Chapter 478: Sweet Potato

However, now, this situation has changed, because Lin Quan proved himself once again in front of them with facts that they couldn't deny. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Although he himself does not care, the workers below have quietly changed their attitude towards him, which is still of great benefit.

At least he wants to do his own thing now, and he is much less hindered.

"Sweet potatoes ready to be harvested? Is it so fast? ”

Early in the morning, Lin Quan asked Wang Zhaowen to take people to harvest the sweet potatoes he planted last month, and this piece of land was about to be replanted with some other things.

"Well, just do it, the sweet potatoes should be cooked!"

Sweet potatoes before frosting are not sweet, which is a conventional opinion.

But Lin Quan forcibly changed the situation, and now it's only the beginning of June, and his sweet potatoes have been planted for only a month, and they are about to be harvested, which really surprises everyone, and they don't understand what their boss is thinking!

However, in view of the fact that the number of times he was slapped in the face by the boss was too much, although Wang Zhaowen couldn't figure it out, he still honestly agreed.

Isn't it just digging sweet potatoes! What's so hard about that?

The soil on this side of the desert is relatively loose, because there is more sand, so the land is not particularly compacted, and it is very simple to dig sweet potatoes and dig the soil directly.

So Wang Zhaowen didn't say a word, and came over with more than a dozen workers.

Lin Quan's experimental field they don't come very often, they have been here when they planted sweet potatoes before, and the maintenance and care behind it are specially handled, and Lin Quan will come over to inspect it every night after they get off work.

According to the boss, he was afraid of heat during the day, so he didn't dare to go out, so he had to wait for the weather to cool down at night.

Wang Zhaowen didn't doubt Lin Quan's explanation, he didn't even understand why Lin Quan explained it to him?

My own farm, when I want to come and see, just come and see, what's the problem?

Why explain it to him? He's not a farm owner!

Besides, this piece of land was originally the boss's experimental field, and he spent a lot of effort here during the day, and he was not worried about the work of the workers, so it was normal to check and verify it.

In short, Wang Zhaowen felt that Lin Quan's explanation was very strange.

But he didn't think much of it, and after he came with people, he was ready to start harvesting.

This 100 acres of experimental field concentrates a lot of resources, and the boss is indeed very capable, this place is well organized, but only a little more than a month of effort, this piece has become a small oasis, in the yellow sand of the farm, it is particularly prominent, people feel happy after seeing it!

After Wang Zhaowen and the workers came in, they were all a little relaxed by the fresh air and green scene here.

Many people are greedily breathing in the fresh air here, as if they haven't breathed in years, and they think it's funny to see it.

But no one minds, because everyone is like that.

I found the sweet potato field, this is a ridge, sweet potatoes are piled up with ridges, their growth can not be directly planted on the ground, then the compacted land is not suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes, and the root system of sweet potatoes is very developed, so if they are together, it is not good to harvest, and it is not conducive to its rooting and growth.

All of this has been summed up by hundreds of years of experience of our predecessors.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, sweet potatoes have gradually spread from South America to the coastal areas of the south, but it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty authorities did not find out, or did not pay attention to this thing, otherwise it is difficult to say whether the Ming Dynasty would perish.

At least in the Qing Dynasty, because of the large-scale promotion of sweet potatoes, and the Qing Dynasty was relatively peaceful in the early and middle periods, so the number of people exploded, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, domestic agriculture actually did not appear qualitatively improved compared to the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the area of reclamation was more, the population of farming was more, and the number of fields was more, which brought more total grain output, which fed hundreds of millions of people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, China had a population of almost 100 million, which was almost the limit of the Ming Dynasty, if the population was too large, it would bring a huge burden, that is, the burden of food supply, if there was not enough food to feed the people, everyone would rise up and overthrow your rule, Li Zicheng was not like this?

And speaking of the Ming Dynasty, the death of the Ming Dynasty is indeed wronged, the Xiaoice River period stopped here and did not leave, as a result, the country has been plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters for many years, coupled with the Donglin Party has hollowed out the emperor, so that the emperor's rights have been greatly restricted, the strength of the landlord class and Confucianism is too strong, the emperor has no money in his hands, there is no one in the place, and the result is naturally that he can't do anything he wants.

And if they weren't in such a period, the Houjin would really only be able to make a small fuss outside the customs, and they wouldn't pose a mortal threat, and the Ming Dynasty would not have been directly destroyed by our Qing Dynasty.

At that time, if the new imported crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes from the south were popularized in the north, then the food problem in the north would not be so tense, and after the food problem was solved or slightly eased, those who rebelled would naturally be greatly reduced.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty tragically did not seize this opportunity, but the Qing Dynasty discovered this thing, and after the promotion of crops such as sweet potatoes and corn potatoes, even if the yield of wheat, sorghum, rice and chestnut rice was insufficient, there was also the supplement of these grains, people would not starve to death, and the growth conditions of sweet potatoes were very low.

Their vitality is very tenacious, after planting it, basically don't care, wait until the ripe season to harvest on the line, the yield of this thing is really high, the nutritional value is not low, you can also keep it in the cellar and store it, eat a little sweet potato in the winter, the landlord's family can reduce the consumption of food, and the poor family can not starve.

So many people have survived because of this thing, and China's population has slowly grown up in this way, from 60 million people during the Han Dynasty to 100 million people in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, China took 1800 years, but in the Qing Dynasty this population has increased several times!