Chapter 598: I Don’t Know How Powerful I Am! The Unparalleled Thing About a God’s Seed!
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Numb!
Everyone is a little numb!
What did they just hear?
The King of Han actually said that the desert grassland in Lingbei could be cultivated?
What to plant?
Plant your uncle?
Yes, farming can indeed be done in Lingbei, but it is only limited to a few areas such as Helin.
Except for these few areas, the huge Lingbei Province is all desert grassland, occupying the vast majority of the entire province.
What can you plant on the desert grassland?
This question appeared in everyone's mind, even Emperor Yongle was no exception, looking at his second son in confusion.
Seeing the inexperienced appearance of these central figures of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt disgusted.
"What are you doing, King Han?"
"Second brother, you..."
Amid everyone's exclamations, Prince Han lifted up the potato vine, revealing the true face of this high-yielding crop.
Everyone looked at the yellow potatoes and suddenly fell into deep thought.
Forehead……
This should be edible, right?
Zhu Gaoxu stopped nagging, raised the potatoes in his hand, and smiled.
"This thing is called 'potato'. It can be fried, fried, mashed, or mashed. It tastes very good. It can be used as the staple food of the people of the Ming Dynasty."
"And the most important thing is that potatoes are a high-yielding crop. One acre can produce at least thirty or forty dan. If the harvest is good..."
"How many?!"
Before Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he was interrupted by a trembling voice.
Emperor Yongle was seen trembling and asked again in disbelief.
Staple food!
The yield per acre is dozens of stones!
These two key messages excited everyone.
It’s edible and has a high yield, so it’s a real artifact!
If the facts are true as Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu said, then this "potato" is indeed a well-deserved divine seed!
Zhu Gaoxu was in a daze and subconsciously said the second half of the sentence.
"If the farming method is correct and the harvest is good, the yield of sixty or seventy dan per mu will not be a problem."
Everyone: "!!!"
Damn it!
The yield per mu is six to seven stones!
What is that concept?
Before anyone could react, Zhu Di's expression changed and he almost fainted as his body swayed.
Fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu had quick eyesight and quick hands to support him.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Zhu Di was holding his chest and breathing heavily.
"Boy, are you telling the truth? Is the potato yield really that high?"
"Dad, what are you talking about? This yield is not high enough? These are all conservative estimates. It is not impossible to produce a hundred stones per mu..."
Zhu Di: "???"
Everyone: "???"
Hundreds of stones!
The whole room suddenly fell into deathly silence.
Everyone looked at the potatoes in Zhu Gaoxu's hand, and their fiery eyes were as if they were looking at a little girl without clothes, so hot that it was intimidating.
Zhu Gaoxu tossed the potatoes in his hand and smiled angrily.
"What's wrong with this, Dad? High yield is just one of the advantages of potatoes."
“The biggest advantage of potatoes is that they are extremely adaptable and resistant to cold, drought, barrenness, wind damage, hail damage, and frost damage. In addition, potatoes can be stored in low-temperature environments for a long time without rotting or deteriorating... "
When they heard what he said, everyone didn't react yet, but one person went crazy instantly!
Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, rushed forward and snatched the potatoes from the hands of King Zhu Gaoxu of Han Dynasty. Then he asked with a face full of madness: "Your Highness, King of Han, is extremely adaptable. What do you mean?"
Everyone was a little stunned and didn't understand why Xia Yuanji suddenly went crazy.
Seeing the appearance of the Minister of Revenue, Zhu Di suddenly stood up straight, his eyes bursting with light.
"Second brother, what do you mean..."
Finally reacted!
Zhu Gaoxu secretly thought to himself, and nodded seriously as he met the gazes of Zhu Di and Xia Yuanji.
"Yes, this potato is extremely adaptable. Because of its cold and drought tolerance, it can be grown anywhere. It's just a matter of yield."
"And this 'anywhere' naturally includes... the grassland!"
Zhu Gaoxu said the word "prairie" meaningfully, completely shocking everyone!
Potatoes can be grown on grassland!
That Lingbei province or the entire Mongolian grassland...
For a moment, everyone was deeply shocked, and their eyes on Tudou became even more intense!
It was only at this moment that they finally realized why the King of Han had just mentioned the matter in Lingbei!
Is Lingbei Province a useless land for the Ming Dynasty?
On the surface, this is indeed the case, and Grand Scholar Yang Pu is not wrong either.
After all, the Ming Dynasty has to invest a huge amount of money and food in Lingbei every year, and there is no feedback benefit. Lingbei has become a heavy burden on the Ming Dynasty's finances!
Even if the Ming Dynasty takes control of Lingbei, it can permanently eliminate the troubles of the Northern Barbarians, but the price is too high!
But now, the appearance of potatoes has completely changed everything!
If these potatoes can really be planted on the grassland, then the entire vast land north of Lingbei will be filled with fertile fields and fertile soil!
As long as food can be grown, it will be fertile land, and the people of the Ming Dynasty can also settle there and continue to live a self-sufficient life of farming!
In this way, the Ming Dynasty will completely control the Lingbei Province, and the Lingbei Province will also change from a burden to a granary for the imperial court!
Also, not just Lingbei Province, but even the entire Mongolian grassland!
Zhu Di waved, took the potato from Xia Yuanji, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then forced himself to calm down.
At this moment, his face was extremely solemn, and he looked directly at Zhu Gaoxu with sharp eyes.
"King Han, can this thing really grow food on the grassland?"
"You know what this means, I want your personal promise!"
Xia Yuanji also calmed down his crazy expression and looked at Zhu Gaoxu eagerly.
Zhu Gaoxu naturally understood what this meant, otherwise he would not have spent such a high price to let Zheng He open a new route to discover the New World.
"Don't worry, Dad, everything I said is true."
"If potatoes can't be grown on the grassland, dad, you can chop off my head!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned, and then they all laughed loudly.
At first they couldn't believe it, but after hearing King Han's promise with their lives, everyone chose to believe him!
After all, His Highness the King of Han has always cherished his life!
But there was one person present who had a complicated expression, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.
This person was Yang Pu, the leader of the Taisun Party, who had previously urged the Ming Dynasty to abandon Lingbei.
His idea is not wrong. Lingbei should indeed be abandoned. The court should get rid of this burden and use the money and food saved to develop people's livelihood...
But with the emergence of potatoes, his idea has undoubtedly become a joke.
Compared to this, Yang Pu was even more sad at the moment.
When Ming Dynasty got a divine seed like potato, it was completely more powerful than a tiger.
In the future, every time the King of Ming Dynasty conquers a land, he only needs to move his people to cultivate potatoes, and he will be able to completely control it and turn it into the territory of Ming Dynasty.
As the potatoes mature, more and more people will feed back to the court in other ways, continue to expand territory for the Ming Dynasty, and seize more territory!
In this way, the Ming Dynasty formed a virtuous cycle, and it was also a road to continuous expansion and prosperity!
This should have been a great event celebrated by the whole world, but Yang Pu couldn't be happy no matter what.
The reason is simple, potatoes come from the Navy and the King of Han!
Grandson Zhu Zhanji has completely lost!
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