October!
Mid-day.
On this day.
It was rare for Liu Xuan to give himself a day off. He was prepared to have a good rest and live a day in the corrupt feudal society.
The life of a corrupt feudal society began with sleeping in!
In the end.
Early in the morning.
The sky hadn't even brightened when he was woken up by the excited Tian Chou and Jian Yong.
"Zitai Xianhe, why have you summoned me?”
Liu Xuan asked curiously.
"Lord Prefectural Governor, the 20-dan potatoes you mentioned have already matured. According to the potato farming book you gave us, we can harvest them starting today!”
Tian Chou said excitedly.
"What?"
Liu Xuan immediately woke up. It's already mid-October!"
After that.
Under the urging of Tian Chou and Jian Yong, Liu Xuan and his group hurried to the farmland outside the city.
He looked around.
It was a vast expanse of gold.
"How is it, Lord County Governor? Is the potato ripe?”
Jian Yong asked anxiously.
"Yes, it's mature, and it's already completely mature. If it's delayed for a few more days, it'll be too much!~”
Liu Xuan muttered.
The sign of a ripe potato was that most of the stems and leaves turned from green to yellow.
And now!
Liu Xuan looked around and saw that almost all the stems and leaves had turned yellow. This meant that the potatoes planted in the field had actually matured for a few days.
There were disadvantages to harvesting any crops too late.
If the potatoes were harvested too late, it would increase the chances of infection by pests and diseases, and they would also be frostbitten, affecting the quality of the potatoes. Therefore, it was best to harvest the potatoes as soon as possible after they were ripe.
After receiving Liu Xuan's affirmative answer, Tian Chou was so excited that he wanted to run over to dig up the soil and potatoes, but he was pulled back by Jian Yong.
Tian Chou didn't understand. Jian Yong gave him a look and at the same time looked at Liu Xuan.
Tian Chou immediately understood Jian Yong's meaning. He looked at Liu Xuan together with Jian Yong and said," Lord County Governor, you first."
Liu Xuan did not decline. He picked up the shovel that he had prepared earlier and started digging.
Very quickly.
A potato the size of an adult man's fist was dug out by Liu Xuan and appeared in front of Tian Chou and the others.
"So big!"
Tian Chou and the others were delighted.
They silently estimated that the potato weighed about half a catty.
According to the density of potatoes planted, if converted.
The yield per mu of potatoes was about five piculs.
Although it was quite different from Liu Xuan's previous yield of 20 dan per mu, but…
They were already satisfied, very, very satisfied!
Five stones!
Five stones per mu!
What kind of concept was this?
One stone was equivalent to 120 jin, so five stones was 600 jin!
This was a total of 600 catties of grain!
One had to know.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, regardless of whether it was the south or the north, regardless of whether it was corn, rice, or millet beans, the highest average yield per mu was only about 300 jin!
Now, the yield of potatoes per mu had doubled, reaching 600 catties.
Satisfied!
Extremely satisfied!
Just as Jian Yong, Tian Chou, and the rest of the officials and soldiers were excited by the yield of 600 catties of potatoes per mu, Liu Xuan continued to dig.
Very quickly.
A fist-sized potato appeared in front of everyone.
" Ten stones!!!!"
Everyone's eyes widened when they saw the potato that Liu Xuanxin had dug out.
However…
This was not the end.
Liu Xuan was still digging.
"Don't tell me!"
"No, no, it can't be!"
Looking at Liu Xuan's actions, an extremely bold guess arose in everyone's minds.
Very quickly.
Everyone's guess was confirmed.
Because Liu Xuan had dug out another potato from the soil.
The size of this potato was the sum of the two potatoes dug out in front.
"Twenty stones! There really was twenty dan! What the county governor said was actually true! This crop called potatoes could actually be estimated to be twenty picul for men!!”
Jian Yong, Tian Chou, and the others were stunned.
Before they could recover from their shock, they heard Liu Xuan's puzzled voice,""Hey, there seems to be more!"
"What?"
" There's more!!?"
Everyone stared at the shovel.
Very quickly.
Under Liu Xuan's diligent digging, two more fist-sized potatoes were dug out.
"Three, three, thirty stones!!!!”
He was dumbfounded.
Everyone present was completely dumbfounded.
His eyes widened.
His mouth was wide open.
He was dumbfounded.
The scene was silent.
After a long, long time, some people gradually came back to their senses.
Amongst them.
Jian Yong's reaction was especially exaggerated.
He seemed to have gone crazy as he rushed into the field.
He did not care about his image at all and started digging crazily with his hands.
As he dug out one potato after another from the ground, his eyes gradually turned red.
It wasn't just him.
Immediately after.
Tian Chou and the others also joined in.
In less than an hour, they had dug up all the potatoes on the entire mu of land.
"How, how much?"
Jian Yong and the others asked the weighing assistant shakily.
"Altogether, altogether, altogether... three, three, three... thirty-two stones!”
Xiao Shi's voice was trembling.
As soon as he said this.
In the next breath.
Jian Yong raised his head and laughed wildly.”
As he laughed maniacally, tears kept flowing out of his eyes.
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There is indeed a problem with the potatoes, but I don't think it's a big problem. Here is my understanding: It was impossible for the aristocratic families to promote the planting of potatoes on a large scale. What they needed to protect was their own interests. If they planted more potatoes and produced more, wouldn't the price of grain become the price of cabbage? How could they sell the large amount of grain they had hoarded at a high price to make money? How could they make money by selling grain at a high price in the future? This was the first point. The second point was land acquisition. The aristocratic families were eager for the commoners to be so poor that they could not afford to eat and then sell their land. This way, they could pay a small price to get a piece of fertile land. Once the potato was promoted, the commoners would definitely sell their land again. The aristocratic families would not be able to acquire land anymore!
There was also the problem of the salt production method. It was true that the aristocratic families would not help the common people to lower the price of salt, but the salt production method was indeed quite simple. They could indeed easily obtain it, so it was not a big problem to exchange it directly!
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