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Chapter 217 Potatoes are the hope of the Hibiscus Kingdom

When they first started planting potatoes, they took great care of the plants, afraid that if they did something wrong, the plants would die.

On the contrary, Lord Ye, seeing them taking such careful care of the plants day and night, advised them that the potato plants were very easy to grow and did not need such meticulous care.

It's not that you can't take good care of them, but you don't have to stay by their side day and night.

After being "educated" by Lord Ye, they lost their previous cautiousness.

Later, after the potatoes grew, they went to dig them up. They had never seen potatoes that were so round and plump before.

They carefully dug up the potatoes, finding it hard to believe that this one plant could produce so many fruits.

Everyone present was stunned, and gasps of surprise echoed across the farmland.

Some people even held the potatoes in their hands with tears in their eyes, speechless for a long time.

Many farmers have experienced drought and food shortages, and they have never seen such a yield before! Therefore, they understand even more how hard-won and precious these potatoes are.

They practically worshipped the potatoes, but Ye Yuwu felt they were being too cautious and digging potatoes was too inefficient, so he told them to dig boldly, even if they broke some potatoes, it wouldn't matter.

At first, they were very cautious in everything they did, until they saw Ye Yuwu fearlessly go down with a shovel by himself, and they gasped.

Later on, after a whole day of work, they were almost numb from it all, and they were so used to digging potatoes that they stopped being as careful as before.

On the very evening they started digging potatoes, they had a potato feast. As farmers, they never expected that this stuff would not only be so plentiful but also taste so good, whether fried, stir-fried, or boiled.

After digging potatoes for several more days and eating potato feasts every day, they gradually got used to it and no one thought the potatoes were particularly precious anymore. They also had more work to do.

They originally intended to store these potatoes in a relatively clean place.

However, Lord Ye said that the potatoes did not need to be so particular; they could simply be placed anywhere on the ground in the granary.

So they followed Lord Ye's instructions and stored the potatoes in the granary, piling them up with all the vegetables.

So this is the scene that the eunuchs saw when they arrived at the granary in the estate today.

After they finished explaining, the eunuchs glanced at the granary and found that although the contents were randomly placed on the ground, they did not look messy and were quite orderly.

So they stopped hesitating and led several farmers to select a few potatoes of good quality.

They finally managed to pick out a basket of potatoes. Just then, one of the farmers took a basket of potatoes and was about to leave when a eunuch quickly stopped him.

What are you trying to do?

The farmer was a little confused, but he still answered truthfully, "Gentlemen, I will clean the mud off these potatoes and wash them clean so that you can take them to the palace for His Majesty."

Upon hearing the farmer's words, the eunuch who had been stopping him glanced into the bamboo basket and discovered that each potato was covered in a layer of mud.

But for some reason, he secretly felt that the potatoes shouldn't have had the dirt washed off.

He knew that these potatoes were not only for His Majesty to see, but also for all the civil and military officials to see, since none of them had ever seen the potatoes before.

He had previously served before the Emperor and had the privilege of overhearing their argument; he had even served tea to that Lord Ye.

Therefore, His Majesty's order for them to fetch a basket of potatoes from Lord Ye's estate was probably intended to let all the civil and military officials see it.

That's why he felt the potatoes shouldn't be washed clean; he wanted to show these high-minded officials what potatoes truly dug from the ground should look like, with the soil still on them!

It's unclear whether these aloof civil and military officials truly understood the plight of the peasants at the bottom of society.

But he felt it was necessary to let these aloof officials experience firsthand that the people's food depends on the land and the heavens for survival.

Not just anyone can be called a local official, nor can they control the farmers' lives with just a few words.

Those who manage to sit in the position of imperial eunuch all possess some degree of cleverness.

The eunuch's thoughts were instantly picked up by the younger eunuchs beside him.

One of them instantly grabbed the eunuch's wrist and whispered to him, "Yuanhua, no!"

"Yuanyi, do you know why I was sent to the palace to become a eunuch?" Yuanhua's eyes were red as he spoke these words aloud.

Yuan Yi slept in the same room as him. Since they were both in the emperor's service, it was natural that their relationship would be quite good.

They became acquainted because they worked in the same place.

When they had free time, the two would often talk about their backgrounds.

Both of them had very tragic backgrounds, so they felt a deep sense of kinship with each other.

Therefore, Yuan Yi naturally knew why Yuan Hua was sent to the palace to become a eunuch.

The original painting and the other eunuchs in the palace were born into the same family. He came from a poor farming family. When he was born, his family still had some self-cultivated land to grow and support the family.

However, in order to make a living, his family had no choice but to sell the land to the village landlord.

However, even selling the land was not enough to support the family.

In order to make a living, the family had no choice but to rent land from the village landlord.

Tenant farmers lived even more miserably because they rented other people's land and had to pay not only rent but also additional expenses and labor.

Not only did they have to perform labor services for the landlords, but they also had to do monthly corvée labor for the government.

Therefore, the family had no choice but to work hard in the fields from dawn till dusk, and they worked diligently for a year.

As a result, most of the harvested grain was taken away, and the remaining grain was not enough to feed their family.

Seeing that they were about to starve to death, they sold everything their brothers and sisters could, but even so, they still couldn't make ends meet.

Yuanhua's parents had no choice but to send him to the palace to become a eunuch.

They all knew that the first step to becoming a eunuch in the palace was a life-or-death ordeal.

Many little boys died in the castration room when they entered the palace. Yuanhua barely survived and was taken in as an apprentice by Eunuch Fude. He was then transferred to serve the emperor and finally had a good life.

You have a bright future ahead of you now, so don't ruin it over such a small matter.