Magistrate Deng responded, picked up the spoon, scooped out a piece and put it in his mouth.
After taking a bite, Governor Deng's eyes lit up again and again.
If this is a pastry, then the craftsmanship of the chef who made it must be extraordinary, as he can make it so delicately.
After tasting it carefully, he couldn't tell what the pastry was made of.
"How does it taste?" Shen Yong asked with a smile.
Magistrate Deng swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth and said happily,
"This pastry has a soft, glutinous texture, is sweet and delicious, looks golden in color, is plump and tempting, and smells fragrant, with a sweet aroma that is simply unforgettable."
Magistrate Deng said all the nice things he could think of.
The pastries that Chen Yong personally took out to share must have been made by someone extraordinary, either the old lady or the sixth lady. In any case, it would be a good idea to praise them.
Besides, he wasn't talking nonsense, it was indeed delicious, with just the right amount of sweetness, unlike some pastries that are too sweet.
Shen Yong curled his lips and smiled, "This is not a pastry."
"This...if this isn't pastry, what is it?!" Magistrate Deng stared at the food on the plate in astonishment.
It tastes sweet, so why isn’t it a pastry?
Chen Yong raised his hand and clapped it, "Pa~"
Sun Ren and Zhang Tiezhu, who were outside the house, heard the sound and immediately walked in carrying a basket of things.
Governor Deng looked at the purple-red objects of varying sizes in the basket with a puzzled look on his face.
"Could this be..."
Magistrate Deng looked at the things in the basket and then at the food on the plate. The color seemed a little wrong.
Shen Yong pointed to the bamboo basket and said, "Take one and show it to Lord Deng."
Sun Ren responded and immediately took a sweet potato from the bamboo basket and handed it to Magistrate Deng.
Magistrate Deng frowned as he looked at the purple object in his hand. He leaned in and sniffed it, and it seemed to have a faint sweet fragrance.
When you pinch it, it feels hard and crunchy, which is completely different from the soft food you just put in your mouth.
“Is this the food that will be produced after this thing is cooked?”
Magistrate Deng held the thing in his hand and looked at Shen Yong.
Of course he knew that food tasted different before and after cooking.
It's just that the color difference is a bit big. Generally, the color difference after food is cooked will not be so big.
"That's right." Shen Yong nodded with a smile, "This is sweet potato."
Magistrate Deng looked at the purple-red thing in his hand and thought that it was indeed worthy of the name "sweet potato".
"I am a humble servant and have never seen this kind of food before, but sweet potatoes do taste good."
It must be very troublesome to grow such delicious food.
He was lucky enough to have a taste of it, which was considered a blessing from the prince.
"Of course you haven't seen it." Shen Yong looked at the basket of sweet potatoes. "Sweet potatoes have a high yield and are easy to grow. I have decided to let the people around Qianhuang City grow this."
"However, the best time for planting has passed now."
"Besides, the entire city is under construction, and there are no extra people to plant."
"From today on, people will add a boiled sweet potato to their meals."
Prefect Deng's eyes widened in shock. "Such a precious item would require an extraordinary amount of consumption."
As for whether the output was large or not, he hadn't seen it, so it was hard to say how large the output Shen Yong was talking about was.
But with hundreds of thousands of people in the city, if everyone adds a sweet potato to their meals every day, that would be quite a lot.
He shook the sweet potatoes in his hand. Each one weighed about half a pound. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of sweet potatoes every day was scary to think about.
Shen Yong smiled and said, "Let everyone try it first, and then you can plant it next spring."
"This is the time and method for planting sweet potatoes. You should have someone study it carefully and then teach it to the people."
The people treasure the things they grow in the fields, and they would feel uneasy if something they planted was taken away from them unexpectedly.
Let them have a taste of it first. This thing is not expensive and is much cheaper than food.
It only cost 3.98 million yuan to store 2 million kilograms of sweet potatoes in two warehouses.
His account balance still has yuan.
Sun Ren stepped forward, took the paper from Chen Yong's hand, and handed it to the dumbfounded Prefect Deng.
Magistrate Deng took the sweet potato planting instructions in a daze, and looked at the detailed instructions on it, including the planting time, planting methods, seed selection and seedling cultivation... He slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
It would be unreasonable if it is not possible to grow it after writing it in such detail.
"Yes, I will go back and study it carefully."
Shen Yong nodded and said, "You can take this basket of sweet potatoes back with you."
After expressing his gratitude, Magistrate Deng returned to his mansion holding the instructions and carrying a basket of sweet potatoes.
.......
"Master Deng, I heard that the prince gave you a basket of goodies."
Mr. Ma smiled and looked at Magistrate Deng, "Would you mind letting me take a look?"
When he heard that Magistrate Deng had brought a basket of good things from the prince, he rushed over immediately.
The things given by King Qianhuang can definitely be worth a high price.
He had the refined salt brought to the Fire Phoenix Kingdom. The first batch of salt was 2 bags, or 2 jin, which were sold for 6,000 taels of gold.
This was also his good luck. Two princes of the Fire Phoenix Kingdom who were at odds with each other appeared at the auction house together. Neither of them was willing to give in to the other, so they raised the price of salt from 100 taels of gold to 6,000 taels of gold.
How could he not be happy when the movie was a huge success?
Now he has sent refined salt to all the cities in Fire Phoenix Country. Each city only has 100 kilograms of salt, and the excess cannot be sold at a good price.
There are a total of 126 cities in the Fire Phoenix Kingdom, and this time more than 10,000 kilograms will be lost.
After half a month, he shipped another 100 kilograms of salt to each city, making a steady income.
He also had no intention of letting the people of Fire Phoenix Country eat such salt.
His sales target was the dignitaries in the cities of Fire Phoenix Country. Only they could afford the refined salt that cost 100 taels of gold per bag.
Governor Deng glanced at the box of gold sent by Master Ma and smiled.
"Master Ma has made a lot of money recently, hasn't he?"
He spent 1,000 taels of gold, which is really generous.
It seems that the refined salt made the Ma and Xie families a lot of money.
"Ah~" Master Ma waved his hand and smiled, "It's a long-term solution. If you sell too much of this precious salt, you won't get a good price."
"The timeline needs to be extended. I have already sent people to transport the salt to several small countries surrounding the Fire Phoenix Nation. We'll know the exact price when they come back."
When Master Ma said this, he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.
He didn't even have to guess, the price definitely wouldn't be low.
He had spread the word that this was refined salt exclusively used by the royal families of the Great Celestial Empire and the Fire Phoenix Nation. When people from the small countries heard about it, they were eager to pay for it.
For every 10,000 taels of gold he sold, he could earn 3,000 taels of gold, and it was a business with no capital investment. It was exciting just thinking about it.
It feels like it won't be long before he becomes the richest man in the great country.
"Indeed." Magistrate Deng nodded. "Did the Xie family send salt south?"
Most of the water transportation in the south is controlled by the Xie family, and he is also aware of this.
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