This person is too strong but insists on eating the empress' soft rice

Chapter 49 The Great Harvest

Under the orders of the Hubu Shangshu, someone soon weighed the first acre of potatoes excavated by Han Gongfeng.

The data was quickly presented.

Even though he had been prepared for it, the Minister of Hube could not help but take a breath when he saw the final weighing result.

"There are actually 64 stones!"

This was already beyond his expectations, Hubu Shangshu's face was overjoyed.

He can already guess that if the next potato yield is the same as the first mu, then the food problem will be completely cured.

"Han Gongfeng, please continue!"

Hubu Shangshu said.

The current results are better than expected, and he plans to dig some more fields to see if this kind of output is normal.

After listening to the words of the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Han Gongfeng started to get busy again.

In fact, the Minister of the Ministry of User said that he himself really wants to know whether all potatoes have such a high yield.

Later, under the operation of Han Gongfeng, potatoes from several acres of fields were excavated.

Without exception, their output has reached sixty stones or more.

After the news was spread, the surrounding onlookers were already in tears.

Because they are very excited at the moment, and this is the first time they have seen the grain yield of sixty shi per mu.

In everyone's mind, they can be said to have witnessed history today.

At this time, not all the people around were in harmony.

Because there are many large and small grain merchants mixed in.

They had gathered here for the first time when they heard that the government would conduct a public potato mining demonstration.

This is related to their future livelihood.

After all, if the potato production is so high, it will definitely affect the current grain price, and if it is not done well, their grain merchants will suffer a lot of losses.

At this time, a grain merchant raised his doubts: "Jiang Shangshu, are you trying to show off on purpose? Have these few acres of land been given spiritual water?"

The grain merchant did not lend grain to the government two months ago.

Because they feel that the price of food will definitely rise again, so they keep holding it in their hands like a treasure.

Seeing that the officials have dug out such a large amount of potatoes now, they naturally feel a little bit drummed in their hearts.

In response to the grain merchant's doubts, the Minister of the Household Department responded unceremoniously.

"These few acres of land have not been applied with spiritual water. It can be said that the normal yield of potatoes is enough to reach sixty shi per mu!"

After Hubu Shangshu paused, he continued.

"If you don't believe it, you can go back to your own fields and have a look. Anyone who has planted potatoes should be ready for picking."

After hearing the words of the Minister of the Household Department, the common people immediately fell into cheers.

They didn't take the grain merchant's doubts to heart at all.

Because everyone knows very well that there is no need for the official to cheat on this kind of thing.

What's more, the common people are very familiar with their own fields.

Which family has nothing to do to sprinkle something as precious as spiritual water on the field?
So when these people learned that the potato production was so high, they immediately wanted to go back to their own fields to verify it.

It didn't take long for these tens of thousands of onlookers to return to their fields eagerly.

They started digging potatoes with all their might.

And Jiang Qingyang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, also arranged for many of his subordinates to bring some materials and go to various villages to count the production of those potatoes.

After just half a day, Hubu Shangshu had already collected a lot of information.

He couldn't wait to rush into the palace, shouting loudly all the way.

"Your Majesty, good news, good news!"

After coming all the way to Luo Hongyan's side, he said emotionally.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, the potato production is amazing, it is really a great news!"

"How much is the yield?"

Luo Hongyan looked at the emotional Jiang Qingyang, and her breathing became a little rapid at this moment.

Because the production of potatoes is related to the food problem of the common people.

Although previous studies have shown enough that the yield of potatoes, a crop, is already very high.

But at that time, after all, there were practitioners who were taking special care of them.

Most of the potatoes grown on a large scale today do not have this treatment.

So Luo Hongyan is also very curious, what is the yield of potatoes grown under normal circumstances?

After the Hubu Shangshu calmed down his emotions, he replied: "Return to Your Majesty, I sent someone to count the harvest of the potato farmers around the imperial city."

"The final calculation results show that the average potato yield per acre should be around 61 shi."

Luo Hongyan was also a little surprised after hearing the data reported by the Minister of the Household Department.

"well!"

"Report this good news, let the whole world celebrate!"

Luo Hongyan waved her hand, and Jiang Qingyang quickly followed the order and left.

Not long after, the news spread that the potato yield was 61 shi per mu.

For a moment, all the officials were shocked by this news.

Countless people have begun to discuss the price of food very enthusiastically.

Because in the past two months, the high price of food has already become a knot in the hearts of most people.

Although it is said that the officials of the Great Grass Dynasty have taken some measures, such as purchasing grain from grain merchants, and then selling it at a [-]% discount.

But the grain at this price is still much higher than in normal times.

Well now, after the bumper potato harvest, the amount of food will definitely increase significantly.

As a result, food prices will inevitably plummet.

Soon there will be no more people going hungry because they can't afford food.

The panic in people's hearts was greatly alleviated.

On the other hand, Luo Hongyan also started the harvesting operation again.

No, the food storage in the government has not been used up yet, and the price of food is already falling.

Moreover, the drop in food prices is not just a little bit, it is half of the drop.

This kind of price cut directly made the grain merchants dumbfounded.

But even more terrible things are yet to come.

Because the grain merchants found that even if the price of grain was directly reduced by half, no one would still buy grain at this time.

After this news reached Luo Hongyan's ears, not only did she not have the slightest worry, but she ordered it directly.

The price of food will be cut in half again!
Now she is trying to find a way to suppress the price of food.

Only in this way can she make a fortune from it.

(End of this chapter)