Chapter 1324 corn
"Murdoch, can you show me this food?"
Murdoch was still generous and handed the pot to Zheng Ping.
Zheng Ping reached out and took out yellow seeds. The seeds were very large and looked a bit like corn, but they were much larger than the corn in the Central Plains.
What's this?
What a strange seed?
Gan Shi walked up to take the seeds, then put one into her mouth and chewed it.
Taste is good.
"Murdoch, can you borrow some seeds from us and we exchange our seeds for you."
Murdoch has received many gifts from the Ocean Fleet these days. Although these seeds are precious to the village, Murdoch still made the decision to give the Ocean Fleet a can.
Gan Shi gave Murdoch a can of seeds from Central Plains corn. Murdoch looked at the little pitiful seed and couldn't help but look at Zheng Ping and others with some sympathy.
The seeds of these sea people are too small. Can they eat this kind of food?
After obtaining the seeds of Dongshengzhou's grain, Zheng Ping and Gan Shi returned to the water village.
"Master Taoist, which kind of immortal grain is this the general designated us to look for?"
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be corn."
"corn?"
"The General told me about the appearance and taste of corn, but the food I saw in Murdoch's village before was a little different from what the General described, so I didn't guess it.
I think it was hundreds or thousands of years since my ancestors arrived in Dongshengzhou, and the appearance of this corn has also changed."
Gan Shi guessed correctly, but he just thought about the reverse of time.
The corn described by Ma Qiang to Gan Shi was like the one that later generations have been domesticated and scientifically improved.
Although the corn that Gan Shi has obtained has been domesticated, it is still relatively primitive, and it looks thin and short, and there are not many corn kernels. This made Gan Shi not think of it as soon as he saw it.
In fact, whether it is corn, potatoes, or sweet potatoes, the origin of these important crops is not the north, but the central and southern parts of the Americas. If you go south and reach the location of later Mexico, the corn there will be more like later corn.
It can be said that the corn in later generations was a smart phone, and at this time, the corn in Mexico was probably the eldest brother, and Murdoch had a phone prototype in Bell's laboratory.
Gan Shi was preparing to use the method of farming the Han people to cultivate these seeds in depth. He knew very well that to make the people in Murdoch village change and believe them, it is useless to use words and can only speak with facts.
Spring plowing began, and when he saw the horses walking in the fields with plows, Murdoch ran to curiosity.
What animal is this?
Why have you never seen it?
When Zheng Ping and Gan Shi learned that Murdoch hadn't seen a horse for decades, they looked at each other.
Isn’t this Dongshengzhou without a creature like horse?
Gan Shi guessed it right again.
There are really no horses in the entire Dongshengzhou, only cattle.
Not only is there no horse, but Dongshengzhou has no wheels yet~
Wheels look simple, but they are actually perfect industrial products and need to be processed through metal tools. If you use stones to process the wheels...
It would be better to carry it away.
Just when Zheng Ping and Gan Shi were exploring in Dongsheng Prefecture, Ma Qiang was planning a new offensive in the first year of Jian'an in Ji County and Jia Xu.
"According to the news from Jingzhou, Lu Su, under Liu Hu's account, borrowed tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers from Wuxi barbarians. Because of the help of these barbarian soldiers, the Jingzhou army successively captured several cities in Jingnan.
Judging from this speed, it is only a matter of time before Zhang Xian’s defeat and the city is broken.”
Jia Xu pointed to Jingnan on the map and introduced the latest information to Ma Qiang and Xun You who came from Chang'an.
"Where is Sun Ce, Yangzhou?"
"Sun Ce used the excuse of defending Shanyue to seize the military power of the powerful people in Yangzhou, and then divided his troops to encircle the troops of Shanyue, and used money, grain, land and official positions as bait to lure the troops of Shanyue to surrender. If they did not surrender, they would order the troops to attack and kill.
To those surrendered Shanyue people, Sun Ce took over young and strong soldiers as soldiers, organized the elderly and weak for the people, and obtained tens of thousands of soldiers, and his momentum was better than one day."
Ma Qiang smiled. Whether it is the Southern Barbarians of Jingzhou or the Shanyue of Yangzhou, these are the obstacles that the Han Dynasty would encounter in the future to develop the south.
Ma Qiang looked at them like Qiang people, hoping that they would all come out to help Liu Biao and Sun Ce so that they could catch them all in one go.
If these people were huddled in the deep mountains and forests, it would be a long battle of security.
Ma Qiang looked at Zhuge Liang and others sitting below.
This time, these children were specially asked to listen to each other, just to help them grow up as soon as possible.
"Where is Yizhou?"
"The Zhao Wei Rebellion in Yizhou is still continuing, but the situation has changed.
Although Zhao Wei received support from many local gentry in Yizhou, he aroused the full-scale counterattack from the Dongzhou forces.
Liu Zhang personally went to the Dongzhou military camp to express condolences. The Dongzhou military soldiers were afraid that Zhao Wei would massacre them after they gained power, so they all supported Liu Zhang. Liu Zhang ordered generals Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, Wu Yi, Deng Xian and others to lead the troops to fight back. Zhao Wei's military attack had been set, and there was information that some inside the Zhao Wei army thought that anyway, no accident, the Zhao Wei rebellion would end within three months."
Ma Qiang nodded. Looking at history, Liu Zhang's subordinates were polarized. Zhang Ren and Yan Yan would rather die than surrender, while Zhang Song and Fa were thinking about Fa's rebellion.
The reason for this is actually because some people think that Liu Zhang's behavior is called politeness, some people think that it is called weak, some people are willing to die because of Liu Zhang's politeness, and some people think that he is weak and wants to vote for others.
"What does the General Staff look at?"
Jia Xu replied, "From the intelligence of all parties and the current situation of our army, our army should launch an attack on Jingzhou and Yangzhou in April, and end the decisive battle of Jingyang before August, because once the time is delayed to autumn, Jingyang will easily have floods, which is not good for our Northern Army."
Ma Qiang glanced at Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang once said, "For generals, they do not understand astronomy, geography, genre, yin and yang, geography, geography, yin and yang, geography, and tact, are mediocre people!"
Some people think that the so-called intelligence is how many people there are in the enemy, what weapons and equipment, and where to go, what to do.
This is of course intelligence and is also very important to war.
But for war, the transportation, hydrology, climate, prices, and public opinion of a place are also extremely important information, and the value of these difficult-to-false intelligence is higher than that of military mobilization intelligence that does not know the truth or the falsehood.
For example, the Incheon landing in later generations was successful because the US military had ocean tide data on the Korean Peninsula. You should know that the time for the US military to land was only two days in the six months after the US military decided to send troops.
The nearest thing is the Battle of Xiangfan initiated by Guan Yu. It was because Yu Jin was not familiar with the situation in Jingzhou that the seven armies flooded, causing Guan Yu to almost hit Xudu in one breath.
Chapter completed!