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Chapter 361 The Sweet Potato Promotional Envoy Arrives

evening.

Yugou'er Village.

After a day of farm work, the villagers returned home covered in dust.

After making dinner, I didn’t eat it at home.

Instead, he went to the courier station with his rice bowl in hand.

The express station was built two years ago. Someone came to the village to buy land and built an elegant two-story building.

Sell ​​things and receive things.

Eggs laid by the villagers' chickens, wild honey picked from the mountains, herbs collected, etc., can all be sold for money.

Since the express station was established, the villagers of Yugou'er Village have had many more sources of income and have been able to save some money.

Unlike before, when you dig in the fields all year round, the food you grow is not enough to feed you. If you don’t suffer from famine, it’s not bad. How can you have any money left?
A few months ago, a new product arrived at the express delivery station—newspapers.

The newspaper was so big, with lots of fine print on it, including gossip, stories, articles... It opened a door to a new world for the villagers.

Let them know that there is such a vast world outside Yugouer Village.

It turns out that people in other places live like this.

It turns out that those noble people who they can't touch also have a lot of shitty things going on in their families...

The spiritual world of the villagers suffered a huge impact, but also received unprecedented nourishment.

A newspaper costs three cents, which is not cheap for the villagers.

But the villagers came up with a good idea and bought them collectively.

Each family pays one penny to the village chief. There are thirty or forty families in Yugou'er Village, which adds up to more than thirty penny, enough to buy a dozen newspapers.

After buying the newspaper, they asked Miss Tang at the express station to read it to them, and they had a month of fun.

Now what they look forward to most every day is to finish their work and go to the courier station to listen to what's in the newspaper.

That would bring them unprecedented satisfaction.

There is a large cement floor in front of the express station, enough to accommodate one to two hundred people.

There are also trees planted around and swings set up on the trees.

The children ran over happily and took turns playing on the swings.

The adults were holding bowls, squatting or standing, looking longingly at the door of the express delivery station.

In the expectant eyes of everyone, Tang Linger, the person in charge of the express delivery station, came out with the newspaper.

"Come on, come on, Miss Tang is coming out."

"Don't talk, just be quiet."

Tang Linger unfolded the newspaper and asked, "Which part do you want to hear first today?"

Everyone replied in a hurry: "Let's listen to the ghost story first!"

"I want to hear the gossip first."

"Should we listen to the agricultural sector?"

Tang Linger: "There is good news in the newspaper today. Do you want to hear it?"

"miss you!"

"What good news?"

Tang Ling'er: "There was a news in the newspaper, saying that a restaurant in Peizhou bought sweet potatoes at a high price, twenty cents per catty."

As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly burst into excitement.

"What are sweet potatoes? Can they be eaten?"

"My dear, twenty cents per pound, this is too valuable."

"Pork only costs eight cents a pound, which is even worth the price of mutton."

Tang Ling'er: "It says sweet potatoes are edible, and they taste pretty good. They can be eaten roasted, steamed, boiled... Anyway, there are many ways to eat them, and each one is delicious.

“Otherwise, other restaurants wouldn’t be willing to pay twenty cents a pound to buy it.

"There's also a drawing on it of what a sweet potato looks like. You can pass it around and take a look."

The newspaper was circulated among everyone.

"I saw that these sweet potatoes and taro looked strangely alike."

"Don't dare to eat taro. It's poisonous. The sweet potatoes that the restaurant wants to collect are definitely not taro."

"It looks like it was grown in the ground. It would be great if we could grow it. Twenty cents per catty will definitely fetch a lot of money by then."

The newspaper was back in Tang Linger's hands.

"It does say that sweet potatoes are grown in the ground. It also says that they don't care about the land. They can be grown even on sandy land. The yield is very high. One acre of land can harvest three thousand kilograms!"

Now the villagers were really shocked. "What? One acre of land can yield three thousand kilograms? Is that a lie?"

"That's right, where can we find grain with such a high yield?"

"It would be great if we could harvest so much from one acre of land, then we wouldn't have to worry about running out of food."

Seeing that everyone was very interested in sweet potatoes, Tang Linger smiled.

She completed the task assigned by the door owner.

When the sweet potato promotion agent arrives in a while, these villagers will definitely rush to plant them.

A few days later, a government official rode a horse to Yugou'er Village and went straight to the village chief's house.

"The imperial court sent sweet potato promotion envoys to encourage people in villages and towns to plant sweet potatoes. The county magistrate asked me to inform you that you must go to the county government tomorrow to learn how to grow sweet potatoes from the extension envoys."

After being notified, the Yamen left and rushed to the next village.

That evening, in the cement square.

While all the villagers were there, the village chief held a meeting and told the villagers what the Yamen had announced.

"A few days ago, the newspaper said that sweet potatoes were being purchased. Today, the imperial court sent someone. It came just in time."

"Great! We can make money by growing sweet potatoes."

"The Emperor is such a good man. He always thinks about us people and wants us to live a good life."

The simple villagers kowtowed towards the imperial city on the spot, shouting long live and being grateful to the emperor.

Tang Linger found it funny.

The emperor is indeed a good emperor, always thinking about the people, but the sweet potato was created by the sect leader.

First, a ship was sent out to bring it back from overseas, and then it was carefully cultivated for several years.

This is how we have today’s high-yielding, delicious sweet potatoes.

These people should really be grateful to the sect master.

However, the sect owner did not allow them to publicize this matter, saying that it was not good to be too high-profile and to be in the limelight.

Let’s give the sweet potato’s credit to the emperor.

Before dawn the next day, the village chief took two clever young men and drove an ox cart to the county seat.

In the evening, the group returned.

I didn’t even return home, I went directly to the express delivery station.

The villagers gathered around and said, "Village chief, how are you doing?"

"Village chief, have you seen the sweet potatoes?"

"Did the extension officer really teach you how to grow sweet potatoes?"

Tang Ling'er brought a bowl of water over and said, "Let the village chief drink some water and rest first."

The village chief was grateful, drank the water, and then told the story of his trip to the county government.

“This time I not only saw sweet potatoes, but also tasted them. They were soft, waxy and especially sweet.

"The promotion envoys were a man and a woman. They were both young, but they knew a lot. They taught us how to grow sweet potatoes and gave us a brochure with brightly colored paintings about growing sweet potatoes.

“If you want to grow sweet potatoes, there are two ways. One is to buy sweet potato seedlings, and any number of sweet potatoes harvested in the future will be your own.

“If you don’t have money to buy seedlings, you can go to the county government to get them for free, but when the harvest comes, you have to hand over [-]% of the produce from the fields to the court.

"According to the yield of sweet potatoes per mu, three percent is nine hundred catties. If you don't pay this amount, you have to pay a fine."

The same situation occurs in villages large and small all over Dayong.

A wave of sweet potatoes blew up.

Too timid to try.

What should I do if I’m worried about the seeds being damaged?What to do if the proceeds are not confiscated?What should I do if I can’t harvest so many sweet potatoes and don’t have enough to hand over?
The brave ones planted more or less.

Summer passes and autumn comes in the blink of an eye.

In late September and early October, sweet potatoes are harvested everywhere.

The climate, soil, sunshine and other conditions vary from place to place. Some places are very suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes, while others are not so suitable.

But fortunately, sweet potatoes are adaptable and adaptable to any situation.

Those with low yields harvested one or two thousand catties of sweet potatoes, while those with large yields even exceeded three thousand catties per mu.

Those who dared to try growing sweet potatoes were delighted.

Those who dare not try will regret it until their intestines turn blue.

I vowed to plant sweet potatoes after next spring.

(End of this chapter)