As the ox pulled the wooden plough past, fist-sized sweet potatoes were turned out.

"This is the sweet potato!" The old farmer took one of the sweet potatoes in his hand and watched with wide eyes.

"Grandpa, a lot of sweet potatoes!" The child picked up one sweet potato after another and piled them together, and after a while they piled up a small pile, and seeing that they couldn't finish picking them up, the child threw his head up and shouted to his grandfather.

"Keep picking it up!" The old farmer smiled and put the sweet potato in his hand on the ground, and began to join the team picking sweet potatoes.

There were so many sweet potatoes in the field that one after another was turned out.

"Grandpa, can you eat sweet potatoes?" The child wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve, held a sweet potato, and looked at his grandfather not far away with bright eyes.

As soon as the child finished speaking, his eyes moved, and without waiting for his grandfather to reply, he broke off the corner and put it in his mouth.

As soon as the old farmer turned around, he saw that his grandson had already broken off a corner of the sweet potato in his hand and put it in his mouth.

"Can't eat it!" The old peasant was shocked and hurried over.

Although sweet potatoes are new grains and must be edible, they are still raw, and many things can be eaten when cooked, but eating raw potatoes will cause stomach aches and diarrhea, what if this sweet potato is also like that.

"Did you eat it?" The old peasant's face turned pale, and when he opened his grandson's mouth, he found it empty.

"Grandpa, sweet potatoes are so sweet." The child scratched his head, I don't know why, he tasted the sweet potato just now, it was really sweet, and he still wanted to eat it.

The old farmer was a little overwhelmed and didn't know what to do.

At this time, the other family members of the child also ran over.

"Dad, you just shouted, what's going on?" The man asked the old farmer.

The old farmer had a bitter face, and hurriedly told his grandson about eating the raw sweet potatoes just now.

"Ah, did the kid really eat it?" The child's mother took the child into her arms: "Child, let my mother see that your stomach doesn't hurt." ”

Seeing that the family was in a hurry, the man suddenly smiled and said, "Dad, isn't sweet potato a new grain?" Since it is new food, it is food that can be eaten, what is there to make a fuss about, even if the child eats the raw food in the stomach, it is nothing, at most the child has a stomachache for two days, so it should be a lesson to the child. ”

The child was surrounded by a family, a little confused, especially by the mother inexplicably checked, looking at the mother's anxious and worried look, the child smiled brightly: "Mother, the sweet potato is very sweet, similar to the fruit on the tree." ”

The man's heart moved, and he touched the child's head: "Child, you really don't feel anything at all?" ”

"Well, I don't feel anything." The child nodded vigorously and smiled innocently.

The man paused, picked up a sweet potato, broke off a corner and put it in his mouth and chewed it, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"Dad, sweet potatoes are really sweet, presumably it's okay to eat them raw, don't worry." The man said to the old peasant.

The old farmer also tasted it, although for the sake of caution, neither he nor the man swallowed it, but the taste was delicious, it was really sweet.

Curious, seeing that the child did not react for a long time, the family couldn't help but taste it.

"It's really sweet!" The family was pleasantly surprised, no matter what, they couldn't imagine that this new grain actually tasted like this, originally they heard that it was grain, they thought it was rice and wheat, but they didn't expect it to grow in the ground, and it was full of moisture and had a sweet taste.

As an acre of sweet potatoes was gradually picked up and piled into more than a dozen piles, the yield could almost be estimated.

When the man was young, he went to school for two years, and after some calculations, the man said with shock: "This mu of sweet potatoes is afraid that there is at least 1,500 catties of output!" ”

Fifteen hundred pounds!

The whole family was shocked, what kind of concept is this, you know, if an acre of high-quality fertile land is planted with rice in two seasons a year, it will only cost more than 400 catties of rice, and sweet potatoes are at least 1,500 catties in just one season, which is more than five times that of rice!

It wasn't just the family that was shocked, all the farmers who grew sweet potatoes were shocked when the yield of sweet potatoes came out.

Not only sweet potatoes, the same is true for potatoes, the potatoes that are slightly better planted are more than 1,000 catties, and the second point is about 1,000 catties, as well as corn, although the yield of corn is not as much as sweet potatoes and potatoes, but when the corn kernels are not peeled out, the people estimate together with the corn cob, and there are nearly 1,000 catties!

All the people were shocked, and their eyes were red when they looked at the three new grains, such as sweet potatoes and corn.

Originally, the imperial court offered a minimum price of two taels of silver per mu, and they thought they had made a profit, but they didn't expect it to be a loss, and it was a big loss.

"I regret not being at the beginning!" The people beat their chests and paused, regretting that they had accepted the price of two taels of silver per mu from the imperial court when they received the new grain seeds, and now it was too late to regret it.

Zhu Ci naturally couldn't help but regret it, and he will promote the new grain to the whole country next year, and this time it must be collected and distributed in a unified manner.

There were Jinyi guards watching from the side, although the people regretted it, but they were helpless, taking the silver given by the imperial court, and watching the people sent by the imperial court transport away a cart of new grain.

Of course, there are also some people who secretly hide some and keep them for next year's planting, but this is only a small number and will not have much impact.

After nearly one million acres of new grain was harvested, the amount of new grain obtained was huge, which was enough to be popularized on a large scale to the whole Ming Dynasty next year.

Daming Daily naturally published the good news, the new grain harvest, the output of the three new grains are around 1,000 catties per mu.

This news is so big that all the people are shocked, who doesn't want to plant such a high-yield new grain.

Some people began to look for seeds in a hurry, but unfortunately all the seeds were collected by the imperial court, and even if there were some, they were secretly hidden by the people who had planted them, and no one was stupid enough to take them out.

No seed was found, and it was a great deal for many anxious people.

After the new edition of the Daming Daily came out, the people knew that the original imperial court had collected all the new grain in order to promote it to the whole country on a large scale next year, and that a large amount of distribution would be distributed in various counties and towns, so the people settled down and waited patiently for the arrival of spring next year.

With such a huge output of new grain, not only the people were shocked and excited, but also the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were equally excited, and some officials even kept chanting God Bless Daming with tears in their eyes to relieve the excitement in their hearts.

Some officials even proposed to celebrate with the whole world, and implored Zhu Ci to grant amnesty to the world!

Zhu Ci happily agreed, and immediately granted amnesty to the world.

The entire Ming Dynasty was shrouded in the joy of a bumper harvest of new grains, and they all looked forward to planting these new grains with huge yields after the imperial court promoted them to the whole country on a large scale next year.

The reason why Zhu Cijiao agreed to amnesty the world was actually to deliberately create an atmosphere of national joy so that he could reward Zheng Zhilong, who brought the seeds back to the Ming Dynasty, for his next step.

"Zheng Zhilong, I hope the reward I gave you will satisfy you!" Zhu Ci staggered to look in the direction of Quanzhou, with a hint of inexplicable smile hooked on the corner of his mouth, and said with a deep gaze.

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