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"Report~~The Kuaiji County Governor reported urgently!"

At the end of October, although it was already a cold winter season, Xianyang was still as calm and lively as ever.

Although there were rebels in the southeast, the emperor sent two generals, Xiongshan Hou and Tongwu Hou, to suppress the bandits one after another, which was not careless. Many people even felt that only thousands of bandits used Tongwu Hou to use them. However, through the military newspapers from various places who were sent back every day after the two armies set off, the bandits in the southwest had been quickly suppressed, and the counties in the southeast had begun to slowly recover. Therefore, in Xianyang City, all civil and military officials worked as usual and looked relaxed. Even the Ministry of War had begun to plan the reward documents for the two generals to return to the court.

But in this relaxed and lively atmosphere, a four hundred miles of accelerated military information from Kuaiji County immediately made Xianyang feel like it was electrocuted and it was instantly exploded.

The Marquis of Xiongshan Tu Sui was not good at the army. Although he had successively captured two counties of Wushang Taimo, which were occupied by the rebels within half a month, he was ambushed and defeated when attacking Yujiang County. General Tu Sui was poisoned and died of arrows, and almost all of the six thousand soldiers were damaged...

This news was like thunder, and instantly shocked the civil and military officials in the court.

After hearing this news, the emperor who was attending court stood up and stayed for a long time, his face kept thrusting.

This era is not a future generation. You can quickly learn more about the details and control the overall situation by making a phone call thousands of miles away. When this urgent report arrived in Xianyang from Kuaiji, it has been at least half a month since it happened.

In other words, this is the news from half a month ago. As for the latest situation, it is still a black patch and it doesn’t know anything.

The sudden arrival of this news naturally disrupted the arrangements of the emperor and the three provinces and six ministries, but at this time, it was impossible to make more decisions and could only wait for subsequent information.

After the scattered dynasty, the emperor returned to Zichen Hall and walked back and forth in the room anxiously. It took a full half a moment before he sent an order: "Come to the Hou Qinghe to enter the palace!"

"Here~" the eunuch retreated.

Qin Shihuang was extremely bored. Although he heard Chen Xu's suggestion to activate Wang Ben for insurance, he did not expect that Chen Xu's words would come true. Tu Sui was indeed careless and lost his life. Not only did he lose his life, but he also lost 6,000 troops. Although this loss was not great, it was unprecedented in the attack on the Qin army and civilians, and it also had a huge impact on the emperor's prestige in the six countries.

Chen Xu has been very comfortable for more than a month. He spent all day at home playing with his wife and daughter, listening to music and reading books, making some delicious food, or going to the Academy of Sciences and factories, and occasionally taking time to go to the farm to arrange winter sowing and spring sowing that is about to begin. As for court affairs, he was not worried, nor could he worry about it. He didn't even care too much about Xiang's rebellion. At first, he asked his servants to inquire about the court memorials sent back from the southeastern counties every day. Later, after Tu Sui and Wang Ben arrived in the Jiujiang counties, the bandits in the south quickly began to subside, so Chen Xu was too lazy to take care of it.

Qin Dada was also in charge of Xianyang. With Wang Ben, the imperial military god, Xiang Liang could not resist the imperial army even if he had the ability to defeat the sky. Because according to the memorial sent back, there was no court chief in the southeastern counties who participated in the rebellion, which was almost the fatal point of the Xiang rebels, and it was completely different from the time and opportunity of the Xiang family rebellion in later generations.

The early rebellion of Xiang's family is also a good thing for the Qin Dynasty. The earlier you jump, the less chance you will succeed. At the same time, you can also give the emperor and the civil and military officials in the court, so that they can know that the Qin Dynasty actually seems stable but is not peaceful.

Li Shun returned from his mission to Yuezhi. Although he was attacked on the road and almost couldn't come back, the grenades he sent finally showed great power in the critical moment to destroy the spirit of the bandits arranged by King Tunan and others. The escorted imperial guards and the guards of the Yuezhi royal court successfully fought back and successfully escaped a life. After Li Shun returned, he arranged for people to send a large cart of strange plant seeds and rouge to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion to transport them back from Yuezhi.

Chen Xu didn't care about the rouge, so he handed over to his wife. The seeds of many Yuezhi specialties made Chen Xu very excited, most of them couldn't recognize. What made Chen Xu happiest were the two sheepskin pockets and several large baskets of walnuts, and even some garlic was cleaned out.

This surprised Chen Xu.

Although these garlics are still wild in the Western Regions and the garlic cloves are very small, as long as they are constantly improved and cultivated, they will definitely become the main food ingredient in the future. Garlic is indispensable in the cooking of food. It not only has antivirus and bactericidal effects, but also can improve the body's immunity and its efficacy is incomparable to wild garlic produced in the Central Plains.

Garlic can be said to be full of treasures, and it can be eaten in different ways. Therefore, in order to eat delicious garlic sprouts and fried shredded pork next year, and with authentic garlic, it can be tasted by steaming, stir-fried and stewed. It can even be made into the delicious seafood of steamed scallops that have been thought about for a long time.

Therefore, in order to plant these precious garlic, Chen Xu personally led his servants to dig half a piece of vegetable field in Qinghe Villa. He digs and trenches to remove weeds and accumulate fertilizers by himself, making the masters and servants of Qinghe Marquis' Mansion watch the work of Qinghe Marquis' like watching the strange thing. After Chen Ping, who came to eat for free, he wrote a press release in the Daqin Metropolis Daily.

"To prosper the Central Plains diet, I personally cultivated the land and sowed garlic!"

If there was a camera, Chen Ping would definitely take a few pictures of Chen Xu working in person and publish them together. Unfortunately, there was no one. However, this did not prevent Chen Xu from becoming a topic of concern and hot discussion among the people in Xianyang because of a small labor scene. It attracted some princes and princes to follow suit and invite a reporter to write a few words. Even the emperor asked what garlic was in the court. After learning that it was an important food ingredient comparable to pepper, he specially arranged for the Ministry of War to mention in the letter to the Longxi Military Camp that it would collect a large amount of garlic seeds from the Western Regions and bring them back for cultivation.

Because just one pepper is now stirring up the food world of Xianyang, countless kings, princes, ministers, officials and nobles are proud to be able to eat a fresh, fragrant and delicious pepper steak in the Qinghe Hotel. They will talk about it for several days after eating one.

However, pepper is precious. Chen Xu used almost all the ones planted last year as seeds. Although the farm still planted a lot and gained a lot this year, in Chen Xu's opinion, it was still not enough to eat, so most of them were arranged to send them to the south to plant. Therefore, it was very difficult to buy, and the value was still comparable to gold.

According to Chen Xu's arrangement, it will be at least ten years later to become a daily spice on the table. Moreover, the yield is very low and the planting cost is very high. Even in the later generations of developed agriculture, pepper is the same as pepper. In terms of the high-end spices sold, high-quality pepper is still dozens or hundreds of yuan per pound, which ordinary people cannot afford.

In a difficult era like Daqin, when 99% of people are still fighting for filling their stomachs, every household has dozens or hundreds of acres of farmland and crops to be served, and they are even less in the mood to plant them. Moreover, pepper seeds are expensive and ordinary people cannot afford them. One or two seeds are the price of one or two gold. Chen Xu can only expect those rich merchants and dignitaries who can afford to buy them and arrange some of them to plant them in his farm after they can buy them, so that the promotion will be even slower.

However, this matter is not urgent, because ordinary people have fewer opportunities to eat meat, fewer opportunities to eat beef and mutton, and they cannot use pepper. Those who can afford it are still those who are rich, and their output and sales are not large and they will not affect the country's economic development and prosperity.

In addition to garlic, the sesame seeds are naturally the surprise of Chen Xu.

Although these sesame seeds are extremely chaotic in black, white, yellow and brown, they are indeed not much different from sesame seeds in later generations, but they are too different in terms of their quality.

Sesame, this is a good thing. With sesame, you can plant and refine sesame oil on a large scale, so that you can get rid of the current difficulties of insufficient oil and fat in the food of the people of Daqin. Although Chen Xu has developed tea tree oil, the yield of tea tree seeds is sparse, and it takes a long time to cultivate oil tea tea to bear fruit. Moreover, the yield is not high, which is not suitable for large-scale planting and promotion. But sesame is different. This is a typical oil crop. It is similar to other grains every year. Although the yield is also not high, what are the advantages of agricultural civilization? It is hardworking and stability. As long as you plant it, you can always harvest some. Even if you don’t use oil to squeeze it, it is also an excellent seasoning season.

Therefore, after getting these sesame seeds, Chen Xu couldn't wait to make a fine mesh screen to filter the sesame seeds, and let the butler collect the selected plump particles. After spring, they chose a ventilated and sunny fertile field to plant. As for some of the remaining shriveled sesame seeds with weak particles, they cooked some fructose and mixed with rice to make a large piece of sesame seeds. This delicious food with a strong aroma made people who have tasted it.

As for walnuts produced in Yuezhi, the style is similar to those of the Central Plains. However, they are much larger in size, with thin skin and large kernels and oily heads. They are definitely good for oil extraction. But after all, they are a kind of nut and are not suitable for planting like crops every year. You can only choose a large one to send to the Agricultural College. After spring, you can choose a hillside to plant. After ten or eight years, you may be able to eat Western Region walnuts with thin skin and large fillings.

Just as Chen Xu was accompanying his three wives to eat delicious sesame and rice candy at home, the eunuch from the palace came to pass the order to let him enter the palace. He had to wash up and change clothes and clean up the palace. At the same time, he also brought some newly made sesame and rice candy.
Chapter completed!