"Lord!" Chen Dao walked in from outside and reported to Han Zhan: "How should we deal with the gifts brought by the envoy of the Great Qin?"

Han Zhan casually ordered: "Take it to the backyard and leave it to the butler for handling."

Chen Dao agreed, turned around and planned to leave.

But Han Zhan became very interested in Antonio's gift, so he called out to the other party and asked, "Where is his gift list? Take it to show me."

The gift list was quickly placed in front of Han Zhan. He opened it and browsed it carefully and found that it was nothing more than gold, silver, jewelry, rare birds and beasts, spices and bamboo cloth.

Seeing the bamboo cloth, Han Zhan looked up and asked Guo Jia sitting beside him: "Military advisor, do you know what bamboo cloth is?"

"As the name suggests, bamboo cloth is a kind of fabric made of bamboo as raw material." Guo Jia replied: "Bamboo cloth is soft and strong. The clothes made of it feel extremely cool in summer, while fluffy and warm in winter and spring."

"Fengxiao, if you say it, this bamboo cloth is a good thing." Han Zhan thought to himself that he originally planned to distribute all the things Antonio gave to his subordinates, but since bamboo cloth is a good thing, of course he had to keep it for himself. Thinking of this, he instructed Chen Dao: "Shuzhi, I will send someone to send the bamboo cloth to the backyard later."

After giving Chen Dao, Han Zhan continued to look down, wanting to see if there is anything good. Canned wine is not attractive to Han Zhan, but it can be rewarded to Guo Jia, who likes fine wine.

At the end of the gift list, a bag of seeds is written.

Seed?! Han Zhan was stunned when he saw the content written on it, thinking that Antonio was really interesting. He even gave it to others as a gift.

Curious, he called Chen Dao to his face and said to him: "Uncle Zhi, go and take the seeds on the gift list to show me."

Chen Dao quickly agreed and went out of the hall to pick up the seeds on the gift list.

He didn't have much skill, so Chen Dao walked in with a cloth bag. Han Zhan analyzed from his walking posture that the bag of seeds was not heavy, and it weighed about twenty pounds.

After Xun Yu and Guo Jia were placed on the table, they also came over to see what good things Antonio gave him, which could actually work for Han Zhan to see them personally.

After the cloth bag is opened, there are several small cloth bags inside.

Han Zhan took out a small cloth bag, untied the rope tied to the hole, and took out a small gray-white seed from it. Before Han Zhan could see what it was? Xun Yu next to him had already said first: "Lord? I recognize this thing. Is this the seed of Hu Gua? This thing has the effects of replenishing calcium, connecting bones, strengthening bones, and strengthening the body."

The name of the seeds mentioned by Hu Gua? Xun Yu made Han Zhan stunned for a moment, but he quickly remembered the so-called Hu Gua? In fact, it was the cucumber that everyone was familiar with later generations. It was introduced to China during the Han Dynasty? But due to the low popularity rate, there were only a limited number of people who knew each other and were widely known by people at that time.

Han Zhan picked up the brush beside him, wrote the word "Hu Gua" on the cloth bag, and put the bag aside? He took out another cloth bag with a big head. But what he didn't expect was that the bag looked quite big, but it was light and fluttering when he picked it up.

When he opened the bag and looked at the red seeds inside, Han Zhan was thinking: What kind of seeds are these? Why have you never seen them before?

"I have seen this under my subordinates when they were traveling to Yizhou? It seems to be a seed of a flower." Guo Jia said in an uncertain tone: "The blooming flowers are a white floc, like white clouds in the sky."

The white clouds in the sky? When Han Zhan heard Guo Jia say this, he couldn't help but feel shocked. After blooming, the plant that looks the most like the white clouds in the sky? Isn't that cotton?

Han Zhan remembered that cotton planting first appeared in the Indus River Basin BC, and in the 9th century AD, it was introduced to Spain. It was introduced to Britain in the 15th century AD, and British colonies in North America. Antonio from the Roman Empire may have happened to pass through the cotton production area and purchased some cotton seeds.

Thinking of being able to put on cotton clothes next year, Han Zhan quickly picked up the pen, wrote the word "cotton" in the bag with his slightly trembling hands, and carefully placed it aside.

Seeing Han Zhan writing the word "cotton" on the cloth bag, Guo Jia said in surprise: "It turns out that this thing is called cotton."

"Xun Changshi," Han Zhan looked up and said to Xun Yu: "This thing is called cotton. After it matures, it can be used to weave cloth and make clothes. It can also be used as a warm material to fill it into quilts, mattresses or clothes."

Xun Yu looked at Han Zhan with a surprised look, thinking in his heart, how did the lord know the function of this thing? But before he could ask his question, Han Zhan said again: "Also, cotton seeds can be squeezed into oil and used to light lamps; cottonseed cakes can be used as livestock feed or fertilizer."

When Han Zhan opened a new cloth bag, his face showed a surprise expression. He never dreamed that the cloth bag contained pepper seeds. The pepper was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty. Before that, the only traditional spices were ginger, pepper, dogwood, pepper, etc.

After putting the cloth bag containing pepper seeds aside, he opened the remaining bags one after another. Unfortunately, except for a bag of sesame seeds, the rest were some seeds of trees or flowers.

After reading all the seeds, Han Zhan felt regretful because he did not find any sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, and even peanuts, sunflower seeds and tomatoes belonging to America in the bag. According to a joke on the Internet, even if Han Zhan wants to eat fried eggs with tomatoes, he can't eat them because there are no tomatoes.

After counting all the seeds, Han Zhan handed the cloth bags containing courgettes, cotton, peppers and sesame to Chen Dao, and told him: "Shuzhi, these bags are filled with treasures that are not exchanged for. You must send someone to take care of them. When the spring begins, you can sow the seeds."

Chen Dao took the cloth bag from Han Zhan's hand and agreed and said, "Here!"

Just as Chen Dao was about to leave with a cloth bag in his arms, Han Zhan said quietly behind him: "Shuzhi, if there is anything wrong with these bags of seeds, you can come to see me with your head."

Han Zhan's words were so scared that Chen shivered and almost fell to the ground with people and things. Fortunately, Guo Jia helped him in time before he stood firm again.

Chen Dao heard that Han Zhan was not joking with him, so he quickly straightened his body and promised him: "Lord, please rest assured. Even if Chen doesn't want his own life, he will still save these things."
Chapter completed!