"These potatoes are all ripe and have been harvested."
"Oh? How was the harvest?"
"A good harvest! A great harvest! One acre of land can produce four stones of potatoes!" Wang Tingmei praised the potato yield.
Four stones?
This time it was Chongzhen's turn to be surprised.
Four stones is equivalent to about six hundred kilograms in weight.
If he remembered correctly, the potato yield per mu in later generations could reach two to three thousand or even five to six thousand kilograms.
What went wrong?
Fertility?
Or is the planting method wrong?
Wang Tingmei thought Chongzhen was shocked by the yield, and said hurriedly: "The yield of potatoes is twice that of ordinary grains. I would like to cultivate these ten acres of potatoes and plant them extensively in the spring of next year."
"OK!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Chongzhen blinked and said, "When you go back, send a cart of potatoes to Fan Jingwen and ask him to work with the research institute to study how to increase the yield. I think the yield per mu can be doubled."
"I accept your order."
After Wang Tingmei left, Chongzhen wrote a letter to his eldest son Zhu Cilang who was far away in Nanjing.
Remind him again to promote potatoes and sweet potatoes vigorously before the beginning of next spring.
Sweet potatoes were introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, and had previously been promoted for cultivation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang by Xu Guangqi.
These two crops have common characteristics: one is drought resistance, and the other is high yield.
These are not the most important, what is important is to hide well...
They do not require dry storage like grains.
Potatoes and potatoes do not have high requirements for storage environment. They can be stored in cellars, dry soil, or even temporarily thrown into water.
As long as the food is not stolen, the people will not follow the bandits to rebel.
This is the fundamental solution to the problem of bandits being unable to be eliminated!
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