Chapter 171 The yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes shocked the Liao Emperor.

Tomorrow's focus will be on sweet potatoes and potatoes, these two powerful tools.

Xun Yu and Zhuge Liang attached great importance to this matter.

The person who came to visit this time was the emperor of the Liao Kingdom. This guy came to Liaodong to test the strength and weakness of Liu Fu and the entire Later Han Dynasty.

If the grand occasion is well-prepared, it will save a lot of effort. Zhuge Liang and Xuan Xunyu have a long-term vision. They plan to use this trip to Liaodong to subdue the Liao emperor through various means and make him submit.

Meanwhile, Hai Rui was standing nearby listening. When Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu said this, Hai Rui himself found it hard to believe.

"My two prime ministers, the Liao emperor is, after all, the emperor of a country. His visit to Liaodong is clearly to probe our strength. Do you really think you can make him submit with just the Yuan Yingying Fire that we have just developed in Liaodong?"

Not to mention Hai Rui, even Fang Xuanling, Bao Zheng and others did not believe it.

However, Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu were indeed full of confidence, feeling that there was a high chance of success on this mission.

"Since Gangfeng doesn't believe it, let's wait and see."

The very next day, before the Liao emperor had even woken up in the early morning, a carriage sent by Liu Fu was already waiting outside the gate to greet him.

"Where will the Eighth Prince take me today?"

The Liao emperor was also somewhat excited, because he had heard that a divine object had appeared in Liaodong. If this object were given to the people to cultivate, it would immediately solve the famine and allow the people to have enough to eat in the future.

This event was too incredible for the Liao Emperor to believe, and he was determined to witness it with his own eyes today.

Not long after, the Liao emperor and Liu Fu went to a farmland in the suburbs.

At this time in Liaodong, the potatoes and sweet potatoes that had been planted earlier had already been dug up and harvested, but some crops were just ripening and ready for harvest.

The planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes is like this; it can span a long period of time and can be planted for a considerable period of time, which is quite convenient.

Even the people of Liaodong, who had seen many families digging potatoes and sweet potatoes, were still tireless in their efforts to do so. As long as a new family continued to dig, they would rush over to watch.

The presence of the Liao emperor himself attracted many people to participate once again.

Although this time it wasn't as crowded as before, several thousand people still came to witness the grand occasion.

"Your Majesty, please look. That is the sweet potato field, and this area in front of us is the potato plantation."

After Liu Fu gave the order, the farmers began to dig up the potatoes and sweet potatoes in front of them.

These farmers were digging so hard that they didn't even feel tired.

He raised the hoe high and then brought it down heavily. Each time he dug up the soil, a palm-sized potato and a washbasin-sized sweet potato immediately rolled out.

They were having a great time digging here, and they were having a great time picking things up there!

Before long, the harvest piled up on the nearby soil like two small mountains.

The Liao emperor was dumbfounded. Although he had heard that this plant was very powerful, he did not expect that it would produce such a high yield.

"It seems that the yield per mu will probably exceed 1,000 jin."

The Liao emperor was secretly jealous, thinking to himself that although this thing looked big, it probably didn't taste very good.

After all, there's an old saying: "Food is best when it's made with the finest ingredients."

The more exquisite something is, the smaller the portion, and the more delicious it is. Conversely, the easier something is to produce, the less palatable it is. The Liao emperors actually believed in this principle.

It wasn't until Liu Fu sent someone to deliver potatoes and sweet potatoes to the Liao emperor that this happened.

Upon seeing these potatoes and sweet potatoes, the Liao emperor reached out, grabbed a piece, and tasted it.

Steamed potatoes are soft, sweet, and delicious.

The sweet potatoes didn't need any processing at all; they were simply cut into chunks and eaten, and they were already incredibly sweet.

Just as the Liao emperor was feeling utterly shocked.

The people below had already carried baskets of potatoes and sweet potatoes up and were weighing them on a large scale.

"Your Highness, the total yield of potatoes this time is 5,700 jin!"

"I would like to report the good news to the Eighth Prince: this time the sweet potato yield is a total of 6,400 catties!"

Upon hearing the number, Liu Fu and the courtiers behind him all burst into laughter, while the Liao Emperor was so shocked that he was almost frozen in place, his mouth agape, staring dumbfounded at the number on the large scale. He found it hard to believe, as if it were all a dream.

Is this true?

The Liao emperor, finding it hard to believe, asked a question.

"Where is that farmer? If I were to ask you personally, how many people are in your family? How much land did you cultivate this time? How did you harvest so much grain? It must have exceeded ten thousand catties, right?"

The Liao emperor was indeed getting anxious, and he kept asking questions one after another. In the blink of an eye, he had already asked several questions.

The farmer came up, but instead of answering the Liao emperor directly, clearly looking down on him, he greeted Liu Fu and then reported.

"Your Highness, my family of three was allocated a total of more than three acres of fertile land. This time, we planted potatoes and sweet potatoes on half of each type of land, and the entire harvest will come from this land."

On a plot of land that was slightly less than four mu, a jin (a unit of weight) of grain was planted. The yield per mu was almost 3,000 jin.

This was an incredibly shocking astronomical figure for the Liao emperor, making him feel as if a huge stone was pressing on his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.

He silently began to do the math in his mind.

In other places, the average yield of millet is only about 100 to 200 jin per mu, but once potatoes and sweet potatoes are planted, the yield can reach 3,000 jin per mu, which is more than ten times the yield.

If the entire Later Han Dynasty had planted sweet potatoes and potatoes, the yield would have increased more than 15 times, and the army's food supply would have increased more than 15 times as well.

At that time, the Later Han Dynasty will rise rapidly and, with these grains, will wage a war of attrition against the Liao and Later Jin dynasties. The Liao Dynasty will be no match for them.

If someone else's annual grain production equals more than 15 years of yours, how can you possibly fight them?

At this moment, the Liao emperor began to tremble with fear.

Based on this one incident alone, he realized that Liaodong was bound to rise in the future, and that he was powerless to resist Liaodong and the entire Later Han Dynasty.

Under Liu Fu's rule, Liaodong was far superior to Liaodong in every aspect, from its systems to the people's livelihood.

At this moment, the Liao emperor was already filled with lingering fear.

He began to think about a long-term question: what should he do in the future?