Tang Ping and the others laughed for a while, and then someone came to announce that the king of the daughter country was visiting.
Tang Ping shrugged at the two of them: "You see, these troublesome things happen one after another."
Gou Shaoqun sneered at his words: "Brother Ping, you are so cheap and so good. Let alone me, my old man wouldn't even dare to think about your three thousand swords and guns sold for tens of billions just now."
Li Shan also smiled and said: "Could it be that the king of the daughter country is also here to give you money?"
Tang Ping shook his head: "That's different. Tianzhu doesn't belong to our Tang Dynasty. I...well, even if I cheated her so much just now, it's only natural. But the daughter country is a real vassal of our Tang Dynasty." , naturally you can’t deceive others like this.”
"AndAnd I'm still from your hometown!" Tang Ping gave Gou Shaoqun a slap: "Isn't your hometown from Yunnan? Now a big part of it belongs to them."
After saying that, people invited Yang Jinlam to come up.
"Ping Guogong! Thank you very much for your help to our daughter country." Yangjin Lamu thanked him sincerely: "We also received a loan from the Ministry of Household Affairs and are planning to go back soon. This time, we are here. Farewell to you."
Then he asked the person behind him to bring out a brocade box: "This is not a valuable gift, but a silk umbrella of all peoples made by the girls of our daughter country to express their respect for Duke Ping. gratitude."
Tang Ping took it solemnly and said, "Thank you, I will treasure it well."
"If you still have any difficulties when you go back this time, you can tell me and I will try my best to help you."
Yangjin Ram smiled sweetly: "There is indeed something I want to ask Duke Ping. I heard from Sinong Temple that the potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other food crops in the Tang Dynasty were all seeds brought by Duke Ping, which is comparable to that of Shennong. Reincarnation."
Tang Ping was a little embarrassed to be praised. After all, these things were bought by Hyundai, especially Gou Shaoqun and Li Shan were still around, so he quickly said: "I can indeed find a lot of seeds. What do you need?" ?"
Yang Jinlam said with some worry: "If it's just food, our people can eat potatoes and sweet potatoes even if they grow them, but you also know that our territory is very mountainous.
, there is really no other output. If we just grow food, I am afraid it will take a long time to repay Datang's loan. "
"Qing Sinong Temple said that Ping Guogong still has a lot of... what is that called... yes, it is the seeds of cash crops. I wonder if there are any suitable for planting there?"
"Aren't you in Yunnan? You are growing tobacco!" Gou Shaoqun said from the side.
"Tobacco? Grass?" Yang Jinlam wondered if she heard it wrong. She knew about cigarettes, and of course she knew about grass, but what was tobacco?
Smoking grass? Wouldn't that be on fire?
"The soil in your place is red soil, right?"
Hearing Gou Shaoqun's question, Yang Jinlam nodded: "It is true that the land in many places is red, which is very different from the yellow land near Chang'an. It’s different, how do you know Mr. Gou, have you been to our place?”
"I've been there, every New Year when I was a kid." Gou Shaoqun chuckled and said, "The red soil does not have high organic matter content and is not suitable for most crops. But although the vast red soil is not suitable for growing food, it is more suitable for growing tobacco."
After saying that, he looked at Tang Ping and Li Shan with a proud look on his face, meaning to see if he is awesome or not? How much do you know?
"So, what is tobacco?" Yang Jinlam still didn't know.
"Tobacco can be made into a thing called cigarettes." Tang Ping explained: "Well... it can be regarded as the same thing as alcohol. Many people use it to relax, and it has a certain degree of addiction."
Having said this, Tang Ping looked at Gou Shaoqun and said, "Is this thing suitable?"
"Hi!" Gou Shaoqun said nonchalantly: "Aren't you going to Europe soon? Then you can stock up and sell them there. Those guys sold opium to us back then. Even if we didn't reciprocate, we couldn't sell cigarettes there. Problem?"
"And when the output is not high in the early stage, the price is set higher. It is considered a luxury product and ordinary people cannot afford it, so it is not that harmful. Besides, in the future, when the United States is connected to the American continent, there will always be people who want to do this business, so it might as well be Do it yourself first.”
Gou Shaoqun smokes himself. Although he doesn't smoke much, he doesn't regard cigarettes as a scourge.
As he said this, Gou Shaoqun touched him from his arms.
A pack of cigarettes came out, and he smoked one from the inside and handed it to Yangjin Ram: "Look, this is a cigarette, and the stuff inside is the shredded tobacco made after processing the tobacco."
"This?" Yang Jinlam turned over and looked at the small white stick in his hand several times: "You said pumping? What do you mean?"
"Like this!" Gou Shaoqun lit one, took two puffs to demonstrate, and blew out two smoke rings.
It is said that he first learned to smoke just to blow out smoke rings.
This operation made Yangjin Lamu look at it for a moment, then he looked at the white stick in his hand and asked curiously: "Can I try it?"
"Then go slower the first time!" When Gou Shaoqun said this, Tang Ping felt as if the wheels of a car were running over his face.
Ask Yangjin Ram to put the filter paper side into his mouth: "Just suck it gently."
Then he lit the lighter and put it under the other side.
"Huh... cough cough cough cough!" Yangjin Ram took a breath and felt as if there were no doors or windows when cooking, and he almost choked to death.
"It's okay, it's okay, this is the first time!" Gou Shaoqun saw a few guards from the Daughter's Kingdom coming forward and said quickly, then handed him a cup of tea: "I told you to slow down the first time!"
Yang Jinlam rinsed his mouth with tea and asked suspiciously: "Would anyone spend money to buy something so... so difficult to smoke? And treat it as a luxury product?"
Tang Ping said with a smile: "Young Master Gou, you're not lying, aren't you? This thing is the same as wine. You see, there are many spirits. Aren't there many people who find it unpleasant to drink? But aren't they very expensive? This cigarette It's also the same truth, people who like it will like it very much, and people who hate it will also hate it."
"But if you are willing, I can buy the tobacco you grow. Tobacco is indeed a cash crop."
"Okay!" Yang Jinram just wanted to find a way to make money for her daughter's country anyway. As for whether the cigarettes were good to smoke or whether anyone would buy them, it had nothing to do with her.
"But, is this thing called tobacco difficult to grow?" Although she doesn't farm herself, Yangjinlam still knows that the methods and difficulty of growing different crops are different.
