After broadcasting the ancient times live, I handed the system over to the state.

[This content appears to contain mixed connotations; wait for your legal team to come and arrest you, hahaha.]

[Now we have DNA sequencing, right? A test can tell us if we're from the same ancestor!]

[Isn't millet one of the crops domesticated by humans?]

The seeds of foxtail grass resemble underdeveloped millet seeds.

[To be honest, this is my graduation thesis, and my professor said, "Why is there poop here?"]

[The comment upstairs made me laugh.]

……

“These…do do look somewhat similar!” Some farmers compared them, noting that usually no one paid much attention to these small grasses.

Zhu Yuanzhang had farmed before, and he knew how difficult it was to cultivate an acre of land that could feed people.

If these weeds could really grow as well as millet, then these weeds that don't need much care could also become food, wouldn't that be great?

Zhu Yuanzhang was only thinking about getting something for nothing.

But just thinking about it, he realized that as an emperor, it was unlikely that he knew such a thing.

Throughout the centuries, countless scholars have come and gone, some good and some bad. Many people know this story, but why doesn't anyone plant foxtail grass? Isn't it because of limitations?

This stuff can only be eaten in small quantities during years of famine; it cannot be widely promoted. If there's too much of it in the fields, it will also steal the soil's nutrients.

Instead of wasting time on this, why not plant more rice and wheat?

Many people thought of this aspect, but Ying Zheng thought of something else entirely.

The sky often says that society is constantly changing. Could it be that the reason why future generations can have enough to eat is also due to this kind of research and comparison?

But there are always benefits to studying these crops.

Ying Zheng didn't pay much attention to this aspect before, but now he has no choice but to.

Since ancient times, being well-fed has always been the most important thing for people all over the world.

In years of abundant harvests, Ying Zheng was able to obtain more grain and supplies, enabling him to launch military campaigns to the north and south.

The most urgent task now is to find farmers to study these grains.

He quickly sent someone to find the farmers.

He wants to ask about these agricultural matters, and, as the comments on the screen suggest, conduct more research to see if it can increase grain production.

The man kept gathering foxtail grass, and an old farmer passing by asked him if he was going to use it to make wine.

So the people under the sky learned that this stuff might be used to brew wine.

An elderly woman carrying a bucket came over to watch the commotion. "Are you going to make porridge with this? Oh dear! Back in the day, when people were starving, nobody would buy this stuff. It wouldn't give you enough strength. But people used to buy this stuff."

The old woman glanced at it casually and left. The man collected large baskets of foxtail grass, then dried it and pounded it to remove its fatigue.

Anyone who has done farm work knows that this man is a wealthy person who doesn't do much farm work. How long will it take to hammer like this with a small hammer?

Fortunately, the man on the sky also realized the difficulty and went to the village to borrow a stone mill.

The village has clean and flat roads, with two or three-story buildings on one side covered with smooth tiles, and a large expanse of lush green rice fields on the other side, making it a beautiful place.

At the same time, I was also a little amazed, wondering if this was a village from later generations?

If their house were like that, they would be laughing in their sleep.

How come even the village is so wealthy in later generations? How could they afford to live in such houses?

Liu A's family is building a new house. He originally planned to have two rooms, but when he saw the beautiful houses of the future on the sky, he couldn't bear to leave.

If he could live in such a beautiful house, that would be amazing!

Even the landlords in town might not be able to live in such a nice house!

Liu Ada still envied people of later generations. If only he could be reborn into the future and become a person of later generations, he could eat his fill and be able to read and write!

He wanted to try sitting in that bright and spacious classroom.

He removed all the husks, revealing many shriveled grains, and then sifted them again.

The man on the sky was covered in sweat, and the two baskets of foxtail grass seeds he had started with had only yielded a pitiful amount.

It's definitely not worth it.

But for people in ancient times, as long as it was edible, it was worth it.

The man soaked foxtail grass seeds overnight before cooking them into porridge. Because the porridge had cooled completely by the time he ate it, a film had formed on the surface.

[This should be edible; seeing the porridge film makes me think it's edible.]

[What does it taste like?]

[Perhaps because the seeds are a darker color, I always feel this porridge looks a bit like mung bean porridge.]

"After going through so much trouble, I've finally made this bowl of porridge. Because peeling foxtail grass is quite difficult, I managed to remove all the peels this time, so the porridge is quite clean. It should taste alright, right?" The man stirred the foxtail grass porridge with a spoon; it looked quite presentable.

He put the foxtail grass porridge in his mouth, chewed it, and after savoring it, said, "It's actually a bit like millet porridge, but with an added grassy flavor. It tastes pretty good."

He finished the foxtail grass porridge, then turned on his computer, went to academic research websites, and searched for papers to prove the relationship between foxtail grass and millet.

The ancient people under the sky looked at that strange thing with curiosity. It could do so many things, as if you could find any information you wanted inside.

"What exactly is this?" Ying Zheng couldn't help but wonder, especially since the man had just clicked on the browser and many quickly glanced-through entries on the browser page had caught their attention.

What exactly is inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor?

What was the father-son relationship between Li Shimin and Li Yuan?

Did Cao Cao really like married women?

……

Cao Cao: Enough, enough, enough!

Why do later generations insist on dwelling on him?

Li Shimin was also curious about how future generations would describe his relationship with his father.

Qin Shi Huang... He didn't care what was in his own tomb; he only wanted to know if others knew what was in his tomb.

The man quickly found the paper he had seen before, then pointed his computer at the screen and said to them, "That's right, according to research, foxtail grass is indeed the ancestor of millet, but the domestication of millet took many years."

"Generally speaking, easily domesticated varieties all have certain characteristics, such as large seeds that are easy to collect, high yields, and easy survival rates. But foxtail grass is different. As you just saw, many foxtail grass seeds are quite shriveled and difficult to remove the outer shell. So how can foxtail grass be turned into millet?"

"This brings us to archaeology. At the Cishan site in my country, dating back 8,000 to 10,000 years, fossils of millet dating back 10,000 years were discovered."

"Later fossils gradually contain small amounts of millet, which is also known as foxtail millet. What conclusion can we draw from this?"

"That's right. It's possible that millet gradually hybridized with sorghum, hitching a ride on the sorghum's coattails. It's likely that in fields where sorghum was grown, millet adapted to the environment, and then, during hybridization, a beneficial mutation occurred, allowing it to survive."