Roasted sweet potatoes are also known as roasted sweet potatoes. The skin is charred and tender, the taste is sweet and delicious, and a large sweet potato can even top a meal.

Since Chongzhen crossed over, he basically ate the food made in the imperial dining room, how could someone get sweet potatoes for him to eat? Therefore, Chongzhen didn't remember that there were already sweet potatoes in the Ming Dynasty, and he thought about when he would send someone to America to find this thing.

Hurriedly ordered the royal driver to stop, Chongzhen didn't care about his image, and walked quickly to the stall, completely ignoring the crowd of people who knelt all the way as he walked, and only those burnt-looking sweet potatoes were left in his eyes.

In Chongzhen's eyes, this thing is not only a sweet potato, but also the cornerstone of his own stability. With this thing, what about corn? What about potatoes? Do you have all of these things, but they haven't been promoted? It seems that there is a cow man named Xu Guangqi, right?

Chongzhen asked the stall owner who was kneeling on the ground to get up, and at the same time took a sweet potato that was placed on the edge of the stove. Although it was hot, he was reluctant to throw it away, and gently broke it open, and it was indeed the kind of roasted sweet potato he had eaten in his previous life.

Chongzhen didn't feel dirty, just blew lightly, and stuffed the brown and oily sweet potato heart into his mouth. really bluffed Wang Chengen's heart to his throat.

The soft and glutinous sweet potato heart melts in the mouth, and a sweet fragrance runs directly down the throat and into the stomach.

Chongzhen was not too hot, and ate two more bites before putting down the sweet potato in his hand, and then asked the stall owner: "Uncle, I came to ask you, where did this thing come from?" Then he praised again: "My father-in-law's craftsmanship is good, the roast is sweet and soft, and the delicious is tight." I don't get to eat this on weekdays. ”

The stall owner was about fifty years old, and he was honestly afraid, but after listening to what Chongzhen said, he immediately grinned and said with a few missing teeth: "Back to Your Majesty's words, this thing is called sweet potato."

Xiao Lao'er's family has an old relationship with Xu Guangqi and Master Xu, and he still taught Xiao Lao'er to bake and eat this thing. This time I entered Beijing, thanks to the funding of Lord Xu, I bought a lot of sweet potatoes from home, and planned to try selling them in Beijing. ”

Chongzhen secretly wrote down the name Xu Guangqi, it seems that this person really exists, then it will be easy to do, let Jinyiwei find it, and I will be a cow and a horse in the future. Then he said to the stall owner: "How many sweet potatoes do you have?" I've got it all. In a moment, someone will take it with you and send it to the palace. ”

After speaking, he found that he didn't have any money on him, so he simply asked Wei Liangqing to earn money to settle the bill, and the frightened stall owner refused to accept it, until Chongzhen feigned anger and said: "I order you to accept it, you accept it." The people's livelihood is difficult, and they have been paying taxes for the country, how can I covet your things? ”

Seeing that the stall owner finally accepted the money, Chongzhen ordered Wei Liangqing to take someone to follow the stall owner back to get the remaining sweet potatoes, and then drove back to the palace.

Chongzhen pretended to run away, but what was left in the area of Dongyue Temple was the legend of the Holy Son of Heaven's benevolence and love for the people, and the original name of the archway in front of Dongyue Temple was not mentioned. Because the Son of Heaven came at this time, the people wanted to call long live on the mountain, so it was called Hujialou, and then it slowly became Hujialou, and there is still this place in the capital today.

Chongzhen, who returned to the palace, immediately sent someone to send a branch of the cabinet ministers to meet him.

When the ministers came to the imperial study, Chongzhen was chewing on a piece of sweet potato very willfully, seeing that the cabinet ministers were all there, Chongzhen hurriedly swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth, didn't care about his image at all, pointed to the sweet potato, and said to the cabinet ministers: "You Aiqing also taste, the right is to invite me to dinner." ”

Don't care how the ministers slandered Chongzhen for being stingy, after they were all grateful, they ate it in small bites.

Chongzhen was not in a hurry, and it was not until all the ministers finished eating that Chongzhen said: "Everyone, how is this thing?" ”

Since Wen Tiren was the first assistant of the cabinet, he was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, this minister has seen it in the book, and he only knows that it can be steamed or boiled, and it can be regarded as both food and food. I don't want to eat this grilled food, but it's so delicious. ”

Other cabinet ministers also agreed, agreeing that sweet potatoes can be used as grain or vegetables, which is simply a godsend.

Chongzhen sneered in his heart, after returning to the palace, he didn't check it, this thing had already entered the Ming Dynasty in the Wanli period. It's just a matter of interest, so no one is vigorously promoting it.

Chongzhen saw the reaction of the ministers, so he said, "In this case, I want to edict Xu Guangqi to enter Beijing and preside over the promotion of this new grain, especially in the land of Shanxi and Shanxi, which is the top priority."

In recent years, the harvest in the mountainous land has not been very good, and the soil must be almost exhausted, so it is better to plant these new grains and try it.

In addition, the court must also be prepared, in case the promotion of new grain is not effective or the harvest is also missing, it is necessary to be prepared for relief at that time, and cannot watch the people in the mountains and Shaanxi everywhere. Otherwise, I would have no choice but to learn from Cao Mengde and take the head of a certain important minister to appease the people. ”

Under the naked threat, Chongzhen felt that these cabinet ministers

In fact, things like sweet potatoes that are also vegetables and grains, there are not a few in Daming now, and corn and potatoes have entered Daming at this time.

It's just that the yield of these things is high, and the yield is high, where can you exploit those mud legs? Besides, people who are used to eating rice can't always take potatoes and sweet potatoes as food, right?

As for the corn, it was okay to boil the porridge and drink it, and the noodles were grinded out, but it was not possible to make noodles, nor did it become steamed buns, and it was steamed into steamed buns.

Chongzhen didn't think that eating too many of these things would be unpalatable. At present, no one knows better than him what the next few years will be.

Shanxi and Shaanxi have been in drought for many years, saying that the grain harvest is all lifting, and at that time, it was basically a grain without a harvest, and even the tragedy of the people eating the children occurred.

As for the court, the righteous men and gentlemen of the Zhengying Dynasty have their own pockets, so how can they care if the treasury has money or not? Chongzhen asked about the method of enriching the treasury, which led to the later abolition of the post station, which led to the rebellion of the courier Li Xiaoge in anger after losing his job.

For the people who have even eaten up the bark and grass roots, and are hungry and even have their children in exchange for food, is it unpalatable? If it doesn't exist, even if you have a bite to eat, even if you save your life, who cares if it's delicious or not?

Anyway, it has to be said that it is a pity that these high-yield crops have not been popularized in Daming. Otherwise, as long as the people can eat, what can they do even during the Xiaoice River period?

For the common people, as long as the emperor can keep them fed and clothed, they don't care how the emperor is a loser and how he is profligate. Legend has it that the emperor didn't just hoe the ground with a golden hoe? Look, what a loser!