Chapter 503: Claim the Emperor
One seed, now sixteen. Later he will become more. Now the harvest begins.
Zhang Jie personally dug it with his hands, first cutting off the sweet potato vines with scissors. Then dig by hand, such as with a hoe, for fear of breaking the dig.
When the first tree is dug up. Yang Hong exclaimed: This is at least more than a catty. Oh, my God!
Each tree is dug and placed in one place, and then weighed together.
Dian Wei, Zhou Cang's hand is the same as an iron rake. It didn't take long to finish digging.
The final weighing, large and small, a total of 26 catties, (248 grams of one catty in the Han Dynasty, nearly thirteen catties in later generations).
Oh, my God! The crowd also exclaimed. Some tears came out.
Tian Fengdao: The people of the world are saved! Everyone is not stupid, this plant is nearly two catties, and there are at least thousands of plants per acre, how much does this have to produce!
Zhang Jie said: According to 3,000 to 4,000 plants per mu, and one pound per plant, that is nearly three or four thousand catties.
If you plant a large area, some of the soil is not fertile enough, and the yield will be poor. But the yield per mu is more than 2,000 catties, which is nine out of ten.
Moreover, this sweet potato can be grown in drought-tolerant, sandy soil, hillsides and other horns. This sweet potato vine can be fed to pigs, horses, and sheep. It can be said that the whole body is a treasure!
Ladies and gentlemen, I only collected these dozen catties this year.
This is the seed, I wanted everyone to taste what it tasted like, but unfortunately there were too few of them, so I can only taste them next year.
Tian Fengdao: We don't have to taste it next year, let's keep it as seeds! It's never too late to try it in a few years.
Zhang Jie said with a smile: Don't worry, you can harvest at least a few hundred catties in the autumn harvest next year, so that everyone can taste it.
But we have to have a loud name for this sweet potato.
Yang Hongdao: This is the food that I found in Dawei, why don't you call it "Wei Shu"?
Zhang Jie thought about it, good! It's called "Wei Shu".
Then Zhang Jie asked the dug vegetable cellar to be disinfected with quicklime first. Then store. Sweet potatoes should be stored at a temperature of degrees Celsius and kept dry. If the temperature is too low, it will freeze to death. Too tall will sprout.
And Zhang Jie was also ready to be proclaimed emperor, and returned to Luoyang with the frustration of Kong Ming and others.
Zhang Jie is also in full swing preparing to become the emperor. And the new year has passed.
Just in the spring, the tenth year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, in 205 AD, Zhang Jie ascended the throne in Luoyang in the third year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty of the Great Wei Dynasty and became the emperor. It marks the demise of the Great Han.
After being proclaimed emperor, Zhang Jie granted amnesty to the world and did not use troops against Jiangdong for the time being.
However, Sun Quan called King Wu in Jiangdong and changed Moling to Jianye. Instead of being the emperor, he sent someone to send a table to surrender, expressing his willingness to surrender to Great Wei but not to relocate.
Zhang Jie called several ministers to discuss in the upper study.
Dao: Sun Quan, this kid, is afraid that I will beat him, but he is a minister and does not want to come to Luoyang, which is really whimsical.
Zhuge Liang said: Now that the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, the minister suggested that His Majesty send troops to Jiangdong to dominate the world.
Well, it is possible to send troops to Jiangdong, but I missed the opportunity of last year, and now it is spring, Huainan and other places will soon enter the rainy season, there are many waterways, and the roads are difficult to travel. Jingzhou is prone to plague. So let's wait. It is best to send troops after October, in the winter.
One went south from Huainan and went straight to Jianye, and the other went down the river from Jingzhou. The two roads are fired together, and I don't believe that Zhou Yu can stop my hundreds of thousands of heroes.
Kong Ming, Zhou Yu has always been disobedient to you, I want to give you a chance to convince him. What do you think? Do you have confidence?
Yes! The minister is a household servant, isn't it okay to lead the troops again? Kong Ming Dao.
Hehe, what's this, I said you can do it, do you have confidence?
The minister is seventy percent sure! Kong Ming Dao.
Zhang Jie said with a smile: There are seven achievements, I will give you a choice, one is to go south from Xuzhou to take Huainan first, and then cross the Yangtze River to Jianye, and the other is to send troops from Jingzhou, first go down to Chaisang and then win Yuzhang, and then sweep Jiangnan. Which of the two routes do you choose?
Zhuge Liang thought about it and said: The minister is willing to send troops from Jingzhou to fight a decisive battle with Zhou Yu Chaisang.
Good, I depend on you, you can do some preparatory work beforehand, and I will try to satisfy you with everything I want.
Thank you, Your Majesty!
At this moment, several merchants from the Western Regions came to Luoyang. After asking around, when these businessmen arrived at the gate of the palace of Great Wei, they clamored to go in to see the Great Wei Emperor.
How could the palace guards let them in? Almost didn't kill them. Seeing that these guys were not allowed to enter the Han people, they all knelt at the gate of the palace!
At this time, Kong Ming and Tian Feng happened to come out of the palace and saw that these people looked like Han Chinese. Ask: Who are you? What are you doing kneeling here?
At this time, a middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes would speak Chinese, and said: I want to see your emperor, we are from the Western Regions, I am Shache and Shule.
Tian Fengdao: Do you see anything about Your Majesty?
That human: We want to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to send troops to the Western Regions to help us defeat the Huns!
Tian Feng said angrily: There is no big man now, now it's big Wei!
The man: Then we will see His Majesty Dawei! Ask Dawei to send troops!
Tian Feng said to Zhuge Liang: Kong Ming, do you think they should see each other?
Kong Mingdao: Your Majesty has always hated foreign races, and has long wanted to recover the Western Regions, if you let Your Majesty know that there are Western Regions to make us not let you see you, I'm afraid it's not good! Besides, I can't hide this from Your Majesty.
Well, what you said is also reasonable, so let's go and see His Majesty.
You look at them again. Tian Feng Dao!
Tian Feng entered the palace again, Zhang Jie originally went to the harem to play, and listened to Tian Feng ask to see him again. Very impatiently, he said: Let him in! It's really irritating.
Your Majesty, there were several people from the Western Regions outside the palace, saying that they wanted to see Your Majesty, and the minister estimated that they couldn't find the post house, so they came to the palace.
Zhang Jiedao: People from the Western Regions? What did they do when they came to me? It doesn't mean that I want to send troops!
Tian Fengdao: I'm afraid that's the case, just now one of them said that he asked His Majesty to fight the Huns.
Zhang Jie thought for a while and said: Let's see each other! After all, Da Wei has just been established, and it's good to meet these guys. But if you want to meet, you have to be more formal. How can it be sneaky!
Spread my will, tomorrow will open the morning court, Taihe Hall summons the envoys of the Western Regions, you go down first and let people arrange for them to go to the post house to rest, and the post house will be expanded in the future. Can't let these aliens not find the post house and come to the palace, what kind of system is this?
Promise! The subordinate went down and sent someone to arrange it!
The next day, Zhang Jie formally summoned the envoys of the Western Regions in the Taihe Palace.
After the eunuch passed the edict, several men from the Western Regions also put on costumes, and there were four masked beautiful girls behind the men, each of whom was about 1.7 meters tall, and they had excellent figures!
Envoy of the Western Regions, Dodar meets His Majesty the Emperor of Great Wei!
Zhang Jie saw that these guys were the Uyghurs in Xinjiang in later generations. Similar to Europeans, the nose is high.
Zhang Jie said: No courtesy! I don't know why you came to my Great Wei to see me?
Dordaldao: The minister is entrusted by my king, and I am willing to ask Your Majesty to send troops to the west, and my king and others are willing to pay tribute to Your Majesty!
I ask you, what happened to you with the Huns?
Dordaldao: The Huns robbed us of our cattle, sheep and horses, and we had to pay a lot of food money every year, as well as young women, who would kill people if they didn't pay. A few years ago, it was better, but since the arrival of a sluggish general, it will be even more. Now we don't have enough food for ourselves, so how can we give them so much!