Chapter 419

Magic Potato Enters Japan

Chapter 419 Magic Potato Enters Japan

Historians of later generations may never have imagined that the serious topic related to the succession of the Ryukyu Kingdom was quietly discussed by the monarch and his ministers in a side hall in Okayama, Bizen, Japan.

The issue of succession to the Ryukyu throne is undoubtedly the top priority on this agenda. After this matter is negotiated, the issue of Ryukyu is basically over.

But Kamei Tomoki did not resign to the Xiu family as usual, but instead showed off to the Xiu family, "Before I left, I heard that His Highness is about to marry Toyotomi Danayan's daughter, and that Okayama Castle is about to be completed, and His Highness is about to move to a new home." , so I thought about what gift to give His Highness.

It just so happened that the King of Ryukyu had a flower garden in Shuri City, which was planted with exotic flowers and trees unique to the Ming Dynasty, Luzon and other places, so I dared to present two kinds to His Royal Highness. "

After that, with the permission of the Xiu family, they ordered people to bring in 4/5 plants from the outside, two of which were unknown to the Xiu family. The green leaves were like shrubs, and there were 4~5 flowers dotted with stars on them. The pentagonal petals, light purple flower color, and yellow flower core are very pleasing to the eye.

As soon as Xiujia finished saying "I have a heart", my attention was drawn to the other two long-stemmed bouquets. The leaves are alternate, pinnately parted, the lobes are lanceolate or strip-lanceolate, and there are rough hairs on both sides. The petals are 4 points and appear purple. Red or lavender looks better than those two just now.

If only the above appearance does not attract Xiujia's attention, what really attracts Xiujia's attention is that some undeveloped flower buds in potted plants are ovoid, green and hairless, and the stigmas are radially connected into a flat disk, and the edge of the disk Cleft.

Through the above characteristics, Xiujia, who has experienced drug control and law-enforcement transactions in later generations, is keenly aware that "this Ding M is poppy!"

At this time, Kamei Tomoki still didn't know the magical power of this flower, and was still immersed in the praise of Xiujia just now. Seeing that Xiujia's eyes were attracted by the poppy, he introduced to Xiujia, "Your Highness, I am the only one in the Ryukyu royal family. Seeing that this plant is particularly beautiful, I sent someone to pick it up and give it to His Highness to enjoy."

Poppy was originally used medicinally. The medical history of Europe and the Middle East is almost the entire history of poppy. In the face of headaches, dizziness, deafness, epilepsy, stroke, amblyopia, bronchitis, leprosy and other diseases, Europe is accustomed to Sexual bloodletting, the Middle East is instinctive on Poppy.

The paralyzing effect of poppy makes people think that it is a panacea. In "Game of Thrones", the bachelors described by the author are all masters of boiling poppy milk.

But people at that time did not know that the function of poppy was not to treat diseases at all, but to paralyze people's nerves, and they did not expect its addiction and harm to the human body, and it was planted everywhere because of its very beautiful flowers.

Later, as it entered China along the Silk Road, it was artificially transplanted into the royal garden.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shimao, a great writer, praised poppies in his "Huashu". He wrote: "After peonies, poppies are the most prosperous. If you plant them carefully, they are so beautiful."

During the reign of Chongzhen, the tourist Xu Xiake saw a field of red poppies at the foot of Baiyun Mountain in Guiding, Guizhou Province. He was very surprised and amazed.He wrote in "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes": "Yingsu flowers are bright red, clustered with thousands of leaves, the flowers are huge and dense, and the beauty is not diminished."

Ancient Chinese medicine regarded poppy as a precious medicinal material. Kou Zongshi, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine during Song Huizong's time, pointed out in "Materia Medica Yanyi": "Poppy rice is cold in nature, and it is easy to eat more. It is very suitable to boil and add honey to make soup."

Wang Zhen clearly recorded the prescription of opium poppy for treating dysentery in "One Hundred and One Selected Prescriptions".He used poppy as a special medicine for treating Chibai diarrhea. For this reason, he specially fried poppy seeds and shells, ground them, and added honey to make pills. The patient recovered after taking 30 capsules.

In the Song Dynasty, poppy was widely used as medicine, and it was believed that it could cure nausea, abdominal pain, cough and other diseases.

Su Shi once wrote a poem "The Taoist persuades to drink chicken and soda water, and the boy can cook Yingsu soup", which truly reflects the situation at that time.During the Song Dynasty, the physical fitness of the southerners was not as good as that of the northerners, which is likely to be the reason for the widespread consumption of poppy honey pills.

For such an evil flower, the Xiu family is determined to eradicate it. Even if his value has not been discovered yet, the Xiu family will not allow him to appear in their flower garden.

He only heard him call out twice, and called Nobushige Sanada and Nobuta Anayama who were waiting outside, and said to them, "Today, I will teach you to recognize this plant, which is called poppy.

Ming people and Nanman people think that its medicinal power can cure all diseases. In fact, it is because this plant has toxins, which can make people confused and relieve pain.

In fact, this kind of plant not only has no effect on curing all diseases, but also can make people addicted, harm the human body, and is the most poisonous medicine. "

After all, he said to Kamei Tomoki, "You brought this crop from Ryukyu, because you don't know it, so I don't blame it. Today I sent an artist to draw the shape and record it, and then destroyed it on the spot.

You bring back a portrait, use this as a form, and eradicate all these monsters in Ryukyu, don't let them harm my Jibei warrior. "

After that, he said to Nobushige Sanada and Nobudaka Anayama, "Go down to the city and send someone to find some painters to draw all the shapes, colors and appearances of poppies, and then bring these flowers to the castle town to publicize their poisonousness 3 day.

After 3 days, a pit will be dug in Nanting, so it will be covered and destroyed due to the seawater entering the pit. Remember that you must never use fire to award it directly. The toxin of this flower will float out when it encounters fire and affect people's mind. "

"Yes, my lord." Hearing what the Xiu family said, the two of them felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and ordered people to carefully lift the three poppies down. During the process, they even covered their faces with silk scarves to avoid inhaling the poppy dust.

And Kamei Tomoki, who was kneeling in the hall, lost his composure just now. His forehead was sweating and he kept pleading guilty to Xiujia. The bouquet of coquettish flowers was sent to me, I don't blame you, why are you so scared?"

Kamei Tomoku answered with a tearful voice, "During the Battle of Ryukyu, some soldiers were injured and in unbearable pain. The military doctor heard that there is this flower in the local area that can heal the pain, so I used it widely. I didn't expect this flower to be so harmful. I regret it later. For my colleagues who accompanied me in the Ryukyu battle for the first time."

Xiujia's expression was touched when he heard Kamei Tomoki's answer, but he quickly regained his composure.He would never allow this kind of plant to enter Yuxiduo's army.

So he called another attendant, Kagawa Kagenori, and said to him and Kamei Tomoki, "Go with Musashi Shou to search the camps of the sailors, Oku, and Shangdaobei who returned with the army, and found that they were carrying this kind of poppy. Collect all of them, and teach them the harm of this kind of flower.

If you find a soldier who has become addicted, record it and let him remove his armor for self-cultivation. Those who can recover will be assigned to the military. "

The people of Yuxijiajia pay their talents every year, which is five publics and five civilians. After they are incorporated into the direct-administered military status, they enjoy three publics and seven civilians.

According to the rules, dismissal from the military is a very severe punishment. So far, no one has been dealt with. After all, the price of making mistakes in the military is to beheaded directly.

Generally, even if they are injured and disabled and unable to join the army, they will be asked to find someone to replace their military status at home. Only when there is no one at home (no son-in-law) will they be issued military status (not expelled) to restore their civil status, and they will be given a copy Pension money allows them to switch to handicrafts.

Now the Xiu family directly punishes people who are addicted and do not change their military status to be expelled from the military. After all, they are not the ones who give them medicine. Xiu's family still retains their first-life land tax deduction benefits.

But you have to know that there are so many people in Yuxi's family, and the military status is fixed. How many ordinary people have cut their heads and want to be exempted from entering the army.

In order to warn everyone of poppy crossing the sea, the addicted Xiu family must be severely punished, but this is not their fault after all. Removing the military status but retaining the welfare first is the vertical method that Xiu family can come up with that is both deterrent and humane. .

Kamei Ziji is very painful, because of his own reasons, many colleagues may resign due to drug addiction, and the resentment towards poppy in his heart is even worse.

After the two left, because of the poppies, Xiujia looked at the other two flowers and was not interested in admiring them, but thinking that the young daughter-in-law she married might have never seen such beautiful flowers, and this little girl really needed to be coaxed. Coaxed, so he ordered someone to take him to Dongmaru Kikuhime's residence.

As the name suggests, Juji people like chrysanthemums very much, so the courtyard is full of chrysanthemums of various colors. Now it is the day when chrysanthemums are in full bloom in September, and Juji's courtyard is also very beautiful.

Xiujia likes tea tasting, including chrysanthemum tea. After hearing about Hideyoshi's hobbies, Ju Ji personally picks summer chrysanthemums for Xiujia to make tea with dried flowers.

Now that the autumn chrysanthemums are in full bloom, Ju Ji is still in the courtyard selecting the best chrysanthemums for the Xiu family to prepare for processing. When the Xiu family feels the fact, she is walking among the flowers with the maids.

"Xiaoju, look what I brought you." The voice of the Xiu family had not arrived yet.

Chrysanthemum, who was bowed among the flowers, led someone to look out of the courtyard with her head, only to see Xiujia came in from the outside with several people holding two fluffy herbaceous plants, the green leaves were dotted with these white or blue-purple flowers .

"Your Highness, why are you here!" Seeing Xiujia coming to find her, Ju Ji jumped out of the flowers excitedly and threw herself into Xiujia's arms.

Xiujia petted her head fondly, and said to her, "It just so happened that Kamei Tomoko came back from Ryukyu and brought two bouquets unique to Ryukyu. In your yard."

Saying goodbye, the people brought up the two unknown bouquets. Juji liked the blue-purple five-petaled prism-shaped flowers very much, and quickly ordered people to plant them in her yard.

The Xiu family prefers to watch these flowers and plants, but they really don't care about how to plant them, so they let Juji and the maids fiddle with them.

Who would have thought that after Ju Ji and the others removed the potted plants from the soil, Ju Ji said to the Xiu family strangely, "Look, Your Highness, the roots of this bouquet are like small stones!"

"En, yes" Xiujia replied perfunctorily habitually, and glanced at her casually.

Sudden!Xiujia seemed to have discovered something, his eyes were extremely contracted, and his whole body bounced off the mat like a rabbit, and ran to Ju Ji's side quickly, took the plant and looked at it carefully.

In particular, its roots, after careful confirmation by Xiujia, washed off the soil on them with clean water, Xiujia held it and laughed three times, "Hahaha! It's it! It's it! It's it! It can't be wrong, absolutely You can't go wrong!"

Seeing that the Xiu family looked crazy, Ju Ji asked worriedly, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with it? Why can't I understand?"

Excitedly, Xiujia hugged Ju Ji, and kissed Ju Ji fiercely while all the maids exclaimed "Ah~!" "Xiao Ju, you are really my lucky star, but I'm sorry that I can't reward this plant to you." You, I have other uses."

After all, regardless of Juji's differences and shyness, he asked people to bring these two plants back to his yard and guard them carefully. The security level of guarding was even higher than that of Xiu's family to protect themselves.

The reason is very simple, because Xiujia recognized this plant through its roots. It is called potato or potato in later generations of the continent, and it is called patoto in Europe!
Xiujia has been suffering from the lack of crops suitable for farming in Ezo. Winter wheat is currently the only grain that can be grown in Ezo, but the yield is a big problem.

Hideka has always longed for the three major crops from the Americas to be brought to Japan earlier, but Hideka does not have the ability to sail, so they are hard to come by.

It's just that potatoes, the most cold and drought-resistant of the three major crops, were actually obtained by Xiu's family by accident.

As a student who has undergone compulsory education in later generations, one of the compulsory courses in biology class is how to plant potatoes. Because potatoes are easy to grow and easy to live, it is the first hands-on course for teenagers to understand agricultural plants. Therefore, Xiujia still remembers potato planting. new.

Now Kamei Tomoki is sent by the Xiu family to solve the problem of the reverse soldiers carrying poppies. The source of this potato plant cannot be inquired in detail, but the Xiu family can start by planting potatoes on Okayama. , for the winter Seto family is returning to bring Ezo to expand the population.

Potatoes are very easy to grow and survive. The most important thing is that the maturity period is very short, and it only takes 90-120 days to mature. The key is that it is very cold-resistant!

Potatoes can be planted twice a year even in the Northeast, and can be planted in Siberia once a year. It is the source of food that enables Russia to develop Siberia.

Don't look at the so-called "send you to Siberia to grow potatoes" in later generations is a kind of ridicule. In Siberia, potatoes are really life-saving food.

(End of this chapter)