Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the three guards of Xifu swept the mountains and forests every day, cleaning up the primeval forests one by one.

Whether it is a bird or a beast, as long as it is seen, it will not live, sorry, there is no rare animal protection law in this era, and the warriors are really ruthless, because the burden on their shoulders is too heavy.

The first people had arrived, each with a look of hunger on their faces, but the grain of the two hundred ships had not yet arrived, and for the time being they could only rely on game for food.

When people live, they will work hard to survive, and hunger is the most powerful threat that can make people burst out, and almost all of Lingnan has been mobilized.

No matter who it is, as long as you can find something to eat, as long as this food can satisfy a large number of people, then you will be rewarded with a baronial title immediately.

First of all, a child was hungry, and secretly ran to the primeval forest in the middle of the night to pick some wild fruits, but unfortunately the wild fruits at the edge of the forest had already been found and eaten by the people, so the child could only go all the way to the forest.

Fortunately, the beasts in the forest were swept away by the warriors several times, otherwise a child would not have survived in the forest for a few hours.

At dawn the next day, the child's parents found out that they had lost the child, so they hurriedly reported it to the surrounding garrison, which immediately attracted the attention of Xifu Sanwei.

His Majesty has just established the country, and the people have just arrived, so there can be no disgraceful incident at this time, even if it is just a child who is missing.

The 20,000 warriors who sharpened their knives rushed directly into the mountains and forests, and once again ploughed the primeval forest and swept the caves. Before leaving, Han Yue issued a strict order, to see people in life, to see corpses in death, if it was eaten by a wild beast, then the beast should be completely destroyed.

If it was harmed by the local natives......

The eyes of the 20,000 soldiers who sharpened their knives were blood-red, needless to say, they also wanted to slaughter a single family.

It's a pity that when I found the child on the third day, I was stunned to find that the little guy was squatting on the ground and holding something to gnaw.

A whole 20,000 warriors had been suffering in the forest for three days in order to find him, but the little boy was eating here, and one of the warriors came up in anger and wanted to beat him.

However, he was stopped by the generals.

The general is not a bystander, it is Xue Rengui, the son of Xue Ying, the mad tiger of the Tang Dynasty, who is now also at the level of a general in the three guards of Xifu, and he personally led the team in this search.

History says that Xue Rengui is as careful as a military general, in fact, this guy does have a little bit of the ability to see the subtleties, he stopped the angry warrior and then walked up to the child, and then squatted on the ground and kept checking the skin of some kind of rhizome that the child gnawed off.

"You found this thing?"

"Yes, I was hungry, I was dying of hunger, and I saw a little mouse digging into the ground, and then digging this thing out to eat. I beat the little mice away and snatched these numb edible ......."

Children are not good at expressing words, and the so-called numb can eat the saying that it should mean that this thing can be eaten, but the taste will be a little numb.

But he was still gnawing happily, needless to say, he was really hungry.

Xue Rengui smiled, gently stroked the top of the child's head with his hand, and said, "Where are the rats in Lingnan?" It's likely that the one you're seeing is some kind of mouse-like beast! Is this stuff really delicious? Can you let my brother taste it? You see, I've been running around for three days to find you and bring someone, and now I'm hungry with my chest and back. ”

The child hesitated, and finally handed the half-gnawed rhizome to Xue Rengui.

In fact, where is Xue Rengui because he is hungry, he just doubts that this thing can be used as rations.

Seeing the child hand over the tuber, he didn't care about the child's saliva on it, and put it directly in his mouth and chewed it, and the next moment, he suddenly turned around and shouted, and ordered: "The whole army immediately draws the knife, and if you are not willing to use the knife, give me my hand, in short, I will only have one sentence, turn this land upside down." ”

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On this day, 20,000 soldiers dug up more than 100,000 catties of rhizomes.

I can't name this thing, and the juice splashes all over the place when I eat it raw, and it feels like a numbness, but people are very hungry and don't care about this, in short, this thing knows that it belongs to a kind of food.

It's a strange feeling, even if you've never seen a certain grain before, but just a few chews in your mouth will tell you that it's definitely edible.

Although it is numb when eaten raw, it can satisfy the stomach.

Xue Rengui asked people to light a fire and bake a few more to try, and found that the taste suddenly changed after cooking, not only the aroma was overflowing, but also soft and glutinous and delicious, and the taste was even two points stronger than sweet potatoes.

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It doesn't matter if it's delicious, it's important that it's produced in large quantities.

Just find a treeless open space and dig it down, and you can quickly dig up hundreds of catties along the vines.

Some of them are not the rhizomes of the year when they look at the outer skin, and there are faint signs of decay in the tubers, which are obviously the roots of many years ago, because no one has dug them for too long, and they have reached the limit of growth and survival.

For example, if sweet potatoes are planted in the ground and not harvested, new sweet potatoes will grow every year, but the old sweet potatoes will slowly rot last year and the year before that, and then become nutrients and fertilizer for new rhizomes.

At present, there is a shortage of food in Lingnan, Xue Rengui found that there is no delay in this thing, and he rushed back to the camp in one day after the three-day journey, and then urgently reported to Han Yue with the rhizome.

"His grandmother's, why didn't I think of ......"

Han Yue slapped his thigh when he saw something, his face full of surprise and excitement.

At that time, there were still a number of officials in the camp, and even Li Shimin and the eldest grandson were helping to do things.

Li Shimin knew that his son knew this thing when he heard Han Yue's tone, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Could it be that this is something similar to sweet potatoes, I don't know if the yield can reach the same level as sweet potatoes?" ”

"It's the same, it's the same!"

Han Yue laughed, holding the tuber and explained: "This thing is called Lipu taro, which is native to a place in the western part of Lingnan. ”

Lipu taro was later in Guangxi for a generation, and there were no farmers in Guangdong to plant, but this thing was purely wild in the Tang Dynasty, and the climate in Guangdong and Guangxi was similar, and there were naturally wild taro growing.

It's not great to eat raw, but it's a good ration when roasted or cooked, and most importantly, it's not dug up for hundreds of years, so it's sure to be a lot of it.

If you can dig into the forest, there will be more in the woodless wasteland.

Li Shimin laughed wildly, suddenly patted Han Yue on the shoulder, and said loudly: "Legend has it that wherever the ancient Emperor Xian went to live, God would give the food of the living in that place, my son had just founded a country here, and immediately found taro that no one had eaten for hundreds of years, ahahaha, your Chinese empire is good, it is a blessing from heaven, it is really auspicious......"

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…… The fourth more arrives, 10,000 words, and there is a fifth watch later, I spelled!