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Chapter 122 Promotion of Corn

With more people, efficiency is faster.

They started harvesting from the best fields, with the first five people picking corn in two trips each.

The three men behind were chopping the corn stalks from which they had broken the corn.

Jiang Ci and Lin Jingxuan picked up the corn on the ground and put it into a backpack, waiting for the donkey cart to come and dump it on the cart.

In a short while, a large area was cleared out with amazing efficiency.

Lin Shan came driving a donkey cart with Ye Wan sitting on it and a bucket of cooked mung bean soup.

"Take a break, here is some mung bean soup, drink some to quench your thirst."

It is autumn now. Normally, I won't sweat when doing activities under the sun, but it is different when doing physical work. I will still sweat all over.

Jiang Ci drank the liquid from the bowl in one gulp, smacking her lips after finishing. It tasted really good.

It also has a sweet taste, thanks to the addition of malt syrup.

Lin Jingxuan drank the mung bean soup and squinted her eyes comfortably. "It's delicious and sweet. The mung bean soup cooked by my mother is the best."

"Just your sweet mouth."

Lin Jingxuan was not the only one with a sweet mouth. The five people who bought the food also drank the delicious mung bean soup and spoke nice words one after another.

Ye Wan couldn't stop smiling after hearing this.

He took their empty bowls and filled them up again. "You worked so hard, you must be exhausted. Drink more."

Yuan Qi sipped the last bit of mung bean soup in the bowl and said, "Sugar is added to this mung bean soup. I almost forgot what sugar tastes like."

After taking the last sip, I was conquered by the taste of the mung bean soup and smiled, revealing my two iconic little canine teeth.

"I have some candy at home. I'll give it to you during the lunch break. This candy is different from the usual ones and is very fragrant."

"Thank you, auntie."

Seventeen-year-old Yuan Qi is Ye Wan's favorite. He is handsome and speaks sweetly. Who wouldn't like such a child?

His three sons were all good-looking, but they were not well-behaved at all and sometimes their words were even offensive.

They went home to rest at noon, and Ye Wan also asked those people to stay and wait for lunch.

I work for their family. Even though I was bought here, I still have to give them a good meal.

It wasn’t a complicated dish, but there was a lot of meat in the dish. Those who rarely eat meat ate it voraciously.

They only took two days to collect all the corn and corn stalks, and the threshing ground and home were filled with corn waiting to be peeled.

In addition, the backyard of a rented house was filled with corn stalks, and the corn stalks were piled very high at the edge of the field.

After breaking the corn, I shelled it. In the threshing yard, I saw a lot of unshelled corn. When I got home, the yard was still full of corn.

He sighed deeply, but still rolled up his sleeves and joined the army of people picking corn.

Jiang Ci got a headache when he thought about threshing the corn after peeling it.

How to thresh so much corn? In modern times, there are special threshing machines.

It only takes him half a day to shell the corn using that old machine. How long will it take?

He and Lin Jingsheng were the only ones in the yard, so Jiang Ci asked without hesitation, "How do we thresh the grain?"

"Let the corn dry for a few more days, then you can thresh it with a threshing wheel, or you can just thresh it with your hands like this."

Lin Jingsheng demonstrated to Jiang Ci using his hands. At this time, the corn cob was not that big, and Lin Jingsheng's two palms were enough to wrap the entire corn cob.

"It's still wet now, so it'll take a lot of effort to thresh it. I'll get the seedlings to show you."

Seeing Chuanzi's appearance, Jiang Ci was a little surprised.

This is very similar to the thing that grandmas use to manually shred corn kernels in their modern homes, but this one is made of wood.

It looked like a piece of wood as thick as a calf, with a small half of one side chiseled off, and the middle part an inch wide was flattened. A square hole was hollowed out in the middle of the wood, and an iron sheet was added diagonally, and a bracket was installed underneath with a mortise and tenon structure.

Lin Jingsheng commented on this, "It's not easy to hurt your hands using this."

Jiang Ci thought of a strange phenomenon, "We grow so much corn here, why are there so few people selling cornmeal?"

"Corn is probably only grown in Yongzhou and the counties to the north of Yongzhou. It is not as good as wheat and rice. Cornmeal tastes very good. The grain stores in our town usually collect it and transport it to other places to sell."

"If cornmeal is so popular, why are corn grown in only these two states?"

He remembered that the requirements for the fields to grow corn were not high. For example, most of the inferior fields in their village were planted with late-crop corn, and the leaves were still green.

"To the south is a land of fish and rice, where rice is grown, and people there do not grow corn. To the north of Yongzhou, the land there is not suitable for growing corn, and the harvest is very small. The governor there tried it, but did not promote it."

Jiang Ci keenly grasped something and asked, "When did we start growing corn here?"

Lin Jingsheng thought for a moment and gave a definite answer, "I heard from the villagers before that in the first year of Chongde, the town planted corn, and the results were good. The next year, we also switched to planting corn here."

“So where does this corn come from?”

"I don't know. Maybe it was bought from a foreign country."

The two of them kept moving their hands. Jiang Ci was thinking about something in her mind and did not chat with Lin Jingsheng anymore.

It seems that the merchant caravans traveling to foreign lands in this dynasty were more mature than he had imagined.

I just don't know whether potatoes, which are suitable for growing in the sandy soil of the northwest, were introduced to Dashun.

There are also sweet potatoes, which have the same amazing yield as potatoes.

Both of these things were introduced to China in his original world during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, from 1573 to 1619.

Corn was introduced to China in the early sixteenth century, and the earliest record of it was found in the 1555th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, which was .

If it is linked to China's history, it may have already been introduced to Dashun.

Jiang Ci shook her head, saying she couldn't think that way.

The market prices here are still similar to those in the Song Dynasty, so how come the introduced species arrived at that time?

Besides, the national territories are different.

This is a fictional dynasty, and we cannot take things here for granted with our inherent thinking.

Corn cobs are drying in the threshing grounds, yards, and clean roadsides.

After the busy farm work, people can sit under the trees and chat, or lie down on the bed and take a nap.

This was the case in previous years, but now, everyone keeps going to the back mountain.

An aunt was carrying a basket and walking hurriedly towards the back mountain. On the way, she met an uncle and aunt who were also going to the back mountain.

"You just went too. Let's go over there quickly. I heard that Brother Ci collected a lot of flowers and plants."

"Collect wormwood, and the yellow chrysanthemum, what's its name, it seems to be marigold, do you know the others?"

"There's also that cool grass called mint. I can't remember the names of the others."