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Chapter 1432 - Chapter 1339: Agriculture (Part 1)

The Huaxia people have a natural love for food, and no matter how difficult life gets, they never give up the pursuit of culinary delights.

As early as Han times, the court discovered that the yield of wheat per mu was higher than that of millet, so they advocated the planting of wheat, but after hundreds of years, little progress was made.

After Zhao Hanzhang ate wheat porridge, she unilaterally concluded that the lack of wheat promotion in the past was because wheat porridge was less palatable than millet porridge.

It was not until Zhuge Liang invented mantou, combined with the dumplings that began to gain popularity in upper society after Eastern Han's Zhang Zhongjing, that the proportion of wheat planting started to increase among the populace.

However, because removing the husk and grinding wheat demanded considerable manpower, millet continued to dominate as the chief grain among the people.

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