Chapter eight hundred and ninety-eight to benefit the common people again?
Chapter 898: Benefiting the common people again?
Second Elder Wu Tong, Bald Long Jian Yao Yun, and Han Bao Empress all looked excited and inexplicable, and the two of them were even more confused.
Who am I, where am I, what happened?
"Your Majesty, what is this? Why are you and your wife so excited?"
The second elder Wu Tong pointed to the sweet potato in Yao Yun's hand, looked at it carefully, and was very curious.
Yao Yun calmed down his inner excitement, smiled at the second elder Wu Tong, Bald Dragon, and introduced: "This is called sweet potato, also known as sweet potato. It is a high-yielding crop. Its leaves can be used to feed livestock and its roots can be used for cooking.
, the roots growing in the soil can be used as food to satisfy hunger, which is what I am holding in my hand, this is a really good treasure!"
Say it, Yao Yun handed two sweet potatoes in his hand to one person and one dragon.
"This sweet potato tastes very good, fragrant and sweet."
The second elder, Wu Tong, bald dragon nodded doubtfully. He was very curious about the ugly-looking thing that was still stained with dirt and looked up and down.
"Yao Yun'er is right, sweet potatoes taste great, sweet and delicious." Hanba empress tasted it herself and nodded in agreement. Xu found it herself and felt a great sense of accomplishment. Now she thinks sweet potatoes are the most delicious in the world.
One of the things to eat.
"How to eat?" the bald dragon asked.
"You can eat it roasted or steamed. There are many ways to eat it." Yao Yun said without hesitation the most common way to eat sweet potatoes. After thinking about it, Yao Yun looked at Hanbao Empress: "Empress, do you have a lot of sweet potatoes?
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The empress seemed to have guessed what Yao Yun was thinking, and said: "Don't worry, I dug a lot, even the vines and roots. You can taste it without worry."
Let me tell you, my mother-in-law has the same skill. Soon, a lot of sweet potatoes appeared on the ground, and there were even several large clods of soil with several fresh sweet potato plants growing in them.
When Yao Yun saw it, he was slightly startled, and immediately burst into laughter. The empress was really domineering, and she even brought back the sweet potato field.
Be particular!
With so many sweet potatoes, Yao Yun no longer worried about the seeds. He selected four sweet potatoes that were small, damaged, and unsuitable for seeds. He prepared them and gave them to the cook of the witch temple, and ordered her to pick them up and place them in the kitchen fire pit.
bake.
But as soon as Yao Yun opened her mouth, Empress Hanba stopped her and took the sweet potato. The fire in her hand was blazing and she wrapped the sweet potato.
Generally speaking, once the divine fire is burned, the sweet potato will immediately turn into ashes, but the empress has magical powers and can control the flames to an abnormal degree.
In the blink of an eye, the sweet potatoes were cooked, but the surface was not damaged at all, just slightly yellowed and slightly wrinkled!
"It's great, but it's a pity that it lacks the fun of roasting sweet potatoes and has no soul!"
Yao Yun complained a little in his heart.
On the other side, Hanbao Empress distributed the sweet potatoes to Yao Yun, the second elder Wu Tong, and Bald Long.
"Thank you for the reward, my queen!"
The second elder, Wu Tong, was "flattered" by the bald dragon. Empress Hanba was the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven and the founder of the Xia Dynasty. It would be a great blessing to have her roast and eat her own food!
However, one person and one dragon had already been extremely curious about sweet potatoes, and before they had time to get excited, they all picked up the sweet potatoes and ate them.
"Mmm~ It smells so good! So sweet, delicious, really delicious!"
"Hmm~ delicious food, it's really a delicious food. It doesn't look very good, but I didn't expect it to taste so delicious."
The sweet potatoes that had just been roasted were very hot, and the Bald Dragon was okay, with rough skin and thick flesh, and was not afraid of swimming in the sea of fire, but the second elder Wu Tong was not good, and he grunted while eating, but he gave a thumbs up on his hand.
Full of praise.
"I've eaten, Yao Yun boy, you can eat it." On the other side, Hanbao Empress gave the other two sweet potatoes to Yao Yun.
"Thank you, ma'am."
Yao Yun thanked him, but he didn't eat it. Instead, he called a palace guard and ordered him to send two sweet potatoes to Qingqiu Palace for Liusu and Hengniang to taste. They had never eaten them before, so they must be very happy. like!
Hanbao Empress looked at this scene and admired this young man more and more. Her eyes were full of kindness: "Yao Yun, my dear, there are a lot of sweet potatoes here. Let me bake another one for you."
Yao Yun shook his head and refused: "No, these sweet potatoes look good and are suitable for use as seeds. It is better to give them to Jiang He and Jiang Miao and let them breed them. As long as they are cultivated, you can eat as much as you want in the future."
The empress nodded slightly and said nothing more, but her eyes became softer and softer.
"Your Majesty, I still have half of the old man here." One man and one dragon remembered something and immediately offered the sweet potatoes in their hands.
In his last life, Yao Yun ate a lot of sweet potatoes when he was a child, and he got tired of them a long time ago. He immediately smiled and shook his head: "This is what the empress gave you. How can you let down the kindness of the empress? I see that you like it very much, so feel free to eat it. Sweet potatoes are a high-yielding crop. They are rare now, but in the future they will be so plentiful that they won’t even want to eat them!”
"Haha~ Thank you, Your Majesty, Thank you so much, Your Majesty~ Your Majesty, you said this sweet potato has a high yield. Just how high-yield is it? Is it even higher yield than hybrid rice?" Wu Tong, the second elder, did not delay any longer and smiled curiously as he ate the sweet and delicious sweet potato. road.
"Well, these sweet potatoes are extremely high-yielding. A yield of thirty or forty jin per mu is not a problem. If the yield is high, a yield of 10,000 jin per mu is not a dream!" Yao Yun talked eloquently.
"Hiss~ So productive?"
The second elder, Wu Tong, exclaimed in surprise, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Even Hanbao Empress was a little surprised. Yao Yun told her before that this crop called "sweet potato" is extremely high-yielding, with an output of dozens of dan per mu.
At that time, Empress Hanba also suspected that Yao Yun was bragging, but she did not expect that Yao Yun was still conservative at that time. Ten thousand catties is about one hundred dan, and the grain yield of one hundred dan per mu has never been heard of in the world.
"Your Majesty, are you kidding me?" The bald dragon has blessed both sides of the Chishui River with good weather and good weather over the years. He has a certain understanding of farming. The yield of five or six stones per mu is incredible, let alone one hundred stones per mu. It's simply appalling.
Yao Yun nodded solemnly: "I will definitely not be able to reach the output of one hundred shi per mu at the beginning, but I don't care about dozens of shi per mu!"
"Sweet potatoes can satisfy hunger, so can they become a staple food?" Second Elder Wu Tong had a unique vision and quickly asked the key point.
Yao Yun nodded: "Sweet potatoes can be a staple food, but they are not as good as rice. Wheat and millet nourish people. Eating too much can cause heartburn and make you intolerant of hunger. If it is used as a staple food, it is more difficult to store than rice."
After everyone heard this, they suddenly realized that there is no perfect thing in the world. Although sweet potatoes are good, they are not as good as the heavenly grains in some aspects.
"Of course, the advantages of sweet potato are obvious. It is extremely cold-resistant, resistant to barrenness, and very high-yielding. It can be planted in the sandy land in our mountains, the northern wasteland, and the dry land in the western wasteland. It is rare to have a failed harvest. In a disaster year, it will be very good." But there are countless people alive.
Nowadays, the world is about to be in trouble, and disasters will inevitably continue in the future. Then it will be time for Hongshu to make meritorious deeds."
After Yao Yun finished speaking, his eyes fell on Empress Hanba and said: "Empress, you have benefited the common people again this time!"
Empress Hanba listened carefully to Yao Yun's introduction of sweet potatoes. When she heard about the benefits to the people, she felt excited. Years of running around were not in vain. The effects of sweet potatoes were far beyond her imagination!
If there are really countless people alive in Hongshu in the future, doesn't that mean...she is expected to completely break the shackles of heaven and earth?