Chapter 3436: The Extra Chapter 15
Since Teacher Mo had agreed, there shouldn't be any problem, so she shook her head, "No."
Seeing that Bai Shan was still frowning, she whispered, "The court of that world also needs these things."
Bai Shan was puzzled, "Why?"
Zhou Man: "They can be considered experimental subjects. The people there have been troubled by a disease for many years. These experimental subjects can help them find a solution."
Bai Shan raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "So their court can turn a blind eye to you?"
Zhou Man nodded.
Bai Shan asked, "Is it the same as those meteorites from back then? What did you trade with them for the meteorites? Rice seeds?"
Zhou Man: "...How do you know? Did I tell you?"
"You didn't say it, I just guessed it." She suddenly became very sure that rice seeds could grow just like the new wheat seeds, and the yield could be greatly increased. For this purpose, she set up a special experimental field and asked her eldest brother to cultivate it carefully.
Before and after they went to look for the meteorite, she suddenly took out some new rice seeds every few months. The conditions after planting them were all kinds of strange. Others just thought that the rice seeds she brought back were obtained from the Western Regions and other places, and were not suitable for the climate of Yongzhou.
But Bai Shan has always been inseparable from her, and knowing that she can contact her father-in-law, he has been guessing the origin of her new rice seeds.
Bai Shan is not stupid. He knows so much key information that he can guess some things almost accurately with just a little association.
Although he never knew that it was not his young father-in-law.
Bai Shan tidied up the room, opened the door, and handed the fruit branches to the servants outside. Then he turned around and said to Zhou Man, "The weather is getting colder. We will go to Xiangzhou in a few days. I have asked someone to make arrangements in advance. You should enjoy yourself in Liuzhou for the next two days. There is no rush for this matter. I will take care of it."
"Yeah," Zhou Man nodded repeatedly, feeling happy. "Let's go look at the orange trees tomorrow. Oh, and bring some kumquat branches so Ashan and the others can try to plant some."
Bai Shan laughed and said, "Take them all."
Ashan's village was a little far from the provincial capital. Their carriage was faster, but it still took a day to get there. The official documents at the governor's mansion were piled up, so Lu Xiaofo couldn't go with them. With a look of regret on his face, he escorted them outside the city gate and said, "If you leave Lingnan, please come to Liuzhou before you leave. I'll see you off."
Bai Shan smiled and said, "We will definitely come. I need your help with something."
When Lu Xiaofo heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and became happy, "Just tell me if you have anything to say."
Then he looked at Zhou Man, his smile growing even wider. "Master Zhou, you can take a look at other places in Liuzhou. Aren't you going to Xiangzhou in a couple of days? There are also beautiful mountains and rivers there, which is also very suitable for growing herbs."
This large area is under the jurisdiction of Liuzhou, and he will benefit from it no matter which state or county the medicinal garden is located.
Zhou Man agreed with a smile.
After the carriage had gone a long way, Mingda asked Zhou Man, "Is this place really suitable for growing medicinal herbs?"
"Of course," Zhou Man said, "The climate and soil here are suitable for the growth of many medicinal herbs. You can see that every time I go into the mountains, I can dig out a basket of herbs."
"Will it be difficult to transport medicinal herbs if they are grown here?"
Zhou Man said nonchalantly, "The Imperial Medical Bureau and the Ministry of Revenue will make their own assessments. I'm just making my own judgment. However, if a medicinal garden is set up here, the road will become more and more accessible."
She said, "Besides, Dajin is so vast. Besides the Central Plains, there are also Huainan, Jiangnan, and Lingnan. Even if the medicinal herbs here can't be sold to the Central Plains and the north, they can be circulated in Jiangnan and Lingnan, filling the gap in many medicinal materials and bringing huge profits to Liuzhou."
Therefore, Lu Xiaofo's decision was not wrong. If he could set up a medicinal garden under the jurisdiction of Liuzhou, then in the next 20 years, Liuzhou would develop rapidly and gradually stabilize.
Moreover, Liuzhou also has direct water transportation to the outside world. As long as the river is dredged and the official roads are arranged, it can be opened up to the east, west, south and north. It can become a transportation hub. With more merchants coming and going, the medicinal materials here can be taken out.
"Not only medicinal herbs, but also fruits and vegetables here." Bai Shan, who was riding beside the carriage, heard the two people's discussion inside and said with a smile: "For example, the kumquats you proposed to expand the planting this time, as well as various fruits and vegetables that are hard to find in the Central Plains and the north, can all be sold outside like medicinal herbs."
Zhou Man: "If grafting fruit trees could produce fruit that tastes better..."
Bai Shan smiled slightly, "Then Liuzhou will become even more famous in the future."
So when they arrived at the place, Zhou Man handed all the fruit branches to A Shan and encouraged him, "This is the kumquat that can be used as tribute. Do you want to try it?"
Ah Shan was stunned. "This, this, can we grow it here?"
"Even if the taste isn't as good as the tribute, it won't be that bad. After all, it's from a different place," Zhou Man said. "You could also try grafting some onto an orange tree. I just took a look and saw that your tree has a lot of fruit, much more than kumquats."
Ah Shan hurriedly asked, "Have you seen a kumquat tree?"
"Yes, we have. We picked quite a few," Zhou Man generously let Xibing grab a handful for him. "Here, I brought them especially for you. Try them."
Ah Shan was deeply moved when he received the kumquat that was stuffed into his hand. He said loudly in his clumsy official language, "My wife, you are such a good person. My father was wrong. Besides us governors, there are still many good people among you Han people."
Zhou Man: "... Did you think there were many bad Han people before?"
Ah Shan nodded vigorously. "There are quite a few bad ones. A few years ago, a few merchants took a fancy to the pears grown in our village. They said our pears are particularly delicious and very popular outside. They gave us a higher price than at the market and asked us to plant more."
He said, "We planted a lot of pear trees. Look, those are all pear trees on the mountain."
Zhou Man turned her head to look, but what she saw was lush green grass and an indistinct tree. She blinked and said, "I know the pear tree. Don't lie to me."
"The pear trees are covered, and it's all the fault of those unscrupulous merchants," Ah Shan said. "We planted a lot of pear trees and agreed that they would come to harvest them after the fruits ripened. But they came, and they wanted to buy two kilograms of pears from us for a penny."
He grew angrier and angrier as he spoke, angrily saying, "We are wrong. Pears are two cents a pound."
Zhou Man asked curiously, "Then what?"
"Then they asked for one penny for three pounds. Everyone got really angry and beat them up," Ah Shan said, feeling slightly guilty. "Then they had the officials arrest everyone in our village and put them in jail."
Zhou Man and the others looked at him sympathetically and asked, "You guys didn't hurt anyone, did you?"
"No, they brought a lot of people with them, and we didn't have time to beat them to death, so we just pushed them," Ah Shan said. "Later, the governor heard about it and came to interrogate us personally. He let us all go, but those merchants were very mean. They made us pay a lot of money and even told other Han people not to buy our pears."
He sighed, "We worked so hard to plant so many pear trees, fertilizing and weeding them every year, but when the harvest came, we couldn't sell them. So no one weeded or fertilized anymore, and now the orchards on the mountain have become like that."
Zhou Man: "Are there any pears left on the tree now?"
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