Chapter 430: Harvest
"Okay, I'll go over tomorrow and see how much that potato can yield in an acre."
Ye Hanyu actually didn't have a score in his heart, but the potato seedlings on the Zhuangzi were already yellow, and it was obvious that they couldn't grow any longer, so they could only be dug out first.
You can also re-plant sweet potatoes in the field, sweet potatoes are easy to plant, just pinch some sweet potato vines.
On the Zhuangzi, Gu Wanning took a few concubines and maidservants to work in the kitchen early in the morning, and there were not many potatoes planted in the field, but the sprouted potatoes were picked out and planted about three acres of land.
At the beginning of the year, the emperor's car finally arrived at Zhuangzi, and he was followed by a large group of officials, and King Chen was also among them.
Ye Hanyu was shocked by the movement made by his father, his Zhuangzi is not big, so many officials come together, it is estimated that they will not be able to sit down.
"The son asks his father to say goodbye, and his father Jin An."
The emperor got out of the carriage and looked around, "Hurry up, are the potatoes planted at the foot of the mountain to the north?" ”
"Yes, Father."
"Let's go, let's go and harvest the potatoes first, and then we'll talk about the potatoes after harvesting them."
The ministers also all got out of the carriage and followed to the foot of the mountain, at this time the wheat seedlings in the field are green, but unlike other places, there are some gaps between the wheat here, furrows and furrows, as if specially set aside, the emperor knows that the interval between this is the cabbage radish planted again last autumn, and the cabbage radish has long been ripe and picked, and these intervals are empty.
The king of war ordered someone to send a batch of cattle and sheep back a few years ago, Gu Wanning specially asked people to circle the cattle pen at this time to raise hundreds of cows, and there are not many potatoes to be produced today, only three acres of land, and it is still in the greenhouse, so it can only be planed with a pickaxe by the long-term worker.
When the emperor took those courtiers into the greenhouse, Ye Hanyu asked the emperor, and with an order, the long-term workers who had been prepared long ago on the ground waved their iron pickaxes to officially start working.
The women on the Zhuangzi either took baskets or baskets to pick up in the back, and the half-person-high basket was full of potatoes, and there were special people who carried the basket to weigh the seeds, and there were children who picked up the eggs buried in the soil behind the adults, and there were many people and few places, and it took only half an hour to work hard, and the potatoes on the three acres of land were all finished.
When the adults saw a basket of potatoes being carried over, they couldn't help but count the number of baskets excitedly, and Lord Dasi Nong Qi said excitedly: "The yield of these potatoes per mu is definitely more than 2,000 catties, high yield, this is the real high yield, the sky is auspicious, the sky is auspicious!" ”
The little official in charge of counting the catties once suspected that he had miscalculated the number, and he counted it three or four times, and asked his companions to count it twice, and finally dared to report to the emperor: "Your Majesty, a total of 11,421 catties of potatoes have been harvested in these fields, with an average yield of 3,807 catties per mu, this is a bumper harvest, congratulations to the emperor!" ”
The ministers also knelt on the ground and shouted: "Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor!" ”
"Hahaha, it's really worth congratulating! Sixth, go and prepare a meal, let's not eat anything else at noon, just eat this fresh potato. You let the princess do it well, and let's taste the taste of this potato. ”
"It's my father. Erchen asked her to do it quickly. Father, the emperor should move to Zhuangzi. ”
"You go and get busy with you, I'll go see those sweet potatoes you planted, and I'll go back later."
Ye Hanyu knew that his father was excited at this time, not to mention the emperor, he was also excited, with a yield of more than 3,800 catties per mu, what kind of concept is this, it is unheard of, unseen!
But now was not the time for him to get excited, he had to hurry up and arrange the lunch of his father and the courtiers.
Looking at the back of him leaving in a hurry, the prince couldn't help sighing, when he was busy wooing the courtiers, the sixth brother was farming, they looked down on farming, but they didn't know that the sixth brother's approach was a really smart person.
A small potato made such a big noise, I heard that in the greenhouse next to the potato, there is another crop called sweet potato, if the sweet potato can also grow thousands of catties per acre, the hat of the sixth prince of Yujun will also be changed.
Ye Hanyu didn't care what the prince was thinking, he asked people to pick out all the potatoes that had been cut by the pickaxe and had broken skin and put them together, and then ordered the long-term workers to transport all the intact potatoes back to the cellar on the Zhuangzi.
Gu Wanning used the injured potatoes to make dishes, sour and hot shredded potatoes, fried meat with shredded potatoes, stewed chicken with potatoes, stewed beef with potatoes, fried potato balls, potato cakes, potato rice and so on...... When the emperor came back from the greenhouse with people, the dishes were almost all out of the pot, and everyone had a sumptuous potato feast.
One of the most popular is the sour and hot potato shreds, potato stewed chicken and potato stewed beef these three dishes, made a big pot to eat until the end of these dishes did not even have a soup left, the emperor nodded while eating: "This potato is good, that is, it can be cooked, and it can be used as a meal, and when the winter wheat is harvested this year, you can immediately plant a crop of potatoes, and you can harvest it in more than three months, and you will not delay the autumn to continue to plant winter wheat, so that we can also achieve two crops a year in the north, if you interplant, you can also grow three times a year." ”
In fact, it is not rigorous to say that three crops a year, but they have to listen to what the emperor says, because everything the emperor says is right.
King Chen was full of food and drink, and found Ye Hanyu in private: "This year, you have to leave a little bit for Uncle Huang for this potato plant, Uncle Huang likes to eat this dish!" ”
Ye Hanyu said: "Uncle Huang, that's all there is to it, the number of potatoes that can be grown this year is limited, but if you want sweet potatoes, I can leave some for Uncle Huang, that is also better than potatoes, very sweet, listen to my princess, it can also produce powder, and the dishes made with powder are more delicious, do you want it?" ”
"Can't the potatoes be even?"
"No, not really. These potato seeds were originally more than 3,000 catties, and they could be planted more than 10 acres of land, plus today's these are at most more than 50 acres.
But sweet potatoes are different, wait for more than a month, those sweet potatoes in the greenhouse can come out, and wait for new seedlings to be raised, more is not good, one or two acres of land for your own food must be there. ”
King Chen nodded, he didn't want to do business and planted sweet potatoes to sell, just to eat fresh, since his nephew said to leave him some sweet potato seedlings, he had nothing to say.
"Okay, that's it, you have to plant this potato quickly, only planting dozens of acres of land, it's too little."
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