The Bai family had one more important thing before leaving Shenshu Village.

Spring planting sweet potatoes.

Originally, the sweet potatoes had already been given to Liu Hong, and Liu Hong was also very confident that he could promote this crop.

Drought tolerant and dry-tolerant, mountainous and flat sandy land can be planted and lived, the yield is large, the taste is good, ground into flour and cut into dry and easy to store, not only that, sweet potato leaves can also be fed to pigs and dried and can also be used as firewood......

Such a crop, except that it is not as delicious as wheat and rice, Liu Hong could not find any shortcomings in it.

He can think of the autumn in the mountainous areas of Huaicheng where the yield of wheat is not high, and the harvest that spreads all over the mountains after planting sweet potatoes, and the imperial court awarded him a best harvest award.

But what Liu Hong never expected was that he and the people from the Si Agricultural Department promoted it for a long time, but no farmers bought it.

Even if the free sweet potato seedlings are sent to the home, people are reluctant to plant them.

I can't help it!

Since the drought of the previous year, Huaicheng has been in good weather, just like now wheat is rising in the spring rain, indicating another good year.

In the mountainous areas where wheat is not grown, farmers keep it for other purposes, planting vegetables and corn, sesame and soybeans, and will not let the land be barren.

As for sweet potatoes, no one has ever seen this thing, and no one has ever eaten it.

Just rely on people's mouths to say that the sky is falling, who dares to take risks!

In case of a poor harvest, it will be a waste of a whole year's land, and even large families who do not lack land at home will not dare to take this risk.

Therefore, even if the prefect personally went to the countryside to do ideological work, everyone did not buy it.

When you are the prefect, whether it is a disaster year or a good year, you will take the imperial court, and there will be no shortage of food or drink, unlike all the hopes of the peasant family in the ground, in case you mess up the prefect's mansion, can you take care of it?

Apparently not!

They are not stupid, so they don't want to be the test field of the prefect.

Liu Hong originally planned to promote sweet potatoes in Nanguan Town, Yangfeng County, his blessed land, and took Zhang County's order to personally go to the countryside to promote planting.

None of those farmers wanted to be crab eaters.

There are not even people who are waiting and watching, in a word, there is no shortage of crops, why take the risk of planting a crop that has never been seen before.

This is not a disaster year, planting swallows is forced to be helpless, now that the harvest year is coming, who still plants swallows, such rough crops will also be hungry in disaster years.

Once it is discarded in a good year, wheat, soybeans, corn, and peanuts are not fragrant?

After being rejected continuously, Liu Hong, who was angry, scolded the stupid farmers, knowing that he had deliberately sought benefits for them, and wanted to tie up the farmers who refused him and force them to plant sweet potatoes.

But how can so many farmers be tied up?

Seeing that the spring ploughing was about to be wrong, in desperation, Liu Hong came to Shenshu Village, the place that Lord Liu called his blessed land.

"Yuanbao, is Yuanbao at home?"

When Lord Liu arrived at Shenshu Village, he naturally went to Lao Bai's house first, and as soon as he entered the courtyard of Lao Bai's house, he unconsciously called Xiao Fuyuan's name.

"Uncle Liu, I'm at home, do you have anything to do with me?" Xiao Fuyuan saw that Liu Hongran was sweating profusely, and his shoes were covered with mud and grass clippings on his official robe.

I knew that Lord Liu was really a good official, at least he personally went down to the field to help the plough and plough with the people during spring ploughing every year.

And it's not for show.

"Lord Liu, do you have anything to do with my daughter?"

Bai Muban was not polite to Lord Liu, and seeing that Liu Hong poured a breath of catechu, he asked directly.

"Naturally, there is, or a big deal. Everyone doesn't believe me about the promotion of sweet potatoes, or let Xiao Yuanbao tell the big guys, everyone believes Xiao Yuanbao. ”

Liu Hong said while looking at Xiao Fuyuan with envy.

I really don't have a taste for the prefect today, and I can't compare to the weight of a child's speech.

There's no way, who let the Furong Township Lord speak the label of the spirit.

At this time, he also needs to borrow Xiao Fuyuan's fame.

The Bai family happened to be planting sweet potatoes.

The sweet potatoes that Lord Liu Hong left in the Bai family, Bai Dazhuang had already raised seedlings, and they were being planted these days.

In addition to planting on the mountainous land of Xiangyang Village in Xiaofuyuan, some of the wasteland opened up by Shenshu Village is also planned to be planted.

When Bai Dazhuang was planting, the people in the village were still curious to ask what kind of crop it was, Bai Dazhuang was sloppy, after all, Lord Liu had not promoted planting, and he didn't want to tell everyone in advance.

"That's natural, everyone does believe in Xiao Yuanbao more." Bai Muban smiled, not modest at all in front of Lord Liu, and proudly showed off his daughter.

"It is not smooth for the official to promote the planting of sweet potatoes in other villages, so the official plans to promote it in Shenshu Village, and the people of Shenshu Village believe in Xiaoyuanbao the most." Liu Hong looked at Xiao Fuyuan eagerly, "I believe that this official will be able to promote it successfully." ”

So, Bai Muban went to the village chief and told the village chief about Liu Hong's promotion of planting sweet potatoes, and asked the village chief to convene the villagers for spring ploughing.

Village Chief Zhao was still hesitant, thinking that Master Liu was an official, so why should he care about everyone's farming.

I've never heard of this sweet potato, which is not a sweet potato.

But after listening to Bai Muban's explanation, this sweet potato was found by Xiao Fuyuan let Bai Sanzhuang in Nanyang, with a large yield, strong satiety, drought tolerance and dryness, and I believed it in my heart.

Everyone gathered at the private school as usual.

Master Liu Hong came to the private school and preached the promotion of planting sweet potatoes in public.

The reaction of the people in Shenshu Village was the same as that of other villages, they all felt that things they had never seen were too risky and were unwilling to plant them.

Liu Hong lamented in his heart, he thought that he was about to become an honorary villager of Shenshu Village because of his diligence in Shenshu Village, but the villagers still had doubts about his words as the prefect.

So he only launched Xiao Fuyuan.

Xiao Fuyuan came to the stage and didn't say anything, and asked the sister-in-law to take Qiuhong to bring the boiled sweet potatoes to the plate to show the big guys, and then cut them into small pieces and send them to everyone one by one to taste.

This sweet potato was left by Bai Dazhuang for Xiao Fuyuan to satisfy his hunger, and she let Qiuhong steam it all and serve it out.

"Oh Mom, this is a sweet potato? Why is it so sweet? ”

"It's soft and noodles, why don't you give it as delicious as a snack."

"Is this really a sweet potato? Then I want to plant it, this thing will be sold to big families in Huaicheng, and we will not have to make a fortune. ”

"Where did Yuanbao find this good thing?"

……

Lord Liu was frustrated in promoting sweet potatoes in other villages, the most important of which was that the big guys had never seen or eaten them, so they naturally didn't believe him.

Then Xiao Fuyuan let everyone see the appearance of sweet potatoes, taste the taste of sweet potatoes, and then use the aura of her lucky girl, wouldn't it be easy to promote.

Just as Xiao Fuyuan expected, after everyone tasted the sweet potato, they all expressed their admiration.

"This is the sweet potato, everyone who was holding it in Chun Tao's hand just now also saw it, such a big sweet potato, like a peanut, a vine buried in the ground and a lot of knots." Bai Dazhuang said in a timely manner, "Sweet potatoes grow in Nanyang, my sister saw it in a book, and let my third brother find it from Nanyang." To tell you that my family has been planting for a season, just at the foot of the mountain next to Aunt Hu's land, many people were curious about what I planted in that field last year? It's the sweet potato that is grown. ”

"The reason why I hid it from everyone last year was not to hide my secrets, but because I don't know if I can plant it." Bai Dazhuang continued, "I really planted it, and after discussing it with my sister, I gave the harvest of sweet potatoes to Lord Liu, who hopes to promote planting in our village, and can also give us one more harvest."

"What's this? Is it to buy seeds or what? Someone in the crowd couldn't wait to interrupt Bai Dazhuang.

(End of chapter)