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Chapter 39 Food is the foundation of everything ([-])

Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin and the ministers looked at the food on the sky screen and were silent for a long time. How they wished that the food on the sky screen belonged to their Tang Dynasty!
Since he succeeded to the throne, various natural disasters have occurred one after another throughout the Tang Dynasty.

Faced with such a disaster, many people are unable to resist and can only leave their homes and seek food elsewhere.

He also tried his best to do this and asked trusted officials to provide disaster relief.

However, in the face of constant natural disasters, these are of no avail, and the people can only breathe a slight breath.

But in this case, it just didn't push them into a desperate situation and exchange their children for food.

However, in order to survive, many families still had to sell their sons and daughters in exchange for a small amount of food rations.

But what should he do?
Although he is the leader of a country, he is not a god in the sky, and he cannot prevent natural disasters.

All he can do is try to ensure that more people survive, and he can only think of other ways.

At this time, how much he wanted to communicate with Tianmu, so that he could know where to get sweet potatoes and corn.

He really wanted his people to have the ability to resist when faced with natural disasters.

tomorrow.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the corn on the sky and cried loudly.

Although he knew that sweet potatoes, a high-yielding crop, would appear in the Ming Dynasty, he still couldn't help but think of his parents and brother, who starved to death when Zhu Yuanzhang was a child.

If there had been such crops at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that they would not have starved to death.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the New World Tianmu mentioned earlier, and he had a hunch that these crops should come from there.

"Come here, find Biao'er. I have something important to discuss with him."

Seeing the crops on the sky screen, Zhu Yuanzhang was moved.

He wanted to discuss with his Biao'er how to sail to the West to find the new continent and new crops.

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Zhu Youjian sent Wang Chengen to look for it while looking at the corn on the sky.

This is his summary of experience. If there is something on the sky screen, just copy it quickly. It will definitely be of great use.

He didn't have to wait long before Wang Chengen came to him. Along with him was Xu Guangqi, the Minister of Rites, and he was still holding the crops on the canopy in his hands.

Zhu Youjian was very happy to see the corn in Xu Guangqi's hand.

Last time he heard from Tianmu that he had a crop, sweet potatoes, that could feed [-] million people.

He sent someone to look for it, but he didn't expect to find the sweet potato.

According to descriptions from farmers who have planted them before, the yield of sweet potatoes is extremely high, but they are not easy to preserve and are easily damaged even when stored in cellars.

Although sweet potatoes can be dried and preserved, they are still less convenient than traditionally grown grains and can only be used as disaster relief food.

Now a new crop has been given to the sky, although Zhu Youjian doesn't know whether this crop has the shortcomings of sweet potatoes and whether it has been introduced to the Ming Dynasty.

However, he still had the mentality of trying and asked Wang Chengen to search for it. Unexpectedly, Xu Guangqi, the Minister of Rites, could be found there.

"How much is the yield of this crop?" Zhu Youjian asked Xu Guangqi anxiously.

Although the yield looks very high on the sky screen, it can also be grown in Daming.However, Zhu Youjian was very worried that this kind of crop would not be suitable for the Ming Dynasty's climate and the yield would not be that high. He was also afraid that this kind of crop would not be able to be planted in many places due to the difficulty in planting the land.

In that case, this kind of crop would be of little use in a period of constant natural disasters like the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, if a crop like corn is managed properly, it can weigh four to five hundred kilograms. If it is not managed properly, the yield will be very low. The only advantage of this plant is that it is afraid of waterlogging but not drought, and mild drought is conducive to the development of the root system. and take root.”

(It took me a long time to find the corn yield during the Ming Dynasty on the Internet. I don’t know if it is correct.)
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Zhu Youjian was a little surprised to hear this yield. Although he was mentally prepared, looking at the corn on the sky, he still couldn't believe that the yield was so low.

You must know that the yield of sweet potatoes recommended by Tianmu last time was easily over two thousand kilograms. How come when it comes to corn, the yield is so low?

Zhu Youjian couldn't believe that there was such a big difference between the two.

Unwilling to be reconciled, he took the corn from Xu Guangqi's hand and compared it with the one on the sky curtain, he knew the reason.

The corn on the sky screen has thick and plump cobs, while the corn in my hand has thinner cobs and has not yet reached its end. The difference between the two is huge.

Zhu Youjian was a little disappointed, but thinking that even so, the yield of corn was still relatively high compared to other traditional crops in summer, a smile appeared on his face again.

In the past, he was always worried about the people in the disaster area not having enough to eat. Now he has the two high-yielding crops recommended on the sky screen. Even if the yield is low, it doesn't matter. He believes that they can have enough to eat next year.

Moreover, after he heard Xu Guangqi's introduction to the advantages of corn, Zhu Youjian couldn't sit still. Now that Shaanxi and Henan are suffering from drought, such crops are needed.

Moreover, the planting area currently being broadcast on the sky screen also happens to be Henan, where the Ming Dynasty was suffering from drought.

However, now that the weather has entered autumn, it is no longer suitable to plant corn. It seems that it can only be planted next year.

Plant the sweet potato first this year. Even if there is no yield, Zhu Youjian feels that eating the sweet potato vine is better than leaving the victims without food.

Of course, he hopes even more that these sweet potatoes can be of some use when the cold winter comes.

At the same time, he had to quickly raise food to help the victims survive this difficult winter this year.

After arranging all this, Zhu Youjian thought of the difference in yield between Daming's corn and the corn on the sky screen.

Although he doesn't know why the corn yield in Tianmu is so high, while the corn yield in Daming is so low?

But he still knows that these things are best left to people who understand to study them.

But now that Xu Guangqi was in front of him, he not only knew about military affairs, but he also knew about agriculture. Zhu Youjian decided to give him the task of increasing corn production.

Zhu Youjian believed that he would not let him down, just like he did not let himself down in the military.

At this moment, the scene on the sky screen changed, and a machine entered the lens. Then the line of sight was zoomed out again, and several machines entered the lens in a straight line.

They moved forward together to swallow the golden corn stalks, and the corn was swallowed into the machine together.

Then the scene changed again, and the machine that had finished harvesting poured the corn into another car.

The golden food looks very reassuring.

Many ancient people were shocked when they saw this.

Although they had learned about the use of machinery by the people in the sky, they still did not expect that there were machines that could harvest crops.

Even more unexpectedly, the machine harvested an acre in just ten minutes.

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