[Red Chamber] Buddhist concubine

Tu Min's eyes flickered, and he looked at Zhou Yao with a bit of helplessness: "It's just a matter of one sentence, you tell me first, it's hard for the country, the people, and even this king to benefit Good thing, can I still do it?"

Zhou Yao glanced at him and snorted: "Since you will do it no matter what, why ask me?"

Tu Min could probably see that Zhou Yao was still angry with him, so he could only leave first.

Tu Min originally thought that when Zhou Yao calmed down, he would go to Zhou Yao to confirm the situation, but soon, he realized that by the time Zhou Yao calmed down, the best time for planting potatoes might have passed.

He's not the kind of poor people who don't have much money, as long as they are confiscated for a year, their families may be ruined. There is no need to buy insurance for themselves before they dare to experiment with what Zhou Yao recorded in "The Queen's Business", right?

Tu Min chuckled, and simply summoned the big housekeeper: "Since the potatoes have such an output, you immediately send people to buy them everywhere, buy as many as you can, and then plant all the potatoes when it's time to plant potatoes. Wait until "" After the book "Queen's Merchant" started to be a storyteller in a teahouse, with the reputation of Mr. Meng Honglou and the realistic and satisfying plot of the book itself, I am afraid it will attract a lot of attention. If the expansion of potato planting can guarantee such a yield per mu, At that time, we will release such news, and take advantage of Mr. Meng Honglou's reputation to better promote Tudou."

Ever since he knew that good things like potatoes had been introduced to the Central Plains as early as the previous dynasty, Tu Min had given up hope for the transmission of information among the people——

If the message was delivered quickly enough in normal times, how could Tudou have no reputation at all after being in the Central Plains for so many years?

Tu Min asked the big housekeeper to inquire about it. Although potatoes in our dynasty were not only used as a noble food and appeared on the tables of the rich and powerful like in the previous dynasty, but because of their expensive seeds, they were still rarely grown by the people.

What Tu Min should do most now is not to consider promoting the benefits of potatoes—anyway, when "The Queen's Merchant" appears in front of the public, everyone will know the benefits of potatoes—what he should do most is to spread the benefits of potatoes as soon as possible. The price of seeds has come down.

Both the edible part and the reserved seed of the potato are its tubers.It is actually easy to keep potatoes as seeds. Just wait for the potatoes to germinate, cut the germinated place into pieces, and ensure that there is at least one sprout eye on the potato pieces, then put them in the plant ash, roll them around, and wrap them in fertilizer. Planted directly, very simple.

And as long as the farmers on Zhuangzi planted them, Tu Min would not sell them as food, but sell the seeds directly after they germinated. Taking advantage of the wind of "The Queen's Merchant", he must soon be able to popularize high-yield crops like potatoes to the people.

With such a good thing, even in times of famine, you will not starve to death.

The butler naturally obeyed Tu Min's orders, and immediately sent someone to buy potatoes after receiving the order, while he went to the Zhuangzi himself, and conveyed Tu Min's orders verbatim to the Zhuangzi's steward.

It is a matter of people's livelihood and cannot be ignored.

As for Tu Min himself, shortly after the chief steward left, he went into the palace to report the matter of Tudou to the emperor, and got the emperor's words to "follow the power in a hurry".

More than three months later, when the potatoes on Tumin Zhuangzi were already ripe, Zhou Yao's new book "The Queen's Merchant" was released directly on the second day after the end of "Hou Men Changing Girls". Started to comment.

But because of Mr. He, those guests still like to go to the old teahouse to listen to books.

Everyone thought that after such an irresistible story as "The Changing of the Hou Men", Mr. Meng Honglou should continue this style and write a novel comparable to "The Changing of the Hou Men".

But once the title of "The Queen's Merchant" was exposed, all the audience couldn't help but hesitate——

Because the title of the book sounds like it has nothing to do with "Hou Men Changing Girls", and it also has a bit of arrogance.

How wealthy is the imperial merchant?But such a rich man is a woman.

The curiosity of some guests was aroused, while others chose to believe that this story must be equally exciting even if it wasn't about the subject matter of "Hou Men Changing Girls" because of the reputation accumulated in the previous books of Menghonglou.

And Meng Honglou did not live up to their expectations.

From the very beginning of the story, it directly pointed out the identity of the heroine, the danger she was in, and why she wanted to do the business of the emperor as a woman.

And the explanation of the background of the story only used a few paragraphs of text, and it was simply mentioned without stopping.

Immediately afterwards, there was a welcome slap in the face.

The people who had been insulted by the hostess, orphans and widows, were quickly suppressed by the hostess and knelt down and begged for mercy after the hostess came forward to take care of the business.

When Mr. He told the book, he imitated the begging tone of those villains so vividly that people were really relieved, wishing he could smash the teacup on the spot and yell "well done" three times.

However, breaking the teacup will cost you money, and even if the guests want to, they will stop at the last moment, but their excitement cannot be faked.

In the past few days, the plot of "The Queen's Merchant" quickly progressed to the point where the heroine accidentally discovered that potatoes can fill the stomach, and the yield is very impressive.After the first surprise, the heroine immediately thought that she could sell the potatoes as a commodity, which might become her greatest confidence——

After all, in the event of natural and man-made disasters, food prices will soar rapidly.But unfortunately, potatoes are high-yield and can fill your stomach.

The heroine just thinks about the huge benefits she can get by relying on potatoes, so she can't get excited.

She was decisive, and immediately asked people to collect potatoes for seeding, and then worked tirelessly to find old farmers who were good at planting potatoes to teach them their experience, and then paid a lot of money to plant all the fields under her name with potatoes.

In just a few months, there was a bumper crop of potatoes.

The hostess was originally worried that the production of potatoes might decrease after the expansion of planting, but what I didn’t expect was that potatoes do not have particularly high requirements for the land. As long as the land is carefully cultivated, not only will the production of potatoes not decrease, but even the production will increase due to proper fertilization.

Millions of catties of potatoes were piled up in the warehouse, and the heroine suddenly began to worry about the sale of potatoes——

She originally thought that if she could get [-] catties of potatoes in the first year, it would be a bumper harvest, but what she didn't expect was that God gave her ten times more results than expected.

While the hostess had people selling potatoes, she began to ask people to think about the secondary processing products of potatoes.

Soon, there were countless gourmet snacks made of potatoes in street restaurants.

Not long after, someone under the hostess actually made potato flour.

The hostess was overjoyed, and immediately decided to process all the potatoes that could not be sold out into potato flour. For this reason, she even hired a lot of workers to help, which solved the livelihood problems of many people.

However, at this time, a flood broke out in a certain place in the country, and tens of thousands of people were affected. However, the grain merchant Hongtai's grain prices made a fortune, and the imperial court couldn't buy enough grain with millions of taels of relief money.The imperial court was greatly shaken, and the person who raised the grain price was immediately put in prison.

But at this time, more than half a month has passed since the disaster happened. Even if enough food is transported to the disaster area, the lives that have passed away will not come back.

Many people have a sudden distaste for businessmen.

But at this moment, a rare piece of good news came from the disaster-stricken area that was thought to be severely affected and would surely cause many casualties——

Just when the imperial envoy who went to provide relief was short of money and could not buy the food needed by the victims, suddenly a chivalrous businessman brought a lot of potatoes and potato powder that could fill the stomach, and sold them at a very low price. To the imperial envoy.

After receiving this batch of food, the imperial envoys stabilized the victims in a short period of time, and passed the most difficult time smoothly without any disturbance.Then, relying on the potato seeds he bought from the businessman, in just three months, he harvested potatoes that could not only fill the stomachs of all the victims, but also sell some of them for other expenses.

——It was the kind businessman who bought the grown potatoes.

Now not only the court officials, but even the emperor sitting in a high position was startled by the businessman's actions.

After the imperial envoy came back, the emperor asked about the situation carefully, and immediately recruited the businessman.Only then did everyone discover that this righteous businessman turned out to be a woman.

But what about women?

Everyone thought of the previous behavior of those grain merchants driving up prices, and immediately lost the slightest prejudice against the heroine. After the emperor asked the heroine, he directly restored her father's seat as an imperial merchant.

But then the emperor asked the hostess if she would like to enter the palace, or marry the prince as his wife, but the hostess refused.

The hostess said bluntly that she only wanted to protect her mother and the inheritance left by her father, and she didn't plan to marry in the future, she would just sit down and raise children.

Of course, it is impossible for a prince to marry into a family, so the emperor quickly dismissed the idea of ​​marrying the heroine into the royal family.

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But such a wonderful and bright storyline failed to attract the audience's attention. On the contrary, it was the potatoes and potato flour mentioned in the book that attracted everyone's attention.

"This potato, does it really exist in this world?"

Some people don't believe the details described in the novel, and feel that they have never heard of such a high-yield potato, so they very much suspect that the author, Menghonglou, invented a crop.

However, someone soon answered him: "There is indeed such a crop as potatoes. If you don't believe me, you can go to Jiazilou for a meal. They have a dish in the restaurant, which is called shredded pork with potatoes. It tastes unique and tastes delicious." It’s very special. It’s just that the price is expensive and there are not many oil stars, so not many people are willing to spend money to taste it.”

The man opened his mouth: "Since potatoes really exist, why do we rarely hear about them?"

Someone retorted: "Isn't it said in "Queen's Merchant"? Potatoes were imported from overseas at first, and only the royal family and ministers valued by the emperor had the opportunity to enjoy them. After the previous dynasty was overthrown, potatoes, a fresh The crops flowed out of the palace, but because the seeds were scarce and expensive, not only did no one discover its high-yielding properties, but even fewer people knew about it."

"Mr. Meng Honglou is just a writer of novels. How can he believe what he says? I don't believe that this potato has such a high yield. Otherwise, why didn't the former emperor promote the cultivation of potatoes? You must know that disasters occurred frequently in the last years of the previous dynasty. Many people It was precisely because they were starved of food that they revolted in anger. If potatoes had such a high yield, the previous dynasty would not have perished so quickly."

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I thought that one chapter could be finished, but I didn't expect it to be impossible... I'll see if I can finish it tomorrow...

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