"Several thousand catties per mu?"
"How is this possible?"
Not to mention Dian Wei, this iron fool.
The experienced Xun Yu was also in disbelief. He shook his head like a rattle-drum.
Cao Cao felt that his intelligence had been severely humiliated.
"If the yield is really four to five thousand catties, I will eat the same amount of soil!”
Dian Wei refused to believe it and thumped his chest loudly.
Xun Yu said," Mr. Shen, you made the immortal plow and the divine water chariot. It can be said to be a masterpiece of nature. I admire you so much." However, a yield of four to five thousand catties of grain per mu was a little exaggerated!”
"The sweet potatoes are in the ground. If you don't believe me, dig them out and weigh them!”
Shen Xuan smiled bitterly.
Facing these idiots.
It seemed that he had to show his true strength.
He immediately asked a commoner to go home and bring a scale.
Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Dian Wei, and a dozen commoners were busy in the sweet potato field.
"Seventy-five jin!"
"Eighty-three catties!"
"51 Jin!"
……
Sweet potatoes were dug out one by one.
Cao Cao stared at him from the side. It was impossible for him to fake it.
Five thousand jin!
They hadn't even finished digging up one mu of land, but the sweet potatoes they had dug up had already reached 5,000 catties!
"Divine item!"
"This is a divine item bestowed by the heavens!”
The commoners were frightened.
A group of people kowtowed to the sweet potato, worshipping it as a divine item.
The yield of one mu of wheat and millet was only two to three hundred catties.
A production of several thousand catties was indeed too frightening!
Something abnormal must have happened.
Not to mention those stupid commoners.
Cao Cao, Xun Yu, and the others were also frightened.
In the end, the yield of sweet potatoes on this mu of land was more than 6,200 catties.
At this moment, Cao Cao was so shocked and excited that he couldn't speak.
Xun Yu and the others 'eyes were red, and their breathing quickened as if they were blowing bellows.
Guo Jia's legs were a little weak, and his body couldn't help but tremble.
Dian Wei was an honest person. He sat beside the pile of sweet potatoes and started eating heartily.
In this day and age.
What was he lacking the most?
The population!
Early Three Kingdoms.
The entire Great Han Dynasty had a population of more than 50 million.
At the end of the Three Kingdoms.
The population dropped to more than eight million.
For thousands of miles, there was no cock crow, and the bones were exposed in the wild.
This wasn't something Cao Cao casually said after he got drunk and became poetic.
Instead, it was the most realistic portrayal of the Three Kingdoms period.
What was the main reason for this situation?
Food!
Years of war had caused the people to be displaced.
The fields were barren and uncultivated.
The vast majority of them were not killed in battle, but starved to death.
If you exchange your son for food, you will starve to death thousands of miles away.
This kind of tragic situation could be seen everywhere during the Three Kingdoms period.
Cao Cao's advisor Cheng Yu had once made human flesh into dried meat and used it as military rations.
It could be seen how much food was lacking now.
Sweet potatoes were simply treasures!
High production.
Can be the main grain.
No other food could compare to it.
China had thousands of years of feudal society and had gone through dozens of dynasties.
Why had the population never exceeded 100 million before the Qing Dynasty?
In the Qing Dynasty, the highest population reached 500 million?
It wasn't that the wild boar skin's ability to govern the country was very powerful.
It wasn't because of how developed agriculture was at that time.
It was because of one thing…sweet potatoes!
Sweet potatoes were introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty and became popular throughout the country during the Qing Dynasty.
As a result, the number of people starving to death had greatly decreased.
This also led to a surge in the population.
If sweet potatoes were promoted at this time, how many people could they feed?
How much more provisions could he get?
Cao Cao and the others didn't dare to think about it.
"If sweet potatoes can be promoted, there will be sufficient grain.”
"If I have sufficient rations, I will sweep the world!”
Cao Cao's heart was in turmoil.
Due to his excitement, his chest heaved up and down, and his face turned red.
It was as if a great country was right in front of him, at his fingertips.
Shen Xuan was a little worried. Could this person have high blood pressure?
"This thing should only exist in the heavens. How did it end up in the human world?”
"Could it be that the heavens pity the common people of the human world and bestowed such a divine item?”
Xun Yu held a sweet potato in his hands and knelt on the ground, shouting to the sky as tears flowed down his face.
"My son!"
"If you had this divine item a year earlier, you wouldn't have been treated as food and eaten!”
A middle-aged man suddenly knelt on the ground and wailed.
Everyone was sad.
In this era, starving to death was the norm.
Some commoners were so hungry that they could only kill their children to save their entire family.
This was the real Three Kingdoms.
It was incomparably cruel!
A commoner pulled the man up and said with a smile,"Old Fan, don't cry. Now that we have sweet potatoes, can't you just ask your wife to give birth to a few more? If you can't do it, then ask me for help!”
"Get lost!"
The middle-aged man roared.
Everyone burst into laughter, which diluted the sorrowful atmosphere.
Shen Xuan looked at Dian Wei and said with a smile,""Uncle, when are you going to start eating soil?”
"Can I finish it in thirty years?”
Dian Wei stuttered, his black face turning into a monkey's butt.
The commoners laughed again.
"Why didn't Mister Shen offer the sweet potatoes to the court in exchange for fame?" Guo Jia asked.”
Cao Cao looked at Shen Xuan.
If he was willing to offer the sweet potato, it would not be too much to reward him with a marquis.
If he didn't…
Cao Aman was not only good at snatching other people's wives, but he was also good at snatching things!
Offering Flowers
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