After sending away the night detachment, Wang Xinyu said to Li Dingguo again: "Lord Wang, seeing that your department is in a very difficult situation, you must be short of silver and food here, right?" ”

"Now there are no outsiders, so the virtuous nephew should call me Shibo."

Li Dingguo's situation here was indeed very bad, and there were only about 50,000 or 60,000 Han people who followed the Ming army to the Bamo area, and these Han people later became an ethnic minority in Burma, that is, the Kokang people. It is indeed very difficult to feed an army of 30,000 people with 50,000 or 60,000 people engaged in production. Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were short of food here, and although they had begun to grow high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes at this time, it was still not enough for the soldiers to feed themselves. Because of the lack of food, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan had to obtain food from the Burmese, which made the Burmese very hostile to them.

Wang Xinyu learned about these situations and said to Li Dingguo: "The little nephew has a way to solve the problem of Shibo's silver and food. The little nephew has brought a large number of poppy seeds here, as long as you plant a large number of them, we can let the small boat and the technicians come up along the river and build a factory here in Bamo. ”

"Poppy flowers?" Li Dingguo smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "What's so strange about this thing?" After this king entered Yunnan, he saw a lot. Walking into the mountains, there are many wild ones. Can this thing be sold for money? ”

"Of course, it can't be sold for money without processing, but after processing, it is guaranteed to be sold at a good price!" Wang Xinyu explained.

Bai Wenxuan also spoke: "General Wang and this king have told me about this, this thing has been processed, and it can get a refreshing thing similar to tobacco, but it is much more powerful than tobacco!" After smoking, you will become addicted, and once you become addicted, if you don't smoke, you will have fatigue and even pain all over your body, and you can't even hold a weapon! It's a harmful thing, and we can take it to the tartar! And this thing can sell for a lot of silver. Of course. This thing can't be used by our own people. ”

Hearing that there is such a magical thing, Li Dingguo said calmly: "It's no problem to let the people plant!" But how can this kind of thing be refined and sold to the Tartars? ”

"Please rest assured, the processing and sales are all handed over to our Nanyang company to take care of! As long as we defeat Wu Sangui this time, the little nephew's people will be able to negotiate with Wu Sangui and let him buy this kind of thing from us. As long as Wu Sangui can buy it from us, he will naturally have a way to sell it to those Manmeng Eight Banners. ”

"But Wu Sangui and they are also Han people, if they smoke this poison, won't it harm us Han people?" Li Dingguo still couldn't bear to watch the Han people get infected with this kind of thing.

Wang Xinyu said: "This is easy to do, you can let people tell Wu Sangui." This kind of thing cannot be used by the Han people, it is a luxury item dedicated to the Eight Banners, which is specially used to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager and Ao Bai, and the Han people are not allowed to use it without authorization. ”

"Okay, then it's according to the virtuous nephew! This king will let the people plant this plant! Li Dingguo nodded.

Next, Wang Xinyu took out the chili peppers and Qiongzhou's homemade bean paste that he brought with him: "Shibo, the little nephew also brought a good thing, which can be used to stir-fry vegetables to enhance the taste and dispel dampness." The water and soil here are not adapted. It is mainly caused by dampness and heat, there are chili peppers that can dispel dampness, and then drinking herbal tea to reduce the fire, which can solve the problem of water and soil adaptation. ”

Bai Wenxuan smiled and said, "King Jin." This kind of stir-fry tastes really good! This king has eaten a few meals at the virtuous nephew's place, and he feels that he can't do without this kind of good thing! Now let the virtuous nephew teach our cooks how to cook. ”

In order to entertain Wang Xinyu's arrival, Li Dingguo's soldiers killed a pig, and some people went to the mountains to hunt and came back. They brought back a few pheasants, hares, muntjac and other game, some people dug bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and wild vegetables from the mountains, and some people caught some fish, shrimp and wild ducks from the river.

Wang Xinyu walked into the room. Take out the chili pepper and bean paste and teach the cook to stir-fry. Li Dingguo also followed with great interest to see what the dishes fried by this magical thing looked like.

Bean paste is a specialty of Qiongzhou. As early as the Han Dynasty, they already knew how to make soybean paste, but there were no chili peppers at that time. After Wang Xinyu introduced chili peppers from Manila, he began to produce bean paste in Qiongzhou. He taught how to use chili peppers to add to bean paste to make a spicy and delicious bean paste.

When the chef put the chili peppers into the oil pot under the guidance of Wang Xinyu, a choking spicy smell wafted into the air, and suddenly Li Dingguo and others couldn't help sneezing.

"This thing, it's so choking!" Li Dingguo covered his nose.

"Haha!" Wang Xinyu said with a smile, "This thing can not only be used for stir-frying, but also a very powerful weapon!" The little nephew brought a lot this time, and we can't finish eating, so we can use it to entertain Wu Sangui and them! Let them taste the roasted chili peppers! As long as we use it in the upwind direction, it will only make them lose their combat effectiveness and will not affect us. ”

"I didn't think there was such a feature!" Li Dingguo was full of praise.

Under Wang Xinyu's guidance, the chef stir-fried plates of delicious kung pao chicken, back to the pot meat, fish-flavored shredded pork, spicy tofu and boiled live fish, and roasted hare and muntjac meat to a fragrant taste, with a little chili powder and cumin.

"It's served! Let's eat! The cooks walked out with steaming dishes.

Generals such as Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan, Wang Xinyu, Li Sixing, Gao Wengui, Ma Jiugong, Zhang Guoyou, and Zhao Desheng sat around a table, and some middle-level officers sat at other tables.

Before serving, the cook first served the table with a can of steaming old ginger and duck soup according to what Wang Xinyu said.

"Drink some ginger soup first, and then drink herbal tea for a while and you won't get sick. As the saying goes, eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and don't find a doctor to prescribe it. Although drinking herbal tea can detoxify the fire, it hurts the stomach, drink some ginger soup to nourish the stomach, and you will not have diarrhea. Wang Xinyu pointed to the duck soup on the table and said to Li Dingguo.

After the soup, the cooks served plates of steaming dishes.

"Come, let's taste our Qiongzhou cuisine." Wang Xinyu greeted Li Dingguo and others.

Li Dingguo took a few bites and praised endlessly: "It tastes really good!" The core of this Qiongzhou dish is this chili, right? This kind of chili pepper is much more fragrant than the dogwood used by the spicy Sichuan and Dian people, and the spicy taste is not the same. The Sichuan and Yunnan people like spicy, but their dishes are spicy and not so fragrant. This dish doesn't choke your nose at all, the spicy taste is strong, fragrant, and it smells comfortable! The taste is much better, too! ”

All the people who ate Sichuan food, no, now it is Qiongzhou food, and they all think that the taste is really good, it is delicious and delicious, and it can increase people's appetite.

"But not everyone likes spicy food, and there are many people who don't like spicy food. It's too humid here, so if you don't like spicy food, you can eat barley and winter melon. Also, a person has just arrived in a place, and eating water-milled tofu is also a way to restrain the water and soil. Wang Xinyu said.

Li Dingguo exclaimed: "General Wang was born in medicine, right? Being able to come up with so many ways to adapt to the soil and water is indeed high! This will prevent the soldiers from being attrition due to illness! Two years ago, the king also went to the city of Awa and almost took the emperor away. It's a pity that because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, the weather is hot, and the soldiers are sick and have lost too many personnel, and finally had to evacuate. Thinking of that failure, I really panicked! If he had known these methods, this king would have surrounded him for half a year and a year! ”

Wang Xinyu said: "The last general also knows a little bit about it, if he is proficient in medicine, it is still far away." ”

After lunch, the cooks brought the herbal tea and fairy grass jelly that Wang Xinyu taught them to make.

"There are all kinds of herbal teas here, as well as fairy grass jelly developed by Mo himself, please taste it." Wang Xinyu said with the herbal tea on the table.

Li Dingguo took a sip of herbal tea made of honeysuckle, monk fruit, mulberry leaves, etc., and took a sip, feeling sweet and delicious, and a little bitter taste, drinking it was very refreshing, and the fire accumulated in the humid and hot area of Yunnan for a long time suddenly dissipated a lot, so he praised: "This is indeed a good thing!" ”

Li Dingguo also tasted the fairy grass honey invented by Wang Xinyu: this is a refreshing drink specially used by high-ranking officers and generals: first use fairy grass to boil soup, then add rice soup, and let it cool to freeze into fairy grass jelly. When eating, honey is added to make a cool and detoxifying fairy grass honey, which can reduce the heat.

"These herbal teas can be promoted, which can reduce the occurrence of plagues. In addition, you can brew some vinegar for everyone to use. Also, because of the hot climate, the brothers should bathe every day, boil the water they drink, and wash their hands before eating, all of which are ways to avoid the plague. Wang Xinyu introduced to Li Dingguo and others how to deal with the plague.

In real history, it was because Li Dingguo's ministry was not adapted, a large number of soldiers were infected with the plague, Li Dingguo himself was seriously ill, and when he learned the news that Yongli was killed, he was in a hurry, and he died young.

Now that Wang Xinyu has a way to deal with the plague and the lack of adaptation to the soil and water, Yongli will not be in any danger for the time being, and it is estimated that Li Dingguo will have no problem living for another twenty years.

The night team sent by Wang Xinyu was galloping on the mountain road, rushing to various avenues and paths that the Qing army might detour.

Three days later, hundreds of miles away on the Nu River, the Yunnan-Burma border.

Two figures emerged from the forest, wearing green clothes, and their helmets were wrapped in green cloth, and not only that, but they also had a net with leaves, blades of grass, and branches on top of the net, and a ring of grass on top of the helmet.

These two people are sent by Wang Xinyu to collect Yebu, one is named Guo Feng, and the other is called Tang Chong. As soon as the two arrived here, they were ambushed in the mountains and forests.

The mosquitoes in the primeval forest are very vicious, a bite is a big bag, and there are various poisons such as leeches, poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, etc., which threaten to be harvested at night. But the two of them stuck to their posts.

Two days and two nights have passed, and there is still no movement here in the Nu River. But on the third day, Guo Feng and Tang Chong spotted a Qing army approaching from the river valley to the northeast and was attacking Burma.

"We have to report this to King Jin quickly! It's hundreds of miles away from Bamo, and it will take at least five days for the army to arrive! Guo Feng said. (To be continued.) )