Yuelai Inn.
Li Hongbi followed Hu Shang Yikun and rushed over.
This old boy was quite alert and didn't take the treasure with him.
Moreover, the inn he rented was extremely simple and ordinary, and would never attract anyone's attention.
After the group entered the inn, they went straight to Yikun's room. Before entering the door, Yikun stopped Li Hongbi, but squatted down and pulled out a note from the crack in the door.
After confirming that the note was still there, Yikun breathed a sigh of relief. This proved that no one had entered his room while he was away.
Li Hongbi was astonished when he saw it, as if he had gotten to know Yi Kun again.
This guy is really thoughtful!
But then I thought about it, after all, he is a businessman who travels around all year round, and he is engaged in cross-border business. If he didn't have any foresight, he would have been eaten alive long ago.
Yikun pushed open the door, then retreated behind Li Hongbi, positioning himself in a straight position.
Li Hongbi nodded, walked directly into the room and sat down. Yikun wisely took out a clay pot from under the bed, filled with soil, and some sprouts were still vaguely visible. Then he took out several sweet potatoes from the cabinet. .
Seeing the sweet potato with his own eyes, Li Hongbi's heart finally fell back into his stomach, and he hurriedly reached out to take it carefully.
This is a sweet potato!
The divine weapon of Sheji that is enough to save millions of lives!
It was even enough to change the historical direction of the entire Ming Dynasty!
Li Hongbi looked at the sweet potatoes in front of him and the grain seeds in the clay pots with a very excited expression.
"Master, do you really know this new grain?"
Li Hongbi nodded, looking a little dazed.
"This thing is called sweet potato, also called sweet potato or sweet potato. It's all about this thing. I'm afraid I'm the only one who knows it in the entire Ming Dynasty!"
"What you said before is correct. The sweet potato is as big as a fist, has a vermilion skin, a crisp and juicy heart, is edible both raw and cooked, has a high yield, is widely grown and can withstand barrenness. It is a real food artifact!"
Li Hongbi spoke with confidence, while Hu Shang Yikun was frightened.
It was really difficult for him to understand, how did he learn about the new master in front of him?
In order to make a fortune, Yikun showed this thing to many wealthy businessmen after arriving in the Ming Dynasty, but they didn't recognize it and sneered at his statement, let alone bought it.
After hitting a wall one after another, Yikun finally became disheartened and was forced to do some deception and abduction to make a living.
In other words, the entire Ming Dynasty didn’t recognize this sweet potato, so why did the new owner in front of him know it?
Li Hongbi smiled and said: "The most important thing about this product is its yield. Do you know how high its yield is?"
Yikun shook his head subconsciously. He had never planted it himself, so where did he know how to do it?
Moreover, when his businessman friend gave him the things, he was vague and didn't say much.
"Master, how high can the output of this thing be?"
"It's very, very high!" Li Hongbi laughed and said, "It's as high as ten stories high!"
"Do you know? This is a life-saving talisman for ordinary people during times of famine!"
I would like to ask the people of future generations, which one has not eaten hot roasted sweet potatoes in winter?
On a cold winter night, eating a bite of roasted sweet potato, the warm feeling and sweet taste seem to be able to drive away all the cold.
But Hu Shang Yikun grasped the key point!
"Disaster?"
"What does the master mean...that there will be a famine in the Ming Dynasty?"
Li Hongbi was stunned when he heard this, then smiled and nodded.
"Watson, you've discovered your blind spot."
"From now on, you call me Young Master. I don't like the title Master."
"You are not my slave, Li Hongbi, but my subordinate."
Hearing this, Yikun's eyes lit up, and a warm current flashed through his heart.
After all, in his country, it is a world of powerful people, and it is normal for them to become slaves and call themselves masters.
His family property is occupied by the powerful, his wife and children are also occupied by the powerful, and even he himself will become a slave of the powerful and continue to make money for the powerful... This is the fate of the lower class people in Central Asia!
"Sir, who is... Watson?"
"Uh...that's not important!"
Li Hongbi smiled and said: "Famine will indeed break out in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not just a few phenomena, but more and more!"
The Ming Dynasty was an unfortunate dynasty, because China was in the Little Ice Age from the Yuan Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty.
The so-called "Little Ice Age", to put it bluntly, means that the earth's temperature has dropped significantly, and natural disasters have continued in successive years, which has caused a significant reduction in global food production, which has triggered violent social unrest and a sharp decline in population.
During the period from Hongwu to Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, there were more than a thousand natural disasters, including floods, droughts, hail, locusts, heavy snows, and plagues... It made people desperate and numb!
During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the fourth Little Ice Age officially entered. At that time, the temperature dropped sharply, and the entire winter in China was extremely cold. It lasted for decades, causing drought in the north, a massive reduction in grain production, and dozens of Years of violent social turmoil and war, and long-term famine were the fundamental reasons for the unlimited expansion of the war, and also successfully ruined the Ming Dynasty!
And now the Ming Dynasty has begun to show signs of success.
The most serious consequence of a drastic reduction in food production is famine!
In the first year of Yongle, there was famine in Beiji, Shandong, Henan, Fengyang, Huai'an, Xuzhou and Shanghai.
In the second year of Yongle, there was a famine in Su, Song, Jia and Hu prefectures.
In the fourth year of Yongle, there were fourteen famines in prefectures and counties in Nanji, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, and Huguang.
In the fifth year of Yongle, Shuntian, Baoding and Hejian suffered from hunger.
In the tenth year of Yongle, there was a famine in Shandong. In twelve years, there were twenty-four famines in the provinces, prefectures and counties.
In the thirteenth year of Yongle's reign, Shuntian, Qingzhou, and Kaifeng suffered from famine.
In the fourteenth year of Yongle's reign, there was famine in Pingyang and Datong.
In the eighteenth year of Yongle's reign, there was a severe famine in Qing and Lai Prefectures.
…
There is only a fleeting sentence left in the history books.
But behind these few words, there are hidden human tragedies such as thousands of people freezing to death and starving to death!
The people had no food to eat, so they could only dig wild vegetables and chew the bark of the trees. But after digging the wild vegetables and chewing all the bark, what should we do?
Yi Zi eats each other and dissects the bones to cook them!
When a person does not have enough to eat, when a person is so hungry that he goes crazy, he is no different from a wild beast.
When a famine occurs, a large number of refugees will be created. If the government is unable to provide relief, the number of refugees will increase. As the refugees gradually become "animal-like", in order to survive, they have no choice but to rise up and gather people to cause chaos, and then the flames of war will spread all over the world. , the huge Ming Dynasty will collapse suddenly!
Li Hongbi was from a later generation, and he knew this very well, but he didn't think anything of it.
After all, manpower cannot defeat heaven, and with his own power, he is far from able to change the fate of the entire Ming Dynasty!
He also thought that in his lifetime, he could go to sea with Zheng He's fleet, spend his whole life to go to the American continent, and bring back all the precious grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, and corn, so as to provide them to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Leave some food artifacts that are enough to keep them fed and clothed.
But Li Hongbi never expected that Hu Shang Yikun would suddenly appear and offer sweet potatoes to him!
And this good Akun also brought news about the new continent of South America!
Sweet potatoes are important, and South America is equally important!
Putting aside new species such as potatoes, corn, and peppers, the American continent itself is an out-and-out fertile land.
It was a continent blessed by God. It was rich in products, fertile land, and had a unique and suitable climate. In terms of geography, products, and climate alone, we have to admit that the American continent is even much better than the Ming Dynasty Central Plains.
Plus potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peppers and other crops...
Therefore, the people of Ming Dynasty need it!
"Yikun, your first mission..."
Li Hongbi called Yi Kun and solemnly handed him the first task.
After hearing this, Yi Kun's face was full of panic, but he did not dare to refuse.
"Don't worry, I will send someone to assist you and protect your safety!"
"You must pay attention to this trip. If you want to see people in life, you will see corpses in death!"
