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"One thousand, 260 catties."
"It's more than a thousand catties!"
When Fang Xuanling heard this voice, there was excitement in his eyes.
Changsun Wuji's face was very ugly.
Because this is just digging a small corner of this mu of land.
Weighing continues.
"Two thousand 310 catties..."
"Two thousand 560 catties..."
"enough!"
Li Er shouted with excitement in his eyes.
"We dug less than 2000% of it, and there are more than [-] catties. From this, it can be seen that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu is probably more than [-] catties!"
"Eldest grandson Wuji..."
Having said this, Li Er turned his head to look at Changsun Wuji, with mockery in his eyes.
He was right.
This little fox pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger again, which really tricked Changsun Wuji hard.
One million taels of silver is a lot.
"minister……"
Changsun Wuji's face was pale, and he said weakly: "I am willing to bet and admit defeat..."
After speaking, he staggered and almost fell.
100 taels of silver!
His family decided that he couldn't get it out, so he could only embezzle some from Tiansheng Commercial Bank.
But even Tiansheng Commercial Bank will be seriously injured.
What worries him even more is that the commercial bank will face a series of troubles if it loses such a large sum of money, and it will be difficult to turn around.
If the pivotal merchants took the opportunity to suppress, the situation would be even worse.
More importantly, if the news got out, he was cheated out of a million taels of silver by a child, how could he have the face to go out to meet people in the future?
"puff!"
Thinking of this, Changsun Wuji was furious, and a mouthful of blood couldn't help gushing out.
"My lord, are you alright?"
Cheng Yaojin's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, and he immediately helped Zhangsun Wuji.
"fine!"
Changsun Wuji supported Cheng Yaojin to stand still, stared at Li Xiao, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and gritted his teeth.
At this time, Fang Xuanling's sluggish gaze finally returned to normal, with an excited expression on his face, he looked up to the sky and shouted tremblingly: "God bless me, Datang!"
After finishing speaking, he bowed his hands to Li Er: "Your Majesty, if this sweet potato can be widely planted, the national strength of our Tang Dynasty will be multiplied several times!"
"No! Ten times!"
Chapter 141: I'm so cruel to myself!
Looking at the sweet potatoes all over the floor, Li Xiao only felt a rush of blood rushing to his heart.
Eight thousand catties of grain per mu.
As the emperor who manages the entire Tang Dynasty, no one understands the meaning of this number better than him.
The most important condition for maintaining an army is food, and the second is to equip ordnance.
If the grain production goes up, Datang's army can expand exponentially.
From a long-term perspective, this is very scary.
At that time, any Turkic or Japanese people can only kneel at the feet of Datang and tremble.
Thinking of this, Li Er hurriedly asked: "Xiao'er, this sweet potato is delicious and has a high yield, isn't it extremely difficult to grow?"
He feels that everything in the world has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it is impossible for such a perfect thing to exist.
But after asking, confusion appeared in Li Er's eyes again.
Along the way, all the crops I saw were submerged by floods and looked sickly.
Only this sweet potato field was unusually bright in color, and it didn't seem to be affected in the slightest.
"It's not difficult to plant, just cut the place where the young teeth grow into pieces and put them in the soil." Li Xiao thought for a while and said.
"So simple?" Fang Xuanling looked confused.
"It's that simple!"
"Then the maturity period of this sweet potato is..." Li Er asked again.
But before he finished speaking, his eyes widened again with an expression of disbelief.
Fang Xuanling also seemed to have thought of something, and said in a deep voice: "If I remember correctly, these sweet potatoes were planted after His Highness moved to the villa, but it seems that His Highness has only been here for less than a month..."
The implication is that this delicious and high-yielding sweet potato has a maturity period of only one month!
"One month? So much food...how is this possible?"
Even Cheng Yaojin, who had never studied, was shocked at the moment.
"Xiao'er!" Li Er stared at Li Xiao, and said in a deep voice, "I want to plant these sweet potatoes all over the country!"
"Forehead……"
Li Xiao smiled bitterly, and said helplessly: "Father, I have to tell you some bad news. Only the first generation of this kind of seed matures for one month, and the subsequent ones need to grow for at least four months. "
"Four months is too short."
The doubts in Li Er's heart were dispelled.
This time is considered normal!
Li Xiao continued: "Father, if you only grow one kind of food, no matter how delicious the food is, you will get tired of it one day."
"I also have other grain seeds I bought from merchants in the Western Regions, and it would be best to spread them together."
"and also?!"
Li Er's eyes widened, and he immediately shouted: "Quick! Bring it here and let me have a look!"
"Such an astonishing food, but there is more than one kind?"
Fang Xuanling also opened his mouth in surprise.
Only Changsun Wuji's face became more and more ugly.
His eyes were gloomy like water, as if there was a wild beast hidden in his heart, roaring silently.
I thought that I could make Li Xiao make a fool of myself in front of His Majesty, but I never expected that Li Xiao actually had such a perverted thing in his hand.
Even if he didn't count the 100 million silver he lost, he was completely defeated.
He had a hunch that if he didn't intervene, Li Xiao, who was developing smoothly, would definitely replace the Crown Prince's position in His Majesty's heart.
Li Xiao seemed to have sensed Changsun Wuji's gaze, glanced at Changsun Wuji and then turned his head, and then said: "Father, wait a moment, I have already asked someone to pick it up."
"Ah."
Li Er nodded, suppressing his excitement.
After a while, Zhao Yuntian came over with a big sack.
Then, under Li Xiao's signal, Zhao Yuntian dumped the contents of the bag on the ground.
Suddenly all kinds of things rolled to the ground.
Li Ersi hurriedly approached, looked left and right, but they couldn't even call out their names.
Several people suddenly looked embarrassed.
"This is called corn."
Li Xiao picked up a corn from the ground, then took a crossbow bolt from the guard and passed it through the corn, threw it to the guard, and ordered: "Do like this, get a few more to roast on the fire. "
"Yes!" The guard complied.
"Hmm... the red color is carrot, you can wash it and eat it raw."
Li Xiao picked up the carrot and handed it to the guard beside him to wash it.
"This is a white radish..."
"lemon……"
"chili……"
"Potato……"
Li Xiao called out names one by one.
The others were dumbfounded.
Because of these things, they have never heard of them.
"Unexpectedly, there are so many exotic foods in the Little Western Regions, it's really amazing!"
Li Er's eyes were full of brilliance, thinking about when he would find a time to bring down the Western Regions.
After a while, the guard washed the carrots and brought them over.
"Father, here it is!"
Li Xiao first gave Li Er one, and then distributed it to Fang Xuanling and Cheng Yaojin.
Changsun Wuji looked anxiously at the last one left in Li Xiao's hand.
He just wanted to stretch out his hand, but unexpectedly Li Xiao stuffed it into his mouth and said vaguely: "Master Changsun, I'm sorry, there are only so many."
"What's more, you are still injured. This carrot was dug out of the soil. Eating it is not good for your condition."
Gone?
Changsun Wuji put down his hand in embarrassment, although his face was expressionless, his eyes were as gloomy as water.
Don't think about it, Li Xiao must be targeting him.
He picked up a relatively clean chili from the ground, wiped it with his hands, and said disdainfully: "I think that when I accompanied His Majesty to fight everywhere, I even gnawed the roots of the tree in the most bitter time. What is this?"
After speaking, he took the pepper and stuffed it into his mouth.
Seeing this, Li Xiao was stunned, and said, "This can't be eaten..."
"You still want to lie to me?" Changsun Wuji smiled disdainfully, and then bit the chili into two pieces with one bite.
From his point of view, Li Xiao simply didn't want to see him, and said this on purpose, not wanting him to taste it.
Everyone has it, but he doesn't, and it's an insult to him.
After one bite, Changsun Wuji began to chew.
But after chewing a few mouthfuls, he stopped with a look of astonishment on his face.
As soon as the chili was eaten, the juice was quite tender, but it immediately became extremely spicy.
Gradually, Changsun Wuji's face began to turn red.
"puff!"
"hiss……"
He spit it out in one gulp, took a deep breath, and frowned tightly, as if in extreme pain.
"I've said it all, you can't eat this, why don't you listen to the persuasion?"