Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yang and Fu Su were overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Quick, take us there!"

Chapter 281 New Crops

State of Qin, Treasurer.

This is the treasury of the central grain and gold and jade storage of the Qin State.

Outside the front door of the treasurer, countless carts transporting supplies were already parked. There were so many of these vehicles that they lined up all the way to the streets of Xianyang City outside the palace.

Because everyone knows that the things transported by these vehicles are from Shaohao, thousands of miles away, many ministers have gathered in front of the treasurer's gate, and they all want to know what the new species that Xu Fu brought back from Shaohao is. What does it look like?

Soon, Li Yang and Fusu, accompanied by Ji Kai, came to the treasurer.

"I've met Your Highness, Lord Zhen!" Everyone saluted one after another.

"You don't need to be too polite, come and go with Gu to see the good things brought back by Shaohao!"

Fusu didn't have the heart to be shabby with this group of ministers, looking at this endless vehicle loaded with Shaohao's supplies, his eyes lit up, both excited and curious.

"Quick, open it and have a look!"

As soon as Fusu got to the front of the car, he couldn't wait to order.

Ji Kai immediately signaled to the escort and quickly opened the sack in the car.Immediately, grains of golden yellow things were revealed.

"What is this? It is several times bigger than Gu Li!"

Seeing such large grains of grain, Fusu and the others all lit up their eyes, with expressions of astonishment on their faces.

Ji Kai was also very curious, so he quickly reached out and grabbed a handful, looked at it carefully, and asked curiously at the same time: "Dean, is this food?"

As soon as Li Yang saw these golden fruits, he recognized them at a glance. Isn't this just corn!

Li Yang smiled and said: "Your Highness, this thing is called corn, and it is grown in dry land and high mountains. There are no grain chestnuts in Shaohao Prefecture, so it is the staple food, so it is naturally food."

"Food? Such a large grain of grain!"

When everyone heard this, they were all shocked.

"It's amazing, it's really amazing! There are such big grains in this world!" Fusu was also amazed and couldn't believe it.

And Ji Kai, as the Minister of the Ministry of Finance in charge of money, grain and wealth, has the burden of tripling the grain output this year on his shoulders. Now that he sees this kind of grain, it seems to him that he sees hope, and the excitement is beyond words. Grinning so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, he said with a smile, "If Daqin planted this plant on a large scale, the grain output would definitely increase!"

Fusu also nodded: "That's right, Taifu said that it can be planted in dry land and high mountains, so that it will not be restricted by water conservancy. Well, it's really great, haha!"

Fusu applauded again and again, then shifted his gaze to another car, and urged: "Open them all for me!"

With one order, the sacks of all vehicles were opened one by one.

Then, everyone saw another thing, such as a potato the size of an egg.

"Teacher, what is this?" Fu Su picked up one and asked happily.

Li Yang looked at it and smiled: "This is potatoes, and it can also be used as a staple food."

"What? This... is this also a staple food?"

Fusu and everyone exclaimed again, because this kind of thing is bigger than corn.

Hearing this, Ji Xie quickly put down the corn in his hand, ran over again, picked up a potato, his eyes lit up, and he turned his head and asked, "Does this potato need to be grown in paddy fields?"

Li Yang nodded: "It is also planted on dry land."

"What is this?"

"sweet potato!"

"Is it also planted in dry land?"

"Exactly!"

"This is……?

"Peanuts! Planted in dry land!!"

"Dried chili..."

"........."

Looking at these many novel crops, everyone had to sigh deeply: "Xu Fuzhi's contribution is very great!"

Li Yang was also very excited, because the crops brought back by Xu Fu this time are really rich in varieties, including corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, peppers, sunflowers, tomatoes, lima beans, pineapples, papayas, and tobacco Dozens of others.

Moreover, not only are there many varieties, but also many quantities.

琅琊郡运送物资的押运官早已统计了数量，玉米粒700石（秦朝1石约现在的60斤，700石即4.2万斤），土豆550石（约3.3万斤），红薯600石（约3.6万斤），花生等其它数十种总共亦有500石（约3万斤）。

With so many crops, as long as they are planted, after one or two years of cultivation, they can be mass-produced on the land of Daqin, greatly increasing the variety and yield of food.

Fusu said excitedly: "There are so many crops suitable for dry land, increasing food production is no longer a problem."

Everyone nodded. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as these crops are widely planted in Qin State, the problem of food and clothing in Qin Dynasty will definitely be solved.

However, Ji Kai was more concerned about the planting methods of these crops, and asked: "Dean, how should these things be planted?"

Li Yangdao: "In spring, two or three grains of corn are planted one step apart on the ground. They will germinate and grow seedlings. After fertilization and deworming, they can be produced in summer and autumn. Potatoes..."

This lecture lasted for a long time, and Ji Kai was both surprised and delighted to hear it, because he found that some varieties of these crops were not only cultivated once in a lifetime, but five in a lifetime, and ten in a lifetime.

For example, for that thing called sweet potato, you only need to take one and bury it in the soil. It doesn’t just bury one and grow another, but wait for it to grow vines, take a section of vines to plant, and a sweet potato can grow in the future. The vines that grow out will be several meters long and can be cut into dozens of sections for planting, and then this short section of vines will produce several sweet potatoes in the future.

In other words, the individual sweet potatoes in front of me can turn into dozens, or even hundreds of sweet potatoes in the future.

More importantly, according to what Li Yang said, these sweet potatoes can be grown in barren mountains and mountains, there is simply nothing better than this.

At this time, everyone finally understood why Li Yang dared to say that the grain production would be tripled this year. With the new grain brought from Shaohao, it was obvious that the three thousand shi of crop seeds could soon become thirty thousand shi, forty thousand Stone (nearly 200 million catties).

It is conceivable that once these crops brought from Shaohao become popular across the country, in addition to growing grains, ordinary people will plant an acre of potatoes, sweet potatoes or corn in wasteland and vegetable fields, then food and clothing will no longer be a problem. You can even live a rich life with three meals a day.

You must know that in the Qin Dynasty at this time, there were generally two meals a day, and only a few nobles could enjoy the life of three meals a day.

In the Qin Dynasty, how much food was there per capita?

In the Qin Dynasty, the grain yield per mu was about five stones, which is about 200 catties in modern times.

After paying taxes, in fact, there is very little food left for oneself in the end.