Chapter 331: Forced to Eat Sweet Potatoes

Nagamasa: "Isn't it just potatoes? What's wrong with everyone? Don't eat them? Must eat rice? Sweet potatoes can only temporarily satisfy your cravings? No! You must eat this potato! Otherwise, it's a waste of food!"

As Zelun knew, there are not many countries or civilizations in the world that can grow potatoes and know how to eat potatoes.

It can even be described as scarce.

Therefore, as the rice-producing area of ​​the Akitsu Empire, there are obviously many rice fields, but most of the rice can only be exported, resulting in the majority of the people having to rely on wheat to fill their stomachs. Naturally, the Takagi Kingdom is also one of the countries that does not know the value of potatoes.

After all, the dog-headed people were the first country in Neoland to bring rice seeds from the Aisha continent and widely planted them in Neoland.

The reason why the Orchid Republic and the Nigan Empire have rice today is thanks to the hard work of the dog-headed people back then.

But now... Alas.

In order to usurp the throne, the first king of the Takagi royal family sold a large number of gray-haired dog-headed people in the country as gifts to the Orchid Republic in exchange for military weapons support. As a result, these gray-haired dog-headed people were not treated as pariahs as they were in their hometown. Later, they obtained citizenship of the Orchid Republic and had a leader - the head of the Orchid Republic, who was equal to the king of a country.

So the Orchid Republic began to study how to grow rice in cold places at that time, and even pulled in another great power on the Neoland continent - the Nigan Empire for cooperative research. The final result was not surprising. The Orchid Republic and the Nigan Empire, which later began to brew rice wine as a disinfectant, became the two major rice research and development countries on the Neoland continent.

As for the Gaomu Kingdom, which has completed the change of dynasties, it still maintains the level of manual planting agriculture until now, and there are no agricultural tractors in the two countries. Like fertilizers, most farmers in the Gaomu Kingdom don't know this. At most, everyone invented a planting method called rotation to ensure that a piece of farmland has a very stable output.

But can the small peasant economy that relies on farmers to do men farming and women weaving fight against mechanized agriculture that uses various agricultural machinery and fertilizers?

The collective farms of the Orchid Republic and the Negan Empire can provide enough food to feed the people of a city.

Note that it is to feed, just feed. However, it is not a trivial matter that a collective farm in a village can feed the people of a city.

Because there is often more than one rural area or town around a city, the urban residents of the two countries will definitely not worry about not having enough food. In addition, the two countries have long-term academic and economic exchanges, and almost every town and even village in the two countries has a granary dedicated to storing food.

To borrow a famous saying from outside, if you have food in your hand, you will not be panicked. With food, you can guarantee the security and stability of a country.

Especially the Orchid Republic, which is said to not use gold, silver and jewelry as collateral, but only use millet or sorghum as collateral for issuing currency.

Nagamasa now finally understands why this country is very stable.

At the same time, Nagamasa discovered a major problem in his country.

Everyone is "infected" by the pig-headed man, and always hopes to eat rice instead of wheat every day.

The reliance on a single staple food is so obvious that there is no interest in other crops that can serve as staple food. There must be a potential crisis.

If the enemy uses biological weapons to pollute the rice fields, then everyone will not be able to eat rice in the future. Even on this basis, a large-scale famine will be staged in the area controlled by Wanxi Liberation Force in a tragic way.

Therefore, even if his methods are a bit brutal, he must let his men understand what it means to prepare for a rainy day. The weaknesses of their black-haired dog-headed people are not only known to the black-haired dog-headed people, but their opponents will also study this aspect carefully.

It's time to learn the dietary diversification of the Orchid Republic, otherwise it will be a disaster if the enemy does not give them rice to eat in the future.

Obviously, Nagamasa's idea is good, but it will obviously encounter various obstacles in implementation.

However, such a problem is one of the things that is meaningless to discuss in the Krurod Empire.

The black-haired dog-headed people, and even the entire dog-headed people, are an intelligent race that grows rice.

In order to eat rice, the dog-headed people are the first intelligent race in the world to successfully grow rice in cold areas. Therefore, after accepting a large number of gray-haired dog-headed slaves, the Orchid Republic naturally developed them. There have even been rumors for a long time that the Orchid Republic is trying to cultivate rice that can be grown in the shallows.

Whether this is true or not, it is a very influential event. Being able to solve a country's food problem and being able to export food abroad is itself a manifestation of a strong country.

Therefore, Zelen drank a cup of mint tea before going to bed, and couldn't help but feel lucky that his country had introduced sweet potatoes and peanuts a long time ago.

Camelia: "Aren't you afraid of not being able to sleep if you drink mint tea at night? Or..."

Zelen: "This is given by your grandfather, it can't be wasted, right? Moreover, mint itself is a medicine, which can be used to treat muscle pain."

Camelia: "At the same time, it can enhance energy. I declare in advance that there are only three of us left to sleep with you. You drink a cup of mint tea, and we..."

Zelen: "Don't worry. I'm not the type who can't control myself."

It is true that the purpose of Mr. Mike sending mint tea is to hope that he will work harder for everyone in the family. However, Zelen was often busy designing and improving military weapons during the day, and he couldn't bear not having a cup of mint tea at night.

At the same time, he also had to say that countries in the world were not like the Crurod Empire in being able to delve into the potential value of various plants. Like this sweet potato, Zelen heard that sheep-headed people, many humans, and even other strange races are not willing to eat it.

For example, the high-spirited people actually believed that this was food for dogs and firmly resisted it.

On the contrary, the dark elves of the Negan Empire are smarter than their compatriots in the United Kingdom of Eri. They have developed sweet potato flour to cook various vermicelli or pastries to replace the wheat flour that is not very abundant in the Negan Empire.

Yes.

Smart countries always have various ways and means to convert their staple foods.

People in a noodle country like the Negan Empire actually like noodles very much.

It's comparable to the pig-headed man's rice-polishing craze.

However, the territory of Negan's empire is mountainous and the number of wheat fields is limited. Therefore, as an alternative method, the farmers of the Negan Empire followed the Queen's call to grow sweet potatoes in the mountains, and then made sweet potato flour into sweet potato flour to replace wheat noodles.

Although there is an obvious difference in taste, the sweet potato vermicelli is not rotten after being cooked for a long time, is fragrant and delicious, and can be eaten in a variety of ways, making it popular among the people of the Negan Empire, especially farmers. After all, the requirements for growing sweet potatoes are not high and can be grown in mountainous areas, making it easier to harvest than wheat.

However, it is such a high-yielding crop that can guarantee an output of 600 kilograms to 700 kilograms per 600 square meters. Few countries in Nylande, where sweet potatoes are native, can discover such a strong value.

Take the Takagi Kingdom as an example. I don’t know if the black-haired kobolds in this country are out of hostility to the Negan Empire. They directly set off boycotts again and again in the country, and even publicly claimed that sweet potatoes are low-level and are not needed by the Takagi Kingdom. crops, and then let everyone work harder to destroy them, so as not to have their living space swallowed up by the cheap things.

As a result, this matter greatly benefited the Negan Empire. The Negan Empire purchased a large number of sweet potatoes at a very low price and planted them extensively in their own country. At the same time, farmers in the Negan Empire also discovered that the stems and leaves of sweet potatoes are edible, and the white sap flowing in raw sweet potatoes can be used as a medicinal material to treat wounds caused by poisonous insect bites. And after planting a round of sweet potatoes, farmers in the Negan Empire first discovered that rotating sweet potatoes and peanuts could ensure that the fertility of the land would not be lost...