What! Xie Jinyan was shocked and almost stopped standing.
What is the concept of yielding two thousand catties per mu?
For a moment, Xie Jinyan suspected that he had heard wrongly.
He was shocked in his heart, and couldn't hide the surprise on his face.
But fortunately, he had seen strong winds and waves, and he soon calmed down, and hurriedly asked the middle-aged man, "Uncle, you...are you telling the truth?"
"Hey, young master, can I lie to you about such a thing?"
"If you don't believe it, come with me to my house and take a look. I still have a lot of potatoes at home."
"We also have some at home. Didn't we just harvest a batch a few days ago?"
"Yes, yes, we have them at home too."
At that time, the villagers spoke one after another.
Xie Jinyan, who had not invited the descendants of the farm family, his eyes suddenly shone and he asked the middle-aged man with a smile, "Is it true that I can go to your home now?"
"That's natural. We have plenty of them at home. It's okay to give you some. They're delicious and can be steamed or boiled." Speaking of potatoes, the middle-aged man seemed a little proud.
The strong black woman also smiled and said, "Our family just harvested several hundred kilograms of rice not long ago."
"Then, can we go to your home and have a look? If it is possible, I would also like to have a look in the fields." Xie Jinyan suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked again.
The strong black woman nodded immediately and said with a smile, "Okay, anyway, we are going to the fields right now. If you don't mind getting dirty in the fields, we can go directly to the fields now."
Too dirty? Compared with solving the food problem, what else can you think is too dirty?
Xie Jinyan agreed immediately without even thinking about it.
Afterwards, he called Yu Qingwu, returned to Taohua Village, and followed the woman and her husband to the fields.
You wouldn’t know it if you didn’t look at it, and you’d be shocked when you look at it.
That's called a potato crop, and it's just as the villagers said, it's delicious and has high yields.
Therefore, Xie Jinyan decided to postpone his trip to Yunzhou for one day and did nothing all afternoon, just listening to the couple introducing potatoes.
The couple's surname was Li, and they were both locals in Taohua Village. According to them, they originally didn't believe that the potatoes could produce so much, but they followed the example after watching the farmers planting and harvesting in person.
Later, I discovered that this thing is indeed easy to grow, has a high grain yield, is delicious, and can withstand satiety. Therefore, I planted some every year. Although this year's harvest is not as good as in previous years, it is still good. In short, it is worse than others. The villages around them have never heard that there is no food to eat.
Listening to the Li family's description, Xie Jinyan was extremely excited.
After learning how to grow potatoes with the Li family, I bought some potatoes from each villager's house. Each family bought more than 100 kilograms, which added up to several thousand kilograms.
That night, he arranged for Feng Yuan to transport all the potatoes out of Taohua Village and to Kyoto as quickly as possible, and then wrote a letter to the emperor.
After all this work, it was already dark.
When they returned to the inn, Xie Jinyan was covered in mud, and Yu Qingwu and Yan Qingqing were not much better.
But the three of them are in a good mood...
Especially Yan Qingqing, as soon as she entered the door, she couldn't help but smile to Yu Qingwu, "Senior sister, I never thought that there was such food in the world. If potatoes were planted everywhere in the Wei Dynasty, there would be no need to worry.
Someone starved to death?”
"Yes, if the whole country of the Wei Dynasty planted this thing, it would be considered a good food reserve." Yu Qingwu also sighed and said with great relief.
While they were talking, the three of them had arrived at the door of the room.
After entering the house, several people spent a lot of effort to wash themselves up.
Afterwards, they each ordered midnight snacks.
Under the dim light, Xie Jinyan had changed into a snow-white undergarment.
He was clearly chewing a bun, but he still held a potato in his hand. He frowned and stared at it for a long time, then raised his head and asked Yu Qingwu, "Senior sister, where do you think this old farmer got this thing?"
"Moreover, he can obviously use this thing to save people from disasters, but for some reason, he just refuses to use it for the court. My father also sent people to invite him before, but he always avoided it. If it weren't for Master this time,
He probably doesn't want to be alone."
"If you hadn't reminded me today, I wouldn't have had this unexpected surprise."
"Tell me, does this old farmer have any other crops in his hands?"
"Also, why on earth is he unwilling to be used by the imperial court?"
Xie Jinyan put down the potatoes and asked questions again and again.
There is confusion and regret.
You must know that if more crops like potatoes are obtained, or if the descendants of farmers get advice to make wheat and rice more productive, for the Wei Dynasty, it will not only solve the people's livelihood problems, but also make the country even more powerful.
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Could it be that...the old farmer just doesn't want to see the Wei Dynasty become powerful?
Thinking of the woman he saw in the back mountain that day, the Nanyue Princess Xiao Yumo, Xie Jinyan couldn't help but frown again.
Before Yu Qingwu could speak, he looked up at her again and sighed, "Senior sister, why do you think this old farm man who can't be hired by anyone is willing to meet an orphan just because of a few words from the master? Moreover, he is willing to help those around him.
People, why are they unwilling to benefit the Wei Dynasty..."
"Your Highness, you asked so many questions at once, which one do you want me to answer first?" Yu Qingwu smiled, looking at Xie Jinyan's appearance, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed.
In the past, she only knew that Xie Jinyan was really busy.
But after truly seeing how busy he was, how concerned he was for the country and the people, and how exhausted he was, she understood more and more that it was really not easy to be the heir apparent of a country.
Seeing nobility means thinking more and doing more.
After a moment of silence, she pointed to the buns in front of him and said, "Okay, Your Highness, let's eat first. As for other matters, haven't you already written a letter back to Kyoto? I believe there will be news soon."
"Although we can't invite the descendants of the farmer now, we can still solve a big problem by getting crops like potatoes. Don't always think so much."
"That's the case..." Xie Jinyan nodded, took a sip of tea, raised his eyes and looked at Yu Qingwu again. Seeing the woman's brows showing some distress, he smiled again, stretched out his hand to smooth her brows and said, "Senior sister, do it.
Why do you look so lonely?"
"It's nothing, I just never thought that our majestic and most ridiculous Crown Prince would still work in the fields." Yu Qingwu sighed softly, and the distress in his eyebrows became a little deeper.
Xie Jinyan curled his lips and responded to her with a warm voice, "Isn't this normal? As the crown prince of the Wei Dynasty, Gu naturally doesn't only know the affairs of the court."
