Shortly after the departure of the assistant minister, the prince received a long-lost good news.

Sean, a personal guard who went to the port of blue water to buy crop seeds, returned.

When Roland followed the informed guard to the garden, he saw Sean and several other guards unloading a bag from the back of the mount.

Almost a month from the day of departure to today, he looked like his skin was tanned a lot and his body was thinner.

Seeing the prince appear, Sean immediately stood up and saluted.Roland stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, “It’s done well.”“What seeds have you brought back?”

Sean crouched down and untied the wrapping on the ground, “Pearl rice, ground eggs, candy bars... the plants you describe, I bought them all in the port of Bishui.”It is true that most of them are produced in the fjords, but there are already a lot of farmlands growing these crops in the port of Bishui.”

“Have you asked a businessman about the cultivation method?”

“Ask, but they can’t say the specific way, and they say that if these plants leave the South, it will be difficult to plant life elsewhere.”Sean grabbed a handful of yellow orange particles from the package and spread it in front of Roland, “Your Highness, this is the Pearl Rice.”The merchant said that if I bought it with a pearl stick, it would be cheaper.But the pearl stick was too heavy to carry, and I only bought one full back, and the rest were peeled seeds."

There is no doubt that Pearl Rice is the corn he is familiar with.He excitedly picked up a grain of corn and put it in the sun.The fruit is somewhat dry, and it seems to be a winter stock.The yield of corn is naturally much higher than that of wheat, and the low requirements for the soil, coupled with the transformation of the leaves, may soon replace wheat and become the main ration of the border town.

Sean unpacked another package and took out a well-received brown-skinned crop, "This is the ground egg, which I ate in the hotel of the port of Bishui, cut into strips soaked in the basin, and chewed it very crisp, with a faint sweetness."

Seeing this familiar appearance, Roland felt very sad.This is definitely potatoes!He used his fingers to peel the earth-stained skin to reveal the dark yellow potato meat inside—combined with the posterity, when the potatoes were small, the tubers were darker in color, and not every piece grew like an egg.He noticed that there were potatoes in the bag that were long strips of carrots.

"This thing is crushed and steamed into a paste is better."

“Your Highness, have you eaten?”

"Well, you've eaten at the palace," Roland decided to tell a lie, because the name of the ground egg is too ugly, "the royal cooks don't call it an egg, but a potato."A delicious steamed snack called mashed potatoes.”

“That is, His Highness, it is very knowledgeable.”Sean lamented that he opened the last straight package and pulled out a black-skind stick, “Your Highness, I think this crop is the most important thing.”Honey in the port of blue water is very cheap, in large part because of it.I heard in the tavern that more and more of them were beginning to grow sugar bars, and the stalks of this magical plant were sweet, and sugar water could be squeezed after cutting off the skin, which was one-tenth of the price of honey, but it was sweet enough to drink it.

Roland was tempted to say that he had seen the crop himself, by the way, changing his name to sugar cane, but think about it, and let the people cultivate it later.Sugar cane manufacturing cane cane raw materials, more can also be used to refine ethanol, can be regarded as a crop can greatly improve the happiness of residents.Think about it, the cake made of flour is light and tasteless, but if you sprinkle some white sugar, you can make the taste suddenly raise several levels, even if Roland such a salt party will also fall for it.

“Are there any other seeds?”

"This is all about the blue water port," he took five or six bags of small leather sacs from his close pocket and handed it to his Highness, "you explained that I brought back the seeds of the grey fort and the town, all of which I had selected when I passed the town of Willow and the Dragon Ridge, with grapes, soybeans, cotton, flax and olive seeds.But the farmer said that most of the grapes are planted in the field, and although the seeds can be planted, the germination period is very slow, and the grapes produced are not very good."

There were leaves in, and none of that was a problem, Roland thought.Now that there are grape seeds, it may be time to try the vine version of wheat.As for soybeans, cotton, flax, and olives, they are useful crops, first let the leaves improve the seeds suitable for the western climate and soil, then give them to serfs for small-scale planting, and finally the Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for summarizing the improvement and preparing planting manuals.

“Your Highness, I still have some news to report to you,” Sean said in a low voice, “about the situation at the port of Bishui.”

“What about the three princesses?”

Sean nodded, “I’ve been in the port of Bishui for nearly two weeks, mostly in the tavern except for the purchase of seeds.Rumor has it that your sister, Garcia Wimbledon, and Shamin made an agreement.She offered the land on the edge of the southern border to the sand people, who made her king and obeyed her conscription and dispatch.And while I was in the harbor, I did see a lot of Mogins on the street.”

The Morkin people in the far south ... although the border town did not ask for their origin, it was another matter to bring a large number of foreign ethnic groups to settle on the territory of the kingdom.It seems that in order to compete for the throne, Garcia is really unscrupulous, Roland thought."Shamin also has many factions, it is impossible to listen to her instructions, do you know which clans she is holding?"

Sean shook his head, "Shamin is very wary of the gray 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 going to leave the port of Bishui, Garcia returned triumphantly from the Eagle City, where the Queen was celebrating their defeat of the pseudo-King Tiffico, and 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 port of Bishui was subsequently banned, and I had to stay there for three more days.The taverns were closed, and everyone gathered in the inn hall to talk about it, some said it was the revenge of the pseudo-king, and some people said that it was the sand people.One of the fjord merchants said he witnessed one of the murders, and the abuser was not tall, apparently not a sandman, but not as strength and speed as normal people.The police team who heard the news was killed by him, and he was indifferent even with several knives in his body.It was not until more security guards arrived that the shield spears killed him.Later, the ban was lifted, and I did not dare to stay any more, and immediately returned by merchant ship."

"You've done a good job," Roland thought, "and the remnant of the seed won't have to be returned to the town hall, as your reward."

“Thanks for the reward!”

“The strength and speed are far superior to the ordinary, ignoring the pain of the knife wounds, and it sounds like ... the pills of the Church.”After the guard left, the nightinginge's voice sounded in his ear.

“I think so too.But that makes no sense,” Roland frowned, “according to Sean, Garcia will only get the pill sooner than I did, and support both sides for the throne... What are they thinking about?”He had a bad idea in his mind, and the real purpose of the church was not to see a stable gray castle.(Unfinished.)