Chapter 18: The Potato (I)
Today was not destined to be ordinary, and Reije's new order was passed quickly between the spoken words of the civilians, and it didn't take long for even the towns around Rost to learn the news.
Reclaiming a field is a silver coin, and reclaiming ten yuan is a year's income, which is pure income, and for a time all the people took their own tools and ran to the wasteland.
Standing in front of the door of the Ministry of Agriculture, Adolf was a little confused, from time to time someone came to collect new fields, and before the fields were reported, Rost's existing fields were almost distributed.
Adolf never thought that the civilians would be so crazy about planting, and Reizhe's methods did teach him a lesson.
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"You don't really need to follow me. Lei Zhe looked at the two knights behind him helplessly, a little headache, no matter what these two people said, even if Lei Zhe punished, the two of them had to follow Lei Zhe's side.
The butler Adolf also refused Reich's request, and for the sake of his safety as an earl, Adolf even dared to disobey his orders.
Herson and Augsig didn't speak, they just followed Lei Zhe and wandered slowly, and the three of them were dressed relatively ordinary, and they didn't attract the attention of the others around them, not to mention that most of them were now running to the wasteland.
"Forget it. ”
Wandering around, eavesdropping, peeking, the smiles on everyone's faces didn't seem to be fake, and there were obviously fewer men on the street, and there was no need to think that Lei Zhe knew that those people had gone to the ground.
"Huh, that's ......."
Seeing some small white flowers, Lei Zhe paused.
"Would you like to buy some flowers?" the vendor said with a smile when he saw Lei Zhe.
"These flowers, are they earth potato flowers?" his eyes widened, looking at the little white flower in front of him, Lei Zhe was a little speechless, in his understanding, the Holy Empire did not have the existence of potatoes.
Wheat is the most basic source of food for all humans.
"Uh, what do you need?"
"Where did these flowers come from. "The flowers are still a little fresh, obviously freshly picked, if the potatoes are now in season for germination, Lei Zhe was not born rich, and he still has some knowledge of some things in the farmland.
"Of course this one was grown. ”
"Take me to the place where you planted. ”
"No, you can buy the flowers if you need them. The peddler was stunned, then smiled awkwardly, these flowers were just picked by him.
"Take me to these flowers, and this gold coin is yours. He took out a gold coin from his bag and threw it on the other party's stall.
There was obviously an excited look on the middle-aged peddler's face, and he couldn't help but pick up the gold coin after swallowing his saliva.
"I'll take you when I'm done selling these things. ”
Frowning, Lei Zhe naturally understood what he meant, took out a gold coin again, and said, "These should be enough for one gold coin, take me there." ”
"Enough, enough, I'll take you to the location of these flowers now. With a smile on his face, he picked some beautiful flowers in the field casually, but he didn't expect to sell two gold coins.
When he came to the city gate, he happened to meet Colmar who was patrolling, and this thing had been with Lei Zhe for a while, obviously having some eyes and not getting off the horse to say hello, but what made him wonder what Lei Zhe was going to do.
"Your Excellency is about to leave the city, Captain Colmar, you hurry up and lead some knights to protect the surroundings. Herson walked over to Colmar and whispered.
"I see, don't leave the Count's side. Colmar nodded, grabbed the reins and turned to run into the city, he needed to get the knights out of the side door quickly.
After some retraction, several people were quickly released.
After running all the way, he finally arrived at the location that the vendor said, looking at the weedy bushes in front of him, Lei Zhe frowned, these potatoes were not grown by the vendor.
"That's where I picked these little white flowers, but that's all. ”
"Are you lying to me?"
"I kid you not, I really found it here. ”
"Let's look for it. Seeing that the other party swore an oath, Lei Zhe didn't say much, and looked through the weeds, there were a lot of wildflowers, but there were no potato flowers.
"Herson, you go back and ask Colmar to bring someone over. ”
"Yes, sir!"
"Remember to bring your hoe!"
"???" Herson, who was full of question marks, hurriedly ran to the vicinity of the knights on the side, Lei Zhe couldn't feel the vibration of the horse's hooves, but it didn't mean that he, a fourth-level knight, couldn't feel it.
Soon, a large number of knights with hoes and horses rushed over, looking at the battle vendors, obviously a little confused, not quite understanding what was going on.
"Lord Earl. ”
"Get up, and you have someone turn over this piece of earth for me, and turn over five inches of earth for me to find an irregular spherical object. ”
"Yes, sir. ”
Colmar nodded and gave the order, all the knights carried their hoes and violently turned the earth, the strength of these people was obviously not at the same level as ordinary people, not to mention how exaggerated the speed of turning the earth.
"Earl, Count...... These two gold coins are returned to you. With a thud, the peddler fell to his knees, he had just tried to extort a gold coin from the Earl, and God knows what a stupid thing he had done.
"Take it, it's your credit for finding these things, and I'll be rewarded if I find what I want. Lei Zhe shook his head, not paying attention to what had just happened, now all his thoughts were on the potatoes.
If the peddler is not mistaken, the potatoes are apparently buried in the ground, and as long as they are turned out, there is a way to multiply them in large numbers, and it is not even impossible to make potatoes replace wheat as the main food of Rost City.
"Are you sure you found these flowers in these places?"
“...... Yes, my lord, the untouchables will not be mistaken, these flowers are found here. ”
Lei Zhe nodded, the soil turned over was close to two hundred square meters, but there was still no figure of the potato.
"My lord, I've found something strange!"
Hearing this, Lei Zhe rushed into the dirt without hesitation and ran to the knight, looking at the half of the potatoes wrapped in mud in the other party's hand, Lei Zhe wanted to cry, there are really potatoes!!
"Be careful, this is this thing, try not to break these things when turning over the ground, and open everything around here for me to see!"
"Yes!"
Wash the small potatoes that are dug up with water, the potatoes are ripe, and there are sprouts on them, and the potatoes can be grown by cutting the parts with the sprouts and planting them, which is a crop with high yield and strong adaptability to the environment.
If the full cultivation of potatoes can obviously lead to the population development of the whole city of Rost, if the food is sufficient, it is very easy for humans to reproduce, now there is no contraception, the chance of pregnancy is high, and the population is not high because of food.