Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

In order to ease the embarrassment, Wang Guangjin didn't even say a polite word. He walked directly to the wooden boxes, bent down and opened the four wooden boxes one by one to attract Shen Zheng's attention.

Seeing Shen Zheng and Liang Fu coming together, he introduced them one by one: "Sir, these are the items I collected from Ximi Prefecture and Heta Prefecture. There are food and daily necessities, as well as several kinds of crop seeds that we don't have here."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zheng ignored the words "food and daily necessities" and asked directly: "What crops?"

You know, the Ximi Prefecture where Wang Guangjin was going was at the westernmost end of the Great Zhou. According to her memory from her previous life, it was on the significant Silk Road, and he had almost walked half of it.

Although the Great Zhou did not have the Yumen Pass and Yangguan Pass as she remembered, she had seen a map from the Fifth Tanwei before. From a world region perspective, the Ximi Prefecture where Wang Guangjin was going was roughly the "Former Cheshi Kingdom" on the Silk Road in the previous life.

what does this mean?

This means that the culture, crops, and life in Ximi Prefecture are very different from those in Da Zhou, and "crops" are the most worthy of study.

Now that Da Zhou has high-yield rice, Shen Zheng is trying to figure out how to exchange points for sweet potatoes. The "staple food" problem of food and clothing has been solved, and the next thing worth paying attention to is vegetables and fruits.

The words "dietary diversity" sound like a great country.

Those vegetable seeds may have already flowed into the Great Zhou, but because the problem of food and clothing had not been solved, they were not taken seriously.

The fields are not enough to grow rice and corn, so who would think of using them to grow vegetables with lower yields?

But things are different now. Take Shen Zheng for example. She starts drooling just thinking about the grapes over there. Even if they taste sour, she still wants that taste.

Wang Guangjin took out a large cloth bag from the last box, opened the bag, and there were several small cloth bags inside.

Shen Zheng walked over and twitched her nose. "Celery seeds?!"

She has always felt that the taste of celery is very special since she was a child, with a strong... medicinal smell?

Shen Zheng didn't know how to describe this taste. She thought it smelled bad when she was a child, but when she grew up, she thought it was not bad and edible.

"Celery?" Wang Guangjin was slightly stunned, and looked at the seed name that had been annotated on the cloth bag. "This... they call it 'Huqin', and they say it was brought in from the Hu people. Sir, have you ever eaten this vegetable?"

All the foreign ethnic groups that came west from the Great Zhou were collectively called "Hu people".

Before Shen Zheng could speak, Liang Fu took the seed bag and smelled it, "Shangjing Restaurant has this dish. It's very fragrant and it's not cheap."

"It's not cheap?" Shen Zheng was subconsciously stunned.

The celery in her memory should be a multi-season vegetable that is relatively easy to grow, and should not be sold at a very high price. However, it is not ruled out that celery is difficult to grow now, so it is expensive.

"Not cheap." Liang Fu nodded. "This is usually eaten raw. Add some salt and soy sauce and mix it together. I heard that some restaurants will make it into a stir-fry."

"soy sauce......"

Shen Zheng understood that soy sauce was not cheap at this time. It took ten kilograms of soybeans to make one kilogram of soy sauce. It was very fine and precious. No wonder it was sold at a high price when used to mix with celery.

"What do you think of this dish, sir?" Wang Guangjin looked at the cloth bag in Liang Fu's hand. "I have eaten this dish in Ximi Prefecture. It is indeed unique in fragrance. Besides, it is not an expensive vegetable there. Many people grow it."

"This vegetable is good." Shen Zheng smiled and said, "It is easy to grow and keep alive, and it has many benefits to the human body. It can be grown. Try growing some on your farm in the spring and see how the people respond."

"Hey——!" Wang Guangjin was so happy that his white teeth sparkled when the seeds he brought back were recognized by Shen Zheng.

He took out the next cloth bag, looked at the name and handed it to Shen Zheng, "Sir, please take a look at this. They call this cucumber and say it can be eaten raw. They also say that this vegetable has its own fragrance."

cucumber!

Shen Zheng automatically converted the word "hugua" into "cucumber" in her mind, and turned to ask Liang Fu: "Have you ever eaten it?"

Liang Fu thought for a moment and said, "I've heard of it, but I haven't eaten it."

She looked at Wang Guangjin again, and Wang Guangjin shook his head: "I didn't get any food there either. It's out of season, so I had to buy some seeds and grow them myself."

The cucumbers at this time might be different from the cucumbers she knew. Shen Zheng didn't say that she had eaten them before, but only said, "Food with melons should be good. Let's plant them together in the spring."

Speaking of food with the word "melon" in it, Wang Guangjin's eyes lit up: "Sir, there is another one with the word "melon" in it, but it's not a vegetable, it's a fruit!"

When Shen Zheng heard the word "melon" in the fruit name, her heart skipped a beat.

No way...it's a watermelon, right?

For the scorching summer, the meaning of chilled watermelon is self-evident. She had thought that when she was old and had enough points, she would exchange some watermelon seeds for comfort. Who knew that Wang Guangjin would bring them back from Ximi Prefecture the next moment?

Can......

If she remembered correctly, the origin of watermelon should be West Asia or Africa. Why are there watermelon seeds in Ximi Prefecture?

Could it be that Xigua has already walked the entire Silk Road by himself, crossing the oceans and mountains to reach the Great Zhou? !

This realization made Shen Zheng dizzy. Wang Guangjin chuckled, opened the cloth bag with "Han Gua" seeds written on it, and introduced it to Shen Zheng and the others: "That person called this fruit 'Han Gua'..."

"That person?" Shen Zheng and Liang Fu asked at the same time.

Wang Guangjin paused, "This man's name is a bit long, I can't remember...whatever it is, the boss of the cotton area calls him A Tai, he has lived in Ximi Prefecture for a long time, and occasionally trades with the Hu people on the border. I thought he was a Hu person because he looks very similar to a Hu person, but he said he is not a Hu person, his hometown is farther west, and his name is...what is his name Ji."

"..."

The information Wang Guangjin provided was too little. Not to mention the other party's name, he didn't even know the name of the other party.

Shen Zheng frowned slightly, "But how can he, a foreigner, settle down in Ximi Prefecture? Doesn't the law stipulate that 'barbarians are not allowed to live in the city'?"

Barbarians are not allowed to reside in cities, which means that foreigners coming to the Great Zhou cannot move around freely, and they are not allowed to live in cities.

Simply put, you should do business when you are doing business, and leave when you are done.

But Wang Guangjin said, a foreigner who came from a place even farther away than the Hu people’s area, settled in Ximi Prefecture?

At this point, Wang Guangjin sighed, "To be honest, he is also a pitiful man, but... he is very powerful."

Then, he told Shen Zheng about what A Tai had experienced in recent years.

"He didn't come to Da Zhou voluntarily..."

The first sentence Wang Guangjin said stunned Shen Zheng and the other person.