Everyone began to pick the potatoes. The big ones were packed separately and the slightly bigger ones were also counted.
Then they continued to sort the potatoes of different sizes.
The others continued to harvest the potatoes and planted many mu of land. Those were the seeds for next year.
When they were planting, the people of the Sitong Temple were there. They planted everything, including the management in the later stage. They followed and learned along the way.
Many sprouts could grow on a potato. After the sprouts were urged to grow, they were cut into pieces and planted in the soil. At that time, a lot of potatoes would grow under a seedling.
The potatoes were harvested. The potato seedlings were packed up and carried away.
"Are we going to feed the animals?" Li Rizhi first made use of the things in the field and didn't want to waste them.
"When cooking pig food, put some at a time. As for cattle and sheep, sometimes some parts of the seedlings are poisonous.
When we eat the potatoes in the future, I will write in the newspaper and tell the people that if they want to eat the sprouted and green potatoes, they have to be processed extra. "
Li Yi introduced briefly. He was worried that some parts of the seedlings would contain solanum due to the growth of potatoes, the temperature, and the exposure of sunlight.
When cattle and sheep had normal food, they didn't like to eat the potato seedlings. However, they could accept the sweet potato seedlings after tasting them.
Pigs were better. They had lower requirements for food. When cooking pig food, they were not poisonous after being cooked.
There was a lot of poison on the potatoes. The sprouted parts were dug out and the other parts were sliced and soaked in water. It was best to make them into vinegar shredded potatoes.
This was the wisdom of the foodie race. They knew how to process the potatoes and invented a dish alone, which indicated that someone had been poisoned to death.
After thinking about it, why didn't the person who put vinegar die? Then put vinegar.
Also, soaking and blanching potatoes in water when making potato dishes could be used to deal with solanum.
At that time, no one taught science. The people used their lives to explore.
Therefore, there were many methods of making things that were supposed to be poisoned not poisonous after special processing.
Including pickling salted vegetables and making pickled vegetables. Who taught them about nitrite? Everyone knew that they had to be pickled for a certain period of time before eating.
Some people also concluded and wrote in books that the officials had the responsibility to teach the people if they were illiterate.
"Uncle, are potatoes really less dry than rice and noodles? One jin of rice is equivalent to three jin of potatoes? "
Empress Wang looked at so many potatoes and felt that the difference was not big.
"Sister-in-law, one jin of steamed rice is not one jin of rice, and one jin of noodles is not one jin of noodles. One jin of steamed potatoes can only increase the amount."
Li Yi easily explained the situation. Potatoes could produce ten dan per mu, and in some aspects, they were equal to rice and wheat.
All in all, ten stone of potatoes were more beneficial to the human body than three stone of wheat.
"Sister-in-law, we can usually eat a meal that's four to two meters of rice and pickled vegetables. With potatoes, we can eat a meal that's two to two meters of rice and six taels of potatoes as a side dish. With pickled vegetables, we can eat a meal that's far more than four to two meters."
Li Yi gave a simple example. Not only was it full, but it was also nutritious.
"Good, let's plant potatoes. Let the commoners plant potatoes." Empress Wang was happy. It was indeed different.
Li Yi saw that the others were busy, so he ordered his men to pick other things and went back to prepare the meal in advance.
When it was time for lunch, all the participants went to the big square to eat.
There were a lot of dishes, stewed pumpkin with pork ribs, stir-fried pork with kidney beans, braised pork with kidney beans, fried pine nuts with shrimp and corn, fried peanuts, spiced peanuts, vinegar peanuts, potato slices, potato slices, potato paste, salt frosted potatoes, potato pumpkin cake, potato roast mutton, tomato … …
Finally, there were carroted sweet potatoes, which needed cold water.
The sweet potatoes were not fully ripe, so they needed to be big. The corn also needed to wait for a while. There were also peanuts.
Since they wanted to eat, let's have a taste. The exotic species enriched the commoners' basket and rice bags.
There were also some potato dishes that Li Yi did not cook. Eating too much was not good for the body.
Everyone carried their plates and served themselves. They ate a little of each dish, tasted each dish first, and then chose their favorite dishes.
"Such a set of dishes can be sold for the price of a membership card on the third floor in Earthly Paradise. It's not expensive! It's exchanged with life. "Bi Goo said to Li Yi.
"Earthly Paradise, I'll put some small potatoes and sell them for more money." Li Yi nodded and agreed.
"I didn't mean that. If it's Drunken Immortal House … …"
"No, Drunken Immortal House can be discussed later." Li Yi shook his head.
He would not be fooled. If he said that Earthly Paradise could not be taxed, Bi Goo would guarantee that he would sell it at a place where he could receive taxes.
He would not sell it. He would keep it for himself.
Seeing that Bi Goo still wanted to persuade him, Li Yi quickly changed the topic: "In fact, pumpkin is also good. Its advantage is that it can be stored for a long time. In a suitable place, it can still be eaten after a year and a half."
"Can it be eaten as rice?" Bi Goo asked.
"No, it's not bad to have more dishes. When the production of sweet potatoes increases, additional processing will be needed to increase the number of jobs.
Sweet potatoes are not suitable to be eaten as rice. It's okay to eat them occasionally. It's best to make them into noodles.
Sweet potatoes are better adapted to the soil than potatoes. Generally, it's not bad to plant sweet potatoes in the mountains. There's also no need to worry about management.
Anyway, it's planting by cutting, so less seeds are wasted. No matter how you plant, you can harvest the seeds. Also, people can eat sweet potato seedlings. "
Li Yi planned to wait a few more days for the sweet potatoes to be harvested. It's sweet!
When winter comes, he could make a stove to roast sweet potatoes … … he missed it.
"Li Lang, let's sell roasted sweet potatoes in Luoyang during winter. Leave a few thousand catties of sweet potatoes to roast for fun."
Princess Yongmu came back with a tray. He did not know where she got the rice from, but there was a lot of red braised pork and braised kidney beans.
Xiao Lan, who was beside her, had more or less the same as Princess Yongmu, except that there were more shrimp fried with pine nuts.
He did not know if she liked to eat corn or pine nuts. In short, it could not be shrimp. She was sick of eating them when she was out at sea. Now, she could only eat them as snacks.
"Okay, sweet potatoes don't need too many seeds. Leave three mu of sweet potatoes to roast."
Li Yi supported. Wasn't it because he wanted to wander outside?
"Isn't three mu of land too little?" Bi Goo felt that Li Yi was too stingy. Princess Yongmu said that it was a few thousand catties, yet he gave her three mu of land.
"More than 10,000 catties. If you add more, how long will it take to roast them?" Li Yi knew what Bi Goo meant and deliberately said so.
"How much? You … … the things you brought back … … how can they all grow so fast? They're even better than potatoes. "
Before the potatoes came out, Bi Goo only believed in Li Yi's words.
Looking at the big baskets of potatoes, Bi Goo was once again convinced that Li Yi was not lying.
Thus, he was shocked by the yield of sweet potatoes.
"It's considered a low yield. You have to cultivate it well in the future. One day, potatoes can produce 45 to 56 dan per mu, and sweet potatoes can produce 57 to 78 dan per mu. Don't think it's impossible. "
Li Yi knew that with his land and the good management of the staff, the yield would be frightening if it were the good varieties of potatoes from his time.
Naturally, his rice at that time was also good, but unfortunately … …
"No, there's no need for so much. I'm afraid that I won't live to see that day. Let's plant potatoes that can produce 20 dan per mu first. Ordinary people can't plant potatoes like this, not the Li Family Zhuangzi."
Bi Goo was more pragmatic. Compared to the current situation, it was enough to add a bit more!
"Okay, I'll work hard and work harder. I'll see how to deal with it." Li Yi nodded vigorously.
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