Datang: My apprentice is Princess Changle

Chapter 246 Expensive Tomatoes
2Chapter 16 Expensive Tomatoes
"In the past, potatoes and sweet potatoes, I followed the people in the county. Now that four counties have completely belonged to me, I always want to give the people in these four counties some sweetness."

Qin Yang thought secretly.

In terms of manipulating people, Qin Yang has not been trained, but has his own set of ideas that he was born to understand.

And this barbaric way of manipulating people has also allowed him to cultivate a fairly loyal leadership team.

Of course, this is due to the strict class barriers of this era, and also due to the mythical filter covering him, but his art of manipulating people does have some effect.

With this in mind, Qin Yang bagged the cabbage through the system and transported it to an empty room in the palace.

The [-] Chinese cabbage seeds, in fact, count as full, which is only two bags.

Qin Yang secretly said: "If we want to promote Chinese cabbage, one year is obviously not enough, at least three years. However, there is no shortage of cabbage in the Youzhou Palace this year."

Although he wanted to become a fat man with one bite, he also knew that it was impossible.

So Qin Yang can only secretly think that at least this year, there will be no more hunger in Youzhou.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes planted in a year are enough to fill the warehouses of the people in Youzhou with food!
You can even make sweet potato vermicelli out of sweet potatoes!
"Now is the busy time, let's teach them how to make vermicelli after mid-October." Qin Yang estimated the time and decided.

"Come here." After making all the calculations, Qin Yang went out of the room and shouted to the outside.

Someone will come right away.

"Your Majesty."

"Call some people, come with me." Qin Yang ordered.

The man responded immediately, and after a moment, several guards hurried over.

Qin Yang led them to the door of the house containing Chinese cabbage seeds, opened the house, pointed at the two bags of seeds and said: "These are all Chinese cabbage seeds, a total of [-]. You divide these seeds into ten share."

"Keep one copy and send the other to the farm."

"The remaining [-] seeds will be given to the four counties of Qinghe, and each county will send [-] seeds."

"As for how to plant the seeds, let them send someone to get planting instructions early tomorrow morning."

"When you go, take a look at the conditions of the fields over there to see if there are any newly reclaimed farmlands."

"Yes." Several people immediately led the order to retreat.

The portion left by Qin Yang himself was planted with two acres of cabbage in the area opened up in the backyard of the palace the next day.

This did not use many seeds, that is, about half was used, and one-third of the remaining seeds were sent to Zhang Yunji's mansion.

The remaining two-thirds were given as rewards to officials, petty officials, and technicians who have recently been more diligent and willing to work.

Basically, each of these people can receive one or two hundred pills.

I heard that it can be harvested in October, and it can be stored for winter.

These people were very happy, and they would not give to anyone who asked for it. They planted in strict accordance with the planting content copied from the palace.

"I don't know if there are any tomatoes in the capital?"

New batches of tomatoes are ripening one after another, and now the whole Youzhou is filled with the fragrance of tomatoes.

Qin Yang looked at the ruddy tomato in his hand, and Li Lizhi's pretty ruddy face appeared in his mind.

He blushed and took a bite to cool himself down.

"Well, it's delicious."

One bite, it is really sweet and sour.

Qin Yang calculated that it is not easy to store tomatoes, even if there are always tomatoes, it is not easy to successfully store tomatoes until winter in this era.

He can still eat tomatoes from the greenhouse. In the first one or two years, ordinary people are probably reluctant to buy vegetables from the greenhouse.

"Now that the tomatoes are ripe, why not collect a batch and make them into canned tomatoes!"

"It's best to use canned jam that can last for about half a year, so that those people can also eat tomato sauce in winter."

This kind of technology is actually commonplace in modern society.

But in this day and age, it's not common.

Tomato sauce is also not suitable for use as canned fruit.

Qin Yang thought, this requires too many things.

He would like to do it, but whether it is preservatives or something, it is indispensable.

So he quickly compromised with reality and changed his mind.

"That's right! It can be made into dried vegetables!"

Qin Yang suddenly patted his thigh and said pleasantly.

Dried vegetables have a long history!
In fact, even in this day and age, there are still people who know how to cook!

It's just that juicy vegetables like tomatoes, if you want to make dried vegetables, I've seen someone try it!

In other words, even if someone tried it, it was not promoted!

So there is no such precedent in Youzhou!

Qin Yang always likes to be the first to do something!
So he immediately decided to let people try to make dried tomatoes!
It is necessary to allow the dried tomatoes to be stored for a long time, at least for a few months, and at the same time, to keep the original taste of the tomatoes as much as possible!

In this way, in winter, you only need to put the dried vegetables into the soup, and after a while, you can eat delicious tomato slices!
Qin Yang is now the king, so naturally he doesn't have to do anything by himself.

He directly called the chefs in the house and told them his proposal.

He even promised: "If anyone can succeed, I will reward you with ten taels of silver!"

Regardless of the fact that it is only ten taels of silver, it is almost enough for two months' salary of the chef of the palace!
These cooks immediately geared up, saying that they will definitely work hard!

They looked at each other, their eyes sparkling outwards!
These guys are competitors!

Seeing that these cooks were full of fighting spirit, Qin Yang was very satisfied, and waved them to leave first.

"Very good, as long as they can successfully make dried tomatoes, I will make the method public."

"If the common people follow suit, they will have more food to eat in winter."

Qin Yang, who didn't feel that he was far superior to almost all nobles in this era, quickly put the matter behind him.

He started to drink mung bean soup, sour plum soup, eat ice cream, and read story books every day.

But at this time, Chang'an City fell into bustle because of another batch of supplies he sent.

"Mom! I want to eat tomatoes! Eat tomatoes! Eat tomatoes!"

The only son of a wealthy family was crying at the top of his voice.

Although this child is not very old, his voice is very loud!

His mother was so annoyed by him, she asked the servant woman who bought her son to hug her son away, and said, "Still eating? Tomatoes are so expensive, how can you eat them every day?"

"Hey, he's crying like this, why don't we buy him some more?"

The father was a scholar, and he was reading in the study. He was very annoyed by his son's crying, so he came out and tried to persuade him.

The woman softened her tone when facing her husband, but still disagreed.

"Tomatoes are very expensive these days! Fifty coppers each!"

"So expensive?" The man was surprised when he heard this.

(End of this chapter)