There are a few red, long and pointed fruits placed in the plate, the size of small fingers. If you pick them up and smell them carefully, you can smell the spicy taste. ◢ Follow◢ Dream◢ Xiao◢ Xiao◢ Say Щщш.

It is obvious that this thing smells spicy and will be even spicy when eaten. Yuwen Weigan, who was so spicy that his throat was almost spitting out of fire by this thing, looked at the fruit with lingering fear and looked at his brother.

Yuwen Weicheng and Yuwen Weihan also looked at him. They both saw their younger brother's pain, so they had the most intuitive understanding of the power of this "chili pepper" like a spark.

Once this "fire" enters a person's mouth, it will instantly "burn", making the mouth, tongue, and throat hot, and it will take a while to calm down.

Hundreds of times spicy than dogwood!

Spicy is a feeling, this feeling is a mixture of heat (scalding) and pain.

Since ancient times, people have known that fruits or rhizomes such as garlic, ginger, dogwood and other fruits have a irritating taste, especially dogwood. Therefore, in order to add spicy flavor during cooking, dogwood will be added as seasoning.

Cornus de Cornus is a kind of fruit. In people's eyes, the most spicy common fruit in the world must be one of them.

Now, the red peppers are hundreds of times spicy than dogwood.

"In the early summer, the fleet returning from America successfully arrived in Luzhou, and like last year, brought the pepper back." Yuwen Wen began to introduce news about the New World to his sons.

"This pepper is produced in the Americas and was obtained by the expedition team from the locals. It is an ordinary spicy fruit for people, just like dogwood in the Central Plains." After Yu Wen Wen said that, he took out a few sketches and asked his son to take them to see.

"Look, this is someone's city. The style is very different from that of the Central Plains, but the patterns on various daily tools have similar Taotie patterns from the pre-Qin period."

"The dress of these people is very different from that of the Central Plains, and is more like the countries in the South China Sea, but they do often use jade as decorations."

Because there is no camera, it is impossible to have photos, but the members of the expedition team drew down what they saw through sketching, and Yuwen Wen learned about some of the customs and customs of America in this era.

At the end of last spring, Zhang Yu led three sea boats back from the Americas. At the same time, the expedition team continued to explore in the Americas.

Finally, in the inland area near the Zhangyu fleet, which was not too far from the coast, we met a large tribe, and successfully contacted the locals, entered the other party's city, and had a good start.

It was a city of affordable size, with mostly stone buildings, and it seemed to belong to a large group of forces. Whether this group of forces was a country or a prince, the expedition team had not yet figured out where the pivot was.

Because of language barriers, for more than half a year, as of the time of departure of this year's return fleet, both sides were in a state of communicating with gestures and drawing patterns.

However, they did meet forces with cities and enter the city as guests, where the locals entertained them for dinner, so the members of the expedition saw a fruit.

That is, the expedition team carries a fruit painted in the schematic album - chili.

"Pepper, this is something that has never been heard of in the Central Plains. Even the Roman and Persian countries in the extreme west are not there, so it should be native to America."

Yuwen Wen said, very happy that "the sea boat returned this time and brought back a large number of capsicum fruits, seeds and plants. From now on, peppers will take roots and sprout in the Central Plains, replace dogwood, and become the source of "spicy"."

"Of course, peppers are nothing. The expedition team finally met the local fan country. I think after continuous communication, learning, and being able to communicate with the other party's language, the situation of the new world will gradually be clear."

Yuwen Weicheng asked with great interest: "Father, are the people of this country descendants of the Yin people?"

"I don't know yet. After all, the expedition team cannot communicate with the other party in language and text, and it will take time. If the other party is really a country, you have to see when you have the opportunity to meet the monarch before you can ask slowly."

Yuwen Weihan looked at the sketch and was also very interested. "Father, when looking at the sketch of this character, he seemed to have a lot of jewelry on his body. Could it be that the chiefs wearing gold and silver? What specialties do they use to trade with the Dynasty expedition team?"

Yuwen Wen replied with a smile, "They used gold and silver to exchange for the colorful glass beads in the hands of the expedition team."

As soon as the words were finished, the three princes were stunned for gold and silver to exchange for colorful glass beads? This transaction is very cost-effective!!

Yuwen Wen then added, "Of course, after all, if you want to do a long-term business, you have to keep repeat customers. The expedition team is not too much, and they resell the glass products, silk, cotton cloth, and paper they brought at the right price."

"It costs about a thousand taels of gold and nearly ten thousand taels of silver."

The princes were stunned when they heard this. This number sounded good, but considering that the fleet spanned the ocean, traveled about 60,000 miles back and forth, bringing a large number of Central Plains products to the Americas for business. As a result, they sold the goods and sold the little gold and silver. It felt like they were losing money.

It is better to do business with Japan than to earn this little gold and silver.

Yuwen Wen saw the doubts of his sons and replied, "Everything is difficult at the beginning. The expedition team finally encountered a decent city. The household data said that at most, there are only 5,000 households. How many gold and silver reserves can they have? The expedition team cannot sell all the goods to each other."

"But it was a good start, because the expedition team had a good relationship with the locals, and then established a stronghold near the landing coast with a river flowing into the sea. It was considered a place to be in the departure waters of the fleet's return. It was indeed very important."

"With a stronghold, the subsequent transactions will be easier. When the surrounding cities know that there are outsiders selling various rare treasures, they will naturally flock to them, and then there will be a fixed border market?"

"Everything is difficult to start. Now we have a good start and open up the situation. Next year, the ships returning to the ship will inevitably bring back more gold and silver."

The princes nodded silently as they listened. This is reasonable. In the coastal areas of the Central Plains, if one day overseas ships suddenly berth and sell rare treasures to nearby counties, how much purchasing power can they have?

However, if overseas merchants set up Caoshi on the beach and regularly transport rare treasures to sell and sell rare treasures in this Caoshi market, then the surrounding wealthy merchants who heard the news will naturally gather with money.

As the transaction becomes bigger and bigger, the Cao Market becomes a fixed border market, which will inevitably attract the attention of local officials, so officials will come to negotiate. After a while, foreign merchants can "cross" with the government.

Yuwen Weiqian looked at the peppers and said with interest, "Father, this pepper is so spicy. If it can be grown on a large scale, I think it will definitely replace dogwood. At that time, the spicy foodies will have a good taste."

Yuwen Wen nodded, "Yes, the fleet brought back a lot of peppers, and the seeds and plants have been planted one after another. You go back today and take some peppers away. Whether you eat them yourself or give them to others, you must make the name of American peppers famous."

After saying that, he clapped his hands, and several eunuchs brought the trays into the room and placed several plates in front of the princes.

"Look at it, this is the staple food for the residents in the city. It is not rice, wheat, or millet, and it does not look like fruit."

Yuwen Weicheng looked carefully at a stick-like object in the plate, and for a while, he asked, "Father, there are many dark yellow particles on this object, but they are sparse, and the skin is not like the skin, and the shell is not like the shell."

"Is it a fruit or a crop like wheat ear?"

Yuwen Weihan also expressed his doubts, "If it is a fruit, its appearance looks bumpy, like a dysentery, it is said to be a wheat ear crop, but the grains on it are so sparse, I'm afraid it will take a lot of them to eat enough, right?"

Facing his son's questions, Yuwen Wen didn't know how to explain it. He picked up the corn transported from the fleet from thousands of miles away from him and looked at it carefully.

This is the corn he thought about day and night. However, when the real thing appeared in front of him, although he recognized it as corn at first sight, its appearance was really a bit shady.

This is indeed corn, but not the golden and plump corn he remembers.

As my son said, this thing looks like a scalypse, with sparse grains and light yellow in color. No matter how you look, it doesn’t look like a crop that can be used as a staple food.

In Yuwen Wen's opinion, the corn transported back from the fleet seemed to be deformed and lesions by unscrupulous businessmen in later generations.

Therefore, either the local natives use inferior products as good products and use moldy or deformed corn to deceive the expedition team.

Or, this is the reality, and local corn is this virtue.
Chapter completed!