Houmen's step-wife

Chapter 583
The reason why Yao Rong was sent there was not only that Emperor Xiande trusted him, but also because he had a good character, was clever, quick-witted, and extremely knowledgeable. He was familiar with the geography, history, culture, and religion of various countries. Knowledge, and the body is also extremely strong, is the most suitable candidate.

Yao Rong did not disappoint Emperor Xiande, not only brought back sweet potatoes, potatoes, but also some fruit and vegetable seeds.For example, tomatoes, papayas, improved varieties of strawberries, green beans, etc., as long as there is no delay, he basically brought back all the things that are easy to bring back. Most importantly, he also asked clearly about the planting methods of these crops, and asked It was recorded in detail.

Emperor Xiande, Longyan Dayue, not only rewarded Yao Rong heavily, but also rewarded his family members.He gave his brother the position of a hereditary brocade guard with a hundred households, and specially adopted a person from a side branch of the Yao family to pass on the incense for him, and a position of a hereditary thousand households.

Of course, Emperor Xian De valued sweet potatoes and potatoes the most, and before planting them, he had to taste them.

This Su Wan is better at it.

First of all, the sweet potato, no matter it is eaten raw, boiled, or baked, is very delicious, just a simple treatment, it has already conquered the stomachs of everyone.

What's more, what the common people need most now is to have a full stomach. Naturally, the simpler the production method, the better. As for those methods that are too complicated, they can't use them at all now, so let them figure it out by themselves!
Sweet potatoes are not only delicious, easy to handle, but also easy to fill the stomach. Emperor Xian De was very satisfied. Not only that, he also specially invited the cabinet elders to taste it for a while.

Although Yao Rong brought back a lot of sweet potatoes and potatoes, if they were to be shared, there would not be much, and Emperor Xiande naturally couldn't waste them.

As for the potatoes, they can be eaten no matter they are fried or steamed, but Su Wan also solemnly reminded Emperor Xiande that those green, rotten and sprouted potatoes are poisonous and cannot be eaten.

For potatoes, the planting time does not need to be different in different places. Some places can only be planted for one season, while others can be planted for two seasons.

Without Su Wan, even if Yao Rong brought potatoes back and had planting methods, after all, the soil and water are not acclimatized, which place is more suitable for planting potatoes, how to plant them best, etc., these must be slowly experimented and explored.

It's different with Su Wan, Emperor Xian De can completely omit this step and save a lot of time.

Su Wan knows where and how to grow potatoes. Although she only read it from books, it's just a theory on paper, but the general situation can't be wrong. more effective deployment.

As for the planting methods of sweet potatoes and potatoes, they can know everything. As long as they master the know-how, those veteran farmers with rich planting experience will definitely be able to master it very quickly.

Potatoes are relatively easy to grow. Cut the potatoes into pieces, preferably with teeth, bury them in the soil, and then fertilize and sprinkle them with water.

Compared with potatoes, sweet potatoes are a little more troublesome. There are many steps such as cultivating seedlings, picking sweet potato seedlings, and transplanting.

Sweet potatoes have three planting periods, which can be planted in spring, autumn and winter.

Now that the New Year has just passed, it is not too late to raise seedlings.

Su Wan's grandmother planted sweet potatoes in the field of her own yard before, and Su Wan helped her back then, so she remembers it very clearly, not to mention the people from the Farming Bureau, experienced old farmers Help, the cultivation of seedlings is going well.

In order to take care of them nearby, she began to cultivate seedlings in Yongning Palace. Because the lives of millions of people were at stake, she did not dare to slack off, and she almost always kept an eye on them.It wasn't until the sweet potato seedlings were successfully cultivated that they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Because there was no time to delay, most of the sweet potatoes that Yao Rong brought back were used to grow seedlings.

The first time it was on such a large scale, it aroused the opposition of many ministers. In their view, this is not safe, and a small part should be taken out for experimentation. Late.

But Emperor Xiande couldn't wait any longer, because the year of severe drought was just this year, the sooner the plants were planted, the better. Another point was that he believed that Su Wan would definitely be able to do it.

However, to comfort the hearts of the ministers, Emperor Xiande still left a small portion of sweet potatoes, just in case.

For the past two months, Su Wan has been busy raising seedlings, and basically doesn't care about those messy things in the harem.

Empress Ning has also been paying attention to Su Wan's movements. She thought that Su Wan would cry to the emperor because of the fact that the second prince was valued by Emperor Xiande, or sow dissension in front of the emperor and destroy their father-son relationship. Unexpectedly, she He was so calm that he didn't do anything.

Not only that, but she also imitated those peasant women in the countryside, planting vegetables and raising seedlings by herself, dealing with the soil all day long, which completely embarrassed the royal family, but the emperor still let her go, and even accompanied her to mess around together.After learning about this incident, I don't know how many concubines despised and laughed at the imperial concubine in the background!

Even Empress Ning was very disdainful of the behavior of the imperial concubine, thinking that the imperial concubine used this method to attract the emperor's attention.

In order to compete for favor, the imperial concubine really did everything she could.

While the concubines were gloating, they were also very unbalanced in their hearts. They felt that the imperial concubine was too domineering, bullying too much, and the emperor was too partial.

Why are those rare things brought back from Fanbang only given to the imperial concubines instead of them?Not even the Queen's share.Even if they are not favored, they are still the emperor's concubines.Even if it's just for show, it should be taken out for them to try something new.

It is said that the sweet potatoes are very delicious. At that time, they all smelled the sweet smell. Even after they had eaten all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, they couldn't help but move their index fingers. They thought that the emperor would give them some. Who knows, they didn't even see each other, they were all taken away by the emperor and spoiled by the imperial concubine, why?
The concubines are not rare for that little thing, but they are really angry.

It's fine if you don't love them, you can't treat them materially badly!
This is related to what little face they have left.Therefore, even though they knew that their behavior might cause the emperor's displeasure, they still went to complain to Empress Ning, hoping that Empress Ning could go and persuade the emperor. The emperor's woman.

(End of this chapter)