Martial Sage

The potato trial field of nearly 10,000 mu is about to be harvested. Looking around, the mature leaves, feathery and tender green, resemble a group of birds about to spread their wings.

After a rough calculation, it is estimated that the harvest will be 30 million catties, enough for the entire Chang'an city to eat for more than a year or nearly two years. People will not have to worry about the problem of getting enough food this year. The night before the harvest, Tang Hao stood by the edge of the field, looking at everything with joy, his heart surging.

But suddenly I had a large batch of potatoes, and there was no advanced freezing storage technology at that time, so it was difficult to digest so many starch bumps all at once.

Perhaps looking at this, Jun would say that it is not enough to sell directly to Tubo, sell to Persia, and earn some foreign exchange. However, in the era when there were only ox carts and boats for transportation of goods, the products did not have twice the profit, and Datang merchants would not think about transporting such products to hundreds of miles away for sale.

What's more, fresh potatoes have more moisture and are not convenient for long-term storage and transportation. Then Chang'an City will be self-produced and sold.

The palace nobles in the palace, a palace subscribes for more than a thousand catties, and the output can consume more than half of it all at once. As for the common people, because the potato thing has just begun to be grown in Datang, in order to promote food, the purchase price is only one-third of the rice and wheat.

To facilitate the purchase, Tang Hao issued a bill of lading to each shop in the General's Mansion. The buyer now fills in the quantity of potatoes purchased, pays on the spot, and then takes the bill of lading to the potato test field in the suburbs to pick up the goods.

At first, everyone didn’t dare to eat it. It’s never been eaten. What can you do in case of food poisoning after eating it, but soon, with the advantages of potatoes being easy to cook and full of flavor, the people of Chang'an are very interested in this new food. The popularity is increasing day by day.

On a bright sunny day, the people who had placed an order and paid in the city took the delivery receipt and happily pushed the trolley to the outskirts of the Tang's experimental field to pick up potatoes.

A big round potato is placed on a small cart, and the faces of the people who pick up the goods are filled with joy, as if the cart is not pushing potatoes, but a lump of gold nuggets.

Tang Hao's old father-in-law Li Jing and his mother-in-law Hongfu's palace also subscribed for one million catties. It could have been sent directly to the mansion, but Li Jing had to come to the son-in-law's test field to see for himself, Hong Fu also wanted to come out and watch the excitement.

The couple also dressed very well that day, walking on the road on the side of the field, behind them are the young and powerful young men of Li's mansion, one by one pushing the trolleys for transporting supplies, lined up in an orderly manner.

Looking at the people who were picking up potatoes in front, the round potatoes piled up on the cart, Hong Fu couldn't help but speak first: "Our house subscribes for one million catties of this stuff, that is, more than two hundred coins. It's not that there is more money and less money." As she said, she glanced at the oncoming potato cart.

Then Hong Fu went on to say to Li Jing: "It's just that our mansion can't finish eating this one year, even if it is every day, every day."

Li Jing suddenly realized that, yes, even during the three meals in Li's house this year, he would eat potatoes as a staple food, and he would definitely not be able to digest them until the beginning of spring next year.

As one of the founding fathers of the country, he has witnessed the tragic scene of having no food to eat and starving the ground in the disaster year. Now that there is a big harvest of food, but because he can't finish eating it, he squandered his ration. Will God forgive them for this wasteful behavior?

Thinking of this, Li Jing regretted that his brain was hot for a while, and he had subscribed so many in one breath, but all came, so he moved back to the palace first.

The people solved the ration problem at once, and they were happy. But for the princes and nobles, the dinner table is a bit undigestible. Lao Zhangren Li Jing looked at the huge potatoes on the table, crying without tears.

It is a great sin to waste food. Since the founding of the capital, Chang'an, Datang has not encountered a bumper harvest of potatoes and food surplus like today. In famine years, potatoes are indeed a treasure, but now they are well-fed, even if they are fragrant. I can’t stand the last meal and the next meal.

Nowadays, not only is the treasury full of potatoes, but the people's own warehouses also have sufficient stocks.

Of course, as a potato experimenter and planting promoter, the town’s general Tang Hao personally took the lead in subscribing for 3 million catties in the face of the current bumper harvest.

When I got home, the backyard of Tang Mansion was full of harvested potatoes. Princess Changle was playing with potatoes with her son. Li Wanqing and Zhang Luo moved most of the potatoes into the dry warehouse in the backyard.

Seeing Tang Hao's return, Li Wanqing said to the officials happily: "Husband, your planting method is really good. This year our family has saved so many potatoes. By the beginning of spring next year, there is no need to worry about food rations."

Tang Hao smiled and said, "The lady likes it so much. From tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening, including your snacks and supper will be replaced with this thing, what does the lady mean?" Obviously, Tang Hao faced the sudden bumper harvest. It's also a bit difficult.

Princess Changle stood up, wiped her hands and said to Tang Hao: "This is your feat. You have a good harvest of food and benefit the people. Compared with the deaths and injuries on the battlefield, this is a great feat that lasts for generations."

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