Datang: at the Beginning, Eat Fruit

　　The vines, which were originally very vigorous, began to spread wildly under Lu Xiu's control, and the dark green vines actually filled the field with no gaps.

　　"Okay, it should be harvestable. Father-in-law and mother-in-law, do you want to go down and experience it yourself?" Lu Xiudao.

　　"Hehe, son-in-law, don't underestimate me. Although it is true that I am the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I do not preside over the autumn harvest every year." Li Er said.

　　"Father, go with Lizhi, we have to dig a dozen or so back." Li Lizhi cheered, and even suddenly ran into the sandy field of sweet potatoes with bare feet.

　　Along the sweet potato vines, Li Zhi digs it out.In the originally soft sandy ground, I saw several large red sweet potatoes, and Li Lizhi dug them out one by one.

　　"Father, Li Zhi dug up a lot of sweet potatoes." She counted them and found that there were six or seven sweet potatoes growing inside a single plant, each weighing a pound.

　　Li Er and his queen personally dug a few plants in the ground, and found that they gently peeled off a layer of sand outside, and the sweet potatoes buried inside were almost exposed, which was very convenient.

　　Moreover, the sweet potatoes buried in the sand were almost squeezed one by one, so they were dug out without much effort.

　　Li Er was slightly startled, he looked at Lu Xiu: "I remember my son-in-law once said that they can produce [-] catties per mu?"

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　　"It shouldn't be difficult to produce [-] kilograms of sweet potatoes per mu." Lu Xiu nodded, and continued, "The specific yield will not be known until we dug up the sweet potatoes and weighed them."

　　In fact, he was talking about the average. Sweet potatoes and potatoes can weigh [-] kilograms, while the yield of corn and taro is lower than that of taro, so he took an average of [-] kilograms per mu.

　　When dozens of tenant farmers in charge of hundreds of acres of sweet potato fields dug out all the five acres of sweet potatoes, Li Er was stunned by the amount they had dug up.

　　There are two hundred baskets of red and bright sweet potatoes in a basket, and a basket weighs sixty kilograms.

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　　"Impossible! The yield of one mu of sweet potatoes is more than [-] catties?" It was three times higher than what Lu Xiu said, and almost ten times higher than that of wheat.Li Er's face was incredulous at first, and then there was excitement beyond words.

　　"Your Majesty, is it just a special case?" Empress Zhangsun also understands what such a high yield of food means to a country.

　　"Dig up the remaining several hundred acres and compare the truth." Li Er took a deep breath and said.

　　However, when the sweet potato field was dug up piece by piece, the facts were put in front of them, and they had to believe the facts in front of them.

　　"Son-in-law, the production of sweet potatoes is too exaggerated. If the whole country is planted in the north and south, wouldn't the people no longer have to go hungry?" Li Er said excitedly.

　　"The high yield of sweet potatoes is due to their relatively large size. A single plant can have several kilograms of knots. Can the yield be high?" Li Yuan said.

　　"That's right. Although it has a high yield, it can also be used to fill the stomach, but if it is used as a staple food, it is a substitute for grains and wheat. It is not resistant to storage, and it is estimated that it will spoil within three or four months after harvest. "Lu Xiu said.Four.

Chapter 126

　　They dug fifty acres of sweet potatoes and piled up hills of sweet potatoes in front of them, making the tenant farmers stupid. It was a bumper harvest that they would never see in their lifetime.

　　The tenant farmers who were picking cotton next door also stopped, basically in a daze.

　　Who can believe that a farmer who has cultivated land for a lifetime with a yield of several thousand catties per mu.Even if they are tenant farmers, they can only receive 20% of the harvest, so they can support their family.

　　"Can sweet potatoes only be stored for a few months?" Li Er's eyes were full of pity.

　　"Well, it can be stored for a longer time after it is cooked and dried, but it can be stored for up to a year and a half." Dried sweet potatoes and vermicelli are both good ways to preserve them, but they won't last too long.

　　The whole grains eaten daily, such as wheat and rice, can be eaten even if they are placed in a dry granary for several years. Compared with sweet potatoes, the shelf life is too short.

　　Lu Xiu continued: "But sweet potatoes don't need to be planted in fertile land, they can be planted in the mountains like vegetables. So you can grow the staple food on arable land, and plant sweet potatoes on the mountains."

　　"To have such a high-yield grain is already auspicious and the blessing of all people. What are you picking on?" Li Yuan said dissatisfied.

　　"Yeah, Royal Father, the people only need to plant one acre, enough for them to eat for a year, and sweet potatoes are sweet and delicious." Li Lizhi also said.

　　"I'm greedy." It has so many benefits, and the shortcomings of short-term storage are almost negligible.

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　　It would take several hours for Lu Xiu to ripen the several hundred acres of sweet potato fields alone.So if Lu Xiu wanted to harvest the entire thousand mu, it would take at least several days.

　　But Li Er wanted to see how high the yield of several other crops was, so after ripening 10 mu of sweet potato fields, he took them to harvest [-] mu of potatoes, taro and corn respectively.

　　The output of the four crops is actually several hundred kilograms higher than that of sweet potatoes.Because the sweet potato planting method is not a scientific cutting method, the yield is a little lower.

　　The potato planting method is to use the cut tubers to plant, the planting method is correct, and the fertile land, it is not surprising that the yield is high.

　　The relative of corn is the lowest, only one acre of corn can break more than [-] catties of corn cobs.Because they are sweet corn, not high-yielding varieties of corn.

　　"But in addition to eating corn, corn stalks can be used as fodder for livestock. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Its value is no more than potato fields." Lu Xiu explained.

　　"What about the sweet potato vines, I see that the leaves are very fresh and tender, so they can be fed to livestock." Li Er asked.

　　"Apart from potatoes, everything else is fine. And sweet potato vines can be directly inserted into the soil as seeds for planting, which is even better than using sweet potatoes directly." Lu Xiudao.

　　Li Er's eyes lit up, wishing to send someone to collect all the sweet potato vines on the ground.

　　After being busy for most of the day, Lu Xiu and the others took the sweet potatoes, corn, etc. they had harvested, and Lizhi asked Ergou to cook them in the kitchen, because Li Er wanted to taste whether it was good or not.

　　Hearing the order of the future hostess, Li Ergou ran to Luzhuang's kitchen with more than ten kilograms of corn and sweet potatoes, and let the chef cook them all in a big pot.

　　After adding water to boil half a column of incense, a steaming cauldron was placed in front of them...  

　　"Royal father, come and taste the corn, but it's sweet." Li Lizhi peeled off the outer shell of the corn, and saw that the golden rice grains were very beautiful, exuding bursts of sweetness.

　　"It's really sweet and delicious." Li Erqing snorted after he started tasting the corn.The unique corn is sweet and pops in the mouth after crunching the rice grains.

　　Compared to the food that Lu Xiu brought out, it may be a lot worse, but if it is placed in the palace, it will even be a rare delicacy.

　　"Sweet potatoes are also very good, soft flesh, sweeter than maltose." Tear off the thin red skin, and the flesh inside seems to be as golden as corn, very beautiful.And the meat is so soft that the sweet potato meat almost melts into a sweet juice without much chewing.

　　Corn and sweet potato, the sweetness of the two is almost the same, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages in taste. Relatively speaking, corn is better.

　　As for taro and potatoes, their taste is mainly soft and waxy, and their sweetness is completely inferior to that of corn.

　　While potatoes can be used for cooking, Li Er still remembers the delicious taste of beef stew with potatoes.

　　"It's really good! Not only is it delicious, but the yield can be so high." After tasting all of them, Li Er couldn't hide his heartbeat.

　　Although Lu Xiu has the ability to turn a stone into gold, judging from the last military ration, it may be his "limit" that he can change hundreds of thousands of catties in one day.

　　And if a large amount of four crops can be planted in the Tang Dynasty, it can even increase the grain of the Tang Dynasty by [-] catties a year.

　　However, Li Er didn't know how to speak. .

Chapter 127

　　"Son-in-law, what are your arrangements for the harvested grain? Although Luzhuang has only planted more than [-] mu, according to the estimated output, at least one million catties of grain can be harvested." From the change in Li Er's demeanor, she could guess what he was thinking.So Empress Changsun, who is understanding and understanding, asked Li Er.

　　Li Er cast an admiring look at his queen. With such a good wife, what more can a husband ask for.

　　"Let me think about it. Except for the two floors that need to be allocated to the tenant farmers, I will give them five hundred catties of each crop for the servants of Luzhuang. And at the father-in-law's Hejian County King, I have to prepare every kind of crops for him. Plant [-] catties each!" In addition, Lu Xiu planned to use the hundreds of catties of cotton he just picked today to furnish their home with four sets of cotton quilts and two falcon fruits.

　　Although Li Ergui was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Xiu would not favor one over another.Li Er had it, and of course Lu Xiu would not be left behind by Li Xiaogong.

　　"Son-in-law, in addition to those that are distributed, there should be hundreds of thousands of kilograms left in the end. Haha, I also want to plant some in the tens of thousands of acres of royal fields." Li Ergan laughed.

　　"Stop pretending!! Do you think Lu Xiaoyou doesn't know what abacus you're playing? If you want to take those hundreds of thousands of catties of food for nothing, the old man advises you not to think about it." Li Yuan said disdainfully.

　　"Of course I really want the people of Datang to quickly plant high-yield food, so that the people will no longer have to go hungry."

　　If the hundreds of thousands of catties of grain in Lu Xiu's hands are used as seeds, Li Er believes that they will soon be distributed to the north and south of the river.

　　"Haha, if Lu Xiaoyou really wants to give you all the food, I think the people don't know that it will take the Year of the Monkey to plant it." Li Yuan said lightly.

　　Generally speaking, the emperor gets it first, then it flows into the hands of many ministers, and then it will be the famous family with a lot of land, and it is very likely that it will be the turn of the common people in the end!

　　"If you plant tens of thousands of acres, I will give you [-] catties of each type. For the rest of the grain, I want to sell it to the people of Anping County." Lu Xiu replied.

　　"Sell it to the common people? The son-in-law should not be short of money, right?" Is it because he went out to play, so he didn't have enough money?Li Er was a little puzzled for the first time.

　　"Idiot, do you really think Lu Xiaoyou can take care of that money? He clearly wants to take care of the people of Anping County first." Li Yuan scolded.

　　With the value of hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, even if you sell it for two dollars per catty at the best price, it can only sell for one or two thousand tons. How could Lu Xiaoyou care about that little money.

　　If he is really short of money, he can easily turn out hundreds of thousands of catties of high-quality food every day, so why bother for so long.

　　"Well. Let them naturally spread from the people of Anping County. I think it will be spread to various places in a few years." Lu Xiudao.

　　High-yielding grain seeds, which people do not regard them as treasures.The relative landlords occupy a large amount of land and a large amount of food, but they are not very rare at all.

　　There will even be people who don't want to let the people get it, so as not to let them be part of the tenant farmland.

　　"But isn't [-] jin a bit too little?" Li Er said with a bitter face.

　　"In this case, I will give you the confiscated sweet potato vines that were placed in the ground. If the sweet potato vines of several hundred acres are used for planting, if they are planted with vines, they can be planted for thousands of acres."

　　The ability to flourish fruit makes sweet potato vines extremely lush.And a two-meter-long sweet potato vine can be cut off and planted with five or six plants.

　　"And then there's corn. I'll give you [-] kilograms more. A corn cobs can basically grow an acre of corn. After all, the corn kernels on it can be used as seeds. I think it should be enough."

　　[-] catties of corn cobs can all be used as seeds or even [-] can be planted.

　　"Enough, enough, thank you son-in-law." Li Er couldn't help but be overjoyed, with the other [-] catties of grain seeds, next year he plans to cover all [-] mu of farmland of the royal family.

　　"Your Majesty, don't forget Bai Diezi. In the concubine's bedroom, there has always been a lack of double cotton pillows and a set of white folded quilts." Queen Changsun said.

　　In Lizhi's bedroom, Empress Changsun also tried the quilt that Lu Xiu gave. It was warm and soft, and it was much more comfortable than the tiger skin and bear skin they covered in winter.

　　"But I don't know if the white Diezi that my son-in-law received is enough." Li Er looked at Lu Xiu inquiringly.

　　"After drying, it should be able to weigh [-] catties and make nine sets of quilts. I will prepare four sets for them from the father-in-law of the King of Hejian County, and I need to keep two sets for the remaining six sets. I can give you points. Three sets." Lu Xiu said.

　　Li Er nodded, he could get three sets from Lu Xiu, he could get one set, one for the queen, and the rest for his favorite concubine.

　　Although he really wanted to prepare everything for his prince and princess, but there were too many children, it was obviously impossible, and it was good that he could take care of himself. .

Chapter 128

　　With a dozen pounds of corn, Li Er's family of three turned into eagles and flew back to the palace in the evening, and landed safely in the imperial garden.

　　What Li Er didn't expect was that Fang Xuanling and Zhangsun Wuji actually stood there and waited for a day.

　　Even several of his princes seemed to be waiting for them to come back in the Imperial Garden.

　　"Your Majesty, you are back, the old minister is so worried that something will happen to you." Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly.

　　They were as anxious as ants on a hot pan, but they didn't know where to start or how to send someone to look for it.