Chapter Twenty-Three: Amazing Yields
The sun was very warm in the morning, there was still no rain in Chang'an City, and it was about ten o'clock when a group of second ancestors arrived in Wangjia Village, of course, this time keeping method was only known to Yanglin, that is to say, it took more than two hours to ride a fast horse from Chang'an City to Wangjia Village, and the commander of the forbidden army who was responsible for guarding Wangjia Village was on duty in the palace, named Ge Yifa, and naturally recognized these second ancestors, and they let them in without doing anything to stop them.
The first thing Wang Erniu does when he gets up every day is to hold the artifact left by the little fairy to patrol the whole village for a week, of course, there is no bullet in the shotgun at all, there is no need to worry about going off the fire, he can only use it to scare and scare the bees and butterflies around Wangjia Village, and then he will start to shout at the people in the village to work, first take out the picked herbs, spread them out to dry, and then go to the cornfield and sweet potato field to clean up the weeds, he thinks that there is a weed in the cornfield and sweet potato field is a blasphemy against the little fairy, Watering twice a day is also a must-do homework, and even if there is a severe drought in Guanzhong, the soil in the corn and sweet potato fields in Wangjia Village maintains a certain degree of moisture.
"Wang Erniu, I'm back." Yang Lin turned over and dismounted, and Wang Er Niu Fei also rushed over and gave him a bear hug, and the second ancestors had already attracted attention to the unique environment of Wangjia Village.
"Big brother, you said it would be great if all our villages in Datang became like this!" Li Tai took a closer look at the standard configuration of the Wang family's villagers, and said with some envy. The standard configuration he saw was food, and almost every house had pickled jerky hanging from the beams of the house, including chickens, fish, and some other small animal meat.
"Yes! We haven't seen meat in the palace for many days! Li Chengqian agreed, because what he was looking at was also meat, and he hadn't eaten breakfast yet! There is food in Wangjia Village, and of course the big guy keeps his stomach.
"Erniu, the corn bellflower is dry, that is, it is ripe, now we have to organize everyone to pick the corn, peel off the rice grains and put it away, the corn heart is ground into powder by stone grinding, you can raise pigs, sweet potatoes are also going to be dug, and you are ready to start planting in the greenhouse, I asked someone to bring a letter to the village chief to ask him to expand the greenhouse, how is it built?" Yanglin first looked at the corn field and sweet potato field, this thing is now the treasure of the Tang Dynasty, this season is harvested, plant another season in the greenhouse, next spring, at least there are thousands of acres of seeds that can be planted.
"It's all built, 30 acres of range, in the back mountain, it's convenient to get firewood, and the village chief also asked someone to send a lot of black stones, and it won't be a problem to burn until next year." When Wang Erniu heard that the sweet potatoes and corn were about to be harvested, he immediately became excited, because Wang Erla once said that if she could eat sweet potatoes and corn, she could consider marrying him in advance.
"This man! You can't be an official, and as soon as you become an official, you will begin to learn to use power for personal gain. Yang Lin smiled and scolded, but his heart was very happy, the thirty-acre greenhouse was not something that the people of Wangjia Village could build by themselves, if it wasn't for the help of His Majesty, it would have been supervised by several Wangjia Village craftsmen who had been craftsmen and Wang Shouren, the only one in Datang, the head of Zhengqipin Village, who had used the power at hand to supervise it.
"Prepare some eggs for me, the eggs laid by the kind of native chickens that I asked you to raise in the mountains, as well as flour, onions, garlic and whatever, and if you don't call these hungry ghosts reincarnated, I'm afraid they will rob the village." Yang Lin looked at a few friends who had to look at the beam in every house, and said speechlessly.
Wang Erniu took the order and ran out, raising pigs, raising chickens, ducks and fish, etc., all of which Yanglin had long taught the people of Wangjia Village, and the medicinal materials were sold for money, and the village chief would go to the market to buy some live chickens, ducks and piglets to raise, as for the method, of course, it was free-range, the piglets ate the pig vegetables that grew in the mountains, and they could mix some of the rancid water produced by the villagers' cooking every day, and raise a dozen pigs, and now they can kill one every two months, and the family can share a few catties of good meat, and everyone saves to eat during the New Year's Festival, Hundreds of chickens and ducks are raised, and they can lay a lot of eggs a day, and they have also become a nutritious food for the people of Wangjia Village, and sometimes they are also exported.
After a while, everyone came to the fairy dwelling of Yanglin, the peach trees and apricot trees in the greenhouse were full of fruits, it was said that they should be ripe in July, but without the permission of Yanglin, no one dared to go in and pick and eat, the fruits were ripe, and the soft ones were about to fall to the ground, Yanglin shouted, more than a dozen second ancestors started to dry, not to mention, the fruits of the wild trees in the mountains were very sweet, soft peaches, directly peeled off a layer of furry skin on it, and took a bite of it, the taste was indescribable.
Cheng Chumo and Yu Chi Baolin were taller, and they slammed unwashed peaches into the collar, Yang Lin could already imagine that the bodies of these two goods would itch to death when they turned around, and he didn't remind them, let them be happy. He turned around and walked towards the big kitchen where he had taught the people of Wangjia Village to cook.
Yang Lin was busy in the kitchen, the second ancestors continued to be happy in the greenhouse, Li Tai's head was more flexible, he found a long bench, lightly picked the fragrant yellow apricots on the apricot tree, and did not forget to put them into a brocade bag that had been prepared a long time ago, thinking that he should bring them back to the palace to please Li Er and the eldest grandson.
"Big brother, don't eat too much, remember to keep your stomach." Li Ke is always so steady and elegant, and wise, because Yang Lin didn't even look here before he went into the kitchen to cook.
Yanglin's food to greet everyone is very simple, wild leek egg dumplings, salted meat buns, salted duck eggs cut into petals with red oil, this is everyone's food in the morning, not rich, just super delicious, Li Tai stuffed everything into the bag, while eating, while stuffing, Cheng Chumo, Yu Chi Baolin are all stuffed into their mouths, Changsun Chong, Li Huairen, Qin Shuang and others have tutors, just eat by themselves, and Li Ke has a bit of a tasting posture, chew slowly, to taste all the flavors of food before swallowing, There are smaller Fang Yiai, Du Wei, etc., all of them are big children, they are just fart worms.
After lunch, Yanglin plans to take these second ancestors to work in the field, the first time they saw these crops the second ancestors are with a curious mentality, Wang Erniu has already gathered the adults and children left behind in the village, of course, the children are only responsible for seeing how the adults work, under the demonstration of Yanglin, the big guy quickly broke off all the corn cobs, in fact, it is one or two acres of corn, and one acre of Datang is much smaller than one acre of later generations, and it will be over in a while, Then everyone piled up into a hill of corn transported to the cement drying field in the center of the village, Yanglin began to teach everyone to peel corn kernels, the villagers and children carefully put each grain of corn into a bag, because the little fairy said that a grain of corn is a corn in the next year, and hundreds of thousands of corn plants in the second half of the next year, so don't lose it.
Arranged for some people to peel corn kernels, Yanglin took the second ancestors to dig sweet potatoes, sweet potato leaves are also good greens, older sweet potato vine piglets can also eat, under the demonstration of Yanglin, everyone began to dig sweet potatoes, less than an acre of land, actually dug out a large pile, with baskets loaded with dozens of baskets, there is such a harvest is also related to the current environment of the Tang Dynasty, the first time to plant sweet potatoes, the yield is generally very high, and it is a particularly fertile field after careful care and planting, looking at this large pile of sweet potatoes, A group of second ancestors remembered the appearance of eating sweet potatoes for the first time in the palace, and suddenly felt that their full stomachs were not so full, and they could still eat some.
Yanglin can see everyone's thoughts, the yield of sweet potatoes is extremely high, and it only takes two rounds of planting to eat a large amount, but it can make everyone who has worked for a long time taste it fresh.
"Let's take the sweet potatoes back first, the sweet potato leaves are also a good thing, take them with you, and when I calculate the yield, I will teach you how to eat them." As soon as Yang Lin called, everyone moved, because he finally said that he wanted to teach everyone how to eat, and naturally there were some to eat, and everyone's enthusiasm suddenly became full.
When the work of weighing sweet potatoes is over, the corn is also peeled under the hands of the whole village of 100 people, when a number is reported, it completely makes all the villagers of Wangjia Village and the ancestors of the second class crazy, less than an acre of sweet potatoes, actually produces two out of 8,300 catties, according to the yield per mu of later generations, this yield has reached the level of high-standard demonstration field, and two acres of corn land, a total of 3,800 catties of corn, because there may be some of the water that has not been dried, the output of pure corn per mu has exceeded 1,500 catties, This is also a high standard in later generations, corn is not like sweet potatoes, it is a food that can be eaten as a staple food, cornmeal is likely to be more popular than wheat in the Tang Dynasty, where cooking methods are not developed, what does this mean, even if Li Ke is calm, when facing such two numbers, he also trembled with excitement, he summoned the guards of the forbidden army on duty, and ordered them to report to Chang'an.
"Thank you for your contribution to the corn field and sweet potato field in the past six months, these corn and sweet potatoes will be everyone's common wealth, and the emperor will also tremble for the harvest of Wangjia Village, and then everyone will continue to listen to my orders, move all the corn and sweet potatoes to the greenhouse, and then give me all the ingredients you can make out, we are going to greet the emperor tonight, Li Shimin, the son of the Tang Dynasty, so don't hide it, I want to see a long table banquet full of the whole village before dark."
Cooking for the emperor's majesty, that is the longest face of the thing, the current Wangjia Village cuisine is already famous in Chang'an, there is no other coincidence, because Yanglin handed down the soy sauce and vinegar making method when he was in Wangjia Village, plus the crystal clear fine salt after purification, the ordinary meals made by the villagers of Wangjia Village now have directly caught up with the taste level of rural families in later generations, and the novel dish design of Yanglin is even more than that, and the people in the excitement are in the Yanglin under the shouting of the mountain into the mountain, under the ground of the ground, Yanglin even opened a greenhouse for the villagers to go in to pick melons and fruits, and for a while, everyone was busy with chickens and dogs.
"Shell, what kind of battle did you say your father would put up to come to Wangjia Village."
'Shell' is the nickname given to Li Ke by Yang Lin, looking at the guards of the forbidden army who flew away, Yang Lin has calculated that Li Er will definitely come in person, and the lesson he wants to teach Li Er next is just unfolding in the atmosphere of Wangjia Village.
"Needless to say, it must be a full-width honor guard, bringing the queen mother and a cadre of civil and military ministers to come!" Li Chengqian was also in a state of excitement and preemptively replied.
"Huh! I'm afraid that my father will bring the entire Li clan plus all the officials above the third grade. Li Ke smiled faintly, showing a deep smile on his face that a teenager could not have, Li Ke's talent can be recited for thousands of years, and it is really a figure who is wise and close to the demon, Yang Lin glanced at the three Li Chengqian brothers with some concern, cried and smiled and shook his head and beckoned Wang Erniu over, the emperor wants to bring so many people over, naturally he can't go back hungry, he has to quickly kill two fat pigs to entertain them, and by the way, the loaches raised in the greenhouse pond and the fat fish raised in the Houshan pond are also fished up to entertain these people.
The Mid-Autumn Festival was originally a day off, and the court did not have to go to work for civil and military affairs, but since a pegasus entered Chang'an City, the entire Tang Dynasty court was as nervous as if it had encountered a war, and the eunuch who passed the decree told all the officials above the three grades in Beijing to prepare for the court, and the Son of Heaven honor guard was placed at the fastest speed, three palaces and six courtyards, the whole Li clan poured out of the nest, and there were thousands of people in the carriage and horses, and they marched towards a Wangjia Village that even wild dogs were too lazy to go in to find food a year ago, I have to say, Li Ke's political vision is much higher than Li Chengqian and Li Tai, at this time when the country is suffering from a great disaster, Wangjia Village has a crop of thousands of catties per mu, which can be regarded as a great auspicious Rui, as an emperor, it must be a huge political show, don't underestimate the power of the political show, it can bring confidence to the people, and bring deterrence to the unstable elements within the Li family, the most fundamental thing is that this is a great good thing, and the problem of eating in the Tang Dynasty will be completely solved from now on.
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