Datang: Li Shimin eavesdropped on my heart

Chapter 33 Can this thing produce three thousand catties per mu?
old city.

In the backyard of the yamen.

"Is this thing capable of producing three thousand kilograms of potatoes per acre?"

Li Shimin, led by Li Yuanfang, came to the backyard of the Yamen.

The backyard of this yamen is not too sunny, but it is not too small either.

The backyard was changed by Li Kuan into five square plots, all of which were of the same size.

Li Kuan named these five pieces of land respectively: Land No. [-], Land No. [-], Land No. [-], Land No. [-], and Land No. [-].

Li Shimin stood next to Field No. [-], picking up a potato that had just been dug out of the field.

Li Shimin was not afraid of dirty potatoes, he actually bent down.

He squatted down, put the potatoes on his clothes, and wiped off the dirt on the potatoes.

Eunuch Xu, who was standing aside, wanted to wipe the potato field clean with his own clothes, but no one thought that the emperor would move faster than him.

Li Shimin looked at the potatoes in his hand.

Then he raised his head slightly and looked at Eunuch Xu beside him.

"Grandpa Xu, make a fist and compare it with this potato."

"Okay, Your Majesty."

Eunuch Xu acted according to his word.

He clenched his right hand into a fist, and then Li Shimin picked up the potato in his hand and stood up.

He put the potato next to Eunuch Xu's fist for a little comparison.

It turned out that the potatoes were a little bit bigger than Eunuch Xu's potatoes.

"Yuanfang, can this thing really produce three thousand catties per mu?"

Li Shimin turned his head and looked at Li Yuanfang who was standing on the other side of him.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the servant girl is not very clear about whether potatoes can really produce three thousand catties per mu."

"However, my Highness said that this crop called potatoes can produce three thousand catties per mu, and it can produce three thousand catties per mu. I believe my Highness."

Li Yuanfang had another saying that she didn't say, and that was that she was not the only one who believed in Li Kuan's words.

The people in the entire old city believed that Li Kuan's statement that potatoes could produce three thousand catties per mu was the truth.

"Yuanfang, do you know where your Highness got this kind of potato that can yield three thousand catties per mu?"

"This one……"

Hearing this, Li Yuanfang shook his head and said that he didn't know.

Li Shimin saw that he couldn't find out the ins and outs of the question, so he didn't continue to ask.

Instead, he looked up at the sky and said, "It's getting late."

"It's time for lunch."

"Let's eat this potato for lunch today!"

"Yuanfang, please ask your chef to cook me some dishes made from potatoes. I want to taste the taste of these potatoes. What do you think?"

Li Yuanfang nodded towards the emperor Li Shimin and replied: "Okay, the servant girl will make arrangements now, and I will ensure that His Majesty still wants to eat after eating."

Li Yuanfang and Li Shimin left the backyard.

Li Yuanfang personally ran to the kitchen and asked the chef A Subaru to make some delicious dishes with potatoes.

Li Shimin and Xu Gonggong did not stay in the Yamen, but left the Yamen.

Li Shimin also wants to walk around the old city.

Li Shimin only had Eunuch Xu and a Qianniuwei with him.

Another Qianniuwei was left in the Yamen by Li Shimin.

Li Shimin asked the Qianniu guard who stayed in the Yamen to notify him when the delicious food was cooked.

"Eunuch Xu, when you go outside, don't call me Your Majesty, but call me Boss Li, you know?"

"Understood, Your Majesty, no... Boss Li." Eunuch Xu replied respectfully.

Li Shimin continued: "I'll call you Butler Xu!"

"We pretended to be businessmen who came to the old city to do business."

Li Shimin and Eunuch Xu walked slowly in one direction while chatting.

Qianniuwei, who was behind them, followed closely behind the two of them, Qianniuwei was very nervous and kept watching for danger.

Although Qianniuwei knew that there was no danger that this old city would endanger the Tang Emperor, this was the vigilance Qianniuwei had always maintained.

This vigilance has become a habit.

So even if the emperor Li Shimin made the Qianniuwei behind him not to be so nervous, Qianniuwei would not be able to relax.

"Sell cooking!"

"Selling cooked rice!!"

"Passing by, don't miss it. This restaurant has just opened. Anyone who enters this restaurant today will get a [-]% discount."

"..."

On Xiping Street in the old city.

People came and went, and countless hawking sounds reached Li Shimin's ears.

Although Li Shimin really wanted to go to the restaurant to drink, but when he thought about waiting, he still wanted to taste delicious potatoes.

Her foot, which was about to walk towards the restaurant, retracted again.

"Uncle, I am a businessman from Chang'an City."

Li Shimin stopped a passer-by and asked, "My name is Li Er. May I ask why your old city streets are so clean and tidy?"

"You know, even in Chang'an City, there is no such street!"

The uncle who was stopped by Li Shimin was a little unhappy at first.

But after listening to Li Shimin's question.

The uncle smiled very excitedly on his face.

Said: "This boss Li is right!"

"Basically, in our old city, people clean the streets 24 hours a day."

"The county magistrate of our old city is the son of the current opponent, His Highness the King of Chu."

"His Royal Highness Chu, originally said that he would pay wages to those who clean the streets every day, but what do you think happened?"

"No one asked His Highness the King of Chu for a penny."

"His Royal Highness King Chu is the best His Royal Highness in the world."

"He solved the water resources in our old city, and soon His Highness will solve the food problem in our old city."

"I'm telling you secretly, don't spread this news!"

"I heard that our Highness has a domestic crop called potatoes."

"This potato! It can yield three thousand catties per mu."

"..."

In fact, my uncle has met dozens of people who asked questions like Li Shimin.

Uncle likes to see the outsiders in the old city, the way they come into the city with bumpkins on their faces.

They felt it was a shame to live in the old city before, but now they live in the old city.

The old city gave them the feeling that it was an honor to be able to live in the old city in this life!

Most of Li Shimin could understand what this uncle said.

But there was still a small part that Li Shimin couldn't understand.

For example, what is 24 hours a day.

So Li Shimin asked the question in his heart.

The old man replied: "Don't we usually divide a day into twelve hours?"

"There are 24 hours in a day, which is actually easy to understand. Each hour is equal to two hours."

"The times we usually use are Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai."

After listening to his uncle's explanation, Li Shibo finally knew what the hell 24 hours a day was.

When Li Shimin learned about this, he thought about it carefully in his heart.

It turns out that his second son, Li Kuan, is really a one-day genius!
He could have imagined that dividing a day into 24 hours, these 24 hours are much better than the twelve hours used by Datang today.

Li Shimin thought, when he returned to Chang'an City, he would immediately bring it up in the morning tomorrow.

Extend this 24 hours a day to the entire Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)