On one side is the cabinet office, but on this side is the sweet potato field in the eastern suburbs.

Sweet potatoes have been planted for more than three months, and they are growing fast, they are already ripe, and it is time to harvest.

At the beginning, a total of 12 acres of land were planted, five acres of land were ripe, and the remaining seven acres were about to be ripe.

A large patch of sweet potato leaves is densely packed, and the growth is extremely gratifying, and it makes people happy to look at.

Xia Yuan found dozens of people to dig on an acre of land first, and he also followed the digging himself, Zhu Houzhao was still persuading him at first, but in the end, he saw that the persuasion was useless, so he simply joined the ranks of digging sweet potatoes.

Soon, the first sweet potato showed its head, dark red throughout, and the shape was very good, the size of a thicker banana.

It is far from being as large as the cultivated sweet potatoes of later generations, but it is already very large, and it can be used both internally and externally.

Soon, the second one was also dug up, and it was a low mound, which could not be compared with the previous one.

Can only be taken internally.

Fortunately, they are all sweet potatoes, and Xia Yuan does not dislike them.

Zhu Houzhao dug and then horned in his mouth, "If you want me to say, it's better not to dig these sweet potatoes, just let them rot in the ground, and say to the outside that they haven't grown, otherwise if you dig it now, how embarrassing it would be if you only dig a few hundred catties in the end?"

Of course, the palace will not laugh at you, but I'm afraid that those people in the palace will laugh at you, you don't know, everyone in the palace knows what sweet potatoes you are growing, and they say that they can produce thousands of catties, and they are waiting to see your jokes. ”

“.”

Xia Yuan still ignored him, why did so many people in the palace know that he planted this sweet potato, who spread it, he knew who it was, but he didn't say it.

Some people's mouths are like cotton trouser waistbands, loose and baggy, and they can't hide anything.

Zhu Houzhao soon discovered the fun of digging sweet potatoes, digging this is like opening a blind box, each shape is different, he waved the sweet potato in his hand, "Look, this sweet potato in the hand of this palace is not like a short sword?" ”

"It's like that."

Xia Yuan replied casually, and continued to dig, on his vine, a total of seven sweet potatoes were gathered, which were the same as the gourd baby.

There are seven vines on one vine, adding up to at least five catties, and there are at least five or six hundred sweet potato vines in this acre of land.

It can be concluded that this acre of land can produce about 2,500 catties to 3,000 catties.

But this average value is not very accurate, some vines have more than seven, and some vines also bear less than seven, and there are large and small, but there should be two thousand catties.

With the efforts of dozens of people, all the sweet potatoes in an acre of land were dug up, and many people wandered around in this acre of land, picking up the soil from time to time to look at it to prevent any omissions.

The dug sweet potatoes were all packed in the back basket, and they were all piled up on the edge of the ridge, a big pile, like a hill.

Zhu Houzhao didn't persuade at this time, he felt that these sweet potatoes seemed to really have thousands of catties, he wiped a handful on his forehead with his hand, and the mud hand wiped on his forehead, and suddenly his whole face was dirty, but he didn't care, turned his head and asked Gu Dayong, "Gu Banban, do you say that there are thousands of catties of these?" ”

Gu Dayong didn't dig less just now, after all, the prince himself went to the ground, and he, a minion, didn't dare to be idle, at this time, he was looking at these sweet potatoes and was stunned, and muttered when he heard the words: "The slave thinks it should be."

"How many catties of grain can you beat next to you?"

"A few hundred pounds."

"Then these thousands of catties" said, Zhu Houzhao asked solemnly: "Are these sweet potatoes grain?" ”

“.”

Xia Yuan rolled his eyes when he heard this, you stepped on the horse's brain and let the donkey kick it, this is not what food is, why don't you ask if this thing can be eaten?

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't have a good brain for a day or two, so Xia Yuan didn't care about him, and immediately ordered someone to start weighing.

And Zhu Houzhao is really thinking about this question, can this thing be eaten? How to eat?

Since the sweet potatoes were brought back from Luzon in the spring, they didn't dare to keep them, they were all planted in the ground, Zhu Houzhao really hadn't eaten this thing, and he didn't know if he could eat this thing.

One by one, the baskets containing sweet potatoes were carried and put on the scales to start weighing, and some people took out the abacus and began to snap the calculation.

Xia Yuan waited expectantly beside him, and for a long time, an excited voice finally shouted: "Master, it's calculated, it's twenty-four stones!" ”

There was incomparably excitement in his voice, twenty-four stones, like ordinary grain, only about two stones and three stones, and here there are ten times more.

Xia Yuan was also excited, twenty-four stones, that is. One stone is one hundred and twenty pounds, and twenty-four stones is . Ten stones is 1,200 catties, 20 stones are 2,400 catties, plus four stones, 14 gets 4, 24 gets 8, 480 catties.

The total is about 3,000 catties.

This output is okay, and it can't be compared with the tens of thousands of catties in later generations, and it can't be compared with what he expected at the beginning, he said that five or six thousand should be no problem.

But there are only 3,000 catties here, but this is only a test field, and he has no experience in growing sweet potatoes, so he doesn't even dare to apply more fertilizer and water more, for fear of making these sweet potatoes have a good time.

If it can be popularized and let the people of the world explore while planting, the working people with great wisdom will definitely find out the best planting method, and it should not be difficult to get five or six thousand catties of land per acre.

"Twenty-four stones, not bad, that's no different from twenty-five stones, rounded, thirty stones, okay, thirty stones!" Xia Yuan slapped his thigh, and in front of Zhu Houzhao, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he made a false report.

Of course, you have to make a false report, only a false report can give people a greater shock, and then make this sweet potato spread faster.

What's more, this is not a false report, this is only one acre of land, and a few acres of land are confiscated, and it is not certain that one acre can really produce thirty stones.

He could already imagine Emperor Hongzhi, his good father-in-law, dancing with joy when he heard the news of this acre, and his snot bubbles were laughing.

Zhu Houzhao seemed to be stunned, he was still thinking about how to eat these, and at the same time tried his best to look into the distance, along the ridge to the sweet potato field, looking at the lush vines, and the emerald green sweet potato leaves.

If these are really grains, one acre of land can produce more than 20 stones, and compared with the rest of the crops, each mu can only produce two or three hundred catties, or even four or five hundred catties, which should be able to feed more people.

If Xia Yuan knew his idea, he would definitely reply loudly, this is not only to feed more people, but also to feed more people, and most importantly, with these sweet potatoes, many things have the qualifications to be implemented, and there are also conditions to talk about them.

And what he has to do now is that he said word by word to these dozens of people: "Your wealth is here!"

Before these people could be happy or anything, Xia Yuan waved his hand again, "Pick up some big ones for me, and I'm going to enter the palace to report the good news!" ”

PS: The two chapters that came out of the late code, the cold is not good, and I really can't hold it, so let's do it first, and I will update it again tomorrow.

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