Villager of Daming

Chapter 1298 Promotion has a way to burn the pain

"Can the sweet potatoes be peeled? We eat roasted sweet potatoes in winter."

After the issue of Prince Liang in Yunnan was resolved, everyone began to busy themselves with the marriage of Zhu Chong and Zhu Gang while waiting for the outcome in Goryeo.

Zhu Chong would get married first, followed by Zhu Gang and so on. After more than a month, on an auspicious day, he would marry Xie Qiaoer.

Both of them will be one year older after the Chinese New Year. Historically, Zhu Gang took a concubine last year when he was fifteen years old. This time it will be a year and a half later, which is good for both him and Xie Qiaoer, especially Xie Qiaoer.

The fifth brother didn't care whether his brothers were married or not, he just wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes.

"It's almost there. Wait a little longer. But don't eat too much. You need to save seeds. There are also potatoes. Baked potatoes are also delicious."

Ling'er swallowed and told Laowu not to be anxious, as she had never tasted it either.

Nowadays, all crops brought back from America are grown in greenhouses. Sweet potatoes and potatoes can be planted twice a year. If they are not grown in greenhouses, they can only be planted once.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked downstairs and said: "Sweet potatoes are better than potatoes. Sweet potatoes and potatoes, one is red and the other looks like a horse bell, which is good, but sweet potatoes and potatoes are easier to remember.

The starch content is high, right? But when rotating crops, corn is still better than sorghum and soybeans.

Yichang will be very busy, breeding varieties with higher yields and better resistance to waterlogging and drought, which are good for silage!"

“Don’t worry, Your Majesty. The village has a full set of planting techniques, from breeding to harvesting.

Nowadays, new strains of bacteria have emerged. When added to farm manure, they can effectively reduce harmful bacteria and improve fertility.

Our heroes brought back a lot of seeds, and they can be planted all over Ming in three years, provided the people accept them."

The village head promised that Hanhan would take care of these matters as soon as he returned.

This includes starting to build equipment, preparing to build a factory, and building a large starch factory. Pollution is inevitable, but the impact on surrounding organisms can be minimized to the greatest extent possible.

The wastewater from the starch factory, after simple treatment, is used for irrigation and is considered organic fertilizer. It requires manual labor, but the labor is not expensive.

In this way, when starch crops are promoted, starch factories will follow suit, and every county will have a starch factory, and the leftover sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn will be made into starch.

Sweet potato flour and potato flour are the most important. Starch can be made into vermicelli, but the shelf life of the two is far shorter than that of corn. It is better to make them into sweet potato flour and potato flour than into potato chips and dried sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato starch is a vegetable, best added to stews, while potato starch is a staple food, easy to preserve and delicious.

Cornmeal is also delicious, provided that you beat off the outer layer and leave the middle part. This way it will be ground finely and fragrant. Otherwise it will be a coarse grain. If it is not ground well, the cornmeal will cut your throat and make it difficult to go to the toilet.

Tomatoes can be eaten as both vegetables and fruits. If the yield is too high, they can be used to make tomato sauce, which is children's favorite.

Fried eggs are usually used for cooking, which Zhu Wentian doesn’t like, but he can cook them. Once, his fried Mushu persimmons were praised by his friends. He was happy to see others eating them happily.

Today's dish includes tomatoes and fried eggs. Zhu Wentian stir-fries a big pot. He eats the raw tomatoes mixed with white sugar. He usually uses the cooked ones to make soup or stew beef brisket.

Just like he did then, many people, especially children, think stir-fried food tastes good, sweet and sour.

The key point is that now the skin of tomatoes is not like plastic, which means it has a short shelf life and gets sandy inside.

In order to make it safe for younger children to eat, he scalded it with water and peeled off the skin, even though the skin was very thin.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know how many tricks there were to the things he got back. He put a boiled corn in front of him and smiled after listening to the headman's assurance:
“Promotion is easy, but the people lack a bottom-line guarantee.

Tell the people that if the yield of their crops is lower than other crops, they will be subsidized. Subsidize with land tax instead of giving money directly. If people find that the subsidies are too high, they will simply stop planting.

I used to be a farmer and a cattle herder, so I know exactly what those people are thinking.

Initially, the germinated wheat was collected for brewing beer and making maltose, and was purchased at the normal wheat price.

We changed it later. If you dare to harvest it like that, the people will be too lazy to harvest the wheat. Anyway, they can sell it after it rains and sprouts.

If we raise the price to 80%, people won't have to wait for the sprouts just to buy them.

Can I eat this? It was too hot just now, it burned my mouth."

Zhu Yuanzhang touched the cooking corn with his finger as he spoke. The corn was not yet ripe, but it could be cooked and eaten. Now was also the best time to cut it for silage.

"Your Majesty, this is how you eat boiled corn. How did you cook it yesterday? Come on!"

The headman was relieved and introduced how to eat boiled corn, calling him Hanhan.

Zhu Wentian: "..."

Reluctantly, he took out a corn from the pot next to him with his bare hands, then picked up a chopstick and inserted it into the back of the corn. He blew on it twice and broke it in the middle. He then took another chopstick and inserted it into the back of the front end.

This is the correct way to eat boiled corn. It won’t be hot to the touch when you put it on the chopsticks, but the person who puts it on will be hot.

However, when cooking, leave the outer two layers of corn cob leaves and use them as a pad to thread the corn.

This is usually what adults do when feeding children. The children take chopsticks and find a place to eat slowly.

Children from corn-growing families like to eat older corn. They first gnaw a row of it with their teeth, and then rub the kernels with their thumbs. Some try to compete to get more connected kernels in one rub. Basically, four is the most common number, and a good one can get around eight to thirteen.

Children in rural areas are not very willing to eat tender food, as it will just ooze out water when they bite it. They can chew the older food a few more times, and it will taste better the more they chew.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw it, he also wanted to learn how to do it. His hands were rough, as he had been working since he was a child and later fought in wars with weapons, so he was not afraid of heat.

"Zhongba, we'll put it on for you. We're not afraid of the heat." Queen Ma picked up the chopsticks.

"Sister, don't do it. Let's do it." Zhu Yuanzhang snatched the chopsticks like a snatch, picked up the corn and put it on, half a piece each: "Sister, here, I won't let you get burned again in this life."

Zhu Yuanzhang said that he was once locked up and starved by Guo Zixing, and Empress Ma sneaked into the kitchen to steal some cakes for him to eat. The cakes had just been baked when Guo Zixing's wife, who was also Empress Ma's godmother, came over. Empress Ma got anxious and put the cakes in her arms, burning her chest.

When her godmother saw this, she quickly pleaded with Zhu Yuanzhang to release her and not to keep her locked up anymore, as her daughter had been burned so badly.

The burns are still there, but they are getting lighter. Xiaqiu Village gave us medicine and small grinding discs with a very large mesh size.

Rub the burn scar, apply medicine, rub it again, and apply it again, so that the burn scar will become lighter little by little. Fortunately, Empress Ma does not have a skin hyperplasia constitution, otherwise this medicine would not be effective.

However, no matter how much you rub it, the sweat pores on the burned area will not be unblocked and you won’t sweat when it’s hot.

Fortunately, the burn area was small, otherwise it would be very uncomfortable in the summer! My chest felt stuffy and it was difficult to breathe.

"This corn is delicious!" Queen Ma took a bite of the corn and chewed it, her voice unclear: "Freshly cooked corn is too difficult to handle, eh?"

Queen Ma had a very happy look on her face. As she spoke, she looked up and was stunned when she saw what Hanhan was doing.

(End of this chapter)