"Dad, look at this potato. The yield per mu is more than 10,000 kilograms?" Shen Zhijie handed the rice paper in his hand to his father.
Shen Hong's hands were trembling and he was staring at the data on the rice paper with bright eyes. The words "yield per mu is more than 10,000 jins" made him extremely excited.
"Ten thousand jins. If Dai Viet really has such high-yielding grains, will it still worry about being bullied by foreigners?"
"Yes, dad, look at this corn again. The yield per mu is not low, it is a full 3,500 jins." Shen Zhiyu handed the rice paper in her hand to Shen Hong.
After reading the corn data, Shen Hong exclaimed: "These four things are the treasures of Vietnam."
It is not difficult for him to imagine what will happen if the four seeds are planted nationwide this year and next year.
On that day, the people will surely have a bumper harvest, and the whole family will live a prosperous year with no worries about food and drink. In the spring of the next year, they will no longer be afraid of running out of food at home, and they will rely on eating wild vegetables to survive until the summer.
No longer worried about natural disasters such as drought and floods, which will lead to food shortages and starvation, the people of Dai Viet have enough capital to fight against the weather.
In less than ten years, Dai Viet's population will at least quintuple.
...
Cheng Er went back to Cheng Mansion to take a bath and change into normal clothes after leaving the court.
Before going out, Mr. Cheng told him: "Your brother-in-law must have a big job for you. You are probably the only one in our family who can do it. You have to do it well."
"Yes, father." The truth about his nephew Cheng Jinyang's recovery of intelligence, the secret of the Queen Mother's recovery to health, and the changes in the Shen family in the past year all told him that the Shen family had a big secret.
And this secret is likely to have something to do with Ruan Ruan.
Cheng Er got on an ordinary carriage without the Cheng family logo and quietly entered through the back door of the General's Mansion.
"Second brother, you're here. Wash your hands and eat quickly." Cheng Yurong greeted him at the back door.
"Okay." Cheng Er responded, and walked through several small courtyards with her into the front yard hall.
On the way, he couldn't help but ask: "Why is this boy A Yuan so anxious to find me?"
"Second brother, don't worry, it's a great event. You'll know it when your stomach is full."
Cheng Yurong pretended , making Cheng Er as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
Shen Hong's family were all sitting at the dining table. As soon as Cheng Er arrived at the restaurant, Shen Zhiqing and his brothers stood up to say hello.
A dozen little maids came in and dishes were served on the table.
Cheng Er couldn't help but widen his eyes and looked at the dishes on the table, all of which he had never seen before.
"What kind of soup is this pot? This is the first time I smell this smell. What kind of plant is this yellow color? I have been studying it for more than 20 years, but I still don't recognize it?"
"There are also these yellow things, how can you tell them? "It looks like in the soup?"
"What are these red roots? Why are these meatballs red?"
Not to mention that he doesn't recognize it, this is the first time for the Shen family to see it.
Ruan Ruan pursed his lips and smiled, looking at his second uncle's expression which was very funny.
Cheng Yurong smiled and said: "Second brother, you drink the soup first. This is corn, carrot and pork ribs soup. It tastes sweet."
"I know carrots, what is corn?" Yi Er picked up the soup bowl, took a sip of the soup, and then Take a bite of corn.
"It's really delicious. The fruit is sweet and tender."
Seeing that their second uncle had eaten, the five brothers Shen Zhiyuan couldn't hold back and drank the corn soup one after another.
"Second brother, please eat another piece of roasted corn."
"Okay... um~ the roasted corn tastes sweeter and has a unique flavor." El took a bite of the roasted corn and tasted it carefully, his eyes shining. After taking two more bites, I put it down with satisfaction.
"This is crispy corn, corn pancake, corn chicken porridge, pine nut corn, cornmeal cake, corn soup, corn beef, corn meal porridge..." Cheng Yurong began to sign up for the names of the dishes.
Cheng Er tasted them one by one and received endless compliments.
The Shen family also tasted every bite, and they all liked corn.
"Second brother, these are glutinous rice and sweet potato soup, roasted sweet potatoes, sweet potato balls, sweet potato glutinous rice cakes, shredded sweet potatoes, fried sweet potato cakes..."
Cheng Yurong finished naming the dishes and tasted the delicacies made from sweet potatoes.
Cheng Er was very interested in sweet potatoes because they were rhizomes, and he knew that these taro-like foods were very filling.
"Second brother, this is food made from potatoes. This plate is French fries, fried potato chips, fried potato shreds, fried potato cubes, minced meat mashed potatoes, golden potato cakes, vinegar potato shreds, wolf tooth potatoes, fried potatoes. Shredded pork, braised pork ribs with small potatoes..."
Cheng Yurong introduced the potato food one by one, then picked up the chopsticks and picked up the shredded potatoes to eat.
Cheng Er took a bite of all the dishes made with potatoes and then said: "This kind of food is tasteless, but it absorbs the taste of other foods. It is also rich in starch and can make people feel full quickly. It is very good."
Shen The Hong family nodded unanimously.
Ruan Ruan was busy eating and had no time to talk.
The raw material tonight was not the seeds today, but what she bought from the mall system. It only cost one hundred merit gold, which was three times cheaper than the price of seeds.
In the future, she can often buy corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes from the mall system until the summer crops are harvested, and she can eat them openly.
She vaguely felt that her family knew about her affairs, otherwise why would they never doubt things that appeared out of thin air?
Everyone knows how to use it.
Forget it, they didn't ask and she didn't tell.
Let's see who can't hold it in.
Cheng Er tasted one or two bites of each dish, a total of thirty or forty dishes, and his stomach felt full.
"Sister, brother-in-law, where did you get these foods?"
"This... you just think that I bought them from foreigners or overseas merchants while fighting on the border these years. As long as these things are beneficial to Vietnam, don't worry. Confused about the origin. "
Shen Hong vowed to hide the news about his daughter.
Cheng Er nodded and asked again: "Are there any seeds for these crops? How many kilograms can be produced per acre? I think..."
He was embarrassed to continue, he was thin-skinned.
"There are still a lot of seeds, so it's enough. The yield of corn per mu is 3,500 jins, the yield of sweet potatoes is 11,000 jins per mu, and the yield of potatoes is 10,000 jins per mu."
"Ten thousand jins? Oh my God!" Cheng Er stood up excitedly. , eyes wide open.
As a farmer, how could he not understand the meaning of a yield of 10,000 jin per mu?
His lifelong dream is to find a crop with high yield that can feed tens of millions of people, even if it has no taste and an average taste, as long as it can make people full.
He didn't expect to find three types at once, how could he not be excited?
"Ten thousand kilograms, ten thousand kilograms, ten thousand kilograms..." Cheng Er muttered to himself while sitting on a stool, raised his bright eyes and looked at Shen Hong suddenly.
"Brother-in-law, do you want me to help you plant these three crops?"
"Of course, you are my second uncle and you are good at farming. Who can I leave it to you? No one in my family understands farming. What if this happens? If it breaks, won't the seeds be wasted?"
Shen Hong scratched the back of his head and smiled shyly, his face full of embarrassment.
He is a rough man and has never been to the fields.
"Skills have specializations. Only by doing what you are good at can you achieve the best results." Cheng Er said with a smile, stroking the long beard on his chin.