I Just Won t Play By The Book

Chapter 286 - 286 National Artifact (2)

286 National Artifact (2)
Not long after, Jiang Beiran took out a potato from the pot and broke it in half, handing it to the two girls.””Try it.”

Puzzled, Muyao took the potato and took a bite.””Yes… It was soft and had a strange fragrance. It was not bad.”

Having been by Jiang Beiran’s side for a long time, Muyao had naturally eaten all kinds of delicacies. She didn’t think that such a strange thing was worth Jiang Beiran cooking for her.

On the side, Deng Xianghan, who had tasted the potatoes, also said,”Although it’s only half a piece, I already feel full. Your Majesty, may I ask what this is?”

“Not bad, that’s the point.” Jiang Beiran nodded.” What you’re eating is called potatoes. If it’s simply planted, it’ll be about 200 dan per mu.”

‘Two hundred…Stone? Deng Xianghan was shocked. She looked at the potato in her hand with an extremely surprised expression.” This…”

Seeing Deng Xianghan’s shocked expression, Muyao thought for a long time before showing the same look.

“If the common people grow this, won’t they starve to death a lot less??”

In this Sheng Kingdom, where the coin-making system was extremely imperfect and inferior coins were rampant, the salaries of officials were often replaced by food. After all, in this big continent, food was the real hard currency. Copper coins and silk could not compare. It could be said that with food, there was no need to worry about not having a place to exchange for what they wanted.

In the imperial court, the highest ranking official’s salary was two thousand dan, an amount that ordinary people could not even imagine.

In modern units, a stone was 120 catties, and two thousand stones were 240,000 catties. The yield of potatoes per mu could reach a terrifying 2000 to 4000 catties, which meant that less than 100 mu of land could produce the salary of a top official. This could be said to subvert the thinking of the common people.

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