No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Li An didn’t want to disturb the villagers here, but since the uncle was really invited, it wouldn’t be appropriate if he didn’t go, and Li An would also like to drink the sweet well water from a local cold water well.

“Since the uncle is sincerely invited, then we are disrespectful, and the few of you are waiting here!”

Li An and Lao Guo each led an escort to follow the uncle, while the remaining 8 escorts stayed near the well and waited. This was mainly because too many people would be chaotic, especially a dozen horses. , It will disturb the villagers in the village too much, the situation is too large.

“Uncle, how many people are there in your family!”

Li An asked.

uncle smiled and replied: “Not many, just 8 people.”

“Oh! There are not many 8 people! A lot.”

Lao Guo sighed.

For a Great Family, there will definitely be a lot of people in the family, but for an ordinary old 100 surname, there will generally not be too many talents in the family, and there can be 8 people, which is actually quite a lot.

“Let me guess, it must be the second son, two grandchildren, plus two daughters-in-law, which counts exactly two people who are two old people.”

Li An opening is speculated.

In general, many ordinary families have such a structure. Two sons, each with a wife and child, and the elderly are exactly 2 people, which is perfect.

“Guest from afar is right. That’s right. This is the grandson. Is there another one at home who hasn’t learned to walk yet?”

When uncle talked about his grandson, his eyes were full of kind expressions.

Soon, Li An and Lao Guo came to the uncle’s house, but an old lady was busy at home, and there seemed to be children’s voices in the house.

“Old woman, these are the two original guests. Get some hot water and a big bowl. The guests want to try our sweet well water.”

uncle said.

The old lady quickly brought the boiled water up and placed it in front of Li An and uncle, smiling and inviting.

“Delicious, sweeter than when it’s cold! Haha!”

Li An took a sip and praised with great satisfaction.

Lao Guo was also very satisfied with the nodded. Even the two guards drank some water under the warm invitation of the old woman and praised it.

“Old woman, what about Dabao?”

Old man asked.

“All work in the ground, can you come back after dark?”

The old lady was replied.

Li An took a casual look. The family ’s life was pretty good. There was a lot of food before and after the house, and there were dried sweet potatoes in the yard. This is enough to show that sweet potatoes have become very popular, in just a few years. Within, it has spread to such remote areas.

“This is sweet potatoes! A lot?”

Li An walked over to the dried sweet potatoes and looked at these dried sweet potato slices, said with a smile.

“Yes, these all are harvested last fall, this is only a small part, there are many? Also thanks to this thing, otherwise, we will all be hungry.”

uncle said excitedly.

“Can’t you fill your stomach before?”

Li An asked.

“I ’m not afraid of Guest from afar joke, we do n’t have many paddy fields, but there are quite a lot of upland fields. The harvest of crops is very low. In the past, I often could n’t eat enough. Now it ’s different with sweet potatoes. It ’s okay to plant this thing in upland fields The harvest is much higher than that of paddy fields. It is many times as much as the previous dry field harvest without topdressing. This has helped us a lot of crop farmers. This little sweet potato feeds too many people. If there is no such sweet potato, we are here Many people are afraid of starving! “

uncle said excitedly.

According to the technology of the Great Tang era, one acre of dry wheat can produce two-three hundred pounds under the condition of topdressing. If it is not topdressing, it can be more than 200 pounds per acre of land.

But planting sweet potatoes is completely different. It is not difficult for sweet potatoes to produce more than 1000 pounds per mu. Even if there is no fertilizer, it is easy for a mu of real estate to be more than 1000 pounds. Pine has 2,000-3,000 kg, which is ten times the harvest of wheat before planting, and the most powerful sweet potatoes in later generations can reach as much as 10,000 jin per mu, and there are many 10000 kg, which is simply legend.

In short, no matter what, the output of sweet potatoes is very high, which is unmatched by the local crops such as wheat and Great Tang. The gap is as much as ten times.

The old 100 people have the same land, and the food production has increased tenfold. This is a concept, which means that more people can be fed tenfold, and the increase in population is as much as tenfold in a short time, so, The grain will always be surplus, that is, every household has surplus grain, and the life of the 100 people will become very good.

Of course, the yield of 1000 pounds of sweet potatoes per mu refers to wet sweet potatoes. When the sweet potatoes are dried, the weight will be reduced, but at most it is reduced by about half that’s all, and the output is still far more than wheat.

“That’s right! Sweet potatoes are a good thing. Not only are they delicious, but also the output is high enough. The 100 old people live on the sweet potatoes. Have the sweet potatoes saved a lot of people?”

Li An also sighed.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties of China, the population increased a lot at once. For example, the population of the Qing dynasty increased more than three times in 100 years, from 3 million to more than 200000000 million.

Among them, the most important reason is that since the late Ming Dynasty, high-yield plants such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn came from the West. The introduction of these high-yield plants is the most critical factor that led to a threefold increase in population in 100 years. Without these high-yielding plants, the population can never reach such a huge number. High-yield crops are the biggest contributor to the increase in population.

“Come here, the original guest, this is the sweet potato that has just been steamed, and the dried sweet potato, try it! It is very sweet, sweeter than well water.”

The old woman brought hot steamed sweet potatoes and dried steamed sweet potatoes. These are their breakfasts. They have been steamed in a basket just now. They were taken away by their son and daughter-in-law. They eat while walking. They eat when they are hungry in the afternoon. The second cage is the ration of their old 2 and 2 grandchildren. After all, in the countryside, the main labor is the most important. They must be eaten first and then the child. It ’s not like the society of later generations. Children and old people are ranked first. After all, work ca n’t be delayed. You can work harder if you eat earlier. Old people and children do n’t work. The task can naturally be eaten later.

Since these delicacies have been brought to hand, some are not suitable if they are not eaten, and the taste is quite good. Although Lao Guo and Li An have come over for breakfast, not much is eaten for breakfast. Sweet potatoes should be snacks.

“Good! It tastes sweet.”

Li An picked up a piece of dried sweet potato and ate it in his mouth.

Lao Guo took a whole sweet potato directly, and ate it, and praised that it was very sweet, and the guardian naturally ate some.

The sweet potatoes in this place absorb local water sources, and some sweetness is normal. After all, if one side nourishes one person, the sweet potatoes nourished by the sweet waters are naturally sweet.

If the sweet potatoes are to be stored for a long period of time, there are two main methods. One is to dry the sweet potato slices to make sweet potatoes, and the other is to dig the cellar and hide the sweet potatoes in the cellar.

Although these two methods of preserving sweet potatoes are all feasible, the taste of preserved sweet potatoes is different. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the old 2 people will adopt two methods, one part is made into dried sweet potatoes, and the other part is directly placed in the cellar. Here, it is equivalent to there are 100 kinds of food, and it will not feel greasy when you eat it.

The sweet sweet potatoes are delicious, and Li An unconsciously eats a few pieces, and I feel a little panicky in my stomach.

The old man and the old woman, and two Little Children are also eating sweet potatoes. They look like they eat sweet potatoes and eat them together with their skins.

Looking back at Li An, Lao Guo and 2 guards ate the sweet potatoes together with their skins. Only Li An peeled and eaten. Whether it was whole sweet potatoes or dried sweet potatoes, Li An did n’t like to eat skins. First, it feels a little dirty, 2 is that the sweet potato skin is really not delicious, and even, there are many fibrous roots on the sweet potato skin, which makes people have no appetite.

“This Guest from afar is a blessed person since he was a child. He eats sweet potatoes and thinks of peeling, haha!”

Old man said openly.

Li An said with a smile: “Uncle has a good vision. My family is very wealthy. I have been eating and drinking since I was a child. I have become accustomed to picking and eating, and it is not easy to change!”

Catering to others, everyone is happy, Li An has already learned this.

“Oh, uncle, how many meals do you have a day!”

Li An asked.

“There is a meal in the morning and afternoon, but now there are sweet potatoes, and there is nothing to eat. I feel hungry and I can take them at any time. Every family has sweet potatoes that I ca n’t eat. Do n’t worry about getting hungry after eating. “

Old man said openly.

Since ancient times, there are many old 100 people in the countryside who have 2 meals a day, one meal in the morning and one in the afternoon, about eight-nine in the morning, and 4-5 in the afternoon, so basically Able to meet one’s daily needs.

If you need to get up early in the morning, you will directly turn breakfast into dry food, take it to the ground, dry it for one hour before eating breakfast, or eat a little in the morning, bring some dry food to the ground, and eat it when it is hot at noon 3 meals a day.

Therefore, 3 meals and 2 meals are in a coexisting relationship. In many rural areas, you can eat 3 meals when needed, but if you do n’t need to work, you will only eat 2 meals a day, which is more reasonable. After all, When working, people are more tired, and eating one more meal can better supplement physical strength. When not working, you really do n’t need to eat so many meals a day. It ’s enough to eat one meal each afternoon. .

In addition, the cause of 2 meals a day is also related to backward productivity. In the era of widespread gas and electricity, making a meal is a very simple thing. It does not require much energy to spend in the countryside with low productivity. It takes a lot of effort to prepare a meal, often it takes an hour or two to make a meal, or even longer, so if you eat 2 meals a day, would n’t it be the person who cooks Tired.

Li An had such an experience in his previous life. Before cooking, his relatives in his hometown had to pick water from a puddle a few miles away, and then pick vegetables in the vegetable garden. After picking the water, they could wash the vegetables. You have to prepare firewood and firewood before you can start cooking, and at least a few more dishes should be fried in a meal. After a while of rubbing, it will take an hour or two before you can eat delicious meals.

Without gas and electricity, the speed of cooking is greatly limited, which directly leads the rural people to eat only 2 meals, get up at 7 am, and cook for 2 hours, it will be 9 o’clock, and 9 Eating at 4 o’clock, it’s almost ten o’clock after eating. Naturally, there will be no appetite at noon, and at 5 or 2 in the afternoon, the talent will feel hungry, so, eat a second meal.

Rural people usually go to bed early at night. Blowing lights at 7 or 8 is a very common phenomenon. Therefore, before the food is completely digested, people have fallen asleep.

Many urbanites in later generations have very irregular lives. Obviously, they can eat 3 or even 4 meals a day, but many eat only 2 meals, which is the so-called lunch and dinner, or lunch and supper, and breakfast directly No more.

Because future generations have internet access, they go to bed very late, and they wo n’t wake up early on 2nd day. It ’s about ten o’clock just after getting up, and a little activity. The first meal at ten o’clock is the most suitable. Too.

And because there are not many activities, at 7 or 8 in the evening, he will not have an appetite, and he will forget to eat dinner. When he arrives at eleven-twelve, he realizes that he is hungry, so he orders a take-out and eats all day The second meal, and this meal can only be regarded as supper.

One meal is lunch, and the second meal is supper. This lifestyle has great harm to people’s bodies, but many youngsters in later generations eat like this, they eat like this, they simply do not consider their own body They will not regret it until the day when their bodies collapse.

Even if the meal time is unreasonable, if the food you eat is healthy, it is also very good, but many people like to eat food with heavy tastes. Although these foods are delicious, they are very harmful to the human body. If you eat food, your body will suffer tremendous harm. Otherwise, how many years, there will be great problems in the stomach and intestines. You may even suffer from incurable gastrointestinal diseases. It may even kill a person.

Therefore, eating is a big problem, and it can never be treated sloppyly. A person does not care about his body, and his body will revenge sooner or later.

“Uncle! It ’s not enough to eat 2 meals a day. Eat one meal in the morning, evening, and evening. The best meal is 3 meals a day. However, if you have sweet potatoes, you do n’t have the problem of eating a few meals a day. Just eat sweet potatoes. Nutrition is not comprehensive enough, you still have to eat some vegetables in the morning, cook an egg or something. “

Li An said.