May.
This is a busy time for Peking.
King Yan Zhu Di personally led the main force of the cavalry to attack Datong, an important town in northern Xinjiang in Xuanfu.
And the people who stayed in Peiping were not idle either, collecting information, transferring food and grass, and developing people's livelihood.
However, Xishan was extremely busy today. Monk Dao Yan, Chang Shi Jinzhong, and even Zhang Bing, the chief envoy of Peking, all rushed over. Under the leadership of the fat Zhu Gaochi, they looked at the dozens of acres of land with ardent eyes. Green seedlings.
Prince Yan told them that Su Yang was cultivating a high-yielding grain crop that could produce thirty shi per mu!
As soon as they heard this shocking news, Dao Yan, Jin Zhong and Zhang Bing immediately dropped everything in their hands and rushed to Xishan.
What is the concept of thirty shi per mu?
Whether it is Monk Daoyan, Changshi Jin Zhong, or Chief Envoy Zhang Bing, they have all seen with their own eyes the difficult and difficult life of the people at the bottom, and they all have an understanding of farming.
In the north, wheat is mainly grown, but a young and strong man can get at most more than two hundred kilograms of wheat from one acre of land, which is only one or two stones!
Therefore, if a family in the north wants to maintain food and clothing, if they do not cultivate 30 to 50 acres of land, it will be difficult for several members of the family to have enough to eat.
The rice yield in the south is higher, but the yield is limited.
On average, ordinary rice yields only about 400 kilograms per mu, which is about two or three shi.
A family in the south does not have ten acres of paddy field, so it is impossible for them to survive even if they think about it.
This is the staple food for the people of the Ming Dynasty in the north and south. Wheat in the north yields one or two shi per mu, and rice in the south yields three or four shi per mu.
It is precisely because of the low output that there are so many hungry refugees.
But now, Zhu Gaochi actually told them that Su Yang was cultivating a food crop that could yield thirty shi per mu!
How the hell is this possible?
The yield per mu is thirty stones!
That’s more than three thousand kilograms!
Its yield is ten times that of rice in the south and twenty times that of wheat in the north!
How could there be such high-yielding food crops in this world?
It is no exaggeration to call it an artifact of Sheji.
Almost subconsciously, none of the three people wanted to believe it.
If it weren't for Zhu Gaochi being the Crown Prince of Yan, they would have slapped him and woke him up.
However, the person who said this was the Prince of Yan, Zhu Gaochi.
The person who cultivated this divine weapon was the banished immortal Su Yang!
Based on their special identities, Dao Yan, Jin Zhong and Zhang Bing hurried over.
What if, what if it's true?
What if Su Yang, the banished immortal, brings them another huge surprise?
Once this idea sprouts in the mind, it grows like a weed and can never be eliminated. It makes people so excited that they can't control themselves!
At this moment, outside the greenhouse, the three of them were dumbfounded as they looked at the glass ceilings.
No wonder Prince Yan went to war so violently before and directly snatched the glazed windows in other people's mansions in Beiping. It turned out that he was cultivating this artifact!
If it can really succeed, then these colored glazes will be put to good use!
When he walked into the greenhouse, he saw Su Yang leaning over to observe the potato seedlings, with Chu Xiong and five hundred forbidden troops following behind him.
What is shocking is that these five hundred forbidden troops have already changed their appearance, making Dao Yan and others frown.
Is this still the emperor's forbidden army?
Why are you like a beggar?
I saw that Chu Xiong and others had long since taken off their armor and put on coarse linen clothes. This was to make it easier for them to work.
However, after working in the fields for a long time, the coarse linen clothes were naturally worn away, so now they look really ragged, unkempt, and even covered with mud stars from head to toe. They look like they have mud legs!
They are the forbidden troops of the imperial court!
The brave tiger warrior selected from all the soldiers in the world!
Why did it look like this after not seeing each other for a while?
Before they could ask, Su Yang also noticed the person coming and suddenly felt a little puzzled.
"Uncle, what are you..."
"Ahem, I heard that the potatoes are ripe, so I brought these adults to have a look."
Zhu Gaochi didn't blush and explained without a heartbeat: "Brother-in-law, you also know that these potatoes are too important, so it is really uneasy to not see them with your own eyes!"
When Su Yang heard this, he didn't think much about it.
"Okay, then just watch from the side."
Su Yang found a test field based on the records of the Forbidden Army soldiers.
I saw a large area of potato seedlings densely packed and growing very gratifyingly.
Chu Xiong was a little excited at the moment, looking at Su Yang feverishly, as if waiting for his order.
Su Yang nodded, suppressing his inner excitement, and bent down directly.
"Don't worry, I'll dig it myself!"
Su Yang didn't mind it being dirty, so he stretched out his hands to peel away the soil on it, and soon fist-sized potatoes came into view!
When potatoes were first cultivated, those few potatoes were cut into dozens of pieces and moved into these experimental fields. Chu Xiong and five hundred soldiers took care of them carefully. Today they finally blossomed and bore fruit.
Su Yang carefully dug out a potato and put it in his hand, as if holding a gold ingot, cherishing it extremely!
If potatoes were placed in the Ming Dynasty, they would be really gold ingots, or more than a thousand times more valuable than gold ingots!
Because gold ingots cannot be eaten, but potatoes can be used as a staple food for the people!
National affairs, money and food are two words!
Food is the foundation of every dynasty's stable rule!
Nowadays, the grain output of the Ming Dynasty is appallingly low. With the advent of the Little Ice Age, natural disasters have continued in successive years, and grain production has been greatly reduced. How can we feed the tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty?
As a result, hungry refugees began to appear. As the number of hungry refugees increased and the court was unable to provide relief, they would eventually gather in the mountains and forests to cause chaos, until they rose up and vented all their anger on the court, causing the huge Ming Empire to collapse. Finally collapsed!
But now that we have this potato, the meaning is completely different!
Potato yield is ten times that of rice and twenty times that of wheat!
This means that in the past, ten acres of land and twenty acres of land could feed a family, but now only one or two acres of land is enough!
What are we going to do with the extra land? Is it left empty and uncultivated?
It must be growing food!
With potatoes, the Ming Dynasty's grain production will be raised to a whole new level, enough to feed more people and give birth to more people!
Of course, Su Yang also knew that with the current productivity of the Ming Dynasty, it was not possible to achieve a potato yield of thirty dan per mu. But as long as the potato yield could increase three to five times that of current rice and wheat, it would be enough to shock the world. Solving the most deadly food shortage problem in the Ming Dynasty!
As the first batch of potatoes matures, they can be used as grain seeds immediately and put into the next batch of production!
When the number of potatoes is large enough, we can promote it from Xishan!
When potatoes spread all over the Ming Dynasty, a new era will come!
This is what potatoes mean to Ming Dynasty!
If you smash it, you can create a prosperous Ming Dynasty!
The divine weapon of Sheji is not an empty name!
