Chapter Eighty-Five: The First Potato Planting in the Tang Dynasty
Wang Yin was too lazy to continue to argue with the system, and commanded this group of officials to do their work.
Wang Yin chose an area of about three acres of land, and asked the officials to turn out the crops they had planted before and throw them aside, and then turn over the land from the ground over. Make a ditch of 50-60 cm and 10 cm deep.
Anyway, it's just a trial planting, and even farm tools are useless, so just use a waist knife to deal with it casually.
Seeing Wang Yin's perfunctory attitude, Li Shimin and Li Yuan's unreliability in their hearts became even stronger...
After the land was finished, Wang Yin walked to the open space on the side and waved his hand and threw out the seeds of three acres of land.
"This is the potato?" Li Shimin curiously took a potato and studied it, it is difficult for people to associate the yellow and autumn soil in front of him with the yield of two thousand catties per mu.
"Hmm." Wang Yin replied casually, took the waist knife of a servant and cut the potato in his hand into several small pieces.
"See, the cut pieces can't be smaller than this, otherwise they won't grow." Wang Yin raised the potato cube in his hand and said to a group of officials who were still shocked.
A group of officials were still shocked by Wang Yin's ability to take things from the air, and when they heard Wang Yin's words, they slowly changed their minds, nodded numbly, and cut the potatoes with a waist knife.
A few careless people accidentally cut their hands, and they shivered in pain, so they came back to their senses completely and cut them intently.
In order to make it fresh, the Li family also cut it up.
Of course, Empress Changsun had to give up under the strong efforts of everyone.
The emperor's family has done it himself, and Cao Wenxi doesn't dare to be idle!
So Wang Yin and Queen Changsun came out of the whole field, and everyone took a potato and cut it carefully...
After cutting the pieces, Wang Yin demonstrated how to plant them and continued to eat melons.
"Father... Aye, you don't have to go to this kind of work yourself. Li Shimin saw that Li Yuan rolled up his sleeves and was about to go to the ground, and hurriedly dissuaded.
"I'm not old enough yet!" Li Yuan scolded him back with a word.
After all, it is a fairy grain with a yield of 2,000 catties per mu, wouldn't it be a pity if you didn't plant it yourself?
Although Li Yuan abdicated, he is still Li Shimin's father, isn't he? Here he is the biggest, and when he speaks, naturally no one dares to stop him.
Seeing that everyone was seriously pouting and planting potatoes in the ground, Wang Yin said in a sassy manner: "Labor is glorious, noble, and sacred!" Labor creates value, labor creates happiness, labor creates the world, and labor creates the future! β
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but roll their eyes; Is it really appropriate for you to say such things openly and lazily?
Empress Changsun looked at Wang Yin's funny appearance, covered her mouth and chuckled.
"Auntie, you look so good when you smile." Wang Yin gave her a thumbs up.
"General Wang has won the award." Empress Eldest Sun said with a smile.
In my heart, I complained fiercely about Wang Yin's 'aunt'...
To tell the truth, Empress Changsun is now in her twenties, and in Wang Yin's opinion, it is the best age for a woman, and her elegant and luxurious temperament in an ancient outfit is indeed eye-catching.
For the beautiful young lady, Wang Yin naturally doesn't mind complimenting her.
Although Wang Yin is just an instinctive praise for good things, it is not mixed with other meanings, but some people don't think so...
After all, Wang Yin didn't deliberately lower his voice when he spoke.
Li Shimin's face was flushed, and the hand holding the knife trembled slightly...
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Of course, Li Shimin was only a little uncomfortable in his heart, after all, Wang Yin is usually not close to women, so naturally he is just a sincere compliment.
But Li Shimin still feels a little weird...
After everyone finished planting, Wang Yin took out a large bucket of water and a dozen paper cups very intimately.
"The water is sweet." Li Shimin took a sip of water and sighed: "Now that this potato has been planted, what should I pay attention to?" β
"I'll give you a note when I get back." Wang Yin casually put the used paper cups into the system space.
After returning to Shangshui Village, Wang Yin took a walk around the village again, and had to sigh: The life of the ancient people is really not human.
"Lao Li, are the people of Datang so poor?" Wang Yin suddenly asked.
I feel that the villagers of Shangshui Village are worse than the mountain villages where they were born.
Although the food of the people in the mountain village is also very bad, but at least the appearance is normal, but most of the people in Shangshui Village have yellow faces and thin muscles, and they look like they have been malnourished for a long time. The bear children looked a year or two younger than their actual age, and their development was obviously not keeping up.
"This Sheung Shui Village is actually good." Li Shimin didn't know why Wang Yin suddenly asked this, but he still replied: "At least they still have food." β
"There are still people in Datang who can't eat?" Wang Yin suddenly found that the situation in Datang seemed to be much more serious than he thought.
originally thought that the people of Datang were just poor in food, but now it seems that this is not the case at all.
"It's better to be close to Chang'an, but in some places, if there is no harvest in the event of a natural disaster, people really can't get by, so they have to leave their hometowns, so they become displaced people." Li Shimin sighed: "They traveled a long way, just to find a place where they could live and have a bite to eat." Many more died of illness or starvation on the way. β
"In this way, it seems that the people of Datang are really miserable." Wang Yin nodded subconsciously.
"It's always been like this, but to varying degrees." Li Shimin's hands holding Wang Yin's arms trembled slightly: "Is the yield of this potato really as high as you said?" β
"It should be about the same." Wang Yin thought for a while and said: "Actually, it is now past the season suitable for planting, but fortunately, it is only a trial planting, and the yield will be slightly less than normal." β
Seeing Li Shimin's excited appearance now, he still doesn't tell him the truth, in case he gets too excited, it won't be good if he comes out with a good one...
Cao Wenxi was secretly shocked when he heard this, listening to the meaning of the two of them, the thing called 'potato' that was planted just now has a high yield?
It should be! Didn't you see that Your Majesty came in person? Uncle won't go to deceive the king!
Thinking of this, Cao Wenxi couldn't help but get excited. : Take good care of these potatoes yourself, and when the time comes, you won't say a great achievement, at least you can leave a good impression in front of Your Majesty, right?
Cao Wenxi himself is not from a family, and being able to do the Lantian County Order is almost the limit for him.
Although he is a good officer, it does not conflict with his desire to climb a few more steps.
Isn't this a ready-made opportunity?
Thinking of this, Cao Wenxi couldn't help but eagerly look at Wang Yin's gaze.
Wang Yin felt the strangeness for the first time, and when he turned his head to meet Cao Wenxi's philosophical β gaze, he subconsciously moved two steps to the side...
Wang Yin looked at the crowd around him, and suddenly a strange feeling came to his heart: whether it was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the officials, and these suffering people, he had never really connected them with himself before.
I am always in a semi-free state, overlooking all this with a superior attitude.
And in their own eyes, they are always just some ancient dirt buns, nothing more.
It's just that with more contact, this mentality begins to slowly change.
Just like the gregariousness and sociality of the people mentioned before and myself.
Although one's body is not strictly human, the mind is still human after all, isn't it?
Perhaps, I really should do something?
At this moment, Wang Yin felt that the picture around him was frozen again, and the whole world suddenly rotated, faster and faster, and finally evolved into nothingness.
And Wang Yin stood in the center of this nothingness, lowered his head and closed his eyes, and slowly stretched out his arms.
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