Chapter 174: Yield of Jin of Wheat per Mu

"Miss Xiao, I'm Toto, I've long heard of your name!" Toto is not the burly, rough man of the grassland. On the contrary, he looks very gentle and refined.

"Hello, Prince Thirteen!" Xiao Yingchun nodded.

When Toto heard this, he laughed and said, "When I sent the message, I was just below the pass, so it was natural for me to come up quickly."

Fu Zhonghai stared at Toto with a dark face, as if protecting his food: "Just say whatever you want to say, don't delay our meal."

Toto glanced at Fu Zhonghai and Fu Chenan. The father and son sat on the left and right sides of Xiao Yingchun respectively, protecting Xiao Yingchun very well.

Tuotu was obedient: "Miss Xiao, just call me Tuotu."

"I met Miss Xiao today. I do have something I want to ask Miss Xiao to help me with, and I also want to do some business with Miss Xiao."

Xiao Yingchun raised her hand and made a gesture of invitation: "Please speak."

"Marshal Fu and I wanted to replace the iron basins before, but now they are all... plastic basins."

"This is good, but it's not as good as an iron basin. I want to ask if I can replace it with an iron basin?"

“I’d pay twice as much.”

When saying this, Toto looked at Fu Zhonghai with a little grievance: That's not what you said at first!
Xiao Yingchun coughed and said, "No."

"Why?" Toto asked politely, as if he was really just curious.

Xiao Yingchun looked at Fu Chenan: Can you tell the truth?
Fu Chenan: I can speak.

Xiao Yingchun looked at Toto sincerely and said, "Because we discussed it and we were afraid that you might melt the iron basin to make weapons."

Toto: !!!
It doesn't have to be so realistic.

Toto tried to explain: "I am not warlike, and Marshal Fu knows this."

Fu Zhonghai decisively interrupted: "I don't believe what you say."

Toto: ...Forget it, next item.

"I also want to know, besides plastic basins and buckets, what else can be sold here, Miss Xiao? For example, that... biscuit? Or something else?"

This time, Fu Zhonghai refused to trade the biscuits and only traded the plastic basin and bucket.

Xiao Yingchun thought for a moment and said, "You should ask Marshal Fu about the biscuits. As for the other things... do you want some salt?"

With the advancement of science and technology and the development of the times, salt in the new era is almost inexhaustible and can be supplied in unlimited quantities.

But salt and iron were scarce commodities in ancient times.

Toto's eyes lit up: "Yes!"

"May I ask what the price is? Or what does Miss Xiao want to exchange for?"

Xiao Yingchun pointed at Fu Zhonghai and said, "You can talk to him about the price. He has the final say."

In terms of being cruel, Fu Zhonghai is much more cruel than himself.

The right person doing the right thing!
Fu Zhonghai showed an undisguised smug smile at the right time.

Miss Xiao's heart is with herself, she doesn't want to "have it both ways".

This discovery made Fu Zhonghai particularly happy.

Tuo Tuo was discouraged for a moment, but within a few seconds, he regained his confidence and said, "Miss Xiao, do you have any tea leaves to trade?"

The grassland tribes eat beef and mutton all year round, and the nobles like to drink brick tea, which can help digestion.

Xiao Yingchun thought about the noisy tea hosts on various live streaming platforms and nodded again: "Yes!"

Toto asked again: "I don't know how to trade?"

Xiao Yingchun pointed at Fu Zhonghai again and said, "Talk to him about the price."

Fu Zhonghai laughed again.

Toto: !!!
Suddenly I felt that I was very upset on this trip!
Fu Zhonghai was just smiling too proudly... When you are middle-aged and in a high position, don't people in the Central Plains value being cunning and deep? Is it appropriate for a marshal like you to be so arrogant?!
However, after hearing Xiao Yingchun say that the two most important things were there, Toto felt relieved.

He perked up: "I wonder what else Miss Xiao can sell to my Tatar people?"

Xiao Yingchun thought for a moment: "Cloth. Pearls. Rouge and powder. Soap."

Anyway, iron involved in war must be handled with caution.

"I heard from Marshal Fu that Miss Xiao can also trade grain seeds?"

Xiao Yingchun looked at Fu Zhonghai and nodded when she saw him nod. "Yes, our seeds are better, and the yield is much higher than yours..."

Toto asked about wheat seeds.

Xiao Yingchun nodded: "We have wheat seeds. What is the yield per acre of land here?"

Toto: "Two or three hundred kilograms?"

Xiao Yingchun looked slightly proud: "I can get you wheat seeds that can produce 1,000 kilograms per mu."

Toto's mouth opened into an "O" shape, thinking he had heard it wrongly.

Xiao Yingchun nodded affirmatively: "Yes, it is one thousand kilograms."

Toto swallowed his saliva and said, "When can I get this seed?"

The wheat seeds of the Daliang Dynasty only produced two to three hundred kilograms per mu of land. If the yield could be increased to one thousand kilograms per mu, the people would be able to have enough food!
What war are we still fighting?!
Xiao Yingchun looked at Fu Zhonghai and was about to say, "Marshal Fu has the final say," but saw that Fu Zhonghai's expression became serious.

"Now is the wheat planting season. If it is convenient for Miss Xiao, why not give us the seeds as soon as possible?"

This is something that concerns people's livelihood. If it can be planted earlier, when there is no shortage of food on the grassland, there will be no need to risk life to plunder food from the people of Daliang Dynasty.

Only when the people of the Daliang Dynasty are free from the suffering of Tatar looting can they live a stable life!

Toto also nodded repeatedly, looking eager.

Xiao Yingchun thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll send a letter over there right away and ask them to get the seeds over as soon as possible."

Fu Zhonghai's expression softened a little, and he looked at Toto: "I guess the Thirteenth Prince won't mind the price, right?"

Toto nodded seriously: "Of course I don't mind!"

If the yield per mu can be 1,000 kilograms, it is worth it no matter how expensive the seeds are.

After all, wheat can save its own seeds, "sons give birth to sons, sons give birth to grandchildren, and grandchildren's descendants are endless."

After talking about wheat seeds, the dishes came and everyone started eating.

After a big meal of meat, Xiao Yingchun was full... Fu Zhonghai and Toto were left to continue negotiating the price, while Xiao Yingchun and Fu Chenan went back to the Marshal's Mansion first.

The two entered the yard and closed the door. Fu Chenan frowned, a little worried: "You promised so many things at once today, will it be troublesome?"

Xiao Yingchun smiled: "It's okay. I'll go back and ask someone to prepare it. You can get it in a few days."

There was a curfew in the Daliang Dynasty, but not in Wolong Villa.

Xiao Yingchun returned to Wolong Villa and started to contact seeds and salt with his mobile phone...

Only after the contact was completed did I have time to read the message.

Huang Li sent a message saying that they would leave for Paris, country F, in a week, and asked Xiao Yingchun to go there four days in advance to apply for a visa.

Xiao Yingchun calculated the time and replied "OK".

He Liangcong sent a message to Xiao Yingchun, but it was about hiring a bodyguard.

They must have bodyguards when going to Pali, and they are planning to buy so many things, so they will feel at ease with a bodyguard.

He Liangcong was afraid that Xiao Yingchun wanted to use Wang Yongjun, so he specifically told her: "Wang Yongjun is a good person, but I don't want to use him this time."

"He's too aggressive and doesn't want to offend anyone, but he's not professional enough..."

(End of this chapter)