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    Raw sweet potatoes are edible.

    The taste is crisp and sweet.

    "Kaba kaba, since it has been imported, Zhang Mao chewed it carefully. The taste is not bad.

    But when it tastes like this, it feels like is it fruit?

    If one acre of land can produce thirty shi of fruit, that would be pretty good.

    The only bad thing is that it seems that it cannot be used as a staple food.

    It¡¯s just now

    Thirty stones Zhang Mao's heart started beating wildly when he thought of this number, and the anger he had just felt was gone in the blink of an eye.

    Fang Jifan seemed to have read his thoughts and said with a smile: "Shibo, the most interesting thing about this sweet potato is that it can not only be eaten raw, but also cooked. If you mix it into rice porridge, it can relieve hunger.  .¡±

    Can it satisfy hunger?

    Zhang Mao is a straightforward rough man, and his eyes lit up when he heard this.

    ????????????????????????????????????? Couldn¡¯t it be that it can be used as supplementary food?

    "If sothe yield of thirty shi of sweet potatoes per acre meansZhang Maofa was confused.

    Although he is a military commander, how could he not know the importance of food?  Food is the lifeblood, the elixir of life!  In this era, the consequences of any slightest famine are extremely huge.

    Of course, Fang Jifan knew better than Zhang Mao what food meant in this era of low productivity.  People in later generations praised and respected it the most, and it was known as the richest Song Dynasty in history. In the history of the Song Dynasty, there are still countless records of "everyone eats each other when they are hungry".

    By the Ming Dynasty, with the arrival of the Little Ice Age, a large number of natural disasters began to occur, not to mention.

    The great thing about this sweet potato is not that it completely replaces the staple food. It can be eaten all year round. In fact, it is no different from eating yellow rice. Its importance lies in that once a famine occurs, it can keep people alive, even in  In good years, it is enough to replace part of the staple food with sweet potatoes.

    With the current land and population of the Ming Dynasty, this can completely solve the problem of hunger. What¡¯s more, doesn¡¯t he still have potatoes in his hand?  Potatoes are the real artifact, because potatoes can completely replace the staple food.

    Without solving the problem of hunger, Fang Jifan's historical knowledge is actually completely useless. It is simply a joke to completely break the structure of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. In fact, many people think that this idea of ??valuing agriculture over commerce is related to Confucianism. Fang Jifan  After studying a lot of Ming history, I don¡¯t see it that way.

    Because this involves a chicken-and-egg relationship. In Confucius's time, Confucianism did not deliberately discriminate against merchants and basically treated them equally. But later on, why did it start to despise business and emphasize agriculture?

    In fact, it is nothing more than a light business idea formulated by a dominant Confucian scholar based on the needs of the ruler.

    The fact that rulers despise business does not mean that they are inherently discriminatory against merchants. In essence, it is simply that once commerce arises, a large number of people will inevitably engage in business, countless people will work for merchants, and the country's most capable labor force will be used by merchants. This will inevitably hurt farmers, and subsequently  As the population continues to increase, the land it carries has not increased. If you want to feed more people, you must require a large number of people to cultivate the land intensively. Otherwise, when a famine comes, it will be a war.

    In fact, this era was like this. Even Europe in the Middle Ages was not much better. With low agricultural production, their cities were pitifully small. It was not until potatoes and sweet potatoes were introduced to Europe that a large number of laborers began to work.  They were freed from farmland and flowed into cities. Later, when the food problem was solved, in order to develop industry and commerce and obtain higher profits, the nobles simply converted farmland into pasture and raised sheep to obtain wool.  Weaving.

    ??Just imagine, if there had been no increase in food production due to potatoes and sweet potatoes, which would have largely solved the problem of hunger, which idiot would turn this vast farmland into a sheep pen?

    Any theory has its basis in reality. It is impossible for someone to suddenly think of it as soon as he slaps his head, and the whole world will happily accept it.

    Therefore, unless we solve the problem of food being the first priority for the people, the problem of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce will never be solved.

    Of course, Zhang Mao couldn't think as far as Fang Jifan, but he had to believe Fang Jifan's words. After practicing it with his own mouth, he didn't understand anything else. He only understood that this thing was edible and could quench hunger.  Also highly productive.

    At this time, he stared at Fang Jifan, panting heavily, and seemed to still feel that Fang Jifan was trustworthy."Wait a minute." Zhang Mao sighed after wiping his tears. He pulled Fang Jifan aside and looked at Fang Jifan deeply.

    Zhang Mao thought to himself that nephew Fang Xian deliberately wanted to give his son a share of the credit. Hey, how did he say it at the beginning? At first glance, this successor was a conscientious person. However, since  You have a conscience, I

    He squinted his eyes and lowered his voice and said: "Thirty stones is too little. It's not less than one or two stones anyway, right? To announce the good news, you have to say something nice. A few more stones will make your Majesty even more happy.  I don¡¯t care to go into details. Even if I want to verify it, who would care about the extra few stones? It¡¯s better to make up for the difference. Listen to me, my dear nephew, and I will repay you thirty-six and a half stones.¡±

    Fang Jifan was heartbroken, eh, I've already lied. The original twenty-six stone turned into thirty stone. If you add more, something will happen!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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