At this time, in the Kunning Palace, Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang were staring at the sweet potatoes on the table.

Regarding the grain that yields twenty-four stones per mu, although Zhu Youzhu instinctively can't believe it, he has a strong expectation.

Since the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors. Don't say that the three emperors and five emperors have opened the sky since Pangu, and they have never heard of grain with a yield of more than 20 stones per mu, even ten stones.

It is ordinary rice and wheat, and the production capacity per mu is four or five stones, which is a great auspiciousness.

After all, even in the later generations, when there were all kinds of fertilizers and all kinds of advanced planting and seedling breeding methods, the yield of wheat and rice per mu was only six or seven hundred catties.

Therefore, the grain yield per mu of these 24 stones will inevitably give people a particularly absurd and unreal feeling.

Emperor Hongzhi had a pious expectation for this kind of food that could be called a divine object, but when this grain really revealed the true face of Lushan, he was disappointed.

Is this grain?

In fact, these sweet potatoes were specially picked out by Xia Yuan, and they were all big and good-looking, but in the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi, they still didn't look like a grain, but like a radish.

It's just that the color of this radish is not white, but dark red, with a bias towards purple.

He picked it up and looked at it, rubbed the mud on it with his thumb, and asked, "Can this thing be used as food?" ”

He didn't ask if it could be eaten or satisfied, but if it could be used as food.

There are more things to eat, and there are more things that can satisfy the stomach, that is, tree bark, grass roots, and even dirt can be eaten. But if it can be used as food, then there are very few.

Eating it can make the stomach full, make people strong, and not eat anything wrong, so that it can be used as food.

Regarding this question, Xia Yuan did not give an answer, but asked rhetorically: "Or, Your Majesty will taste it first?" ”

"Taste?" Emperor Hongzhi was stunned for a moment, looked at the sweet potato all over his body, and felt that there was no place to put his mouth, "How.. Taste? Is it steamed or boiled, or pounded into noodles? ”

Hearing this, Xia Yuan couldn't help but give the emperor a thumbs up and praised: "I often hear people say that Your Majesty sees thousands of miles clearly, and the saint knows it, and the minister thinks it is just a verbal statement, but I didn't expect it to be true, the three ways to eat that Your Majesty just said, sweet potatoes can be done."

It can be eaten steamed, boiled and eaten, ground into noodles, mixed with flour, rolled into noodles and eaten, and baked and eaten, but the taste that the minister just said is to eat it raw. ”

Hearing the front, Emperor Hongzhi was still secretly surprised, he didn't expect that there were so many ways to eat this unattractive sweet potato, but in the end, he was stunned and ate it raw?

Xia Yuan didn't say anything more, his hand went directly to Zhu Houzhao's arms, Zhu Houzhao was startled, and subconsciously covered his chest with his hands, "What are you going to do?" Don't mess around. ”

Looking at his style of guarding chastity, Xia Yuan's face darkened a little, and he felt that his sexual orientation was questioned, "Your Highness, don't think about it, the minister is not such a casual person, the minister just wants to use your dagger." ”

"Oh." Zhu Houzhao seemed to relax a little at this time, "Don't touch it, this palace will dig it for you." ”

As he spoke, he put his hand into the placket of his clothes, and he carried a bunch of chicken and dog bits and pieces on his body all the year round, all of which were tucked in his arms, and what daggers were even more prestigious, and soon a dagger was touched.

Xia Yuan was not polite, he took it immediately, then picked up a large sweet potato, directly began to peel it with a dagger, cut off most of it, and immediately handed it to Emperor Hongzhi, "Your Majesty, please enjoy." ”

The peeled sweet potato looked pale yellow, Zhu Youzhu reached out and took it, watched, looked.

But he was a little hesitant, he had never heard of food that could be eaten raw, and if he ate this thing, there would be no problems, right?

After hesitating for a while, he brought the sweet potato to his mouth, took a small bite, and put it in his mouth to sip.

"Father, how do you eat like a queen mother? You gulp, what can you taste with such a little bit? ”

“.”

Hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but raise his eyes and glance at Zhu Houzhao, but as soon as he was squeezed like this, it was not easy to take a small sip, ruthlessly, opened his mouth wide, and took a bite without the appearance of the emperor.

When you bite into it, it feels very crisp when you listen to it, but when you enter your mouth and chew it again, you feel that there is a sweetness blooming in your mouth, and it is not simply crispy, it is crispy with a dough taste.

It's not unpleasant, and it even tastes good.

It's just that the taste of this food is even more like food, like fruit.

If there is a fruit that can produce more than 20 stones per mu, it is not bad.

Emperor Hongzhi nibbled on sweet potatoes, while Zhu Houzhao picked one up, picked up the dagger and peeled it extremely skillfully, and then handed it to Empress Zhang, "Queen Mother, you can also taste it." ”

Immediately, he cut another one for himself, and ate it in a big gulp, and then his eyes lit up, and he said vaguely: "This sweet potato is actually sweet when you eat it." ”

Xia Yuan also cut one for himself, held it in his hand and nibbled it, and nodded when he heard the words, "Of course it's sweet, but I didn't expect it to be so fresh and refined, well, it's not too sweet." ”

He thought that the first batch of sweet potatoes should taste worse when they were planted in Daming, but this taste, I don't know if it was a psychological suggestion, or the reason why these sweet potatoes were specially selected, it was far beyond his expectations.

Even eating raw is so delicious, sweet, but not sweet and greasy, it is the kind of light sweetness, as we all know, the highest standard of Chinese people for sweets is not too sweet.

If you bake sweet potatoes, you can't take off if you eat them?

After all, roasted sweet potatoes are the soul of sweet potatoes.

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, his brows furrowed, how could he listen, neither of them had eaten this sweet potato, and I became the one who tested the poison.

However, this sweet potato does eat well.

"I feel like a fruit when I eat this sweet potato, I just asked you, you said that this can be steamed, boiled, and ground into noodles, so this is food?"

When he said this, Emperor Hongzhi was still nibbling on the sweet potato, but his eyes and even his voice were full of expectation and hope.

After all, if there is a grain yield of more than 20 stones per mu, who wants fruit?

Fruit can only fill the stomach, and food can feed the people.

"This is also considered food, but strictly speaking, it is not a staple food, but it is more than enough as a supplementary food, steamed and cooked, it can fill the stomach."

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhu was a little disappointed, but then the disappointment was washed away by the strong joy in his heart.

What about supplementary food, even if it is not a staple food, it is still food, and like beans, it is all food, and it can provide for the people.

As an emperor, how could he not know the importance of this food, from ancient times to the present, food is the root of life, it is the real life-saving thing at the critical moment, can save the lives of the people, can save the lives of the dynasty.

Now I am waiting for Xiao Jing to come back and report whether this mu yield is real.

But he was already inclined to the real thing.

At this moment, a sound of broken footsteps sounded, and a little eunuch bowed in, "Report to the emperor, Gonggong Xiao's reply is here." ”

"Let him in."

Soon, Xiao Jing walked into Kunning Palace with steps, and as soon as he entered, he knelt down without hesitation and made a big salute, and said loudly: "Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the queen, congratulations to His Royal Highness the prince, that mu is real!" ”

(End of chapter)