity to get sweet potatoes, corn, and other related crops.
For the merchants of this era, food supply was a very important issue.
In order to ensure a long-term and stable source of food during normal sea voyages or when they encountered a shipwreck on a deserted island.
Many foreign merchants would prepare some seeds that were easy to grow on the ship just in case.
For example, the overseas merchant that Wei Zixian encountered at the end of last year who had been shipwrecked and drifted to the Ming Dynasty was like this.
When Wei Zixian met him, he was squatting at the dock, munching on potatoes to satisfy his hunger while trying his best to promote his goods to the merchants coming and going.
In response, Wei Zixian did not care if the things he sold were valuable or not. He directly bought all of his goods in a very generous manner.
Later on, he even took the initiative to invest in cooperation with him and buy a big ship to send him back.
He hoped that he could bring more crop seeds to Da Ming next time!
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