Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 89 Eating chaff and diarrhea
"As for the other thing you investigated, if you report it directly to His Majesty, how much harm can it cause to Yang Xian? He can completely argue that he doesn't know anything about it."

Hu Weiyong turned his head and looked into the distance, raising the corners of his mouth slightly.

"I have another use for this matter."

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Pan, for this investigation. Mr. Xiangguo sees everything Mr. Pan does and will not forget your good deeds."

Having already talked about this, what else could Pan Longyun say?
From the moment he set foot on Er Wu Zai's path, he had no choice.

Yangzhou.

If you want to directly develop hybrid rice, you need to point out too many technological trees.

And if you don't click on the technology tree and exchange special hybrid rice seeds directly from the system, the cost will be astronomical.

No matter which method, Yang Xian cannot bear it now.

Therefore, he asked the people of Yangzhou to clear out their acres in advance and plant not hybrid rice, but potatoes!

The severe winter that swept through the entire Ming Dynasty last year suddenly reminded Yang Xian of the Little Ice Age in history that covered the entire Ming Dynasty.

The arrival of the Little Ice Age in the Ming Dynasty not only brought disaster to agricultural society, but even became the trigger for the outbreak of war.Affected by the Little Ice Age, the north continued to suffer from low temperatures, drought, and grassland degradation. They were forced to have no choice but to improve their situation. In order to improve their situation, the northern nomads could only frequently move south. Large-scale wars and famines brought down the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent.

This is one of the important incentives, but if this is the fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Xian doesn't think so.

The Little Ice Age did have an impact on agricultural socioeconomics.But it would be too arbitrary to judge that a large empire with a population of [-] million people will be destroyed because of this.The Ming Dynasty fell due to its serious internal crisis. Sun Chuanting summed up this point particularly well: "The powerful and powerful, and the yamen's academics are poor. This makes the country weak. Their behavior is more vicious than thieves, and their treachery is even more subtle."This was the fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

For most of the Qing Dynasty, it was also in the Little Ice Age.

However, compared with the Ming Dynasty, the number of major famine outbreaks has been greatly reduced. A large part of the reason is the popularity of cold-resistant and high-yielding crops such as potatoes and corn from afar in China.

During the famine in the Ming Dynasty, the victims had no food to eat, so they could only eat tree bark and even change their seeds.

If there is a famine in the Qing Dynasty, at least you can still eat potatoes and corn, and at least you won't starve to death easily.

The Chinese people have been fully equipped with the talent of endurance since ancient times. As long as they don't have food to eat and they really can't survive, they will definitely not rebel.

This is also the reason why the Abolition of Qing Dynasty lasted for more than 200 years.

Corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes.

The so-called "Kangxi and Qian Dynasties" in later generations were actually supported by these three brothers, so they were also called "the sweet potato prosperity of eating chaff and diarrhea".

In modern society, potatoes have been cultivated in various ways and can weigh up to 1 kilograms per acre. There has even been a record of growing more than [-] kilograms per acre.

In this day and age, not to mention too much, four thousand pounds per acre is absolutely no problem.

In the Ming Dynasty, hybrid rice before Yang Xian was excluded.

If ordinary rice seeds are planted, the yield of 300 kilograms per mu is already a top-notch figure.

The yield of potatoes from the same acre of land is fourteen to five times that of rice.

That is, if it is grown on a large scale.

Enough to feed a population ten times larger than usual.

Because at the same time, on the other side of the ocean, potatoes were already a crop.

Therefore, the merit points required to redeem it are not too many.

Yangzhou government office.

Yang Xian was holding a potato in his hand and explaining to Lu Mingyi.

After listening to Yang Xian's introduction, Lu Mingyi's eyes immediately changed when he looked at the mysterious yellow-brown oval object in Yang Xian's hand.

"Sir, can the things you call soil and potatoes really be used as a staple food, and can the yield per mu reach more than [-] kilograms?"

Yang Xian chuckled and said, "Of course."

"Let's have this for lunch today." Yang Xian had already prepared it.

In addition to the most conventional boiled potatoes, when talking about potatoes, potato beef stew is naturally indispensable.

After taking care of some clutter on hand.

Finally it's time for dinner.

All the officials in the government office ate together.

The star of the dinner table is of course potatoes.

Indeed, as Yang Xian said before, no other staple foods such as rice and steamed buns were prepared. Everyone had a plate in front of them, with three large potatoes cooked in plain water on the plate.

In the middle of the table is a large pot of beef stew with potatoes.

That scent is really too tempting.

Everyone looked at the potatoes in front of them and didn't know how to use their chopsticks.

Seeing this, Yang Xian smiled, reached out and picked up one, and then slowly began to peel off the outer layer of skin of the potato, revealing the khaki body inside.

Yang Xian took a bite, and the taste was still familiar.

When the others saw this, they imitated him.

Lu Mingyi opened his mouth wide and bit off most of the potato in his hand. He felt the taste was smooth and sticky.

The taste was something he had never tasted before and he said it was delicious.

After eating three in one go, my stomach felt full.

Lu Mingyi raised his head, looked at Yang Xian, and said, "Sir, this thing can indeed be used as a staple food. I have only eaten three, and I feel quite full."

The rest joined in.

"Okay, everyone, don't just eat potatoes. This beef stew with potatoes is the best." Yang Xian said with a smile.

In fact, everyone was already drooling from the smell.

But Yang Xian didn't move his chopsticks, and they didn't dare.

Although Yang Xian was usually very kind to them and had almost no airs at all, for them in the officialdom, many things had become instinctive.

At this time, Yang Xian spoke, and everyone couldn't bear it anymore. They picked up their chopsticks and reached for the pot of potato stew and beef as quickly as possible.

This scene reminded Yang Xian of the time when he took everyone to eat braised pork for the first time.

Potato cultivation is a completely new topic for ordinary people.

A lot of knowledge requires training.

Therefore, promotion is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Yang Xian's current plan is to plant all the official fields in Yangzhou with potatoes without thinking too much.

As for the people's private fields, he provided potato seeds to the people for free.

At that time, one-third of each mu of land will be harvested, or one thousand catties of harvest.

For the people of Yangzhou, if the yield of potatoes can really reach 3000 to [-] per mu, then even if one-third is expropriated, it will undoubtedly be a huge profit for them.They still have [-] kilograms per mu of land, which was their previous output in ten years.

As for those who are unwilling to grow potatoes, Yang Xian does not force them. They can also grow rice.

Of course, there is no need to think about hybrid rice this year.

　Civilization 6 is at an all-time low again. The platinum version comes with 6 DLCs, plus two large expansion packs, for only 48.I read the comments before and found that some book friends bought it at the original price for a limited time, so I will post it.

　　
　
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