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Chapter 627 Promoting Sweet Potatoes
The Bai family has one more important thing to do before leaving Shenshu Village.

Spring plowing of sweet potatoes.

Originally, all the sweet potatoes had been given to Liu Hong, and Liu Hong was very confident that he could promote this crop.

It is drought tolerant and can be grown in mountains, flats and sandy areas. It has a large yield and a good taste. It can be ground into powder and cut into dried pieces for easy storage. Not only that, sweet potato leaves can also be fed to pigs, dried and used as firewood...

Apart from the fact that such crops are not as delicious as wheat and rice, Liu Hong can't find any shortcomings in them.

He could even think of the harvest in the mountainous areas of Huaicheng where wheat production was not high in the autumn when sweet potatoes were planted, and the imperial court awarded him a Best Harvest Award.

But what Liu Hong never expected was that after he and the people from the Agriculture Department promoted it for a long time, no farmers bought it.

Even if free sweet potato seedlings are delivered to homes, people are unwilling to plant them.

No idea!

Since the drought the year before last, the weather in Huaicheng has been good. For example, the wheat is rising in the spring rain, indicating another good year.

Those mountainous areas where wheat is not grown are used by farmers for other purposes, such as growing vegetables, corn, sesame, and soybeans, and they will not leave the land uncultivated.

As for sweet potatoes, no one has ever seen or eaten them.

It just depends on what people say with their mouths. Who dares to take risks?

If the harvest fails, a whole year's worth of land will be wasted. Even wealthy families who are not short of land dare not take this risk.

Therefore, even if the prefect personally went to the countryside to do ideological work, no one would buy it.

When you are the prefect, no matter whether it is a bad year or a good year, you will receive a salary from the court and you will not be short of food or drink. Unlike the peasant family, all their hopes are in the fields. If something goes wrong, will the prefect be in charge?
Obviously not!

They are not stupid, and they don't want to be the prefect's experimental field.

Liu Hong initially planned to promote sweet potatoes in Nanguan Town, Yangfeng County, his blessed land, and took Magistrate Zhang to the countryside to promote planting in person.

None of those farmers wanted to be a freeloader.

There are not even people waiting and watching. In short, there is no shortage of crops, why take the risk of planting crops you have never seen before.

This is not a year of disaster. Planting swallows and millet is a forced choice. Now that the good year is here, who will plant grains of millet? Such rough crops will only satisfy hunger in the year of disaster.

Wheat, soybeans, corn, and peanuts are discarded once the harvest season arrives. Don’t they taste good?
After being rejected continuously, Liu Hong became angry and cursed the stupid farmers. Did he know that he was specifically seeking benefits for them? He wanted to tie up all the farmers who rejected him and force them to grow sweet potatoes.

But there are so many farmers, how can they be tied up?

Seeing that the spring plowing was about to be delayed, Liu Hong had no choice but to come to Shenshu Village, the place that Mr. Liu called his blessed land.

"Xiao Yuanbao, is Xiao Yuanbao at home?"

When Mr. Liu arrived at Shenshu Village, he naturally went to Lao Bai's house first. As soon as he entered Lao Bai's yard, he unconsciously called Xiao Fuyuan's name.

"Uncle Liu, I'm at home. Do you want to see me for anything?" Xiao Fuyuan saw Liu Hong running and was sweating profusely. His shoes and official robes were stained with dirt and grass clippings.

I was convinced that Master Liu was indeed a good official. At least he personally went to the fields to help the plows and cultivate with the people every spring plowing time.

And it's not just a show.

"Master Liu, do you have anything to do with my daughter?"

Bai Banban was not polite to Mr. Liu. Seeing Liu Hong drink some tea, he asked directly.

"Of course it does, it's a big deal. About the sweet potato promotion, everyone doesn't believe me. How about I let Xiao Yuanbao tell everyone about it, everyone will believe in Xiao Yuanbao."

Liu Hong looked at Xiao Fuyuan enviously as he spoke.

It's really boring for me to be the prefect today, and I can't even compare to the weight of a child's words.There is no other way, who made Fulong Township Master speak out?

At this time, he still needs to borrow Xiao Fuyuan's fame.

The Bai family happened to be planting sweet potatoes.

Bai Dazhuang has already raised seedlings of the sweet potatoes that Mr. Liu Hong left at the Bai family and is planting them these days.

In addition to planting on the mountainous land of Xiao Fuyuan in Xiangyang Village, some wasteland developed by Shenshu Village is also planned to be planted.

When Bai Dazhuang was planting, the villagers were curious and asked what kind of crops they were. Bai Dazhuang was dismissive. After all, Mr. Liu had not promoted planting yet, so it was hard for him to tell everyone in advance, right?

"That's natural. Everyone really believes in Xiao Yuanbao more." Bai Banban said with a smile on his face. He was not modest at all in front of Mr. Liu and proudly showed off his daughter.

"My promotion of planting sweet potatoes in other villages did not go well, so I plan to promote it in Shenshu Village. The people in Shenshu Village believe in Xiao Yuanbao the most." Liu Hong looked at Xiao Fuyuan eagerly, "I believe it will definitely Can promote success.”

So, Bai Banban went to the village chief and told the village chief about Liu Hong's promotion of planting sweet potatoes, and asked the village chief to convene the villagers for a spring plowing meeting.

Village Chief Zhao was hesitant at first, thinking that as an official, Mr. Liu, why should he care about everyone's farming matters.

I have never heard of sweet potatoes that are not sweet potatoes.

But after listening to Bai Banban's explanation that these sweet potatoes were found by Xiao Fuyuan and Bai Sanzhuang in Nanyang, they have high yields, good satiety, and are drought-tolerant, so I became convinced.

Everyone gathered in the school as usual.

Master Liu Hong came to the private school and preached to the public about the promotion of planting sweet potatoes.

The reaction of the people in Shenshu Village was the same as that of other villages. They all felt that unfamiliar things were too risky and were unwilling to plant them.

Liu Hong lamented in his heart. He thought that he would become an honorary villager of Shenshu Village because of his diligent work in Shenshu Village, but the villagers still had doubts about his words as the prefect.

So he had to launch Xiaofuyuan.

Xiao Fuyuan came to the stage without saying anything, and asked her sister-in-law and Qiu Hong to put the cooked sweet potatoes on a plate for everyone to show, then cut them into small pieces and distributed them to everyone one by one.

These sweet potatoes were left by Bai Dazhuang to Xiao Fuyuan to satisfy her craving. She let Qiu Hong steam them all and brought them out.

"Hey mom, are these sweet potatoes? Why are they so sweet?"

“It’s soft and doughy, and it’s as delicious as a snack.”

"Is this really a sweet potato? Then I will plant it and sell it to a wealthy family in Huaicheng. We will make a fortune."

"Where did Xiao Yuanbao find this good thing?"

……

Mr. Liu was frustrated in promoting sweet potatoes in other villages. The most important thing was that everyone had neither seen nor eaten them, so naturally they didn't believe him.

So Xiao Fuyuan will let everyone see what sweet potatoes look like and taste them, and with her aura as a lucky girl, wouldn’t it be easy to promote it?

Just as Xiao Fukuoka expected, everyone expressed their admiration after tasting the sweet potatoes.

"This is the sweet potato. Everyone who was holding it in Chuntao's hand just now also saw it. Such a big sweet potato can be buried under a vine like peanuts." Bai Dazhuang said at the right time, "Sweet potatoes grow in Nanyang. My sister is the one who planted them in the book. I saw it here and asked my third brother to find it from Nanyang. To be honest, my family has been planting it for one season, on the land at the foot of the mountain next to Mrs. Hu’s house. Last year, many people were curious about my land. What are you growing? Just sweet potatoes."

"The reason why I hid it from everyone last year was not to hide my secrets, but because I didn't know if I could grow it." Bai Dazhuang continued, "I did grow it. After discussing with my sister, I gave the harvested sweet potatoes to Mr. Liu. Mr. Liu hopes to promote planting in our village and give us a bumper harvest, right?"

"How to plant this? Do you want to buy seeds or something?" Someone in the crowd interrupted Bai Dazhuang impatiently.

(End of this chapter)