Chapter 197: Potatoes Are Cooked! The significance of potatoes to Daming!
May.
It's a busy time for Beiping.
Zhu Di, the king of Yan, personally led the main force of iron cavalry to attack the important town of Xuanfu Datong in northern Xinjiang.
And the people who stayed in Beiping were not idle, collecting intelligence, transporting grain and grass, and developing people's livelihood.
However, Xishan is extremely busy today, Monk Daoyan and Changshi Jinzhong, and even Zhang Hao, the political envoy of Beiping, rushed over, under the leadership of the big fat Zhu Gaochi, his eyes were blazing at the green seedlings of dozens of acres of land.
Yan Shizi told them that Su Yang was cultivating a high-yield grain crop that could produce thirty stones per mu!
As soon as they heard this shocking news, Dao Yan, Jin Zhong and Zhang Hao immediately put down everything in their hands and rushed to Xishan in a hurry.
Thirty stones per mu, what is the concept?
Whether it is the monk Daoyan, Jin Zhongchangshi, or the political envoy Zhang Yu, they have all seen the difficult and difficult life of the low-level people, and they also have an understanding of agricultural affairs.
The north is mainly planted with wheat, but a young and strong man, cultivating one acre of land, can get more than 200 catties of wheat at most, that is, one or two stones!
Therefore, if a family in the north wants to maintain food and clothing, if it does not cultivate thirty or fifty acres of land, it will be difficult for several people in this family to be hungry.
Rice yields in the south are higher, but only limited.
Ordinary rice is average, but the yield per mu is only about 400 catties, that is, about two or three stones.
A family in the south does not have ten acres of paddy fields, and it is impossible to survive even if it is thought of.
This is the staple food of the people of the Ming Dynasty in the north and south, the wheat yield per mu in the north is one or two stones, and the rice yield in the south is three or four stones per mu.
It is precisely because of the low production that there are so many hungry people.
But now, Zhu Gaochi actually told them that Su Yang was cultivating a grain crop that could produce thirty stones per mu!
What the hell is this...... How can it be?
Thirty stones per mu!
That's more than 3,000 pounds!
Its yield is ten times that of rice in the south and twenty times that of wheat in the north!
How can there be such a high-yield food crop in this world?
It is not an exaggeration to call it a social artifact.
Almost subconsciously, none of the three wanted to believe it.
If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Gaochi was Yan Shizi, they would have slapped him in the face and woke him up.
However, the person who said this was Zhu Gaochi, the son of Yan Shizi.
And the person who cultivated this artifact of the society is Su Yang, an immortal!
Based on the special identities of the two of them, Dao Yan, Jin Zhong and Zhang Yu hurried over.
What if, what if, it was true?
What if Su Yang, the immortal, brought them another big surprise?
Once this thought grows in my mind, it grows like a weed, and it is difficult to get rid of it, and it is even more exciting!
At this moment, outside the greenhouse, the three of them looked at the glazed ceiling, and they were a little dumbfounded.
No wonder Yan Shizi was so aggressive before, and directly grabbed the glazed windows in the mansion in Beiping Ming, it turned out to be to cultivate this Sheji artifact!
If it can really succeed, then these glasses can be regarded as making the best use of things!
Walking into the greenhouse, he saw Su Yang leaning over to observe those potato seedlings, and Chu Xiong and the other five hundred forbidden troops followed him.
What is shocking is that these five hundred forbidden troops have already changed their appearance, and they can see that Dao Yan and the others are frowning.
Is this still the original Son of Heaven forbidden army?
How can you be like a beggar?
I saw that Chu Xiong and the others had already taken off their iron armor and changed into coarse linen clothes, which was to facilitate their work.
But after working in the field for a long time, the coarse linen clothes were naturally worn out, so now they look really ragged, unkempt, and even covered with mud stars from head to toe, and they are all mud legs!
They're forbidden troops!
A brave tiger selected from the world's soldiers!
How did you become like this after not seeing each other for a while?
Without waiting for them to ask, Su Yang also noticed the person who came, and suddenly wondered.
"Uncle, you are ......"
"Ahem, I heard that the potatoes are cooked, so I'll take these adults with me to take a look."
Zhu Gaochi's face was not red, and he explained without a heartbeat: "Brother-in-law, you also know that this potato is too important, so it's really unreassuring if you don't see it with your own eyes!"
When Su Yang heard this, he didn't think much about it.
"Okay, then we'll watch."
According to the records of the forbidden army soldiers, Su Yang found a test field.
I saw a large area of potato seedlings densely packed, and the growth was very gratifying.
Chu Xiong was a little excited at the moment, and looked at Su Yang with a fanatical expression, as if he was waiting for his order.
Su Yang nodded, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and directly bent down and squatted.
"Don't worry, I'll dig it myself!"
Su Yang didn't feel dirty, and directly stretched out his hands to pick up the soil on it, and soon fist-sized potatoes came into everyone's eyes!
When the potatoes were first cultivated, those potatoes were cut into dozens of pieces, and they entered these experimental fields, and with Chu Xiong and five hundred armor soldiers taking care of them, they finally blossomed and bore fruit today.
Su Yang carefully dug out a potato and put it in his hand, as if he was holding a gold ingot, he cherished it incomparably!
Potatoes are placed in Daming, which is really a gold ingot, or more than a thousand times more valuable than a gold ingot!
Because gold ingots can't be eaten, but potatoes can be used as a staple food for the people to eat!
National events, money and food!
Food is the foundation of every dynasty's solid rule!
Nowadays, Daming's grain output is outrageously low, and with the advent of the Xiaoice River period, natural disasters have continued year after year, and grain production has been greatly reduced, how can we feed the tens of millions of people in Daming?
As a result, the hungry people began to appear, as the hungry people became more and more homeless, and the imperial court was unable to provide disaster relief, and finally they would gather in the mountains and forests to gather people to make trouble, and then vent all their anger on the imperial court, so that the huge Ming Empire finally collapsed!
But now with this potato, the meaning is completely different!
Potatoes yield 10 times more than rice and 20 times more than wheat!
This means that ten acres of land and twenty acres of land can only feed a family, but now only one acre or two acres of land are needed!
What is the extra land for, is it empty and desolate?
That must be growing food!
With potatoes, Daming's grain production will be raised to a new level, enough to feed more people and give birth to more people!
Of course, Su Yang also knew in his heart that with the current productivity of the Ming Dynasty, it was not possible to really make the potato yield of 30 stones per mu, but as long as the potato yield could increase by three or five times compared with the current rice and wheat, it would be enough to shock the world and solve the most deadly food shortage problem in the Ming Dynasty!
As soon as the first batch of potatoes matures, they can be used as grain for the next batch of production!
When the number of potatoes is large enough, it can be promoted from Xishan!
When potatoes are all over the Ming Dynasty, a new era will come!
This is the meaning of potatoes to Daming!
Smashing can smash out a prosperous world!
Sheji artifact is not in vain!