When the Beijing division enters the autumn, there will be a special sense of comfort.

Zhu Houzhao can't see the outside scenery in Miyagi, but the sky is blue and cloudless, which can always make people feel calm.

In a situation where the transmission can only be carried by letters, the message is like a wave, which comes and rushes at you, then settles down, and then comes again when the next wave comes.

It was in this wave of information that the emperor sat in power.

At the beginning of the year, he put Yang Tinghe into the cabinet and put him in charge of the cultivation, planting and promotion of sweet potatoes.

The seedlings were planted in the spring, and now there are already grown sweet potatoes.

Zhu Houzhao was quite concerned about this, so he specially got into the carriage and went out of the palace to see it in a proper manner.

After hearing that the emperor was coming, Yang Tinghe took great pains to make preparations, and he temporarily erected a pavilion next to this land, and the road leading from the city to this place was slightly smoothed.

But in fact, Zhu Houzhao didn't ask for these details much, so he walked down the field path from the main road.

Moreover, because he is not the kind to sneak out of the city, he brings a lot of people.

Shenwu Wei Xu Guan was with him for protection, and a team of 200 people stood along both sides of the roadside.

Liu Jin doesn't need to say much.

In addition to this, there are three other cabinet elders.

So strictly speaking, this is an emperor's tour.

Yang Tinghe led Meng Qiuzhong, Meng Ying's father and daughter, and other carefully selected farmers to stand at the edge of the field and kowtow to greet them.

Of course, the conditions here are not as good as the palace, but the environment here Zhu Houzhao likes it very much.

The field in front of him was fenced off, and when I looked up, I could see a wave of golden wheat, and the wheat was to be harvested this season.

However, there are no people here, and the place chosen by Yang Tinghe is naturally Guantian, and the nearby ones are all owned by the official family.

During the planting process of sweet potatoes, Zhu Houzhao began to give a little hint, but he didn't remember much, half an acre of land, how much he could plant, and he didn't know how much he could grow.

In addition, the yield of modern crops is high, because there are pesticides, weeding, and insect control, and sometimes a pest can ruin a season, so it is not that when the sweet potato seedlings are inserted into the ground, all the sweet potatoes will grow immediately.

Basically, half an acre of land, if he can have one or two thousand catties, he is already very satisfied.

Yang Yiqing, Wang Wei and Wang Bing, who followed him, had never seen this kind of crop, and when they saw the emperor squatting down to touch it himself, they were still afraid, "Your Majesty, be careful!" ”

Liu Jin was also quick-eyed, "Your Majesty, these things are dirty, let the slaves and maids come and fetch them for Your Majesty." ”

The emperor has been in office for a long time, and Zhu Houzhao has slowly entered this kind of role of being served, in fact, it is also to make everyone else comfortable and accustomed to it.

So he nodded and said, "Dig out a piece and see the size." ”

"Yes."

Then he said to his minister, "These leaves should be edible too, but I don't know how they taste." ”

"Where can such coarse food enter His Majesty's Chrysostom." Liu Jin smiled and patted his ass.

"If you can eat it, Weichen wants to try it." Wang Wei said.

In Zhu Houzhao's impression, his parents in the previous life had eaten it, but ...... It doesn't seem to be delicious, he can't get used to it anyway. In fact, pig-raising families feed their pigs.

But how to say it, he also said it on purpose. For the people at this time, there is no good or bad taste, only what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten.

On the other side, Liu Jin worked very hard, and followed Yang Ting and the people under his command to pick up the dirt and get one out.

Yang Yi heard about the magic of this thing early in the morning, and couldn't help but come up to see it at this time, in fact, it was also an ordinary appearance: the long oval, the surface shape is very irregular, there is no slightest sense of beauty, speaking of color, the place that is not covered by soil is a rose red, does it taste...... No one smelled it.

"If you bring water, wash it."

Zhu Houzhao's words were a little excited, he was not like others, his eyes were still confused, because no one else recognized it, only he understood the great significance of this thing.

Liu Jin personally got started, carefully rubbed the mud in the basin brought by the waiter, and washed another basin after washing the stain.

"This is the sweet potato that Your Majesty is talking about." Wang Wei was also a little curious, he just dug it out of the mud and couldn't see it really, and it was really red all over his body when he washed it down.

"Bring a knife! Cut! Zhu Houzhao was a little impatient.

The skin is red, and the flesh inside is yellow when cut.

Liu Jin looked at the emperor's eyes, and he didn't stop moving, until he cut off more than a dozen pieces, and then saw that the emperor was about to reach out to the table and take it.

"Your Majesty!" Liu Jin panicked, "This thing is the first time I see it, I should find someone to try it!" ”

"Exactly." Yang Yiqing also gave up his hand, "Your Majesty is a member of the Jiangshan Society, how can you try lightly?" ”

Zhu Hou said in his heart, where is it so troublesome.

"Let the folk girl eat first!"

Everyone was attracted by this voice, it was Meng Ying.

When she said this, there were not many objections from the people present, anyway, for most people, as long as it wasn't the emperor and herself, it didn't matter.

Zhu Houzhao didn't bother to argue with his courtiers on this point.

Let Meng Ying take the credit.

As for her father, Meng Qiuzhong, he was not in a hurry at all, because he had seen people and eaten overseas.

Meng Ying didn't hesitate, walked a few steps to Liu Jin's side, reached out and picked up a piece, put it in her mouth to chew, and then swallowed.

The elder and the chamberlain all looked at her, as if they were waiting for some magical change.

In fact, there was nothing but a 'click', 'click' sound.

"Miss Meng, how do you feel?" Liu Jin was also eager.

Meng Ying ate it, and her expression did not show any discomfort in the process, "Crispy, sweet, delicious." There is also no uncomfortable feeling either. ”

So that the hearts of the people were at ease.

"Slave maid, slave maid also tastes a piece for Your Majesty." Liu Jin also wanted to take credit for this achievement, and his movements were a little faster.

"Father-in-law Liu, this ...... This one is a bit hard......"

Meng Ying's words were half a beat slower, and then she saw Liu Jin holding her mouth and screaming bitterly, "Ouch! ”

Zhu Houzhao sneered, "I'm old, I don't have a good tooth, and I can't eat this raw sweet potato." ”

"Listen to Your Majesty, can this be cooked and eaten?" Yang Yiqing asked.

"Try it, roasting, steaming, boiling, or even grinding into flour to cook porridge, it should be possible. Xu Guan. ”

"The minister is here."

"The elders are not good. Let all the brothers of Shenwuwei come and taste it, one bite at a time. ”

Yang Tinghe didn't get old to that extent, he waited for so long, so he couldn't help but take a small piece and take a bite slowly, the pressure in his heart suddenly decreased, and he was pleasantly surprised: "It's really sweet and crispy, it's different from ordinary fruits and vegetables!" ”

"Arrange for someone to harvest all the sweet potatoes in this half acre of land and see how much the harvest will be."

"Yes, Wechen obeys!"

So the farmers outside the pavilion were busy, and inside the pavilion, the soldiers of Shenwuwei lined up to start eating this new gadget.

When a person talks about the taste, he doesn't feel it, and when everyone who has eaten it says the same thing, the cabinet elders no longer doubt it.

"Your Majesty said that this thing is edible, it seems that it is indeed true, it is not sour or bitter, but it has a sweet taste, and it must be easier for the people to accept it."

Wang Wei was itchy and uncomfortable, he couldn't help it, and let people cut a thin slice with a knife.

Yang Yiqing and Wang Bing also eat like this.

As soon as you take it into your mouth, you immediately know that the taste is indeed true.

"It depends on the harvest." Zhu Houzhao took his hand and stood high in the pavilion, "This sweet potato has a very high yield overseas, if it is still like this in my Ming Dynasty, it will be popularized when it is poured...... The four pavilion elders can slightly imagine how beneficial it will be. ”

"Not bad! Your Majesty's words are very true. ”

So be patient with this number.

It's just that Yang Tinghe didn't dare to let the emperor wait too long, he went directly to the 'sea of people tactics', digging, washing, weighing, and all the dragons were ready, so in more than half an hour, everything was basically done.

In fact, in this process, the people watching basically have a general idea, because the number is there...... It's piled up into a small mountain, and it won't be light on the eye.

Yang Tinghe was busy and busy, and at a certain moment, he finally closed the numbers, so he immediately turned around.

The three pavilion elders were not calm, and stood up one after another.

"Your Majesty, the yield of this half acre of sweet potato land has been calculated."

"How many?"

"A total of ten stones, five buckets, and seven liters!"

In the Ming Dynasty, a stone was about 150 catties, and the number Yang Tinghe said was nearly 1,600 catties.

This number really shocked everyone, "Half an acre can have ten stones!" That's twenty stones! ”

In fact, Zhu Houzhao felt that it was a little lower, he had the impression that sweet potatoes should not be this kind of performance, but for the first time, he had no experience and no pesticides, and it was normal to rely on luck and be a little low.

However, even so, it still made those present feel incredible.

This year, one acre of top-class paddy field is about three stone yields, but this humble sweet potato has seven times the yield!

"Your Majesty! Weichen thought that the crop should be promoted quickly, so that within three years, there would be no hungry people in the Ming Dynasty! Since ancient times, no emperor has been able to do this! Wang Wei was a little excited, and he was a little exaggerated.

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Yang Yiqing and Wang Bing also had no opinions.

Zhu Houzhao knows that there are improvements in the follow-up, but this can be said in private, the current results are not bad, and it is mainly based on encouragement, "The three elders, I want to reward Meng Qiuzhong, the old farmer who brought this thing back, and his daughter who just tried it for everyone, what do you think?" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"Jiefu."

"Wechen is here."

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "At this time, you should understand, why did I entrust you with this matter alone, right?" In the next three years, you must be attentive to let these old farmers grow a few times and accumulate experience. For example, you can open up a few more fields and try to plant in different ways to see which one is the best, so as to form a mature method. Only with mature planting methods and seeds can it be promoted on a large scale. In three years, I'm going to see results. The people of Daming have been hungry for many years, and they can't be so hungry forever. ”

The ministers fell to their knees and bowed sincerely.

When it was lively, three military horses came on the main road next to it, and the people who came were dressed like palaces.

They rushed over in a hurry and shouted, "Your Majesty! Ningxia has a military situation playing! ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyebrows fell, and he said in a deep voice: "Go back to the palace." ”