Chapter 688: The Emperor and Empress Taste New Crops

"Hehehe, there are Lao Jingde and Zhijie picking fruits for me."

The two old goods only cared about grabbing, but they didn't want to, and the pot they filled with tomatoes was brought to Li Shimin, however, they didn't dare to look for Li Shimin to come back, and immediately looked at the eldest grandson Wuji and Wen Yanbo and a few other ministers hateful teeth.

However, they did not put the picked tomatoes into the basin, but put them in their own pockets, you know, the military uniform they wear now is similar to the style of the military uniform of later generations, there are pockets on the chest, left and right waists, and on the top of the trousers.

So, soon, their clothes were bulging, and they didn't have any image at all, not only that, but they also grabbed two or three fist-sized tomatoes in their hands, and they didn't wash them, they opened their mouths and bit them, and suddenly the juice on their faces was flowing with juice, and their images were completely gone.

In the eyes of smart people, they naturally have good intentions in doing this, and people like them who don't care about their image will not rebel, so Li Shimin trusts them very much.

But in the eyes of a person like Zhao He, who has no political vision at all, he feels that it is very unnecessary, and reminds, "Two generals, this delicious food is still being made on the boat!" You'll have to save some stomach. ”

Hearing this, the two old men stopped harming the tomatoes, and craned their necks to look at the stoves on the deck, where they were cooking.

Li Shimin and his wife, as the emperor, should actually maintain some image, of course, not the kind of image that is high, they are now taking the line of being close to the people, in front of the people, after eating a few mouthfuls of tomatoes, they immediately nodded and praised, this tomato is not as sweet and greasy as persimmons, but there are some appetizing sourness mixed with sweetness, and the juice is very sufficient, making people feel fresh, they have to wipe their lips with a handkerchief while eating, in order to maintain their image.

At this time, the queue of courtiers was already loose because everyone wanted to taste the taste of tomatoes, and Li Shimin didn't care much, anyway, these tomatoes were not enough for everyone to taste, so he asked the two crew members who were carrying the two pots of tomatoes picked by Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong to follow themselves and Empress Changsun to the cordon of the guards, ready to send them to the people on the scene.

"The number of tomatoes is limited now, I can't let everyone eat it, however, we have Sun Zhengming, the farmer of the Tang Dynasty, tens of thousands of students from the Agricultural College, and more than 10,000 officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, and soon, they will be able to let everyone eat it, so the people who got the tomatoes I gave you today, you can taste them carefully, and if you don't get them, don't be envious, scramble, everyone will eat them soon, now, if you want to try it, stretch out your hand······"

In the two pots, there were only twenty or thirty tomatoes, but the hands of the onlookers were stretched out like flowers, and Li Shimin and his wife smiled and put the tomatoes into the palms of the people's outstretched hands, just such a small episode, and I don't know how many die-hard fans they have absorbed.

After the tomatoes were delivered, as the samurai came down from the boat with a plate of tomatoes that were cut into slices and a little sugar or ice residue that had not completely melted on it, a long row of chefs with trays walked down from the boat, they were originally the chefs of the fleet, and in the past few days in Lingnan, Sun Xiangfu taught them a few dishes with new crops as raw materials, at this time, they were basically able to achieve both color and flavor.

Yu Chigong and Cheng bit Jin's noses, and they began to smoke like when they first smelled Sun Xiangfu cooking.

The aroma of potato stewed chicken and potato roast beef is simply too penetrating, but Li Shimin and his wife have not yet eaten it, and it is not their turn yet.

"Your Majesty, the small yellow pieces in this plate are potatoes, whether it is stewed chicken, stuffed beef and mutton, or stir-fried, boiled, its taste is good, the Mayans of South America, take it as a staple food, eat it all year round, and the body is also very strong, the head said, it has a variety of nutrients required by the human body, and it can be eaten with grain and vegetables, and the yield is extremely high, and it is bound to become one of the main crops of my Datang in the future, you can taste it carefully."

There are chopsticks next to the tray, and the smell of potatoes after being fried with green onions, even a person who is not hungry will be seduced and salivate, not to mention people who have never smelled this potato fragrance.

Li Shimin first helped Empress Changsun get a pair of chopsticks, picked up a pair himself, and went directly to the potatoes on the plate, and a piece of potato was directly put into his mouth.

"Well, it's delicious."

Although the potatoes that had just come out of the pot were still a little hot, Li Shimin, who had eaten one piece, was not only addicted, but also ate several pieces one after another, while eating, he also pointed to the plate and asked the eldest grandson queen to move the chopsticks quickly.

Empress Changsun eats more than him, but she doesn't stop at it, she eats several pieces in a row before she speaks, "I can't imagine that the people of South America have such a good mouth, and have this delicious food as the staple food, they are really much happier than the people of my Tang Dynasty." ”

Obviously, Empress Changsun's sense of taste has been conquered by potatoes, but Zhao He smiled and said, "They are indeed fortunate to have never had a food crisis, but they do not have such exquisite cooking skills as our Datang, and the ordinary people over there usually only boil potatoes in clear water to eat, although they still have some fragrance, but they can't taste as good as chicken, or beef and mutton."

You taste the sweet potato tender leaf heart, as well as the two green vegetables fried by the leaf stem, the head said, this is the incidental output of planting sweet potatoes, these stems and leaves, the right amount of picking, does not affect the growth of sweet potatoes, tender, people can eat as vegetables, older, cattle and sheep also like to eat, the whole body is a treasure, the economic value, than can only eat the root of the potato is higher! ”

Green leafy vegetables are always a woman's favorite. Especially when it was fried very refreshingly, after the eldest grandson queen first took a bite of the chopsticks, Li Shimin also followed over and took a large number of chopsticks, its crisp and refreshing taste, but it gave Li Shimin, who has been accustomed to eating big fish and meat recently, a sense of freshness.

At the end of the third month of the lunar calendar, Jiangling City was a little hot, and Li Shimin sweated slightly on his forehead after a few mouthfuls of hot food.

"Well, the queen come and try it, this tomato tastes better after being mixed with white sugar and ice residue."

Hearing this, Zhao He had to chuckle, no wonder this Li Shimin couple is getting fatter and fatter, the sweet party is not fat, there is no reason!

There were more than a dozen plates of prepared dishes, and when the two of them ate them, the ministers began to taste them, and suddenly, on the dock, they praised the taste of potatoes, sweet potato stems and leaves, and tomato scrambled eggs.

Then, Zhao He brought Li Shimin and his wife to a tray containing several charred and browned sweet potatoes burned with charcoal, and said, "Your Majesty, this is a roasted sweet potato, when the minister came, the head specially explained that this thing is the most delicious coarse grain, and it is good for His Majesty and Niangniang's body, it can increase the body's disease resistance, and it can also ventilate, however, too much food is easy to accumulate food, and it is just right for a palm-sized meal to be eaten." ”

As he spoke, Zhao He broke open a roasted sweet potato in the tray, pointed to the sweet potato skins that had been slightly carbonized and naturally separated from the sweet potato flesh, "Except for these slightly charred sweet potato skins that are inedible, the whole sweet potato can be eaten, but in the next season of this year, you will be able to eat sweeter sweet potatoes than this, and the head said that its sugar content can be as much as sugar cane, squeezing out sugar grains." ”

Li Shimin followed Zhao He's explanation and demonstration, while peeling the sweet potato skin, while sending the peeled sweet potato meat to his mouth, after feeling it carefully, he found that the sweet potato and the potato taste is somewhat similar, but sweeter, softer, he heard Zhao He say, it can be sweeter, and immediately has more expectations for it.

Sun Xiangfu helped Zhao He design this new crop tasting session, so that Li Shimin, a fat couple, like to eat coarse grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, which is not only good for their health, but also good for the promotion of these crops, and has some long-term significance for the future social atmosphere.

Even the emperor and his wife eat these potatoes and sweet potatoes and other coarse grains to survive, those, in the circle of powerful ministers, will also compete to imitate, eating less delicacies and delicacies is actually more beneficial to their health, because, in society, it is usually those who are overnourished and do not need to eat delicacies of the mountains and seas, and those who are weak and need to eat delicacies of the mountains and seas, but those ordinary people who are weak and need food supplements are not qualified to eat delicacies of the mountains and seas.

Let these delicacies from the mountains and seas be eaten by people who really need to replenish their bodies, it is a beautiful fantasy of Sun Xiangfu to the society, whether everyone can accept the scientific diet he advocated, it is difficult to say, anyway, even in the future generations, it is difficult for anyone to restrain their desires.

After potatoes, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, there is corn, Sun Xiangfu did not mean to invite Li Shimin to eat old corn cobs, but the rows of yellow corn on those cobs attracted everyone's attention.

Therefore, Zhao He told you about all aspects of this crop species, after it came out, it was rushing to replace wheat, because, even if it is the original seed, planted in the south, its yield can reach more than 800 catties per mu, and it is the weight of dry corn that can be ground into cornmeal.

As for wheat, the current average yield per mu in the north has just exceeded five stones, that is, 600 catties, excluding bran, there are only about 480 catties of flour, and the weight gap of more than 300 catties is very large.

The key is that there is a lot of room for corn yield improvement in the future, in later generations, the yield per mu of high-yield fields in the south has exceeded one ton, and the average yield per mu of the national product has also reached six or seven hundred kilograms, which is more than ten stones, comparable to the yield of hybrid rice.

Then, what was moved down from the boat was peanuts, and at the same time, there was a stack of red peanuts that had been fried by the kitchen workers had cooled down, and Zhao He didn't dare to give Li Shimin the hot peanuts that had just come out of the pot to eat, it was easy to diarrhea.

After Li Shimin and his wife finished eating a sweet potato, Zhao He pointed to a basket of peanuts and said, "Your Majesty, this crop is called peanuts, it belongs to the nut family, and the fruit is not only delicious.

Moreover, it can also make a very good edible oil, the head said, its yield per mu should be more than 1,000 catties, the farmer in two to three years, so that its yield per mu reaches more than 10 stones, there should be no problem, in this plate, is the shelled peanuts, after frying, mixed with fine salt grains, you can eat, now it has cooled, very crispy, Your Majesty can taste. ”

"Peanuts?"

When Li Shimin heard this term, he always felt a little familiar, just like the previous cartoons, as if he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it.

However, after sandwiching a peanut and putting it in its mouth, it no longer thought about this problem, the taste of this fried peanut was not bad, very crispy, and he quickly turned around and asked Empress Changsun to taste it.

As for what Zhao He just said, he didn't care so much about it, because there were so many crops with a yield of 10,000 catties per mu in front of him, and his nerves had been stimulated to thicken, but he didn't know that the yield of peanuts could actually be increased to more than 2,000 catties per mu, and in later generations, the average yield per mu of planting in the country was between 700 and 800 kilograms, and the yield per mu reached 10 stones, which was only 600 kilograms, which was just Sun Xiangfu's goal within two or three years. ()

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