" Poisonous fruit of the Western Regions???"
Jiang Fan was stunned when he heard Gu Lun's words.
Gu Lun didn't care about Jiang Fan's surprise and continued to introduce,""Yes, it's not too much to call the shopkeeper a poisonous fruit of the Western Regions. We're doing business, so we're often in danger. Sometimes, it's up to him to save our lives. The thing planted here is a very small fruit. Although we don't know why it grows in the soil, it looks like a fruit on a tree, so we call it a fruit.”
After saying that.
He placed the earthen jar on the table and began to dig.
Not long after, a fruit stained with soil appeared in front of him.
When he saw this fruit.
Moneymaker and Li Chengqian looked on curiously like curious babies.
But Jiang Fan was different.
The moment he saw the fruit.
He was stunned.
After being stunned, he gulped and could not help but complain.
" F * ck???"
"Isn't this a f * cking potato?”
After saying that.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
"F * ck, potatoes?" Gu Lun and Shiba looked at Jiang Fan strangely.
" Potato?" Li Chengqian and Moneymaker weren't the slightest bit curious about Jiang Fan's words. They knew that he was expressing surprise, but they still didn't understand the latter's potatoes.
Facing everyone's strange gazes.
Jiang Fan immediately concealed the excitement in his heart.
He soon began to ponder.
"How did the potato become a poisonous fruit of the Western Regions?”
"What is going on?”
With curiosity, he carefully looked at the small potato in the other party's hand. When he saw that most of the potatoes were still green, he finally understood.
Potato was a soil plant.
The growth period was 30 to 60 days.
Precocious ones could usually be uprooted in about 30 days and then cooked.
The late-ripening ones took sixty days.
During this cycle, the potatoes would have already formed a small state.
At this time, it was still immature.
If you were to pull it out and eat it at this time, the person would feel dizzy and nauseous at the very least. In serious cases, there would be a strong reaction and even death from poisoning.
This knowledge was basically known to all primary school students in the future.
Obviously, the reason why the other party called it a poisonous fruit was because when the Western Regioners discovered it, they had tried it before the potatoes were ripe.
Once he tried, he would be prone to diseases.
If a few people died, then everyone would not eat this thing. They would also think that this was a poisonous fruit and not food.
Thinking of this, Jiang Fan understood everything.
"Shopkeeper Xi, Shopkeeper Gu, I would like to ask if you have this poisonous fruit seed?"”
Gu Lun and Shiba looked at each other and shook their heads." Usually, when we're on the road, we'll plant them inside. Because no one has planted them or cultivated them, there aren't many seeds. Therefore, they don't have many of them. They've already planted everything they brought with them. They're waiting to cook them for others to eat if there's any danger.”
Jiang Fan couldn't help but feel a little regretful when he heard that the other party didn't have any seeds.
However, he was not disappointed. Instead, he continued to ask,"Can I buy this seed?”
"Buy?" The two of them seemed to have heard something unbelievable and were a little stunned. Soon, they added,"Uh... Shopkeeper Jiang, perhaps you haven't been to the Western Regions. In our place, this thing isn't worth much. Usually, we just ask a few farmers to help us collect some. If Shopkeeper Jiang needs it, I'll bring you some next time I come here.”
Jiang Fan was both excited and helpless when he heard that it was free.
If these people knew the true value of this thing, they probably wouldn't sell it even if they were given money, let alone free.
Why?
This was because potatoes were simply divine artifacts in ancient times!!
In the Great Tang, one mu of land produced only seven or eight hundred jin of grain, and it was a bountiful harvest.
How much could potatoes be mass-produced?
One mu of land could produce eight thousand catties!!
What kind of concept was eight thousand jin?
It could perfectly solve famine and famine in an instant.
Especially during times of war, the food market was easily in short supply.
With potatoes, the army could eat them wherever they went.
They came to a place and buried the seeds. A month later, all the food came.
Do you still need to transport it? Do you still need to worry about insufficient rations?
The most important thing was that the growing environment of potatoes was simply created to solve the famine.
It didn't need any fertile land, nor did it need any good farmland. Instead, the more barren it was, the better.
He didn't even need to spend much time watering it.
For this reason, potatoes were very important.
Although the people of the Western Regions had submitted to the Great Tang, it was only because they could not defeat it.
In this situation, they were constantly trying to dominate the Great Tang.
Thus, with this divine artifact, how could they possibly hand it over to the Great Tang?
And now, it was precisely because they didn't know the true use of this thing that Jiang Fan had picked up a huge loophole!!
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