The area in Jiangnan does not have much iron resources, so their iron tools have always been relatively scarce.

But iron resources are too sensitive to this era!

In the era of cold weapons, only with iron can there be weapons.

As soon as these words were said, the entire Xiande Hall became quiet.

When things developed to this point, only Li Shimin could make this decision.

After pondering for a while, Li Shimin slowly spoke: "Contact Dongyue Kingdom as soon as possible and exchange it for them."

"Your Majesty!" Hou Junji stepped forward. He was the Minister of War. He should have said something at this time, but he didn't know how to speak.

Li Shimin nodded, knowing what he wanted to say: "I know what you want to say, but if I, Datang Erlang, don't even have food, how can I have the strength to guard the border? If they have no food at home, how can they go to fight to kill the enemy with peace of mind?"

Li Shimin was of course a little frustrated about this decision. Thinking about the globe in his bedroom that he had to watch every day when he went to bed, his heart to conquer the surrounding countries even stronger.

"I understand!" Dou Lukuan said, "I will contact the envoy of Dongyue."

In fact, as long as the Tang Dynasty was willing to trade with iron tools, Dongyue had no reason to hug his ducks.

Even for them, if a duck can be exchanged for iron ore, it is a huge good thing.

After all, it is not only the Tang Dynasty that has external pressure. Nowadays, no one in China is guarding against other countries and maintaining a delicate balance.

For Dongyue, they are rich but lack iron ore and horses, which is their disadvantage.

Even if this matter is decided, I think that raising more ducks among the people will not only curb locust plague, but also add a kind of meat to eat after the locust plague. This is a great thing in itself.

"Second, I want to promote it nationwide and grow potatoes."

If the duck is acceptable, this potato made the court officials in the Xiande Hall a little confused.

"Potato? What is that?"

"I haven't heard of it. Why does Your Majesty want to grow potatoes nationwide?"

Seeing the Xiande Hall being in a mess like the vegetable market, Li Shimin frowned: "Quiet!"

Everyone quickly shut up and looked at Li Shimin, knowing that he would definitely give an explanation.

"Potatoes are a new type of crop that can be used as vegetables and grain. The most important thing is that the yield per mu of this crop can reach about one thousand kilograms."

"Impossible!" As soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, Dai Zhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, yelled loudly. After yelling, he realized that he had lost his etiquette.

But this number is really incredible.

One thousand kilograms, that’s a yield of one thousand kilograms per acre!

If there were such a crop, why didn’t he know as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs? Didn’t he know the Sinong Temple below? Didn’t he know the Zhutunjian below?

And if there is no such thing, and the whole country needs to start planting, then it will be a pity.

Of course he knew that such things would not appear in the hands of Li Shimin, who had lived in the deep palace for no reason, so it must be someone who was confused by the confusion of the public.

"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible to have a crop with a yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu. I don't know who made this slander. His intention is to be punished. I would like to kill this clerk!"

This is actually the normal reaction of this era. If Li Shimin had not believed that Tang Ping was his nephew and that he had descended to earth, he would probably have had the same reaction as Dai Zhou.

So at this time he was not angry at all. Instead, he felt that Dai Zhou's ignorant appearance was very interesting.

"Dai Aiqing, don't rush to make a decision. I have eaten this kind of thing called potato twice, and it is really good as food."

He did not respond to Dai Zhou's questions about production, but just said that this thing is very good as food.

However, Dai Zhou didn't have time to think about it at this moment. He just heard that Li Shimin had eaten it and asked curiously: "Where did Your Majesty eat it? And if it is to be promoted nationwide, where does this kind of seed come from?"

When he heard that the potato had a bean, he thought it was something similar to soybeans and needed to be promoted on a large scale, just like raising ducks, it also required a large amount of seeds.

"Don't worry about where to eat. As for seeds, um... this thing is not planted with seeds, but someone will send seedlings in a few days. In fact, a piece of land has been opened in the back garden. I want to wait until everyone sees its real yield before planning to promote it nationwide. Now it seems too late."

Then Li Shimin gave a brief introduction to the potatoes. The main reason is that the part of the food is buried underground. Even if the stems and leaves on the top are eaten by locusts, the tubers below are already ripe and can still be used as food.

It can be said that this is the best food to fight the locust plague.

After hearing this, the ministers were also amazed, but they didn't expect that time would have such magical crops.

Dai Zhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, is the person who presented potatoes the one who presented Tang pier and dragon bone water wheel?"

After he asked this, many ministers remembered that the emperor had inexplicably taken out some good things in the past two months? He hadn't thought about this just now.

"That's right, it's indeed this person!" Li Shimin thought about it and there was nothing to hide. As long as he didn't say who it was, they wouldn't expect that they would guess.

Dai Zhou was moved: "Is this person a legendary peasant child?"

The farmer was originally one of the hundreds of schools of thought, but after the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucianism was light on rural and commercial, so it quickly declined.

Now that such a magical crop can be found, I think it is the legendary peasant child.

"I think this person may be a child of the Mo family!" Duan Lun, the Minister of the Ministry of Works, expressed disagreement. How could it be, the more the craftsmen in their Ministry of Works study the Tang Li and the keel water wheel, the more frightened they are.

Not to mention anything else, they don’t know how the steel plowshare on the earliest Tang plow was made.

The people and ministers below were very interested in this mysterious person. Gossip is human nature, so the building below the Palace of Xiande was soon tilted.

"Cough cough!" Li Shimin coughed twice and signaled that they were still having a meeting, and then continued: "What do you think about national promotion?"

Dai Zhou said: "I think if the grain is not too much, it is better to arrange the planting by Sinong Temple."

Because this thing is different from ducks, you promote ducks and everyone knows that this thing can be eaten when it is fattened and can eat pests when it was a child, so they will definitely keep it with all their heart.

But no one has seen potatoes before, just because they are afraid that they will continue to promote them. Some people disobey and do not take good care of them.
Chapter completed!