Luo Yuhong's ideas, or inspiration, do come from a romance drama.

But in this romance drama, the protagonist is neither the fourth elder brother with affection in the corners of his eyes, nor the little fairy who flies around and discharges his fingertips. It is a foreign costume and romance drama with a rich background of the times that Luo Yuhong has seen and left a rare impression.

The synopsis of the story is: The beautiful and touching heroine was born in a poor Irish Catholic family, and because she was poor, she had to go to work in the English old man's house in the city.

The handsome male protagonist who licks the screen, that is, the eldest young master of the British master, and the female protagonist have a little incident between the domineering young president and the female secretary.

Just a few years after the heroine fled back to her parents' house with hatred and gave birth, a terrible disaster swept through the background country of Ireland.

The potato, that is, the potato, was not harvested, and everyone could not have enough to eat, so they had to flee their homeland by boat, taking advantage of the strong west wind to sail to poetry and the distance.

At this time, the male protagonist suddenly changed sex, his conscience was discovered, and he decided to make up for his sins, but he couldn't find the female protagonist alive or dead, and only found an infant baby and a cold but heart-rending letter.

A few years later, a glamorous American woman, simply called Beauty, arrived in London, setting off a reinterpretation of fashion in British high society.

A young British officer, who was almost killed by his own handsomeness, was cared for like a beautiful mother, and the young British officer was obviously mistaken and hopelessly fell in love with the beautiful woman......

In short, this is a down-and-out bloody drama, there is more puppy blood in the big dog blood, all of which are the dog blood of men and women, and the tragedy of the conflict between the country, the nation, the times and religion is all condensed into the hormonal carrier of the love action of the male and female protagonists......

is such a season-long British modern costume TV series, which was remembered by Luo Yuhong, who was struggling to improve agricultural production efficiency.

"Potatoes!"

Luo Yuhong screamed loudly, for fear that the people around him would not hear it.

"Potatoes that are suitable for growing at high altitudes and in cold regions, potatoes that can increase the population a lot! Six tonnes of production per acre (Note 1) is enough to feed six Irishmen with tall oxen and horses! ”

Zhu Pingjin scoffed at this.

"Don't forget, I used to be the liaison officer of the deputy director of the office of the poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation task force of a certain group in a certain village in a certain county and a certain township in Bazhong City!

My task back then was to help the farmers grow potatoes in the alpine mountains, use potatoes to get them out of poverty, and use potatoes to make them rich!

One and a half to three tons of acres of land, a full three thousand to six thousand catties! Even if everyone in the Ming Dynasty is a rice bucket, they can easily feed three or five people! How much labor can be saved in agriculture in this way, and how much more troops can be increased by the Protector Army!

It's a pity, it's hateful, now the seed potatoes can't be detoxified. In the event of infection, not only will the entire field be out of production this year, but it will also be out of harvest next year, the year after next year, and the year after next......"

"In their natural state, who will give the potatoes a medicated bath? Could it be that potatoes become endangered because they are poisoned? I see you've become a nerd! If you go to help the peasant uncle to help the poor, then it must be the more you help the poorer, and the more you help the poorer, the more you help the poorer! ”

"Potato detoxification is not a bath, and in the 21st century, it is also a sophisticated agricultural technology, which is comparable to the difficulty of rice hybridization......

Well, I admit that your unreasonable logic is reasonable, and the detoxification rate of seed potatoes back then was not high, and those ignorant villagers who shouted your voice did not cooperate...... But I'm still not ready to promote potatoes with much fanfare! ”

Zhu Pingjian's head was touched by his wife.

"You have a fever today? It's all nonsense! ”

"I'm fairly sober."

Zhu Pingjin opened his wife's unruly hand:

"In our original time and space, potatoes were suitable for growing in alpine regions above 600 meters above sea level. At that time, the main potato producing area in Sichuan was a high-altitude area of more than 1,800 meters in the three autonomous prefectures of Gan'aliang, especially Liangshan Prefecture......

Generally, one season is planted every year. One season a year is already very bad (Note 2). Do you know how big the area of the three states of Gan Aliang is? It is now the Xiaoice period, and many shallow hills and low mountainous areas in Sichuan are also suitable for planting......

But do you know where the best areas in China are for growing potatoes? ”

"Northwest, Northeast, or North China?"

"By your misfortune to say: Northwest.

The people of Shaanxi and Shanxi call potatoes yam eggs, which are the food of the poorest people. In middle school, we studied the masterpiece of a writer, this person is named Zhao Shuli, who is known as the representative of yam egg pie, because his characters are poor people who grew up eating potatoes in the ravines.

The northwest of the Ming Dynasty belongs to Shaanxi. By the way, it is the nest of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

If you think about it, once potatoes are planted everywhere in the northwest, and the people of the northwest and the thieves and mountain bandits will not worry about eating and drinking, then the political and military situation of the Ming Dynasty will be fundamentally reversed...... Our ability to predict the future will be completely lost. Miss Luo, my dear wife, the end of you and me is unpredictable! ”

I see!

Luo Yuhong looked at her husband's mysterious smile, and could stuff a whole potato in her mouth.

As soon as he laid down Tongnanba, Gao Dengtai wanted to replant potatoes in the mountainous areas of Nanjiang and Tongjiang, and expand the planting area to his hometown, Tianquan Lushan and other places.

Without hesitation, I ordered him to stop, and ordered him to hand over all the potatoes he had collected! He was still not happy, saying that the son of this world was disrespectful of living beings......"

"No wonder I heard in Langzhong that he didn't do as well as he wanted...... Also, potatoes are not popular now, and a little potato seed is very precious, and it must have taken a lot of effort for others to collect it! ”

Luo Yuhong muttered, "But you do this...... Isn't it too cruel? I can't bear it...... For the selfish interests of both of us...... Just watching thousands of people starve to death......"

"How did you educate yourself just now? You are the lord of a nation, and you must not be kind to a woman at this time! Hmph, what I did was to save more people who were suffering and starving! Starve a few thieves to death temporarily...... That's a labor pain! Remember, it was the inevitable throes of a great age! ”

"You politicians can't be trusted!" Luo Yuhong shook her head heavily, "You don't see blood when you kill people one by one!" ”

Zhu Pingjin immediately refuted.

"You businessmen can't be trusted! Ma X said that the thing he was least interested in was money; Liu X said that he is not sensitive to beauty; Wang X said, first achieve a small goal! Besides, are you going to send Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong something to eat? Let them eat enough to pick your skin and pull my tendons? Any idea how the virgin died? ”

"No personal attacks, otherwise I will turn against you Zhu Pingjian!" Luo Yuhong warned.

But after a while, she hesitated and asked Zhu Pingjin if she could grow potatoes in a suitable place, but she could make Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong not know.

"Impossible! If you don't want people to know, you can't do it unless you do. If you do it, someone will know it, and the only difference is the length of time. ”

Zhu Pingjin categorically denied: "Besides, there are four elder brothers after Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong." How long we will have to fight in the future, we don't know at all. If I want Shu to maintain its absolute superiority in food and population for a long time, I must do everything possible to weaken the opponent! Food is my most powerful weapon! ”

"Is there no other way?" Luo Yuhong, who was extremely disappointed, grabbed her chopsticks and poked the empty plate with her chopsticks. Suddenly, the remaining shredded potato on the plate lit up her eyes.

"Look, what is this?" Luo Yuhong pointed to the shredded potato, and poked Zhu Pingjian's nose with the tip of the chopsticks, "We just ate the potatoes!" How can it be so mysterious as you say? ”

"Then why don't the people of Daming plant potatoes? Do they plant the land every day, pass it on by word of mouth, and don't they know that there is a plant that claims not to die of hunger? Zhu Pingjin retorted.

"How do I know? I'm not an ancient! ”

"Humph! It's full of ancients, and under the nose is the mouth! ”

"Feng Po!" Zhu Pingjin's wife shouted loudly.

Without waiting for the eunuchs and guards to respond, Feng Po, who had changed into a New Year's green apron, had already rushed out of the kitchen with lightning speed.

"Granny Feng, where did you get this potato?" Luo Yuhong asked.

As soon as she heard this, Mrs. Feng's face turned white. She couldn't answer, looked at Zhu Pingjian's face, and then looked at Luo Yuhong's face, and felt that the faces of the two were fine, so she carefully replied that it was bought at the Ximen vegetable market.

"Are there a lot of people selling potatoes in the market? What is the selling price? Luo Yuhong asked again.

It is estimated that the two nobles did not mean to ask for guilt, and Mrs. Feng was also bolder, and her words were also neat:

"There aren't many people who grow potatoes, and there are not many people who buy them. This thing is the same as pachyderm (Note 3), ordinary people don't eat it, how much can it be sold for? It's not worth a pound or twenty cents.

I said, the prince and Miss Luo are such noble people, and it is rare to go out, if you want to eat, you can eat those delicacies of the mountains and seas that can't be eaten in the palace, why did you order this flower to gnaw the leftovers......"

Zhu Pingjin's face sank, and he was about to have a seizure, when Luo Yuhong had already shouted: "I know the thick-skinned vegetables, they are fed to pigs!" ”

"Isn't it! If you don't feed pigs, who will grow pachyderm? Mrs. Feng hurriedly catered to Miss Luo's words, "This potato is cheaper than thick-skinned vegetables, and I don't even eat pigs!" ”

"Why don't pigs eat it?" Luo Yuhong inspired Mrs. Feng's thinking.

Miss Luo is so willing to talk to herself, how could Mrs. Feng sweep Miss Luo's interest?

"That pig looks like a big head, a thick waist, a short tail, and a stupid and honest appearance, but it's actually a ghost elf! Miss Luo, don't you know, the most powerful thing about that pig is the long pig nose, which smells smart......"

"Yes, a long arched mouth with a runny nose and mud everywhere!" Luo Yuhong smiled proudly at Zhu Pingjin, "Smoking, boiling, barbecue, eating is fragrant!" ”

"Oh, the pig arch mouth in the old body store is smoked first, then marinated and then roasted, and it is very fragrant!"

Mrs. Feng, who was overjoyed to find her bosom friend, turned around and was about to go to the kitchen to prepare a plate of Feng Ji pig arch mouth for the two distinguished guests, but Luo Yuhong stretched out her hand to hold her.

Zhu Pingjin, who was played by his wife in public, finally saw the opportunity and wedged into the conversation.

"Feng Po, this son is here to ask you. Why don't pigs eat potatoes? ”

Flutter! Zhu Pingjin's wife couldn't help laughing, covered her mouth and laughed.

Miss Luo smiled, and she smiled at Mrs. Feng on the spot. She wanted to laugh, but she didn't dare to laugh. What's more, she didn't know why she was laughing. Laughing and not smiling changed back and forth on her old face that had experienced the vicissitudes of life, which amused Zhu Pingjian.

"Alright, Feng Po. This son will not embarrass you. If you know, you say, don't you know......"

"The old body knows! Know! ”

Mrs. Feng, who was worried about the contempt of the prince, hurriedly accentuated her voice and said in a longer tone: "Pigs don't eat potatoes because they are afraid that potatoes are poisonous!" ”

The word "toxic" has just fallen, Qiang! The sword is unsheathed!

Almost instantly, the guards rushed from all sides of the courtyard to their guard targets: Shizi and Miss Luo.

As for Mrs. Feng, of course, as a criminal suspect, she was forced to be held by four or five bright steel knives, and the stoneware plate with a piece of potato shreds left was also seized on the spot as important physical evidence.

"Potatoes are poisonous (Note 4), but the potatoes fried by the old body are absolutely not poisonous!" Mrs. Feng fell from the sky, and she was so frightened that she sat down in the dust and cried bitterly.

Potatoes may be poisonous, but stir-fried shredded potatoes are absolutely not poisonous, otherwise Zhu Pingjian, who has eaten french fries and potato chips and roast beef for several years, would not even have a chance to cross.

But the people of the Ming Dynasty don't know this.

Many poor people don't know how to eat potatoes, and they don't care about them when they are hungry, and they swallow them after wiping the mud. This is followed by obvious symptoms of poisoning, such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

When the others looked at it, it turned out that this thing was inedible!

Over time, potatoes became notorious and feared by everyone. Who will plant it, cultivate it, and use it as a life-saving treasure?

It's terrible to be uneducated.

In that case, then you're welcome!

Zhu Pingjin glanced at each other, and a raging fire of conspiracy ignited in his four eyes.

Plant potatoes, dig potatoes, dig potatoes! Potatoes and artichokes are sizzling and lo-ro, and fried in a pan!

Note 1: One acre is approximately equal to six municipal acres.

Note 2: According to the data of 2015, the cultivated area of potatoes in Sichuan is 15 million mu, and the total output is about 21 million tons, both of which are the first in the country. However, the yield is much lower than that of many areas in the northwest, which is a bit of a wide planting and a thin harvest. One of the reasons is that potatoes are generally not grown in good land in the Sichuan Basin, and even if they are planted, they are eaten as vegetables and rarely as staple food.

Note 3: THICK-SKINNED CABBAGE, ALSO KNOWN AS KRAFT CABBAGE, PORK SPINACH, TIAN, LEAF BEET. There are many different names in different places, and it is impossible to list them all. At the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chinese brought thick-skinned vegetables to the table, and it is said that they are still very nutritious. However, Hibiki still doesn't eat it.

Note 4: Potatoes that have been cultivated in the wild or artificially cultivated for a short time are highly poisonous and cannot be eaten by tubers. Cultivated potatoes are still poisonous, but the tubers are edible after cooking. When eating potatoes, the green sprouts are removed and must be heated until fully cooked, so potatoes should not be eaten raw. During the three-year difficult period, because of the raw consumption of potatoes, there were many deaths of malignant poisoning across the country.

Potatoes were introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but they did not play any role in the great famine of the late Ming Dynasty. Hibiki ventured to speculate that it is possible that when potatoes were first introduced to China, they were far more toxic than today's improved potatoes. As a result, potatoes, a high-yielding crop, have been slow to spread in China, which is related to its unique toxicity, which is similar to the fate of tomatoes.