Chapter 218: Assistant Minister of Agriculture and Livestock

6451 catties. After confirming it three times in a row, that court official who examined the sweet potatoes right at the start stared at them nervously. He was afraid that there would be some sort of calculation error.

After the figures had been confirmed, everyone went into a frenzy.

There were too many sweet potatoes.

This crop that was called sweet potato, could grow anywhere and could also be consumed as supplementary food. Moreover, its output was so high that it was ten times higher than the output of rice.

If the output of sweet potatoes were similar or slightly higher than that of rice, no one would really care. However, to everyone's surprise, it was much higher. As such, the value wasn't the same anymore.

As long as the cultivation of sweet potatoes was promoted, in future, Dayao wouldn't need to purchase crops from other nations any longer.