The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 836 The Plague of Locusts, the Disaster of Locusts
"Ban Yue Tan of the Sui Dynasty" itself is a great gimmick, and it comes from the court of the Sui Dynasty, as well as the emperor, the chief officials of ten departments and nine temples in three provinces.With all kinds of power superimposed, it is hard to think that this publication will not be popular.

This is of course one reason, but the key is that the people of the Sui Dynasty lived in a desert era where information was blocked, and their thirst for new information was beyond Yang Tong's imagination. This demand continued to drive the sales of "Da Sui Ban Yue Tan" quantity.

Some shrewd businessmen even buy in large quantities, preparing to take them back to their hometown as scalpers.

After all, these articles from the emperor and various bigwigs are in themselves a masterpiece of the world, which is of great collection value. Apart from the different format, this novel format publication is no different from a book, and it is also cheaper than a book.This kind of "star books" are definitely better than books when they reach places, which also makes this issue of "Ban Yue Tan of the Sui Dynasty" endlessly popular.

"Print 50 more!"

"Print 200 more!"

"..."

After continuous reprinting until the second issue was launched, the buying craze of the first issue slowly subsided, and the nationwide sales volume reached a staggering 530 million, while the number of renewed orders for school students, official businessmen, wine shops, restaurants, inn brothels... The number has skyrocketed to about 12 copies, and with the addition of government offices at all levels, city libraries, school libraries and other places that are regularly distributed throughout the country, 30 million copies will be printed and distributed even if individual customers are not counted.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Yang Tong immediately set up a news department under the supervision of the three provinces and led by the Ministry of Rites. Daxing, Taiyuan, Zhuojun, Yecheng, Jiangdu, Jiangling, Qijun, and Pengcheng printing stations were also under intense preparation.

With the spread of the first issue of "Da Sui Half Moon Talk" in the Sui Dynasty, the West Sea, which produces green salt, has also subverted people's impressions, making people's understanding of it change from a barren place at the beginning to a rich green salt everywhere. In the first issue, the various beautiful profiles of Xihai County, and because of the green salt that turned out to be born out of the sky, are convincing.

Yang Tong from later generations knows that the best way to eliminate the influence of a piece of news is to launch another explosive piece of news in succession, so the headline of the second issue is the plague of locusts that is closely related to the common people.

After a severe drought, there must be a locust plague, which is the life experience summed up from generation to generation. However, the common people don’t know how the locust plague came about. If they can’t explain it, those ignorant people will think that it has something to do with the emperor’s virtue. The emperor's lack of morality caused the dissatisfaction of the heavens, and he punished the people. The emperor needed to bathe and change clothes, and issued an imperial edict to get the forgiveness of the heavens.

The despair of the locust plague, the panic of the unknown, and the help of people with good intentions made the people dissatisfied with the emperor very quickly.And the dissatisfaction of the people has always been the source of the aristocratic family, and it is also a sharp edge against the emperor and the royal family.If the emperor issued an edict of guilt as they wished, but the locust plague is not relieved, then it will turn out that the emperor has committed an unforgivable crime. It means that he himself knows that he is not good, so why let him be the emperor?
On the front page of this issue, the origin of locusts is explained in detail. The reason why locusts are extremely dry is that locusts lay eggs in dry places, and locust larvae can only grow in this environment, so the drier , the locust plague is more serious, and there are few locust plagues in the south because of the criss-cross water network and swamps in the south, which makes the locust plague lose a large number of natural places for reproduction.

After talking about the causes of the locust plague, he introduced some ways to eliminate locusts. For example, it is natural for poultry and birds to eat locusts. As long as a large number of chickens and ducks are fed and the ducks are driven to fields and wilderness, these poultry can catch locusts, Look for locust gnats to eat, which can save food for feeding chickens and ducks, and eliminate immature gnats, and the people can't afford expensive mutton. If many chickens, ducks and geese are raised, the people can not only eat fat meat , can also be sold to make money.

The key point is that the emperor also said in the article that locusts themselves are delicious, that the elderly will be healthy after eating locusts, and the children will be smart if they eat them.Dr. Sun Simiao said that locusts have the effects of warming the stomach and helping yang, invigorating the spleen and eliminating food, dispelling wind and relieving cough.And at the end, Zhangchou Taiyi and Yuan Tiangang released a prescription that excited all men:

"Wash the locusts to remove the small thorny legs and wings, boil them in midnight spring water, remove them immediately after a cup of tea, dry them in the sun until they are brittle, and grind them into powder. Take [-] grams of locust powder, boil them with midnight spring water, and take them for two minutes. After that, squat [-] times with your head in your arms, and jump with your knees bent [-] times, take one dose each morning, noon and evening; you only need to persist for one month to achieve the effect of aphrodisiac.”

Since ancient times, all normal men have hoped to strengthen their yang for a long time, even a seventy-year-old man is no exception. As long as you give him an authoritative direction for strengthening yang, let alone eat [-] grams of locust powder every day, squat [-] times, He has jumped three hundred times, even if he is asked to eat nine catties of mud every day.

Zhangchou Taiyi and Yuan Tiangang are the most powerful gods and magic sticks in the Sui Dynasty. There are countless miracles about them. The prescriptions of any one of them are a hundred times more effective than the genius doctor Sun Simiao. Now these two gods have jointly created a prescription. It is conceivable how powerful it is.

Actually?
This prescription is a "magic medicine" concocted by Yang Tong himself after seeing Sun Simiao's introduction. The purpose of his column on locusts is to deal with locusts and locust plagues. Its economic value is skyrocketing, as long as its value is high enough, there will be a huge market demand, and the common people will rush to catch locusts and sell them for money even if they don’t need the government to come forward when they see it is profitable.

But before that, the people of the Sui Dynasty must let go of their awe of locusts, calmly regard locusts as edible objects, and calmly kill locusts, and this step is also the most difficult.So Yang Tong used the name of the two magic sticks to concoct the magic medicine and hype the economic value of locusts to the sky. He didn't believe that male compatriots would not eat this stuff.

And how much can a locust with its head and tail removed be dried into powder?How many locusts are needed to make up the [-] grams of locust powder that a man consumes every day?How many locusts are sold every day by thousands of men?

Once this half-month talk spreads all over the world, every man wants to eat locusts to strengthen his yang, and every woman wants his men to eat locusts to strengthen his yang. At that point, it will be a disaster of locusts, referred to as 'locust plague'!
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On this day, Sun Simiao rushed to Daxing Palace with a dark face. Yang Tong knew why he came, and in order to keep the secret of the prescription, he simply interviewed this strict genius doctor alone.

Sun Simiao saluted and said to Yang Tong: "My lord, I do know that locusts have the effects of warming the stomach and tonifying yang, invigorating the spleen and eliminating food, dispelling wind and relieving cough, but I have discussed it with the bachelors of the medical school for three days, and no one is in the medical book. I have seen records in the Internet that locusts can strengthen yang."

"You also said that locusts have the effect of warming the stomach and nourishing yang, so why can't they strengthen yang?" Yang Tong asked back.

Sun Simiao was tongue-tied, and after a while, he said, "This, this is completely different, Your Majesty."

"I think that a genius doctor can learn from Shennong. Go to a brothel to experience it today, and then take this prescription for a month, and then experience it again. If you compare the two, the authenticity will come out?" Yang Tong said seriously. .

"..." Sun Simiao was speechless.

Yang Tong asked, "Locusts are not poisonous, right?"

"It's true." Without mentioning the embarrassing question, Sun Simiao's expression became much more normal.

"Zhang Qiu Taiyi and Yuan Tiangang are not only strangers in Taoism, but also proficient in medical skills. The prescription created by the two of them may not be without reason." Seeing Sun Simiao's numb silence, Yang Tong tried his best to hold back a smile, and said A kind of compassionate tone said: "The key is that locusts are not poisonous. Eating them is not only harmless, but also good for the body. So why not let the people in the world eat them? I have a shortage of people in the Sui Dynasty. If everyone Because of this locust, giving birth to seven or eight children is naturally a good thing for my Tai Sui. Even if it does not strengthen the yang, it can also obtain the effect of strengthening the body. After careful calculation, this is also a kind of aphrodisiac. What do you think? Isn't that the reason?"

Sun Simiao nodded in agreement: "That's true."

"That's right!" Yang Tong let out a sigh of relief, and continued: "The aphrodisiacs referred to by the two great gods may be a certain part, or the whole body of a person, but no matter whether it is a whole body or an individual, eating After all, locusts are aphrodisiacs and good for people.”

"My lord, I know I was wrong." Sun Simiao bowed his hands.

"I don't want to say anything more, but isn't everyone's long life a hundred years old? Isn't it the tireless pursuit of Yaojia? Back in the academy, there are many benefits of locusts. If everyone can live a long life because of locusts, that is also an immeasurable merit."

"Here."

Sun Simiao suddenly realized that since ancient times, in order to promote something, it has always been followed by others. The best speed is that the emperor takes the lead and his officials follow suit.The Holy One is for the good of thousands of people in the Sui Dynasty.It is really well-intentioned to not hesitate to put this kind of tiger-wolf prescription on the supreme "Da Sui Ban Yue Tan".

On the way back, Sun Simiao, who was quite touched, found soldiers secretly squatting and jumping...

Arrived at Tai Medical Office.

He bumped into Wei Zheng from the Ministry of Punishment and Kong Yingda, Shangshu from the Ministry of Education.

In the end, before he opened his mouth, the two ministers took Sun Simiao aside one by one, and said in a low voice, "Miraculous doctor Sun, we are all on our own. If you have locust powder here, you must give it to us first!"

"I don't even have a single locust here, everyone is really embarrassed..." Sun Simiao looked at a large number of officials sneaking over, and reminded with a wry smile: "This recipe is also very simple, and the current locust is huge. Everyone You can go to the private sector to buy in large quantities, anyway, you are not short of money.”

"Oh, what the genius doctor said is reasonable, what he said is reasonable."

"Yes, yes, why can't I think of it."

"It's still a genius doctor who is smart."

"I'm just looking for a fish from a tree and waiting for a rabbit. I'm so stupid..."

The officials, big and small, who were secretly listening nearby heard the words, and without saying a word, they rushed away and left the Imperial Medical Office in a hurry.

Out of the imperial city.

It was found that the streets and alleys were full of shouts to buy locusts.

Many people are domestic servants of various honorable families.

(End of this chapter)