"Castor?"
Governor Feng stood up involuntarily, walked to Hua Wan, and took the beautiful-looking seeds from her hand.
Then hold it up to your eyes and observe carefully.
Oval, hard seed coat, shiny surface, mixed with black, white, brown and other markings.
"It's really castor!"
Governor Feng said with great nostalgia.
This time it was Huawan's turn to be shocked:
"What hemp? Do you know this is hemp?"
Feng Yong tossed the castor seeds in his hand and glanced sideways at Young Master Hua who wanted to show off in front of him:
"This prince knows a lot."
"What's the air?" Hua Wan muttered unconvincedly, "We call it Cao Ma, not the Ma you are talking about."
Guan Ji also came over, grabbed a few castor beans from the box, and asked curiously:
"Is this a hemp seed? It looks like a bird's egg. Why have I never seen it before?"
When Hua Wan saw it, she immediately became excited:
"Madam, this grass and hemp is from the Panyue Kingdom. I heard it came from the body poison. I've asked about it, but we big men don't have it..."
She chattered a lot, but Feng Yong was completely confused.
"Where is this Yue country?"
"Well, Panyue Kingdom is to the southwest of Ailao Mountain..."
"Ailao Mountain? You also call it Ailao Mountain?" Feng Yong was really surprised, "Is it called Ailao Mountain now? I thought..."
Halfway through, he paused again.
Guan Ji, on the other hand, looked at Feng Yong strangely:
"During the Yongping period of the Later Han Dynasty, Liu Maung, the king of Ailao, sent his son to lead his tribe. His country was seven thousand miles southwest of Luoyang."
Having said this, Guan Ji paused for a moment, seeming to be recalling something.
"I remember that the country is not small. It seems that when King Ailao was attached, there were more than 70 Yi kings in the country, with more than 50,000 households and more than 550,000 Dingkou."
"Emperor Xiaoming first established Ailao and Bonan counties based on their land, and then divided it into six counties in Yizhou to form Yongchang County. The place where Ailao Kingdom is located has a large mountain, which is called Ailao Mountain."
So cool!
The big guy is really awesome!
Governor Feng sighed sincerely in his heart.
If I remember correctly, the current Yongchang County actually included part of later Myanmar.
"How do you know so clearly, Mr. Xi?"
Guan Ji glanced at Huawan and said vaguely:
"Didn't you go to Nanzhong back then? Naturally, I wanted to find out more about it."
Husband and wife are connected.
Feng Yong also took a look at Huawan and understood what Guan Ji meant.
When the Prime Minister conquered Nanzhong, his brother-in-law was the pioneer, and then he also went south. Guan Ji probably went to learn the history of Nanzhong because she was worried about her brother-in-law and herself.
He is worthy of being General Guan who leads the army to victory.
Before confronting the enemy, understand the enemy as much as possible and do not fight an unprepared battle.
It's not like him, who just rushes over with a few jars of wine in his arms...
It's just that the topic of Pingnanzhong is always difficult to bring up too obviously in front of Huawan, so Guan Ji was vague.
Feng Yong worked hard to match the geography at this time with the world map he knew:
So the Panyue Kingdom should be Bangladesh or even the northeast of India in later generations?
Then he nodded: "That's it."
"Alang seems to have heard of Ailao Mountain, but doesn't know it." Guan Ji looked at Feng Yong with confusion in her eyes, "Then why do you know this thing?"
As she spoke, she raised the castor beans in her hand.
"Oh, someone from our sect once brought this thing back to our sect." Governor Feng's face turned red and his heart did not beat. He replied calmly, "I heard that you had to climb Ailao Mountain to get it."
"It's just that this kind of miscellaneous news is too fragmentary. I heard it occasionally, so I didn't take it to heart. I thought Ailao Mountain was named after someone in the sect..."
As he spoke, he smiled a little sheepishly, just right to show his embarrassment at his ignorance.
"Oh? Does Alang know the purpose of this thing?"
General Guan has always admired her sect, Alang, because the longer she spent time with her sect, the more she felt that Alang's sect's knowledge was really all-encompassing and unfathomable.
"You can extract oil."
Feng Yong played with the castor beans in his hand and said casually, "There is a lot of oil in these seeds."
"Oil?" Guan Ji's eyes lit up, "The kind used for cooking?"
Oil is a good thing!
Looking at her, he wanted to put the castor bean in his hand into his mouth and take a bite. Feng Jishihun was almost scared to death.
With lightning speed, he smacked the things in Guan Ji's hands and shouted loudly: "You can't eat it, it's poisonous!"
General Guan didn't expect Governor Feng's reaction to be so strong, and he was frightened on the spot.
Watching the castor beans "crackling" falling to the ground, Feng Yong quickly bent down and at the same time ordered the servant serving beside him:
"Quick, pick them all up, don't miss one!"
There are two children at home who can run around. If one of them falls in the corner and they pick it up and eat it, it will be too late to cry.
Seeing Feng Yong's expression changed drastically, as if he was facing a formidable enemy, Guan Ji quickly squatted down to help find the fallen castor beans.
Guan Ji only had a few pills in her hand, but they were found immediately. She counted them carefully and found that none of them were missing. Feng Yong breathed a sigh of relief.
Guan Ji then asked carefully: "Is this thing poisonous?"
Only then did Hua Wan react and nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, it's poisonous."
Feng Yong threw the castor beans back into the box: "Not only are they poisonous, they are also very toxic. If a child eats two or three, and an adult eats six or seven, it is almost impossible to save them."
This time, Guan Ji and Hua Wan really believed that Feng Yong knew this thing very well.
But I saw him saying with some regret: "I have a senior brother who almost died after eating one."
When I was a child in my previous life, wild castor plants could often be seen in twos and threes, whether in front of or behind the house, in ditches or on the ridges of fields, or even in ruins of broken walls.
In the eyes of rural people, this thing is actually similar to a weed. It can grow anywhere and has extremely strong vitality.
Rural children all know one thing, that is, fruits in the wild can only be put into their mouths if adults say they are edible.
If you haven't said it before, you can't touch it.
Once, five or six-year-old Feng Yong and a few friends went to the wild to dig out bird's nests to play.
Among the children in the village, there will always be a few bold ones, commonly known as the kings of children.
In Feng Yong's group of friends, the kid king is a naughty kid of eight or nine years old. It may be that his rebellious period has arrived early, or it may be to show his bravery.
When everyone was playing in the wild, they saw the child king picking castor seeds not far away in public and peeling off the thorny shell with his bare hands, without fear of pain at all.
Attracting admiring looks from friends.
So the guy floated away, put the peeled castor seeds in his mouth, chewed them, and swallowed them...
The results can be imagined.
Finally, his father and several uncles took turns carrying him on their backs, running towards the hospital like hot wheels.
His mother followed behind with tears and runny noses...
Fortunately, the village where Feng Yong is located is not in a ravine, and there is even a national highway extending right to the edge of the village.
At the end of the national highway, there is a hospital, which is a resident hospital.
Many years later, Feng Yong searched for it on Baidu Map and could not find the hospital marked on it.
About ten miles away from the village, an army was stationed.
When he was sleeping at night, Feng Yong often heard the rumbling sound of gunfire coming from there.
Sometimes I go to school, and if I'm lucky, I can drop in with the field training team.
The one I remember most was the kind of weather with heavy rain, lightning and thunder, and no one could be seen more than ten meters away.
A captain, who was soaked from head to toe, knocked on the window of Feng Yong's house, took out a wet map, and loudly asked Feng Yong's mother for directions.
Looking from the window, in the hazy rain curtain, a team was walking silently on the muddy road.
Anyway, Feng Yong feels very awesome.
Then when I grew up, I also went to experience a man's romance.
Far from it, let’s talk about that naughty kid who eats castor seeds.
Later, of course, he was rescued. Afterwards, I heard from the villagers that the doctor said that he was delivered in time and that he didn't have to eat much, otherwise he would have died.
This incident spread to several nearby villages, and even the school teachers heard about it.
The school also deliberately used this matter to educate its students, and then a vice-principal who was over fifty years old said with emotion:
"Ricinus communis, even though it is full of poison, is actually very useful."
"Don't you often recite: Big plane, please stop, please take me to Beijing!"
"This big airplane has wheels, and the wheels use castor oil. The oil used to lubricate the wheels of your sewing machines and ox carts is also castor oil."
"The ink I usually use to print test papers for you also contains castor oil..."
Recalling these things, Feng Yong couldn't help but smile, turned around and waved:
"Amei, come here, oh, by the way, call Mrs. Mu San here too."
Hua Wan heard Feng Jishishi say that one of her fellow disciples was almost poisoned to death, and when she saw the other person's weird smile, she couldn't help but feel a little bit in her heart when she thought of how ruthless this person was.
Guan Ji seemed to be unable to see it, and pushed him: "Why are you laughing? You're so weird!"
"I just remembered the usage of this thing in my sect."
Feng Yong asked Amei who came over:
"I remember, didn't you say that Liangzhou is too cold in winter, so when you oil the wheels of a big wheel, won't the oil freeze?"
Amei nodded:
"Not only large wheels, but also water mills and even workshops in Liangzhou in the future, all places where lubricating oil is used, must pay attention to this situation."
Feng Yong laughed, pointed at the castor seeds in the box and said:
"There is a large amount of castor oil. I will plant some next year and press the oil to see if it freezes. Also, you can try using castor oil to mix ink and see how it works."
“If the effect is good, then it’s a blessing from God.”
If the vice principal of the elementary school hadn't lied to himself, castor oil should be much better at lubricating than the tung oil currently used.
Anyone who has studied geography in high school knows that for every 100 meters the troposphere goes up, the temperature drops by about 0.65 degrees.
The altitude at which airplanes fly is basically below zero.
If castor oil is really used as lubricant, its frost resistance is much stronger than tung oil.
As for tung oil, there is a huge demand every year just to extract glycerin to protect soldiers from freezing, not to mention to make weapons waterproof and rust-proof.
With castor, it can be considered as filling part of the gap.
Moreover, castor, like tung oil, can grow in the wild. It does not require special care, does not occupy farmland, and does not consume labor. It grows as it is planted.
It was simply prepared for the big men who lacked the population.
With Liangzhou and Longyou, as well as the maturity of large-scale livestock breeding technology and captive breeding technology, coupled with the paving of Cement No. 1, Dahan's transportation capacity will reach a higher level.
There will be more and more large-capacity four-wheeled vehicles.
There are also schools popping up all over the place, and the demand for ink will also increase.
The little tung oil produced in Nanzhong alone will obviously not be able to meet future demand.
Castor is harvested the same year it is planted, so planting is much more convenient than tung oil.
At this moment, Li Mu also arrived and saluted Feng Yong and Guan Ji:
"Mr., did you call me?"
Feng Yong nodded and said to her:
"This is castor bean, also called grass hemp. It is similar to the hemp used by the Han Dynasty. In the spring of next year, I will have people try to plant it in Hanzhong and Nanzhong."
"At that time, you should pay attention to this matter and see if the things grown can be woven into linen to make clothes."
Li Mu glanced at the castor beans in the box, with curiosity in his eyes.
However, she was able to restrain her curiosity very well. Unlike General Guan, who planned to test the poison on her own body, she quickly agreed.
He also specifically reminded Amei and Li Mu to be careful about the toxicity of castor beans.
Then he said to Huawan: "What's next?"
Although she was a little bit jealous of King Feng Gui's character, she really had to be convinced by Young Master Hua's knowledge and methods of this person.
This grass and flax was indeed used to weave linen in the Panyue Kingdom.
Although it is much rougher than the big man's hemp silk, it is better because it does not pick up the ground and does not require anyone to worry about it. It can grow if it is thrown into the wild.
It’s not like the big man growing hemp and having farmers serve in the fields.
Although over the years, the lives of the people in Nanzhong have become better.
However, there is no way to change the lack of flat land in Nanzhong. It is not easy to grow food, let alone grow linen and weave cloth.
Even in various plantations, there are many people working shirtless in the fields in summer.
In winter, it is not uncommon for a family to often wear the same clothes.
If King Feng Gui really has a way to promote it in Nanzhong and let the naked people in Nanzhong wear clothes, it would be a great merit.
Hua Wan opened the second box with a complicated mood and took out a piece of white cloth about one foot long.
Before she could speak, Governor Feng rushed to the box, pushed her away, and took out a handful of white velvet things.
His eyes widened and he almost stuffed the thing into his eyes.
Then, with everyone's horrified eyes, he smelled it with his nose, and even brought his mouth to it, bit off a little, and tasted it carefully...
"Feng...junhou, this, you can't eat this..."
Huawan reminded stammeringly.
After hearing what Huawan said, Guan Ji's face changed drastically. She rushed forward and slapped the things in Feng Jishi's hand with one slap.
Then he grabbed Governor Feng's chin with one hand and dug hard into his mouth with the other.
At the same time, he was so nervous that his voice changed, and he moved his fingers back and forth in Feng Yong's mouth:
"Where's the stuff? Where's the stuff? Did you eat it?"
Governor Feng rolled his eyes: "Ah, uh, uh..."
"Don't move, hurry up, spit it out!"
Feng Jishi desperately broke the general's hand and let his head free again. Then he said "bah bah bah" several times and glared at the suddenly crazy woman:
"What are you doing?"
"This thing can't be eaten, what are you doing?" Guan Ji looked at Feng Yong anxiously, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"
"I don't know if you can eat it?" Governor Feng stretched out his hand and pulled out a few white threads from his mouth, and spat a few more mouthfuls.
Yes, although it is a little different from the cotton of later generations, the color, the touch, and the feeling are definitely cotton.
"This thing is inedible, but it's not poisonous."
"Not poisonous?"
"Of course it's not poisonous."
Guan Ji looked at Huawan.
Hua Wan nodded: "It's indeed not poisonous."
Only then did General Guan realize that he had overreacted, and he felt a little embarrassed.
"Is this cotton?"
"It's Bai Diezi."
"Also called cotton."
"never heard of that."
"Now that you've heard it, it's called cotton."
Governor Feng picked up the cotton in the box with one hand and chuckled.
With wool, cotton, and glycerin, why am I still afraid of laying eggs in winter?
Little glacier?
What happened to Little Glacier?
If you can't go north across the Great Wall in winter, why don't you also go east?
The army is stationed in Yanze, the capital is Yeze, the army is stationed in Hetao, and the Han Dynasty is restored to Jiuyuan and Dingxiang. There will be no problems!
Not to mention that with cotton, the military has the best new material for dressing wounds and stopping bleeding, and even for surgical operations.
