First came sweet potatoes, then came corn. The emergence of these two foreign grains is truly exciting.
It can be planted in the fields and can produce high yields.
It seemed as if the civil and military officials in the court could foresee that the problems of natural disasters such as floods and droughts, the difficult life of the people, insufficient military pay, and rampant banditry that had plagued the country since Emperor Xuanzong would finally have a solution.
However, without personally witnessing the actual yield of the two crops, it is not intuitive enough and lacks confidence to infer only from the records of the imperial farm and the books presented by Jizhou.
Let’s not talk about sweet potatoes. The quantities grown in the imperial farms and stored in the warehouses have all been seen by the grain transport officials.
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