The big incident in Jiandong still has to start with Lin Quanmiao going to Jiandong before taking office. Before Lin Quanmiao went to Jiandong, Wang Kuang asked Lin Han to send a team of caravans to Anxi and Dashi to purchase spice seeds in large quantities, especially to indicate the spice seeds to be produced in the areas south of Sinai.

As a result, there was a big mistake. Wang Kuang only knew that Southeast Asia was rich in spices in later generations, but thought that the Arabs passed the spices from Africa. The Lin family merchants believed in their son-in-law's words. Therefore, whenever they arrived at the two countries, they would stop for a few days and buy them at a high price. As a result, they had never doubted Wang Kuang's words. They thought they would not be there, but they were very rare, so they raised the purchase price again and again, and raised it to the price of one or two sons and ten taels of gold. They all went west and caused a sensation wherever they passed. When people asked where the Lin family caravan came from, they all replied that the Tang Dynasty was Jiandong.

Wang Kuang was looking for spices common in later Western cuisines such as rosemary and Nine-story Tower. A chef who was good at distinguishing taste in the caravan followed him. After more than half a year, he only found rosemary. At this time, it was not called rosemary, but sea dew. The general meaning was the nectar given to humans by the sea.

Moreover, this sea dew was not used as a spice, but as a stimulating drug for sacrifice to the gods. As a result, the king of the Sai Kingdom and the king of the Sai Kingdom saw that the Tang people bought the sea dew at such a high price, and thought that the gospel and glory of the Lord of the God had spread to the Dongtu Heaven Kingdom, so they were naturally overjoyed and hurriedly sent an envoy to come to the east with the Lin family.

In fact, rosemary is native to the Mediterranean area. Fortunately, this trip was not in vain. Not only did I find rosemary, but I also brought Huluo here because of the chef. Although Wang Kuang doesn't like to eat Huluo, he will not promote it without a watch. Moreover, the stewed Huluo meat is also OK.

For Wang Kuang, he never deliberately pursues a certain type of nutrition. He can cook whatever food is delicious. As long as he does not eat anything in a single meal a day, there are few people who can lack any nutrition. If he lacks it, it means that he has a physical problem. It is true that the carotenoid in carobo is dissolved in oil. But if a person wants to supplement it by eating that little bit, he is going to be a deviant.

The Jiandong Islands, which are later Solomon Islands, are not very rich in resources. Except for coconuts and wood. Other resources are basically poor, but coconuts are not specialty for Jiandong. Qiongshan (now Hainan) in Lingnan Road is produced, and the output is not low. If transported from Jiandong to mainland, the cost is much higher than transported from Qiongshan; only wood is quite good. There are many hardwoods here, but the total area of ​​Jiandong Islands is too small. If the wood output on it is to be supplied to the entire continent, it will take less than a few decades. All of them will be cut down. This is the practice of fishing in the sapling of the lake, not what Wang Kuang likes.

The original intention of Jiandong and Jian County was to expand. At this point, Wang Kuang had already communicated with Li Shimin. Therefore, in the future, Lin Quanmiao's political performance will focus on expanding territory and supplementing people's livelihood. There is a balance here that needs to be mastered by Lin Quanmiao. If you ignore people's livelihood, then no matter how many territory you have developed, the people will eventually become disinterested with the court. It is not easy to control it outside the sea border. Therefore, in fact, if Lin Quanmiao wants to do something, people's livelihood is the most important.

Lin Quanmiao has been in Xiaomeiguan for several years, and Wang Kuang's face-to-face teaching before departure, so he was not in a hurry to send a fleet out for adventure. The residents of the Jiandong Islands had contact with the surrounding islands and exchanged goods several times a year. If he made Jiandong prosperous and the lives of Tuhu and his clan were significantly improved, then the residents of other islands would not be so repulsive to the future rule of the Tang Dynasty, and they might even take the initiative to come and vote.

The court's policy to Jiandong was very generous, and it was exempted for ten years, whether it was commercial tax, agricultural tax or fishing tax, and all of them were exempted. The salaries of officials in the yamen were allocated by the court. In other words, in Jiandong County, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not have to pay a son from the court within ten years, and the court also sent troops to protect them. Even if they wanted to build roads, canals, and city walls, the yamen would pay wages to recruit people. Therefore, although the goods were not abundant, there were many people going to Jiandong, including the previous one.

Some families who have suffered droughts and floods in their hometowns and have been washed away or have been completely harvested in the fields. I heard that Jiandong will never have droughts, and it will not be cold all year round, and the rain will be abundant, so my family will move the past farmers. They will not have to pay any taxes or apply for any corvee service for ten years. They only need to work in military service, and they are not sent to other places. They are just in Jiandong. During the busy farming season, soldiers will help do farm work. By doing this, ten years are enough for them to accumulate enough wealth, so many people are moved.

Especially who is the magistrate of Jiandong County? That is the nephew of Jian'an Hou. So how can Jiandong be worse?

In the second half of the 14th year of Zhenguan, except for the big trouble of looking for spices, Jiandong was very dull. Jiandong was just established, and being able to do Jiandong well was a merit of defending the territory. Lin Quanmiao didn't have to worry about any problems in his class exam.

There was also news from the imperial village that because the heavy responsibilities that the imperial village had to bear had been understood by Liao Xiaosi, he worked very hard to do his work. According to the king's conditions, it was estimated that the land would not be renovated until the end of the year, but Liao Xiaosi used some connections to find the Qianniu Guards stationed near the imperial village to help. It was almost done in more than a month. I think it was because there were often planting strange flowers and plants in the imperial village. Liao Xiaosi may often sell it privately on weekdays, so he was called to help.

The purchasing clerk who came back from the grassland indeed brought a whole group of cattle and sheep. After they arrived at a place, they did not explain their purpose. Instead, they walked around for a few days, chatted with people everywhere, and observed the cattle and sheep that met the requirements of Jian'an Hou. They were all tall and tall, and were said to grow fast. They bought them in groups as soon as they bought them. They only said that Chang'an needed so many cattle and sheep to hold a large banquet, and after a few months, they bought thousands of them. After returning to Chang'an, they asked those good cattle and sheep to choose 500 of them to be fed in the imperial village.

In addition to the chickens, ducks, geese and other chickens that had been raised before, the imperial village has completely lost its appearance as before. It is a breeding ground. Only in one corner of the imperial village, there are some strange flowers and plants that even Wang Kuang couldn't bear to dig, and he has also taken a place to raise some animals that were tributed to foreign countries, including the giraffe.

In addition, the watermelons planted by Wang Kuang had already matured. Because he was worried about failure, Wang Kuang did not plant all the more than 200 watermelon seeds, but only planted twenty or thirty. Fortunately, he and Xu Guoxu were really found by him in the Le Renjian that day. He served him with him. More than a dozen of them had grown melons and matured smoothly. When he saw the watermelons with people in the field with their heads as big as green and black stripes, Xu Guoxu couldn't help picking them before he could mature, but he turned his mouth into a sluggish and unpalatable way.

Before the first batch of watermelons were ripe, the first batch of burnt large tiles were sent over in the slime kiln. These new tiles were not the size of a palm, but were really made strictly according to the specifications and styles of mud tiles. The area was equivalent to the size of four palms. In this way, laying tiles only requires laying them according to the usual tiles, and then brushing lime at the joints with a brush. Just as the weather began to cool down, Wang Kuang asked someone to replace the original tiles, which took more than one acre of land, and it was replaced in two days. This was much faster than before, which took more than half a month.

The newly replaced glass tiles are not useless. At least, when used on the roof, they can increase the lighting in the house, and the same is true for use on the windows, so Wang Kuang was moved to Jianlin Restaurant to renovate them.

More than a dozen watermelons were harvested by Wang Kuang for more than 200. More than 1,000 kilograms of watermelons were sent out except for a few left to taste by myself. The family members who sent the watermelons roughly described the method of planting watermelons, so that the families who could not easily discard the seeds. The one who got the most melons here was of course the palace. At this point, no one could compare with the palace. It is also a blessing that the watermelon ripened not at the same time like rice, but ripened in batches. Therefore, although Wang Kuang left a few, he still enjoyed the food one after another. At this time, Wang Kuang began to plant the second batch of watermelons, striving to harvest a batch before the New Year and eat watermelons during the New Year. This felt good.

There are not many people who know how to plant glass sheds, only people in the palace and several nationals. The main thing is artificial pollination. Wang Kuang doesn’t say it easily, and people in the palace don’t say it, and several nationals are even more reluctant to say it. It’s a face to eat vegetables in winter. Who can bring a few plates of green fresh vegetables when treating guests in the middle of winter. The degree of glare on the owner’s face is definitely much higher than that on the dragon liver and phoenix marrow.

The arrival of rosemary gave Wang Kuang the opportunity to fight back against Wu Meiniang. The first step was to prevent Wu Meiniang from gaining her original favored position. The weapon of this counterattack was rosemary. In addition to being a spice, rosemary also has another function, which others don’t know and will not think about. This is the secret weapon used by Wang Kuang to deal with Wu Meiniang. However, it was not Wang Kuang who used this weapon, but Empress Changsun.


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