Potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes are the so-called high-yielding crops.

Although both are known as high-yielding crops, they are very different. The high yield of corn is really high yield, and in the dry land where the yield of wheat per mu is more than 100 catties, it can grow a yield of 250 catties per mu by planting it casually, which is called high yield.

But potatoes and sweet potatoes have different meanings, and they are called high-yielding crops mainly because they do not require much moisture in drylands and are very durable.

Thankfully, although Luhegou lacks water, it has a lot of rotten ground!

There are many slopes in Luhegou, and potatoes are just suitable for planting on slopes. The advent of improved potatoes can expand the cultivated area of Luhegou, and as long as there are enough people, it can even be doubled.

It's just that Xu Wenshan's headache is the promotion of potatoes.

Promoting potatoes is such a trivial matter, and many famous monarchs have screwed up. For example, Catherine in Russia and Fitley in Germany forcibly promoted potatoes but was resisted by the public. Louis XVI of France asked his wife to bring potato flowers, took the lead in planting potatoes himself, and sent guards to strictly guard the potato seedlings, and pretended to put on a show to make the people accept the new crop of potatoes.

At present, for Xu Wenshan, the best place to promote potatoes should be the military camp.

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The training session in the morning is over, and it is time for lunch at noon.

"What's this?" One stared at a yellow, round thing on his plate and shouted.

Wu Yi walked over and said, "Don't shout during meal time, haven't you learned the rules well?" ”

The man hurriedly stood upright, and then said, "Squad leader, what is this thing?" ”

Wu Yi looked at his plate and said, "Eat, do you still need to ask?" ”

"I know it's food, but what is it?"

The other looked back from the table and said, "I have it too." ”

Everyone said together, "We all have it." ”

"What's this?"

Wu Yi pursed his lips, he didn't know, but he didn't want to show it, so he said, "Just ask the cook." ”

The soldiers ran to ask the cook, and the cooker said, "Potatoes." ”

"What are potatoes?"

The cooker was very impatient and said, "Don't you just eat yours, why do you ask so much?" ”

Although the soldier's curiosity was temporarily suspended, the logistics side intensified. For dinner, he used that plant to make a filamentous dish; The next morning, they put the plant in their bowl again.

Finally, after Li Dazhuang reported the training results to Xu Wenshan, he specially asked: "Sir, the soldiers want to know what the new potato is?" ”

Xu Wenshan was secretly happy in his heart, and pretended to be calm: "Potatoes are potatoes, what else?" ”

"Actually...... Well, in fact, they want to ask if it's good to plant, how to plant, and they also want them to grow a little bit from their own family. ”

This time, he was replaced by Xu Wenshan. He didn't expect that the people here were much easier than the Europeans, and when they saw something to eat, they wanted to grow it.

In fact, there are many peasants in his army, and when they see something to eat, they will naturally want to plant, and as a great farmer with a farming civilization, he should have this quality.

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The craze for growing potatoes soon spread from the barracks, and many farmers bought seeds from Mr. Xu and began experimenting with growing potatoes on sloping areas that he had previously been reluctant to visit. Xu Wenshan also specially held a lecture on the essentials of potato planting in the village, and the farmers listened very carefully.

The last time the Xu family dismissed the tenants, it affected every household in this village, and these dismissed tenants became "scoundrels" and fell to the bottom of life. Although the barracks digested part of it, it was far from enough.

Luhegou has run out of arable land that can be cultivated, and the emergence of potatoes has allowed farmers to make use of the uncultivable land. In order to help these farmers, Xu Wenshan also specially allocated a batch of funds to distribute to all farmers who planted potatoes, which further drove the upsurge of potato planting, and many farmers who originally had fields also began to plant potatoes.

The bad news, however, is that there is only enough food to last for two months.

Ten days have passed since the military training, and the ten-day break has also been taken once, but Xu Wenshan still did not arrange for them to practice with weapons in hand, which made Wu Yi feel very depressed.

He noticed that when Xu Wenshan came to inspect them walking in the phalanx, no matter how smooth their formation was, there was always no satisfied expression on his face.

Finally, he couldn't help it, stood in front of Xu Wenshan, and said, "Sir, we have been walking for ten days. ”

"Ten days away, so what? Are you walking in good steps? Xu Wenshan said.

"No, it's just...... It's a little different from what I imagined. Wu Yi said, "Why don't you let us practice weapons?" ”

Xu Wenshan said with a slight sarcasm: "Tired of walking right steps? ”

"It's not that I'm tired of it...... Those soldiers said that the training of the forward step formation was boring. I think it will feel very different if we don't take anything away from the phalanx in our hands, and we will walk through the phalanx with armor and weapons. ”

Xu Wenshan waved his hand and said, "Okay, you can go back." ”

"Sir?"

"You go back first." Xu Wenshan Road.

Wu Yi went back to the barracks in a daze, and in the middle of the night, he couldn't sleep.

He is really worried about his future now, this son of the Xu family doesn't look like he can fight. Neither training their physique nor their weapons, they walk in a phalanx every day, and if they really want to fight in the future, what should they do?

He had a vague feeling that there would be a war in the near future. He had experienced the incident of the salt seller in Fengshi Village on the spot, and if the current situation continued, they would clash with Fengshi Village sooner or later.

He had been to Fengshi Village, and had even worked for the salt merchants there for a while, and no one knew the situation there better than him.

No one farms in Fengshi Village, and everyone makes a living by selling salt. Almost everyone in the village eats the salt merchant's meal. Among them, the people with the strongest physique and the strongest martial arts are all thugs in Fengshi Village.

There are many people who covet the salt mine of Fengshi Village, and there are many bandits entrenched around, but no force dares to attack Fengshi Village, and no force can attack it.

As for the knife hand, the people of Fengshi Village, everyone can play with knives, and they are all thieves, and they can cut off your head between lightning and flint.

When it comes to long swords, the children of Fengshi Village have grown up with long swords.

In terms of archers, the archery of the people in Fengshi Village is also first-class, although after this period of training in the shooting range, Wu Yizi's strength is no less than that of those in Fengshi Village, but there are many families!

On the other hand, from the very beginning, the selection of soldiers was not based on physical fitness, and until now there has been no weapon training.

If one day, Fengshi Village sends someone to seek revenge, what should they do?

Just as he was worried, a loud military horn suddenly sounded.

He remembered that this was the rallying call.