When the master chef of the Imperial Kitchen went to Xiao Luo to learn how to cook, he learned several ways to make potatoes.
They were also very satisfied with the taste of the potatoes, but after returning to the palace, it was difficult for the clever woman to cook without rice, and there were no potatoes for them to operate.
Today, such an opportunity finally came.
Fried shredded potatoes, roasted pork with potatoes, mashed potatoes, etc. are all naturally arranged.
There are also potato shredded burritos, baked potatoes and spicy potato chips that cannot be missed.
So when these dishes containing potatoes were served, the civil and military officials realized that they had just thought too much about whether the lumps dug out of the soil were edible and whether they were delicious.
However, everyone still has a potato boiled in plain water in front of them. After all, many people cannot have so many seasonings and efforts to make potatoes in various ways. It is estimated that the most common potatoes they can eat are potatoes boiled in plain water.
But even this potato boiled in plain water made many ministers' eyes turn red after eating it.
Especially Niu Jinda, wiping his nose and tears with his sleeve while gnawing potatoes.
"Well... why couldn't this... this thing... couldn't have come to the Tang Dynasty a few years earlier?"
Cheng Zhijie sat next to him and patted his shoulder to express comfort.
Both of them had participated in the rebel army in Wagang. At that time, wars broke out frequently in the world.
Even though Niu Jinda's great-grandfather was the Shangzhu Kingdom of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, his family was already in ruins by his father's time.
Later, his old mother almost starved to death, so she was so excited when she saw the thousand kilograms of grain produced per acre.
Although the potatoes produced this time are not too many, as long as the potatoes produced in this batch can be used for breeding, Datang's grain output will definitely usher in an explosive growth next year.
Soon the potato farms around Chang'an were surrounded by troops, and all these potatoes would be taken back for breeding.
And local governments also began to provide disaster relief.
The main thing is to provide relief through work. The government will open porridge shacks, but only the elderly and children can receive enough food from the porridge shacks, and they must be eaten on site.
Adults have to dredge rivers, repair roads and other tasks assigned by the government in order to obtain enough food.
Of course, the dried powder of caught locusts can also be exchanged for part of the food.
In addition, half of the chickens and ducks distributed by the government in the previous period were returned to the government for disaster relief, and the other half was left to the people for them to handle on their own.
Under various disaster relief measures, although the production in the fields has been reduced, the impact on the lives of the people of Datang has not been too great. At least they can still have enough to eat this year.
After all, the Tang Dynasty has almost emptied its wealth to deal with this locust plague. This can be said to be the most difficult year for the Tang Dynasty.
If Tang Ping hadn't discovered in advance that the locust plague was coming, and planned a series of countermeasures with Fang Du and others, this locust plague would never have been so easy to deal with.
If you look at the locust plague in the early years of Zhenguan in history, you will know that the Tang Dynasty in history was much richer than the Tang Dynasty today, but it was still very distressed. Even Li Shimin had to eat locusts as an example to show resistance. The determination of the locust plague.
"This time, Tang Ping took the greatest credit!" In the Xiande Hall at night, Li Shimin sighed with great emotion after reading the disaster reports sent from various places.
Large-scale locust plagues have occurred countless times in history. There are dozens of records in history books. In every case, the land was spread thousands of miles away and the people were displaced.
This time, although Datang invested a lot in the early stage, as long as Datang gets through this year and has potatoes, food will naturally no longer be a constraint.
Moreover, the development of industry and commerce mentioned by Fang Du after he came back last time was also approved by him. Now workshops are being built in the south of Chang'an.
So after surviving this year, he believes that Datang will be different next year.
He took the globe from the table and turned it around slightly, then used the brush on his hand to mark a circle on the location of the Turks.
In the surrounding countries, the Turks are in civil strife. Now the three Turkic princes are fighting fiercely after the death of Jili Khan. It is the best time to attack.
Now Li Shimin is just waiting for winter to come.
Because everyone knows that the Turks are located in a bitter cold land, and it is absolutely impossible to attack the Turks in winter, which is also the time when the Turks are most relaxed.
As for why they chose to attack in such an unfavorable season as winter, it was because this time the Tang Dynasty had a rule for ducks that were taken back to the government or left to the people, that is, the duck feathers must be handed over to the government.
The common people were extremely grateful to the government for receiving the ducks, but they had no objection at all to taking away the duck feathers.
Although I don’t know what the use of this thing is after the government takes it away, but since I can’t eat or use this thing in my hand, I have no choice but to throw it away. If the government wants to take it away, then just take it away.
Among the workshops built in the south of Chang'an, the garment factory will be the first to be completed.
As long as the duck down jacket's warmth-keeping ability is confirmed, Li Shimin will start the military campaign of the Northern Expedition to the Turks this winter.
"How lucky the Tang Dynasty is to have Tang Ping!" Li Shimin put down the globe in his hand: "But this guy is just a little lazy, Tang Ping! Lie down! What logic is this? Shouldn't Tang Ping mean the Tang Dynasty is smooth? ?”
"Ah sneeze!"
"Sir, are you catching a cold? Why don't we go inside?"
"No, no, it's just that my nose was a little itchy just now. Maybe someone was talking about me!" Tang Ping rubbed his nose.
It was already the end of May, and the summer of Tang Dynasty was coming soon. Although he was not as strong as Lao Cui and Lao Du, he was not a weak and beautiful man either.
A little cool breeze won't catch a cold this night.
"Look, here is Vega, and this one over here is Altair, and there is this star that is a little darker than Altair, called Deneb. The three stars they form are called the Summer Triangle!"
Tang Ping pointed at a few stars above his head with a stargazing pen and explained to everyone that he participated in an astronomy club when he was in college. Although his knowledge of astronomy was half-baked, he could still recognize these obvious stars.
I was bored tonight and didn’t want to go to bed too early, so I found the stargazing pen in my drawer, and then sat in the yard with everyone to watch the stars.
This sky full of stars is difficult to see in modern times.
"I know, I know!" Xiao Luo pointed to the stars in the sky and said, "I have heard that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were separated by the Milky Way by the Queen Mother. They are indeed on opposite sides of the Milky Way!"
"That's all fake. The Milky Way is just a lot of stars, the same stars as the sun! Well, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are too, but they are too far away from us, so they only look so small."
"What? Are the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl fake?" Xiao Luo felt that the beautiful love fairy tale she had believed in for more than ten years was suddenly shattered when she came to the young master.
"Uh... that..." Tang Ping looked at Xiao Luo and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Miss, you see, the stars in the Tang Dynasty are no different from those in East Vietnam! Altair and Vega are still separated by the Milky Way, but our lady...hehehehe..."
At the same time, in an inn in Baozi City, Cui'er and Wang Qingluan were also lying on the window sill with their cheeks in hand, looking at the stars in the sky.
