Chapter 176: Sweet Potato
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When he arrived at the steel mill, Li Su inquired about the production of the steel mill, since he gave Ou Yewang the production task, Li Su decided to expand the scale of the steel mill, so far three new factories have been built, and a large number of slaves and maids have been purchased into the steel mill, and this is also the reason why 9,000 sets of equipment can be completed ahead of schedule.
Li Zhuo's expansion of the steel workshop is not only for armor and weapons, with the exhibition in Yizhou, there will be more and more things using steel, this expansion is only the first step, he will also carry out a larger-scale expansion of the steel workshop, because in the future, the things and equipment in other workshops will be produced from here.
Leaving the steel mill, Li Su went to the barracks again at the invitation of Qin Huaiyu, and the training time of this batch of recruits has been two months, and now there are some soldiers who look like soldiers, walking with their heads held high, Qin Huaiyu's modern military training methods not only pay attention to physical training and combat skills, but also pay great attention to the discipline of the army, which is a very important content and an integral part of combat effectiveness.
Seeing Li Su, the soldiers all stood and saluted, this military salute is the military salute of the modern army, which was complied with by Li Su, and now the cadets of the military cadets are also carried out in this way, and they must salute in the face of higher-level officers.
"What is the vocation of a soldier!" When another soldier saluted Li Su, Li Su asked abruptly.
The soldier did not squint and said, "The duty of a soldier is to obey orders!" ”
"Well, that's good!" Li Su praised the soldiers.
Qin Huaiyu was also slightly proud, and said, "Your Highness, the soldiers I trained are okay." ”
"Count on your skills." Li Su smiled.
Leaving the school grounds, Li Su went to the barracks, where the barracks were all brick houses, and all of them were on two floors, and twenty soldiers lived in each room. It's all bunk beds.
Li Su went into a few rooms and walked around, now the inside is very clean, the quilts and pillows are neatly folded, these things are all bought by Li Su from modern times and placed in the barracks, such a large number of things can not be bought from the Tang Dynasty at all, and there are no cotton fabrics in the Tang Dynasty now, these bedding and pillows are cotton fabrics.
"Your Highness. The fact that these soldiers are so active in training is inseparable from the living conditions in the barracks, they live well and eat well, and they are all afraid of being driven home, so they are all hard training. Qin Huaiyu followed behind Li Su and said.
Li Su was also very comfortable listening to this, just as Qin Huaiyu said. The conditions of this barracks are not much different from those of modern barracks, and there are special canteens and public bathrooms.
"Are they satisfied with the food?" Li Su remembered to ask a stubble.
Qin Huaiyu said: "What's more than satisfaction? In the morning, steamed buns, rice porridge, pickled vegetables, at noon it is either rice or bread, and celery. Amaranth, potatoes, and occasionally broth, steamed buns in the evening, chestnut porridge, such food is even better than that of large families, and what is not satisfied, many of the former lean soldiers have grown fat......"
Li Su listened as he entered the barracks cafeteria. The barracks were divided into four canteens, one each in the east, west, south, and north, in order to separate the people, and it was too crowded for 5,000 people to be crammed together.
Copying the advantages of the current barracks, this barracks has set up a cooking class and a logistics class, which are specially responsible for the food of soldiers and the transportation of military supplies.
When Li Su entered the kitchen, more than a dozen cooks were steaming steamed buns. The room was white and vast, it was all steam, and Li Su simply retreated, "The soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first." You can't ignore this cooking and logistics, and you have to manage it strictly. ”
Qin Huaiyu replied, and continued: "These are all right, it's just that the life in the barracks is too boring, and these soldiers don't know what to do during the rest time after training?" ”
"Isn't there a football field and a basketball court? Just teach them to play. Li Su said.
"yes, how did I forget that, but what is basketball?" Qin Huaiyu said.
Li Su remembered that he had transported a lot of basketballs and soccer balls, and he said, "Where are the soccer balls now?" ”
"In the warehouse in the back."
When the two arrived at the warehouse, Li Su found the basketball next to the football, and then took Qin Huaiyu to the basketball court, and he asked Qin Huaiyu to call three captains over, Li Su demonstrated how to dribble the ball, how to throw the ball, and explained the function of each white line on the court to them.
The four of them listened to the clouds, but the basic dribbling and pitching still understood, no matter how good the theory is, it has to be combined with practice, so Li Su explained the rules of basketball while playing, and played for two hours, the four of them still didn't understand it, Li Su saw that it was not too early and planned to go back, and then teach it slowly and play a few more times.
When Li Su returned to the palace, the sun had just set, Rong Da was walking inside with a basket of red things, and Jin Daqian was talking about something next to him.
"Your Highness, this is a newly harvested sweet potato." Seeing that Li Yu was back, Jin Daqian pointed to the sweet potatoes piled up in the bamboo basket, and there were more than a dozen baskets on the ground on the side, "The yield of this sweet potato is more than potatoes per acre, I let people weigh it, there are thirty stones in one acre, and this is another bumper harvest." Jin Daqian is happy from the bottom of his heart, in just one year, the palace has undergone such earth-shaking changes, from tight to so rich, can he, the housekeeper, not be happy?
The yield of thirty stones per acre of land is indeed a lot, and Li Su also laughed when he heard this, "That's right, it's a bumper harvest!" The 40,000 acres of sweet potatoes are a total of 1.2 million stones, and Li Su is not worried that the sweet potatoes will not be sold, because the sweet potatoes can also be dried into dried sweet potatoes for long-term storage.
Li Su then said loudly: "Let these sweet potatoes be washed and boiled in the kitchen, and everyone in the palace will taste them tonight." ”
"Yes, Your Highness." Rong Da and Jin Daqian looked at each other and smiled, and immediately called the family to carry the sweet potatoes to the kitchen.
Li Su returned to the room with a smile on his face, and Cui Yingying said happily: "What makes His Highness so happy." ”
"This year's sweet potatoes can harvest 1.2 million stones, and peanuts have at least about seven stones per acre, 100,000 acres of land is 700,000 stones, it is now September, and sugarcane and autumn rice can be harvested in two months, and winter wheat will be planted in winter, and our granary will really not be enough in the coming year." The more Li Su thought about it, the happier he became, the people took food as the sky, and with this food, he didn't have to be afraid of anything.
Cui Yingying listened to it is also beautiful, when she first came to Yizhou, she thought that she would have a hard life, but she didn't expect Li Su to turn her hands and make her life change, she now likes the place in Yizhou, and she doesn't want to move the place, "Yingying congratulates Your Highness." ”
"Rejoice, rejoice!" Li Su said with a smile.
"Then it's time for Shangguan Yi to hold another fair? I'll ask Handelsblatt to put this on the board as well. Cui Yingying immediately regained her true colors as a proprietress girl.
Li Su thought for a moment and said, "Let's board it a few days later, transport a batch to Chang'an to the palace first, and then put it in the newspaper." "The last time the potato matter, Li Su did it inappropriately, so that Li Shimin didn't feel new after getting the potatoes, because he had heard about it before, and he couldn't do it again this time, how to say that Li Shimin is also the emperor, and this good thing should be sent to him first.
"Why?" Cui Yingying said.
Li Su told Cui Yingying what she thought in her heart, and she understood.
When the two were talking, the big canteen in the north courtyard was a mess of porridge, and after the sweet potatoes were served, the family members rushed up in a swarm, scrambling for them, for fear that they would suffer a loss if they got the small sweet potatoes.
But he didn't bother to care, because he had taken a large sweet potato in advance, hehe smiled, he took a bite gently, and suddenly the sweetness and fragrance spread in his mouth, the taste was much stronger than boiled potatoes, and Rongda on his side had already stuffed it into his stomach, and then joined the ranks of coaxing.
"Your Highness is really capable, you can get such delicious things." Jin Daqian ate several bites in a row, and then sighed with satisfaction.
Rongda was a little decadent after the failure of the robbery operation, the sweet potatoes had been robbed by the family, he looked at the extra-large sweet potatoes in Jin Daqian's hands, and said unwillingly: "Steward Jin, it's not good to eat too much at night when you're old, let Rongda do the rest." ”
"Get out!" Kim Daqian gave him a word and a kick.
The sweet potatoes on Li Su's side have also been cooked, Zhang San asked the maid to bring it over, Li Su saw that the sweet potatoes on the plate were not so novel, after all, he didn't eat less of this thing in modern times, Cui Yingying was different, and Xing Chong picked one up and stuffed it into his mouth.
Li Su snatched it empty-handed and said, "Peel the skin and eat it again." As he spoke, he peeled off the skin of the sweet potato and gave it to Cui Yingying.
Laughing and taking it, Cui Yingying took a bite gently, chewed it gently, and said in her mouth: "Well, it's delicious!" ”
Li Su also picked up a sweet potato and ate it, sweet potatoes are the same as potatoes are a weapon to solve famine, and they will not be regarded as staple food after the food is sufficient, potatoes can be cooked, and sweet potatoes have become the material for snacks, but compared to boiled sweet potatoes, Li Su still likes to eat roasted sweet potatoes, which is sweeter.
After eating half of it, Cui Yingying felt choked and panicked, and hurriedly drank a few sips of water, the first time she ate it, she felt very delicious, but sweet potatoes are the same as potatoes, and they are more choking when eaten dry.
After tasting a few bites, Li Su called over a servant girl and said a few words in her ear, the servant girl nodded, left the south courtyard to the kitchen, and took a plate of boiled sweet potatoes out of the palace.
Today, Su Mo'er stayed in bed for a day, thinking of the warmth during the day, and the loneliness at night made her feel a little melancholy, that woman didn't want the man she liked to be by her side every day, but she understood that it was impossible.
"Sister, Your Highness brought you something to eat, saying that it was a freshly harvested sweet potato." When Su Mo'er was in a trance, Su Xiaoyan's voice sounded outside the door, looking at her sister holding something in her hand, Su Mo'er smiled heartily, and her heart was warm.