Shortly after the minister's assistant left, the prince ushered in a long-awaited piece of good news.

Sean, the pro-guard who had gone to the Blue Water Harbor to buy crop seeds, returned.

As Roland followed the messenger into the garden, he saw Sean and several other guards unloading bags of packages from their mounts.

It's been almost a month since the day he left, and he looks like he's tanned a lot and he's lost a bit of weight.

Seeing the prince appear, Sean immediately stood up straight and raised his hand in salute. Roland stepped forward quickly and patted him on the shoulder, "Good job." What seeds did you bring back?"

Sean crouched down and unwrapped the package on the ground, "Pearl rice, ground eggs, candy sticks...... I bought all the plants you described. It's true that most of them come from Fiordland Country, but there are already plenty of farmlands growing these crops in Bluewater. ”

"Have you asked the merchant about the method of planting?"

They asked, but they couldn't tell them how to do it, and they said that if the plants left the southern border, it would be difficult to grow them in other places. Sean grabbed a handful of yellow-orange-orange granules from the package and spread them out in front of Roland, "Your Highness, this is pearl rice." The merchant said that if I bought it with the pearl rod, it would be cheaper. However, the pearl rod was too heavy to carry, so I only bought one whole and came back, and the rest were peeled seeds. ”

There was no doubt that pearl rice was the corn he was familiar with. He excitedly pinched a corn kernel and put it to the sun to look at. The fruit is a little shriveled, and it seems that it has been stored in stock for a winter. Corn is naturally much more productive than wheat, and with low soil requirements, coupled with leaf modification, it may soon replace wheat as the main food ration in border towns.

Sean unwrapped another package and took out a round brown crop, "This is a ground egg, I ate it in a hotel in Bishui Harbor, cut into strips and soaked in a basin of water, it is very crispy to chew, and has a faint sweet taste." ”

Seeing this familiar appearance, Roland was full of emotion. He used his fingers to pluck open the dirt-stained skin, revealing the dark yellow flesh inside—a small potato compared to later generations, with a darker tuber, and not every piece looked like an egg. He noticed that there were also potatoes in the bag that were in the shape of carrots.

"It's better when it's crushed and steamed into a paste. ”

"Uh...... Your Highness, have you eaten it?"

"Well, I ate it at the palace banquet," Roland decided to tell a lie, because the name of the egg was so ugly, "and the chefs don't call it the egg, but the potato." The delicious snack that comes out of the steaming is called mashed potatoes. ”

"I see, worthy of His Highness, I am really well-informed. Sean sighed, opening the last straight package and pulling out a black-skinned stick, "Your Highness, I think this crop is the most important thing." The honey in Bishui Harbor is very cheap, in large part because of it. I heard in the tavern that more and more of their farmland began to be converted to sugar sticks, and the stalks of this miraculous plant turned out to be sweet, and after peeling off the skin, you can squeeze sugar water, the price is one-tenth of honey, but it is not inferior to honey* water in sweetness. ”

"......" Roland was tempted to say that he had seen this crop himself, and by the way changed the name to sugar cane, but it was better to forget it, and it was not too late to correct it when the lords planted it later. The raw material for sugarcane to make sucrose can also be used to refine ethanol when planted, which can be regarded as a crop that can greatly improve the happiness of residents. Think about it, the bread made from flour is bland and tasteless, but if you sprinkle some sugar in it, it can suddenly increase the taste of the taste by a few layers, even a salty party like Roland will fall for it.

"Are there any other crop seeds?"

"That's all for the Blue Water Harbor," he said, taking out five or six small leather bags from his personal pocket and handing them to His Highness, "you tell me to bring back the plant seeds that Grey Fort has but the town does not have, these are the bags I picked when I passed through Willow Leaf Town and Falling Dragon Ridge, and there are grapes, soybeans, cotton, flax, and olive tree seeds. However, the farmer said that most of the grapes are planted by inserting branches into the ground, and although the seeds can be planted, the germination period is very slow, and the grapes that produce are not very tasty. ”

There are leaves, and none of this is a problem, Roland thought. Now that you have grape seeds, maybe it's time to try the grapevine version of wheat. Soybeans, cotton, flax, and olives were all useful crops, and the leaves were first improved to produce seeds suitable for the western climate and soil, and then handed over to the serfs for small-scale cultivation, and finally the Ministry of Agriculture was responsible for summarizing the improvements and compiling a planting manual.

"Your Highness, I have some news to report to you," Sean whispered, "about the situation in the Blue Water Harbor. ”

"Does it have anything to do with the Three Princesses?"

Sean nodded, "I've been in the Blue Water Harbor for nearly two weeks, and I've spent most of my time in the tavern except for buying seeds. Rumor has it that your sister Garcia Wimbledon has made a deal with Shamin. She gave the southern edge of the lands to the sandfolk to live in, and the sandfolk made her king, and obeyed her conscription and command. And during my time at the harbor, I did see a lot of Mojin people on the streets. ”

The Mojin people of the Far South...... Although the border towns do not care about their origins, it is another matter to lure a large number of foreign races to settle in the kingdom's territory. It seems that in order to compete for the throne, Garcia is really unscrupulous, Roland thought. "The sand people are also divided into many factions, and it is impossible for them all to obey her instructions, do you know which clans she is courting?"

Sean shook his head, "The Sandmen are very wary of the Grey Castle people, and I can't buy more detailed information with the Golden Dragon." But...... One thing is very strange. The day before I was supposed to leave Clearwater, Garcia had returned from Eagle City in triumph, and the city was full of celebrations about their queen's defeat of the puppet king Tifeko, but the next day there were four or five homicides in the city, and one of the victims was torn into pieces in the street. ”

"The ban was then imposed at the port and I had to stay there for three more days. The taverns were closed, and everyone gathered in the lobby of the inn to talk about it, some saying that it was the revenge of the puppet king, and others that it was the work of the sandmen. One of the Fiordland traders said he had witnessed one of the killings, and that the abuser was not very tall and clearly not a sandman, but neither the strength nor speed of a normal person could possibly possess it. The security team that heard the news was killed by him, and he was indifferent even if he was stabbed several times and the blood was all over the ground. It wasn't until more vigilantes arrived that shields and spears were on hand to kill him. When the ban was lifted, I didn't dare to stay any longer, so I immediately rushed back by merchant ship. ”

"You've done a good job," Roland pondered for a moment, "and the remaining golden dragons from the purchase of the seeds don't have to be returned to the town hall, so be your reward." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward!"

"The strength and speed are far beyond the ordinary, ignoring the pain of a knife wound, it sounds like ...... The pill of the church. When the guards left, the nightingale's voice rang in my ears.

"I think so too. But that would make even more sense," Roland frowned, "According to Sean, Garcia will only get the pill sooner than me, and support the two sides in their fight for the throne...... What the hell are they thinking?" he had a faint hint of bad thought in his heart, wasn't the real purpose of the church to see a stable Grey Castle? )