At least if you grow rice, your whole family will have enough to eat and won't go hungry.
At this time, Song Ping was also dumbfounded.
As an important member of the imperial court, he had no worries about food and drink.
He simply couldn't think of these problems, and he didn't want to think about them.
After sending away several farmers kneeling on the ground, Song Ping was completely stunned.
This...what should I do?
Even if he had mouths all over his body, he still couldn't talk to these stubborn farmers.
These farmers don't recognize anything except real food.
After all, this food is the key to survival!
No one dares to joke with his own life.
In desperation, Song Ping had no choice but to use the government's coercive measures.
Seeing that some people haven’t had time to plant rice yet? Just expropriate the land to grow potatoes.
Do you want to protest?
No, no way.
This is the emperor's order, do you still dare to resist it?
In this way, Song Ping coaxed and deceived, and finally gathered more than 50 families to plant potatoes.
However, these fifty or so families are not experts in planting.
Most of them are idle bastards.
After all, at this time, serious people have already planted rice, so where is the chance to plant potatoes?
However, despite this, Song Ping was still very satisfied.
At least there are people now.
Someone is better than no one!
Next, it’s time to go to the fields and plant potatoes.
Here in Hu Changan, everything is going very smoothly.
After all, the old farmers under Hu Changan are all old farmers with many years of planting experience.
Although they may not necessarily be literate, they all have considerable experience in planting.
Soon, these old farmers became involved with the villagers.
As soon as he showed off his unique skills in farming, the villagers fell in admiration and came to ask for tips on farming.
A group of people and horses, enjoying themselves happily.
When planting potatoes, these old farmers worked very neatly.
Although they have never planted potatoes before, they all have planting experience after all.
Isn’t it easy to grow just one potato?
Looking back at Song Ping, the situation seems less optimistic.
Beside the field, a new Jinshi angrily threw aside the potato planting manual issued by Song Ping, pointed at the villagers working in the field and yelled: "Do you know anything about planting? Why do you have to ask me everything?"
This Jinshi was really incompetent and furious.
Although he was previously assigned to the agricultural department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, in the final analysis he was just a civil servant.
Processing text? Yes.
But actually going to work in the fields? This would be too difficult for him!
Ever since he was young, this new scholar has never done anything serious.
The only thing this new scholar could do was to read the potato planting manual to the villagers in the field according to the script.
In this way, the new Jinshi still felt that he had been greatly wronged.
As a dignified Jinshi, I should be able to sit on the painting boat and talk about life with other talented people and beauties.
Assign me to a field to study with an ordinary villager?
This is simply a great shame and humiliation.
What's even more disgusting is that the villager asked questions from time to time.
Why do these villagers have so many questions to ask?
The most important thing is that the new scholar could not answer any of the questions asked by this villager.
How could he, a noble scholar, know the spacing when planting potatoes?
The new scholar couldn't help but be furious at the villagers in the field, showing his incompetence.
When the farmer heard this, he felt aggrieved.
He also wants to be able to stop asking questions without asking questions!
But potatoes are a new thing after all.
Just holding the potatoes in his hands, the farmer seemed a little overwhelmed.
Although the tutorials in the book are useful, they cannot be comprehensive.
In actual work, we will always encounter various problems.
If he could solve these problems as a mere peasant, he would have become an official in the court long ago!
In this way, the two were at loggerheads.
After a while, it was the farmer who finally compromised first.
The farmer took hold of the farm tools in his hands again and continued working.
However, while working, he did not forget to tell the new scholar beside him: "In that case, I will plant it according to my previous experience in growing rice."