The weather has been very strange in recent months.

First, there was a blizzard in November and December, but after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the weather in Gyeonggi area began to warm up.

As February begins, the temperature suddenly rises to the point where you can take off your jacket.

In the fields, you can see many farmers loosening the land with their bare hands.

Not only in the Gyeonggi area, but also in nearby Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Shandong.

This made the court ministers wonder whether the spring this year will usher in less rain? Will there be severe drought in summer?

As the saying goes, spring rain is as precious as oil, which means that the rain falls in spring and plays a crucial role in the seedlings that have just been planted.

Once you don’t get well nourished during the seedling emergence stage, there is no need to talk about the future.

Therefore, if there is a spring drought, the people can only drain water through canals or carry water to irrigate the fields themselves.

Xiong Wenqing and Miao Yan were not panicked. They had more than 200,000 workers in their hands and started to repair the canals early. The fertile land in the Gyeonggi area still didn't need to consider this issue.

Compared to the slightest shadows of the imperial court, Liu Mingqi received good news.

The sugarcane transported from Lianyungang, Jiangsu has already arrived in the capital in batches.

Due to the transportation distance, although the cost is three times more expensive than that in Sichuan and Hunan, it finally brought sugar production, which had been on hold for more than ten days, back on track again.

Moreover, compared with the high selling price of sugar, this increase in cost is nothing.

In ancient times, doing such exclusive business was a huge profit.

When the transportation conditions improve, the purchase quantity increases, and the cost continues to decline, Liu Mingqi will naturally continue to reduce prices.

He did not forget what he said to Nangong Qiucheng that sugar is a basic need and must satisfy the people as much as possible.

If ordinary people can be willing to buy a few kilograms of sugar a year, that is how powerful Liu Mingqi is in business.

Of course, the arrival of large-scale sugarcane has also caused the white rabbit milk candy to resume production.

Compared with white sugar, the demand for big white rabbit milk candy is even greater.

Liu Mingqi was also sighing.

This is because of the heavy snowfall this year, which blocked the roads in Sichuan and Hunan.

Otherwise, the order of more than 10 million kilograms of sugar cane will arrive in the capital successfully, and the white rabbit milk candy will not be sold during the Chinese New Year?

The thousands of royal families, nobles, court officials and wealthy people in the capital alone can consume 200,000 to 300,000 kilograms of white rabbit milk candy without changing their faces.

If the rich people in Jiangnan were added, one million kilograms of white rabbit milk candy would not be enough to sell.

The profit of Big White Rabbit Milk Candy is much higher than that of White Sugar.

Some time ago, due to the suspension of work of Big White Rabbit milk candy, farmers' milk was unsalable.

Fortunately, drinking milk tea has become a pastime for the royal family and wealthy people. In addition, Liu Mingqi invented double-skin milk again, which enabled the milk to be sold.

Now that the big milk-consuming households are coming again, I am afraid that the beautiful lives of these guys will be affected.

...

When he returned home from the Big White Rabbit Milk Candy Workshop, Liu Mingqi saw his uncle Xu Dongping in the living room.

"Uncle? Why are you here?"

As soon as the boy finished saying this, he saw a dark and short boy drinking tea sitting behind Xu Dongping.

"Xiao Du, are you here too?" Liu Mingqi smiled, "Why are you getting together...wait!!"

Xu Dongping?

Du Lifeng?

The two of them came to my house together...

Damn it!!

Liu Mingqi instantly burst into her head with a passion, her voice trembling: "Sweet potato... no, have you brought the golden gourd back?"

Xu Dongping originally wanted to joke with his nephew, but Du Lifeng, who had admired and admired Liu Mingqi, was not kept indifferent.

He nodded directly: "Yes, we have lived up to our responsibilities, we brought back Golden Gourd!"

Liu Mingqi continued to ask nervously: "How many can it be used for planting?"

"For various reasons, only seventeen boxes can be used." Du Lifeng said embarrassedly: "It's probably more than two hundred kilograms!"

"Enough! Enough!!"

Liu Mingqi felt relieved.

One or two sweet potatoes are worried about accidents. If it is more than two hundred kilograms, this matter will be stable!

He was very happy, with a smile on his face and patted Du Lifeng's shoulder hard: "Okay! OK! That's great! Let's go, I'll treat you to a meal... to eat braised pork ribs! to eat Dongpo pork!"

"OK!"

Du Lifeng's face was so funny that he had eaten the high-end pork from Prince Yu's Mansion once, and it was really a long aftertaste.

Xu Dongping was also quite interested. He heard them talk about this on weekdays. Even the emperor likes to eat this high-end pork, and I don’t know what it tastes.

While walking, he asked, "Mingqi, what are you going to do with these golden gourds next?"

"Of course I'm using it for planting." Liu Mingqi asked without thinking.

"But I heard that many species leave the areas where they grow, and then they are not as powerful as they are. What if they don't do it?" Xu Dongping was still a little worried.

Liu Mingqi spread her hands and said, "If it doesn't work, then what can I do?"

Seeing that his nephew had a good attitude, Xu Dongping felt relieved.

Little did he know that Liu Mingqi was laughing in his heart.

Sweet potato is famous for its high yield and highly adaptable nature. Do you tell me that it is not suitable for the local environment?

Except for the three provinces on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that are not suitable, where can it not be planted in the whole world?

The three provinces in the northeast can be planted so cold, let alone the rest.

By the way.

Our Imperial Palace happens to be one of the main sweet potato production areas in later generations, with particularly high yields.

My choice to cultivate sweet potato seeds here was the correct decision.

...

Sweet potatoes are usually planted in April and May.

But that is a modern national calendar. If we look at it according to the lunar calendar, it will be almost February and March.

That is now.

But growing sweet potatoes is not that simple.

The people in Cebu only know that they are born with natural cultivation and have no habit of intensive cultivation.

If it weren't for the strong vitality of sweet potatoes, they would probably not have been able to get a chance to eat them for a long time.

The boy knows how to grow sweet potatoes.

Not only did he see the experiment, but during his doctoral exam, he also planted sweet potatoes in his own experimental field as a pastime for trouble.

Liu Mingqi took twenty young men and women from the mansion to do this.

They were all from peasants and were recently recruited into Prince Yu's mansion. They were worried that they would not have any specialties in the mansion, but when they heard that His Royal Highness wanted to ask him and others to cook a crop, they immediately became energetic.

This is our old job!

"Let's first cut the sweet potato into two or three pieces of the size, and insert the sharpened wooden strips on it so that it can float in the middle of the wooden basin and not sink."

"Every piece of sweet potato has to be done, scored basins, and the temperature must be warmer, burn charcoal in the room, and not honeycomb coal."

"You see it every day. After you can grow tender buds, it will start further, but it is not a seedling, and you have to continue growing. After the surface of the sweet potato is covered with leafy seedlings, you will twist it off and put it in a bowl."

"Because they had no roots at that time, they had to put some water in the bowl to soak the base of the sweet potato seedlings in water. After a few days, the roots will grow from the bottom."

"The water needs to be changed every day, and the withered seedlings are thrown away during the process, and what remains are the strong-growing seedlings."

"When the roots grow, you can put them in the soil next step and plant a seedling about every foot of the ground, with a length of three feet apart."

"You can choose the land at that time. You must choose fertile soil to provide sufficient nutritional protection for sweet potatoes."

"In the first month, you can water it every day, as long as it can soak the soil. It will be watered every three days in the second month, and start watering every seven days in the third month until the harvest season in July and August."

"Do you have to be careful of all kinds of pests during this period, and you must also prevent mice, rabbits, weasels, etc. from destroying the seedlings. You cannot neglect them!"

“…”

While Liu Mingqi directed them to start the cutting work of the first part, she told them the whole process.

He directly turned the golden gourd into sweet potatoes, which restored the real name of this magical crop.

These newly-entered servants had never learned calligraphy before and could not write it to them on paper to teach them. They could only impart knowledge through explanations.

Of course, it is impossible for Liu Mingqi to say it a few times and then ignore it.
To be continued...