Cao Cao saw the people carrying hoes and said urgently: "Your Majesty, don't delay, let's dig."
"Yes, hurry up."
Guo Jia had long wanted to know what a sweet potato with an yield of three thousand kilograms per mu would look like. He simply rolled up his sleeves and said, "Your Majesty, let me come, give me a hoe, and I will do it myself."
Xun Yu shook his head and said with a smile: "Fengxiao, don't go there by yourself, lest you dig up the sweet potatoes. If it is really a sacred object with a yield of three thousand kilograms per mu, it cannot be wasted or destroyed."
One of the other individuals also requested to excavate immediately.
The people around him looked over one after another.
Everyone looked excited, looking forward to the advent of sweet potatoes. In addition, countless people gathered around the sweet potato field not far away to watch.
Lu Xuan withdrew his gaze, looked at Zhuge Liang, and ordered: "Let's dig."
"Dig!"
Zhuge Liang shouted the order.
After giving the order, the people who had already taken hoes started digging directly.
Sweet potatoes are planted in ridge soil, and sweet potatoes are planted in ridge soil. This planting method has been started since the late spring and autumn, and it is called ridge cultivation method.
The so-called ridge cultivation is not a complicated technology. In short, the land is dug once to form intervals of one high, one low, one high and one low. The high soil is ridges, and the gaps between ridges are ditches.
Crops planted on ridges have higher yields than those planted on flat land.
The reason is that the piled ridge soil is thicker and has gaps next to it, which is conducive to crop growth. In particular, the ridge soil is higher than the ditch and has better sunlight. When it rains, the ditch can also drain water and prevent waterlogging.
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This kind of farming method can be readjusted in the second year of planting, so that the ridges become furrows and the furrows become ridges, ensuring that the land can be restored and the fertility in the land will not be consumed all the time.
It seems very simple, but this simplest method of ridge cultivation was only implemented in later European regions in the 17th century.
The reason is simple and can be understood at a glance.
In fact, it is not an easy matter to break through this layer of windows. Why China's farming skills have always stood in the atmosphere, overlooking all countries, is because the farming skills have been with us since ancient times and have been engraved in our bones.
Today's sweet potatoes also adopt this farming method, and are all planted in ridge soil. Even after the yellow vines of the sweet potatoes are cut off, the sprouting sweet potatoes are revealed.
A commoner took the lead and dug down with the hoe. When he lifted it up, two large sweet potatoes were exposed in an instant.
boom!!
Countless people around him started talking instantly.
Both the officials and the people were shocked when they saw the two big sweet potatoes dug out.
"It's such a big sweet potato. I'm afraid this sweet potato weighs more than four kilograms. Just this sweet potato can make soup for a family of three for a day when there is no food due to natural disasters."
"It seems that a yield of three thousand kilograms per mu is not a big problem."
"Look, there is a bigger one. I'm afraid it weighs no less than six kilograms. It can definitely reach that."
The people and officials started discussing.
Amid everyone's discussion, Cao Cao jumped out like a rabbit in an instant, ran to the largest sweet potato at the front, ran back with the largest sweet potato in his hands, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, please weigh me.
How heavy is it?”
As soon as Lu Xuan waved, someone brought a scale over and weighed it quickly.
"Six pounds and six taels!"
The person in charge of the weighing immediately looked at Lu Xuan and said loudly: "Congratulations to the king, congratulations to the king. The sweet potatoes are six pounds and six taels. This is a blessing from God. It is the kindness of the king that moved God."
Guo Jia, Zhang Zhao, Xun Yu and Zhou Yu all stared at the six-pound sweet potato.
Extremely shocked!
Extremely strange!
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Congratulations, Your Majesty."
"The sweet potato discovered by your Majesty will benefit the country and benefit the future. It will definitely save countless people from the threat of hunger."
"Great King Shengming!"
Everyone was shocked.
The yield of sweet potatoes is really too high. In the farmland, after the sweet potato vines were cut off, sweet potatoes were being dug out one after another. Many of them weighed two or three kilograms, which was very scary.
Lu Xuan looked at everyone around him and smiled in his heart.
Where did this go?
The largest record of sweet potatoes in later generations is that there was a sweet potato weighing 238 kilograms. However, this is not one sweet potato, but a group of small sweet potatoes. Although it is a group of sweet potatoes, they grow together and can be regarded as one.
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Among them, the largest single sweet potato weighs twenty-six pounds.
There are endless records of sweet potatoes in later generations, and there are too many large sweet potatoes. The one in front of me weighs six pounds and six taels, which is not a big deal at all, not even ten pounds.
Lu Xuan glanced at the people who were still digging sweet potatoes and said with a smile: "The sweet potatoes are six pounds and six taels, but in my opinion, the biggest ones should be more than that."
"impossible!"
Cao Cao looked at the six kilograms and six taels of sweet potatoes and felt that his existing knowledge system and existing concepts had been washed away, breaking his cognition.
Now Lu Xuan said that it was more than six pounds and six taels, which surprised Cao Cao even more.
Cao Cao questioned: "Your Majesty, look at other sweet potatoes, they are all smaller than this one, most of them may be two or three kilograms, maybe around three kilograms. However, Your Majesty said they are much heavier than that, which is unbelievable."
Lu Xuan smiled and said: "Father-in-law, more than six kilograms is not heavy. I bet that there will be sweet potatoes weighing more than ten kilograms in the future. It is impossible that there is not even a sweet potato weighing ten kilograms in such a large acre of land."
Cao Cao was stunned for a moment.
He looked at the sworn Lu Xuan and said, "Your Majesty, are you serious?"
Lu Xuan said firmly: "There must be!"
Cao Cao said: "I will wait and see."
Having said this, Cao Cao weighed the sweet potatoes in his hand and said, "Potatoes taste very good. How about sweet potatoes? Whether they are suitable for eating is the most important consideration."
Lu Xuan said solemnly: "The functions of sweet potatoes are not as extensive as those of potatoes. However, when sweet potatoes are cut into pieces and boiled into porridge, it has an incomparable fragrance. Or it can be boiled directly in plain water, which also has a sweet taste. Or it can be burned in a fire and eaten.
, is also pretty good.”
Lu Xuan looked at Zhuge Liang and said: "Kong Ming, wash and peel the sweet potatoes and boil them in boiling water. Prepare some more and let everyone around you taste some. In addition, get some more sweet potatoes and put them on the fire to grill. Roast them.
Sweet potatoes taste better, sweeter and softer."
"Here!"
Zhuge Liang had been prepared for this.
He had experience, and it was easy to arrange it. The people in the county government quickly processed the sweet potatoes, washed them, peeled them, and boiled them in a pot. At the same time, they put the washed sweet potatoes in the fire that had been prepared nearby, and then
Slowly burn the fire.
Digging sweet potatoes is still going on.
There is a lot of land per acre, plus there are a large number of sweet potatoes, and the soil on the surface of the sweet potatoes needs to be wiped off, so it is a little slow. As time goes by, the boiled sweet potato pieces gradually emit a faint sweet fragrance.