The land outside Chang'an City of Chu's Palace is not much, but there are tens of thousands of acres.

Of course, not all of these tens of thousands of acres are together.

But now more than one thousand acres of potato fields are connected together, which has a great impact on people.

Although autumn is approaching, the leaves of potatoes are still green.

In the breeze, waves rippled for a while.

Wang Xuance had arranged someone to build a not-so-small stage overnight yesterday.

Although it looks a little simpler, it is still very attractive to have such a stage between the fields.

Between the various fields, there were basically crowds of people watching.

Fortunately, everyone cherishes crops, and no one dares to step on the potato field directly.

So when Li Shimin and his group arrived at the scene, they found that the path in the fields had been occupied by dense crowds.

The most exaggerated thing is the road close to the bank of the Weishui River. Since it takes into account the needs of tourists, it is still quite wide.

Now it's all covered.

It is obvious that at least tens of thousands of people arrived at the scene today.

Fortunately, the police stations in Chang'an County and Wannian County have made full preparations, and the Baiqisi has even produced all the elites, so people who maintain order can be seen everywhere, so there is no need to worry about something big happening.

"But Zhang, you don't sell meat today? Why do you have time to come and join in the fun?"

In the crowd, Aunt Liu found that not far away was her old acquaintance, Butcher Zhang, and couldn't help but go over and say hello.

"The meat can be sold every day, but the potato digging ceremony is not something you can see every day. If you miss this opportunity, you will probably never have such a huge event in the future."

Butcher Zhang responded casually.

In fact, he will come today. One of the important reasons is to see if the yield of potatoes is really as high as the legendary one.

If this is the case, he would immediately go to Lantian County, find his sister and brother-in-law, and persuade them to respond to the call of the court and immigrate to Zhenbei Road.

It only takes a few years to plant dozens of acres of potatoes there.

At that time, whether it is to move back to Lantian County or continue to develop in Zhenbei Road, the initiative will be in their own hands.

"That's true! I heard from my nephew at home that it was a good weather today, with sunny weather. You can see potatoes digging out of the ground with your own eyes. This is more convincing than any newspaper introduction."

Aunt Liu was obviously a real melon-eating crowd and came to join in the fun.

Their family is all in Chang'an City, and their parents are also outside Chang'an City. It is estimated that they will also come to the scene this year.

So for her, today she was really here to watch the fun.

"The ceremony that both Your Majesty and His Highness attend, must be chosen as a good day!"

In the opinion of Butcher Zhang, the Chu Palace arranged such a ceremony today, which must have been a decision made after careful selection.

How could he know that this was completely decided by Li Kuan temporarily.

Li Kuan ignored any good days.

As long as the potato yield today can exceed 1,000 kilograms, then whether it is windy or rainy, today is a good day.

On the contrary, no matter how beautiful it is, it is useless.

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"Your Majesty, I have arranged for someone to divide the land into dozens of acres per mu. Do you want to let Ran take a measurement?"

Standing on the temporary stage, looking around, there is an endless potato field ahead.

The expectation in Li Shimin's heart suddenly reached several levels.

"The Ministry of Revenue has specially arranged half of its personnel to come here today to help calculate and count the actual yield of potatoes. Your Highness, King of Chu, if you don't mind, I will ask the people from the Ministry of Revenue to measure it again?"

Before Li Shimin could speak, Tang Jian expressed his views first.

As the Minister of Revenue, he naturally paid great attention to the yield of potatoes.

To be honest, this is related to the future changes in agricultural tax revenue of the Ministry of Revenue.

"Shangshu Tang has already made arrangements, so this is naturally the best thing, so I will ask my colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue."

Li Kuan did not plan to do anything about land area and potato yield, so he was naturally not afraid of people from the Ministry of Revenue to measure it.

Even if Tang Jian didn't say anything, he would take the initiative to ask the Ministry of Revenue to help, so as not to get the time when the data came out, and another group of people came out to question it.

"Well, today, all the surveys of the fields, the collection and heavy potatoes produced per acre of land are left to the people of the Ministry of Revenue to take charge. I will go down to the ground to dig a lot of soil later to see if this potato is as magical as you said to Kuan'er."

Li Shimin's words set the tone for today's potato digging ceremony.

But that's fine. Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian and others around him were going to stand up and speak, but after listening to Li Shimin's words, there was nothing to say.

All the things are left to the people from the Ministry of Revenue to be responsible. At that time, I can't use these things to explain the matter anymore, right?

Everything depends on the yield of potatoes.

If there is really a yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu, then the Chu Prince Mansion will definitely be the biggest winner and no one can stop it.

If there is no yield of a thousand kilograms per mu, I will not be afraid at all. Although it will have a little impact on Li Kuan's reputation, it is still rising overall.

But if there are many differences, even if the yield of potatoes is still higher than that of rice, Changsun Wuji and others will not give up such a good attack opportunity.

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"Your Majesty, the auspicious time has come, and you can start to make groundbreaking!"

After Li Chunfeng's fairy style and Taoist styling today, he said this.

Although Li Kuan is not very particular about these things, he does not believe them much.

However, when people follow the local customs, everyone agrees with Feng Shui theory, so there is no need for him to completely lift the table off.

"Well, I'm responsible for this acre of land, Xuanling and Wuji, you guys are responsible for the acres of land next to you, and take the farmers to dig out these potatoes to see if this yield can bring us surprises."

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he picked up a hoe, rolled up his sleeves, and started working on the field.

Not to mention, whether it is the emperors or officials of this era, they basically know a lot about farming.

At least there is absolutely no problem in working as a pretentious person.

Digging potatoes does not have much technical content.

Sometimes, if you pull up the potato seedlings with one hand, you can basically bring out most of the potatoes.

Of course, this method will definitely lead to many potatoes being left in the field, so no one will do this.

During this period, Li Shimin waved his hoe and headed towards a potato.

After hoeing, a large piece of black soil was turned upside down, and the tender yellow potatoes immediately appeared in front of Li Shimin.

At this time, Lan He came forward very cleverly and lifted the potato and confirmed if there were any missing in the ground.

"Your Majesty, there are a total of six potatoes the size of duck eggs. This one will probably have to be two pounds after it."

"Well, put it in the basket behind and put it in. I want to see if every potato has such a good harvest."

Although he was ready, Li Shimin was actually quite excited when he saw a potato seedling that produced two kilograms of potatoes in person.

Of course, as an emperor, happiness and anger are not reflected in his expression, which is considered a basic skill.

Therefore, most people cannot see Li Shimin's current joys, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

Li Shimin started, and soon, the other farmers naturally began to wave their hoes and began to dig at Li Shimin's acre of land.

After all, it is impossible to really let Li Shimin dig acre of potatoes alone, which definitely exceeds Li Shimin's physical load capacity at this time.

Just like during spring plowing every year, Li Shimin would bring a group of ministers to the fields to plant rice seedlings symbolically, but it was impossible for Li Shimin to plant a large area of ​​seedlings.

There were many people and great powers. Several farmers followed Li Shimin to work. In just a quarter of an hour, the fields were filled with potatoes.

"The yield of this potato is likely to exceed 1,000 kilograms per mu. Now that it has only been dug for more than 30%, there are about 500 kilograms of potatoes."

On the stage, Xiao Yu and Tang Jian personally supervised the clerks of the Ministry of Revenue to busy counting the situation of various plots of land.

The older Xiao Yu naturally could not dig potatoes by himself today, so he simply stood on the stage with Tang Jian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to watch the progress of digging potatoes.

"Following the growth of the potatoes, the yield of each plant should be relatively close. Then you can roughly calculate the yield of one acre of land. There is absolutely no problem with the yield of a thousand kilograms per acre."

Tang Jian was also very excited.

Such a high-yield potato is of too great significance to the Tang Dynasty.

"Well, the yield per mu can be between 1,200 and 1,500 kilograms. This yield is almost ten times that of corn and more than five times that of Nanyang rice. It is definitely a number beyond everyone's imagination."

Xiao Yu thought he was a knowledgeable person, but he never dared to think about the excavation scene today.

"The King of Chu asked His Highness to go to America to look for corn and sweet potatoes in addition to potatoes. Even his three children were named after small corn, small potatoes and sweet potatoes. Now potatoes have appeared alive in front of everyone, and I guess corn and sweet potatoes are likely to exist.

If we can bring them back to the Tang Dynasty, then we will have two more choices at once. In different geographical environments, we can choose the most suitable high-yield crops to grow locally. The food problem that has troubled the land of China will really be solved."

Tang Jian looked at Li Kuan, who was standing under the big sun umbrella next to him, enjoying the cool air.

I saw him sitting on a rattan chair, next to him was a maid gently waving a big palm fan, while he was holding a glass cup in his hand and was drinking something.

This comfortable appearance made Tang Jian a little jealous.
To be continued...