Liu Yiyi replied respectfully: "Minister Liu Yiyi, my father is Liu Guotai."
Village Chief Li, who was watching the excitement, looked at Xiang Xiang when he heard Liu Yiyi's words. He turned out to be an official, so he hurried to help collect the sweet potatoes without delay.
People in Shibafeng Village used to harvest sweet potatoes before, and they are very familiar with these. After a while, they dug out large sweet potatoes from the ground.
Village head Li was surprised to see it, and weighed it in his hands, ignoring the presence of senior officials, "The big one weighs two catties, and the small one weighs half a catty, but the big ones are more numerous."
Song Xiang also noticed it at this time, and quickly handed the teacup to Liu Yiyi, lifted the front of the clothes and tucked them around his waist, squatting on the ground, ignoring the dirt on the ground, and observing carefully.
Song Xiang watched so many sweet potatoes growing under the three sweet potatoes. It is true that the yield per mu is several thousand catties.
"Auspicious, auspicious!" Song Xiang murmured to himself, sweet potatoes with a yield of several thousand catties per mu are really high-yielding grains.
Food is the most important thing for the people, and they have experienced the old and new courts, and they understand the sufferings of the people better.
Village head Li was also excited. Although his family was near the capital, life was difficult. Even if the new dynasty is initially established and the tax is light and the tax is light, they can barely eat enough. Some poor families simply can't get enough to eat.
Village head Li held the sweet potato, tears were about to fall, "Brother Liu, can this be eaten?"
Liu Heixiong smiled, took out his dagger, and picked up a small palm-sized sweet potato from the ground, peeled off the outer skin to reveal the yellow sweet potato flesh, "It's sweet and tastes very good."
Village head Li is not polite, let alone afraid, with so many people, Liu Heixiong can't hurt him, so he took it over and took a bite, nodding repeatedly, "Sweet, delicious, delicious."
Song Xiang looked at Liu Heixiong and wanted to try it too, but he was embarrassed to say so.
Liu Heixiong hurriedly peeled a piece of sweet potato for Song Xiang, "Master Song, try it. After the sweet potatoes are harvested later, there are five acres of corn over there. After cooking, the taste will be better. After drying, it can be preserved for a long time. , better preserved than sweet potatoes."
Song Xiang took it and took a bite. It was really sweet and pink.
Liu Yiyi asked Xiaolan to go back and bring the pot from home. She was going to cook sweet potatoes, roast sweet potatoes, boil corn, and roast corn for everyone in the field.
Xiaolan knew that today's matter was very important and there should be no mistakes. After receiving the lady's explanation, she hurried to do it.
Liu Yiyi picked up some smaller sweet potatoes from the field, took them to the creek to wash, and broke off a few tender corns. After Xiaolan brought the pot, she began to cook the sweet potatoes. corn.
More people are more powerful. More than 20 people collected sweet potatoes from one mu of land together, and they dug them all up in a short while, piled them into more than 20 piles, and each pile weighed three to four hundred catties.
Song Xiang was excited, short of breath, and shouted: "Weigh me now!"
Liu Heixiong had already prepared the scale, and the people brought by Song Xiang checked that the scale was very accurate, and they started weighing.
Steward Song personally weighed and counted, and the yield per mu was 6,352 catties.
After Song Xiang heard the number, he was stunned, "Six thousand, more than six thousand catties?"
Steward Song replied solemnly: "Yes, master, this is the old slave who weighed it himself, there is no falsehood."
Song Xiang was so excited that he said, "Okay, okay, great. Liu Guotai, I ordered you to guard these sweet potatoes closely. Village Chief Li, you must restrain the villagers and don't come here to destroy them, or they will be beheaded. "
Village Chief Li was in an excited mood, and after hearing what the old man said, he nodded in fright, "Yes, my lord, the little ones dare not steal."
Village head Li also has his own little plan. This thing grows in his village. Even if the seeds are divided, his village should be able to share more.
In this case, why risk the world's dissatisfaction?
At this time, Liu Yiyi smiled and said: "Master Song, here are cooked and roasted ones. The taste is different from fresh ones, but it is more delicious."
Hearing this, Song Xiang was very curious, took the bowl and chopsticks that Liu Yiyi handed over, saw the boiled sweet potato in the plate, took a half of a small one, took a bite, his eyes lit up, it was very soft and waxy, suitable for Old people like him eat it, and it is very sweet and delicious, anyway, it is better than bark.
Seeing that there was a granular thing on it, Song Xiang asked: "Yiyi, what is this?"
Liu Yiyi replied with a smile: "This is corn, a high-yield crop like sweet potatoes, and it is dried and easy to store."
Song Xiang asked eagerly: "How many thousand catties per mu is this?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Yiyi shook her head and laughed, "Master Song, cornIt does not have such a high yield, but it can yield thousands of catties per mu. It can be dried in the sun for storage, and can be ground into flour to make cakes or steamed buns. They are all delicious, similar to wheat. Sweet potatoes are either stored in the cellar or processed into a dry meal for preservation. "
Although the corn is not a few thousand catties, the yield of thousands of catties is higher than that of ordinary crops.
Song Xiang ate a few mouthfuls of corn and nodded, "Not bad, it tastes good. Go and have a look!"
Song Xiang went to the corn field and inspected it carefully.
Liu Heixiong asked: "Master Song, this corn is ripe, do you need to break it off and weigh it?"
Song Xiang saw that there were few corn fields, and he also believed that Liu Heixiong and Liu Yiyi would not cheat on these issues, so he stopped and said, "No, I trust you. You just need to break a few corns and give me half a bag of sweet potatoes. I'm going to the palace right now to meet the emperor."
Village Chief Li, who has been following along, widened his eyes and met the emperor?
Could their little Li Family Village be known by the emperor?
Immediately, Liu Heixiong packed half a sack of corn and a sack of sweet potatoes, and moved them to Song Xiang's carriage himself. Song Xiang hurried to the imperial city without delay.
Liu Heixiong led the people not to be careless, and took turns guarding the field.
?After working so hard for so long, now I finally have results, and I can't let it fall by the wayside.
Village head Li will immediately call the young and middle-aged people in the village to come out and guard, not to allow cats, dogs, and all kinds of animals to approach and spoil the food.
That is a high-yielding crop with an yield of several thousand catties per mu! If you spoil the seeds, you will be struck by lightning.
Seeing that Song Xiang was in a hurry and no longer as calm as before, Liu Heixiong said with a smile: "This Song is really impatient."
Shen Bingzhu chuckled, and said in a low voice: "How can it be so easy to assist the emperor in handling government affairs? Are you still rebelling? You will still sing praises to the new emperor."
Liu Heixiong thought about it, and felt the same way, "Yeah, if we could have enough to eat and not be bullied, who would go to the mountains to be bandits? After all, there are so many wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains. In order to get food, people often Wounded and died.
Some old people starved to death in order to save food for their children. The newly built houses were crushed by heavy snow. When we first went up the mountain, we lived in the cave for two years" (Remember this site URL: www.hlnovel.com