Potato
, also known as potato, earth egg, and foreign sweet potato, is a kind of herbaceous plant that belongs to the nightshade family. It is native to South America and is known as the world's top five food crops along with wheat, corn, crows, and sorghums.
Potato tubers could be used for food in the future and would be the third most important food crop in the world, second only to wheat and corn.
At the same time, potatoes could also be made into noodles.
In the 17th century, potatoes had become an important food crop in Europe and spread to China. Because potatoes were very suitable for growing in the cold areas where food production was extremely low and only naked oats could be grown, they quickly became popular in Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, and northern Shaanxi. High-yield crops such as potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes from America became the main food of the poor, which played an important role in maintaining the rapid increase in the population of China.
Qin Mo chose the Dutch 15 species, and the yield per mu reached a terrifying 6000 jin.
During the Tang Dynasty, one jin was 16 liang, which was 3750 jin. One stone was equivalent to 106 jin in modern times, which meant that the yield per mu could reach an astonishing 50 stones.
In the Tang Dynasty, the yield of grain per mu was about 3 dan, which was about 300 jin now. The main reason for this was that the Tang Dynasty did not use fertilizer to grow grain. They only burned some platycorns and buried them in the ground as fertilizer.
And the potato production was more than ten times the grain production of the Tang Dynasty, which was enough to let the people no longer worry about hunger.
At the same time, the production of sweet potatoes and corn also exploded.
These three crops were probably enough to change the fate of the Chinese nation and walk out of the historical cycle of prosperity, decline, and prosperity. They would be able to have the energy to look outside and look at the sea.
Once this race cast their eyes outside, Qin Mo believed that no one, no race, could match them.
Thinking of this, Qin Mo could not help but feel a little excited.
When he first transmigrated, in his plan, he had to obtain high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn.
They were even prepared to build ships and go to the United States to search for these rations after they grew stronger.
Now, with the help of Taobao, it was done in one step.
However, it would take some time to reverse the current situation. It would take three to five years to form a large-scale plantation. If he wanted to promote it to the world, it would take eight to ten years.
He could also take out thousands of catties of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn at once, but it would be difficult to explain. After all, he did not bring so many things when he entered Chang 'an. This was witnessed by many people.
As for the little things in front of him, it was easy to explain. He just needed to say that they were food brought back by the sea visitors from overseas. If Li Er wanted to ask where the sea visitors went, he could ask nothing.
The appearance of potatoes could allow Qin Mo to carry out many of his plans ahead of time.
Qin Mo couldn't help but buy a pack of cigarettes and a lighter online.
She was too excited, so she smoked a cigarette to calm herself down.
Pa!
Hiss!
Qin Mo felt that he was cute when he took a puff of the cigarette.
This is life!
Then he caught a glimpse of the three strips of paper.
The packaging was printed with words, production date, and address. This was a tricky problem, so he could only burn the packaging.
It would be great if the shopping cart could store things. He thought about it and began to explore Taobao. He found that there was a button to store things in the shopping cart, so he clicked it.
The interface appeared, and the interface was his eyes.
When he looked at the roll of paper, it had disappeared into thin air. When he looked at the shopping cart again, the roll of paper was already inside.
Awesome, my computer.
This was equivalent to an interspatial ring. It was really a must-have item for home and travel.
With the future troubles gone, he began to breathe out clouds and mist, feeling very happy.
What if Taobao ran out of money?
He thought of another difficult thing, so he started to check Taobao's top-up. When he clicked on top-up, the interface appeared again.
Could it be sweeping the copper coins?
Qin Mo took out a copper coin. With a beep, the copper coin disappeared. When he checked his AliPay, he found that he had recharged 0.01 yuan.
In other words, one coin in the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to one cent of RMB.
According to the purchase price, Tang Chao's rice cost three to five copper coins per catty, which was definitely a loss. However, when he thought about how he was buying an item from the future, it was worth it.
This golden finger was absolutely amazing. It could not be measured by money.
After the food was settled, Qin Mo thought about the problem of vegetables.
There were very few vegetables in ancient times. There were five types of vegetables that were commonly seen in written records: sunflower, wormwood, leek, Chinese cabbage, water chestnut. The sunflower was the winter sunflower, the leaf of the soybean sprout was the green leaf of the soybean sprout. Leek is leek, today still use the ancient name; Chinese cabbage is cabbage; Water chestnut is shepherd's purse. Zhang Qi of the Han Dynasty brought back spinach, carrots, and cucumbers from his trip to the Western Regions. Cowpeas and eggplants were introduced from India in the Han Dynasty, and lettuce was introduced in the Five Dynasties. These were probably the main vegetables on the table of the Tang Dynasty.
There were no potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, onions, corn, and other common vegetables in the future.
Hence, Qin Mo got some vegetable seeds from Taobao. Of course, they were still in the shopping cart.
The documents for his title of Marquis had already arrived in Lantian County, and the local government was dividing his land. As for the Marquis's mansion, it would take at least a few months to build it normally. Fortunately, Lantian County had the mansion of a Marquis of the previous dynasty. According to the laws of the imperial court, it was definitely against the rules for an Earl like Qin Mo to live in a Marquis 'mansion. However, the treasury of the Great Tang was so poor that rats were starving to death. In order to save money, Li Er directly gave the Marquis' mansion to Qin Mo, and no one said anything.
Even Wei Zheng, who liked to find fault with the emperor, did not jump out. If he did not have a little insight, Old Wei would not have become a famous official.
In this way, Qin Mo's mansion only needed a simple renovation before he could move in.
After they moved in, they would officially start planting potatoes. At this moment, the Tang Empire would open a new chapter in its history.
Potato was more important than horseshoes because even without the latter, the Tang army would still be invincible.
Without potatoes, it would be difficult for the population of the Tang Dynasty to grow explosively.
Without a sufficient population, no matter how much land they conquered, they would not be able to occupy it.
The population was the foundation. It was not an exaggeration to say that this was the foundation of all Qin Mo's opportunities.
Qin Mo couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the benefits.
As for the computer mutation, Qin Mo had completely forgotten about it.
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