Faced with Xie Wending's question, Lu Wuji replied: "It is a blessing to have a loss of horses. Goguryeo seems to be really going to use troops to western Liaoning. Then, the Marine tribe that assisted in the war must be some of the various Marine tribes of Sumo."

"Of course the imperial court was prepared in Yingzhou. Regardless of the outcome of the war, think about it, for the various troops of the Marine tribes, what would they think about Vladivostok on the coast of the East China Sea after winning or losing?

"Of course, Sumoji is a general term for many tribes. There is no king or a khan in the Nine Tribes. But how do you know what thoughts will happen after these people fight?"

"You mean..." Xie Wending's tone was a little uncertain, "If Goguryeo wins, the Marines will stand on Goguryeo's side, so their attitude towards Vladivostok has a higher chance of deterioration."

"If Goguryeo is defeated and the Marines lose their chickens and lose their rice, they may turn to the dynasty, and may tend to copy Vladivostok and make up for some losses..."

Lu Wuji nodded: "Yes, no matter the outcome, the attitudes of those Marine tribes will become subtle. If the other party chooses to join the dynasty or use the dynasty to fight Goguryeo, then Vladivostok, which is lonely overseas, will be very safe, but I'm afraid..."

After drinking a cup of tea, Lu Wuji continued: "The east wall was demolished and repaired the west wall. The people of Mary may not be able to say this, but the truth is always understandable. I am afraid that they will suffer losses in the west and want to make up for it in the east. After all, we have brought a lot of good things this time."

"So, Vladivostok's defense should be strengthened to be wary of the other party's turn against each other. After all, the tribe of Lubinkou is good to us, which does not mean that the tribe of Lubin upstream is willing to do business with us."

"If you do business and barter, they have to exchange things for the goods in our hands, but if it is a robbery, it will be a business without business, right?"

Lu Wuji struggled among the white mountains and black waters, knowing that this is the place where the strong prey on the weak. There are both those Martial tribes who are willing to do business, and those Martial tribes who like to rob.

A blacksmith must be strong by itself. Vladivostok, as a trade base, must rely on strengthening its own defense to gain a foothold here. If there is really a war in western Liaoning, it will be an unknown variable for the people in Vladivostok.

Unknown variables are not good.

Seeing Xie Wending thinking, Lu Wuji took out a sketch and began to introduce the news that he had been temporarily staying in the Mariner tribe on the other side during this period.

The marsh is actually a general term for the tribes living in the Baishan and Black Water. According to the different areas of life, there are different marsh tribes.

The tribe living in the Sumo River Basin is the Sumo River. It lives in the south of the various maritimes. It has been dealing with Goguryeo and Central Plains dynasties for hundreds of years and is considered to be a "familiar" maritimes.

The Marine tribes further north, such as the Marine tribes living in the Blackwater Basin, have a great "wildness" and are "birth" Marine tribes.

Vladivostok is located in the bay of the seakou Bay of Binshui. Not far north is the activity territory of the Hei Shui Martree tribe. Lu Wuji found out that the Hei Shui Martree was roughly divided into several large tribes, named after the transliterated names, as follows:

The Simu tribe, the Junli tribe, lives in the estuary area of ​​the Hei Shui underwater; to the east of the Hei Shui estuary, there is a large island called Huatai Island. The north of the island is the Kothus tribe and the south is the Moyeji tribe.

These two tribes live on Huatai Island, surround the mountains and seas, and often take boats to sea to plunder the coastal tribes, but this is a legend and the authenticity cannot be confirmed.

There is also the Yulou tribe, whose activity area is in the dense forests of mountains hundreds of miles north of Lubin Bay. It is said that there is a big lake there, named "Meituo Lake" according to the voice of Mart.

The expedition team that set out from Vladivostok and explored north may encounter Yu Lou's troops. Such "life" miraculous people may not be so easy to deal with.

Lu Wuji finished telling the bad news and it was time to tell the good news. He took out a cloth bag and put it on the desk to open it. Xie Wending leaned over and saw that there were a lot of rice in it.

"You came here from the Central Plains from afar. Do you want to try which land you can plant?"

Xie Wending felt a little strange. It is said that this place is very cold in winter, and the ice and snow melt in spring, and the water temperature is too low, so it is unrealistic to open paddy fields to grow rice. Either the rice cannot withstand the cold and wither, or it is "not adapted to the soil and water" and the yield cannot be increased.

In order to ensure that Vladivostok can be self-sufficient or try to solve the food problem, Beiyang Trading Company has thought that using Vladivostok as a base to "farm farming", but after many considerations, it was found that it would be more cost-effective to rely on fishing and hunting to solve the food problem.

Eating the mountains means hunting, consuming water means fishing, and then collecting edible wild fruits in the forest. The settlers of Vladivostok can solve some of the food problems without farming.

So Xie Wending didn't understand what Lu Wuji meant to take out a bag of rice.

"This rice was not brought by me." Lu Wuji took out a few grains of rice, spread it in his palm, and said with a smile: "Where I have lived in western Liaoning for so many years, I have never seen anyone grow 'cold-resistant rice', but the tribe here said that there is a tribe growing rice somewhere in the Sumoshui River."

"Of course I don't believe that the people of Marine are fishing and hunting for a living, and then raise some pigs and horses. Even if people really grow crops, they are probably some millet and wheat."

"As a result, the tribe master thought I didn't believe him, so he screamed and wanted to take out the real thing. That was last spring. Now, he really brought rice and seeds that can be planted. Of course, there are several large bags, and my small bag is convenient for you to show."

"This... is the cold-resistant rice?" Xie Wending looked at the rice in the bag, picked up some, and looked at it carefully. He didn't think there was anything unusual about the rice, but he soon thought of a question:

"How about the yield per mu? If the yield is low, so what if you can grow it? If you have time to farm, it is better to fish and hunt."

Lu Wuji shook his head: "I don't know the specific yield. After all, they are also heard that there are tribes who grow rice, but this rice is always real. I think your Majesty will be very happy when he knows it."

"Is that so? That's good news."

For Xie Wending, no good news is better than leaving a name for the emperor. If you can make the emperor remember his name, it means a bright future.

However, he was not sure why the emperor was so concerned about cold-resistant rice. After all, if he wanted to farm in the cold and frozen western Liaoning and Liaodong areas, the crops they planted must be millet and wheat. If he grew rice, it would be thankless.

Rice should be planted in the south, while Jiaozhou on the surface of the ridge is hot and rainy. It is said that the rice there can be ripening twice a year or ripening three times a year. Such rice is called "Jiaozhou Rice" and has been introduced in the Jiangnan and Lianghuai areas.

So what are the uses of this cold-resistant rice?

Lu Wuji didn't know how to answer Xie Wending's doubts, because he himself didn't know what the answer was.

The personnel sent by the Beiyang Trading Company collected rice seeds as much as possible in Japan, Baekje, Silla, and even Goguryeo. They wanted to find a cold-resistant and relatively high-yield rice seed, but they had few results.

Not only that, Lu Wuji also knew that Yingzhou was also looking for rice around Liucheng, trying to find cold-resistant rice seeds.

In the city of Murong Yan State, many farmers planted millet and wheat in farmland outside the city. It is said that they also planted rice. Now the government is doing this so hard that they want to try their luck to see if there are any remaining species of cold-resistant rice in Yan State in the wilderness swamps in western Liaoning.

Lu Wuji didn't know what the specific results were. He didn't know what the emperor wanted to collect this cold-resistant rice. It was so cold in western Liaodong and had time to farm. It was really better to fish and hunt more prey.

But he knew that his unexpected gains from his successors must be good news for the emperor.
Chapter completed!