The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 369 Work Report (Part )

Speaking of tigers, Huang Shangshu thought of the living animals they brought back.

They even learned about the giraffe, a strange beast that they had mistakenly thought was a unicorn, which made Xia Hongdi laugh non-stop.

"It's such a pity. Most of the rare and exotic animals we bring here like to live in hot and humid places.

I was afraid that they would freeze to death on the road before they were brought back to the capital, so I had to leave most of them in Anzhou. Anzhou and Yazhou should be more suitable for them to live.

Your Majesty, those dozens of ostriches are bigger than sheep. One ostrich egg is enough to fry a large pot, and their meat is also very delicious, more delicious than beef and mutton.

Not only is the meat of this ostrich delicious, but the skin is flexible and soft, and has extremely strong tension. It is a treasure all over the body!
If these ostriches could be bred like chickens, ducks and geese, we people in Daxia would be in great luck! "

Anyone who has eaten ostrich meat will not fail to nod.

Xia Hongdi was greedy for the ostrich meat they described, and wondered when he would be able to taste it.

These living animals cannot be seen for the time being, but a lot of their skins have been brought back: from tiger skins, deer skins, zebra skins, crocodile skins, ostrich skins to python skins, there are dozens of boxes!
Taking out the ostrich skin, touching and pulling it, Xia Hongdi immediately became fond of this bird he had never seen before.

"Can Ruren Zhang hatch ostrich eggs?"

"Your Majesty, it will take two or three years for these ostriches to grow from chicks to adults. Even if there is a fire bed, there are no eggs!"

"No wonder one can only have two hundred kilograms of meat. It takes a long time to grow. I will let people raise these ostriches well so that we can eat ostrich meat as soon as possible!"

Huang Shangshu's work report will continue: "Your Majesty, whether it is gold, gems, or BMW glass skills, these are not the most precious.

What I will show you next are the most precious national treasures we harvested during this trip. "

He also took out some of the food they had prepared from the small baskets they carried with them.

It was placed on Xia Hongdi's imperial table.

It was a few sticks of golden, unthreshed corn.

There are also a few inconspicuous, fist-sized brown pimples

Finally, there were a few red-skinned sweet potatoes that were small at both ends and bigger than a fist in the middle.

Huang Shangshu burst into tears and said with emotion: "Your Majesty, thank you so much for my uncle's discerning eye for treasures!

This is corn, this is potato, and this is sweet potato. These were all brought back to me by my uncle in the Inca Empire for my sake.

They are eaten as a staple food in the local area. The paste made by the locals tastes bad, and we didn't notice it at first.

It has to be my uncle. After eating it for a few days, he said that this was enough to keep us full, and even asked their chef to cook it for us in different ways.

The more we eat, the better these foods taste.

We have successfully planted it for two seasons on the wasteland where we mined gold.

The lowest-yielding corn can produce more than 1,000 kilograms per mu, the yield of potatoes ranges from 2,000 to more than 3,000 kilograms per mu, and the highest-yielding sweet potato can produce more than 4,000 kilograms per mu.

I dare to say: As long as our Great Xia Dynasty has these three kinds of food, the people will never have famine again! "

Xia Hongdi was afraid that he was hallucinating.

He confirmed it several times: "Wait, Aiqing, how much did you say? Four, more than four thousand kilograms? Can it be used as a staple food?"

Seeing the three of them smiling and nodding at him!

He grabbed a potato with his left hand and a sweet potato with his right hand. When he looked carefully, he almost saw a flower.

Not long after, he was walking around so excitedly that everyone fainted, and then he stopped. After finishing his excitement, he took Uncle Zhongqin's hand and patted his shoulder:

"Well done, really well done! Hahaha, you are really my lucky general!"

"Thanks to your Majesty, without your support for our voyage, I would not have been able to reach the Inca Empire! Let alone discover these good things. Your Majesty, potatoes and sweet potatoes can not only be used as staple food, but they can also be eaten as vegetables."

Hei Wa also took the opportunity to hand over the cooking methods of these foods to the little eunuch in the imperial kitchen, and also said that they would have a fresh meal for lunch.

Before the fresh meals were eaten, Xia Hongdi was more excited by the high yield of food than gold, silver and jewels. He was not stingy in praising others and kept pouring out complimentary words.

The atmosphere was lively.

Until a large plate of chicken, sweet potato starch smooth meat, vinegar potatoes, shredded sweet potatoes, etc. were brought to the table one after another.

They also brought a small bag of cornmeal, and the little eunuch who sent the message asked the imperial chef to use the cornmeal to knead small cakes and stick them on the side of the iron pot of the large plate of chicken.

Cooked in one pot!

Xia Hongdi took several bites of each dish without even using the little eunuch to test the poison.

“They all taste good, and it’s no problem to use them as a staple food! Although the taste of these potatoes is not as sweet as sweet potatoes, they taste pink. Three or five of them are enough for an adult man to have a full meal!
The corn tortillas are a little sweet, and although they are not as soft as the white flour, they taste much better than the black buns! "

Gao Huaiyu's mouth was full of oil after eating, and he didn't forget about Amway:
"Your Majesty, this sweet potato is the sweetest when roasted over charcoal fire. It can also be cooked and made into dried sweet potatoes. We can chew this snack as candy during the boat trip."

Xia Hongdi kept nodding his head and took a sip of cornmeal paste, feeling satisfied in his mouth and heart.

This meal must be the happiest meal he has ever had.

While being happy, she did not forget to ask the imperial chef to give the delicacy to the Queen and the Crown Prince to taste.

Which doll can resist the temptation of fried French fries?

Uncle Zhongqin gave the prince the last jar of ketchup he had hidden all the way.

Now it fell into the hands of the fifth prince and Princess Jingyao.

"Ang woo, ang woo! These French fries are so good, Queen, dip them in ketchup, they are sour and sweet!"

Fatty is the most loyal fan of fried food. One bite after another, the little man finished a large plate of French fries.

Queen Gao and Xia Hongdi's brain waves were on the same frequency, and they were very happy that Daxia had harvested such a high yield of food.

Without paying attention, he let the little fat man eat himself up.

After the meal, they moved to the study room and continued talking.

"Your Majesty, these grains do not require high soil fertility. We planted them in open wasteland in the first two seasons. If we can plant them in fertile fields, we may have higher yields per mu. We can try it from south to north in Great Summer. kind!"

Heiwa suggested planting on a large scale.

"It's actually the yield from land reclamation! I simply don't know how to reward you! Try planting, try planting! I fully support it!"

Apart from war, annual farming is the top priority.

Even he, the emperor, did not dare to waste the years that were plagued by natural disasters and locusts.

Food production is simply a sword hanging over his head.

And his beloved, it took less than three years to completely solve the biggest problem of the Xia Dynasty in more than two hundred years.

(End of this chapter)