The taste of roasted sweet potatoes made the family full of praise, and sure enough, as Li Qinzai said before, it melts in the mouth, soft and glutinous, with a refreshing sweetness.

Each person has a roasted sweet potato, and everyone is still a little unsatisfied after eating, Buckwheat reluctantly pouted her fingers, and Cui Jie and Jin Xiang rubbed their mouths elegantly.

"Husband......" Cui Jie dragged Li Qinzai's arm and coquettishly: "When will our family be able to eat baked sweet potatoes next time?" ”

Li Qinzai smiled bitterly: "At least wait for next year, this year's total harvest is more than eighty catties, and it is already a violation of heaven for me to steal a few of them." ”

Cui Jie sighed and said with a bitter face: "If you are pregnant, you want to eat a baked sweet potato, but you can't eat it......"

As he spoke, he stroked his bulging abdomen with great pity, and his resentment was overflowing.

Li Qinzai smiled: "You are less of a demon, it's good to be able to eat one, the Son of Heaven hasn't eaten it, think about how blessed you are." ”

Under the cloister by the courtyard, a voice suddenly came from the dark night: "What haven't I eaten?" ”

The faces of Li Qinzai's family changed, Cui Jie and Jin Xiang looked at Li Qinzai in a panic, and Buck'er kicked the sweet potato peels on the ground into the garden without making a sound.

At the critical moment, his son is still reliable, and this skillful method of destroying corpses must have experienced many tests of blood and fire.

"Stunned! Put the grill away! Li Qinzai was also a little nervous.

Jinxiang hurriedly put away the grill on the charcoal fire, Cui Jie was so anxious that she didn't know what to do, so she simply kicked the charcoal stove, and with a bang, the red charcoal fire was scattered all over the ground, like starlight in the sky.

In the darkness, Li Zhi's faint voice came: "Don't hide it, I have seen ......"

The family froze, and then saw Li Zhi come out of the darkness.

Li Qinzai's face did not change and he stepped forward to salute: "Your Majesty hasn't rested yet?" The minister and his family admired the moon in the courtyard and talked about the family ......"

Li Zhi glanced up, the night sky was gloomy, there were no stars and no moons, and the darkness that could not see his fingers seemed to be silently mocking Li Qinzai's nonsense.

Li Zhi sighed: "Don't you even want to use your brain more now to make up nonsense?" Am I not worth your effort? ”

Li Qinzai said guiltily: "Your Majesty came suddenly, and the minister didn't have time to make up too perfect nonsense, Your Majesty forgives you." ”

Buckwheat obviously didn't clean the battlefield too cleanly, and when Li Zhi got closer, he found the roasted sweet potato skin on the ground, and the sweet smell of sweet potatoes still lingered in the air.

Li Zhi's cheeks twitched a few times, and he said, "Li Jingchu, you really deserve to die......"

"I was drinking in the hall just now, and I saw you sneakily leaving, so I knew that you must have not done a good job, and I followed all the way, and I was not disappointed," Li Zhi gritted his teeth and said: "There are so many dozens of catties of sweet potatoes in total, how much do you say you have wasted?" The entire Datang only has so many dozens of catties, do you want to keep seeds next year? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty," Li Qinzai couldn't help but say: "However, this thing is easy to grow, and it will be planted again next year, and it will be all over the mountains, and then Your Majesty will be annoyed, Your Majesty should not worry." ”

Li Zhi snorted: "If the grain of the Tang Dynasty is like weeds all over the mountains one day, I won't be crazy with joy?" ”

Looking at the uncleaned sweet potato peels on the ground, Li Zhi sighed faintly: "...... I didn't leave anything behind, you really deserve to die. ”

Li Qinzai blinked, took out a fist-sized raw sweet potato from his arms like a trick, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister left you a ......."

Li Zhi was suddenly surprised and delighted: "You, how much did you steal?" ”

Li Qinzai said innocently: "It's gone, it's really gone." This is the last one. ”

Li Zhi waved his hand angrily: "Roast me!" You eat so much, and I still save my life, why? I can't do it! ”

Cui Jie and Jin Xiang chuckled, and after saluting, they led Buckwheat to retire with interest, leaving the space in the courtyard to the two monarchs and ministers.

The charcoal fire was rekindled, the grill was propped up, and Lee placed the last sweet potato on the grill.

Not long after, the sweet potatoes were ripe, and Li Zhi couldn't wait to peel them and eat them, so hot that he couldn't stop screaming.

"Good, delicious!" Li Zhi's eyes lit up: "As Jing Chu said, this thing is sweet and glutinous in the mouth, and the taste is excellent, much better than the taste of rice and wheat." ”

Three times five divided by two, Li Zhi quickly finished eating the whole sweet potato, licking his lips unsatisfied.

Li Qinzai pouted with bad intentions: "If Your Majesty hasn't eaten enough, why don't you give a decree to the minister, and the minister will go and get a few more?" ”

Li Zhi was excited, and immediately sobered up, pointed at him and said solemnly: "You remember to me, before the sweet potato harvest next year, you are not allowed to take any more, otherwise the military law will deal with it." I will give a strict order to the guards who take care of the sweet potatoes, and all the remaining sweet potatoes will be numbered, and one less will be punished. ”

Li Qinzai sighed, he knew that he might not be able to eat sweet potatoes this year.

After eating the baked sweet potato, Li Zhi's wish was fulfilled, and he sat in the courtyard and turned on the sage mode.

"Jing Chu, you said that in a few years, Datang will really be full of sweet potatoes, and the people in the world will no longer have the worry of famine, will Datang Sheji last for 10,000 years?" Li Zhi asked calmly.

Li Qinzai thought for a moment and said, "Food is an important factor in maintaining the rule of the dynasty, but it is not the only factor. Your Majesty, there are many factors that continue the fortune of a dynasty, such as food, benevolent government, military, official governance, natural disasters, etc., all of which can affect the fortune of a country. ”

"The minister can only say that with sufficient food, Datang's national honor will be much more stable, but he never dares to say that it will remain unchanged for ten thousand years. If there is an invasion by foreign enemies, or if the officials are corrupt and the people are dissatisfied, the society is still in danger of being tired. ”

Li Zhi nodded: "That's the truth, it's not enough to fill the stomachs of the people, if you want the country to be sustainable, those in power still need to tremble and walk on thin ice, once you slack off, it is the beginning of the country." ”

Li Qinzai smiled again: "Your Majesty doesn't have to work too hard, with sweet potatoes, the minister can guarantee that in the next hundred and ten years, the population of Datang will increase by a multiple, maybe you can see the population of Datang exceed 100 million in your lifetime." ”

Li Zhixi said: "Really? ”

Li Qinzai nodded with a smile, this is not bragging, in real history, sweet potatoes were introduced to China during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and the real popularization of planting in the world was the period of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Braided Dynasty.

In that dark age when the Han people were ruled by wild boar skin barbarians, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes made it difficult for the people to survive, but Rao was so, the population of the Braided Dynasty far exceeded that of all dynasties in Chinese history.

This is inseparable from the gradual diversification of food, especially sweet potatoes, a new food source that is easy to grow and has a huge yield, which is the direct cause of population growth.

In the future Li Tang Dynasty, as long as those in power do not make any big mistakes, the drastic population growth will inevitably be a sure thing.

(End of chapter)