Xu Yinyin didn't know what the emperor said. If she knew, she would definitely say: "Oh, the county boss or something, hurry up and give the order!" Put them all into her bowl!
Just because potatoes are grown!
Ha ha ha ha.
In Zhujiazhuang, Xu Chunshan specially moved an acre of land in February to plant potato seeds given by his daughter.
Now three months have passed and it's time to harvest potatoes.
Xu Chunshan specially invited Magistrate Ye and Manager Wu to go together.
Xu Yinyin sat in a carriage and followed to Zhujiazhuang, not afraid of the heat, to watch the potatoes being harvested with her own eyes.
Well, she would never admit that she was greedy for French fries, spicy and sour potato shreds, potato braised pork ribs...
Suck!
Can't wait, can't wait.
The benefits of the curtain were now revealed. The sun hat was not available in the sun. Xu Yinyin couldn't help but tied up her sleeves and got down to the ground.
Dig, dig, dig in the well-maintained ground, sowing potato seeds and growing potato flowers.
Digging and digging in the pleasant ground, I dug out potatoes that bloomed with laughter.
Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. With more people and greater strength, we harvested all the potatoes from an acre of land in half a day.
Xu Chunshan specially asked Magistrate Ye to send a small official in charge of collecting grains to weigh and calculate the output. The final result was that this acre of land could harvest more than 23 dan of potatoes!
Except Xu Chunshan and his daughter, everyone else was shocked!
At present, Dayan is the most mass-produced grain, and can only harvest more than three stones per acre.
This thing called potatoes can actually be harvested in so many quantities, several times more. If this is popularized and grown all over the country, even the poor will not be afraid of going hungry!
A group of people surrounded Xu Chunshan and asked various questions.
Especially Magistrate Ye, his face was filled with excitement.
His ancestors were all farmers, and his family suffered from famine when he was a child of Grandpa Taizu. When he was a child, he was often held in his lap by his grandfather and listened to his grandfather talk about the past.
Therefore, for him, having such a high yield of food is a blessing for the people, and he cannot but be excited!
He asked: "Master Xu, what is the name of this kind of grain? Why is the yield so high?"
Xu Chunshan replied: "I don't know either. My daughter accidentally dug this thing in the mountains. Look at the stem growing out of it, which is round and yellow. When washed, it looks like an egg.
I thought it was medicine!
Sir, you also know that my daughter loves to mess around, cut it up randomly, and tried boiling it as an ingredient for toothpaste. I thought I could make a new toothpaste variety, but I never thought of cooking it.
It's quite fragrant, even more fragrant than rice!
She was also courageous, so she tasted it, wow! This was incredible! The pink and waxy ones were more glutinous and fragrant than the yam! It was okay to eat it, it was really edible!
No, I took people up the mountain to the area and dug up all the stuff I could dig, and then I tried to plant it in this field. Who would have known, not only is this food delicious, but the yield is so high.
Woolen cloth!"
Xu Yinyin praised it without blinking, "Yes! Magistrate Ye, this thing is so delicious! It smells good!"
Lord Jiacheng Township loves to go to the mountains to pull flowers and plants when he has nothing to do. He has also heard about this. He heard that even when he went to Wolong Mountain to do official business among the Dongba people, he couldn't help itching his hands and dug up strange flowers and plants when he saw them.
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There are so many things in the mountains, so it's not surprising that Lord Jiacheng Township found this thing.
Magistrate Ye did not doubt Xu Chunshan's words. He was only troubled by the name. He didn't know the name, so how could he present it to the public?
"As Lord Jiacheng said, this thing does look like an egg, and it grows from the ground. Why not call it an egg?"
Ground egg?
Xu Yinyin and Xu Chunshan, who knew its real name, and Wu Guanshi and others who didn't know its real name, all twitched their mouths.
Magistrate Ye, after all, you are a second-ranked Jinshi, can't you choose a more elegant name?
Didan, Didan, it really doesn’t go well with you.
Xu Yinyin seemed to be inspired and answered: "I look at it like an enlarged soybean, and it grows in the soil. Why don't we just call it a potato?"
With Di Dan in front, Manager Wu agreed without hesitation, "Potatoes? Beans that grow in the soil. Beans are also food! That's right! The name is good, it's called potatoes. It's great!"
Xu Chunshan also laughed, "Potato! OK! Just call it potato!"
When Magistrate Ye heard this, he followed suit and said, "If you think about it carefully, the name Potato is indeed more suitable than Earth Egg!"
The name of the new grain was decided, and Magistrate Ye and Manager Wu pulled Xu Chunshan to ask for more details about potatoes.
Xu Chunshan pretended to be semi-informed and summed up his experience: "These potatoes are easy to grow. From sowing to harvesting, it only takes three months. I estimate that we can grow two in a year. As long as the weather is suitable, we have harvested now. By then
Sow again in autumn and harvest before winter, just right.
As for how to eat it, you can’t go wrong with cooking it! We’ve already cooked it, haven’t we? You can eat it any way you want, as long as it’s cooked. The yam is also dug from the soil, and the taro is also dug from the soil. No.
You can still eat them even if they are burned in the fire!"
"It doesn't matter how you eat it. If you can grow two crops in the important year, that one acre of land will yield a harvest of more than 40 dan per year. With so much food, you won't be afraid of starving to death even in a famine year!"
Magistrate Ye was very happy, "By the way, can these potatoes be stored? They won't go bad like other vegetables after being stored for a long time, right?"
Xu Chunshan waved his hand, "Of course it is grain that has such a high output! Can't the grain be stored? There are cellars in the north, so just store them in the cellar. Cabbages and radishes can be stored in the cellar for a whole winter, but potatoes can't be stored?"
There is no cellar in the south, so just dry it out and dig a hole in the shade of your house, out of the rain, and bury it in sand. It will be as if it is still growing in the soil. It can be put away! By then, every household will be able to eat these potatoes first.
Let’s eat! Why don’t we save the other food first?”
Magistrate Ye and Manager Wu said: You are an agricultural officer and you are right!
"Then, these potatoes, for such an important event that benefits the country and the people, should we offer them to you?"
Xu Chunshan cupped his hand and said, "Of course I have to offer it! All for the Emperor! For the people of Yan! Please give me your instructions to promote potatoes and benefit the country and the people!"
Magistrate Ye and Manager Wu looked at each other and left the matter to Magistrate Ye, the parent officer of Yiyang Prefecture.
At that moment, he selected the largest and best-growing potatoes, filled a basket full of them, and sent them to the capital together with a memorial from Magistrate Ye.
As for the rest, Xu Chunshan said, it must be planted as seeds! Just these potatoes may not be enough for the entire Yiyang Prefecture.
Magistrate Ye and Manager Wu had nothing to say. They each got a basket and that was it.
Xu Chunshan is right when he says that we need to save seeds. If we don’t save seeds, will we be able to redeem them when we plant them?
But it is necessary to stay and let your daughter eat to her satisfaction!
That night, Xu Yinyin ate the long-lost potato-braised pork ribs. It was so delicious that she almost cried. She finished three bowls of rice in a row, and was full in the end without any surprise.
Someone who was so full that he had to take a walk in the garden to digest his food. His stomach was so cramped that if he didn't let it go, he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
After two-quarters of an hour, there were so many mosquitoes that she couldn't stop them even after using mosquito repellent cream, so she hurried back to her courtyard.
I went back to the house, drank a bowl of hawthorn tea, and then went to a hut. Then I felt much better in my stomach.
I immediately took a shower, washed my hair, wrung it dry, went into the back room, and prepared to read for a while before going to bed.
When she returned to her room, she was not used to being waited on in the house. Xixin and the others who worked the night shift always slept in the wing outside.
After reading the book, she realized that it was getting late, so she closed the book, got up and walked to the bed. But before she could reach the bed, a sudden gust of wind hit her. She was unaware of where she was, and she didn't even have time to scream.