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"Why hasn't Magistrate Xiaoyan come yet?"

"Why are you panicking? This potato won't run away in the field!"

"I heard from Xiaoyan County Magistrate that the yield per acre of potatoes is frighteningly high. Could it be..."

"Could it be something? Can Magistrate Xiaoyan still lie to others? Dog Wednesday, do you believe that I will beat you up?"

"When did I say that Xiaoyan County Magistrate was lying? I wanted to say whether the yield would be dug up to shock everyone!"

"Let me tell you! Last time when I was weeding wild vegetables, I pulled up a lump of soil and saw the potatoes underneath."

"What? Did you see it? What did it look like?"

The people in Kuoding County were waiting for Yan Kai to come over. When they heard that someone had seen him, they all came together to hear what happened.

"So big!" The person who said he saw it gestured with his fist: "I saw that the potato was about the same size, and there were several of them next to each other. I quickly smashed the lumps and buried them back."

"But do you think that if a potato can grow so big under one seedling, the yield will be so small?"

Hearing what he said, others became even more excited.

"Hey, are you all waiting?" Yan Kai came over and said with a smile: "Then we won't be idle. Each of us will take a basket to collect potatoes. The team that collects the most potatoes today will receive a prize!"

Hearing what Yan Kai said, the people laughed loudly, then rushed into the experimental field for planting potatoes with their baskets and tools.

"Be careful, don't dig it!"

"Everyone follows what Magistrate Xiaoyan said, first use a shovel to dig up the soil around the potatoes, then use a pickaxe to gently clean out the soil around the potatoes, and then pull it out with your hands!"

"Don't mash the potatoes. It won't be easy to store them later!"

Magistrate Xiaoyan said that if anyone wants to grow these crops in the future, they can do so in their own fields.

At that time, the potatoes selected from these potatoes can be germinated and the next crop can be planted.

Now even the people in Kuoding County know that when they farm together, they use the assembly line method that Magistrate Xiaoyan mentioned.

One person is responsible for loosening the soil, two people are responsible for cleaning, and the remaining two people are responsible for pulling out the potatoes.

"Oh my God! So many!"

"This...are these potatoes really edible? This...how many of these are needed?"

As the potatoes were dug out, the people in Kuoding County were shocked.

Sixty-year-old Hu Dashan also insisted on coming to Yiwu to work, even if he didn't have work points.

At this time he pulled out a bunch of potatoes, each weighing about a few taels, and there were seven potatoes on one bunch.

It weighs almost three kilograms.

There is still a lot of moist soil hanging on the potatoes.

But Hu Dashan ignored him and knelt on the ground while holding the potato, crying loudly.

"Sanwazi, look at the food that Magistrate Xiaoyan has led us to grow now!"

The people next to him were silently wiping their eyes with their sleeves. The third son of the Hu Dashan family stayed at home to take care of Hu Dashan in the late Sui Dynasty. He secretly saved his own food and gave it to Hu Dashan.

When Hu Dashan finally found out, he himself had not survived that winter.

"Uncle Dashan, maybe Sanwazi secretly invited Magistrate Xiaoyan here?"

"Yes, today is a great day for a good harvest!"

Hu Dashan wiped his tears and kowtowed three heads in the direction of Yan Kai, namely Bang Bang Bang.

Then he yelled, “Guys, collect the potatoes!”

"Collect potatoes!"

Because there are so many people, an acre of land can be harvested in one go.

Yan Kai asked people to pile the collected potatoes together and weigh them.

"Two...two thousand seven hundred and twenty-four pounds!" Zheng Zhixun stuttered when he said it.

When he came to Kuoding County to be the chief clerk, he also knew that if ordinary people grew corn, one acre of land would weigh about 300 kilograms.

These potatoes are almost eight or nine times the yield per mu!

He also ate potatoes at Yan Kai's house, although Yan Kai said potatoes were not very tasty when used as a staple food.

But this food is still food after all. When people are hungry, do they still choose what to eat?

It’s like I’m so poor that I eat instant noodles, but you still discuss with me whether instant noodles are not nutritious?

As long as it can fill the stomach, such an output is auspicious.

The arrival of the King of Heaven is also auspicious!

The other people on the side were dumbfounded when they heard this number.

With more than 2,700 kilograms of grain per acre of land, who would starve to death?

And Xiaoyan County Magistrate said that as long as the fertilizer is used well, this thing can be grown three times a year!

Three crops, nearly eight thousand kilograms of grain!

After being stunned for a while, these people all looked at Yan Kai with a somewhat confused look.

Yan Kaixin couldn't tell, and quickly shouted: "Don't kneel to me, you kneel to God, no, kneel to this pile of potatoes! This is what God asked me to pick!"

When Hu Dashan was kneeling just now, he jumped away. This would make the people of Kuoding County do it again, and he would have to return it!

After listening to Yan Kai's words, the people really knelt down in front of the more than two thousand kilograms of potatoes, and then worshiped devoutly.

You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, there was no kneeling ceremony. Even when ministers and emperors discussed matters, they actually sat down to discuss matters, let alone kneel down.

Whenever they kneel down, they really show their respect sincerely.

After kneeling down, the people looked at the dozens of acres of potatoes left and rushed over like crazy.

Yan Kai breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted loudly: "Everyone has picked the potato leaves, so you can feed them to pigs, chickens, and ducks. Even in the worst case, they can be fertilized!"

At this time, Huang Rong came to him and looked at him with a complicated expression: "I have to report this matter."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Yan Kai to speak, he said: "Based on what I know about Your Majesty, if you produce such food, Your Majesty can guarantee your prosperity and wealth as long as you don't rebel in the future."

“It’s okay to report, but can we wait a few days?”

"How many days to wait?" Huang Rong asked doubtfully.

"That's right, wait a few days, we'll keep some for planting, and I'll sort out a few ways to preserve them. You can take the rest back to Chang'an."

Although the Xuanwumen incident was brought forward a little earlier, it could not change the locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan.

These potatoes were prepared by Yan Kai for the locust plague. If Li Shimin could promote it effectively and stock up on more potato powder and the like, many people in the Tang Dynasty should be able to survive the locust plague.

As for raising ducks and chickens to fight the locust plague, it may be useful in one place, but when it comes to the entire Tang Dynasty, where can you find so many ducklings and chickens?

"What do you want?" Huang Rong asked.

She knew Yan Kai very well. If Yan Kai was willing to hand over these potatoes to His Majesty, he would definitely not return empty-handed.

"Well... apart from paying the price of corn, these potatoes should be sold to the imperial court by our Kuoding County, and then some of them can be given to me to work on!" Yan Kai had long been fascinated by those royal craftsmen.

Even before the weavers and embroiderers he hired last time arrived, he was already looking for other craftsmen.

As for the things that are impossible to offer, they were all grown with hard work by the people of Kuoding County. Why should they be offered to the imperial court?

"Also, I would like to ask Your Majesty, can you not report everything to him?" He pointed to the potatoes: "Otherwise, I won't do these things in the future!"

Huang Rong looked at Yan Kai blankly, this request... only you dare to make it!

But the things you did may be earth-shattering even if you don’t say it well. How could you keep it a secret?