Chapter 86: Two oxen, three men, and farming artifacts

These seeds were rewards from the manifestation of the national fortune.

He had never seen sweet potato or potato seeds before.

Previously, he had always thought these two foods did not have seeds.

Potatoes could be planted by cutting them into slices, and sweet potatoes were planted using sweet potato vines.

It was not until the reward arrived that he discovered these two foods did have seeds.

"Look, these are the seeds. They are not picky about the soil; bury them in the ground, and they can be harvested in three months."

"This is the first batch of seeds, and also the last batch of seeds. I need you to take good care of them."

"If they are accidentally destroyed, there will be no extra seeds."

When Shangqing Meng Yi and the others heard it was the last batch of seeds, they all carefully took the seeds and placed them in their hands to examine them closely.

After looking for a while, they did not find anything special.

However, the fact that they could be harvested once every three months surprised them very much.

If that was the case, they could be harvested four times a year!

In the near future, Great Qin would not just have no one starving to death.

It was estimated that by then, the people would be able to eat until they wanted to vomit.

Currently, many remnants of the Six States within Great Qin were restless.

And the people could not afford to eat; if this continued for a long time, rebellion would not be far off.

As long as the people could eat their fill, no one would want to rebel.

One must know that rebelling meant losing one's head; those who could solve their food and clothing problems would not think about rebelling.

The problem of rebellion did not need them to solve.

They were military generals; they wanted to fight wars!

Li Xin and the others looked at each other, seeing the thoughts of the other party.

As long as they had this grain, they could fight wars whenever they wanted!

Shangqing Meng Yi looked at the seeds on the tray and asked with a frown:

"Ninth Prince, may I ask a presumptuous question: are these the only seeds?"

"Would this be too few?"

"From the time these seeds are planted until the harvest, it will take a long time to develop into a large quantity!"

The others were also stunned.

Indeed, if there were too few seeds, their effect in the early stages would be too small.

But regardless, it was better than nothing.

As long as there was enough time, these seeds could continue to propagate!

Ying Ying Zi Ye smiled: "Of course there are more than this; if there were so few, there would be no need to ask you to come and help."

"Five thousand jin of sweet potato seeds, five thousand jin of potato seeds!"

*Hiss~~! *

The group gasped.

They did not expect there to be so many seeds.

With so many seeds, as long as they harvested once or twice, they could promote planting throughout the country!

"Too good, Heaven blesses Great Qin!"

"With these foods yielding seven or eight thousand jin per mu, the old Qin people will no longer fear having no food to eat."

"I see a stable and strong country rising!"

Fu Su and the others all had smiles from the heart on their faces.

When they asked where these seeds were discovered, Ying Ying Zi Ye brought out the words he had said to Brother Zheng, pushing it all onto a mysterious village.

Ying Ying Zi Ye waved his hand, and the steward brought up two more things.

They were the curved-shaft plow and the seed drill that had been crafted in the Artisan Bureau earlier.

"Ninth Brother, what is this?"

Fu Su was somewhat curious; they had never seen these things before.

Coming here this time, they truly saw many things they had never seen before.

This made them amazed.

It felt quite like a farmer entering the city.

"This is called a curved-shaft plow, and this is called a seed drill."

"Both are sharp tools for farming; using them to farm can achieve twice the result with half the effort."

"When I was bored earlier, Zheng Jiu tinkered with them."

Ying Ying Zi Ye explained casually; this stuff was already backward in later generations, where machines were already used for farming.

But in the current Great Qin, these curved-shaft plows and seed drills had not yet appeared.

He could only say he had tinkered with them himself.

The plows currently used in Great Qin were all straight-shaft and long-shaft; there were no curved-shaft plows.

Shangqing Meng Yi curiously picked up the curved-shaft plow.

Its appearance had changed somewhat from the straight-shaft plow.

This so-called curved-shaft plow had changed the straight shaft into a curved, short shaft. ===== CHAPTER 88 =====