Chapter 54: I Don't Want You to Pay It Back
"Wait a minute! Wait, wait, wait! ”
Zhao Kang, who was already a little drunk, pushed away the fat man next to him and shouted at the coachman Ah Er, making the two of them a little confused.
Zhao Kang hurriedly rubbed his eyes regardless of this, and looked at the so-called wild ginseng in Ah Er and the fat man's mouth, and was a little incredulous: "Show me what you have in your hand." ”
"You want?"
The coachman, Ah Er, casually handed the ginseng he had dug up in the field halfway to Zhao Kang.
Looking at the things in his hand carefully, Zhao Kang's eyes gradually became surprised: "It's so similar!" ”
As he spoke, he broke his hands hard, and broke Ah Er's wild mountain ginseng into two, revealing the white, yellow, white and yellow color inside.
Slightly astringent in the mouth, with a hint of sweetness!
Yes! It's it! It's a sweet potato!
Zhao Kang was so excited that he was about to jump up, the wine woke up, and grabbed the coachman Ah Er: "Tell me where you found this thing!" ”
The coachman, Ah Er, was an honest man, and he was so frightened by a stranger that he couldn't even speak clearly, so he hurriedly looked at the fat man on the side for help.
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The fat man drank a lot, and he was still a little dizzy at this time, and hurriedly said to Zhao Kang: "Brother, brother, don't worry, what is this thing?" Is it really an old ginseng? Why are you so excited! ”
"What bullshit ginseng, this is!"
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Kang also realized that he was a little out of shape, stabilized his emotions and eased up, and said that he wanted to invite the fat man and the coachman to dinner, and then regardless of whether the two agreed or not, he dragged the two of them to Fengyue Tower.
"Yo, the master is here!" The boss of Fengyue Building saw that it was Zhao Kang who hurriedly came to greet him.
"Don't talk nonsense, come up with expensive wine and good food, Lao Tzu wants to have a treat."
Seeing the sweet potato, Zhao Kang was excited in his heart, and asked the boss to hurry up to prepare, while he dragged the fat man and Ah Er, as if he was afraid that the two of them would run away.
Until they reached the table, the fat man and the two were still a little confused.
Zhao Kang washed his face, then walked over and picked up the sweet potato on the table that had been broken in half by himself and looked at it, it was thinner than the sweet potato he saw in his previous life, only the size of two fingers, it looked like it had been dug out for a while, and his torso was a little shriveled.
No wonder it is mistaken for mountain ginseng.
Thinking of this, Zhao Kang smiled and looked at the somewhat restless coachman, then looked at the fat man, and said, "Brother, this big brother is your coachman?" ”
The fat man snorted, he was still confused at this time, he was very close to Zhao Kang in the Qinglou before, he was not afraid, and asked, "Brother, do you know this thing?" ”
Zhao Kang nodded: "I know, I've been looking for it for a long time, where did you dig it?" ”
When the fat man heard this, the businessman's nature was revealed, and he looked at Zhao Kang with some curiosity: "This thing, is it a mountain ginseng?" ”
So what can Zhao Kang let him know?
Shaking his head and laughing: "This is not a mountain ginseng, but it is also a medicinal herb, and someone in my family is sick and needs this medicinal material." ”
"Medicinal herbs." The fat man was not much interested when he heard it, if it was mountain ginseng, then it was still a little valuable, after all, ginseng could be used as a tonic in addition to medicine, right?
At the behest of the fat man, the coachman Ah Er opened his mouth and told Zhao Kang the origin of this mountain ginseng.
It was inadvertently dug up in a wasteland before they entered the Qianguo, when the coachman was in a hurry to go to the toilet, the coachman was not highly educated, and thought it was an old ginseng, so he put it away like a baby.
It's just that these days I followed the fat man around Qianguo, and I asked all the pharmacists everywhere and said that I didn't know him, and slowly I became a little dead.
If it weren't for Zhao Kang just now, he would have wanted to throw it away.
"Damn, it's good that this guy didn't throw it, otherwise I would have to find when to go!"
Zhao Kang's heart blossomed, and he couldn't wait to find the sweet potato place.
This sweet potato is a good thing, the yield is large, as long as the vine rises, you can continue to use the vine to plant in the soil, in the previous life is also a person named Chen Zhenlong from Luzon, quietly brought the sweet potato vine back to China, so that China has sweet potatoes.
Whether it is steaming, frying, boiling and roasting, the taste of sweet potatoes is very good, it is an undoubted artifact in the famine period, it can be used as a staple food, and if you are tired of eating, it can also be processed into starch.
Even the stems and leaves can be eaten, and even used as fodder to feed livestock.
When I first took over Yuanjiang County, if there were sweet potatoes, would so many people starve to death?
With this thing, as long as the planting technology is mature and there is enough land, Zhao Kang can use Yuanjiang County to feed the people of the entire Jiangling Mansion!
What kind of food are you worried about!
Only when there is abundant grain production can a large number of labor forces be liberated, and only with sufficient labor force can the scale of production be expanded.
Zhao Kang knew this very well in his heart, so he had been sending people all over the world to find this thing all over the world.
"It would be nice if I could find potatoes, which are better than sweet potatoes."
Zhao Kang thought in his heart, the fat man on the side didn't have much interest in sweet potatoes, and when he heard the boss's name on the table, he was shocked to realize that Zhao Kang was actually the official master of Yuanjiang County.
They were all a little surprised.
"Oh, Lord Zhao really didn't expect it, fat man, I really don't know Taishan, I'm here to make amends for you."
After drinking a bowl of sobering soup, the fat man sobered up a lot and hurriedly confessed.
Zhao Kang laughed in his heart, strictly speaking, he can't even count as the Yuanjiang County Order now, because the dog woman has suspended all his duties.
But if he doesn't say this kind of thing, the people of Yuanjiang County won't know about it.
"It's okay, it's okay, I have to thank you, don't you want to buy porcelain, I'll let you take you to see it tomorrow, it's all eighty off!"
In a good mood, Zhao Kang became generous.
When the fat man heard this, he was immediately excited, and with the previous relationship, he also felt that Zhao Kang was a good talker, and immediately pulled Zhao Kang to drink three cups.
The fat man and the two went back to rest, and Zhao Kang rushed back to the yamen with two sweet potatoes, and asked Zhang Long to call a few county farmers overnight.
"What is this, sir?"
Several men held the sweet potato that Zhao Kang had bitten and stared at each other.
"This is a good thing, if there was such a thing back then, how could anyone in our county be hungry."
Zhao Kang introduced this sweet potato to everyone, and heard that this thing can grow hundreds of catties per acre of land, and these crop experts were shocked.
There is no chemical fertilizer in this world, and it is good to be able to break 200 grain per acre.
"Zhou Meng." Zhao Kang called out a person's name, and the other party hurriedly responded.
Zhao Kang: "Tomorrow, each of you will gather a farmer and set up an agricultural team for Lao Tzu to study how to plant this thing, and Zhang Long will send someone to bring me sweet potato seedlings back tomorrow as quickly as possible." Zhou Meng, you remember, this thing is not cold-tolerant. ”
"Understood!"
Everyone raised their spirits and wanted to get this sweet potato out of Yuanjiang County.