Ye Yanxing watched them leave one after another, and only looked away when the two figures disappeared.

Cheng Yu escaped the disaster because he left the manor early that day to go home. He has been in charge of the business recently, and Fu Qianrun hardly cares about it.

In more than a month, Zhang Hengyu's newspaper has been almost ready.

After Zhang Hengyu told Ye Yanxing that paper was expensive, Ye Yanxing told him the method of papermaking and asked him to study it.

Now the progress is good. It is expected that the first edition of the newspaper will be published next month. Today is December 22nd, and there are only a few days left. Ye Yanxing is still very much looking forward to it.

Ye Yanxing sat in the pavilion, looking around with bored eyes, and then he saw the thriving potatoes in the flower bed out of the corner of his eye.

He stood up and walked over to squat beside the flower bed. He picked up a broken branch from the side and dug in the soil until he dug out a potato.

Ye Yanxing picked up the potato, brushed off the dirt on it, and held it in front of him for a closer look. It was about the same size as in his previous life, and should taste the same.

He called the servants and asked them to dig up all the potatoes in the flower bed.

"Your Highness, are the potatoes ripe?" asked the servant. After taking good care of them for so long, he was still very much looking forward to it.

"It's ripe, dig it up."

"Your Highness, where do the potato fruits grow under the soil?!" He had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but he had never dared to. At first, he thought that the planting had not been successful!

"Well, dig carefully. These will be used as seeds for re-planting. Don't knock or damage them." Ye Yanxing reminded them.

"Yes." After getting the answer, the servant did not delay any longer and directed others to start working.

Ye Yanxing sat nearby and watched them dig.

There were two beds of potatoes, one smaller bed was about two mu, and the other was larger, about five mu. The more the servants dug, the more shocked and happy they were. The housekeeper who was watching nearby was so excited that he wanted to cry.

The servants quickly finished digging.

"Your Highness!" Butler Yang Bo came to Ye Yanxing excitedly.

"Yeah." Ye Yanxing knew what they were excited about. To be honest, he was also shocked when he learned about the per-acre yield of potatoes, but later he got used to it.

"Your Highness, does sweet potato also have such a high yield?" Uncle Yang looked at Ye Yanxing expectantly.

"No." Ye Yanxing broke Yang Bo's fantasy, "The maximum yield of sweet potatoes per mu is 500 kilograms. If the soil is good, it may be a little more."

"Oh." Uncle Yang was a little disappointed, but the disappointment on his face quickly disappeared.

It is very rare to have a high yield of a crop, how can you be so greedy as to have it all!

"Your Highness, the estimated yield of these potatoes is two thousand per mu!" Uncle Yang couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, about two to three thousand. If the soil is good, it may be higher." Ye Yanxing replied.

"Okay, okay." Uncle Yang was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.

Ye Yanxing didn't care about his gaffe and laughed too.

Finally, after all the potatoes were weighed, they weighed more than 2,400 kilograms!

Everyone in the palace was cheering, except Ye Yanxing, of course.

When Fu Qianrun heard the noise, he thought something had happened, so he ran over in a hurry and found that everyone had smiles on their faces and there was a pile of potatoes on the ground.

He understood instantly.

"Your Highness, are the potatoes ripe?" Fu Qianrun walked over.

"Well, I'm mature." Ye Yanxing nodded.

"What is this? Is it the potato?" Cheng Yu was shocked by the potatoes on the ground. There were so many of them!

"Manager Cheng, this is potato!" the servant next to him answered him.

"So many!"

"Yes, yes! Manager Cheng, let me tell you..." The servant started chatting with Cheng Yu.

Fu Qianrun was also shocked. "How is the prince going to deal with these potatoes?"

"All of them will be kept as seeds," Ye Yanxing replied. "Distribute some to each county, and send some to the imperial city."

In the end, Ye Yanxing distributed 500 kilograms to each of the four counties in Yizhou and 500 kilograms to the imperial city. The rest belonged to the royal palace, and they were to grow it themselves.

There aren't many sweet potatoes left, so they may not be divided by then.

Ye Yanxing sent people to deliver potato seeds to the county governors of several counties at the same time, and informed them how to plant them. Then he told them that potatoes could theoretically be planted all year round, but due to different seasons, the yield might also vary.

In southern regions, the best time to plant is generally after October.

But given the current situation, they will probably plant the potatoes immediately, as they don't have that much time.

As expected, after Ye Yanxing specifically told them the best date for planting, they still chose to plant, although they could also plant now but the yield was uncertain.

It is now the end of December, and they can harvest in March and April, so they can have more to plant.

And here in the imperial city.

Eunuch De led two guards carrying two boxes into the study to find Ye Xingche.

"Your Majesty, King Yan has a package delivered."

"Oh? What did this kid bring back?" Ye Xingche asked curiously.

"I heard this is a crop with a very high yield." Eunuch De was not sure either, after all, he had never seen it.

"Oh?" Ye Xingche instantly became interested. If this was true, it would be a good thing for the country and the people! "Open it quickly and show it to me!"

"Here." Eunuch De signaled to the two guards to open the two wooden boxes, both of which were filled with yellow potatoes.

"Is that the potato?" Ye Xingche walked down, squatted in front of the box, picked up a potato and observed it.

"Your Majesty, this is potato." After saying this, Eunuch De took out an envelope from his sleeve and presented it to Ye Xingche, "Your Majesty, here is a letter written by Prince Yan."

"Okay." Ye Xingche took the letter and opened it directly.

In addition to greeting him, the letter also talked about how to grow potatoes, and that the whereabouts of assassins from the Northern Desert Kingdom were discovered in Yizhou. It even mentioned that they met Mo Qing when they went to Yizhou.

However, he concealed the fact that Fu Qianrun was injured, and only said that there was an assassination attempt, but they were all safe.

"Bei Mo." Ye Xingche murmured. It seemed that some people couldn't help themselves.

Ye Yanxing was attacked as soon as he arrived in Yizhou. Haha, did he think that the two brothers were too easy to bully? Even rabbits bite when they are cornered!

Besides, he was never a rabbit.

Want to use Ye Yanxing to restrain him, good, good! It's really good!

Ye Xingche was so angry that he wanted to cut the man into pieces.

He took a deep breath and calmed himself down. "Give the potatoes to the Ministry of Revenue and let them process them. I want to see the results in three months!"

"Yes." Eunuch De and two guards went out carrying potatoes.

Ye Xingche sat in his seat for a while, then called the secret guard. It was unknown what he told the secret guard, but the guard took the order and left.

After the secret guard left, Ye Xingche sat in his seat. Thinking of the farewell gift Ye Yanxing had given him before, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

This Ah Xing has really grown up.

It turns out that a man will become mature after getting married.

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