"Let's get started."

With a command, Kuiwu brought thousands of slaves into the potato field.

Harvesting potatoes is very simple. You just need to peel off the ridges of the potatoes, and the inside is filled with yellow and orange potatoes.

In modern times, the scientific name of potatoes is potatoes, also known as ground eggs. When he was young, he often mixed potatoes with sweet potatoes. In fact, sweet potatoes are another high-yield crop, but unfortunately they have not been obtained from overseas.

However, modern agriculture is also under his plan, so he will continue to collect crops from all over the world.

The three warships that Yue Yunnan went to the south these days were almost restored. The expanded Dengzhou Shipyard has been producing Garen ships this year. Now it is about to end the year. At least twelve Garen ships can be launched at the scale of Dengzhou Shipyard.

According to the data reported by Zhang Liang, these twelve Galen ships include one flagship, which belongs to the first-class sailing warship, three second-class sailing warships, four third-class sailing warships, and four fourth-class sailing warships.

If these warships can be completed successfully by the end of the year, it would mean that his navy would have fifteen Garen ships. Although this number is far less than the number of hundreds of Western maritime powers, for Xiao Ming, this fleet is enough to deal with colonists who have now extended their tentacles to Asia.

After all, according to his experience, the West is not an ironclad piece of cake. Their most important colony is America, and they will not invest much troops in the East.

Moreover, they traveled long distances away from the local area. Even if war started, it would take several months for reinforcements to arrive when the news spread. Even so, they still had to face the problem of supply.

I think for him, he is playing at home and has a very obvious advantage.

After regaining Shanhaiguan this time, Xiao Ming had already guessed in his heart the plan to regain Ryukyu Island from the Dutch. After all, the status of this island is very important.

As long as he seized Ryukyu Island, he could completely block the trade route between Japan and Goryeo to the south. Of course, his purpose was not only as simple as Ryukyu Island, but what he really needed was sulfur, gold and silver.

According to records, in the late 16th century, Japan triggered a fire of mineral exploration, and silver mines were found in many areas. From 1562 to the Edo period, the Ishimi Silver Mine, located in Daitan City, Wakogen Prefecture, was the largest silver mine in Japan and even the world.

At this time, Japan was one of the few silver producers in the world. At that time, one-third of the world's silver was produced in Japan. At that time, Japan was even called the "Silver Islands" by the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to silver, Japan's gold also accounted for 5% of the world at that time, and Japan's most important resource was nothing else, but sulfur, one of the components of gunpowder.

During the Ming and Song dynasties, Japan was always an important source of sulfur, and now most of the sulfur produced by Xiao Ming was trafficked from the south.

He investigated that these sulfur were also trafficked by maritime merchants from Japan.

In the past, when the Great Chongqing Kingdom had little demand for gunpowder, the price of sulfur was still more expensive than saltpeter. Now Qingzhou needs to produce a large amount of gunpowder, and the price of sulfur has risen even more.

Because of this, Xiao Ming became more and more determined to drive away Western colonists from dominating East Asian trade and even colonize Japan. There is no way to live in this era. What he needs is to plunder various domestic scarce resources from the outside.

After all, this is an era of improving industry by plundering resources. As long as one of these resources is lacking, industry may stagnate.

While he was thinking, Pang Yukun was already patrolling the fields.

Two fist-sized potatoes were pulled out from the mound, and Pang Yukun ran over excitedly, "Your Highness, this thing is really heavy."

Xiao Ming came back to his senses and looked at the fields. Now the ridges were filled with potatoes that were turned up. The slaves were busy, but it seemed to be the joy of a good harvest. Each of them had a smile on their faces.

Take the potatoes from Pang Yukun's hand, Xiao Ming picked them up and sniffed them carefully. A familiar smell came over the surface, which was touching.

"It's this taste." Xiao Ming said excitedly, regardless of Pang Yukun's astonished eyes.

Pang Yukun couldn't help but feel confused: "Your Highness seems to have eaten it?"

"No, but my Western teacher said it." Xiao Ming made up another reason. When a lie appeared, he could only keep making up for it with lies.

Pang Yukun nodded and sighed: "What a pity. If he was still alive, the lower official said he would not ask for advice."

Ignoring Pang Yukun's mutual appreciation of the literati, Xiao Ming took the potatoes and went straight to the village to find a coal ball stove and a pottery jar.

Fill the pot with water, Xiao Ming washed the potatoes and put them in the pot, and let them heat them on the coal ball stove.

After a while, as the water boiled, a faint fragrance floated out of the clay pot.

Seeing this, Pang Yukun stared at the rolling potatoes in the clay pot and waited for the moment when the potatoes were ripe.

Now that the potatoes are ripe, it is a question whether they can eat them.

After cooking in boiling water for a while, Xiao Ming took the chopsticks and took out the potatoes from the clay pot.

The scent of hot potatoes is full of fragrance, and a piece of it will be scattered as soon as you pinch the surface. This is a proof of maturity.

After swallowing, Xiao Ming soaked the potatoes in cold water and picked them up and peeled them. A bare potato came out and he took a bite on it.

"Fragrant!" Xiao Ming couldn't help but scream.

I have to say that there are very few vegetables that can be eaten in the Great Yu Kingdom, so that Xiao Ming even thinks that potatoes, such as modern people, want to vomit, are delicious.

Seeing Xiao Ming's expression in this way, Pang Yukun immediately took out a potato from the clay pot.

After taking a bite, Pang Yukun's eyes immediately became straight. This taste was something he had never experienced before, but I have to say that the cooked potatoes tasted really good.

After consuming a potato in a hurry, Pang Yukun took out another potato and started eating it. After eating three potatoes in a row, he burped.

"Your Highness, the potatoes taste really good. Three potatoes are enough for a meal." Pang Yukun laughed. The potatoes are so delicious and hungry. If they are promoted in the fiefdom, why worry about the people having no food to eat in the future?

Xiao Ming also had a full meal, and he was very satisfied. This was only part of his agricultural plan, and sweet potatoes would be brought in in the future.

After touching his stomach, Xiao Ming narrowed his eyes and said, "There are many ways to eat these potatoes. In a few days, I will give you something better."

Pang Yukun nodded heavily, holding the potatoes as if holding the whole world.

After experiencing a handful of potatoes, Xiao Ming asked Kuiwu to start weighing the potato yield of one acre of land. At night, Kuiwu got the result.

"Your Highness, this acre of potatoes has a total of 32 stones." Kui Wu's face turned red with excitement.
Chapter completed!