After autumn, Xianyang was golden in the entire Weihe Plain.

Milk rice has entered the season of ripening and harvesting.

Chen Xu's fiefdom is also busy with farms. In addition to working in court, Chen Xu has to take time to go to Cuju Square almost every day to learn about the latest investment progress, most of the rest of the time is spent in his fiefdom and farm to guide the harvest of various crops, garlic, sesame, pepper and other crops brought from the Western Regions have achieved great harvests this year.

The sesame seeds sowing area exceeds 500 mu. Although the yield per mu is very low, less than one stone, it is also an extremely considerable number, which is estimated to reach at least 400 stones. Chen Xu also asked the teaching staff and students of the Agricultural College to select the thick branches and many fruit pods according to the screening method last year, as for the good seeds left, they can only make oil or make sesame cakes and other foods. According to Chen Xu's calculations, after the sesame harvest this year,

Next year, you can basically choose a large number of counties to start promoting seeds. Under the mandatory administrative requirements, sesame, an oil crop that improves the dietary structure of the people, can be promoted to almost suitable areas across the country in three years. The production process of sesame oil is very simple. It only needs to be published in the newspaper and someone who is interested can see it. At that time, there will inevitably be a large number of oil processing workshops in counties and towns across the country. In conjunction with the popularization plan of iron pots, cooking, a traditional Chinese cooking method, will soon enter the homes of ordinary people.

As the food style of Daqin, which has long been famous all over the world, eating has always been the most important achievement of Chen Xu's efforts to promote. Only by allowing the people to eat well can the Qin Dynasty become more prosperous and stable.

Last year, half of the land was harvested, and a lot of wild garlic was transported back from the Western Regions this year. After Chen Xu's special arrangement, the garlic in the farm this year has been planted with a total of five acres of land. These five acres can be increased by at least ten times next year, and then the agricultural college will promote it. In a few years, it will also become a daily condiment in the vegetable gardens of ordinary people.

The same is true for pepper, but pepper is a spice crop with very low yields, and it is troublesome to plant. People may not necessarily have demands. However, for the wealthy family, pepper and pepper will soon become indispensable daily condiments. The possibility of large-scale promotion and planting is not very high. However, people with vision and leisure can also subsidize household consumption when they go out for sale. It is a very precious economic crop. As long as the people start to plant slowly, these spices will soon enter the daily table of the people in ten or eight years.

Generally speaking, Daqin's main agricultural production is still concentrated on grains, such as grain crops that fill their stomachs, but economic crops such as oil and spices will soon develop greatly with the improvement of people's lives.

Chen Xu is rich and powerful now, so he will naturally spare no effort to promote it. With his participation, many things that originally developed by the natural history will develop in a jumping process, just like the promotion of cement and steel. In recent years, with the emergence of Chen Xu, the production and life of the people of the Qin Dynasty have almost jumped from the Qin and Han Dynasties in history to the Tang and Song stages. The large-scale construction of cement roads and transportation issues have almost been promoted to the level of the 1950s and 1960s in New China.

After an hour of inspection on the fief, Chen Xu rode back to Qinghe Villa. There was a fertile vegetable field next to the villa. This place had always been a place to provide various vegetables for Qinghe Marquis Mansion. Pepper and garlic were planted nearby. Now there were more than ten neatly planned small vegetable gardens on this field, with some sparse green vegetable seedlings on it. Each vegetable garden also had a wooden sign, some with watermelon, coriander, onion seedlings, etc., but most of them had no name because Chen Xu didn't recognize many of the growing vegetable seedlings.

"Mr. Marquis, autumn is already coming, and some of the seedlings that have just grown have begun to wilt!" The manager in charge of this vegetable garden and several servants surrounded Chen Xu and said angrily.

"It doesn't matter if coriander and these onion seedlings are all autumn and winter crops, and the others seem to be incompetent!" Chen Xu squatted down and looked at the growing seedlings that could not distinguish the variety, and shook his head regretfully.

"Mr. Marquis, don't use your feelings. These still have seeds. When the spring begins, the Marquis will definitely be able to eat what you mentioned in the watermelon, cantaloupe and eggplant cucumber next year!" The manager quickly comforted him.

"Well, make some millet grass to cover these seedlings with heat so that they can continue to see what kind of variety they are!"

"Mr. Marquis~~" Just as Chen Xu was checking these seedlings next to him, a manager in the Marquis's house ran over in anger.

"Why are things in such a hurry?" Chen Xu stood up with a frown.

"Marty, the palace servants are coming to summon me. Your Majesty asks you to enter the palace immediately!" The manager said repeatedly, wiping sweat from his forehead.

Chen Xu was a little surprised. Xianyang was calm recently, and he didn't know why the emperor was rushing to do what he wanted to do. Moreover, there was no urgent matter when he was just in court.

However, in the face of Qin Dada's summoning technique, Chen Xu did not dare to delay, so he quickly went back to wash and change clothes, and then took a carriage to the Xianyang Palace.

When he arrived at Zichen Hall, Chen Xu discovered that not only Feng Quji and Meng Yi were there, but also the imperial physician Zhou Jiong, the imperial physician Xu Fu, and even a mighty general wearing brocade robe and a martial arts crown. It was Meng Tian, ​​the Marquis of Jingwu who was commanding the army to attack the Western Regions. There was also a doctor wearing an official robe and a white hat beside him.

Everyone looked serious.

"You are here just right, please take your seat!" Qin Shihuang stood up and greeted him. Feng Quji, Meng Yi and Meng Tian and others stood up and bowed. After a greeting, Chen Xu sat down. The palace maid brought tea and left. Chen Xu looked at the serious expressions of everyone and asked before he could drink tea: "Your Majesty, do you know what urgent matters are there to summon me to the palace?"

"Marquis Jingwu will tell you about this!" Qin Shihuang sat down.

"The Queen of Qinghe is unknown. Since we started attacking the Western Regions at the end of February this year, we have conquered more than 40 city-state tribes in the Western Regions in just two months. However, the climate in the Western Regions is very different from that in the Central Plains. Many soldiers are not accommodating. In addition, the climate gradually becomes hot after the summer, and many soldiers are sick..." Meng Tian briefly explained the situation in the Western Regions and looked at Chen Xu.

"Left Prime Minister, the army is currently stationed near the plateau of the desert west, close to the Dayuan border. Because the soldiers are sick and have symptoms of a plague outbreak, if not dealt with in time, the army will probably be seriously damaged. The Western Regions are thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and food and supplies cannot keep up. There are already signs of chaos in the military camp. Now, as autumn is already in full swing, the Western Regions have begun to become cold and there is a lack of clothing..." The military doctor sitting next to Meng Tian also explained.

Chen Xu couldn't help but frown after hearing this.

Such things will happen in any era, not to mention that people in Xianyang will not adapt to the environment and will not adapt to the environment even if they go to Lingnan. This is related to the environment and is related to the physical differences caused by different eating habits throughout the year. The disease is easy to treat, but the situation of not adapting to the environment is indeed a headache.

The incompatibility of the water and the local environment also brings about disease transmission and even plague. Because people in different places have different physical constitutions and living environments, the pathogenic bacteria they carry are also different. When the viruses that people in the Central Plains can resist in the Western Regions, people in the Western Regions may not be able to resist. Some common viruses in the Western Regions can also be unable to resist after contact with them. This is a very common virus theory.

For example, during the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols attacked the Song Dynasty's capital Bianliang, causing a plague to break out in the city soon. A sudden infectious disease caused 40% of the population of Bianliang to die. As the fugitives flew around, the plague swept across most of China. Later, the Mongolian general Mengge attacked Sichuan, and a plague broke out within the Yuan army. Because the Mongols' physique could not resist a virus carried by a mouse in Sichuan, the result led to heavy casualties in the Yuan army, and Mengge also died of illness.

In the development of human civilization, there were countless military defeats due to the disagreement of the environment, including the conquering the West, Alexander the Great, who also died of this disease of disagreement of the environment. He had a fever all over his body and was helpless after less than ten days. Then the powerful Macedonian Empire quickly collapsed, and a powerful empire spanning the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe collapsed.

No powerful warrior can resist a small virus.

This is the helplessness of human beings, especially this kind of expedition is most likely to occur. Once an irresistible epidemic or plague occurs, the morale of the army will soon collapse.

What's more, if the Qin Dynasty continues to attack westward, the altitude sickness caused by thin oxygen on the Pamir Plateau will be more difficult to resist than the inability to adapt to the local environment.

"Marty, according to the situation told by the general and the military doctor, the soldiers in the military camp should have suffered a plague!" The imperial physician Ling Zhou Jiong bowed to Chen Xu uneasyly.

"Did you know when this disease began and what are the symptoms?" Chen Xu turned to look at the military doctor.

"Return to Zuoxiong, this disease started at the end of March, because most of the food provided by the countries in the Western Regions were beef and mutton and some collected wild grass fruits. After eating, the abdominal distension was difficult to digest. In addition, the climate in the Western Regions was dry and difficult to relieve urination and the soldiers could not bear the thirst and would drink a lot of water. By the end of April, symptoms of disease began to appear in the military camp. By the hot summer of May, the situation became more and more serious..."

"What should I do if I do?" Chen Xu is now the left prime minister, second only to the emperor. In the past year, he has already accumulated a body of official spirit, speaks with a strong aura, and his language has become very direct and concise.

"Mr. Marquis, it is common for the Lao Shi to be unable to adapt to the environment and the local environment. Fu thought that he should start with food first, let the soldiers eat the food familiar to the Central Plains, and then cooperate with the medicine to treat it, so that the disease may be transmitted well!" Xu Fu bowed and replied.

"What the Imperial Physician said is good. If you are not accustomed to the environment, you should start with your diet. As for clothing, it is still second-hand. The Western Regions are rich in cattle, sheep, horses and camels. Just ask the countries in the Western Regions to speed up making some clothes to keep warm!" Meng Yi nodded slightly.

Feng Quji frowned, and the army of 20,000 was thousands of miles away. To solve the problem of food, he had to transport a large amount of food and grass from the Central Plains to the Western Regions. The food was fine, but to transport so much food, it would inevitably require more than 100,000 civilians and soldiers and tens of thousands of cattle and horses. The roads in the Western Regions were not smooth and the carriages were difficult to transport. The manpower and material resources were consumed alone, which was huge pressure for the court.

"Your Majesty, the Western Regions are not an indispensable place for our Central Plains. Now all the countries in the Western Regions have surrendered. I think that a small number of soldiers can be left behind and the army can be withdrawn from the Longxi camp for repair!" Feng Quji thought about it and bowed.

Qin Shihuang also frowned. After a while of silence, he ordered the eunuch at the door, "Go to my bedroom and get the world map!"
Chapter completed!