After finishing the sausage, Li Shimin turned his attention to the last dish he didn't recognize.
He picked up a piece and tasted it, and found that the dish tasted very good. He picked up a white unknown vegetable with a smile and asked Qin Ming:
"My dear nephew, what kind of dish is this? Why have I never eaten it before?"
Qin Ming glanced at the yam on Li Shimin's chopsticks, thought about it and said:
"This is yam, also called yam. My nephew bought it with great difficulty."
To be honest, Qin Ming secretly put in a lot of effort for this stutter.
But thinking that this was all for his own happy life in the future, Qin Ming instantly felt that all the previous efforts were worth it.
Li Shimin nodded when he heard this and asked again:
"The name sounds quite interesting. You just said it is also called yam? Isn't it still a medicinal material?"
Qin Ming nodded slightly when he heard this and said:
"Well, it can be used as medicine to replenish the spleen and stomach, and treat symptoms such as Qi deficiency and indigestion. Moreover, it can not only be used as a vegetable, but can also be used as food to satisfy hunger in times of disaster."
Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that this vegetable could also be used as food. There are only three main food crops in the Tang Dynasty now, rice, corn, and wheat. If this yam can really be used as food, Doesn't that mean that the Tang Dynasty has gained a new breed?
Thinking of this, he took Qin Ming's hand and asked excitedly:
"My dear nephew, can this yam really be used as food?"
As the prime minister of the dynasty, Fang Xuanling also realized the importance of this matter, so he also stared at Qin Ming closely.
Qin Ming didn't understand why the two of them were so excited, but he nodded and said:
"Of course you can, but unless it's a disaster year, my nephew doesn't recommend using it to satisfy your hunger."
Fang Xuanling frowned and asked:
"Why is this? Could it be that eating too much of this thing is harmful to the body?"
Qin Ming shook his head and hesitated before saying:
"That's not the case. It's just that the vendor who sold me this yam told me that if men eat too much of this yam, women can't stand it. If women eat too much of it, men can't stand it. If both men and women eat too much..."
Hearing this, Li Shimin breathed a little quickly and asked:
"What will happen if you eat them all?"
Qin Ming said in a leisurely tone:
"If both men and women eat too much, the bed won't be able to bear it."
When Li Shimin heard this, he slapped the table angrily and said:
"Bastard, how can you have such dirty thoughts at such a young age? Besides, so many people in our Tang Dynasty are still crying for food, how can you stop eating because of choking? Fortunately, I still want to betroth my daughter to you, you are so disappointing to me."
Fang Xuanling picked up a chopstick of yam and put it in his mouth, and said sadly:
"My dear nephew, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person. I am so disappointed."
Qin Ming was stunned for a moment when he heard this and said quickly:
"Uncle, this is what the merchant said. My nephew doesn't understand what it means. Can you explain to my nephew what's wrong with him? And Uncle Fang, please tell me what kind of person my nephew is. ?”
Li Shimin: "......"
Fang Xuanling: "......"
The scene froze for a while before Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling with a puzzled expression and said:
"Xuanling, did I say anything just now?"
Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said:
"No? The old minister didn't hear it."
Qin Ming: "......"
Li Shimin nodded, then picked up another piece of yam and put it in his mouth, chewing it and said:
"In this case, as the king of a country, I should give the people a good taste of this new food. If it can really satisfy hunger, then naturally I will promote its planting."
Fang Xuanling's eyes lit up when he heard this, he also picked up a piece and put it into his mouth, saying vaguely:
"As a minister of the DPRK, I should naturally try it for the people."
Li Shimin asked Qin Ming while eating yam:
"My dear nephew, I just forgot to ask, what is the yield per acre of this yam? Can it be compared with corn?"
Qin Ming looked at the two people rushing to eat the food like a storm, smiled bitterly, picked up a chopstick of pork belly and put it in his mouth, and then said:
"The merchant said that the yield of this yam is very high. One acre of land can produce twenty dan."
When the two heard this, they spat out the yams in their mouths, their eyes filled with shock.
Nowadays, many people in the Tang Dynasty have insufficient food to eat, and the two of them know it best. If the yield mentioned by Qin Ming is true, doesn't it mean that as long as the Tang Dynasty grows these yams, it will no longer have to worry about food problems?
It’s just twenty stones per mu. Is this really possible? If there really is such food in the world, why didn't anyone discover it earlier?
Thinking of this, Li Shimin gradually calmed down. He suppressed the excitement in his heart and looked at Qin Ming with great solemnity:
"My dear nephew, don't talk nonsense. How can there be such a high yield of food in this world? If this is true, then the people of the Tang Dynasty would have planted it spontaneously. How could there be so many people? Hungry?"
Qin Ming knew that Li Shimin didn't believe it, but he also accidentally bought this yam from a roadside vendor when he went to Chang'an City to look at a house last time.
There are no yams planted in his village. How to explain this?
At this moment, an idea came to his mind, and he said to Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling:
"Uncle, my nephew asked the vendor the same question at that time. I asked him at that time that since these yams are so good, why don't you plant more of them? But the vendor told me..."
Li Shimin knew the important point as soon as he heard this. He held Qin Ming's arm with red eyes and asked:
"what did he say?"
Fang Xuanling was also anxious. He blushed and said:
"My dear nephew, please tell me quickly!"
Qin Ming hesitated and said:
"He said that the land couldn't bear the yam planting... it couldn't bear it."
Li Shimin: "..."
Fang Xuanling: "..."
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