Chapter 150: The Birth of High-Yielding Crops
"Hehe, look at your useless looks." Zhang Qi said disdainfully.
"I'll tell you the good news, when the peanuts are planted in the future, there will be more and more of these things, and there will be more of these things that Lord Chen calls sweet ghost peanuts, maybe we can get a bag every once in a while."
"Sweet Ghost Peanut...... It's a strange name, but it's really sweet and delicious. ”
"It's really fake, at least for now, this thing is very valuable, and even if we had peanuts then, we wouldn't make them." The army rubbed their hands, both yearning and worried.
"Don't worry, the food in the army will be cooked like this, I asked Lord Chen for the method, it's really simple, when the time comes, we need a big iron pot, we will also stir-fry, and then make this sweet ghost peanut, everyone will be blessed."
There was a burst of joy in the barracks, some ate and some drank and tasted fairy, since they came to Xuanyangfang on duty, the small days of the two battalions of soldiers and horses have become more comfortable.
The only thing everyone thinks about every day is when to eat, or when to distribute beer in the barracks, when to cook stir-fried vegetables, and sometimes baskets of bananas will be sent from the Chen Mansion, and everyone can get one, which is simply beautiful.
The hundred officials of the imperial court were gathered one after another at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and then the people went straight to the Sinong Temple, and saw that the fruit that had grown lush and turned out could be seen, and it was already half the size of the finished potato they usually saw.
"It's really grown up, how long has it been!"
"Yes, it's only a month before and after, it's grown to such a point, it's enough to just add a lot of heads, or it won't be long!"
"There are almost no dead seedlings from beginning to end, and there are no accidents at this point!"
"The luck of inviting the sky, the luck of inviting the sky!"
"My Datang finally has such a god-like crop, it is simply a gift from God to our Datang."
"How many people will be able to avoid starvation! Even if it's a disaster year, we're not afraid! ”
"It doesn't take much water, doesn't pick land, doesn't even need to take care of it, it's amazing!"
Bai closed the door and cried with joy, crying with real joy.
Even some people who have suffered themselves, or someone in the family who has starved to death, even knelt on the ground and cried, kowtowing in the direction of their relatives' burial, and the scene was chaotic.
Li Erqiang suppressed his excitement and asked, "Have you made a statistical estimate?" What is the yield per mu of this potato? ”
The official of Sinong Temple immediately replied: "Your Majesty, we have roughly estimated before, even at this time, the potatoes that have not yet grown are five or six times the yield of our ordinary crops!" ”
"When the potatoes are fully grown, at least ten times more, no more! It's hard to say what Lord Chen said before about the yield of 30 stones, but more than 20 stones is proper! ”
At this time, even Li Er couldn't control his emotions, he only felt his heart beating wildly, his chest gasped as if he couldn't control it, and his eyes were bursting with flowers.
He remembered that when he and Wuji first met Chen Chu, the number of 30 stones was like a fantasy, but now, it was really realized in front of his eyes, and it was only more than a month before and after!
"One acre of land is ten acres, no need for fertile soil, no need for a large amount of water sources, what is lacking in Guanzhong is water, and the agricultural conditions in Hebei, Shandong and other places are much better than those in Guanzhong, and naturally it is not a problem."
"In the south, it can be used exclusively to grow rice."
Li Er muttered something to himself, like a demon, but no one paid attention to him at all, who else at this time was not like him?
Although Datang has always claimed that the yield per mu of potatoes is extremely high, it is only now that everyone is really convinced that it is time to start planting potatoes on a large scale, right?
They have to plant, they must see the potatoes grow all over the ground with their own eyes, they can pass the stomach, and it is a top delicacy, and the people are no longer hungry to death in the famine year, but the question of whether the potatoes will be annoying.
"Three days later, the southern suburbs will worship the sky!"
Li Er ordered, and the people from the Ministry of Rites immediately agreed, and they were excitedly planning and preparing.
"Your Majesty, I don't know how to reward Chen Chu this time?" Fang Xuanling asked with a smile beside him.
The advent of potatoes and corn represents that the prosperity of Datang is irresistible, and all the lofty ambitions they set up when they usually drank and ate hot pot with Chen Chu will definitely be realized one by one!
The grasslands, the desert, and even the Mobei, the Western Regions, the Tubo Plateau and other places are expected to be defeated by the Tang Dynasty.
Why, because the population of Datang will become more and more, when the time comes, a mouthful of spit will be able to spit these aliens to death, not to mention that they are famous generals like clouds and blades like forests!
"Pillar Country!" Li Er had already prepared this reward.
If it weren't for Chen Chu's speed of creating surprises too fast, otherwise, if ordinary people had this achievement, they would directly seal the Shangzhu Kingdom or even the Duke of Guogong, Li Er would not blink an eye.
I'm afraid that the front foot will give Chen Chu a national duke, and the back will be a series of inventions that will shock the Datang jaw, and then Li Er will suffer by himself and ask for hardships, so he can only give some more parallel positions in the loose officials and lords.
But there will always be a day when these will be sealed, what will be done then?
Therefore, if you give Chen Chu an official, you can be as slow as you can, and Li Er's heart can't stand it if it's a little faster.
He himself was unsealed at the beginning, so Li Yuan gave him an unprecedented official position of Admiral Tiance.
Then what kind of official position will Chen Chu create at that time, and will Tiance go to the Pillar Country......
The entire Tang Dynasty officials were full of ecstasy, and this joy quickly surged throughout Chang'an City because of their will.
And from night onwards, there were constantly cavalry rushing frantically in all directions, going to various state cities to inform.
Especially in Guanzhong, which has just been hit by two disasters in a row, the news of the imperial court must be delivered as soon as possible and spread to the ears of every citizen, so that they can lift their spirits, build their homes, and quickly resume farming.
In the entire Chang'an City, overnight, everyone learned that potatoes were going to enter thousands of households, and everyone felt like a dream.
Even if there was a vaccination before, who can take this seriously?
With such a superb delicacy, it is fun to have fun stealing dozens of catties that can be produced in an acre of land, so they don't believe that there are thousands of catties so exaggerated, isn't this ten times higher than other food crops? It's not like that.
However, the news that the imperial court has publicly released, and all the big people are spreading it, then this news will not be fake, and even the government has posted notices asking the people to prepare the vacant farmland and prepare for summer ploughing, so people have to believe it.
Song Jisheng was sitting in his living room at this time, he almost didn't die of the meal of shabu-shabu in the morning, and he didn't know how many times he ran to the toilet a day.
At this time, he sighed: "A new era is coming." ”