Chapter 408

"Let's go."

With an order, kuiwu with thousands of slaves into the potato field.

Harvesting potatoes is very simple. You just need to strip away the soil ridge where potatoes are planted, and there are yellow and orange potatoes inside.

In modern times, the scientific name of potato is potato, also known as ground egg. When he was young, he often mixed potato with sweet potato. In fact, sweet potato is another high-yield crop, but unfortunately it has not been obtained from overseas.

But modern agriculture is also in his plan, so he will continue to search for crops all over the world.

It is estimated that the repair of the three warships when Yue Yun went south these days is almost complete. The expanded Dengzhou shipyard has been producing Galen ships this year, and now it will be the end of the year. With the scale of Dengzhou shipyard, at least 12 Galen ships can be launched.

According to the data reported by Zhang Liang, the 12 Galen ships include one flagship, which belongs to the first class sail warship, three second class sail warships, four third class sail warships and four fourth class sail warships.

If these warships can be successfully completed by the end of the year, his Navy will have 15 galleons. Although this number is far less than the number of hundreds of western maritime powers, for Xiao Ming, this fleet is enough to deal with the colonists who have extended their tentacles to Asia.

After all, according to his experience, the west is not monolithic. Their most important colony is America, and they will not invest a lot of troops in the East.

Even if the war starts and the news spreads, it will take months for reinforcements to arrive. Even so, they have to face the problem of supply.

For him, he is playing at home and has obvious advantages.

After seizing Shanhaiguan this time, Xiao Ming has already speculated in his mind about the plan of seizing Ryukyu Island from the Dutch. After all, the position of the island is very important.

As long as he takes Ryukyu Island, he can completely block the trade routes between Japan and Korea. Of course, his goal is not only Ryukyu Island, but also sulfur, gold and silver.

According to records, in the late 16th century, the Japanese set off a fever of mineral exploration, and silver deposits were found in many areas. In the long 400 years from 1562 to Edo era, the Shijian silver deposit in Datian City, wuguogen County, was the largest silver deposit in the world.

At that time, Japan was one of the few silver producing countries in the world. At that time, one third of the silver in the world was produced in Japan. At that time, Japan was even called "silver islands" by the people of Ming Dynasty.

In addition to silver, the gold of Japan also accounted for 5% of the world at that time, and the most important resource of Japan was nothing else, but sulfur, one of the ingredients of gunpowder.

In the Ming and Song Dynasties, the Japanese had always been an important source of sulfur, but now most of the sulfur produced by Xiao Ming was transported from the south.

He has investigated and found that the sulfur was also trafficked by maritime merchants from Japan.

In the past, when there was not much demand for gunpowder in Dayu, the price of sulfur was still higher than that of saltpeter. Now Qingzhou needs to produce a lot of gunpowder, and the price of sulfur is rising.

Because of this, Xiao Ming was more and more determined to drive away the western colonists, dominate the East Asian trade, and even colonize the Japanese. He had no choice but to plunder all kinds of scarce domestic resources.

After all, this is an era of upgrading industry by plundering resources. Without one of these resources, industry may stagnate.

While he was thinking about it, Pang Yukun was already inspecting the field.

Two fist sized potatoes came out of the mound, and Pang Yukun ran over excitedly, "Your Highness, this thing is really heavy."

Xiao Ming looked back at the field. Now there are potatoes turned up all over the ridge. The slaves are busy, but it seems that they are happy with the harvest. Every one of them has a smile on his face.

After taking the potatoes from Pang Yukun, Xiao Ming picked them up and smelt them. A familiar taste came from the shop, which moved people.

"That's the taste." Xiao Ming said excitedly, regardless of Pang Yukun's astonished eyes.

Pang Yukun could not help but feel confused: "Your Highness seems to have eaten it?"

"No, but Wang's western teacher said it." Xiao Ming once again made up a reason, when a lie appears, he can only constantly use lies to make up.

Pang Yukun nodded and sighed: "it's a pity. If he's still alive, I don't want to ask for advice."

Ignoring Pang Yukun's love for each other, Xiao Ming took potatoes and went to the village to find a coal stove and pottery pot.

After filling the pot with water, Xiao Ming washed the potatoes and put them into the pot. He allowed them to pick up the briquettes and heat them on the stove.

After a while, with the boiling of the water, a faint fragrance floated out of the pot.

Seeing this, Pang Yukun kept staring at the rolling potatoes in the pottery pot, waiting for the moment when the potatoes were ripe.

Now that the potatoes are ripe, whether they can be eaten is a problem.

After boiling for a while, Xiao Ming fished out the potatoes from the pot with chopsticks.The smell of boiling hot potatoes is diffuse, and the surface is concave as soon as it is pinched, which is the proof of maturity.

After swallowing his saliva, Xiao Ming soaked the potato in cold water for a while, then took it up and peeled it. A smooth potato came out, and he took a bite on it.

"Incense!" Xiao Ming can't help but cry.

It has to be said that there are so few vegetables to eat in Dayu that Xiao Ming even thinks potatoes are delicious.

Seeing Xiao Ming's manner, Pang Yukun immediately took out a potato from the pot.

After a bite, Pang Yukun's eyes became straight. He had never experienced the taste, but he had to say that the cooked potatoes were really good.

After eating a potato in a hurry, Pang Yukun fished out another potato and ate it. After eating three potatoes in a row, he burped.

"Your Highness, these potatoes are delicious. Three potatoes are enough for a meal." Pang Yukun laughed. This potato is so delicious and hungry. If it is promoted in the fiefdom, why worry that the people will have no food to eat.

Xiao Ming is also satisfied with his food. This is only part of his agricultural plan. In the future, sweet potatoes will be introduced.

After touching his stomach, Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed. He said, "there are many ways to eat potatoes. In a few days, I will give you something better to eat."

Pang Yu Kun nodded heavily, holding the potato as if holding the whole world.

After experiencing a handful of potatoes, Xiao Ming asked kuiwu to start weighing the potato yield of one mu. In the evening, kuiwu got the result.

"Your Highness, there are thirty-two stones in this acre." Kuiwu's face turned red with excitement.

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