If the corn harvest makes farmers smile, then the sweet potato harvest is simply shocking!

One month after the corn harvest, Li Guodong asked someone to dig sweet potatoes.

The sweet potatoes dug out of just one acre of land were piled into a small hill! Then the second acre of land was dug out with mountains of sweet potatoes. All the 50 acres of sweet potato fields were dug out, which made people stunned: What kind of plant is this? The yield per mu is probably eight to nine stones, and maybe even ten stones!

"This thing produces so high, can it taste delicious?" People doubt this plant taste that is simply crazy.

Li Guodong asked someone to prepare a pot to boil water, and dig a pit under the fire, buried several sweet potatoes in the pit, covered them with a layer of soil, piled up corn stalks on the soil, and lit the corn stalks. After a while, the water in the pot boiled, and he asked him to put the washed sweet potatoes into the pot to cook.

The cooked sweet potatoes have a strong sweet taste, and people who have tasted it sounds delicious. Then they dug up the roasted sweet potatoes from the ground, and the taste is even more amazing.

"Sweet potatoes are full of treasures. Sweet potato leaves can be stir-fried and eaten as green leafy vegetables. Sweet potatoes can be cooked, roasted, eaten in porridge, and made into sweet potato flour. The old stems of sweet potatoes and endless sweet potato leaves can be fed to pigs, so that our food will be sufficient." Li Guodong said with a smile.

After weighing, it was finally calculated that the yield of each acre of sweet potato field reached nine stones! However, the yield of sweet potatoes in one season is much higher than that of corn in two seasons.

However, Li Guodong knew that if he ate this food every day as a staple food, he would get tired of eating too much. So he had to process sweet potatoes into powder and make sweet potato flour, which could replace noodles, and the taste was not inferior to noodles. One hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes can make ten kilograms of sweet potato flour, and the sweet potato vermicelli made after adding water can make twenty kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli. After making the residue of the sweet potato flour, you can feed pigs, horses, and wine, and you can get cheap alcohol.

Currently, the alcohol used to cure diseases and save people is obtained by distilling expensive white wine, which is too expensive. With sweet potatoes, you can get low-cost alcohol.

In August, Wang Quan personally led the caravan to Shabeigou City and sent a batch of piglets to Li Guodong.

"Brother, our ** potato harvest is a bumper harvest. We planted it in April and harvested it in July. The average yield per mu is nine stones, and the highest acre of land reaches twelve stones! Where are you?" Li Guodong asked.

"We have also had a great harvest. We planted it in February. In May, the harvest was great. The average yield per mu was 11 stone, and the highest acre of land reached 18 stones!" When it comes to sweet potatoes, Wang Quanxi smiled. In the future, his Tawau City grain would no longer need to be purchased from outside, and he could be self-sufficient.

But Wang Quan was still a little worried that if you eat too much sweet potato, you will get tired of eating it, and it is very bloated, so it feels uncomfortable to eat it every day. So this time the caravan also brought a batch of sweet potatoes north to sell it to the Tumote people.

Li Guodong thought for a moment and said, "Sweet potatoes cannot be sold to Tumote people! If Jiannu gets this thing, they will enhance their strength! I have a way to beat three birds with one stone, grind the sweet potatoes into powder, make sweet potato vermicelli, and then sell them to Tumote people. First, it can be sold at a good price, second, it won't let Jiannu get this thing, third, we won't be tired of it."

Wang Quan then told Li Guodong a good news: "The new loom and the female traction machine for animal power have been built. After testing, a donkey can drive the running of sixteen looms. Just two people can watch the loom. Whether it is weaving cloth or weaving silk, the efficiency has been increased by eight times! One person can do the work of eight people! The loom is sent to Jiangnan for sale, and as soon as the auction is opened, it is sold out. Three silk workshops have already cooperated with us. We invest in the loom and can earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year."

"It's great. We won't have to worry about silver in the future. After having silver, change more copper. We need copper casting copper cannons."

Wang Quan talked about the navy again. The navy was training. In addition to the captured small sampan boats, he was also building a large ship. Wang Quan also brought the newly established navy and wiped out a group of nearby water bandits. The hundred households were directly promoted to the official Thousand Houses. The Touhu City Walled City was allowed by the court and became a Thousand House. At present, Wang Quan has 1,500 navy troops, 2,000 infantrymen, and more than 100 cavalrymen. The total population of the Thousand Houses has reached more than 30,000.

"Yes, it's developing very fast, with more people than me!" Li Guodong patted Wang Quan on the shoulder, "You have a good development. Maybe one day Jiannu will steal the Central Plains. At that time, I have to take my brothers down to your side. You and my brothers will unite to fight against Jiannu together."

"I almost forgot an important thing. An envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to Khalkha was in my caravan, preparing to go to Mobei, unite Mobei and Tumote, and deal with Jiannu together."

"Brother, be careful! There are Yue Tuo's detailed works among the Tumote people! The affairs of the envoys of the Ming Dynasty in your caravan must not be revealed! Otherwise, Jiannu will definitely send someone to intercept the envoys!"

"Brother, don't worry, brother, I understand! This matter will be absolutely confidential." Wang Quan continued to talk, "What about sweet potato flour? Brother, I have to go to Tumote and sell the sweet potato flour."

"I'll have someone go to make sweet potato flour now, and it will take seven days to wait."

There are six tofu workshop owners who were originally selling tofu in Li Guodong's hamlet. They were rescued by Li Guodong during the change. The boss of the tofu workshop could make sweet potato vermicelli.

"Store the sweet potatoes transported from the south into the cellar. We take out some of the sweet potatoes, mash them first, and then grind them with a millstone. The subsequent steps are a bit like you make tofu, grind them into a liquid like soy milk, filter them, and take them to precipitate. After a night of precipitation, pour out the water on the top, dry the wet powder below, cut it into noodles, and finally dry it thoroughly, and the job is done." Li Guodong called the owner of the tofu workshop to teach them how to make sweet potato flour.

The washed sweet potatoes were sent into the stone mortar and were crushed with the mashing rod pulled by the donkey. Then they were put into the millstone. The donkey pulled the millstone and added water while grinding them, which gave the liquid that looked very similar to soy milk.

Then the owner of the tofu workshop filtered the liquid with gauze, took the filtered residue as pig feed, put the filtered liquid into a large bucket, settled for a night, poured out the water, took out the wet powder at the bottom, spread it flat on the sieve, and then took it to the sun to dry.

"This year of drought, it has not rained for a long time. It is a good thing for us to make sweet potato flour, hahaha!" Li Guodong laughed at the almost dried sweet potato flour.

The half-dried sweet potato flour was cut into noodles-like shredded pieces, and some of them were fried to eat, so that the people in the city could taste the flavor, and the rest were dried, and they were prepared to be handed over to Wang Quan to sell to the Tumote people.

Put soybean oil in the pot, heat it up, add eggs and stir-fry for a few times, then add half-dried vermicelli, add salt and bone soup, and when it is almost cooked, add sweet potato leaves and stir-fry, and finally pour in cooking wine and sprinkle with chopped green onion.

"It's so delicious! It's even better than fried noodles!" People who have tasted fried sweet potato flour have praised it.
Chapter completed!