The banquet at the palace was a great success, and the emperor and all the ministers and princes, after tasting the food of the Americas, were all very satisfied, and praised the Americas as a good place, and there were so many delicacies. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After leaving the palace, Ang Lee was not idle, there were many seeds and vines brought from the Americas that had to be disposed of as soon as possible to avoid causing more and more losses.

Now, in addition to the greenhouse of Li An's family, many princes and nobles have greenhouses in their homes, and the imperial court has established a greenhouse that is much larger than Li An's family, so as to provide a steady stream of fresh vegetables for the palace when the weather is cold.

At present, many plants and seeds from the Americas have been shipped to Chang'an City, and it is urgent to plant these plants and seeds in the soil as soon as possible.

There are many experts in agriculture in the Tang Dynasty, but they are only proficient in the crops of the Tang Dynasty, as for the crops of the Americas, they are completely ignorant, and if they want to grow the crops of the Americas, they must rely on the help of Li An, which is beyond doubt.

Li An went to the greenhouse base of the imperial court, and in front of all the officials, gave detailed instructions, telling them how to grow these American crops.

In addition, the officials proposed to test these crops under different conditions to verify the yield of these crops under different conditions and to find the most optimal planting methods.

Ang Lee agreed with the ministers, but rejected some obviously erroneous plans, because they would directly lead to the extinction of crops and would greatly waste plants and seeds from the Americas, which Ang Lee could not tolerate.

The planting methods of many crops in the Americas are different from those of Datang, which Ang Lee is naturally very aware of, but many people in Datang, including agricultural technicians, may not be clear.

For example, the cultivation of sweet potatoes must be planted on a raised mound, so that a higher yield can be obtained, and it will become very convenient when harvesting, and all crops in Datang are not planted in this way, so when Li An made this request, many agricultural technical officials all frowned, thinking that it is very troublesome to build a ravine.

After Ang Lee's detailed explanation, these ministers of agricultural technology understood the characteristics of sweet potato planting, and gradually recognized Ang Lee's method, and then immediately arranged for the technical personnel to rectify the land in the greenhouse to meet the requirements of sweet potato planting.

In addition to bringing back a large number of sweet potato products, the fleet also brought back a very considerable number of sweet potato vines, which can naturally be planted, and each planting point only needs a small section of sweet potato vines, so that the combination of the two can make sweet potatoes popular in Datang at a faster speed.

The planting and transplanting of crops such as corn and potatoes were all completed under the personal guidance of Ang Lee, after all, only Ang Lee knew more about these crops, and others really did not have the ability to handle the cultivation of these crops.

After instructing the agricultural technical officials of the imperial court, Li An returned to his family's vegetable greenhouse base, where a large number of American plants had been transported, which were specially reserved for Li An's research.

"Ah Lang, you're finally back, we've never seen these things before, and we don't know how to grow them?"

Zhao Liu has been guarding the door of the greenhouse, he knows that Li An will definitely come to the greenhouse after he is busy with the affairs of the imperial court, there is no doubt about this, he knows Li An very well.

Li An looked at the crops and seeds stacked in the greenhouse, and said loudly: "Go and find everyone, I will personally guide you in your work." ”

Zhao Liu answered and went to gather all the male servants.

After all the personnel arrived, Li Ang began to instruct the male servants to use tools to change all the flat land into wavy raised land, and plant sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines in the raised places.

In order to save these precious sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines, Li Ang asked the male servants to put a sweet potato and sweet potato vine at certain distances, as long as these guys grow, the whole space will soon be filled.

After the sweet potato vines fill the entire space, these excessive sweet potato vines can be pruned, and the pruned sweet potato vines can be planted elsewhere, so as to better popularize the sweet potato plant in the Tang Empire, benefit the people, and make the people's living standards higher.

All the male servants are very hard-working, and they are not lazy at all, as if they are all working for themselves, which is also because Li Ang is too good to them and usually takes great care of them, so these people have reciprocated.

Because sweet potatoes are the most important, Li An prepared five acres of land for planting sweet potatoes, two acres of potatoes, two acres of corn, five acres of peppers because of more types, and other plants, a total of almost thirty acres of land, before finishing these crops transported from the Americas.

Due to the lack of manpower, at present, only the planning and planting technology has been completed, to do a good job of all the 30 acres of land, it will take several days of work, fortunately, the temperature in the greenhouse is relatively high, and it doesn't matter much if you put it for a few more days, after all, it has taken too much time to transport these materials from the Americas, and it is not bad these days.

In addition to the imperial court and Li An's family, many ministers and nobles also got a little American plants and seeds, and tried to plant them in their own greenhouses, of course, all the technology came from Li An, and the people in their mansion also ran to Li An's vegetable greenhouse from time to time to learn from experience, of course, they were not qualified to see Li An, they could only ask the servants of Li An's family, learn from the mouths of these servants, and obtain the necessary knowledge about planting American crops.

A few days later, Li Longji summoned Li Ang into the palace again, and as for what happened, Li An guessed that it must have something to do with the affairs of the Americas.

"Wechen see Your Majesty."

"Li Shilang, you came just in time, come and look at the map."

Li Longji stood in front of the map, carefully observing the location of the Americas, as if he was thinking about some grand strategy.

"Your Majesty is planning to send a fleet to the Americas again?"

Li An didn't have to think about it to know that Li Longji had the intention of sending a fleet to the Americas again, after all, there were so many good things in the Americas that Datang did not have, and a few more trips could bring back more urgently needed supplies to alleviate Datang's needs.

Li Longji grinned, looked at the vast land of the Americas, and said: "I not only want to send a fleet to the Americas, but also send a force of 10,000 soldiers and horses to build cities in several strategic places in the Americas and rule the Americas, so that the Tang Dynasty can continuously transport back enough supplies from the Americas." ”

When Li An heard this, he was stunned, Li Longji, the old man's ambition is not small, not only to claim the products of the Americas, but also to occupy the entire Americas and colonize the rich Americas.

However, there is nothing surprising about it, any ambitious emperor probably likes to conquer! Because the conquest of a piece of land can bring people a great sense of pleasure, especially the emperor, who has everything he should have, and has little interest in ordinary food and beauty, and opening up a large territory can just fill this empty feeling.

"Your Majesty wants to open up a large territory in the Americas, and with the current strength of my Datang, it can be done, but if you want to manage the continent of the Americas, you must have enough ships, and the shipbuilding industry must be vigorously developed, otherwise, the Americas will become an enclave."

Li An also agrees with the Tang Empire's rule over the Americas, after all, the indigenous power of the Americas is very weak now, and with the strength of the Tang Empire, these backward civilizations can be easily conquered, but if there is no strong maritime force, so that the core of the Tang Dynasty and the Americas lack of sufficient intensive contacts, then the territory opened up by the Americas is very likely to develop into an independent country, and it is still a powerful country like the Tang Dynasty, so that the gains outweigh the losses.

When Li Longji heard this, he nodded very approvingly, and said: "The problem that Li Shilang said, I have already thought it through, the shipbuilding industry must be vigorously developed, only if my Datang has enough large steam ships, can we effectively control the Americas, in addition, Australia will also take it, these blank lands will be my Datang's land in the future." ”

Seeing Li Longji domineering to take the entire Americas and Australia into his pocket, Ang Lee was both shocked and admired, people are so old, and they can still have such great ambitions, worthy of being the emperor of the Tang Empire.

"As long as Your Majesty fully supports, my Datang's shipbuilding industry will definitely develop better and better, for the time being, the shipbuilding industry and railways are the top priority of my Datang, shipbuilding can be a good connection with the Americas and other remote places, and the railway can lead to the western countries, which is convenient for the western countries to carry out effective trade with the Tang Dynasty, and promote the prosperity and prosperity of the Tang Empire."

Li An opened his mouth and said, for the current situation of the Tang Empire, the shipbuilding industry and the railway industry are the top priorities, as long as these two industries are well developed, the Tang Dynasty will become more and more powerful, so strong that the small countries of Fanbang will bend their knees forward, and they dare not look up.

"Shipbuilding and railways? These two industries are indeed very important, only the development of shipbuilding and railways, I Datang can control the whole world, Li Shilang does not have any plans, which is the most beneficial to the future development of Datang? ”

Li Longji continued to look at the world map in front of him and asked softly.

Li An walked to the map, pointed to the world map in front of him, and said: "Your Majesty, if I want to get richer and richer, I must trade with various countries, and there are two main trade channels, one is the Silk Road to the west, and the other is at sea, which can be traded by ship, and there are more places for trade, islands and ports along the way can trade, and even to the Americas and Australia, we can call him the Maritime Silk Road, two big passages on land and sea, which can connect almost the entire world, so, Datang will be prosperous for a long time, and these two roads can be called the Belt and Road. ”

"Belt and Road, why is it so strange a name?"

Li An hurriedly explained: "The Belt and Road refers to the Silk Road trade belt on land and the Datang Maritime Silk Road, referred to as the Belt and Road. ”

Of course, this is the grand strategy of the Chinese Empire in later generations, and it is the strategic policy of dominating the world, Ang Lee took it and modified it, and then, it became his own thing, and for the grand strategy of the Belt and Road Initiative, Ang Lee has always been very optimistic, and felt that this plan is also very suitable for the national conditions of the Tang Empire, so he copied it.

"The Silk Road Trade Belt, the Datang Maritime Silk Road, and the Belt and Road Initiative, yes, is a good grand strategy, I am very optimistic, Li Shilang wants to develop more railways and shipbuilding to achieve this grand strategy."

Li Longji listened to Ang Lee's explanation of the Belt and Road Strategy, and agreed very much, and said that he would fully support Ang Lee, so that Ang Lee could let go of his hands and feet to do a big job.

"Li Shilang, the supply points in the south of the Wa Kingdom have been built very well, and next, these islands that have been discovered will also be built into supply points, so that not only steam ships can reach the Americas, but even ordinary sea ships can also go."

Li Longji pointed to several islands in the Pacific Ocean and decided to establish supply points in those places to facilitate the fleet to the Americas, so that effective replenishment could be carried out on the way, and the ships could also be maintained, so as to prevent a one-time voyage at sea that would be too long and cause great damage to the ships.

"Your Majesty is wise, these islands are on the way to the Americas, of course, to establish supply points, as long as the area is large enough, there are fresh water islands, and on the route to the Americas, supply points can be established, so that it is more reliable and safe to go to the Americas."

Ang Lee was very positive about Li Longji's opinion and expressed his full support.

"Li Shilang, how many large steam ships are there now?"

"Your Majesty, counting the newly launched and returned from the Americas, there are more than forty in total, and the latest model of large steam ships is still in the research and development stage."

Ang Lee replied.

"More than forty ships, enough of them, I plan to immediately send these large steam ships to the Americas again, and here, here, and here, to establish three cities respectively as a foothold for my Datang in the Americas."

Li Longji chose three locations to establish the cities of the Tang Dynasty and rule the Americas for a long time.

Li An saw very clearly that the three locations pointed out by Li Longji were North America, Central America and South America, each location had a city, and as long as the three cities developed well, they could completely control the entire Americas, after all, the population of the Americas was very small, and they were all rude natives, and they did not have the strength to confront the Tang Empire.

"Your Majesty, Weichen agrees very much, as long as these three cities are well developed, they can be extended inland at any time, so that more and more land in the Americas can be controlled by Datang, and eventually the entire Americas will be in the bag."