Everyone present had a look of seeing a ghost on their faces, looking at Fang Shiyu.

In feudal society, no matter whether you are a king, prince, general, or ordinary people, agricultural production is the most important position in everyone's mind.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, when the emperor and the crown prince were Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, there would be a fixed solar term every year, and they would go to the land in person, which shows that agriculture has a status in feudal society.

Therefore, to this group of people, Fang Shiyu's words are simply a fantasy.

Fang Shiyu pretended that he didn't see the expressions of these people. While looking at the sweet potatoes in his hand, he continued to speak.

"These are not the key points. The key points are that sweet potatoes have an extremely obvious disadvantage, that is, they are extremely difficult to keep fresh, so they are destined to be an anchor for money."

After the words came to the ground, everyone suddenly realized.

After Fang Shiyu finished explaining, the group of people realized that if they wanted an item to be equivalent to currency, they must have the characteristics of being easy to carry and easy to store, and neither of them was missing.

Although sweet potatoes produce extremely high yields, they are difficult to insure because they contain more water and sugar.

Even though technological production has been developing for hundreds of years, it is just made into other foods, such as vermicelli, or even dry foods.

"Xiao Fangzi, since sweet potatoes are not good, then can potatoes be good?"

Since sweet potatoes are not good, the yield of potatoes is not low. Using potatoes as an anchor for currency seems to be a good choice.

Zhu Yuanzhang subconsciously thought of potatoes.

"Well, it is indeed better than sweet potatoes in terms of preservation, but if the preservation measures are not appropriate, it is easy to cause food poisoning."

Fang Shiyu held a potato and explained.

Potatoes are indeed easier to store than sweet potatoes, but there is a fatal problem, that is, they are prone to sprouting.

Once potatoes are spoiled, they will be highly toxic. Once a person eats spoiled potatoes, they will suffer from diarrhea at a mild rate and die at a severe rate.

"What did you say? Food poisoning? Then let's not use this thing."

When Zhu Biao heard this, he frowned and said.

In Zhu Biao's mind, since the sweet potato yield is high, the other two crops seem insignificant.

Although sweet potatoes have many disadvantages, they are at least safe.

"Don't plant it? I tell you, not only plant it, but also plant it in various parts of the country!"

Fang Shiyu shook her head and rejected the prince's proposal without thinking.

Compared with sweet potatoes, potatoes have obviously too many advantages.

In terms of nutrition, sweet potatoes can’t catch up even if they are photographed.

Furthermore, planting is much simpler than sweet potatoes, and it doesn’t require much care or long-term sunshine. Just find a piece of land and bury it in.

Much more convenient than sweet potatoes.

And removing potatoes does not mean that they are useless as soon as they sprout.

As long as the deteriorated part is cut off, the rest of the part is still edible.

It's relatively simple to handle.

"It seems okay to hear you say that." Wu Lin narrowed her eyes and returned.

The land north of the Ming Dynasty naturally could not keep up with the south, so compared with sweet potatoes, potatoes were more suitable for planting crops.

"Mr. Fang, since sweet potatoes are not as good as potatoes and the yield of potatoes is higher than that of corn, why not use potatoes?"

Li Shanchang asked with a frown.

Fang Shiyu looked at Yumi and smiled faintly.

Corn is easier to preserve than potatoes and has higher nutritional value.

Corn can be used as the main food.

When corn stalks grow, they can also be regarded as thirst-quenching fruits, and the taste is very good.

When mature, everything can be used.

If you encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, the harvest will be poor and you will grind noodles and eat them.

The biggest point is that corn is easier to store, easier to carry, and has a longer shelf life than the other two crops.

After drying, place it in a cool and ventilated place and it will still be eaten after a few years.

Simple and convenient.

And it is precisely because of these characteristics that corn seems more suitable.

"Not bad! Xiao Fangzi is right."

When Fang Shiyu finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and agreed.

After Fang Shiyu explained, everyone knew that corn is indeed more suitable to become the equivalent of currency compared to the other two crops.

"That's great! As long as we have these crops, our granary can store enough food. With enough food, our troops can recruit more soldiers. My Ming army may be completely out of stock!"

"That's right, as long as we have enough food, the number of soldiers from the Ming Dynasty can increase several times!"

"As long as time goes by, our Ming Iron Fist will be unparalleled in combat power and will be invincible, and the Tartars will not be worried about it!"

At this time, Xu Da was excited again and immediately thought of the impact of food on a country's combat effectiveness.

"Yes, in time, I will definitely sweep the Tartars!"

Even Lan Yu was ready to get up at this time.

And the rest of the people also looked relaxed and freehand.

The most important figures of the Ming Dynasty were in harmony at this time.

After discussing the agricultural products as anchors, the group of people all smiled and began to unwilling to imagine the future.

As the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang thought more.

Why has it been difficult to occupy the north in all dynasties?

It’s not that the combat effectiveness is not good, but that those places have too low utilization value for the Han Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, the Han and Tang dynasties once advanced to occupy the northern border and the Western Regions.

In addition to being praised, it is not worth the loss to spend a lot of manpower and financial resources to manage those barren lands.

Therefore, no matter which dynasty it was, even after occupying those barren lands and ruled the nomadic peoples, most of them left a small logistics force symbolically, indicating that the land was occupied, and more often, it was just a loot and then withdrew its troops.

There was basically no decent rule in the barren land in the north.

So much so that those Tartars were attacking like the undead little strong.

Now that we have these crops provided by Fang Shiyu, the situation is completely different.

Among them, potatoes and corn are easily grown on a large scale even in barren areas in the north, which are both cold-resistant and drought-resistant.

As long as the Ming Dynasty defeated the Tartar tribes, they could promote and plant them on a large scale.

First, it can enrich the treasury, and second, it can create great achievements and completely rule those wild tribes.

Two birds with one stone!

Kill two birds with one stone!

Not bad, this matter needs to be done!

Do it now!

It is most suitable to let the fourth brother go!
Chapter completed!