Chapter 53: Potatoes
"Come out, big guy, come back and pull it back, everyone gather outside the gate to move things!" With the ringing of the bell on the school field, the shouts of the sergeants also spread throughout the entire school field and even thousands of households, and soon the military households poured out of their respective homes and rushed towards the gate, but what Yang Feng didn't expect was that the first person to arrive was Cao Yingmao.
When this hundred households, who had been severely taught by Yang Feng, were wearing a three-color camouflage uniform that Yang Feng issued to everyone last time, with a pair of rubber shoes on his feet, and the dark-skinned strong man almost didn't laugh out loud when he arrived panting, Cao Yingmao's appearance at this time is the image of a migrant worker who has entered the city in modern times, so to speak, if Cao Yingmao cuts his hair short at this time and throws it on the modern construction site, it is guaranteed to be the object of the contractor.
Standing still in front of Yang Feng, Cao Yingmao gasped slightly and said loudly to Yang Feng: "Lord Qianhu, you are here!" Where the things are, the humble position immediately brings people back to move back. ”
Yang Feng couldn't help but smile a little: "Cao Baihu, your movements are quite fast, and this dress is a spirit." ”
Cao Yingmao naturally didn't know that Yang Feng was complaining about the clothes on him, but instead straightened his chest and said loudly: "So that the adults know that since the adults sent this clothes, the lowly job feels that this clothes are not only strong and durable, but also quite convenient to wear, and the shoes on the feet are much more comfortable to wear than the original spur boots of the lowly job. ”
Looking at Cao Yingmao's serious appearance, Yang Feng was a little embarrassed. Although Yang Feng taught him a good lesson some time ago, but through later contact, Yang Feng found that this Cao Yingmao was a straightforward character, and after being subdued by Yang Feng, he became one of the people who admired Yang Feng the most, and now seeing Cao Yingmao's serious answer made Yang Feng a little embarrassed, and it seemed that he was bullying an honest person.
After coughing lightly, Yang Feng said: "Cao Baihu, I brought another batch of goods in the woods last time, you immediately take someone to move these goods back, hand them over to Li Yimu for registration and storage, move quickly, understand?" Also, tell Li Yimu that the villagers who came to help today will each give them two catties of rice as a hardship fee after they go back. ”
"Understood!" Cao Yingmao responded loudly, turned his head and shouted loudly to the military households who were coming one after another: "Did everyone hear it, Lord Qianhu said." Today, everyone can get two catties of rice after they are busy, this is the grace of the thousands of adults to everyone, everyone must remember the good of the adults, and if I find out who dares to steal and play tricks and do not work well, see how I whip him! ”
"Lord Cao, just look at it, if anyone dares to cheat and cheat, he is the grandson of the turtle!" A voice suddenly rang out in the crowd, causing everyone to burst into laughter.
"Brothers, let's go...... Give me the work! ”
"Let's go!"
There was an uproar, and everyone rushed towards the small forest outside the Thousand Households.
The phrase "the strength of the people" was best embodied at this time, Yang Feng was busy for most of the night to get the goods from the modern time and space, and with the concerted efforts of thousands of people, it took less than two hours to move all of them to the school field, and Li Gezheng took more than a dozen small officials and the account room to nervously classify and register those things.
When Yang Feng walked to the school grounds, he happened to see Li Ge open a pile of woven bags, and found that there were piles of round things inside, Li Ge picked up this thing and looked at it for a while and couldn't recognize what it was, and after seeing Yang Feng standing aside, he quickly asked: "My lord, what is this, why have you never seen this thing." ”
Yang Feng said casually: "This thing is called a potato, also known as a potato, and it is native to a place called South America. It can be grown in relatively arid places, and the most important point is that its yield is very large, as long as it can be carefully cooked, its yield per mu can even reach four or five thousand catties! ”
"Let's go!"
Yang Feng's words were dry, and the ledger and pen in Li Ge's hand fell to the ground, and then looked at the people around him with an unbelievable look. After a long time, Li Gecai smiled dryly: "My lord, please say it again, how many catties is it?" ”
Yang Feng glanced at Li Ge strangely: "Didn't I say it, as long as the cooking is good, four or five thousand catties per mu is not a problem." ”
Li Ge's eyes widened and he stammered, "My lord...... You don't have to deceive students, where in this world...... How can there be something that yields four or five thousand catties per mu. ”
"Nonsense, why am I lying to you." Yang Feng looked at Li Ge very strangely, but he forgot that in this era when the yield per mu is only a few hundred catties, what does a grain crop that can produce four or five thousand catties per mu mean to an empire, it can be said that it can save a country with this alone.
Li Ge, who was holding the potato in his hand, was so excited that he couldn't help but shout: "My lord, if this thing is really as you said, it can produce thousands of catties per mu, and no people in the entire Ming Dynasty will suffer from famine!" ”
"Of course, otherwise why would my brother work so hard to bring this thing here?" Yang Feng thought to himself.
During the Spring Festival, in these days of modern society, Yang Feng deliberately read a large number of books of the Ming Dynasty, in which a large number of materials of the Ming Dynasty were recorded, on which historians of various eras made profound discussions on the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, it is nothing more than internal and external troubles, and the external troubles are naturally the knocks of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which will not be discussed first, but almost all scholars unanimously believe that the biggest culprit of the fall of the Ming Dynasty is internal trouble.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty had reached a very serious point, a large number of peasants went bankrupt, more than 80% of the land was in the hands of landlords and magnates, coupled with the continuation of the Xiaoice period, which led to a large-scale famine in the Ming Dynasty, but the Donglin Party who held great power turned a blind eye, and those landlords and rich households who had a large amount of grain grasped the process of their exploitation. Ambitious people like Zhang Xianzhong have a place to play, they desperately toss this already crumbling empire, and finally toss this empire away, and they themselves have become the ghosts of the Manchus.
Yang Feng's opinion is consistent with many scholars, although at first glance it seems that there are many problems in the Ming Dynasty, but all these clues point to the same problem, that is, food. Some people have assumed that if the Ming Empire has enough food, it will not be able to destroy the Ming Dynasty if it is given to the Manchus for another hundred years, and Yang Feng still agrees with this assumption, the population of the Ming Dynasty is hundreds of times that of the Manchu Dynasty, even if his army is rotten, I can't beat you alone, dozens or even hundreds of people will beat you.
In view of this, this is the scene where Yang Feng brought potatoes. At the same time, Yang Feng is also guessing that if the potato is introduced into the Ming Dynasty in advance and the harm caused by the famine is minimized, the wave of peasant uprisings in five or six years will be nipped in the bud, and whether Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will be lost to the world, Yang Feng is very much looking forward to this.