The First Family of the Tang Dynasty Chapter 3016 I'm afraid that my father-in-law will be embarrassing in front of everyone, so I want to make a point
Chapter 3016 I'm afraid that my father-in-law will be embarrassing in front of everyone, so I want to make a point
Xu Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, who was ordered to accompany him to supervise the harvesting process, was so excited that he greeted Li Shimin and his party who were walking towards them.
"Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, the three acres of potatoes have been harvested."
"And the yield per mu of land exceeds 5,000 catties. The highest yield is in field No. 4. The total harvest of potatoes is 5,532 catties and 32.7 cents..."
"Three acres of land, a total of sixteen thousand and seventy-three pounds of potatoes, eighty-two cents..."
Li Shimin and a group of civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty listened to the report of Xu Shilang, and their eyes were all focused on the mountain-like pile of sacks.
"Three acres of land, this is just the output of three acres of land. Chu Bi Xian-son, you are the governor of Liaodong Prefecture, how many fields does Liaodong Prefecture have?"
"My father-in-law, if we look at Liaodong Prefecture alone, there are about 1.8 million acres of cultivated land. If the entire Liaodong Prefecture is under its jurisdiction, that is nearly 4 million acres."
"If all four million acres are planted with potatoes, the yield per acres will be..."
Li Shimin grinned. The number was too large and he couldn't calculate it mentally.
Not to mention Li Shimin, even Cheng Sanlang was shocked when his father-in-law asked this question.
If the current average output is 5,000 kilograms and four million acres, wouldn't it be like 10 million tons? Ten million tons is enough to feed the entire population of the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, this is only counting staple foods, not grains, oils, non-staple foods and various poultry, livestock and meat.
There were quite a few people present like Cheng Sanlang who were quick in calculations, and they were also deeply shocked by this number.
After all, they have already experienced whether potatoes are a staple food, and they know very well that the taste and texture of this staple food are acceptable to most people.
At this moment, an official next to him couldn't help but put on a posture of caring about the country and the people.
"If we plant too much, wouldn't it mean that the low price of the grain would hurt the farmers..."
Hearing this beeping sound, all the civil and military personnel looked at this guy in unison, saying, "What a god!"
Li Shimin also frowned slightly and glanced at the son-in-law Chu Bi who had a gloomy expression next to him.
But he did not reprimand him, but smiled calmly and spoke leisurely.
"It is only because of God's blessing that our country, the Tang Dynasty, can obtain such crops with an yield of several thousand kilograms per acre."
"Now the Tang Dynasty is working hard to develop Liaodong, but Liaodong is bitterly cold. With these potatoes, the people who migrated here can be fed..."
Following Li Shimin's affirmation, all the ministers and ministers nodded in agreement.
Over the years, Datang has been working hard to increase grain production. Why? It's not because the population is growing very fast.
Especially after the last Luoyang Incident, the few aristocratic families that were wiped out, and hundreds of thousands of hidden households and runaway households were identified.
This really shocked the world, and the imperial court took this opportunity to start a comprehensive cleanup of hidden households and escapees.
The king of Qi, Li Ke, was stationed in Qingzhou, which was a major step in the comprehensive cleanup of Shandong's hidden households and escaped households.
If you want to accommodate these extra people, you will need new unclaimed land.
And the fertile black land in Liaodong is like a warm pillow delivered in time.
Li Shimin continued to ask about the yields of various other crops. When he heard that the yield of sweet potatoes was more than two thousand kilograms and close to three thousand kilograms, he was also delighted.
Cheng Sanlang happily brought up the steamed sweet potatoes. This kind of sweet potatoes was carefully selected by Cheng Sanlang and was also his favorite variety: purple heart sweet potatoes.
This variety is Cheng Sanlang's favorite. He has loved eating this kind of sweet potato since he was a child, which tastes like chestnuts, is doughy and sweet.
Moreover, this kind of sweet potato is called sweet potato in the beautiful Southwest, and it is also a quite common variety in the Southwest.
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After all, to appreciate the harvest, you only need to appreciate the potatoes with the highest yield. These sweet potatoes go directly to the finished product.
After skimming off the thin outer skin of steamed purple-heart sweet potatoes, the flesh color on the outside is white with a hint of purple, and the closer it gets to the center, the more purple it becomes.
Just as the harvest was finished, more than an hour had passed since breakfast time. After Li Shimin took one, he took off the outer skin and took a bite. Oops, it tastes really good.
Soon, all the important civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty were very happy with the meal and praised it repeatedly.
"Not bad, not bad. It tastes like roasted chestnuts with sugar. It's fragrant, sweet, and very noodles."
"It's delicious. Come on, come on, give me another one. This kind of sweet potato tastes better than potatoes."
"My uncle is right. This kind of sweet potato is also excellent for cooking purple sweet potato porridge.
And after drying the sweet potatoes, you can eat them anytime you want, just put them in the pot and steam them, and they taste so good..."
Seeing a group of people eating happily again, Cheng Sanlang was so happy that he whispered something into his father-in-law's ear.
Li Shimin nodded with deep understanding. "Okay, okay, you go quickly. I should join these Yin Shang survivors who have gone through many hardships and dangers and contributed these crops to the Tang Dynasty..."
"Yes, my son-in-law will go over there first and will be back in a while. By the way, father-in-law, although these sweet potatoes are good, don't eat too much. I heard they increase gas."
After all, the purple-heart sweet potatoes were steamed directly after being harvested today, and Cheng Sanlang hadn't had a chance to taste them yet.
But fortunately, he still remembered the shortcoming of eating sweet potatoes that makes him bloated and prone to flatulence. He was afraid of embarrassing his father-in-law, so he reminded him before leaving.
In his impression, among sweet potato varieties, the probability of purple-heart sweet potatoes to become gassy is far higher than that of red-heart sweet potatoes and yellow-heart sweet potatoes.
Cheng Sanlang winked at Li Dejiang, and the two of them walked hand in hand towards the distance.
Seeing Cheng Sanlang leaving, Li Shimin pursed his lips without hesitation. Forget it, I will just eat another one and stop eating. After all, it is too rare for food to have the same taste as sugar-roasted chestnuts.
Fang Jun was greeting the stewards at the moment. The potatoes harvested from these three acres of land must be carefully selected to leave enough potato seeds for planting next year.
According to the experience of the survivors of the Yin Shang Dynasty and the requirements of Cheng Sanlang, each acre of land requires about three hundred kilograms of potato seeds.
Ten acres of land requires about three thousand kilograms. According to Cheng Sanlang's previous calculations, a total of four acres of potato harvesting can be planted on about forty to fifty acres of land.
As long as we wait until next year, after the potato harvest in those 40 or 50 acres of land is harvested, and then promote potato cultivation on a large scale in one or two years, there will no longer be any problems.
It was also the first time for Qin Huaidao to taste such delicious food. He devoured it and had to drink a sip of water from time to time.
There is no way, this purple heart sweet potato contains less water, and if you eat too much, your mouth will become dry and difficult to swallow.
After a short meeting, under the leadership of Cheng Sanlang and Li Dejiang, a team of Yin Shang remnants' envoys in full attire walked quickly towards this side, holding the specialties they had brought from the Yin Shang Continent.