"108 pounds and 3 taels!"

"127 pounds and 2 taels!"

"112 pounds ......"

Baskets of potatoes were carried by people and kept passing, and with the shouts of the tenant farmers, everyone's faces were changing, and even the most stable people could not continue to maintain themselves at this time.

Even Zhang Juzheng felt his heart beating violently with the shouting over there.

Finally, after the last basket was weighed, Liu Yu shouted loudly.

"Young master, it's calculated, a total of 3,625 pounds after removing the basket!"

Liu Yu's shout echoed in the wilderness, and in his shouting, everyone put down what they were doing, and people looked at the baskets of potatoes over there, and their expressions changed from time to time, and suddenly, some people started crying, and then more people cried.

"Mother! Look......"

A sudden cry burst out from Ma Ziqiang's voice, and he grabbed the potatoes in the basket with both hands and cried loudly.

"With it, with it, we don't have to worry about starvation anymore, and you don't have to save food for us to eat......"

Not to mention a person like Ma Ziqiang who was born in a civilian family, even Shen Shixing, who was born in Nanzhili, looked extremely excited when he looked at those potatoes, but everyone knows what it means to have a yield of 3,000 catties per mu.

"This, this...... Can you eat it? ”

"I can eat it, of course I can eat it, and in a while, we'll eat this."

Shi Yiwen said with a smile. 3,600 catties, although it is not as good as the yield of more than 3,000 kilograms per mu of potatoes in the Netherlands in another world, but it can produce so much, which is far beyond his expectations, but it is also natural to think about it, after all, a lot of fertilizer has also been applied, and even phosphate fertilizer produced by the soil method.

When the tenant farmers carried the potatoes into the cellar, they picked up a potato and looked at it carefully, Zhang Juzheng, although he was very excited, still tried his best to restrain himself. But he almost had a score in his heart.

"Zhiyuan, how much have you planted? How long does it take to grow seeds? ”

"Potatoes are different from ordinary crops, their seeds are themselves, as long as the temperature and humidity are right, they will produce sprouts, and then cut them into pieces, and each piece is guaranteed to have sprouts, so that it can be planted in the ground."

Although Zhang Juzheng didn't explain, Shi Yiwen didn't hear his thoughts, so he explained.

"Now I have planted a total of two acres and more than a cent of land here, almost able to produce more than 7,000 catties, with these potatoes as seed potatoes, at least 70 acres can be planted after the spring next year, and then the seed potatoes can almost be planted more than 2,000 acres, and then wait until the weather is slightly cooler, you can plant another season, and then you can plant at least 70,000 acres......

The breeding of improved varieties is always long, and its promotion always takes time, less than ten years, more than decades. Almost as soon as Shi Yiwen finished speaking, Ma Ziqiang picked up a basket of potatoes and said.

"Zhiyuan, no matter what, you have to leave me two baskets, I have to send this back to my hometown in Shaanxi, you don't know, that place in Shaanxi is poor, the land is poor, and the life of the common people is hard...... Anyway, if you don't agree, you have to agree, and if you agree, you have to agree. ”

Seeing the dignified old man holding the potatoes and not letting go, Zhang Juzheng laughed.

"Physique, look at you, you're an elder."

"How about Elder Ge, this is a treasure that can live all the people!"

Ma Ziqiang's actions made Zhang Juzheng sigh.

"Not only the people!"

Then he looked at Shi Yiwen and said.

"I'll eat at your place at noon today, if you don't eat anything else, just eat this potato, after all, hearing is false, seeing is believing, and the yield is high, you may not be able to eat it, and you have to eat it yourself to know."

"That's nature!"

Shi Yiwen smiled, and after instructing his subordinates to prepare the noon meal, he said to Ma Ziqiang.

"Old Ma Ge, don't worry, I will leave you a few baskets, you don't let go of it, now it's cold, it's going to freeze, it's frozen, but you can't be a seed."

Hearing Shi Yiwen say this, Ma Ziqiang was relieved.

"Okay, then you have to put it away quickly, don't freeze it......"

Then the group entered Zhuangzi and arrived in the hall of their home, and after sitting down, Zhang Juzheng looked at Shi Yiwen and looked at it for a while, and then said.

"Zhiyuan, it seems that you brought back a lot of seeds from overseas."

"Looking back at the auxiliary, when the officials returned to China, they thought about settling in the Celestial Empire, so they brought back some, both fruits and vegetables and staple foods like potatoes, but compared to potatoes, there is another food, which is better than potatoes, and the yield is also very high."

Shi Yiwen, who was afraid that Zhang Juzheng would continue to ask, directly diverted the topic.

"Oh? More than potatoes? What kind of treasure is this? And there? ”

Ma Ziqiang hurriedly asked.

"Pretty much."

Shi Yiwen hurriedly said.

"It's past the time to plant it, so I didn't plant it this year, because there are not many of them, so I've been carefully preserving them. Wait until next year to the right solar term, and then build a nursery to cultivate it, speaking of which, it is a bit similar to potatoes, are edible rhizomes, with rhizomes to cultivate seedlings, but compared to potatoes, he is easier to preserve, the biggest problem of potatoes is that the preservation time is short, you need to build a cellar to preserve, even if it is stored in the cellar is easy to rot, but it is different, it can be directly sliced and dried for preservation, like ordinary grain. ”

Speaking of which, Shi Yiwen suddenly understood, he finally knew why the popularity of sweet potatoes in ancient China far exceeded that of potatoes, not because its yield was higher than that of potatoes, but because it was easier to preserve, and unlike potatoes, it was not easy to preserve, not to mention, and even sprouts would have deadly toxins.

Thinking of this, Shi Yiwen's words paused, and then said.

"Not only that, it can also be used to raise pigs, dead leaves can be used to raise sheep, are good feed, in fact, if you look at it this way, for the common people, it may be more suitable than potatoes."

"Oh? What kind of baby are you talking about? ”

Zhang Juzheng immediately became interested.

"Sweet potatoes, well, in this way, after they are planted next year, Xiaguan will invite Shoufu to come and taste them, after all, there are too few seed potatoes, and Xiaguan really doesn't dare to try it easily!"

Shi Yiwen is telling the truth, although the sweet potatoes in the supermarket can be directly used as seed potato seedlings, the number is too small, but only a dozen catties, so it has been left in the space.

"It's nature, it's nature! Good things are always more expensive, and if it's really like what you said, then it's really a great thing for the people of the Ming Dynasty! With potatoes and sweet potatoes, the people of the world will no longer have to worry about starvation! ”

Wonderful Book House