Lu Bu was a little confused. How could sweet potatoes be promoted so quickly?

"The public service, it's not that the people below fool us. How did sweet potatoes develop so quickly? After all, although sweet potatoes are abundant, they are not resistant to storage and processing are a big problem."

"Don't worry, this lord, I don't know the situation in Danyang County, but I have inspected several nearby counties. Let's go to the warehouse to see what is processed with dried sweet potatoes there."

"Go and see."

Lu Bu is not easy to fool, and he also knows some of the following officials' ways of doing things, bragging and exaggerating.

The group came to the government warehouse, where there were a small amount of fresh sweet potatoes, which were left after the seedlings were raised in spring.

There are two sweet potato slices on the ground. One is a rotary type, with two blades on the wooden disc. Next to the disc is a hopper for putting sweet potatoes. Turn the knife plate and put the sweet potatoes in, and the sweet potatoes are cut into slices. The other is a wooden board with a blade fixed on it and manually erasing the slices, which is also very fast.

"This is the magic weapon for our sweet potato promotion. It is a slicer. It is difficult to promote it so quickly without this sweet potato. After a large amount of sweet potato harvest in autumn, farmers generally store it in small quantities, and the others are sliced ​​in the ground. It is dry in autumn, which is very conducive to drying. The dried sweet potatoes can be stored for seven or eight months, or even longer. Sweet potato flour can be made into pancakes, steamed woks, and vermicelli, and many ways to eat it. Even sweet potato seedlings have a variety of methods. When fresh, they can be eaten as vegetables. After drying, they are the best animal forage, horses, cows, and mules like to eat it very much. Now most of the forages of military horses are sweet potato seedlings."

"Yes, who invented these two gadgets, did Mo Jun?"

Chen Gong shook his head: "It's not Mo Jun, but Bo Zhu Bin, the shepherd leader of Si. The pig feed he prepared in Teng Kingdom is also very reasonable. The pigs weaned with corn, sweet potatoes, soybean meal, salt and fish meal as ingredients can be slaughtered in six months. Most of the breeding breeding pigs are also from Teng Kingdom black pigs."

"Talent, talent. Zhu Bin is an absolute talent. Raising pigs and sweet potatoes has formed a virtuous cycle, and large animals such as horses, cattle, mules and other animals have promoted the development of agriculture."

Not only sweet potatoes, but also corn, hand-cranked corn cob threshers, and guillotines for crushing straw, etc.

Sweet potatoes and corn are almost wasteful from fruits to straws. People eat fruits and feed them. The straws are fed to animals, and finally turn them into fertilizer and return to the fields.

"Now the mountains are sweet potatoes and peanuts are rotated, and the people can eat meat and oil. All the people are grateful for the kindness of the Lord, and there are monuments of harvest for new crops built everywhere."

Lu Bu breathed a sigh of relief: "It's great. The efforts of the past few years have not been in vain. I have worked hard in the past few years, and the internal affairs are complicated."

"I'll be content with this lord."

The internal affairs are indeed complicated and fragmented. In order to promote the transformation of agricultural livestock, we have been promoting the use of oxen, donkey, horse and mule for years. The investment alone is very huge. Each village has a veterinarian who conducts training and competitions for the use of livestock every spring and autumn.

Let the people know how to raise, use, cherish, and what to do if they are sick.

It is easier said than done. It is just one item, and it took three years from the beginning to the realization.

It’s hard to fight outside, but it’s hard to come home. This is the disadvantage of having too many wives.

In the evening, Lu Bu returned home and sneaked into Diao Chan's room.

Diao Chan wondered: "How to go to Sister Xiao Qiao?"

"Well, that's it."

Diao Chan woke up and said that Xiao Qiao's belly had been four or five months old, so naturally she could not go.

"During this period, you have managed the hot sauce shop and can you know exactly the promotion of new crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn?"

"Outside Xuzhou City, Pengcheng, and Tengguo, these places are the places I have visited the most because I often check the growth of peppers. The potatoes and corn planting on the plains are large, and sweet potatoes can be seen occasionally. However, the official pig farms and horse farms all use sweet potato flour as essence, so I think there should be a lot of them. My husband wants to know how to go out and check it out."

"It makes sense. Just sitting in the yamen and listening to reports, all you hear is good news. Go out and check it out, this is the safest way."

During this period, many changes have occurred around Xuzhou, and several cotton spinning factories, garment factories and cloth shoe factories have emerged.

He was speechless all night and got up early the next day. Lu Bu went to Xuzhou Martial Arts Hall for a walk, rode a horse with chrysanthemum greens, and took dozens of cavalrymen including Xu Shitou.

During this period, Lu Bu was tired and did not walk far. He traveled sixty or seventy miles and arrived in Pengcheng.

Pengcheng is a very prosperous city around Xuzhou, with iron ore, copper ore, stone mining, etc. In addition, a shop was developed by Weishan Lake last year, mainly dealing with tea, oranges, medicinal materials, etc. Through the turnover of Xuzhou merchants, the south tea goes north, through the turnover of northern merchants, the north fur, ginseng, etc., the north goods goes south.

There is a mountainous area near the Pengcheng Iron Mine, covering an area of ​​dozens of miles. Lu Bu only brought Xu Shitou and a local cavalryman. Three of them unloaded their armor, changed into casual clothes and entered the mountain.

The village road here is pretty good, and it can be used by carts.

There are many carts with large wooden barrels parked on both sides of the road. Farmers are growing sweet potatoes in the field, and even pumpkins are planted on the edge of the field.

Whether the promotion is good or not, you can’t just listen to the officials and have to see it with your own eyes.

Lu Bu did not bother the people. He walked more than ten miles in the mountains in a few days. Wherever he went, it was very good. Sweet potatoes, peanuts and pumpkins were mostly planted. Villagers carrying water could be seen everywhere.

Most of the hillsides here are sandy land, and other crops do not grow, but sweet potatoes grow very well. The seedlings that are planted early have slowed down, and the seedlings that are planted late have just begun to grow.

Moreover, there are many mules, horses and donkeys, and they can be seen everywhere in the carts and plowing land.

The group was walking when they saw a young man in his fifteens and sixteens pulling a horse to eat grass on the river beach.

Lu Bu asked: "Young man, this is your horse, can you ride it?"

The young man was very proud: "My brother is a soldier from the Xuzhou Army and served in Youzhou. This is the horse he rewarded for fighting horse thieves last year. He has already given birth to a foal. I can ride it, but it is not very good. Usually, my family just pulls a cart and cultivates the land."

"Oh, that's pretty good. How many other animals are there in your village?"

"There are many mules distributed by the government and many scalpers bought by the villagers themselves."

Lu Bu was very satisfied and led his people to the Yi Cang in Pengcheng County. There are three warehouses in one place. The official warehouse is a granary for storing agricultural taxes, and the military warehouse is a warehouse for supplying military grains. The Yi Cang is a reserve granary, a granary specially designed for disaster relief.
Chapter completed!