Chapter 13: The Magic of Sweet Potatoes and Corn
"If Niangniang knows the yield and role of these two things, I'm afraid I won't say so, not to mention corn, just this mu of sweet potatoes with a yield of 10,000 catties, no need for a variety, as long as tens of thousands of acres, it can relieve the survival crisis of the people at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty, Niangniang said, with this crop, can be exchanged for a title in the Tang Dynasty?" Although Yanglin's words surprised the eldest grandson, the color of doubt was even stronger, the yield per mu is 10,000 catties, and tens of thousands of mu is tens of thousands of catties, which is unheard of, even if it is a cabbage radish with a yield of 1,000 catties per mu, it is also a vegetarian diet that does not raise people, and it is made into dried vegetables, and the yield of an acre of land is not much more than that of wheat and rice, and there can be crops with a yield of 10,000 catties per mu in this world?
"The yield of 10,000 catties per mu is just your words, and whether this lump can be eaten or not needs to be carefully confirmed by the imperial doctor before it can be known, so what is the beauty of the corn?" The eldest grandson was excited, but he didn't notice that the only person in the world who could enter her dormitory without notification had already stood outside the palace window, and the windows of the Tang Dynasty palace were all made of paper, so naturally there was no sound insulation effect, and at this time, the tall and burly Li Er was listening to it outside the door with relish!
"Corn, which is more suitable than sweet potatoes as food, although the yield per mu is not 10,000 catties, but at least there are more than 1,000 catties, after the yellow corn particles are full and mature, they only need to be dried and peeled off, and then turned into powder, which is a kind of cornmeal that can definitely be compared to flour, steamed steamed buns are sweet and delicious without having to be poor flour, the boy said that the yield per mu is more than 1,000 catties, which is the corn kernels after drying." Although an acre of land in the Tang Dynasty is a little smaller than an acre in later generations, about one acre is worth eight points, but Yanglin has managed agriculture and animal husbandry in his previous life, and clearly knows the yield of improved corn and sweet potatoes, corn is about 1,500 catties to 1,800 catties, and it is reduced to more than 1,000 catties in eighty percent, and even the environment of the Tang Dynasty is more suitable for the growth of this crop. It's just that it is a bit laborious to plant, and it is not suitable for long-term planting, in short, Yanglin has great confidence that these two crops can achieve the expected yield in the Tang Dynasty.
"Really?"
"Really?"
The two voices sounded at the same time, one inside and one away, and it was the exclamation of Li Er and the eldest grandson, they are really not a family, they don't enter a family, and even the time when the love breaks out is the same.
"陛xià." The eldest grandson first woke up from his surprised state, after all, Li Er's voice was the most familiar to her, and the palace maid guards like Chun Tao had already knelt on the ground inside and outside the house, Yang Lin really didn't know when Li Er came here with such a large team of people, it seems that there are really many peerless masters in the Tang Dynasty.
"Stand down, all of you!" With a wave of Li Er's hand, the maids and guards receded like a tide, and there was a relatively small wave in the tide, which was Yanglin.
"You stay." Li Er's voice sounded without anger and self-authority, and the big hand pointed to the short Yanglin, Li Er was not his dead ghost father after all, but a tall and burly, tiger-backed middle-aged man, with a well-developed muscle wrapped in a loose brocade robe in the summer, and he could see the lines of the muscles clearly, it seems that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, is good at fighting, and the reputation of charging in front of the battle is really played, and even Qin Qiong and Li Jing are not as good as Li Shimin.
In his previous life, Yang Lin also accompanied the provincial and ministerial leaders to visit his industrial park, and even ate at the same table, but the central leaders did not have it, let alone the central leader, so under Li Er's majesty, the momentum naturally shrank to a state of fear and trembling.
"Boy Yanglin knocks to see His Majesty, may my emperor live long live long live." Yang Lin learned the routines learned in later generations of TV, and respectfully gave Li Erxing the first kneeling salute after coming to the Tang Dynasty.
"What bullshit long live long live, long live, but this set of things seems to be more interesting than which one I formulated, and it can be used." Li Er took the swaddling baby that had fallen asleep from the hands of the eldest grandson and sat on the bed, and carefully looked at the little guy kneeling on the ground, in fact, Yang Lin knew that Li Er's heart was now overturned, if what Yang Lin said was true, then the Li family would have a small number of waves from now on, which barbarians could not beat his well-fed subordinates.
In fact, in addition to the slave and the master, the scholar and the king generally do not need to kneel and salute, except for the great court meeting and the sacrifice to the sky, after all, the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty has not been dominated by Cheng Zhu Lixue's Confucianism, and Confucius's status in the early Tang Dynasty is far from rising to the point where everyone wants to imitate and learn, but he doesn't want Yanglin's set to make Li Er very useful, and then he really raised this set in the court, which is really self-inflicted! I knew it earlier, and shouted that the Ming Dynasty Erqiu Emperor made the wooden bird fly, the wooden bird flew, and the wooden bird flew high.
After Li Er returned the saliva on the baby's face to the eldest grandson, Yang Lin was called up by Li Er, and the eldest grandson stopped talking at this time.
"Little fairy, are you really an immortal?" Li Er thought about a lot of questions by teasing Li Zhi for a quarter of an hour, of course, all the questions that came to mind were wiped out by his curiosity, and when he spoke, he still asked the question of the immortals, everyone was curious, ignorant, and desperate to solve the questions of the immortals, and Li Er was too.
"How do you understand this score, if you do what no one else can do, even if you are an immortal, then boy, I am indeed an immortal, but in fact, there are no immortals at all, only powerful people, people who are so powerful that people can look up to you, such as Your Majesty, you are now a god in the eyes of the kid, such as Qin Laoguogong, who jumped three or five feet high, is also a fairy in the eyes of the kid." Yang Lin's answer was very tactful, and it was full of sycophants, Li Er was very useful, at least let him be sure that there are only strong people in the world, and there is no essential difference between him and himself, and even he is stronger than the other party in some aspects.
"Hey, Brother Qin didn't jump three or five zhang back then, he could also jump up the ten-zhang high city wall, but now his body is getting worse and worse." Li Er sighed, mainly to resolve the embarrassing expression of fluttering when he was slapped on the back just now, in fact, there are very few people in the court who dare to pat him on the back, once one jumps out, he will be despised to death by those big guys and rough generals and ministers like Wei Zheng.
Yang Lin got even more amazing information from Li Er's words, it turned out that someone could really jump to a height of thirty meters, that was seven or eight stories high, and even dropped the dragon eighteen palms, could it really be zài? No wonder which small county towns can't withstand the attack of the general, and without a city wall more than ten zhang high, they can't resist these fierce people at all!
"Although the old wounds of Qin Laoguo are difficult to cure, there may not be no way to save them, but the conditions for rescue are very limited now, and it is difficult to achieve the desired effect." Yang Lin can see the inappropriateness of Qin Qiong, simply put, ischemia, or even septicemia, plus the old man's character of no alcohol and no joy, wine is a drink that slows down the blood circulation of the human body, Qin Qiong's current illness requires absolute prohibition of alcohol.
"You said Brother Qin is still saved?" Li Er's body shook when he heard this, and he arrived in front of Yang Lin in two steps.
"Yes, yes, but now it can only alleviate the symptoms, it is better for His Majesty to issue an order first, prohibiting a drop of wine from appearing in the whole mansion of the old Guogong, and if you dare to give the old Guogong wine to drink, you will not be forgiven immediately." Yang Lin couldn't stand Li Er's tone a little, and leaned back. The Tang Dynasty did not have toothpaste and toothbrushes, let alone decent mouthwashes, and even the emperor wiped his teeth with green salt, and sometimes brushed a mouthful of pig hair with a pig hair brush, but there was no decontamination effect at all, which made Yang Lin feel that his toothbrush was particularly precious.
"Ma Yongquan, do you hear that? Go and issue the decree quickly. Yang Lin didn't know who else was in the house besides Li Er and his wife and the three of himself, oh yes, there was also the sleeping Li Zhi, but he heard a sound of sleeves blowing outside the house, and a green dress of eunuch clothes turned into a light, and the speed of an arrow flew out of the queen's courtyard, this time not only heard of the person who jumped ten zhang high, but also the person who saw the person who jumped ten zhang away.
"Another immortal." Yang Lin said in shock, in the future generations, those who can jump more than 30 meters in one step must definitely be called immortals.
Li Er saw Yang Lin's complexion, turned around one hundred and eighty degrees in a very chic manner, sat on the bed again, and thought proudly in his heart, if this kid saw himself jumping more than ten feet away, how much he would worship himself!
"First of all, tell me about the two treasures you gave me, which are really as exaggerated as you say, that way, exaggerated?" Li Er did that twice, and finally decided to use the word exaggeration to describe the yield of sweet potatoes and corn.
"The kid has been accepted as an apprentice, of course, he wants to offer some gadgets to His Majesty to try, but it's not a treasure, it's just a very cheap agricultural product." Yang Lin replied with a smile, but the meaning is obvious, I have already sent something to you, if you don't give me a return gift, it will naturally not work, emperor, face is very important.
"Taste? Which ones did you bring into the palace last night? Li Er came to the interest and said, how much God is not to say, I tried it myself to know the truth or falsehood, so, Li Er waved his hand, set up the imperial dining room, and ordered the children of Xun Gui who were studying in the palace to also come to see the new crops of the Tang Dynasty, of course, Li Er is going to play a political show, but the object of the flickering is a group of little guys who have not grown hair, no matter how unpalatable the things that Yanglin makes, I believe that Li Er will also be happy to eat it in front of everyone, and will also claim how delicious this new crop with a yield of 10,000 catties per mu is, When these noble children return home, they can convey some useful messages to their parents.
Li Er's imperial dining room is very large, but there are even more people who come, there are dozens of princes headed by the crown prince, not to mention the sons and daughters of those ministers and nobles, they have heard about the magic of the little fairy in Li Chengqian's various stories and legends today, and no one dares to say that what he said is false with Li Chengqian's 'immortal energy', and even that big pool of bubble water has been booked by the princes in the palace.
"Ahem, let one, let one." Came to the crowded imperial dining room, in fact, it is the place where Yanglin has breakfast, here Li Er usually does not come, he will have a special eunuch palace maid to pass the meal, and those tables are generally for the princess and the noble children who come to the palace to study, at this time both sides of the table are crowded with people, because the emperor wants to come in person, these noble children and the emperor's own children have the opportunity to see the face of the sky, so the palace concubines have sent someone to send their baby children over, plus the palace maid guards or something, The imperial dining room has been packed to the brim.
"See Father, Your Majesty." In the midst of a child's voice, Li Er looked very amiable, the younger children's eyes were still on the emperor who was rarely seen, but the older children's eyes were on Yang Lin behind Li Er, especially a chubby boy, as if Yang Lin was a piece of fat, waiting for him to put his mouth down.
"Majesty, boy, this is cooking this new crop for Majesty."
Yang Lin arched his hand to Li Er, turned around and asked the eunuch in charge of the imperial dining room for a small red clay charcoal stove, set up a deep-bottomed soup pot on it, and directly boiled more than a dozen corns with a full pot of water with a charcoal fire, corn must be boiled with leaves to have a fragrance, this is the most common practice in later generations, and after the charcoal fire is burned, Yang Lin no longer cares about the cauldron, and puts a few thick and long mud lumps into the oven where he roasts and eats, and the mud lumps on the skin of the sweet potato don't need to be cleaned up too clean. This helps to protect the sweet potato skin from being too burnt, from the beginning of Yang Lin's cooking of these two things, there is a clerk who records every action of Yang Lin with a large pen and flying book, but after Yang Lin puts the sweet potato into the oven, there is no action, and he pats the mud on his hands to signal that everyone is done.
"It's as simple as that?" The clerk asked.
"It's that simple." Yang Lin glanced at the people present, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, the smell of roasted sweet potatoes and boiled corn is also irresistible in the developed twenty-first century, so everyone should prepare a towel to wipe Hadazi!