Indeed.
Li Hao had his own conditions!
When he planted these potatoes and hybrid rice in the greenhouse, it was actually for the final condition!
Li Hao looked at Li Shi Min and pointed at another part of the shed. He said as he walked,"Potato is just one of the food crops. If this is so shocking to Your Majesty, why don't you take a look at them and listen to the next crop?”
Li Shi Min and the others followed Li Hao to the other side of the shed.
This was a paddy field!
Li Hao connected the bamboo tube to the stream in the mountains to water it.
What was planted in the paddy field?
Li Hao didn't need to say anything. Li Shiming and the others looked at the crops planted in the paddy field and felt that they were a little familiar!
Wei Zheng bent down and carefully looked at the crops in the paddy field. He looked at Li Hao and asked in confusion,""Young prince, this is…But rice?"
As soon as Wei Zheng finished speaking, Du Ruhui also bowed and replied,""No, rice is not like this.”
"Yes."
Fang Xuanling nodded and said to Li Hao,""Young wangye, this should be a new breed, right?”
Li Hao looked at everyone and said,"This is rice!"”
"Or rather, this is a new type of rice. This king calls it hybrid rice!”
"Mixed rice?"
Fang Xuanling repeated.
Li Hao looked at Li Shiming and said," It's actually the rice of Lu City that your royal family eats. However, the yield of hybrid rice is 100 times more than that of the rice in the south!"”
"Hiss!"
As soon as Li Hao finished speaking, everyone present sucked in a cold breath.
What was a hundred times more?
Li Shi Min couldn't imagine it!
The officials present couldn't imagine it!
Li Hao looked at Li Shi Min and said,"This kind of rice has an astonishing yield and is extremely easy to cultivate. At the same time, its texture is incomparable to the rice of Lu City!”
Silence…
After Li Hao finished speaking, no one made a sound. They were all silent.
These people all knew Li Hao's ability. They knew that Li Hao wouldn't exaggerate at all.
Was Li Hao exaggerating?
No!
Not only did Li Hao not exaggerate, he even said that the production was low!
The so-called rice was rice.
In this era of the Great Tang, ordinary people didn't even know what rice looked like, let alone eat it.
Only Li Shi Min and the officials could eat it.
But it was only occasionally!
Because the South did not bring in the rice from Champa, and the local rice production in the South was low and the taste was bad, rice was not welcomed during the Sui Dynasty.
The rice eaten by the imperial family of the Tang Dynasty was also from the rice of Lucheng in Bohai Kingdom.
Li Hao looked at the rice in front of him, then looked at Li Shi Min and said,""Just the rice production in this greenhouse alone can provide a year's worth of rations for the entire northern people!”
"What?!"
This time, Li Shi Min couldn't hold it in anymore!
A year's worth of rations for the entire northern population!
What kind of concept was this!
In the Great Tang, Li Shiming was most worried about the north.
Although the south had also experienced years of war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the chaos in the south was much smaller than in the north.
Farming could still be self-sufficient!
But the north was different!
Especially the Central Plains!
The entire Central Plains was a battleground for the warlords at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
But now, Li Hao solved Li Shi Min's headache with a single sentence. How could he not be shocked?
Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and the others were all famous ministers of the Great Tang.
The problem they needed to solve for the Great Tang was food!
Wei Zheng looked at Li Hao and asked excitedly,""Young prince, although this official is not very clear about rice, rice is different from millet and wheat.”
When Wei Zheng said this, he saw Li Hao smile.
Wei Zheng seemed to have thought of something. He looked up at the shed and looked at Li Hao in surprise." I understand now. The young prince went to Chang 'an City. It seemed like he was selling pork, but in fact, he was exchanging for cloth curtains so that the rice could survive the winter safely and be harvested at the end of the year!”
After Wei Zheng said that, Fang Xuanling and the others also looked up at the cloth curtain on the shed.
An airtight cloth curtain!
Their eyes were burning with passion!
Because they saw hope!
He saw that at the end of the year, the people of the Great Tang were well fed and clothed. At the end of the year, everyone was smiling happily.
This was what they wanted to see.
Fang Xuanling and the other famous officials were revered by the later generations because they were good officials who cared about the people!
Li Shi Min also looked at Li Hao with fiery eyes.
If what Li Hao said was true, then his headache would be solved.
The rice would perfectly satisfy the needs of the people in the north, and with the potatoes from the south, there would be no more starving people in the Great Tang!
Food was the most important thing for the people!
As long as the problem of food was solved perfectly, would the people have second thoughts?
No!
With the peace of the people, Li Shimin could focus on expanding his territory!
Especially since Li Hao had given him a start.
The Turks!
The Western Turks!
Who was holding Eri now?
In Li Hao's hands!
Even if it was in Li Hao's hands, wasn't it the same as being in the hands of the Great Tang?
The Western Turks would definitely fall into civil strife!
This was an opportunity!
A chance to take down the Western Turks.
On the bank of Wei River, Li Shi Min didn't listen to Li Hao's words at all. In his heart, he thought that Li Hao was just a delaying tactic.
Because Li Hao's so-called assimilation, Li Shi Min didn't agree at all.
Assimilation!
How could it be that simple?
The time required was too long!
Li Shi Min couldn't wait!
Li Hao looked at Wei Zheng, smiled and shook his head,"" Wei Zheng, I went to Chang 'an City to sell pork. As for the harvest of rice at the end of the year, I really don't have the patience. So I extracted the gene from a plant. This gene can speed up the ripening of rice, potatoes, and new vegetables in a few days.
Not only would it not affect the taste and quality, but it would also make it taste better!”
As soon as Li Hao finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on Li Hao.
Li Shi Min stuttered as he looked at Li Hao,"Little... I will agree to any conditions you have!”
Li Hao looked at Li Shi Min and said,"Set up a shrine for Mother and announce it to the world!"
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