stjorthotic Chapter 671: Food Crisis Caused By Potatoes? Trillions Of Pounds Of Food Wasted! [Please Subscribe,
Chapter 671: Food Crisis Caused By Potatoes? Trillions Of Pounds Of Food Wasted! [Please Subscribe,
Although it is difficult to do something like predicting the future, it is difficult to do it and it is completely impossible to do it. These are two completely different things.
So after realizing that he did have the ability to predict the future to a greater or lesser extent, Yan Changqing didn't bother to refute it, so he simply skipped over the "prediction" issue and brought the topic back to the food crisis. :
"The food crisis I am talking about is not caused by natural disasters, nor is it caused by man-made disasters. If we really want to say it, it can be said that it is a food crisis caused by potatoes!!!"
After hearing Yan Changqing's words that "the food crisis is caused by potatoes," Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes looked even more confused on their faces. They all couldn't help but frown and said:
“Food crisis caused by potatoes?!!”
"How can potatoes cause a food crisis?!!"
“How can a potato with a yield of at least 30 shi per acre cause a food crisis?!!”
“Is it possible that potatoes, which are considered auspicious to the country, have some disadvantages that we don’t know about?!!”
“But I’ve also eaten potatoes, and I’ve eaten a lot of them, and I haven’t found any problems so far?!”
Looking at the puzzled expressions of Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Yan Changqing said lightly:
"What was the first thing your Majesty and your Royal Highnesses thought and did after they got the potatoes?!!"
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled, he still replied:
"Of course, plant them immediately. The more you plant, the better!!!"
Yan Changqing nodded and further reminded:
"Then what will the common people do after they get the potatoes?!!"
Prince Zhu Biao said with a thoughtful look:
"After the common people get potatoes, they will naturally plant them immediately. The more they plant, the better!!!"
Speaking of this, Prince Zhu Biao faintly felt a thought flashing through his mind, but he couldn't catch it.
Yan Changqing sighed:
"Yes, after His Majesty and Your Highnesses got potatoes, the first thing they did was to plant them immediately, and the more they planted, the better; after the common people got potatoes, they naturally chose to plant them immediately, and the same thing happened The more, the better!!!”
"But the yield of potatoes per mu is at least thirty shi, which is 3,600 kilograms!!!"
"Now, after last year's inventory and accounting, the number of acres of land in Ming Dynasty is 8,577,623 hectares and 68 acres!!!"
"One hectare of land is equivalent to one hundred acres of land."
"In other words, there are 850,762,368 acres of farmland in the world!!!"
"In other words, if all of these 850,762,368 acres of land were planted with potatoes, the total yield would reach a terrifying 250 acres. 522,871,040 stones!!!"
"One stone is equal to one hundred and twenty kilograms."
"This means that the world's potato output will reach an even more terrifying 3062,744,524,800 kilograms!!!"
"Thirty-six hundred and twenty-seven hundred and forty-four million five hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred kilograms of potatoes. What does this mean? Do you and your Highnesses know what this means?"
At this moment, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, their eyes widened and they were stunned in their seats.
【Thirty-six hundred and twenty-seven hundred and forty-four million five hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred kilograms of potatoes?!!】
[When did the Ming Dynasty’s grain production actually count in trillions of kilograms?!!]
[Don’t even talk about trillions of catties, even if it is tens of billions of catties, the Ming Dynasty has never had such a grain harvest, right?!!]
[Hiss, 3062.7 billion 44524800 kilograms of potatoes, how much is this?!!]
[If all these potatoes are piled together, can the entire Yingtian Mansion be covered?!!]
[In the past, one hundred thousand kilograms of grain could fill a warehouse, but one trillion is tens of millions of times one hundred thousand, which means it can fill ten thousand kilograms of grain?!!]
[If there are tens of millions of warehouses, they will probably be able to cover not only the entire Yingtian Prefecture, but also the prefectures such as Zhenjiang Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture, and Taiping Prefecture around Yingtian Prefecture, right?!!]
Zhu Yuanzhang below, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, are all trying hard to imagine the 306,2744,524,800 kilograms at this moment. Potatoes, how many are there?
However, even if they tried their best to imagine, they could not imagine what 306,274,524,800 kilograms of potatoes looked like.
Because the amount of one trillion is so huge, they can't find anything that can be used as a comparison measure.
So no matter how they imagine it, what their brains give them back is: A lot! A lot! A lot!!!
This kind of illusory and unreal answer has no sense of substitution.
To put it bluntly, the concept of trillions is beyond their understanding, so they can't understand it.
And it is difficult for them to even understand the concept of one trillion. Naturally, it is also difficult for them to understand the meaning behind this number of 3062.7 billion 44524800 kilograms of potatoes. What are you wearing?
"The population of Ming Dynasty today is about 60 million.
"If the 306,274,445,248,000 kilograms of potatoes are divided by the population of 60 million, the result will be approximately 51,045 kilograms of potatoes."
"In other words, the average person in Ming Dynasty has 51,045 kilograms of potatoes."
"And 51,045 pounds of potatoes, divided by 365 days, the result is about 139 pounds of potatoes a day.'
"One person eats 139 kilograms of potatoes a day. Can the people of the Ming Dynasty finish it all?!!"
Yan Changqing said with a hint of mockery on his face.
In his previous life, there was a hilarious Wanwan joke:
"Is it difficult for one person to eat 18 kilograms of pineapples a day for two weeks?!!"
Let’s not talk about whether it is difficult for one person to eat 18 kilograms of pineapples a day. Anyway, I haven’t seen the idiot Zhuan who made this idiotic suggestion eat it live.
But at least those tens of thousands of tons of unsalable pineapples were basically rotting in the fields, and even the fertilizer money could not be recovered. It was a total loss.
By the same token, one person can eat one hundred and thirty-nine pounds of potatoes a day [is it difficult?!!
This is not a question of whether it is difficult or not, but a question of simply impossible.
After all, human digestion capacity has its limits.
Zhu Yuanzhang below, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes heard Yan Changqing's last words, their faces were dull, and their eyes were full of astonishment.
One person eats 139 kilograms of potatoes a day?!
How can you possibly eat it!!!
It's not like they haven't eaten potatoes before. A potato weighs a pound, and they are basically full after eating one.
Even if you have a smaller appetite, eating half a meal is enough to fill you up.
In other words, normal people eat potatoes for two or three meals a day, which is basically about two to three kilograms, which is almost full.
After all, a person's daily food includes, in addition to the staple food of potatoes, there are also other non-staple foods such as water, fruits, vegetables, meat, etc.
Together, these staple foods and non-staple foods are enough to keep one person full.
If you are relatively hungry, you may be able to eat a little more, but it is probably the amount of two kilograms of potatoes for a staple meal.
Two or three meals a day add up to only five or six pounds.
Even if you are a big eater who cannot eat enough, the most you can eat is three pounds of potatoes as a staple food.
Two or three meals a day, the total amount of staple food can eat up to nine pounds of potatoes, which is already overwhelming.
However, nine pounds of potatoes, compared to the figure of one hundred and thirty-nine pounds, is just a fraction.
Maybe someone can eat nine, nineteen, or twenty-nine pounds of potatoes in a day, but it is absolutely impossible for someone to eat one hundred and thirty-nine pounds of potatoes in a day!!!
If so, both Yan Changqing and Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, all felt it was necessary to throw each other into the anatomy laboratory of Wanmin Medical College.
Let a group of doctors and professors from Wanmin Medical College dissect the other person's stomach to see what the structure of the other person's stomach is and whether there is a Tao Tie growing in the stomach.
"Today's potato storage technology has not made breakthrough progress. Under the best circumstances, potatoes can only be stored in the cellar for about a year."
"If it is not stored properly, it may even be able to be stored for only half a year, or maybe two or three months.
"In other words, potatoes cannot be stored for long periods of time."
"In other words, potatoes that are endless to eat cannot be stored for a long time."
"One person consumes 139 kilograms of potatoes a day, and a family of five consumes 695 kilograms of potatoes.
"One of them, let me assume that each of them can eat nine kilograms, which means he can eat forty-five kilograms a day."
“Every household thinks it can raise three cows and three pigs and eat three hundred pounds a day to get acne.
“The forty-five kilograms of potatoes eaten by humans, plus the three hundred kilograms of potatoes eaten by animals such as pigs and cows, add up to a maximum of only three hundred and forty-five kilograms of potatoes.
"In the end, there are still 350 kilograms of potatoes that can't be eaten in a day, and since they can't be stored for a long time, they can only be wasted like this."
"A family of five wastes 350 kilograms a day, so there are 60 million people in the entire Ming Dynasty. Let's assume that there are 12 million families of five."
"Twelve million, multiplied by 350, the result is 4.2 billion catties!!!"
"This means that the 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty would waste 4.2 billion kilograms of potatoes in one day and 105,000 people in ten years would be wasted in Beijing!!!"
“And this is the result of people all over the world eating potatoes as their staple food every meal. If wheat, rice and other staple food grains are added to further occupy the daily staple food consumption of the people...
"Then, the number of potatoes wasted in the end will be more but not less!!!"
"This means that at least 1533 billion kilograms of potatoes are wasted every year!!!"
"For such a waste of food, even if the sky is innocent and Houtu is not sad, will people really not be ashamed?!"
After Yan Changqing finished his last words, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had always held his head high and chest out, like a lion, turned pale at this moment, as if he had been struck by lightning, "and his whole body was shaky.
Even if Zhu Xiongying, who was sitting next to him, hadn't hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him, Zhu Yuanzhang might have actually been able to fall off the chair.
"Grandpa Huang, are you okay?!"
Zhu Xiongying asked anxiously with a worried look on his face while supporting Zhu Yuanzhang.
However, at this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang could not hear Zhu Xiongying's voice at all, and all he could think about was what Yan Changqing said at the end just now, at least 1533 billion kilograms of potatoes are wasted a year.
In a daze, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have returned to forty years ago.
That year, drought, locust plague, and plague broke out in Haozhou one after another.
His father, mother, and eldest brother were all starved to the point where their chests were pressed against their backs in a literal sense!!!
His mother was emaciated and huddled in the corner, looking at him with blank eyes. She had no strength to even lift her arms without any flesh [she murmured an almost inaudible "I'm hungry"] in a low voice. "So hungry", "hungry"……
Until the end, there was no more sound.
His father looked at him blankly with his cloudy eyes, and then used his last bit of strength to tighten the rag belt that had purple and bruises around his waist again, as if This can make you feel a little fuller.
Until the end, the waist and abdomen were forcibly tightened to the size of a bowl, and there was also no sound.
His eldest brother was lying next to the water tank, drinking water when he was hungry, and drinking water when he was hungry. While drinking water, he turned his head and looked at him reluctantly and smiled:
"Chongba, this water is so sweet. If you drink enough water, you won't be hungry!!!"
Until the end, his whole body was swollen and he died beside the water tank.
The next moment, his starving father, mother, and eldest brother all looked at him angrily and asked him:
【Why waste food so much?!】
[Why are 1533 billion kilograms of potatoes wasted a year?!!]
【Why not give them some food?!!】
[Why would you rather waste so many potatoes and watch them all starve to death?!!]
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head repeatedly and hurriedly explained:
【No! We don’t have it!!】
2.6【We did not waste food!!!】
[We do not waste 1533 billion kilograms of potatoes a year!!!]
However, his father, mother, and eldest brother did not listen to his explanation. They all turned into hungry ghosts and rushed up to strangle him.
Zhu Yuanzhang retreated repeatedly, waving his hands and struggling.
Bang!!!
Zhu Xiongying, who was originally supporting Zhu Yuanzhang, was pushed aside by the sudden force. At the same time, all the pens, inks, paper and inkstones placed on the table in front of Zhu Yuanzhang were also pushed to the ground.
Zhu Yuanzhang also stood up suddenly at this moment, breathing rapidly and sweating profusely. It took him a long time to recover from his mental trance.
"Father, are you okay?!"
"Grandpa Huang, are you okay?!"
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at his sons, Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi, who all stood up because of what he had just done. He looked at his sons Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di with worry and concern. A look of relief appeared on his pale face, then he shook his head and said:
"We're fine, don't worry [all sit down and continue listening!!!"
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes could only suppress their worries for the time being and sat down. At the same time, they also focused part of their attention on looking at their old man.
In addition, King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Di of Yan also gave their sons a look, indicating that they should sit next to their old masters in case anything happened.
Fortunately, Zhu Xiongying and I supported the old man together.
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