A Lucky Wife Born Again From a Farm Family

Chapter 2297 Tasting

He added: "If nothing unexpected happens, General Jiang will come again. Don't worry."

The new grain issue has become too big. General Jiang is in charge of the first line of defense. When the adults come to see the cassava, he will definitely come again.

Qin Sanlang felt relieved and called to Xie Cheng and the others: "Come into the guardhouse to warm yourself up, you are all covered with frost."

Xie Cheng and the others hurried over in the middle of the night. They were shivering from the cold after a night of frost. He nodded and followed Qin Sanlang into Changliang Guard.

When the adhan **** from the capital heard that Changliangwei had new food, he really couldn't wait. After finishing the winter solstice worship, today at 12 o'clock, the gate of the Daokougou Camp opened and went to Changliangwei. Rush.

The group of people galloped all the way without resting at noon, and arrived at Changliangwei at midnight.

When Qin Sanlang heard the scout's report, he quickly led people to greet him: "I've seen Mr. Xin, I've seen all of you."

Since the food crisis is serious, Supervisor Xin has also arrived, along with Uncle Cao.

Uncle Cao pointed at Qin Sanlang and said, "Du Neijian, this is Qin Qianhu."

Du Neijian is very young, only in his twenties, but he is the apprentice of Emperor Jingyuan's confidant Qin Daejian. He takes charge of this job because he has other important tasks to do.

However, the task has been completed. It is to send two secret edicts. They have been handed over to Qi Yi and will be read out when the time comes.

"Are you Qin Qianhu? As expected, you are as brave as Chi You. No wonder you can cut off the heads of the generals of the royal family." Du Neijian praised Qin Sanlang and said, "Where is cassava? Take me to see it quickly. "

"There is cassava in the tent next to it. Sir, please invite me." Qin Sanlang took them to a new tent outside the guard house: "These are cassava, which were just sent over this morning by Yangshan Guard and Dabu Guard. .”

"This is cassava? How many kilograms does it weigh? How many acres of land? Can you choose the land? How long can it be stored? It won't rot soon, right?" Du Neijian was able to become Qin's apprentice and was entrusted with important tasks by Emperor Jingyuan. He is not an ignorant person, but he is very knowledgeable and knows a lot of things.

Qin Sanlang said: "One camp stores the output of ten acres of land, and the yield per mu is about three thousand kilograms. It does not need to be picked, and it is easy to feed. It can be planted in mountainous and sandy areas. Raw cassava cannot be stored for long. It can be made into cassava flour and dried in the sun. Afterwards, it can be stored like wheat noodles for more than half a year.”

 In fact, it will be fine if you save it for a year.

　　Du Nei was shocked when he heard this, and he was very happy: "If it is true as you said, there will be no more hunger in Chu!"

Not only that, the Chu Dynasty can continue for thousands of generations... Food is the most important thing for the people. As long as people are fed, there will be no rebels, and wars also need food and grass. As long as they have enough food and grass, they can kill Rong people!

Although Du Neijian was a eunuch, he was taught by Qin himself, so he had no mental problems. After reading the story of resistance against the Japanese invaders written by Lu Bai, he felt a little relieved.

but…

Du Neijian looked at the cassava and frowned, "It looks a bit ugly. I heard that it used to be called ghost potato, which is poisonous and can be fatal?"

Qin Sanlang said: "It is indeed poisonous, but after treatment, the toxins will be removed and it can be eaten by humans and animals."

He also explained in detail how to remove toxins from cassava.

Ke Du Nei still frowned while listening and looked at Qin Sanlang: "I heard that the animals in your guardhouse have been eating cassava for two years. Have they ever been poisoned?"

Qin Sanlang: "There were poisonings, but no horses died from it."

"But a war horse died of cassava poisoning in the Daokouigou camp." Du Neijian had not spent the past two days in vain. When he was in the Daokougou camp, he had already found out about cassava.

Finally, he looked at Mr. Xin and asked: "Mr. Xin, the things you enter must be safe. The lower official suggested that in the coming days, all humans and animals in Changliang Wei will eat cassava. I will eat it together and use cassava as the staple food. What do you think? ?”

Du Neijian was sent by Emperor Jingyuan. With Emperor Jingyuan's support, Mr. Xin naturally would not embarrass him and nodded in agreement: "This method is very good...I will also eat it together." Du Neijian said: "My lord is the prisoner. The army has the important task of supervising the entire Northwest Army, so you can't take risks, just lower the rank and do it for you."

 Master Xin is naturally happy to be such a good person.

“From now on, all people and animals in Changliangwei will eat cassava until the cassava issue is completely settled!” Mr. Xin personally gave the order.

After hearing this, the people of Changliangwei were not afraid. They often ate cassava, loved it, and were happy to cooperate.

At first, Du Naijian was afraid that he would be poisoned and die from eating cassava. But when the plates of cassava delicacies were served, he moved his index fingers and ate half the table of cassava delicacies by himself.

 The remainder was given to the two young eunuchs who served him.

The little eunuchs were also very scared, but looking at the beautiful crystal bowl cakes and golden and fragrant fried cassava balls, they couldn't help it and ate the rest.

After eating, I also drank a bowl of warm cassava slice soup.

"How is it?" Mr. Xin rushed over to see the situation after finishing his meal, and asked when he saw that Superintendent Du was still alive.

Du Naijian smiled and said: "Fresh and sweet, it is delicious in the world."

Master Xin smiled: "That's good."

However, Du Naijian was very sober and said: "I just had a meal and I can't count. I have to wait and see whether I will be poisoned."

  And I have been watching it for many years.

He valued cassava. He only dared to come to Changliangwei after learning that Changliangwei’s livestock had been eating cassava for two years but was fine. However, if Changliangwei had killed someone because of cassava, he would not dare to recommend this food.

“Let’s go and see how the soaked cassava is doing?” Du Neijian followed Mr. Xin to see the soaked cassava for detoxification.

Over the next ten days, Du Naijian worked hard by himself, digging cassava in the mountains, peeling cassava with his own hands when he came back, detoxifying the cassava with clean water, and learning to prepare cassava antidote with Uncle Mutong.

They even let a few servants take risks and deliberately eat raw cassava with the skin on, and after watching them get poisoned, they used cassava antidote to detoxify them.

After the antidote really saved the servants, Superintendent Du was relieved: "This antidote is good, and it does not use expensive medicinal materials. It is cheap, and poor people can afford to prepare the antidote."

After ten days of getting along, Uncle Mu Tong began to admire Du Neijian a little, and praised him: "Master Neijian has the talent for governance."

After Du Nei listened, he smiled and said, "Doctor Mutong, this is not a good thing to say. Please note that I am an eunuch."

 During the Great Zhou Dynasty, the eunuchs had cholera and disrupted the government. Later Liang Dynasties, former dynasties, and Chu Dynasty were all afraid of eunuchs. Although they were given ranks, they would not be allowed to participate in government affairs. Those who discussed politics in private would also be punished.

After hearing this, Uncle Mutong said nothing more and continued to teach Du Neijian how to prepare medicine.

Another day later, Qi Yi finally rushed from Fucheng to Changliangwei. He also brought five village chiefs and explained their use: "These five villages are willing to try cassava and have signed life and death certificates."

 For cassava to become food, it still needs a long process, and villagers trying it is a necessary process.

Without this process, even if he praised cassava to the sky, the ministers in the court would stop him from promoting cassava as a food.

 (End of this chapter)