Zhenguan Han-in-law

Chapter 594 Sweet Potatoes
Chapter 590

Concubine Wei Gui was there thanking Wei Hao. She also knew that Wei Hao had put a lot of effort into accepting Li Shen. If Wei Hao didn't explain it, Empress Changsun probably wouldn't be able to pass this test, and Li Lizhi's side would not be able to pass it. will not agree!

"Auntie, why are you talking about this? The main reason is that Li Shen is talented. Since I have talent, I will definitely accept it!" Wei Hao said with a smile, and then went to the living room for dinner. After the meal, Li Shimin asked someone to arrange Apprentice scene.

"Father, it's not necessary, is it? Why are you so formal?" Wei Hao said a little incomprehensibly.

"That's not going to work, what about apprenticeship? You Shenyong is unmatched in arithmetic and gewu. Shiro will learn from you. Can you do it if you don't study hard?" Li Shimin immediately waved his hand and said, still ordering those maids in Wei Hao's mansion , set up the seat, and then pulled Wei Hao onto the chair.

"Can we start?" Li Shimin looked at the others and asked.The others also nodded, but everyone had their own thoughts. Li Jing didn't understand, Wei Ting was excited, and Gao Shilian was also surprised, thinking about what Li Chengqian should do next.

"Okay, Shen'er, come here!" Li Shimin greeted Li Shen, who immediately ran over.

"Kneel down and kowtow nine times to your master. From now on, you will be Shen Yong's disciple. From now on, you must perform discipleship in front of your master. From then on, you will not be a prince in front of Shen Yong. Remember? "Li Shimin stood there and said to Li Shen.

"Yes, I remember it!" Li Shen nodded, then knelt down, and began to kowtow to Wei Hao. After kowtowing, Wei Hao stood up, helped Li Shen, and then took out a wooden box.

"Shen'er, this is given to you by the teacher. I made it specially for you. You can use it in the future. It contains all kinds of tools you need!" Wei Hao said and handed the wooden box to Li Shen. Shen took it with both hands, and then opened it. There are rulers, set squares, half-circles, vernier calipers, compasses and other designed tools inside!
"Thank you, master!" Li Shen closed the box, knelt down again, and kowtowed to Wei Hao.

"Okay, get up!" Wei Hao helped Li Shen up again.

"Come on, Shenyong, this is given to you by the emperor. A ruler. If Shiro disobeys you in the future, you can use this to beat him. Don't worry, you can do it!" Li Shimin took out a ruler with words engraved on it. , written to Wei Hao. "Thank you, father!" Wei Hao took it with both hands and said to Li Shimin.

"Well, Shenyong, Shi Lang will leave it to you, father can rest assured, and hope he can learn real skills from you!" Li Shimin said to Wei Hao.

"Yes, father, in the future, Shiro will definitely become a master of things. Shiro is proficient in everything about the Ministry of Industry!" Wei Hao nodded and said affirmatively.

"Okay!" Li Shimin nodded, and then Concubine Wei Gui came over, and also gave Wei Hao a lot of things as apprentice gifts, all of which were very valuable.

"Thank you, Auntie!" Wei Hao nodded and said, and then the queen also gave Wei Hao something, and Wei Hao also thanked him. Wei Hao arranged for him to live in a separate courtyard and assigned him 4 maids. At the same time, Concubine Wei also left him 4 maids and 4 eunuchs to take care of Li Shen's daily life.
The next morning, after Wei Hao got up, he went to call Li Shen to get up. After breakfast together, Wei Hao took Li Shen to the study and began to teach him mathematics knowledge. He also gave Li Shen three pens. There are a lot of pencils. Wei Hao told Li Shen how to use them. Li Shen is very talented, and he can basically understand them. Wei Hao also gave him a lot of math problems and asked him to do them.
And I went to the farmland to have a look. Wei Hao had already harvested some seeds. After all, he started to sow the seeds for the second time to see how the results were.

Going back at noon, Wei Hao checked Li Shen's math problems and found that they were all correct. Wei Hao was very happy. After dinner, Wei Hao asked Li Shen to go to rest. In the afternoon, he continued math class, basically the morning class. One session in the afternoon, one session in the evening,
After class, Wei Hao still assigned a lot of homework for him, and Li Shen was also very interested. On the fifth day, Li Shen basically finished the mathematics of the first grade. Wei Hao also specially arranged tests, and the results were all very nice,
However, Wei Hao was going to take Li Shen to the farmland today, because officials from ten nearby state capitals came here today, as did Chang Sun Chong and Xiao Rui, but Wei Hao didn't go to receive them, mainly because he was too busy. Now, Li Shen needs to be taught, and Wei Hao doesn't care about other things.

When Wei Hao arrived at the farmland, he found that Li Shimin and the others had already come.

"Father, why did you come so early?" Wei Hao was surprised and asked quickly.

"I have seen my father!" Li Shen also went over and asked.

"Well, no courtesy, I don't want to wait for a moment, Shiro, come to my father's side!" Li Shimin said to Wei Hao with a smile, then greeted Li Shen, and Li Shen came to Li Shimin's side.

"Brother-in-law, what a good thing it is, you have to show us!" Li Tai also ran over at this time, and said to Wei Hao.

"Good stuff, I guarantee you like it!" Wei Hao said, and then took them to the sweet potato field, and then said to Li Tai: "His Royal Highness Wei Wang, I may trouble you, you take the officials to measure this piece yourself How big is the land!"

"Okay, no problem!" Li Tai said happily, and then took a few officials to measure, while Wei Chen was preparing a cauldron, waiting for Wei Hao to dig out something, and the other officials were I don't understand and look at this side.

"Brother-in-law, it's 8 points in total, just right!" Li Tai came over and said to Wei Hao after measuring.

"Okay, everyone, do you have any questions? It's almost [-]% of the land here?" Wei Hao asked with a smile.

"almost!"

"That's what it looks like!".
The other officials immediately nodded and said, Wei Hao saw them nodding, and then said: "Everyone, look at the crops inside, I didn't bury them?"

"How can it be? If it is buried now, in such a hot day and in such a drought, can it still survive?"

"Duke Xia, what are you planting? You and we still can't believe it?" Some officials said.

"Okay, so, here are ten hoes, everyone can go down and dig separately to see if these crops grow. After digging, we have to count the weight, and then I will tell everyone how to eat this! " Wei Hao said with a smile and pointed to the hoe next to him.

"I'm coming!" Li Tai picked up a hoe as soon as he heard it, Chang Sun Chong also grabbed one, Xiao Rui also grabbed one, and the other officials shared the hoes. Tai took the hoe in his hand and began to dig. There were sweet potatoes underneath. Wei Hao picked the sweet potatoes from their roots, shook the soil clean, and put them in the basket.

"Just dig like this. If you don't want those seedlings, you want the sweet potatoes inside!" Wei Hao said with a smile.

"Sweet potato!" Some officials heard it and remembered the name.

"The yield is not low!" Those people saw that just one sweet potato seedling weighed two or three catties, and they were all very large.

"Let's start digging, and change people when you're tired. Everyone also needs to know how much the yield of this sweet potato is!" Wei Hao said to them with a smile, and the officials started digging. Li Shimin was very excited at the moment, because he found that, The output of this thing is really high, seven or eight seedlings are enough to fill a basket!

"Shen Yong, can this sweet potato be eaten directly?" Li Shimin asked Wei Hao.

Hearing this, Wei Hao pulled out a dagger from his feet, then picked up a sweet potato, began to peel it, and then put it in his mouth to bite. Li Shimin saw that he also took Wei Hao's dagger, began to peel it, and then bite.

"Mm, um, sweet!" Li Shimin took a bite, nodded immediately and said that other officials would also like to eat.

"No, no. You will eat later, you need to count the production, and you will eat later!" Li Shimin immediately stopped them and shouted. Now he also wants to know how many sweet potatoes can be dug out from this eight-cent field.

When the officials heard this, they didn't dare to move, but they knew that if Li Shimin said it was delicious, it would be about the same.

"Shen Yong, don't talk about other things, just say that eating raw is better than Guanyin soil, and this is grown in the ground, so there must be no problem!" Li Shimin was a little excited, really a little excited, if this sweet potato If it is promoted, there will really be no starvation in Datang in the future.

"Hey, in terms of food, I think it's no problem to feed three or four people per acre of land. Of course, it's definitely not enough to eat it for a long time, but it's absolutely no problem to cook it with rice!" Wei Hao smiled and said Li Shimin said.

"Okay, okay!" Li Shimin said very excitedly.

Soon, the sweet potatoes were all dug up, and those officials didn't need Wei Hao's command, they directly started weighing and registering, and after all the weighing was finished, some officials would estimate it.

"Three thousand catties, three thousand catties, God, it's only [-]% of the land, three thousand catties, wouldn't it cost three thousand seven or eight hundred catties per mu, can feed several people!" an official shouted excitedly.

"Your Majesty, the total output is [-] catties!" An official said to Li Shimin after finishing the statistics. Li Shimin's hands were shaking at the moment.

"Your Majesty, can we have a taste?" another official asked.

"Taste, taste!" Li Shimin immediately pointed at them and said, those officials started to take the sweet potatoes, got the dagger from the guard's hands, began to peel, and then began to bite.

"Delicious, sweet, really sweet!"

"Well, it's delicious, it's delicious!"

"It's really good, you can eat it, it's a good thing if you can eat it!".
The officials were very excited and said it was delicious.

"Shen Yong, how is this thing stored and how long can it be stored?" Li Jing said excitedly at this moment.

"Father, father-in-law, if this thing is stored like this, in a cool place, it can be stored until next summer, but he has many other methods, which can be stored for a year, such as cooking it and drying it in the sun. When you want to eat, put it in the steamer and steam it, and you can eat it again, by the way, come here, wash it up immediately, put it in the pot to cook, and everyone will taste how to eat it after cooking!" Wei Hao immediately ordered up.

"Okay, don't be idle, Shenyong, do you want to dig other sweet potatoes, now you go to measure each field, and then count the output, go!" Li Shimin said to the officials,

Those officials are also very excited. The food problem has always been a big mountain in the hearts of those officials. If this matter is resolved now, there will be no refugees, no refugees, and no worries about drought. At that time, there was not enough food to treat them. When the officials went to dig sweet potatoes, Wei Hao picked up a few sweet potatoes and threw them into the fire.

"Is this okay?" Li Shimin looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"Hey, father, you will know after a taste, but, father, you can't eat too much, if you eat too much, you won't be able to digest it, but there is no harm!" Wei Hao said to Li Shimin with a smile.

"Well, okay, Shen Yong, after seeing this, the father really has nothing to worry about, really nothing to worry about!" Li Shimin said with great emotion, what else can he say with such an output?
Then Wei Hao directed the servants brought over from the mansion to wash the sweet potatoes. Some of them were thrown in whole and boiled, while others were cut into pieces and cooked with rice. Wei Hao wanted to let them know , how to eat this sweet potato,
After a while, a piece of land was dug, five points, and 1900 catties were dug. Those people were all excited. Slowly, they also dug more than ten pieces of land. The average output was all in the 3800 catties up.

Li Shimin kept looking at those sweet potatoes, picked them up and looked at them from time to time, and then said to Li Tai and Li Shen beside him: "See, this is your brother-in-law's power. Paper and printing benefit scholars all over the world, but this is for the benefit of all." All the people in the world, the father asked your brother-in-law to solve the food problem, and it took less than a year to solve it. With these sweet potatoes, we don’t have to worry about hungry people in Tang Dynasty. You must remember this day, remember Thanks to Shen Yong!"

"Yes, Royal Father!" Li Tai and Li Shen immediately nodded and said.

"Zhen, I'm really relieved!" Li Shimin said with emotion again, completely relieved in his heart, and Li Jing and the others were also very excited. Now they just want to see how to eat those cooked sweet potatoes, okay? Delicious, how does it taste?As long as the taste is good, then it is really complete.

But Wei Hao didn't go to the field, but stared at those big pots. He hasn't eaten boiled sweet potatoes for a long time, and he hasn't eaten baked sweet potatoes. Let them know how sweet potatoes taste.Soon, the boiled sweet potato was ready. Wei Hao took out one and peeled off the skin. It felt too hot, otherwise, Wei Hao could have bitten it down.

(End of this chapter)