PNB Chapter 141: Potato Auction
Chapter 141: Potato Auction
When Gu Lingyue walked into the lobby with the waiter and kitchen staff from Fumanlou, everyone looked at them.
When they saw a beautiful lady standing in front of the group of waiters, everyone guessed Gu Lingyue's identity and stood up to salute Gu Lingyue.
Gu Lingyue smiled politely at everyone, "Everyone, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
After saying that, she asked everyone to sit down and told the waiter to serve the food, and she walked towards Long Shang.
Long Shang stood up and pulled the stool next to him away, and asked distressedly: "Are you tired?"
"Not bad." After Gu Lingyue sat down between Long Shang and Tang Minghan, Long Shang sat down. He poured a cup of tea for Gu Lingyue and placed it in front of her.
Everyone was surprised at Long Shang's attitude towards Gu Lingyue. They didn't expect that Prince Jing would dote on his princess so much.
At this time, all the dishes have been served.
Everyone started whispering as they looked at the dishes on the table. Even Tang Minghan asked quietly, "Yue'er, what kind of dish is this? How come my uncle has never seen it before?"
Gu Lingyue smiled mysteriously and said, "Let's keep it secret for now. Why don't you try these dishes first and see how they taste?"
Then she stood up and said, "It is truly an honor to have you all here today. I would like to offer you tea instead of wine."
After saying that, he picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip.
"Princess Jing, you are so polite. It is an honor for us to eat the dishes cooked by Princess Jing."
"Yeah yeah!"
There was a chorus of compliments in the lobby.
Then everyone stood up, picked up the wine glasses on the table in front of them, and drank the wine in the glasses.
"Everyone, please feel free to sit down and eat while it's hot." Gu Lingyue greeted.
"Thank you, Princess."
Everyone sat down, but did not pick up their chopsticks. They all looked at Long Shang and Tang Minghan.
Seeing this, Gu Lingyue looked at Tang Minghan and said, "Uncle."
Tang Minghan understood immediately after hearing this, picked up his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Since you are here, don't be polite, let's get started."
After he said that, he picked up a piece of potato from the stewed beef brisket, put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it. Suddenly, his whole face brightened.
"Delicious! So delicious!" Tang Minghan couldn't help but praise.
As soon as he finished speaking, the others couldn't wait to pick up their chopsticks and start eating.
These dishes not only look good, but also taste great.
Everyone was discussing what this thing was while eating. Gu Lingyue saw that the time was right, so she smiled and asked, "What do you think of these dishes?"
"It's delicious, so delicious!" someone answered quickly.
Although Tang Minghan didn't understand what Gu Lingyue meant at first, he now had a rough idea of what she meant. So, he looked at Gu Lingyue and asked, "What on earth is this? It's so delicious!"
Gu Lingyue didn't keep the secret any longer and said directly: "This is called potato, a vegetable. It also has another easy-to-remember name - potato."
"Potatoes?" Everyone repeated these two words in confusion, not knowing what potatoes were.
Gu Lingyue asked the waiter at Fumanlou to bring up the few potatoes left over from cooking on a plate and put a raw potato on each table.
Everyone looked at the potatoes on the plate in amazement. Is this what they just ate?
There was still dirt on it. How could this thing be edible? This was the first time they had seen it.
Someone swallowed and pointed at the potato and asked, "Is this really what we just ate?"
Gu Lingyue nodded affirmatively, "Yes, this is what everyone just ate."
She stood up and looked at everyone, saying, "Everyone has eaten it just now, and everyone knows that this thing is delicious. Now let me tell you something you don't know."
Don’t know?
Everyone looks at each other. What do they need to know?
"Who can tell me what the yield per mu of crops you are planting is?"
"The yield per mu is about three stones." someone said.
"Three dan? That's three hundred and sixty kilograms. Do you know what the yield of potatoes per mu is?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"Five stones?" someone guessed.
Now it was Gu Lingyue's turn to shake her head, "You guys are overestimating."
"Eight stones?"
Gu Lingyue shook her head again.
"Ten... ten stones?" someone said in a trembling voice.
Gu Lingyue said confidently, "Conservatively speaking, the yield per mu is 3,000 kilograms."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. This... this is dozens of times higher than the yield from growing crops.
Tang Minghan was so shocked that his mouth opened wide. If the output of this thing was really as high as Yue Yatou said, there would be no more famine after the apocalypse.
"Yue'er, uncle...uncle didn't hear it wrongly?"
It’s not that he didn’t believe what Yue’er said, it’s that he couldn’t believe his ears.
Everyone else also looked at Gu Lingyue, wanting to see if she was wrong.
"You heard right. This thing not only has a high yield, but it also lasts long as a vegetable. As long as you dig a cellar underground and store it properly, it can be kept for a year without any problems."
"This is really great." Youzhou Governor Zhong Heqing said excitedly: "The people of Tianqi will finally no longer have to suffer from hunger."
The wealthy people sitting there had different expressions on their faces, and no one knew what they were thinking.
Gu Lingyue smiled and said, "This is also the reason why I invited you all here today.
I got these potatoes from an imported person. Although they have a high yield, the potatoes are limited and cannot be grown on a large scale. Only after a small number of people have planted and harvested them can we obtain more seeds."
"Princess Jing, I would like to buy some potatoes from you."
"I also want to buy some."
"..."
Those rich people had their heads down just now, not knowing what they were thinking. After hearing what Gu Lingyue said, they all expressed that they wanted to buy these potato seeds from Gu Lingyue.
This thing is so delicious and has such a high yield. If others knew about it, they would definitely rush to grow it. If I were the first batch to grow it, I would definitely make a lot of money by selling the potatoes to those people next year.
Gu Lingyue smiled and said, "My friend said she only has 100,000 kilograms of potatoes, which is only enough to plant 500 mu of land. But with so many people here, I don't know who to plant them for."
When everyone heard that they could only cultivate 500 acres of land, they all started to scramble for it, as if there was a pile of silver right in front of them.
"Give me, how much is this potato per pound? I am willing to pay double the price." At this time, a fat old man said.
"You old Zhou, although you are the father-in-law of the governor, the princess just said that there are only 500 acres of land that can be cultivated. You actually want to take it all for yourself. How can such a good thing be possible?
Princess Jing, I am willing to pay three times the price to buy half of the seeds you have."
"You are still talking about me, aren't you the same?" said the man called Old Zhoutou.
At this time, everyone else stood up from their stools and bowed to Gu Lingyue and Long Shang. One of them said, "Your Highness, Princess, we, the humble commoner, also wish to contribute to the common people. Since potatoes can provide them with food and clothing, we are willing to plant some and give it a try."
If a family gets wind of this, it will be very expensive for them to buy seeds from that person in the future. Instead of buying them at a high price in the future, it is better to buy them from Princess Jing now.
Seeing this, Gu Lingyue smiled and said, "Actually, I originally planned to keep these seeds for myself, but the Tang army suffered many injuries in the recent battle. In order to raise enough money for medicine for those soldiers, I decided to auction these potatoes. The starting price is 100 taels of silver per 10,000 kilograms of potatoes. The highest bidder wins, and all the money raised will be used to treat the soldiers."
This proposal instantly ignited the whole audience.
After a few compliments, everyone looked at Tang Minghan.
Tang Minhang was a little amused and helpless. He didn't expect things to end up like this.
However, this way, he would have money to buy medicine for the soldiers. What he was worried about now was whether Yue Yatou really had so many potatoes?
Gu Lingyue understood Tang Minghan's expression. She smiled and said, "Don't worry, uncle. If someone takes the potatoes later, just write a note and ask them to go get them from my fourth brother."
Her fourth brother was going to Yizhou, but he shouldn't have left yet, so it was a good opportunity for him to finish this matter first.
"Okay, uncle understands. Don't worry, uncle will take care of it here."
Yue girl has done all the work for him. If he can't even do the rest of the work, then there is no point in him being a general.
Long Shang didn't say a word the whole day today. He was only responsible for supporting Gu Lingyue. After Gu Lingyue arranged everything here, she pulled Long Shang towards the kitchen.
She was still thinking about the fact that her uncle had spent three hundred taels of silver to book a restaurant.