Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his twenty-year-old son, and the more he looked at him, the more he liked him.

"Not bad, your boy did a great job in Liaodong, and he deserves to be our son!"

"Respond to God this New Year, go to the ancestral temple to worship your ancestors and burn incense for your eldest brother!"

Zhu Song said respectfully: "My son, I obey."

Zhu Yunwen looked at the map hanging on the wall and was very concerned about the jade character on the north side of Kaiyuan City.

"Uncle Twenty, has a jade mine been discovered in Liaodong?"

Zhu Song was stunned after hearing this, and then remembered that the underground mineral deposits in the Northeast Plain were also very rich. With the current level of the Ming Dynasty, some coal and copper mines could also be mined.

Zhu Yunwen gave Zhu Song a heads up, maybe he could collect underground mineral deposits in the Liaodong Plain in the future.

Oil can even be found in the north of Nurgandusi, but now even if oil and crude oil are discovered, nothing can be done.

"Yunwen probably saw the word jade written in the circle I drew on the map. No jade mine was found in that area. I left it to grow a kind of food called corn."

"Corn?" After Zhu Yunwen heard this, he took it first. As the name suggests, he thought corn was some kind of rice, similar to jade.

"Is this rice green like jade?"

Zhu Song smiled and shook his head, and then looked at Lao Cao. Lao Cao didn't calm down for a long time, probably because he was a little scared that Zhu Yuanzhang was here.

Zhu Song saw that Lao Cao, who usually had good eyesight, seemed to be blind today, so he said.

"Old Cao, go and bring the chili peppers and corns and show them to the emperor and grandson."

After hearing this, Lao Cao trembled with fright. Then he realized what he was doing and quickly went to get the spicy peppers and corn seeds that the prince had collected.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the two plates of things in front of him. One looked stranger than the other, especially the spicy ones, which were red, dry, wrinkled, and light in weight.

"I heard from my grandson that this spicy food can be used as a seasoning, just like salt. I have been the emperor for so many years and have never eaten this stuff. This time, you, a filial and filial son, can get some back for us.

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Zhu Song smiled bitterly after hearing this.

"Father, it's not that I am stingy, but there are really not many spicy peppers left. I have used up some of them by looking for ways to use spicy peppers. The remaining sons plan to plant them in the soil in the spring of next year.

When new ones grow, I will offer fresh ones to my father."

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he chewed his teeth.

"You brat, don't you know how to offer this thing to the capital first so that we can try it for you?"

Zhu Song explained: "My father's spicy food has a strange taste. If you don't understand it, it will be very painful if you eat it raw. How can I dare to offer this unknown thing to my father?"

After Zhu Yunwen heard this, he thought of the taste of eating raw chili peppers and agreed deeply, and quickly defended Uncle Twenty.

"Grandfather, what Uncle Twenty said makes sense. If you don't understand this thing, you will definitely suffer a lot if you eat it raw. After eating it the first time, you won't eat it a second time. So what?

Did you find that this thing can also be used as a seasoning?"

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought that this was the case. Since he no longer thought about the spicy food, he paid attention to the corn next to him.

"Since we can't take back this spicy food, we can always take some of this corn back. We finally made a trip to the palace and came all the way to you, but you didn't let us take anything back, and we had a bad look on our face.

No face!"

Zhu Song thought about it carefully. Anyway, in his previous life, he had seen the cornfields all over the mountains and plains in the Northeast. If the corn was planted in the fields, it would definitely mature, so just spread it out a little and let his father take it back.

"Okay, this is fine. After my father brings it back, remember not to cook it. These things are just seeds now, not food. When the food is grown next year, it doesn't matter if my father eats it."

Zhu Yunwen was afraid that the corn would taste as strange as the spicy pepper, so he asked more questions.

"Uncle Twenty, does this corn taste very strange? How does it compare to spicy food?"

Zhu Song shook his head: "Don't worry, grandson, the taste of this corn is not as unpleasant as spicy food, but it's just not very delicious."

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned after hearing this.

"It's not delicious, why are you growing it like a baby?"

Zhu Song looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and suddenly became serious.

"Father, although the taste of this product is not as good as that of rice and wheat, the yield of this product is much higher than that of rice and wheat. The most important thing is that rice and wheat have to choose the soil quality. Rice and wheat grown in different places have different tastes.

Even if they are the same, the output will be very different!”

"But this crop called corn is not as pretentious as rice and wheat. Even in the yellow land of the northwest, you can try to cultivate it!"

"Father! Please issue an imperial edict to allow your son to plant and experiment with it. If this thing can really be fully spread in the Ming Dynasty, then the people in the bitter cold land of the Ming Dynasty will also have food to cultivate."

"During natural disasters, the people of Ming Dynasty don't have to go to the mountains to dig grass roots, chew tree bark, eat Guanyin soil, or even change their children to eat, Father!"

Both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunwen were very shocked.

Especially Zhu Yuanzhang, he thought his son only had some talents, but he didn't expect that this boy's ambitions were so lofty!

Feeding the world sounds simple, but it is extremely difficult to do!

Dynasties change and wars occur frequently. Who are the most tortured and suffering people? Aren't they the common people?

Zhu Yuanzhang was a cowherd boy. When he was a child, it was because his family was poor and could not afford to eat that he realized how tortured the feeling of hunger was. He was so eager that everyone in the world could have enough to eat.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had underestimated Zhu Song before.

"Good son! We didn't expect you to have such ambitions. Okay, we're sure. You can do whatever you want. We won't take the corn seeds back this time. We'll leave them all here for you to do!"

"But there is one thing. Within three years, you have to let us see your results!"

After Zhu Song heard this, he was very happy.

"I promise my father that I will definitely let him see the results, but I also want to ask for another favor from my father!"

"Aren't you too pushy, you brat? We've left all the grain seeds for you, and that's not enough? You still want grace from us!"

Zhu Song straightened his body.

"Father, don't worry. I don't ask you for food or money. The grace I want is very simple. As long as you find crops from other countries in our Ming Dynasty, you must take some and send them to us."
Chapter completed!