Next.
Xun Yu presided over a short ceremony.
It made this Harvest Day feel more ceremonial.
Xun Yu walked over and said,"Your Majesty, the good time has come. We can dig."”
Liu Xie didn't say anything. He looked at Cao Ang, who nodded and said,"There's no time to lose. Let's start!"
"Yes, sir!"
Xun Yu ordered.
Jia Sixie was dressed casually.
He exuded the aura of an old farmer from head to toe.
He brought Minister Xun You into the potato field.
Jia Sixie was in charge of digging the potatoes while Xun You was in charge of recording.
The first potato was dug up very quickly. Everyone's eyes widened!
Whoosh.
The soil churned.
He grabbed the root and lifted it.
What happened next stunned everyone.
One by one, egg-shaped objects hung between the roots.
The small ones were only the size of an egg, while the big ones were as big as a bowl. There were more than ten of them!
Jia Sixie was overjoyed.
His intuition told him.
It was going to be a big harvest this time!
"This is…"
Everyone was stunned.
Emperor Liu Xie was a little dumbfounded.
"Prime minister, what is this? Isn't it a type of vegetable?”
Cao Ang replied," Of course not vegetables. The real harvest is these balls. I named them potatoes. They are a new staple food that can replace wheat, corn, and rice!”
New staple food!
Everyone was shocked!
No wonder Cao Ang was so serious.
The importance of staple food to the country and the people was needless to say.
If there was a new staple food that was different from the past, it would not be an exaggeration to call it auspicious, no matter how much or how little the production was.
Jia Sixie picked the potatoes, washed them, and weighed them.
Xu You was in charge of recording and finally came to a conclusion. She reported in a trembling voice,""About 40 pounds!"
Eastern Han Dynasty.
500 grams.
Hence, the 40 pounds here.
It is equivalent to about 18 catties in later generations.
Even so, it was still quite shocking.
Everyone present was stunned by this number.
"Prime Minister, can these potatoes be eaten?" Liu Xie asked again.”
Cao Ang replied," After steaming and roasting, you can eat it with the skin peeled. If you don't want to waste it, you can eat it with the skin.”
As soon as he said that!
The officials were once again shocked!
If that was the case, it was too shocking!
Who knew.
At this moment.
"Wait, there's more!" Jia Sixie suddenly exclaimed.”
It turned out that there were too many potatoes, so when they were dug out, some of them were left in the soil. They were dug out with a hoe and counted one by one.
One, two, three…ten, twelve!
It was full of potatoes.
It was so exciting that it was hard to breathe.
Finally, he weighed it again and Xu You reported happily,""About 68 pounds!"
Cao Ang quickly calculated.
It was almost equivalent to 30 pounds in the future!
F * ck!
So many!
Such a production.
It would be quite ideal in the future!
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Ang's production was not inferior to that of later generations!
"Half a stone!"
"One stalk produces half a stone of grain."
"It's really auspicious!"
"There's actually such an auspicious sign in the world!"
"This is the blessing of the world and the blessing of the people!”
The emperor, Liu Xie, and the officials were all in a commotion.
Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Xiahou Dun, and the others couldn't suppress the joy in their hearts.
In ancient times, 120 jin was equivalent to 1 stone.
A potato plant could produce 68 catties.
This was more than 0.5 stone.
How could this not make people happy? How could this not make people happy?
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the yield of corn per mu was only 3 dan. The rice yield in the south was even lower than that of corn.
Each stalk was worth 0.5 stone.
It could only be described as horrifying!
"Dig!" Cao Ang immediately announced.
A team of soldiers was already prepared.
They picked up their hoes and started digging.
Xun You continued to record the yield of the potato field.
"5 stones!"
"10 stones!"
"15 stones!"
Even if it was only 15 stones.
That could also increase the current grain production by five times!
However, not even half of the potato field had been dug up.
No one knew how much grain they could produce per mu.
The number kept rising.
"20 stones!"
"30 stones!"
"50 stones!"
Everyone felt suffocated!
They felt as if food was coming out of the ground as if it was free!
"60 stones!"
"70 stones!"
"76 stones!"
Xun You became more and more excited.
The final number stopped at 76 stones!
The scene was silent, and everyone's mouths were wide open.
Everyone stared blankly at the mountain of potatoes and fell into a state of speechlessness.
Twenty-five times!
Twenty-five times!
Twenty-five times the grain output!
Many people wondered if they were dreaming!
Some people who reacted faster immediately began to think about what this meant.
If these potatoes were really as Prime Minister Cao Ang had said and could completely replace the staple food, the world would undoubtedly change!
In this chaotic world.
The importance of food was obvious.
There wasn't a single vassal in the world who didn't lack food.
Everyone present.
Most of them had aristocratic backgrounds.
Their family's granary was stuffed to the brim.
These reserves of food were originally the foundation and foundation of the chaotic world.
In this era.
Food was comparable to gold.
However, after witnessing the bumper harvest of potatoes, they felt that the grain stored in the granary had become an extremely hot potato.
It was foreseeable.
It didn't take long.
Food prices would definitely plummet!
No, he couldn't let his hands rot. He had to think of a way to make a move. The faster, the better!
Cao Ang knew that the potatoes given by the system were of high quality, so the yield would definitely not be low. However, he did not expect it to be so high. One mu of potatoes would yield about 3,000 kilograms. In the future, it would be quite a high yield!
The reactions of the officials.
He saw everything.
And prepare countermeasures.
The price of food in Xuchang would definitely plummet. He had already arranged for Cao Yi to start purchasing the food in advance because the food would soon be of great use.
Around next month.
The Huainan famine was about to break out.
There were harvested potatoes and harvested food.
Cao Ang could easily turn the great crisis of Huainan into his own opportunity!
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