Potatoes require less water than rice.

Temperature requirements are also lower.

Chu Ze knows that Gansu has always been very suitable for growing rice.

It was not until later that climate change, which led to a decline in climate and precipitation, that it gradually became no longer suitable.

But in modern times, there are still many places in Gansu where rice is grown.

But the situation in Daming is different.

Climate ...... in Daming It's terrible.

It's either a big drought or a big flood, or an earthquake or a locust plague.

And rice can't withstand these tosses.

In comparison, potatoes have a lot of solid skin.

As long as the potatoes are popularized, even if the rice harvest in Gansu is out of order, and there are still potatoes, they will not go hungry.

Chu Ze said: "Even, if the development is good, you can also develop more potato products, such as potato chips, potato vermicelli, and potato starch and so on." ”

At that time, the people of Gansu will not only no longer have to worry about hunger, but will also be able to exchange money for money to improve their lives.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao listened, and there was a little yearning in their eyes.

After Chu Ze finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao got together and quickly discussed two sentences.

Then he raised his head and said to Chu Ze: "Just do as you say." ”

"But what are you talking about, potato vermicelli, how to do it?" The two fathers and sons of the Zhu family looked at Chu Ze in unison.

Potato promotion, they can do it completely.

But potato chips or something, they don't even know what they are.

You can't expect the people to study it themselves, right?

I have to be guided by Chu Ze.

Fortunately, it is not a difficult task.

Chu Ze patted his chest and promised: "It's a trivial matter." ”

Isn't it potato chips, isn't it just fans?

That's not a matter of holding a handful.

"But it takes some tools. Not so fast. Chu Ze said.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he immediately smiled.

He hurriedly waved his hand: "Go, go, you just do it." ”

Now Gansu is busy with disaster relief, and potatoes have not yet been promoted, so there is time for Chu Ze to toss.

Chu Ze nodded: "Okay." ”

The first thing he did when he left the imperial study, Chu Ze went straight to the test ground.

Take the potatoes and go.

As for Lao Li's problem, Chu Ze let them toss by themselves.

Back at home, Li Xing looked at the things he brought back, was surprised, and blurted out a sentence: "You're going to start planting potatoes?" ”

Chu Ze commanded the people to move the potatoes inside.

Hearing Li Xing's words, Chu Ze said in disgust: "What's the matter, can't we plant some potatoes yet?" ”

"......" Li Xing looked at the potatoes, then at Chu Ze, and shook his head, "Yes, but it's not necessary." "He has stayed in Yingtian for so long, and he has lived in Chu Mansion for a long time, so he still knows a little about Yingtian and Chu Ze.

These potatoes are grown by their own people, and Chu Ze is not needed at all.

Unless......

Li Xing jumped to Chu Ze's side in two steps, looked at him with burning eyes, and said, "Did you think of something good again?" ”

Chu Ze suddenly laughed.

"Clever." Chu Ze stretched out his hand, grabbed Li Xing's shoulders and walked in, and said mysteriously, "Let's make something special for you this time, I promise you haven't eaten it before." ”

Li Xing's eyes lit up.

Without Chu Ze to take it, he followed behind Chu Ze step by step.

Chu Ze asked Zhao Si to move the potatoes to the kitchen.

Then they had the potatoes all washed and peeled.

Several large baskets of potatoes are hundreds of catties.

The cooks of the entire Chu Mansion added up, and they had to be busy for a long time.

Chu Ze sat aside and watched.

His eyes kept falling on the cook's hand.

Lan Ruoyan on the side looked at him suspiciously, and then at the cook.

"Brother Chu Ze, what are you looking at?"

Peeling potatoes, what's so nice about it?

Lan Ruoyan couldn't figure it out.

Li Xing saw Chu Ze's thoughtful face, and knew that he must have thought of something again.

Seeing that Lan Ruoyan was about to reach out to push him, Li Xing hurriedly made it.

"Don't bother him, he's thinking about things." Li Xing said.

Lan Ruoyan let out an "oh" when she heard this, and obediently took her hand back.

After a while, they saw Chu Ze suddenly put down the refreshments and got up to leave without saying a word.

Lan Ruoyan's gaze kept following Chu Ze.

Hearing Li Xing say that Chu Ze thought of something, he didn't catch up.

But looking at Chu Ze's hurried departure, she still couldn't help asking, "Sister Xingyue, what is Brother Chu Ze thinking, so fascinated." "I walked away without saying a word.

Li Xing didn't know either.

Probably only when Chu Ze takes out the things will they know.

Li Xing shook his head and pulled Lan Ruoyan to continue playing the game.

After Chu Ze left the kitchen, he went straight to the study.

Li Xing was right, he did think of something again.

And this time, what he thought of was not a weapon, nor something very stakesome.

Rather, it's a small, and, in the future, something that almost every family has – a paring knife.

Just now he saw that the cook in his house was still using a knife when peeling.

Although their knife work is good, the skin that comes out is very thin.

But the knife work is good, after all, it is a minority.

At the time of sharpening, there are definitely more people injured.

And peeling with a knife is not as convenient as using a paring knife.

So, he was ready to make a paring knife out.

Paring knives are easy to make.

The simplest is made of wire.

A slightly thicker wire, hammer the middle flattened, sharpen one side in front, and then add a stopper, plus a tail, the simplest paring knife is successful.

Chu Ze also wants an advanced version.

Similar to the modern one, the kind that can be sharpened on both sides by pinching the handle.

He drew drawings of both paring knives and sent them to his factory, which was responsible for making all kinds of iron tools, so that they could make one more quickly.

These are all excellent objects.

It didn't take an hour for it to be delivered to him.

At this time, the cooks had not finished peeling the potatoes.

Chu Ze took the paring knife and walked over happily: "Come, let you see the more convenient peeling artifact." ”

Hearing Chu Ze's voice, everyone got up and got out of the way.

Lan Ruoyan, Li Xing and others also came over.

"Brother Chu Ze, what did you invent again?" Before Lan Ruoyan arrived, the voice came first.

Cheerful and lively, like a lark in the mountains.

Chu Ze bent his eyes and beckoned to her.

When she came over, Chu Ze flashed the paring knife at her and said, "This is called a paring knife, which is specially used to peel potatoes and radishes." Come, let's show you. ”

Chu Ze motioned for Lan Ruoyan to sit down beside him, and the others consciously gathered around.

He picked up a potato and began to peel it with a paring knife.

Paring knives are lighter than knives and are more flexible.

Soon, the skin of the potatoes fell evenly from Chu Ze's fingers.

Everyone looked at this scene and showed surprised expressions.

In just a moment, Chu Ze peeled a potato.

The current potatoes are not as regular as the shape of the future, and those pitted places have also been cut away by Chu Ze with the small round flakes on the tail of the paring knife.

Finally, a cleanly peeled potato appeared in front of everyone. (End of chapter)