The next day, Lin Nan gathered Xu Shu and Lin Nan early in the morning.
After clearing the crowd outside the hall, Lin Nan took out a gunny sack and placed it on the table.
"My lord, this is?"
Xu Shu and Wen Rongtai looked at each other when they saw the gunny sack. They didn't know why and asked.
"Open it and take a look."
Lin Nan patted the dust off his hands and pointed at the bag.
Xu Shu immediately untied the sack and reached out to take out several small clods of soil.
Seeing this, Wen Rongtai also reached out and took out a few. He held them in his hand and looked at them. He couldn't figure out why, so he asked while rubbing his head.
"My lord, what is this small piece of soil?”
Lin Nan smiled and did not answer them directly.
He turned around and took a plate of steamed potatoes from the table beside him. He handed it to them and gestured for them to eat it.
"You two try this.”
Xu Shu placed the soil in his hand on the table, patted the dust off his hands, and casually wiped it on his clothes. He took one of the pieces and ate it.
When the potato was about to enter his mouth, he still had a puzzled look on his face. It was as if he did not know what would happen after eating this thing. It was completely based on his trust in Lin Nan.
After taking a few bites, the confusion on her face was swept away and she picked up another one.
He didn't have the dignity of a Confucian scholar.
Seeing this, Wen Rongtai did not have time to wipe his hands and also took a piece to eat.
In the blink of an eye, the two of them had finished the dozens of potatoes on the plate.
Lin Nan looked at the way the two of them ate and could not help but smile.
"How does it taste?"
Xu Shu thought for a moment and answered seriously.
"I've never eaten such delicious food before. It's soft and melted in my mouth. After it entered my stomach, there was a slight sweet taste in my mouth. This thing seemed to be mixed with some salt, so it was sweet and salty. Moreover, after eating only a few pieces, his stomach felt a little full.”
"Yuan Jian, what do you think?"
"It's quite delicious. Just like what Chen Dao said, this thing can easily fill one's stomach. I wonder how the harvest of this thing is. If it can grow a little longer, many people in our hometown won't starve to death.”
Wen Rongtai licked his lips and answered seriously. When he finished speaking, he felt like he regretted not meeting her earlier.
Hahahaha, this was what was in the bag just now.
The two of them looked at each other in disbelief. The yellow-skinned fruits in the sack were so delicious after being cooked.
"My lord, what exactly is in this bag?”
Xu Shu couldn't help but ask.
"This thing is called a potato. It can also be called a potato.”
"What is this potato? Why is it an important weapon of the country?”
"Do you know how much rice is produced per mu now?”
Although Wen Rongtai was a general, he was also born as a farmer, so he knew a lot about farming. After thinking for a while, he said.
"The wheat in the north, ten mu of fertile land, each mu can reach thirty stones.”
"I heard that the rice in the south, ten mu of fertile land, can produce about forty stones of rice.”
Lin Nan nodded.
In general, in this era, the yield of wheat was three stones per mu, which was about 360 catties, while the yield of rice was four stones per mu, which was about 480 catties.
However, for these three to four stones, 20 to 30% of the grain skin had to be deducted.
After removing it, it was only a little more than two or three stones, which was about three to four hundred catties of grain per mu.
As for potatoes?
Although Lin Nan was not an agricultural expert, he knew that potatoes could easily produce 500 kilograms per mu!
If they took good care of it, the land would be fertile and they could even produce 500 kilograms more!
After a slight conversion, it was ten times the amount of grain produced in the late Eastern Han Dynasty!
He smiled at Xu Shu and Wen Rongtai.
"If I tell you that this thing can produce more than a hundred stones in ten mu of fertile land, and can produce three to ten times a year, would you believe me?”
When Xu Shu heard this, his eyes widened, and a bright light shot out from them. He subconsciously pulled his ears and said in disbelief.
"A hundred stones?"
"Sir, is what you said true?”
"Is this thing really that magical?"
Wen Rongtai thought to himself that the production of potatoes was too shocking.
At this moment, Lin Nan spoke again, interrupting their thoughts.
"If you don't believe me, you'll know that I'm telling the truth after three or four months when this thing matures.”
Xu Shu nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, yes, yes! How can I not believe what you say?”
If someone else had said this, Xu Shu would probably find it hard to believe.
However, after following Lin Nan for the past few days, he had witnessed too many miracles. He would believe it if he said that pigs could climb trees.
Xu Shu's eyes lit up when he heard that.
The rice yield that Lord Wen mentioned was still relatively good. If there were droughts, floods, and insect disasters, it might be even less.
In the face of war, it might be even rarer. In this era where there were starving people everywhere.
In this era where bones were exposed in the wild and there were no chickens crowing for thousands of miles.
The production of potatoes was so high that it was far greater than other food crops. With this thing, at least it could guarantee that all the soldiers who followed the lord and the people in Lord Wen's territory would not starve to death.
Moreover, this thing was very easy to carry. When they were out on an expedition, all the soldiers would have sufficient military rations.
It could be said that this was the foundation of hegemony and the foundation of Glory World!
It was not an exaggeration to say that this was an important weapon of the country!
Follow him. That's right!
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