Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 688 The Empress Tastes New Crops

"Hehehe, Lao Jingde and Zhijie have picked the fruits for us."

The two veterans were only interested in robbing, but they didn't want to. The pots they filled with tomatoes were brought to Li Shimin. Wen Chen gritted his teeth with hatred.

However, they did not put the picked tomatoes into the pots, but put them in their pockets. You must know that the military uniforms they wear now are similar to the military uniforms of later generations. There are pockets on the left and right waist, and on the trousers.

So, soon, their clothes were bulging, and they had no image at all. Not only that, they also held two or three fist-sized tomatoes in their hands, and they opened their mouths to bite and eat immediately without washing them. The face is full of juice, and there is no image at all.

In the eyes of smart people, they did this on purpose. People like them who don't care about their own image will not rebel, so Li Shimin trusts them very much.

But in the eyes of someone like Zhao He who has no political vision at all, he felt that it was unnecessary, and reminded, "You two generals, this delicious food is still being cooked on the boat! You have to save some stomach. "

Hearing this, the two veterans stopped harassing those tomatoes, stretched their necks, and aimed at the cooking stoves on the deck.

As empresses, Li Shimin and his wife should actually maintain some image. Of course, they are not the kind of high-ranking image. They are following the line of being close to the people. Tomatoes are not as sweet and greasy as persimmons, but they have some appetizing sourness mixed with sweetness, and they are very juicy, making people feel fresh. They have to wipe their lips with a handkerchief while eating , in order to maintain the image.

At this time, the courtiers lined up because everyone wanted to taste the tomato, and it was loose, Li Shimin didn't care much, anyway, these tomatoes were not enough for everyone to taste, so he asked Cheng Yaojin The two crew members who picked out the two pots of tomatoes with Yu Chigong, followed themselves and Empress Changsun, came to the guard line of the guards, and were about to send them to the people on the scene. With such freedom and openness, there are not so many barriers between the emperor, his courtiers and the common people.

"The quantity of these tomatoes is limited now, and I can't let everyone eat them. However, we have Gongsun Zhengming of the Agricultural Kingdom in Tang Dynasty, tens of thousands of students from the Agricultural College, and tens of thousands of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture. Soon, they will be able to let everyone eat. I got it, so today I got the tomato man I gave you, you can taste it carefully, if you don’t get it, don’t envy it, fight for it, everyone will eat it soon, now, if you want to try something new, just stretch it out Give your hands..."

There were only twenty or thirty tomatoes in the two pots, but the hands of the people watching were stretched out like flowers. Li Shimin and his wife put the tomatoes one by one into the outstretched palms of the people. It's a small episode, and I don't know how many diehard fans they have attracted.

After the tomatoes were delivered, after the samurai 彟 came off the boat carrying a plate of sliced ​​tomatoes with a little unmelted sugar or ice slag on it, a long row of chefs came off the ship carrying trays , They were originally the chefs of the fleet. During the few days they stayed in Lingnan, Sun Xiangfu taught them a few dishes made from new crops.

The noses of Yu Chigong and Cheng Yaojin started to twitch like when they first smelled Sun Xiangfu cooking.

Stewed Chicken with Potatoes and Roasted Beef with Potatoes are so penetrating. However, Li Shimin and his wife haven't started eating them yet, so it's not their turn yet.

"Your Majesty, the yellow pieces on this plate are potatoes. Whether it's stewed chicken, stuffed beef and mutton, or stir-fried or boiled, its taste is very good. The Mayans in South America regarded it as The staple food is eaten all year round, and the body grows quite strong. The head said that it has a variety of nutrients needed by the human body, and it can be used as food and vegetables, with a very high yield. It will definitely become one of the main crops of my Tang Dynasty in the future. One, you can savor it carefully."

There are chopsticks next to the tray. The smell of potatoes after sautéing chopped green onions will seduce even a person who is not hungry, let alone someone who has never smelled this kind of potato aroma.

Li Shimin first helped Empress Changsun get a pair of chopsticks, and picked up a pair himself, and went straight to the potatoes on the plate, and he put a piece of potato into his mouth directly.

"Well, it's delicious."

Although the potatoes just out of the pot were still a little hot, Li Shimin couldn't stop eating one piece. He ate several pieces one after another. While eating, he pointed to the plate and asked Empress Changsun to move her chopsticks quickly.

The way Empress Changsun ate was naturally more refined than him, but she didn't stop at nothing. She ate several pieces in a row before she said, "I never imagined that the people in South America would have such delicious food. The food is the staple food, it is really much happier than the people in my Tang Dynasty."

Obviously, Empress Changsun's sense of taste has been conquered by potatoes, but Zhao He smiled and said, "They are indeed lucky, they have never had a food crisis, but they are not as superb as our Tang Dynasty." The skill of the chef, the ordinary people over there usually just boil potatoes with clear water for consumption. Although they still have some fragrance, they are not as delicious as chicken, or beef and mutton.

You can taste the young sweet potato leaves and the two green vegetables fried from the stems. The head said that these are the by-products of planting sweet potatoes. Picking these stems and leaves in an appropriate amount will not affect the growth of sweet potatoes. The tender ones can be eaten as vegetables, and the older ones are also liked by cattle and sheep. The whole body is full of treasures, and its economic value is higher than that of potatoes that can only eat roots! "

Green leafy vegetables are always a woman's favorite.Especially when it was fried very refreshingly, after Empress Changsun took a bite with her chopsticks, Li Shimin also followed and took a big chopstick. A sense of freshness.

Jiangling City at the end of March in the lunar calendar was a bit hot. Li Shimin's forehead began to sweat slightly after taking a few mouthfuls of hot dishes. Attracted Li Shimin's attention.

"Well, Queen, come and taste it. The tomato tastes even better after it has been mixed with sugar and ice."

Hearing this, Zhao He could only chuckle, no wonder Li Shimin and his wife got fatter and fatter, it's unreasonable for a sweet party not to be fat!
There were more than a dozen plates of prepared dishes. When the couple ate, the ministers began to taste them one after another. Immediately, on the pier, they all praised the taste of the potatoes, sweet potato stems and leaves, and tomato scrambled eggs.

Then, Zhao He brought Li Shimin and his wife to a tray containing several charred sweet potatoes, and said, "Your Majesty, this is roasted sweet potatoes. Regular consumption of coarse grains is good for your Majesty and Your Majesty’s health, it can increase the body’s ability to resist disease, and it can also ventilate, but if you eat too much, it’s easy to accumulate food, and a palm-sized one for each meal is just right.”

As he said that, Zhao He broke apart a baked sweet potato on the tray, pointed to those sweet potato skins that had been slightly carbonized and naturally separated from the sweet potato flesh, and said, "Besides that these slightly burnt sweet potato skins are inedible, the whole sweet potato is It can be eaten, but in the next season of this year, you will be able to eat sweet potatoes that are sweeter than this, the head said that its sugar content can be as much as sugarcane, and the sugar grains can be squeezed out."

According to Zhao He's explanation and demonstration, Li Shimin peeled the sweet potato skin and put the peeled sweet potato flesh into his mouth. After careful feeling, he found that the taste of this sweet potato and potato is somewhat similar, but sweeter and softer , He heard from Zhao He that it could be even sweeter, and he immediately had more expectations for it.

Sun Xiangfu helped Zhao He design this new crop tasting session to make Li Shimin, a fat couple, like to eat coarse grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes. This is not only good for their health, but also good for the promotion of these crops. The social atmosphere also has some long-term significance.

Even the emperor and his wife ate these coarse grains like potatoes and sweet potatoes to survive. Those, the circle of powerful ministers, would also compete to imitate them. Eating less delicacies from mountains and seas is actually more beneficial to their bodies, because in society, those who are usually People who are over-nourished and don't need to eat delicacies from mountains and seas have the conditions to eat delicacies from mountains and seas, while ordinary people who are weak and need food supplements have no conditions to eat delicacies from mountains and seas.

Letting these delicacies from mountains and seas be eaten by people who really need to nourish their bodies is Sun Xiangfu's beautiful fantasy for society. It is hard to say whether everyone can accept the scientific diet he advocates, anyway, even in later generations, it will be difficult Some people can restrain their desires.

After potatoes, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, there is corn. Sun Xiangfu didn't mean to invite Li Shimin to eat old corn cobs, but the rows of large yellow corn on those cobs attracted everyone's attention.

Therefore, Zhao He told everyone about the various aspects of this crop species. After it came out, it rushed to replace wheat, because even if it is the original species, its output can reach [-]% if it is planted in the south The yield per mu is more than [-] catties, and it is the weight of pure dry corn that can be ground into cornmeal.

As for wheat, the current average yield per mu in the north has just exceeded five shi, that is, six hundred catties. Excluding the bran, there is only about 480 catties of flour. The weight gap of more than 300 catties is huge.

The key point is that there is a lot of room for improvement in the subsequent yield of corn. In later generations, the yield per mu of the high-yield fields in the south has exceeded one ton, and the average yield per mu of the national product has also reached six to seven hundred kilograms. That is more than ten stones, comparable to hybrid rice If the dry fields of the Tang Dynasty were planted with the same yield as paddy paddy fields, it would make all the peasants look golden.

Then, peanuts were brought down from the boat, and at the same time, there was a stack of red peanuts that had been deep-fried by the cooks and had cooled down. Zhao He didn’t dare to give Li Shimin the hot peanuts just out of the pan. That's easy to loosen up.

After Li Shimin and his wife finished eating a sweet potato, Zhao He pointed to a basket of peanuts and said, "Your Majesty, this crop is called groundnut, it belongs to the category of nuts, and the fruit is not only delicious.

Moreover, it can also produce very good edible oil. The head said that its yield per mu should be more than [-] jin. It should be no problem for the farm to increase its yield to more than ten stones per mu within two to three years. In this dish, It is peanuts that have been peeled off their shells. After they are fried, they can be eaten after being mixed with refined salt. Now they have cooled down and are very crispy. "

"Peanuts?"

When Li Shimin heard this term, he always felt a little familiar, just like the previous cartoons, as if he had heard it somewhere but couldn't remember it.

However, after he put a peanut in his mouth, he didn't think about it anymore. The taste of the fried peanuts was not bad, very crispy. He quickly turned around and asked Empress Zhangsun to taste it too.

As for what Zhao He just said about the yield per mu, he didn't care that much anymore, because there were so many crops that yielded tens of thousands of catties per mu, his nerves had been stimulated and thickened, but he didn't know that the yield of peanuts, In fact, it can also be increased to more than [-] kilograms per mu. In later generations, the average yield per mu of planting in the country has reached between [-] and [-] kilograms, and the yield per mu has reached ten stones, which is only [-] kilograms. This is just Sun Xiangfu. It's just a goal within two or three years.

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