Chu Fan held the bowl of instant noodles and watched Mu Xi and other girls eating instant noodles, feeling extremely absurd in his heart.

On Blue Star, women like Mu Xi, as the emperor's concubines, would already be considered superior beings, but such people would often not even look upon such simple food. Some would even call it junk food.

If you want to see the emperor and his concubines eating instant noodles together, you either have to travel back to ancient times like me, or you can only see it at the Hengdian Film and Television Base.

As a steady stream of materials were fed into the assembly line, a large number of instant noodles were continuously produced, and the six ministers, the prince of the Royal Government Affairs Office, and Prime Minister Cao Mengde were once again called into the imperial study by Chu Fan.

Cao Mengde and the others didn't know why His Majesty summoned them again. After all, in the past, His Majesty might not summon them for ten days or half a month. Could it be that he had some new instructions regarding yesterday's incident?

Cao Mengde and others saluted respectfully. After all, no matter how kind the emperor was, as his subjects they had to maintain proper etiquette.

Chu Fan gestured for them to take a seat and asked first, "How are the preparations for the grain shipment going?"

Chu Anran of the Imperial Affairs Office stood up and reported, "Your Majesty, according to reports received from various departments, the Imperial Court's grain preparations are proceeding smoothly this year. Thanks to the bumper harvests of sweet potatoes and corn, the people have a large surplus. As a result, not only have we been able to purchase the grain needed for Your Majesty's expedition, but we have also filled most of the granaries in Wei State as instructed by Your Majesty. However, some local officials have reported that fresh sweet potatoes are difficult to store and are prone to spoilage. These officials have submitted a memorial inquiring whether these sweet potatoes will be processed into dried potatoes or whether Your Majesty has other plans."

Chu Fan was still very satisfied with the efficiency of the current court. After hearing that a large number of sweet potatoes had been purchased from the people, Chu Fan took out a drawing that had been prepared long ago. This was a recipe on how to brew a kind of wine called "Sweet Potato Shao".

Of course, Chu Fan did not get this recipe from the system sign-in, but he searched and learned it specifically when he was on Blue Star. When Chu Fan was young, he saw a scene on TV where Li Yunlong wanted to reward Zhuzi with half a pound of sweet potato wine and let Zhuzi blow up a bunker, and he became curious about this kind of wine.

Moreover, the process of making sweet potato cake is not complicated. It only requires fermenting and distilling sweet potatoes. Unlike some complex winemaking processes that require tedious steps and expensive equipment.

Cao Mengde was the first to pick up the blueprint and began to look at it. When he saw the blueprint Chu Fan had brought out, he asked in surprise, "Your Majesty, can sweet potatoes be used to make wine? This process is much simpler than the winemaking methods I know."

Chu Fan nodded and smiled: "Exactly, sweet potatoes have many uses, otherwise how can they be called immortal food?"

Minister of War Mu Yundian said, "Your Majesty, since sweet potatoes can be used to make wine, does that mean the Imperial Hospital can produce alcohol on a large scale? Then the soldiers at the border won't have to worry about alcohol shortages."

Chu Fan answered seriously, "Yes, so you should speed up the implementation of the sweet potato winemaking project. After all, even if the Wei Kingdom has advanced forging technology to produce weapons, it is impossible for there to be no casualties on the battlefield. I will launch a war against the Xiongnu and the Gan Kingdom, and I will need a lot of alcohol to clean the wounds of the injured soldiers."

Chu Fan had been controlling the production of alcohol before the sweet potatoes were ripe. After all, before the sweet potatoes and corn had a large harvest, food was in short supply in both Wei State and other countries on the Shengwu Continent.

If, as the emperor of Wei, he were to purchase rice wine and fruit wine in large quantities to purify alcohol, the lives of the people would be seriously affected.

Some people may ask that the purified liquor can definitely be sold at a higher price, but one issue that everyone should think about is the "nature" of the merchants. As long as the liquor is sold at a high price and someone buys a large amount of rice wine and fruit wine from them, then these merchants will guess that the high-concentration liquor is extracted from these rice wine and fruit wine.

Some people may say that these businessmen do not understand the purification method. Even if they guess it, they do not know the purification method, and they cannot produce high-concentration liquor.

This can only be said to be naive. Merchants don't understand purification technology, but they understand supply and demand. When they find that someone is buying large quantities of rice wine and fruit wine in the market, they will find ways to raise the price of rice wine or fruit wine, and at the same time, raise the price of other grains. This will lead to a general increase in grain prices throughout Wei State and Shengwu Continent, and then it will become more difficult for ordinary people to buy food from these merchants.

Before there was high-yield grain, most countries had very strict control over winemaking. This was because if merchants made a lot of money from winemaking, then those merchants who originally sold grain would also turn to the winemaking industry. When the time came and all the grain turned into wine, it would be time for the people to pick up their hoes and resist.

This is why even after Chu Fan made a lot of profits through the Royal Bank and various new items such as refined salt, he did not brew a large amount of liquor for sale. Even the restaurant in the Royal Yuya Villa has a limited supply and will not sell in large quantities.

But now with sweet potatoes, things were different. As long as the Wei Kingdom didn't suffer a major natural disaster or man-made disaster, even large-scale production of "sweet potato burn" wouldn't affect the food supply. Even if the court purchased a large number of sweet potatoes from the people, it could bring them a considerable income and alleviate their survival pressure.

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