"With these things, why worry about the rest of people in the world being hungry? It's God's helping me!"

"That's right! The family's rations before could barely support two or three people. Now with these things, it's okay to support eight or nine people!"

"If you can continue to promote it nationwide and expand the planting area, my Ming Dynasty will have a promising future! Even if the population increases ten times, it won't take long!"

"Good, good! At that time, my Ming Dynasty will definitely be the best country in the Celestial Empire, with a strong country and a rich people, and all the nations will be subdued!"

......

The first consciousness of those present is that after having enough food, national strength will increase by a factor of a magnitude and population will increase explosively.

During the feudal period, population was indeed the primary productive force.

As long as there is enough population, the national strength will increase in proportion.

If the population is not enough, it will basically be abandoned.

During the feudal period, the only factor that restricted population growth was food.

Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, the population was only a little over 100 million, while the Qing Dynasty later had almost no less than 200 million people, and the number of people even reached 400 million or 500 million at the peak.

The Qing Dynasty was not as good as the early Ming Dynasty. Naturally, everyone was not honest, and everyone was wise, and the emperor was not all sages and famous masters.

The reason why there was such a great surprise was that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty caught up with a good era.

When Nurhaci was in power in the Central Plains, the era when China was affected by the Little Ice Climate had entered its final period.

Of course, the biggest reason is that the Qing Dynasty had a trade relationship with Europe. The former obtained sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn seeds from the latter.

These three crops appeared after the Qing Dynasty and the influence of climate problems became weaker, so they basically achieved that no one in the world was hungry anymore.

At this time, in Zhu Yuanzhang's grand blueprint, it was just a matter of time before the Ming Dynasty continued its past and surpassed all previous dynasties.

In this era, food is greater than the sky, and people regard food as the sky.

As long as the food problem is solved, the remaining problems will be solved.

So it would be strange if these people were not excited at this time.

"That... brothers... are just some crops. Do you guys have the most?"

"Is it necessary to climax like this?"

Fang Shiyu felt it was a bit unreasonable, and scratched her head with a question mark on her face.

Seeing these 70-80-year-old people crying in front of him, Fang Shiyu suddenly felt that he was pretending too much?

I thought that the other party was just a little surprised at most, but I didn’t expect that the other party would have such a big reaction!

In fact, it is not a big deal that Fang Shiyu has never seen the world or anything else. On the contrary, as a person in the 20th century, it is really difficult to empathize with the extremely desire of the ancients to desire food.

As a descendant of Yan and Huang, for thousands of years, no matter how dynasties change, I have never stopped exploring what I eat.

No matter what is flying in the sky, swimming in the water, or climbing on the ground, anything that can be eaten cannot escape the mouths of the descendants of Yan and Huang.

Although the population of the Ming Dynasty today is less than one-tenth compared to the 20th century, in ancient times, it was definitely considered a country with a large population.

Under normal circumstances, the national grain is not enough for so many people to eat.

I really have no choice but to spend some time on other things.

To put it bluntly, they are all hungry.

The lucky Fang Shiyu is the actual ruler in the country at this time, and he has some knowledge and concentration.

Although he was extremely excited at the beginning, he calmed down soon after.

"Benefactor, is the anchor in your mouth referring to sweet potatoes?"

The prince asked with a benefactor on the left and a benefactor on the right.

Among the three types of crops, only sweet potatoes are the easiest to grow, and the yield is also the most abundant. Various conditions are completely met. Therefore, Zhu Biao subconsciously believed that the anchor is sweet potatoes.

"Not nor not!" Fang Shiyu shook her head.

“I’m not referring to sweet potatoes, but corn.”

"Not a sweet potato?"

"Is it corn?"

"How is this possible? The yield of this thing is only 1,000 kilograms per acre. How could you choose this?"

"Is it because this thing is better than the others? But how come I think the sweet potatoes are more delicious after tasting them?"

......

Fang Shiyu's words fell, and everyone was shocked.

If the corn yield per mu before seeing these brand new crops was enough to shock this group of people.

But when they saw the characteristics of these three crops, the number of 1,000 pounds was nothing in their eyes. You should know that the other two are six or seven times the yield!

"Strictly speaking, these three crops have their pros and cons, but from their respective characteristics, only corn is more suitable."

Fang Shiyu explained.

"Benefactor, please explain in detail."

Zhu Biao looked respectful and asked for advice.

In Zhu Biao's eyes, Fang Shiyu was already the savior of the Ming Dynasty.

How can such a god-like figure be disrespectful?

If you are happy at that time, the other party will just throw it out and play it out, which may change the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty!

Not to mention Zhu Biao, even his father Zhu Yuanzhang, he also thought this way in his mind at this time.

"Okay, then I'll tell you about their pros and cons."

"Let's start with sweet potatoes. Among these three crops, sweet potatoes have the highest yield per mu. Unfortunately, they have the least nutrition. Simply put, it is large in quantity but no matter how full it is."

"Besides, planting sweet potatoes is also extremely destructive to the land. If a piece of land only planted sweet potatoes for several consecutive years, the land will definitely be invalid within three years."

"And compared to other crops, sweet potatoes need more time to take care of vines to avoid affecting the growth of sweet potatoes."

Fang Shiyu explained with a sweet potato.

"That's all?"

Before Fang Shiyu finished speaking, Wu Lin was the first to scream.

Not only Wu Lin, but the rest of the people were also stunned, as if they were ghosts.

“Those aren’t troublesome enough?”

Fang Shiyu also looked question marks.

"What's this?"

Wu Lin had no choice.

Looking at China for thousands of years, there have been countless days when ordinary people are hungry and eat soil.

Even cannibalism happens.

Thank you for being alive. This kid just stood up and talked without a pain in his back. He even said that he was talking like a bird that was full, no matter how much he was?

Moreover, the two disadvantages of sweet potatoes just pointed out are: one is that the land needs to be supplemented with fertilizer, and the other is that vines need to be taken care of.

Which farmers nowadays do these things every day?

In this boy's eyes, it has become an unbearable shortcoming and disadvantage!

It's simply outrageous!
Chapter completed!