HLnovel Chapter 26 suggests using anti-fraud apps.
Chapter 26 suggests using anti-fraud apps.
Before long, lush corn stalks appeared in the scene, followed by ripe melons falling to the ground.
After the video finished playing, the high yield of corn greatly shocked the First Emperor and others, especially Zhu Yuanzhang, who had come from a famine.
After the video finished playing, Lin Ke held up half a sweet potato and said, "This thing is called sweet potato. It is a high-yield, adaptable grain crop. It prefers warm and sunny conditions and is not frost-resistant. It is suitable for fertile and well-drained sandy soil."
"In the eighth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, a man named Chen Yi arrived in Annam on a merchant ship with a friend. The locals served them a dish that was sweet and sour and could fill their stomachs. This piqued Chen Yi's interest. So, two years later, he bribed the locals and risked his life to smuggle sweet potato seeds back to my country. Sweet potatoes began to be cultivated in the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty."
"When planting sweet potatoes, they don't need to be too close together; leave about three centimeters between them, roughly the distance of your thumb. Their growth cycle is about three months. Taking the Qin Dynasty as an example, the yield per mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 0.165 acres) can reach about 25 shi (a Chinese unit of volume, approximately 0.5 tons). Also, sweet potatoes with black spots are poisonous; please do not eat them!"
"Finally, there's this clod of earth, originally called a potato. Potatoes prefer cool, dry climates and are quite adaptable. They thrive in loose, fertile, sandy soil and are a type of grain with a short growth cycle and high yield."
"Its growth cycle is about three months. Taking the Qin Dynasty as an example, the yield per mu was at least 30 shi. Also, sprouted potatoes are poisonous, so do not eat them."
Ming Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, his eyes reddening, and sobbed, "If my parents had had this much grain back then, why would I have rebelled!"
Empress Ma, standing to the side, held his hand tightly and shook her head at Zhu Biao.
After Zhu Biao and the other princes left, Empress Ma said, "Chongba, the past cannot be changed. Now that we have these grain seeds, why should the people worry about not having enough to eat? If your parents knew, they would probably praise you so much!"
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"These are roughly the high-yield, high-quality seeds we have. Next, let's talk about how people in ancient times were deceived!"
The First Emperor had a bad feeling, and the next second his premonition came true.
"The first victim was Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng. As we all know, Brother Zheng worked diligently to complete the task of unifying the six kingdoms and the world. At this time, he was already quite old. People back then did not live to be over a hundred years old like people in later generations. The average lifespan was only twenty or thirty years."
"So, the First Emperor set his sights on the elixir of immortality. We're not saying that pursuing immortality is the worst thing. Who doesn't want to live to be a hundred? Besides, emperors have emerged one after another in this regard. No one should laugh at anyone else. We're all in the same boat. I'll just mention a name here, cough cough."
"With the First Emperor as a precedent, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and even those who went so far as to refine elixirs themselves! The Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is mentioned in particular, as is Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty who applied cinnabar to the palace, and so on."
"What kind of good thing is this elixir?! It's a bunch of chemical drugs! Taking too much can be fatal! You might be seventy or eighty years old, but after taking this elixir, you'll be forty or fifty. Besides, the lack of offspring in the late Northern Song Dynasty might have been caused by this cinnabar."
During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song
Zhao Zhen was having a headache over the memorials submitted by the officials of the previous court when he suddenly heard these words. He hurriedly ran out of the palace and quickly ordered someone to bring out Consort Miao's newborn child.
So, were the princes and emperors of the Song Dynasty not very prolific in terms of offspring?
So that's the reason!
Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang slammed his fist on the table, furious: "We still have descendants who refine elixirs of immortality, needless to say they'll neglect the court. I'm so angry! How did we end up with such bizarre descendants!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's hands itched as he thought about it. If Zhu Di hadn't gone out to do errands, he would have wanted to pull him over again and give him a good beating.
"At this time, a Taoist priest named Xu Fu appeared. It is said that he was also the last disciple of Master Guiguzi. He was knowledgeable in navigation, medicine and other fields, and was quite famous among the people in the coastal areas."
"The Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of Qin Shi Huang states that in the 28th year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, Xu Fu submitted a memorial saying that there were three divine mountains: Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou. So Qin Shi Huang ordered Xu Fu to lead 3,000 young boys and girls, along with three years' worth of food, clothing, medicine, and farming tools, to sail east to Yingzhou to find the elixir of immortality for the First Emperor."
"Several years passed. In fact, by this time, the First Emperor should have realized that this guy was a fraud. But who was Xu Fu? He was someone who had fooled the First Emperor. It would have been better to throw the money into the war or into the common people! Giving it to Xu Fu was like throwing a meat bun to a dog—it was gone forever."
"Let me call out Your Majesty the Pig here. Your gums are showing, so no one should laugh at anyone else. We're all innocent victims! You're not the kind of person who cheats people out of money and feelings, but one look at you and you know you've really been cheated terribly."
big man
Liu Che's face froze, and he jumped up, cursing, "Me, being fooled?! My alchemists are far better than that Xu Fu! How dare he deceive me!"
The palace servants standing nearby dared not answer; at this moment, they all wished that General Wei would return soon!
"Why did the First Emperor trust Xu Fu so much? It is said that he once encountered a mirage on the shore of the Bohai Sea. In layman's terms, under certain conditions of light refraction, some distant scenes will appear, which look like illusions."
"Let's watch a video experiment on mirages."
The video shows a transparent box with a woman's hand placing various objects inside, such as grass and a small house. Then an unknown liquid is poured in, followed by a layer of transparent material. Finally, a candle seems to be burning in the distance on the surface of the water.
"The First Emperor, lacking this kind of knowledge, was easily fooled by Xu Fu. However, Xu Fu was truly shameless. The first time he said he couldn't find it, the second time he said he found it because the First Emperor hadn't paid enough! He then blamed the First Emperor!"
"In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, Xu Fu recruited five hundred boys and five hundred girls, along with more than three thousand artisans, sailors, and archers. He then gathered supplies in the former territory of the State of Qi before setting off to search for the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang, never to return."
"Hey, Brother Zheng, you should have put this money into the people's livelihood or into the military!"
Daqin
When the First Emperor heard Lin Ke recount this history, he ordered Xu Fu to be brought up. Xu Fu, who had been imprisoned with Li Si, also smelled of salted fish.
Xu Fu trembled and begged the First Emperor for forgiveness, pleading, "Could I please suffer less for what I did wrong?"
At this moment, Lin Ke's words struck Xu Fu's heart like a nightmare.
"Brother Zheng, are you dealing with Xu Fu? Give him a beating first, then squeeze out his remaining value. The fact that he managed to escape to Japan shows that his navigation skills are quite good. Secondly, the explosion that occurred during the alchemy of the First Emperor might lead to the development of explosives, which would make them invincible on the battlefield."