Chapter 601 You have to hurry up to marry your mother-in-law and have a baby
"Master, this one yielded nine sweet potatoes!"
"King Shenwu!"
"Hahaha, one plant can grow nine fist-sized sweet potatoes..."
Under this sweet potato seedling, nine huge sweet potatoes were dug out!
Similarly, the surrounding soldiers on the ship couldn't help it, their faces were full of excitement, and some soldiers even burst into tears looking at the nine sweet potatoes neatly arranged.
They could all see directly that the nine sweet potatoes dug out from one plant weighed at least four or five kilograms.
Similarly, Cheng Chusi, Li Chengqian and others were also extremely excited.
"This is the first one. After digging out the remaining sweet potatoes, we will see how it goes!"
Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and began to dig up the remaining sweet potatoes.
"Yes, Master!"
Hearing this, Li Chengqian and Cheng Chusi did not dare to delay. They quickly found a plant each and started digging.
After a while, Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others dug up the soil in the entire large wooden box and dug out the remaining eleven sweet potato seedlings one by one.
The most one grew was one plant, which directly dug out eleven sweet potatoes, and the least one was eight sweet potatoes, but all the soldiers were overjoyed.
They are all good at growing crops. They don't need to calculate carefully. Just using these twelve sweet potatoes, they can estimate that as long as they plant these sweet potatoes in their own fields, one acre of sweet potatoes can produce at least ten stones of sweet potatoes.
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One acre yields ten stones!
You should know that one acre of farmland in many of their homes can only grow about two stones worth of food.
And now, they are going to bring them back, and they can grow sweet potatoes worth ten kilo per acre.
Just thinking about it makes everyone feel emotional and have tears in their eyes!
The king is indeed a sage in this world!
Next, Li Xuan didn't do anything and asked Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and others to dig sweet potatoes.
At the same time, he ordered the soldiers on the other two large ships to start digging sweet potatoes.
Soon, the five large boxes of sweet potatoes and five large boxes of potatoes on his ship were dug out.
Twelve sweet potato plants are planted in each large box, and each plant can produce five kilograms of sweet potatoes. Five large boxes are equivalent to three hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes. With three large ships, a total of more than nine hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes can be grown.
As for potatoes, twelve plants were planted in each large box, but only three kilograms of potatoes were dug out from each plant. Therefore, a total of more than 540 kilograms of potatoes were planted in the three large ships.
But looking at the piles of fresh sweet potatoes and potatoes still stained with yellow soil, all the soldiers had excited faces.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for finding such a magical object for the people of Tang Dynasty!"
"As long as the two divine objects are brought back to the Tang Dynasty, the people like us will never be hungry again!"
"Back in the Tang Dynasty, whenever your Majesty has something to do, you only need to send someone to inform him, and I will hand over these people weighing more than a hundred kilograms to your Majesty. Even if it is a roller blade, I will never frown.
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"Exactly, once your Majesty has something to do..."
In an instant, all the soldiers, including the guards of the Jin Palace, knelt down towards Li Xuan with solemn expressions on their faces.
These soldiers were all rough guys digging in the fields, and they were most concerned about friendship.
A sweet potato can yield ten shi per mu, and there is a potato that can yield six or seven shi per mu. No matter which one is used, it is a great favor to farm men like them.
Life after life, I still can't understand that kind of thing.
Li Xuan was also shocked when he saw this scene.
However, he didn't say any pretentious words.
Instead he laughed loudly.
"I know your intentions. However, in the Tang Dynasty, it seems that no one except Your Majesty dares to bully me. Therefore, I do not need you to kill people and set fires on my behalf.
After all, when it comes to destroying houses, destroying families, killing people and setting fires, a thousand of you combined can't compare to me!"
Hearing this, all the soldiers couldn't help but be startled, and then looked at each other in confusion.
It seems that this is really the case.
In terms of killing people and fighting, all of them put together may not be able to match this King Jin.
So how should they repay the kindness of King Jin?
Li Xuan continued: "Furthermore, you may have never thought about bringing these sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peppers back to the Tang Dynasty from the Americas thousands of miles away. You all have contributed a lot.
If it weren't for you, who would be able to sail such a huge ship? Even with just a few of my men, I wouldn't be able to reach America.
Also, if it hadn’t been for you, I, the king, would not have been able to take these sweet potatoes onto the ship from those American barbarians!”
"Therefore, all the people in the fleet, including Prince Li Chengqian, Li Baoding, Li Chongyi, Cheng Chusi... and Xue Rengui, as well as all the soldiers and boatmen, will have a share of sweet potatoes brought back from America.
Credit!”
"Of course, Your Majesty also has some credit today. If His Majesty hadn't built three such huge steel ships, we wouldn't have been able to reach America. Even if we did, we might not be able to come back..."
Hearing this, all the soldiers couldn't help but feel happy. It turned out that they had contributed a lot to bringing back such a magical object.
Similarly, Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and others could not help but feel filled with the joy of being recognized. They had finally done a great deed that benefited the country and the people.
Especially Cheng Chusi, the corners of his mouth almost cracked to the base of his ears.
Li Xuan ignored it and continued.
"However, you should not be so short-sighted and only focus on these sweet potatoes and potatoes!
As long as these sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted in your fields, your families will definitely not be hungry.
Then, next is the most important thing for you to do!"
"Your Majesty, do we still have missions?"
Xue Rengui said with some doubts.
"It's natural!"
Li Xuan's expression became serious and he said loudly: "If you all can eat enough, then you must marry your mother-in-law and have children!"
"You don't need to worry about money and land. For your great contribution in bringing back sweet potatoes and potatoes this time, even if you can't get a title, Your Majesty will reward you with fields and money.
Moreover, there are several thousand kilograms of gold on board, and they will be distributed among you.
In this case, all you need to do is marry an aunt and have more children."
"Do you know what the population of the Tang Dynasty is now?"
"Master, there are 2.9 million households and more than 12 million people!"
Li Chengqian said quickly.
"There are only over 12 million people!"
As he said this, Li Xuan's face was filled with regret.
"Don't you think it's a pity that we, the Tang Dynasty, have only such a small number of people in a vast territory? These are all your responsibilities. Marry your mother-in-law as soon as possible and have children as soon as possible. This is the greatest thing you can do to me.
Repay the favor!"
"Master, our Tang Dynasty already has more than 12 million people. Is this still a small number?"
On the side, Cheng Chusi couldn't help but ask.
Agreeing, Li Chengqian, Xue Rengui and others also looked at Li Xuan with doubts on their faces.
As for the soldiers, this is even more true.
Although they could not imagine in their minds how many more than 12 million people there were, they already felt that they were very many.
"Isn't that a lot?"
Li Xuan let out a long breath and asked, "How many people were there during the heyday of the Sui Dynasty?"
Li Chengqian was startled and whispered again: "Master, there seem to be more than 8.9 million households with more than 46 million people!"
"The population of the former Sui Dynasty was four times greater than that of the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Xuan was shocked. He really had never thought of this matter.
He never thought that just a change of dynasty would lead to the death of more than 30 million people?