No, I was just a concubine, how did I become the queen?

I have started washing the starch from the sweet potatoes. After all, the weather is very cold. If I don’t wash the starch, it will freeze and become difficult to wash.

However, if sweet potatoes are left for a long time, the starch will be saccharified, and it will be difficult to produce flour.

Therefore, before winter comes, you should wash and starch the sweet potatoes to be used for vermicelli.

This makes it easy to store and can be processed into vermicelli anytime and anywhere.

The practice of washing starch has existed since ancient times. For example, kudzu starch is made by washing kudzu roots.

However, the starch yield of Pueraria root is very low. Generally, one hundred kilograms of Pueraria root can only produce six or seven kilograms of starch.

This kind of starch is a good food for digestion when used for brewing.

Of course, there is also lotus root starch and tapioca starch, which are the same.

The Fourth Master went to see it in person because Lin Mingyan said that sweet potato starch could be made into vermicelli and eaten as a staple food like noodles.

It can be eaten as a staple food and tastes as good as noodles, which is amazing.

Lin Mingyan didn't know how much flour the sweet potatoes at that time could produce, but the improved varieties of later generations could produce thirty kilograms of flour from one hundred kilograms.

She conservatively guessed 15 percent.

The fourth master brought good news. One hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes can yield about twenty kilograms, and the fluctuation depends on the size of the sweet potatoes.

"That means one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes can produce twenty kilograms of vermicelli!" Fourth Master was a little excited. "That means three acres of sweet potatoes can almost catch up with two acres of wheat!"

That's a useless mountain area, usually it's just deserted.

The fields are not delayed at all and wheat can still be grown.

Not to mention the vast plains in the Central Plains, there are not many fertile fields in the hilly areas in the south, but there are plenty of mountains.

If all of this were utilized, the population of the Qing Dynasty would soon double!

After saying this, he sighed and said, "It's a pity that there are still too many leftovers, otherwise it would be much better."

"Dregs?" Lin Mingyan laughed and said, "Why should I worry about that? Sweet potato residue is the best for feeding pigs. It will definitely make them fat and plump."

After she said that, she remembered that Manchus basically don’t eat pork, they prefer beef and mutton.

It was Lin Mingyan who brought the Fourth Master pork. He usually ate pork belly and tenderloin, and disdained other parts.

Lin Mingyan said, "Ordinary people may never be able to eat beef in their entire lives, and mutton is incredibly expensive. Pork is their main source of meat."

"I think half of the residue left after washing the sweet potatoes could be used to feed pigs, so the people could have meat to eat."

At this time, farmers who have the conditions will of course raise one or two pigs, and the children in the family can go up the mountain to pick grass for the pigs and bring it back to feed the pigs.

When the Chinese New Year is approaching, people kill a pig to wish a good year. This is called killing the New Year pig.

However, pigs have a large appetite, and it is difficult for them to grow fat on just a little rice bran, wheat bran and pig grass.

Now that we have sweet potato residue, it is like having a great weapon.

"That's great," the Fourth Master raised his eyebrows as he thought of the dark and thin villagers in the fishing village.

It is certainly exciting news that the people of the Qing Dynasty can live and work in peace and even have enough food to eat.

Especially since they were foreign rulers who ruled over such a vast and beautiful area, yet they were able to do a better job than the local people before.

That’s a really great thing!

For example, the Red Flower Society and the White Lotus Society in the south were restless, and the people they could only mobilize were poor people who had no food to eat.

Giving them some rice and eggs can make those people loyal to you.

If the people of the Qing Dynasty could have enough food to eat and eat meat, who would be tempted by those melons and dates and risk their lives to rebel?

Si Ye started to treat sweet potatoes more actively. He could be seen washing vermicelli, feeding pigs, and processing vermicelli.

The people in the Ministry of Revenue were so impressed by his diligence.

Look, he’s a prince. His background is far superior to theirs, yet he works so hard. What else can they say?

When Emperor Kangxi heard the news of such a diligent Fourth Master, he even regretted not directly conferring the title of Prince on his fourth son.

It's really wrong to send him away with just a ban.

He asked Liang Jiugong, "Is there anything new happening in the Fourth Master's mansion?"

Liang Jiugong was very good at guessing his superiors' intentions and had already figured out everything he might want to ask.

He immediately replied, "I heard that the Fourth Master's concubine, Niuhulu, has brought good news: she is pregnant."

The Manchus attach great importance to children, which is very different from the Han people who think having no descendants is a bad idea. They are influenced by a sense of crisis.

After all, Han people still make up the majority of the world, and they can only work hard to have children to expand their ethnic group.

In this way, it is a great joy for the Fourth Master, who has raised four sons and two daughters, to have another child.

"Niohuru is a lucky woman. She is the one who gave birth to the triplets, right?" Emperor Kangxi was deeply impressed by her.

Especially his grandson Honghui, who was very much to his liking. He could be seen to be very smart at the age of one.

He himself is a smart man, and of course he is very demanding of his descendants, hoping that every one of his children and grandchildren can be successful.

This concept is completely different from that of the Han people. Among the Han people, the eldest son has an absolute advantage and will be strictly trained.

Other illegitimate sons and youngest sons will not have the same opportunities, which will avoid disputes.

The Manchus have not yet learned this experience.

Seeing that he was happy, Liang Jiugong joined in the fun and said a few words.

Emperor Kangxi nodded and said, "Then send some good things to Concubine De and ask her to give them away as well."

When a son's wife or concubine becomes pregnant, the mother must reward her. As for whether the emperor will reward her or not, it all depends on the son's face and his mood.

Now the Fourth Master's hard work has given Lin Mingyan a huge advantage.

Emperor Kangxi excitedly gave away a bunch of things, and thought of his other sons: "Is there any good news from your Eighth Master's Mansion?"

Not to mention the young princes who haven't married yet, there's no need to rush.

Among the children born after the wedding, it seems that only the eighth child is still missing.

Emperor Kangxi couldn't be said to be anxious, but he was still a little unhappy.

Liang Jiugong hesitated for a moment, looking to be in a dilemma.

Emperor Kangxi glanced at him and said, "Speak!"

"It's not that the Eighth Master has a problem, but that Guo Luoluo is not in good health..." Liang Jiugong said it clearly.

Guo Luoluo still thought that her news could be kept secret, and the imperial physician also accepted the favor from the Eighth Master and promised not to tell anyone.

But who is Liang Jiugong?

He noticed it and thought that Emperor Kangxi might want to know, so he would definitely understand it clearly.

There was no secret about Guo Luoluo's health - this was a daughter-in-law who could not give birth!

Kangxi...Emperor Kangxi was furious!

He picked and chose and finally chose such a daughter-in-law for his son, which made him almost twenty years old and still have no children.

Guo Luoluo deserves to die!

"What about the Eighth Master's princesses..." Emperor Kangxi felt something was wrong. Guo Luoluo couldn't give birth, so why was there no news about the princesses?

Liang Jiugong said: "I don't know why Mr. Ba didn't... go..."

He hid the word "dare", but Emperor Kangxi could tell that the Eighth Master didn't dare to go!