I Became A Black Merchant In Another World-Chapter 366: Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Corn, New World (2)

I’m glad that you know that.

Ultimately, everything was done for my benefit, but if you have the bad thought that you can live well on your own without me...

I might have had to help Nador to correct his wrong thoughts.

“I’m glad that I got to see you after so many years, or before I die.”

“You should live a long life.”

“I’m already over 70 years old. And my body doesn’t even accept alcohol these days. I guess it’s time to die. “I wanted to be a king before I die.”

“Aren’t you already a king, even if the name is different?”

“That’s true. I should at least make a crown after you leave.”

“That’s a wise idea.”

Malik poured me a drink and said.

“Anyway, what brings you here this time?”

“I brought a crop that will help the Masai Alliance. It can quickly harvest about six times the amount of food that wheat can produce.”

“...... Six times? Does that make sense?”

I also remember grabbing the back of my neck when I first saw the yield per unit area of ​​potatoes.

Based on farming in Korea, you can harvest four tons of wheat per hectare, but you can harvest a whopping 23 tons of potatoes planted in the spring.

I thought that was magic.

If you add the blessings of corn, sweet potatoes, and peanuts to that, the population could probably triple in 100 years?

It’s understandable that the gentleman would be surprised.

Not being surprised is actually a mental illness.

“Have you seen me lying?”

“If someone else said that, I would have hit them on the head with a plate. I told them to stop talking nonsense.”

“Just try it. And there are other crops besides this. Peanuts, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. These four crops are amazing.”

“Does it taste amazing?”

“They taste much worse than wheat. Instead, you can harvest a huge amount.”

Potatoes that taste good when you dip them in salt, sweet potatoes that taste great when you eat them with kimchi, corn that tastes slightly sweet when you steam it and chew it, etc.

Those crops were only available in the 20th century.

Even the peasants complained that potatoes in the Middle Ages were so tasteless that they were like “what on earth do you eat?” The sweet potatoes were sweet enough, but they were probably less sweet than the roasted chestnuts I’m eating now.

And when I tried them, they were really tasteless.

‘But the yield per unit area is crazy, right? It’s even really easy to grow, right?’

“Try it.”

After some time, the New World crops that had been cooked were placed in front of us.

“You can eat the potatoes with salt, and the rest as is.”

“Then let’s try it.”

Malik started eating the crops, including the potatoes and sweet potatoes.

He seemed a little reluctant because I said they wouldn’t taste good, but...

He soon started eating them normally.

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“They’re not tasty, but they’re edible. Of all the ones here, I think the sweet potatoes and peanuts are the best. The corn is edible, but I guess I’ll have to roast this one over charcoal. It doesn’t really suit my taste when I eat it steamed.” “Sweet potatoes and corn will grow the best in the Masai Union.”

“Is that so? Then instead of the wheat you’re growing now, you should grow corn and sweet potatoes...”

No, please don’t do that. If you do that, all your farming will fail.

In the 1950s, Kim Il-sung was possessed by the immortal great man he respected the most, Mao Zedong, the Chinese massacrer, and spouted out nonsense that all fields should be planted very densely with corn.

As a result, the North Korean people enjoyed a worse living standard than during the Japanese colonial period, or rather, during the worst of the Japanese colonial periods, 1943-1945.

Of course, according to North Korean logic, because of communism and the leader’s warm love, even if they starved, they were full, and even if they didn’t eat, their faces were covered in oil...

Rather than believing that, I’d rather believe that the Earth is flat.

If we follow suit, the Masai Union will fail due to a food shortage.

“Corn is a crop that must be left idle for at least 2-3 years once planted. And the Masai Union is not in a bad food situation right now, so there is no need to plant only crops like sweet potatoes. Plant moderately. If you cover all the fields with sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, you will not be able to handle it later.”

“If that is what you say, then we should do it.”

“It is enough to completely cover the fields with sweet potatoes and potatoes even after the wheat has been plowed away when there are signs of a bad harvest.”

The crops that we commonly refer to as relief crops have the characteristic of being able to grow quickly and relatively easily compared to rice.

As I said, if the crops fail, you need to be able to plant and eat them quickly.

Are you thinking of eating such relief crops as your staple food?

If you do that, you might end up like Ireland, the country of potatoes.

“Let’s do that. But why are you giving us these crops without any compensation? If I were you, I would sell it for a huge sum of money, and I would never give it to anyone else.”

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You have to eat well and live well to buy more weapons from us.

Then more gold will come to me, and if I sell the gold and gather refugees from the war-ravaged Kingdom of Lyon or the Holy Empire and put them in the East Indica Company.

Now I plan to mobilize them and diligently develop the New World.

If I tell you all about it, our Uncle Malik might suspect me...

“The Chieftain and I are quite different in age, but I consider the Chieftain my most trusted friend and colleague. Although I don’t live here, my subordinates and people have taken root in Soros.”

“That’s right.”

“Luxuries, like gold and silver, are good for people to live with. However, you won’t die without them. On the other hand, if you run out of food and water, you will definitely die. “My people living in Soros, my friends who have been with me until now, the chieftain and his tribesmen, and the people of the Union are very precious to me.”

Malik was quite moved by my words, and his eyes began to redden.

If it were me, most people would believe it, but the majesty of the Tuscan Empire and other nobles wouldn’t be so moved by such an obvious comment...

I guess I’m weak to emotions because I’ve lived in a nomadic tribal state.

Well, it’s better for me to be mistaken like that, so let’s just let them be mistaken.

“And this is another gift I’m giving you. I can give you crops like potatoes for free, but I can’t give you this for free from now on.”

“Can’t we just give it to each other?”

Malik and I are very close.

We’re not close on a personal level, but our economic interests match.

I’ve become incredibly wealthy thanks ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ to Malik.

‘You can give it to me for free.’

“There is a condition.”

Malik was surprised to hear me say this.

“You give me things for free. The sun must rise in the west.”

“This cloak and cloth were dyed by me with a dye called cochineal that comes from a faraway foreign land. Not only in the Tuscan Empire, but also in the one you see here, there is no other clothing dyed with this dye.”

“Oh, really?”

“Wear this, and if anyone asks where you got it, just tell them that a foreign merchant gave it to you.”

“I will.”

Then I handed Malik a gold-wrapped bear pipe.

“This is called tobacco. You put a leaf in it, burn it, and inhale the smoke.”

“What a strange thing.”

Malik took a quick puff and smiled.

“I don’t care about my worries.

“It feels like everything is disappearing.”

“We will also provide this at a very cheap price. Take a puff of cigarette and a sip of rum and you will feel like you own the world.”