In winter, the sun is still shining brightly in the south of Pengxian Kingdom, like spring or summer.
As a result, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Works, and the Inner Palace Supervisor finally decided to locate the place where potatoes should be cultivated in the south.
Although they didn't know much about how to grow potatoes, they had officials and experienced farmers who were proficient in farming. After consultation, the two parties quickly found a way to grow potatoes.
That is to bury the potatoes directly in the soil.
Although this method did not reproduce as quickly as cutting into seed cubes, after two months, the harvested potatoes were still piling up, leaving all the officials present stunned.
Soon, the newly harvested potatoes were planted again.
Although they don't understand that potatoes have a so-called dormant period, in the south of Pengxian Kingdom, the temperature is already relatively high, which invisibly shortens the dormant period of potatoes.
Within a year, fast-growing and high-yielding potatoes spread throughout the southern part of Pengxian Kingdom, and quickly spread across the country.
As for methods such as cutting into seed pieces and propagating through vines, these veteran farmers have studied them one by one.
Peng Xianguo thus solved the food shortage problem in one fell swoop.
With sufficient food, the spirit of the entire country has changed.
The national power of Pengxian Kingdom began to expand rapidly, and the emperor also set his sights on Pinggui Kingdom.
If there are four countries bordering Pengxian Kingdom, Pinggui Kingdom is not the smallest, but considering that potatoes are obtained from Pinggui Kingdom.
Although there is no sign that Pinggui State is vigorously promoting potatoes, in order to prevent potatoes from being acquired by other countries in a short period of time, Pengxian State had to launch a national war against Pinggui State!
Of course, Pinggui State had the most chaotic officialdom, the weakest national power, and was beaten by Beiyue State, which was also one of the reasons.
These days, anyone who is a little smart knows that it is more comfortable to pick a soft persimmon.
The 50,000-strong army divided into three groups and marched into Pinggui Kingdom.
Ping Guiguo was suddenly attacked and was unable to react.
More than 5,000 border officers and soldiers were surrounded without even a moment's warning, and then decisively surrendered.
It's impossible not to surrender.
The border officers and soldiers have not received supplies and military pay for almost half a year.
Everyone was so hungry that they were scavenged everywhere, and all the wild rat holes around several great passes were dug out.
It is most appropriate to describe them as comparing people to dry firewood.
What's more, after Peng Xianguo surrounded the border pass, he immediately used his killer weapon, roasted potatoes!
The fragrant smell of roasted potatoes drifted into the border, coupled with the vigorous shouts of Peng Xianguo soldiers: "Brothers inside, please surrender quickly. If you surrender, you will have fragrant roasted potatoes to eat. Hiss, it's so fragrant, so delicious."
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In this way, even if the border general there is extremely foolish and loyal, the border officers below can cut off his head and use it as a reward for surrender.
Once the several majestic passes are broken, it will be a smooth road from the border to the capital of Pinggui.
Pengxian Kingdom didn't waste much effort at all, and the three armies surrounded the capital of Pinggui Kingdom.
But this time, there was no one in the capital of Pinggui who stood at the top of the city to command the soldiers and civilians to rise up in resistance.
Because the formation supervisor who strictly abided by his duties was slandered after the war and accused of fleeing with the enemy, he was taken directly to Caishikou and beheaded.
What an injustice this is.
When the Beiyue Army besieged the capital, few ministers dared to stand on the city wall and defended it. When the Beiyue Army withdrew, no one dared to pursue it. However, the formation supervisor also led a thousand soldiers to pursue the enemy and killed two hundred.
This is considered a rare victory in the entire Pinggui Kingdom.
Unfortunately, these days, if you do more, you will make more mistakes, if you do less, you will make more mistakes, and if you do less, you will make more mistakes.
Even if two hundred Beiyue troops were eliminated, it would become a crime.
Because those ministers believed that killing the enemy was disadvantageous and allowed the enemy to escape, it was reasonable to behead him.
As soon as this happened, although the soldiers below dared to be angry but dared not speak out, when Peng Xianguo's army besieged the city, even though the city walls were full of soldiers, no one was willing to fight the enemy.
In the end, less than two days after the siege, the city gate officials took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender.
His Royal Highness, the prince who had just assumed the position of supervising the country, heard the news that Peng Xianguo's army had entered the city before he could summon the ministers to discuss the plan to resist the enemy.
Run away?
In fact, before His Highness the Prince could escape, the ministers' carriages filled with gold, silver, jewels, and silk satins were jammed at the North City Gate.
Thirty thousand troops were besieged on the outside, and 20,000 troops entered the city. Wherever they passed, whether it was the city defense troops under the command of the Nine Admirals or the imperial guards in the Ouchi Palace, they all knelt down and surrendered.
The whole process was like soup pouring on snow, it went smoothly without any hindrance.
Peng Xianguo's vanguard general led a thousand people into the palace, and blood splattered everywhere he passed.
His Royal Highness was so frightened that he knelt down and offered the imperial seal, while Emperor Pinggui set fire to the Shenglong Hall and burned himself to death.
At this point, although most of the country of Pinggui still survived, the members of the royal family had been wiped out in one sweep. Not only the country was destroyed, but the country was also destroyed.
After that, the various places of Pinggui Kingdom decided to send messages, and the Pengxian Kingdom's army successfully stationed in various places and accepted the surrender of each place.
All this happened so fast that even the Beiyue Kingdom did not react. The vanguard army of the Pengxian Kingdom arrived at the junction of the two countries, captured the last pass, and replaced it with the flag of the Pengxian Kingdom.
Suping County naturally fell into the hands of Peng Xianguo.
In order to find out the origin of potatoes, Peng Xianguo also sent people to the capital of Pinggui Kingdom to interrogate Mr. Zhou, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and learned that potatoes came from Suping County.
But here comes the problem. The magistrate of Suping County accidentally revealed his wealth after surrendering, and was directly executed by a military academy member from Pengxian Kingdom on the charge of conspiracy.
At this point, the clue to Tudou is broken.
However, Peng Xianguo was not willing to give up, and soon sent an envoy to Suping County to investigate the matter.
Fang Xiaoyue didn't know all this.
He searched for ores in Shiwanda Mountain for more than a year. The chromite ore he wanted to find most was not found. Instead, he found a rather strange ore under a deep canyon.
When he reached out and touched this light blue ore, he could feel a trace of cold air seeping out of the ore.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for discovering the cold iron ore. As the beginning of mankind's discovery of a new fantasy type of ore, it will trigger changes in the atmosphere of the war-torn plane of the country, which may promote the jump to a higher level."
Cold iron ore?
Fang Xiaoyue carefully played with this ore that she had never seen before, and found that the information contained in it was cold iron ore, and there was no more information.
As for this kind of ore, he had never heard of it in his previous plane.
I have seen it in some novels.
Could this cold iron ore be what I thought it was?
After thinking about it, Fang Xiaoyue decided to refine the so-called cold iron from this ore first.
Of course, he can't mine much ore by himself.
So in the end, he returned to Taoyuan Valley and brought back a group of young men.
It can be said that in this year, there have been quite a few changes in Taoyuan Valley.