The fresh pancakes are so fragrant that those who are greedy will drool.
At noon that day, the staple food eaten in the carriage workshop was cornmeal pancakes.
After tasting it, these workers found that the cornmeal pancakes were actually sweet and delicious.
Then, their daily staple food became cornmeal pancakes.
A few days later, dried sweet potatoes were also purchased.
A sweet potato noodle pancake has been added to the canteen staple at the Wagon Workshop.
Even in Ping'an County, shops specializing in corn flour pancakes and sweet potato pancakes have appeared, and the prices are very low.
After some calculations, people in Ping'an County found that sweet potato flour pancakes and corn flour pancakes were actually more economical than eating rice.
Therefore, these two kinds of pancakes were quickly popularized in Ping'an County.
This also made the people of Ping'an County become interested.
The yields of sweet potatoes and corn are too high, especially sweet potatoes.
Even if you grind the sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes and then dry them in the sun, it will take about three kilograms of sweet potatoes to dry into one kilogram of dried sweet potatoes.
One acre of land can produce seven to eight hundred kilograms of dried sweet potatoes, but even the yield of dried sweet potatoes is much higher than that of wheat.
What's more, they also heard that sweet potatoes do not choose any land, even if it is mountainous or sandy land, the yield will not be much less.
Therefore, many people are thinking about planting sweet potatoes and corn next year.
At this time, they are still waiting to see the output of wheat stubble sweet potatoes, peanuts and corn.
The three crops harvested previously were all grown in the spring.
Due to time constraints, the wheat crop will take another ten days and a half to be harvested.
If it is wheat stubble crops, the yield per mu will not be much lower.
They can also plant a wheat crop next year. Doesn't this mean that they can have an extra crop every year?
How much more food can they harvest in a year?
If it is really feasible, they will not go hungry again in the future?
Of course, they actually thought too much.
Why is winter wheat grown with wheat stubble called three crops in two years? Instead of calling it two crops a year?
That's because after two or three years of planting, the crop must be replaced, and cropping cannot be repeated continuously.
Otherwise, many pests will appear in the fields and the roots of crops will rot, resulting in reduced food production.
Of course, even if they don't know now, Jia Huan will definitely remind them.
And even if it is three years old, it can at least guarantee that they will be able to produce multiple crops within two years.
Even so, it can be guaranteed that as long as there is no disaster year, the people will not go hungry.
Why was the Qing Dynasty able to feed 30 million or 300 million people?
Why were other dynasties before the Qing Dynasty unable to feed so many people?
This is because three new crops, sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts, are being promoted in the north.
Before the wheat crop was harvested, Jia Huan ordered people to squeeze peanut oil.
After the oil was fried, peanut oil began to be vigorously promoted.
Before that, most people ate soybean oil and rapeseed oil.
Once peanut oil was promoted, it quickly attracted the favor of many people, especially those from wealthy families.
Because the taste of peanut oil is actually more delicious than soybean oil and rapeseed oil.
Although the price is a bit more expensive than soybean oil and rapeseed oil, as long as it tastes good, that's all. Why do those wealthy families care about this little money?
Therefore, peanut oil was quickly promoted.
And because of the popularity of peanut oil, the price of peanuts has also risen.
Now, the people of Ping'an County will have another kind of peanut to plant next year.
Ten days later, the wheat crop also began to be harvested.
This harvest attracted many people to watch.
Soon they discovered that the yield per mu of wheat stubble was less than that of the stubble planted in spring.
But not much less.
After the wheat crop was harvested, there was no delay in sowing winter wheat.
This discovery made all the people ecstatic.
Because this means that they can plant wheat crops next year, and next year they can harvest one more crop.
In this way, one acre of land is almost equal to the harvest of two acres of land in previous years!
Their food harvest can almost double, so how can they starve?
The days to come will only get better and better!
This made the people in Ping'an County look for people to inquire about the cultivation of these three crops.
Seeing this scene, Jia Huan felt relieved.
As long as the people are willing to grow them, those three crops will soon be popularized.
Next, Ping'an County Government issued a notice that the county government would sell the grain to various towns and villages.
Distributed from townships to villages.
This time, these three new crops have been harvested a lot, and a total of fourteen families are planting them.
Each family owns 1,000 acres of land, which adds up to 14,000 acres.
The crops harvested this year are more than enough to be promoted throughout Ping'an County.
Even some villages in surrounding counties can buy some grain.
The price of grain sold by the county government was only 10% higher than the purchase price.
The price is already very low.
Moreover, the county government not only sells growing grains, but also distributes supporting planting techniques.
Then each township will organize training, and next year the county government will conduct assessments on all townships.
If any town or town does poor farming, resulting in a large-scale reduction in grain production, it will be held accountable.
Under Jia Huan's auspices, the crops for the three crops were quickly distributed.
Next, Jia Huan compiled the yields per mu of the three new crops collected, the land conditions suitable for planting, and the two-year and three-crop farming model.
Then he wrote a memorial to Emperor Kang, and strongly recommended that these three agricultural products could be promoted nationwide.
As long as it is promoted, the whole of Daxia will no longer have to worry about food shortages.
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Soon, Emperor Chongkang received the memorial from Jia Huan.
After reading the memorial, Emperor Chongkang couldn't help being surprised and happy.
Emperor Chongkang had no doubts about the yields of these three crops.
Because these three crops were introduced to Daxia decades ago, and are cultivated in small areas everywhere.
But before, no one had discovered that sweet potatoes and corn could also be eaten as staple food.
No one has discovered that peanuts can be used to extract oil. The taste of peanut oil is so delicious.
In the past, there was no two-year and three-crop farming method.
Now, if we can really promote the three crops across the country, and promote the two-year and three-crop farming method in the north.
So, not to mention that the grain harvest of the entire Great Xia can be doubled, but there is absolutely no problem in increasing it by 40 to 50%.
In the future, as Jia Huan said, there will no longer be hunger and despair in Daxia!
After reading the memorial, Emperor Chongkang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and showed the memorial to several cabinet ministers.
Then let the ministers discuss promotion matters. (End of chapter)
