Chapter 1849 Unsatisfied with the Potato Harvest

Chapter 1831: Unsatisfied with the potato harvest (second update)

With the sound of "boom, boom, boom", the two trains ran for three days, and a large amount of supplies were brought to Chang'an.

The ship loaded with moon cakes and grapes sailed to Laizhou, Dengzhou, Henan Province. In a few days, it would be August 15th. The navy was in Chang'an and had to send it to their families in advance.

Including the Yulin Flying Horsemen who were responsible for setting off the fireworks and the boat, they had already received the letter sent from Haizhou Station.

In order to prevent the potatoes and sweet potatoes he brought back from rotting, Li Yi planted them first and then built a greenhouse on them when the weather got cold.

He did not plant the potatoes in the current time period at that time, and he would plant greenhouse potatoes a month later.

Because there are many potatoes harvested in autumn, they can be stored until spring.

Potatoes are grown in greenhouses. When the potatoes mature, the cheap potatoes are not eaten yet, and there are a few people who are willing to spend a lot of money to buy new greenhouse potatoes.

Wait until mid-February to March for greenhouse potatoes to be harvested.

At this time, many potatoes begin to sprout or grow black, and new greenhouse potatoes are naturally accepted.

No one in the Tang Dynasty competed with Lijiazhuangzi for potato sales, so they could plant them at any time.

Plant now and you can harvest potatoes before the twelfth lunar month.

Set aside some for eating, maintain a suitable temperature, and plant the potatoes harvested before.

When this batch can be planted, the time will be a little later, and other crops will not be rotated, and the greenhouse will continue to be built.

It is easy to encourage potatoes and sweet potatoes to germinate.

For the sake of seeds, I would be willing to set up a greenhouse in all seasons.

"This winter, we can eat baked potatoes and sweet potatoes openly."

Li Yi held a big potato in his hand, preparing to fry it for lunch.

The potatoes he brought back were ready to be harvested. The potatoes he had just planted and brought back from the navy were just in time to grow.

Now the only thing is to taste it, and then provide the potatoes with an artificial environment so that the new potatoes can pass the dormant period as soon as possible, germinate, and then plant again.

Later, if you plant it again, you have to give it to Sinong Temple. They have to organize manpower, which is quite troublesome.

Almost everyone from Sinong Temple is here, and those who have gone to various places to look for seeds are still staying here.

Sinong Temple now has the largest number of staff, both internal and external, and the government also allocates a lot of funds.

They did produce results, which was different from Li Yishi's initial results.

At the beginning, it was not that his country did not pay attention to it, but it just had no money, little allocation, and lack of manpower. It was just a matter of chance to find a crop.

At Li Yi's request, Sinong Temple of the Tang Dynasty mobilized tens of thousands of people, and local officials also had to cooperate.

Sinong Siqing, Shaoqing and others personally went to the fields to dig potatoes.

They took off their official uniforms and wore cropped trousers and waistcoats. The muscles on their bodies all looked very beautiful, indicating that they were indeed working people.

One group of people collected them, and another group of people came behind to pick up the missing potatoes. Regardless of their size, they were put into baskets and weighed later.

Those who harvested an acre of land first brought over baskets of potatoes.

Li Longji and others watched and waited.

In fact, you don’t need to look any further, you already know that the harvest is higher than growing anything else.

One basket weighs seventy or eighty kilograms, and there are currently fifteen baskets filled, and they are still packed.

No one held an umbrella, everyone was sweating non-stop. Someone next to me handed me cool mountain spring water, and I took a sip, which cooled my heart and made me feel better.

"Is that all? I live in fertile land and take good care of it. It's too shameful."

Li Yi muttered and complained, blaming the potatoes for not growing well.

People near him: "..."

"Xiao Yi, that's it. Knowing that the potatoes you brought back have a high yield per acre, why do you bother?"

Bi Gou couldn't get angry and said something to Li Yi.

"An acre of watermelon is a lot. If you eat watermelon, you will be full, and then how long will you be hungry?" Li Yi made another calculation.

"Potatoes are the same as I am used to? The fried potato slices and shredded potatoes I eat are not like eating watermelon."

Li Dan knew what Li Yi meant. He ate it and found that he was very hungry after eating potatoes.

“Based on the amount of water inside, the water content of potatoes is more than three times that of rice and wheat.

The yield of rice and wheat in good fields is about three shi per mu.

Calculating water alone, the potato yield of ten stones per mu is considered equal to them.

Of course, there are other things in potatoes, which rice and white flour cannot compare with. "

Li Yi just disliked the low yield, but he recognized potatoes in other aspects.

"Doctor Li, I will give you a choice between three stones of rice or millet and ten stones of potatoes. Which one do you choose? You can only eat one of these three."

Liu Youqiu asked the most straightforward question, "Don't say anything else, what do you want?"

"Of course it's potatoes. There are other things in potatoes that are good for the body. I'm not allowed to eat other vegetables. I can only rely on potatoes to make up for it."

Li Yi simply said, potatoes. Although he always regards potatoes as vegetables and snacks, it does not mean that he does not understand them.

"Yeah!" Liu Youqiu was satisfied with the answer, indicating that the potatoes were still good.

While talking, all the potatoes were taken out, put in baskets, weighed, and finally peeled.

Qin Shouyi, the Qing of Sinong Temple, finished calculating the data and stood there silently.

"How much?" Song Jing asked in a deep voice, waiting for you, you were stunned.

"One, one thousand eighty, eight hundred and forty, nine pounds." Qin Shou stuttered out.

"Weigh it twice more." Yao Chong urged.

Based on this number, converted into stones, there are more than fifteen.

Didn't Li Yi say there was so much water? Three times as much water, after deducting, and five shi of dry stuff, which is 60% more than the three shi.

Everyone weighed again and after weighing, the difference between the numbers twice in a row was less than five kilograms.

"Look, I'd say less. According to my idea, with such land and care, it should be at least forty-five or six stones."

Li Yi calculated based on the yield of his best potato seeds at that time of 8,000 kilograms per mu.

It is impossible for ordinary people to use good land for farming, let alone to take care of it.

It is normal for the yield per mu to drop to ten stones by then. Compared with rice and wheat from good land, it is just a little better.

"To plant, or not to plant?" Su Ting found that Li Yi was particularly annoyed. Wouldn't you say something to make everyone happy? What forty-five-six stone?

“Seed can be used as staple food or non-staple food. The yield is low, so we can find ways to increase it.

In terms of management, it is easier than rice and wheat.

It is unrealistic to grow rice on the grassland, and you are afraid of birds when growing wheat. So plant potatoes, wait for them to grow, and bury them in the ground. "

Li Yi nodded, UU reading www.uukanshu.net No need to pour cold water on it, according to his calculations, the yield of rice is now even lower.

"What will you plant after the potatoes are harvested?" Bi Gou looked at the empty ground and knew that the land in Lijiazhuangzi was fertile.

"You can still get another season by growing vegetables. In fact, potatoes can be grown twice a year in some places, such as Henan Prefecture, which now grows indica rice."

Li Yi calculated the time and found that Chang'an was not suitable for growing food crops at the moment.

Of course, he doesn’t grow vegetables either. He grows other things, and then goes to the greenhouse to breed them.

"Gangrou, where are the potatoes now?" Zhang Jiuling looked at the potatoes in the basket and wanted to know what to do with them.

"Pick the big ones for the medium ones, and let's eat the medium and small ones. You can pickle the small potatoes, or boil them with more salt. When the potatoes are boiled dry, there will be a layer of salt frost on the outside, but not salty on the inside. Salt-frosted potatoes."

Li Yi said, "I want to eat it, so I'll cook it now and eat it as a snack."

"Okay, let's eat potatoes at noon." Li Longji, who had eaten potatoes before, became greedy. This time he could eat as much as he wanted without feeling bad.

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