Li An knew that these ministers, even if they saw these sweet potatoes with their own eyes, they would have a skeptical attitude, but it was pointless to argue, they had to try to plant a few acres in person, so that these ministers could really see the yield of sweet potatoes, so that they could be completely convinced, and too many explanations were futile and powerless. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The yield per mu is achievable, however, it needs to be well taken care of, but the yield of three or five thousand catties per mu is absolutely guaranteed, after these sweet potatoes are shipped back, I will personally test to see how many sweet potatoes can be harvested in an acre of land under different circumstances."

Ang Lee casually explained and decided to do the experiment himself, and the so-called different situations are different levels of care and soil conditions.

That is, to see how much difference there is between the yield of careful care and more fertilization, and the final result of almost no care and no fertilization, and find out the optimal planting conditions, and then carry out large-scale promotion.

When the ministers heard this, they felt that it was very reasonable, and that everything could only be determined after they had personally tested it, and that it was pointless to argue before practice, of course, the minister just asked casually, and there was no meaning to argue, and he didn't know much about sweet potatoes, but he felt that the yield per mu was a little incredible.

"Li Shilang, I heard that there are also indigenous people in the Americas, just ask them, don't you know the yield of sweet potatoes per mu?"

A minister suddenly thought that there were indigenous people in the Americas, which had been confirmed by the expedition fleet, and even, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty also fought a battle with the indigenous people of the Americas, causing heavy losses to the other party, but due to the language barrier and lack of preparation, this time he traveled to the Americas and did not realize the exchange with the indigenous people of the Americas, but only brought back some properties, and some of the properties were still snatched, so naturally it was impossible to know the yield per mu of sweet potatoes, and besides, the Native Americans did not have the concept of mu, even if the exchange was realized, they could not get the yield per mu of sweet potatoes.

Li An opened his mouth to explain, explaining that this trip to the Americas was just an exploration, and there was no task to interact with the indigenous people of the Americas, so he could only rely on the next time, and explained that the soil of the Americas was not the same as that of Datang, and the yield of sweet potatoes in the Americas was definitely different from the yield in Datang, and there was no comparison at all.

After Ang Lee's explanation, the ministers and the royal family finally understood a little, and went to Daming Palace with Ang Lee to witness the various products shipped from the Americas with Li Longji, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, due to the relatively large amount of materials transported back by the ten large sea ships, it is impossible to move all of them into the palace, and only a part of each can be taken out and sent to the palace, and the rest will be transported to the designated place separately, and Ang Lee will arrange it later.

The group soon arrived at the Daming Palace and delivered these unseen properties to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, this red thing is sweet potatoes, which can achieve a maximum yield of 10,000 catties per mu."

Li An picked up a relatively large sweet potato and handed it to Li Longji.

"This is a sweet potato, it looks like a radish!"

Li Longji took the sweet potato and observed it carefully, the sweet potato is a thing that grows in the soil, and the radish also grows in the soil, and the two sides have common characteristics, even the color is the same, and there is indeed a great similarity.

"Your Majesty, although this sweet potato looks somewhat similar to the radish, the taste is much more delicious than the radish, the radish is more spicy, and the sweet potato is sweeter, especially when it is roasted and eaten in the fire, the taste is the most delicious, and the aroma of the sweet potato can be smelled from a long distance."

Li An described the deliciousness of sweet potatoes vividly, and Li Longji and the ministers were all eager to roast a few immediately to see if the taste was as good as Li An said.

"Li Shilang, since the Americas have been found, I don't care about these sweet potatoes, you said that the sweet potatoes are delicious, it is better to bake them now, and bake them outside the hall."

Li Longji wanted to know the taste of roasted sweet potatoes, so he asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Weichen understands."

Li An responded, and immediately ordered to go down, and asked the entourage to go to the palace to find the materials for roasting sweet potatoes, that is, hay and iron pot, the hay is used to ignite, and then use the grass ash with temperature to cook the sweet potatoes, and the iron pot is to prevent the grass and wood ash from polluting the floor tiles of the hall, in addition, there is also a wooden shelf under the iron pot to further protect the floor tiles in front of the main hall.

Li An picked up a potato and continued to introduce: "Your Majesty, this thing is a potato, the yield is not small, there is no pressure on the yield of 1,000 catties per mu, and after the potatoes are washed, cut into thin strips and stir-fried, the taste is very beautiful." ”

"Stir-fry shredded potatoes, it's good to hear the name, and later, there will be Lao Li Shilang for this dish, hey, what is this? It's red, it's beautiful. ”

Li Longji picked up a red chili pepper and looked at it carefully.

"Your Majesty, be careful, this thing is chili, the taste is very spicy, many times spicier than the old ginger, it is used as a seasoning, and when it is placed in the meal, it will make the food spicy, and it can remove the fishy smell of the food, especially fish, which is the most suitable for putting some chili peppers."

Li An opened his mouth to introduce, picked up a few chili peppers, handed them to several ministers, and said: "The chili peppers are very spicy, you can put them in your mouth and taste them to see if the taste is much stronger than ginger." ”

After speaking, he stuffed a red pepper into his mouth and chewed it gently.

When several ministers saw that Li An had eaten it, they naturally did not suspect that the chili pepper was poisonous, so they hurriedly followed Li An's example and put the chili pepper in their mouths and chewed it.

"Ah......h

With painful expressions, all the ministers bared their teeth and burst into tears.

"Is this pepper really that spicy? Why did you all become like this? ”

Seeing that the ministers' expressions were so painful, Li Longji looked at these ministers curiously, but as the spicy breath in the mouths of these ministers spread, Li Longji also felt a little spicy, and unconsciously took a few steps back, keeping a distance from the ministers.

"Spicy, it's too spicy, much spicier than old ginger."

"I really didn't expect that there would be such a spicy thing in the world."

"It's so spicy, I can't even open my eyes."

Several ministers unconsciously discussed and lamented the power of chili peppers.

"Li Shilang, don't you think it's spicy?"

Seeing Li An's calm expression, the ministers were very curious, why would Li An be fine after eating such a spicy chili?

Of course, this is because Li An didn't really eat it, when he put the chili pepper in his mouth, Li An was chewing on the surface, but in fact, he didn't bite the skin of the chili pepper, but he was just pretending, when the ministers' eyes were spicy and couldn't open it, Li An quietly took out the chili pepper in his mouth and put it in his pocket, the scene was spicy and cautious, and no one noticed this, so naturally, no one found out about Li An's trick.

"Your Majesty, this is a tomato, a very delicious vegetable, not only can be eaten raw, but also can be used for stir-frying, tomato scrambled eggs are a good famous dish, the taste is very good, later, Weichen will cook in person, make some for Your Majesty and you to taste."

Li An did not answer the doubts raised by the ministers, but directly began to introduce tomatoes, and volunteered to cook for everyone to taste, which made everyone happy.

"Tomatoes, red, is this really edible?"

One of the ministers looked at the brightly colored tomato suspiciously, feeling a little nervous, he always felt that this thing was a poisonous thing, of course, it was just a hunch.

"It's delicious, you can eat it directly."

Ang Lee picked up a tomato, wiped it casually, then stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed the tomato whole.

The ministers have learned from the past just now, and they don't dare to taste it easily, when they ate chili peppers just now, Li An didn't have anything, but they were spicy tears, this time Li An still didn't have anything, and they didn't dare to try it easily, in case it was the same as the one just now, it would be ugly again.

"The taste of tomatoes is very delicious, a little sweet, Your Majesty can taste it."

Ang Lee took a tomato of the right size and handed it to Li Longji.

Li Longji saw that Li An was fine after eating, of course he didn't think there was anything wrong, so he took it and cleaned it and put it in his mouth.

"Well, it tastes really good, I really didn't expect that there are so many good things in the Americas."

Li Longji was very satisfied with the taste of the tomato and praised it.

When the ministers saw that the emperor had opened their mouths to eat, they hurriedly followed suit and tasted it. And after eating, they nodded and sighed again and again, saying that it tasted good, and at the same time, it also made their mouths less spicy.

"Your Majesty, these are peanuts, and they are also very delicious, but they don't taste good when eaten raw, and they taste much better after being fried and baked."

Ang Lee said as he peeled off a peanut and stuffed it into his mouth.

Li Longji and all the ministers also followed Li An's example, peeled peanuts and ate them, and nodded again and again, praising the peanuts for being delicious and delicious.

"Your Majesty, this is a cashew nut, it tastes much better when eaten raw than peanuts, and you can also taste it."

Ang Lee picked up a handful of cashew nuts and tasted them.

The price of this cashew nut in the later life is very high, a small bag costs a lot of money, ordinary people really can't eat it often, and if you eat too much, you will go bankrupt, and now, Ang Lee is very rich and can eat it openly.

After eating a few cashew nuts, everyone's faces were full of satisfied expressions, praising the cashew nuts for being delicious, and Li Longji even ordered to send a larger fleet to the Americas again, transport more cashew nuts back, and of course, the tree that produces cashew nuts, so that Datang can produce cashew nuts by itself in the future.

"Li Shilang, what is this thing, such a big guy."

"Your Majesty, this is a pineapple, a kind of fruit, however, this fruit does not grow on trees, but on the ground, and it tastes good, however, after cutting, you need to soak it in salted water, otherwise, it will be spicy when you eat it, but it is better than eating chili peppers."

Li An opened his mouth to introduce and immediately asked people to prepare tools, and he was to peel the pineapple himself, soak it in salted water, and distribute it to the ministers.

Of course, the taste of pineapple is good, all the ministers said that it was good after eating it, and the emperor also said that it was good, and felt that pineapple was a very good fruit, the taste was very unique and delicious.

After eating a small piece of pineapple, Ang Lee began to introduce corn and other crops, and said their yield and function per mu, as well as the taste and practice of food, etc.

"Hey, what's so good?"

A minister smelled similar food, but couldn't tell what it was.

"Li Shilang, this shouldn't be the taste of roasted sweet potatoes!"

Li Longji looked at Li An and said curiously.

"Your Majesty guessed right, this is indeed the taste of roasted sweet potatoes, because there is no professional roasted sweet potato tool for the time being, and you can only use plant ash to make it, but the taste is not bad."

Li An opened his mouth to introduce and walked towards the outside of the main hall.

At this point, a large pot of sweet potatoes is already ripe and exudes an intoxicating aroma.

Li An asked people to peel off the ashes of the plants and trees, take out the roasted sweet potatoes from them, and after a simple wipe, take them in their hands and gently break them.

Suddenly, a refreshing aroma of food erupted, making everyone present drunk.

"It turns out that this is a roasted sweet potato, and just by smelling the taste, you know that it must be delicious."

"Yes, yes, the taste will not be bad, and the yield is very high, what a good thing!"

The ministers were a little salivating.

Li An turned out all the roasted sweet potatoes, handed the best sweet potatoes to Li Longji, and distributed the rest to the ministers, so that they could all taste them and feel the taste of roasted sweet potatoes.

After everyone finished eating the roasted sweet potato, they all said that this thing was delicious, very delicious, and it was a very good food, Li Longji's expression was also intoxicated, it seemed that he had never eaten such a delicious thing in his life.

After eating the roasted sweet potatoes, Li Longji and the ministers had their stomachs filled slightly, at least they were not too hungry, and they hadn't yet reached the meal, so they were not in a hurry to eat the tomato scrambled eggs and other delicacies that Li An was going to make.

Under the leadership of Li Longji, everyone came to Wufang Yamen, that is, the Tang Royal Zoo, where there are rare beasts from all over the world, and today there are new rare animals transported from the Americas, and the scale has expanded a lot.

"Your Majesty, all the animals brought from the Americas have been arranged."

Yang Zhao was busy for several hours in order to arrange these newly arrived animals, tired and sweating profusely, seeing that the emperor brought all the ministers to visit, he suddenly felt that he was not busy in vain, if he was not prepared, the emperor would not be able to appreciate these rare animals in the Americas.

"These are the animals of the Americas? It does look quite special. ”

Li Longji glanced at it casually, and he was very satisfied.

"This cat is so big, a cat in the Americas, how can it grow so big?"

Li Longji and the ministers were all attracted by the huge cougar, indeed, the cougar looks very similar to a cat, and people who don't know the cougar are really easy to see the cougar as a cat.

"Your Majesty, this is a cougar, a vicious lion, not a cat."