Chapter 137 Godsend
With potatoes, it means that there will never be any famine in Huo Gang's territory in the future. And this thing is to prevent Huo Gang from starving to death, and also to give Huo Gang enough strength to gather refugees.
He did not forget that the next three years of Tang Dynasty will be the beginning of natural disasters. Perhaps there are not many records in history, but there are definitely many ordinary people who cannot survive and have to go far away to escape famine. At that time, as long as Huo Gang promotes the news about his place through caravans, etc.
I am not afraid of no refugees joining you. Although Huo Gang can conquer the Turks, to be honest, Huo Gang still hopes that his territory will be Han people if there are any choices.
If it weren't for the idea of these refugees, Huo Gang wouldn't have sent Li Er a horse. Li Er would never have made any free moves in the past three years, and this also means that if he had a good relationship with Li Er, Huo Gang would have the strength to gather these refugees.
As for how to deal with the relationship with the Tang Dynasty, for the time being, Huo Gang will definitely not have conflicts with the Tang Dynasty. The reason is very simple. If you want to become a Tang Dynasty, Huo Gang will take at least three to five years to develop.
Similarly, Li Er also needs time.
With Li Er five years, the situation in the entire Tang Dynasty was extremely stable. If Huo Gang wanted to fight at that time, the population under his rule would be at least one million, and the number of elite cavalry or infantry like Gongsun Lin would be at least one hundred thousand. Huo Gang was a little sure of it.
The entire Tang Dynasty was too big, and five years were enough to ensure that Li Er stabilized the whole world. By then, it would not be that simple thing for Huo Gang to completely defeat the Tang Dynasty.
To be honest, at that time, Huo Gang had a better choice than fighting with the Tang Dynasty, so he would advance westward, destroy Gaochang, enter the territory of Afghanistan and Pakistan in later generations, and then go south.
Huo Gang's first priority is definitely the Indian Peninsula that will be the first to go to the future generations. As long as it is taken down there, it can be said that Huo Gang is not short of all resources such as grain, minerals, etc. The vast and fertile land brought by the Ganges River Basin is enough to make Huo Gang live in hundreds of millions of people, and he can even work from there to the east. Southeast Asia in this era is no different from the savages.
However, there is a prerequisite for all this, the entire An family is about to die! Huo Ling does not have much feelings for Huo Gang, but no matter what, Huo Ling is also his father. Huo Gang must avenge this revenge!
The ordinary Han people in Liangzhou, Huo Gang, would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, but the An family and An Xinggui, Huo Gang can now say that they are dead.
The sky quickly turned from dark to dark, and bonfires were lit on the empty grassland. In fact, the Western Region where Huo Gang was located during this period was not as desolate as later generations. Although there were still many Gobi Deserts, even the Gobi Deserts did not grow any plants like later generations, and there were still some desert plants.
Even when Huo Gang and others light a bonfire at night, it is easy to find some dead trees.
An hour came soon, and a caravan appeared far away, with a flag of a great man erected on the caravan. Although Huo Zheng, Gongsun Lin and others were not surprised, they were actually shocked.
Because this is not the place where the caravan should go, and no matter how you look at it, the caravan feels strange, because the caravan doesn’t have many things to pull, and there are not many people, only a dozen people, a carriage, and there are a few sacks of things on it.
Huo Zheng and the others went to ask the caravan for a clear question before they took the caravan to meet Huo Gang.
"I've seen the general." The person in charge of the caravan bowed and said simply, "General, your supplies have been delivered."
"I understand, you can leave now." Huo Gang nodded.
"Then we'll take a break." The two sides just exchanged a few words, and then the head of the caravan ordered people to move the things down.
Huo Gang saw that there were only five sacks on the carriage. These sacks were not too big. If they were filled with potatoes, they would probably look like two or three hundred kilograms.
After removing the items, the caravan left directly.
Huo Gang immediately walked over, opened a sack, and took out a potato from it. It was a potato about the size of a fist of two adults. It was obvious that it was a high-quality sandy potato.
The potatoes in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia where Huo Gang was in his previous life were famous nationwide. Some of the potatoes grown there were even bigger than people's heads, and even had a faint sweet taste.
"General, is this a seed?" Huo Zheng and Gongsun Lin were both a little surprised because they had never seen such a strange seed.
"Yes, this is seed. It is called potatoes. It is a type of grain. In this world, only I have these seeds. If its yield per mu is well taken care of, it can reach 8,000 kilograms, or even more than 10,000 kilograms." Huo Gang said with a calm expression.
With a "bang", the helmet held in Gongsun Lin's hand next to him was so scared that it fell to the ground by Huo Gang's words. Huo Zheng, Gongsun Lin, and several personal guards next to him looked at Huo Gang in amazement. The yield per mu was 8,000 kilograms?! Even more than 10,000 kilograms? This... is this fairy grain?!
What Huo Gang said is not an exaggeration at all. In later generations, there are many high-yield potato varieties with over 10,000 kilograms. Of course, these potatoes are more used to make potato vermicelli or starch, which tastes bad, but in this era when people are starving to death, is the taste important?
But for people of this era, this impact... is unacceptable to them.
Although Gongsun Lin and Huo Zheng were summoned by the spirit of the Yumen, they were not like this in their memory. In their memory, they were the complete person in this world.
So they know very well that not to mention the yield per mu of ten thousand kilograms, if the yield per mu of one thousand kilograms means that they will never starve to death!
"General...General... How do you need to store this?" Gongsun Lin's voice shook a little.
In their opinion, these potatoes are no longer potatoes, but living lives!
"Don't worry, it's easy to preserve. Huo Zheng, you send someone to pack these potatoes, then carry them on the cavalry's back and send them to Yumen Pass, just tell Wu Ping how much it produces, and just put it in a dry and cool place." Huo Gang thought for a while and spoke.
As for how to protect it, Huo Gang doesn't have to worry at all. Just tell Wu Ping how much it produces and how to place it. Huo Gang believes that Wu Ping will definitely protect it.
"Yes!" Huo Zheng immediately spoke.
"General, do you need my troops to send you to protect me?" Gongsun Lin immediately spoke.
"No, there are no enemies in our territory, just let them go with peace of mind." Huo Gang shook his head.
Chapter completed!