After listening to Xiao Zhengtai's words, everyone suddenly realized.
It seems to be true!
These animals are served by many people every day, and different foods are provided according to their living habits, which costs a lot of money!
From time to time, a few die of natural causes!
Releasing them into the forest can also increase the variety of animals, which is indeed much better than keeping them here!
Knowing the little guy's good intentions, Ying Zheng's anger gradually dissipated, "Well, I blamed you wrongly!"
Things took a turn for the worse, and the hopes that Li Si and others had just ignited were immediately extinguished.
"Your Majesty, releasing those precious animals back into the wild is indeed beneficial to my country, Great Qin, but the young master also killed some of them, which is unjustifiable. If there are a few more animals, they will breed even faster!"
Feng Jie refused to give up this opportunity and still grasped the mistakes of Xiao Zhengtai.
"Yes, the young master delayed the reproduction of the species in order to satisfy his own appetite!"
Zhao Cheng also echoed.
Even if this crime can't kill this kid, even if he is reprimanded, they will feel a lot better.
"I never do anything that harms the interests of Da Qin. The reason why I killed those animals is for the sake of Da Qin!"
The young lady still had that proud expression.
"Haha...! Young Master, please stop making excuses. When did eating become a consideration for Da Qin? If you put it this way, aren't we thinking about Da Qin every day?"
Li Xin suddenly burst out laughing as if he heard some joke.
However, the tense atmosphere had just eased and everyone was still adjusting their mood. No one agreed at all, and his laughter seemed very abrupt.
Finally, I shut my mouth in embarrassment!
"What I eat is different from what you eat! I eat it for the sake of the Qin Dynasty, but General Li eats it to make shit!"
"Pfft..."
"Ha ha……"
Xiao Zhengtai's words made the whole audience burst into laughter.
Making shit? This word is really appropriate!
"you……"
Li Xin's old face turned red with anger.
"Then we would like to hear the young master's reasons why eating those precious animals is for the sake of Great Qin?"
Li Si puffed out his chest and asked.
"Those animals are all alien species. God knows if they have toxins in their bodies. Could it be that foreign countries have ulterior motives in sending toxin-carrying animals to Daqin so that they can be combined with our native animals so that our country's animals can also be infected with toxins? Either the animals in our Daqin will get sick and die, or humans will catch the disease after preying on them!"
Xiao Zhengtai stared at Li Si with burning eyes and continued: "I will kill one of each animal, bleed it to test for poison, and after cooking it, test whether the soup is poisonous, and then test its meat. Only after confirming that it is non-toxic will I release it." Returning to nature would be a waste, so I will share the remaining meat with you. I would like to ask, Prime Minister, is there anything wrong in doing this?"
After saying this, everyone took a deep breath.
It turns out that these seemingly simple animals actually contain so many things that they didn't expect!
The young master has silently done so much for Da Qin!
If they hadn't come to harvest potatoes today, they might not even have noticed!
Li Xin rolled his eyes and lowered his head silently.
There is no way, there is really nothing to refute.
"Father, after my son released these animals into the wild, he saw that the land here was fertile, so he planted high-yielding plants such as potatoes and corn here, and ordered people to weed and catch insects. They are growing vigorously!"
Little Shota ran to the cornfield, peeled off the dried yellow husks of the corn and said with a smile.
"Corn? Let me see?"
Ying Zheng hurried over and observed carefully.
He had seen a lot of this thing planted in the yard when he was in Yunyang, but the leaves were still green at that time, but now they are yellow and dehydrated, which is obviously the look of mature plants.
"Corn is also a staple food. Its yield is slightly lower than that of potatoes, but it is also much higher than that of current corn!"
Even after various hybridizations of corn in later generations, the yield is still very low, let alone in this era.
"Come here, harvest quickly!"
Ying Zheng waved his hands behind him with a face full of joy.
"yes!"
The soldiers responded and immediately rushed in to harvest the corn as Xiaoshota told them.
These plants have been systematically improved to not only shorten the growth time, but also increase the yield!
"The peppers over there are also ripe. Pick them all. You will need them for all the hot pot and barbecue in the future!"
Xiao Zhengtai pointed to a field of red peppers not far away and said.
"yes!"
"Father, next is the potato!"
"Potato? Where is it? I just walked around and didn't see any shadow of Potato!"
Ying Zheng looked around in confusion.
If he remembered correctly, those potatoes were round and gray-black.
But the plants here are all red, yellow, and green, and there are no gray or black ones at all!
Xiao Zhengtai smiled without saying a word and threw a hoe directly, "Father, continue!"
Ying Zheng was so agile that he grasped the wooden handle of the hoe, "What does this mean?"
He knew what he had in his hand, but he didn't understand why he was given a hoe?
Isn’t this thing only used when plowing and weeding?
"Look!"
Little Shota walked to the green potato seedlings, looked at the exact location, and dug in with a hoe.
With another hard pull, the hoe broke out of the soil and brought out a pile of potatoes the size of an adult's fist.
These potatoes are densely packed together, and many of them are even attached to the potato sprouts!
"What? Potatoes grow in the ground?"
This undoubtedly surprised everyone present.
Who would have thought that potatoes are eaten from their roots?
Even if this thing is planted outside the palace, no one will probably pay attention to it, thinking it is just an ordinary weed!
"That's right!"
Little Shota picked the potatoes and threw them aside, then pulled out two more from the soil at their original location.
Zhang Han was curious about the potato yield, lifted up his robe, squatted on the ground and counted the number, "One, two, three... eleven, twelve?"
The higher the number goes, the higher the tone becomes, and he seems to be very shocked.
Little Shota looked at him like he was an idiot.
I have already said that after the yield of potatoes reached 3,000 kilograms per acre, why does this guy still have such a surprised expression?
"Fourteen, Your Majesty, this potato plant has produced fourteen...!"
Zhang Han was surprised and delighted. He weighed the potatoes and said, "Your Majesty, these potatoes add up to at least ten kilograms!"
"One plant weighs more than ten kilograms?"
Ying Zheng was also very excited after hearing this. He raised his head and looked at the small piece of potatoes and smiled, "Hurry up, come and dig potatoes!"
Now he couldn't wait to know how many fruits this patch of potatoes could produce. He picked up the hoe and started digging like the little shot just now.
Every time I dig out a potato, the excitement on my face is palpable.
"yes!"
The ministers received the order and all entered the training base.
But the hoe is limited, so they can only dig into the soil with their hands!
