Chapter 242: Finding Sweet Potatoes

It has been more than three years since Liu Wei crossed the end of the Han Dynasty, and now that the Han Dynasty has collapsed, he has crossed into the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, and he does not dare to slack off. In addition to dealing with official duties every day, the pen is to practice literature and martial arts every day www.biquge.info practice martial arts and enhance their own abilities.

Now Liu Wei's four dimensions are 83 in force, 79 in command, 93 in intelligence, and 89 in politics!

This kind of four-dimensional, compared to the ancient Ming Jun, Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Dynasty and Song Zu is naturally not enough, but it is also a more virtuous emperor's four-dimensional data, Liu Wei is still young, and there is a lot of room for growth, so he has been trying to improve himself.

In the past three years, it can be described as conscientious, and now it is rare to go out hunting, Liu Wei is rarely relaxed, seeing a deer passing from a distance, Liu Wei immediately bent his bow and arrows, and chased into the distance.

In ancient times, the mountains and forests were far from being as sparse as in later generations, but now they have spring, and they have come out to forage for food, and from time to time there are birds and beasts skipping by. Seeing this scene, those civil and military generals chased after them. Only Yang Miaozhen was worried about Liu Bian, and took his personal guards to protect Liu Bian.

"Driving" Liu Wei was dressed in a black samurai uniform, leather armor inside, holding a one-stone iron-tired bow, leaning on the heavenly sword at his waist, and immediately hanging a pot of arrows on one side and a riding spear on the other.

A wolf's tooth arrow was pinched in Liu Wei's hand, and Liu Wei calmly stepped on the horse with his feet, and his legs clamped the horse's belly. It's just that there is a large force of cavalry behind him, and the deer is running very quickly, Liu Wei wants to shoot several times, and the deer is frightened by the big behind him.

"You don't have to come with me, General Yang can protect me alone!" Liu Wei waved his hand helplessly, signaling the guards behind him to move too much, and asked him not to follow.

Liu Bianzi and Yang Miaozhen rode quietly to chase after them, and without the soldiers and horses behind them, the deer gradually stopped after running for a while, leisurely eating grass on the ground.

Liu Wei sat on the war horse and observed from afar, and finally took out an arrow from the quiver again, calmed down, and the arrow suddenly turned into a streamer and went towards the deer ****.

I saw that the deer screamed sadly, and Liu Wei's wolf tooth arrow hit the deer's neck! Liu Wei had already been accompanied by guards to arrest him.

"Your Majesty's Divine Shot! What a big deer! After a while, several guards carried the deer, but it was a male deer weighing 100 catties.

Seeing that the harvest was not small, Liu Wei was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Let's go out to chase this animal and go far, go back to meet a few generals first!" ”

Several guards carried the deer and came to the periphery in clusters, only to see that the ministers under their command were already waiting, and the harvest was not small. Seeing that Liu Wei had hunted a deer, the ministers were amazed.

"Today, I will cook here and bake all these things, so that the soldiers can taste them!" Liu Wei pointed to the hunted animal.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The guards were overjoyed and hurriedly took the hunted animals down to deal with them.

"Your Majesty, you said that the heaven-sent thing is here, but Wei Chen searched for it before, but he didn't find anything!" The ministers handed over the hunted game to the gang to deal with, and Zhu Jun hurriedly asked Liu Wei.

"This kind of food is not exposed, but grows underground!" Liu Wei shook his head and smiled.

"Growing underground? Wheat millet explains that it grows on the ground, and this god-given thing actually grows in the ground? The soil is cloudy, but how can you eat it? Cao Cao wondered.

"Then I'll let you see it!" Liu Wei pouted his eyes and found a green shoot on the ground not far away, and the corner of his mouth hooked.

"Your Majesty has found it?"

"Where is it?"

The ministers were overjoyed and hurriedly asked.

Liu Wei ignored the inquiries of the ministers and strode towards the place where the sweet potatoes were grown, and the ministers hurriedly followed, only to see a few green shoots emerging from the ground, but the sound of sweet potato seeds came out.

Sweet potato crops, first leave the seeds, wait until April and May to plant the sweet potatoes, to grow vines, with cut vines to plant, it has a very high survival rate, drought tolerance, just hoe the grass and turn the vines, will get a bumper harvest. Sweet potatoes can be eaten, their young branches and leaves can also be used for vegetables, and even vines can be used for forage.

"Is this what Your Majesty is? This is a plant, Weichen has really never seen it! Zhu Jun was surprised.

Liu Wei took out a dagger and dug it up in the surprised eyes of the ministers, Liu Wei found that this was really a bit big with the sweet potato seed, Liu Wei used the dagger to dig out the soil around the sweet potato, and a large sweet potato of more than a foot was finally taken out by Liu Wei. Liu Wei untied the water bag from his waist again, washed the sweet potato, and finally a pale red and yellowish sweet potato appeared.

The ministers were extremely surprised, they had never seen this sweet potato.

"This is a godsend? How to grow? How to eat it, and what is the name? Qunchen looked at the sweet potato in Liu Wei's hand and asked in surprise.

"This thing is called sweet potato, this is a seed in front of you, see the front end of this shoot, wait for its long vines, stem knots will grow out of the secondary roots, just cut the stems and plant them, very good care, stay in July, just hoe the grass and turn the vines, to prevent the secondary roots from absorbing the nutrients of the taproot, until September and October, you can mature and harvest! A sweet potato can grow several roots! The yield per mu is about 3,000 catties! Liu Wei said about the cultivation of sweet potatoes.

"But these are all what Gaozu Guangwu Tuomeng said, and I don't know if it's true or not!" Seeing the surprised appearance of the ministers, Liu Wei added another sentence.

"Three thousand catties per mu? Nowadays, even the wheat produced in the high-quality fertile fields is only a few hundred catties, and the yield of this material is so high! Don't know where to plant? Xun Yu was surprised.

"The land is naturally as fertile as possible, but sweet potatoes are drought tolerant and barren, and the requirements for land are not so high. Liu Wei sat down cross-legged from the ground, and the ministers also knew Liu Wei, so they all sat down together.

"This sweet potato is a seed, but it is a waste when I take it out, you might as well taste it! However, if you lose too much water, it won't taste too good! Liu Wei sat down and peeled the sweet potato with a dagger, cut it into dozens of pieces, and motioned for the ministers to taste it.

The ministers were full of curiosity, one took a piece and put it in his mouth, he had never experienced this taste, the expressions on his faces were different, and Liu Wei also pretended to take a piece and put it in his mouth to chew. In fact, this guy didn't know how many sweet potatoes he ate when he was a child, and even stole other people's sweet potatoes to roast and eat.

This sweet potato, which is used as seeds, has lost a lot of water, and after just a few bites, it became a residue, Liu Wei spit out the residue and drank a saliva and said, "How does it taste?" Sweet potatoes can be eaten raw, but they taste even better when cooked! ”

The sweet potato seeds don't taste very good, there is only a small amount of water, and the ministers only taste a little sweetness, and there are only residues left in their mouths, and the ministers spit out the residues one after another, and replied to Liu Wei's words.

"Your Majesty, if it is true as Your Majesty said, it has lost too much water. Then his taste should be fragrant and sweet, and the yield is so high that it can live countless people, and the minister suggested that this thing should be planted in large quantities! Tian Feng arched his hand.

"This thing is a godsend, with this thing, the chance of people starving to death will be very small, and it should indeed be promoted!" Xun Yu also nodded in agreement.

Promotion is naturally to be promoted, but Liu Wei knows that sweet potatoes cannot replace grains in any case, and they have not become a staple food in later generations. And it is extremely difficult to store for the winter, and it is very perishable. However, with sweet potatoes, it can indeed save many people, and if disaster relief is needed, a large sweet potato can make a full meal for one person.

"In this mountain forest, there are 100,000 catties of sweet potatoes, which will sprout in a few days, Meng De, you will lead the troops to take care of this place, called the hunting ground, no outsiders are allowed to enter and exit, let alone leak the rumors, and when the vines grow, they will be planted elsewhere!" Liu Wei ordered Cao Cao.

"The last general commands!" Cao Cao arched his hand.

"Your Majesty, the former Dong thieves are ravaging Guanzhong, and there are many barren fields, which can be planted in Guanzhong and planted sweet potatoes! Once you can train your troops, you can also prevent this thing from leaking out! Guo Jia suggested.

"Well, I recruited 30,000 troops in Guanzhong to plant sweet potatoes in Tuntian, but sweet potatoes can't be hidden for long after all, at least this year and next year, this thing must not be leaked! If the family compares and makes up its mind, there will be no forgiveness for me! Liu Wei said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Several confidants and ministers were heartbroken and gave up their orders. (To be continued.) )