What Jing Hedi was concerned about was how many people could eat with sweet potatoes.

In addition to this, Liu Mingqi also cares about how she can eat better.

Sweet potatoes are just one aspect of cultivation.

In addition, Liu Mingqi has two kinds of treasures in her hand.

One is pepper and the other is pepper.

Needless to say, the pepper will not start to bear fruit after two or three years, and it is not the time yet.

Liu Mingqi has already visited the pepper vines and will have to wait until next year to harvest the first batch of peppers.

After the first batch of waiting, the second time will be soon, and it will be able to form a scale in a maximum of ten years, and then it will start to supply domestically.

Within twenty years, pepper will inevitably become a flagship product that can become Dakang and be exported overseas.

As a person from another world, Liu Mingqi knew that Westerners were crazy about pepper.

Many times, the spices they refer to are pepper, and everything else, such as rosemary, coriander seeds, turmeric, lemongrass, basil, etc., is in a secondary position.

Of course, many modern people don’t know that black pepper and white pepper are actually in the same type, both growing on the same pepper vine, and the same mother is born, but they are only in the growth stage, and the treatment methods are different.

Westerners went to sea wildly to go to the East to avoid exploitation from the Ottoman Empire and find more and cheaper peppers.

So no matter how much pepper there is, you don’t have to worry about not being able to sell it.

As long as it is an export-oriented item, it will be of great benefit to Dakang. It can increase the competitiveness of Dakang merchants and make Dakang merchants more profitable, so that Dakang people can also make money, and Dakang court can also collect more commercial taxes.

This is a very good virtuous cycle.

But you should also note that the businessman has no bottom line.

They can completely suppress the people at a very low price, so that they will not make money or even lose money, and then they will continue to gain more benefits from it.

At that time, the Ministry of Revenue, the Haimai Yamen and others will have to supervise it, and the Legal children will set a minimum protection price every year. Whoever dares to buy it at a lower price than this will be arrested directly.

Even so, it may not be able to completely combat greedy businessmen, but this is the step that can be done so far.

Everything has to be done slowly and you can't be impatient.

If pepper is a spice that people all over the world like, then pepper can only occupy half of the market.

I don’t know if the chrysanthemum structure is different, even Lao Guang and Jiangnan cannot accept chili peppers, let alone many Westerners.

Of course, many foreigners like to eat spicy food more than us.

For example, Mexico, San Ge's family, etc.

But there is no doubt that chili is not the mainstream of the world's spice trade and it is impossible to promote it to the whole world.

So it can only meet the needs of Dakang foodies.

I like to eat it in the southwest region, and I like it in the northwest region, and I like it in the Central Plains.

The key is that Liu Mingqi likes it himself, so there are sufficient promotion reasons.

Chili is not as difficult to handle as pepper.

When Liu Mingqi discovered it last year, peppers have been successfully cultivated for several generations.

It has now formed a scale around Songjiang Prefecture and has been transplanted along the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

So far, the main purpose of chili peppers is still to use hot pot and side dishes.

With chili to enhance the aroma, not only does the hot pot become more delicious, but even the stir-fry has a little more aroma, allowing people to eat two more bowls of rice.

However, because the output has not increased yet, most of the consumers of Chili are princes and nobles.

Before the Spring Festival this year, Liu Mingqi also wrote a book of "Spicy Peppers" and introduced various ways to eat chili peppers, which attracted a group of nobles.

After all, this is something written by Dakang's biggest foodie. De Wang cultivated clean pork that was not odorous, made milk tea, pudding, ice cream, and invented hot pot... These are all things that make foodies crazy.

Now I have published a book about using chili peppers to make various dishes, so naturally everyone needs to try it.

Therefore, even if the yield of chili is relatively large now, it is still not enough for these people to eat.

Chili peppers are not just one ecology.

Whether it is Chaotian pepper, Qixing pepper, Millet pepper, Erjingtiao, Vegetable pepper, Yellow pepper, Bell pepper, etc., they are actually various varieties cultivated by the original pepper.

Now that ordinary peppers are no longer in danger of extinction, it is time to start cultivating various peppers.

For this reason, Liu Mingqi also organized a group of vegetable farmers to tell them what kind of pepper they wanted to get, so she let them do it.

no way.

The boy himself doesn't know how to cultivate peppers at all, so it's better to leave them to professionals.

After the peppers are planted all over the country, it will not only be used for consumption.

For example, the Nanzhao strategy that started the next year, when Liu Mingjing and his friends fought on the rainforest and plateau, peppers, which can be used to remove dampness and refresh the spirit, can be of great use.

If you catch a cold in the wet rainforest, eat more dried chili peppers and sweat all over, and you will get much better.

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In fact, in addition to sweet potatoes, peppers and peppers, Liu Mingqi also has a powerful treasure.

That is cigarettes.

There is no need to say more about the benefits and disadvantages of tobacco.

As long as this world still exists, the smokers will not stop.

There are no restrictions now, and it is just right for Liu Mingqi to use cigarettes to open up the market.

The Sulu Kingdom has now once again increased the cultivation of tobacco.

According to the fifth prince Luo Lie, tobacco has been planted in half of the cultivated land in Sulu Kingdom.

This is really exaggerating.

Based on this area, Sulu Kingdom invested at least three to five million acres.

Wait for another two years, the tobacco in Sulu will increase significantly, and there will be no problem with millions of tons per year!

And more importantly, the one million tons of tobacco sent by others were directly dried.

Of course, it’s not that they are particularly kind-hearted, but that if you pack the fresh tobacco leaves and ship them directly to Dakang, they will all rot before they arrive.

It must be dried and sealed to ensure that the tobacco leaves can still be used when they are delivered.

On this point, Sulu Kingdom has summarized a lot of experience and lessons, and what is sent here is now completely useful.

What is the concept of a supplier providing millions of tobacco?

It was simply unimaginable in this ancient times!

However, compared with the world's demand for cigarettes designed by Liu Mingqi, million tons are nothing.

One million tons is one trillion grams, and the weight is reduced by half after baking. According to the content of one gram of each cigarette, five trillion grams is five trillion cigarettes.

It seems to be a lot, but it is only 25 billion packs of twenty cigarettes.

Two hundred and fifty billion packs of cigarettes are more cost-effective as a person is more likely to smoke one pack in three days, and a person has to ask for 122 packs of cigarettes a year.

Then these cigarettes are almost enough for 200 million people to use in a year.

In this way, do you still think there are more than 2 billion people in the world?

What's more, those who smoke nowadays are rich people, and it's not uncommon for many people to pack a day.

When there was too much tobacco, Liu Mingqi lowered the price to 100 yuan per pack and 50 yuan per pack. Many ordinary people could get a few packs.

So in Liu Mingqi's opinion, just one million tons of tobacco is not much.

Moreover, one million tons of tobacco are just in the future. Now, even in the southwest of the empire, including Yibin, Sichuan and other towns, are expanding tobacco planting, and the output this year is less than 30,000 tons.

A group of rich people and businessmen in Jiangnan all snatched their heads and relied on the relationship between Haibo and Princess Yu to get one-third of the credit limit.

All of this was crazily complained by the second and third generations in the capital, secretly complaining about Princess Yu's arms being bent outwards.

Cigarettes are not cheap.

Now, except for the cigarettes supplied to the emperor, ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion, royal families and nobles, as well as officials of the fourth rank and above, the remaining cigarettes are not even classified.

What are the levels? They are directly baked and sold on the roll.

Just like this, one tael of silver is still available for one or two packs. In fact, the cost price has reached twenty cents per pack, which has dropped by one third compared to the small batches of the previous year.

This is not surprising. When the process is familiar, the cost of various things will naturally decrease when the amount of use is large.

To be honest, those who can afford to smoke a pack of one or two silver cigarettes must have some strength, otherwise, a table of ordinary banquets outside Emperor Jing City would be enough for five or six people to eat.

The cigarettes that Liu Mingqi provided to the emperor and ministers and others were not sold to the public, but the price was still sold for one tael of silver.

As a result, a lot of these cigarettes flowed out, which was obviously more advanced in taste. It is not surprising that this special cigarette was fryed for 5 taels of silver per pack.

Of course, the amount of special cigarettes is not the same as anyone.

The supply of the emperor, the prime minister of Wenyuan Pavilion, the prince and the prince in a month is the same level.

Officials with third ranks or above, as well as royal families and nobles above the duke, are in the same level.
To be continued...