The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Zhao Yao finished writing the letter, tied it to Xiao Jin's feet, and told him with a serious look: "Xiao Jin, you have to fly back to the capital as quickly as possible, the faster the better. When you get to the capital, immediately remove this piece from your leg. This letter is delivered personally to my father. It must not be handed over to anyone else, and it must not be lost, understand?" This letter is very important and affects the lives of thousands of people. If it weren't for an emergency, he would have sent the secret guards around him to the capital.

Xiao Jin nodded obediently: [Yao Yao, don't worry, I will fly back to the capital soon and will never lose your letter. 】

Zhao Yao believed that Xiao Jin could do it. He touched its little head and said warmly: "When you come back from the capital, I'll treat you to a big dinner."

As soon as he heard the word "big dinner", Xiao Jin's eyes sparkled. It raised one wing, patted its chest and said to Zhao Yao: [I will definitely complete the task and wait to come back for a big meal. 】

"Do you have the strength to fly away now? If you have the strength, fly to the capital immediately." The letter Zhao Yao just wrote was too urgent, otherwise he would not ask Xiao Jin to help send the letter back.

【I am full of strength now, fly away now. 】Xiao Jin waved his wings and disappeared into the night sky.

Zhao Yao stood at the window and watched Xiao Jin leave.

General Tiger came over and rubbed Zhao Yao's leg with his big head.

[Yao Yao, what happened? ] Animals have the keenest intuition, and General Tiger felt the tense atmosphere from Zhao Yao.

Zhao Yao came back to his senses, squatted down, reached out and touched General Tiger's big head, and said in a serious tone: "Something big has happened." It's a big thing.

【What big thing happened? 】

"There is going to be a locust plague in the north." The content of the letter Zhao Yao just wrote to the emperor was about the locust plague. "Thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't have discovered it."

【us? ] General Tiger tilted his head and looked at Zhao Yao with confused eyes, [Yao Yao, we have not discovered the locust plague, and we have not gone to the north. Also, what is a locust plague? 】

"If you and Xiao Jin hadn't been hunting in the woods every day during this period, I wouldn't have known that there was a locust plague in the north." Zhao Yao discovered the clues from what Xiao Jin and General Hu just said. "Locust plagues are locusts. Locusts eat food. Wherever they pass, not a grain of food will be left. If a locust plague occurs, people in the entire north will have no food to eat, and there will be many victims. This will be very detrimental to the Great Zhou Dynasty. "

Although General Tiger is an animal, he has been raised by Zhao Yao since he was a child and is much smarter than ordinary tigers.

[Yao Yao, are there many people going hungry? 】

"Yes, there will be many hungry people."

General Tiger asked with concern and eagerness: [Yao Yao, will you be hungry? If you have no food to eat, I will go to the mountains to catch deer for you to eat. I will catch many deer for you to eat, so that you will not be hungry. 】

Hearing what General Tiger said, Zhao Yao felt warm in his heart. He rubbed General Tiger's face and said with a smile, "I won't go hungry."

[Yao Yao, if you are hungry, you must tell me. ] General Tiger rubbed Zhao Yao's palm, [I'm so powerful now, I can catch a lot of things for you to eat. 】

"My General Tiger was very powerful back then." Zhao Yao patted General Tiger's head gently, "Now go out and help me call a hundred of them back."

【good. General Tiger flicked his tail, jumped out of the window, and quickly disappeared from Zhao Yao's eyes.

After General Tiger left, Zhao Yao returned to his desk and wrote another letter. The content of this letter is about the locust plague and how to solve it.

After Zhao Yao finished writing the letter, General Tiger came back with a hundred.

One hundred is a sparrow, a descendant of Lai Yi, who was carefully trained by Zhao Yao. It took over Lai Yi's position and was the leader of the sparrows, responsible for collecting intelligence and delivering messages.

"One hundred, you take some of your brothers to the north." Zhao Yao explained, "There will be a locust plague in the north soon. You go to the north to help me find out the situation. Once you find out the situation, immediately send a sparrow. Come back and tell me."

【Locust plague? 】One hundred people know about the locust plague. Although there is no emotion on its face, you can hear its joy in its voice. [Locusts are good things, we like to eat them the most. 】

"After you go to the north, try your best to gather all the sparrows and other birds to eat locusts." Zhao Yao now hopes that the locust plague in the north is not as serious as he imagined.

【OK. ] Bai Bai then said, [Yao Yao, can I take many brothers and other birds to the north to eat locusts? 】

"Of course, but can they fly so far to the north?" Lingnan is thousands of miles away from the north, and most birds cannot fly to the north.

【Let me ask. 】One hundred of them have been trained to fly to the capital, and naturally they can also fly to the north.

"By the way, after you go to the north, help me with one more thing."

[Yao Yao, you say. 】

"After you went to the north..."

When Zhao Yao finished speaking, Bai Bai immediately flew away. That night, it flew north with many sparrow brothers and other birds.

After Bai Bai flew away, Zhao Yao called the secret guard out and handed him the secret letter he had written to deal with the locust plague.

"This secret letter is very important and very urgent. You will rush it back to the capital at 800 miles."

The secret guard took the order and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, I will immediately arrange for a 800-mile rush back to the capital."

Zhao Yao nodded to him, and then he withdrew.

After the secret guard left, Zhao Yao called Tong Xi in: "Go and call Yi Yue."

When Tongxi heard this, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately went to call for Yiyue without any delay.

After a while, a very ordinary-looking woman walked in.

"Your Highness, what are your orders?"

"Take your people and set off immediately to the north to investigate the situation of the locust plague."

"Locust plague?" Yi Yue said in shock.

"Well, the locust plague." Zhao Yao briefly told Yiyue about the upcoming locust plague in the north. "I'm worried that after the locust plague occurs, grain merchants and other businessmen in the north will take the opportunity to stockpile grain and raise the price of grain. You go After the North, keep an eye on them, especially King Han.”

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhao Yao gave Yi Yue some instructions before asking her to step back.

January moved quickly, and left the Marsh Mansion with some spies after a while.

Tongxi saw Zhao Yao's serious expression and asked with concern: "Your Highness, what happened?" He rarely saw His Highness like this.

"A locust plague is about to happen in the north."

Tongxi exclaimed: "What, a locust plague?" His face was full of horror, "Your Highness, is this true?" Although Tongxi had never experienced a locust plague, he knew the harm it would bring. Whether it's him or someone else, the locust changes color when talking about it.

Zhao Yao said solemnly: "I hope it's fake."

"Your Highness, there is a locust plague in the north, then..." Tongxi did not dare to continue.

"If it were handled in time, the matter might not be that serious, but..." No matter how fast Xiao Jin went, it would still take five days to reach the capital. It would take several days for my father to receive his letter and then send someone to the north. For more than ten days, the locusts have already flown to the north. "It's probably too late."

"It's too late, isn't that the north..." Tongxi asked with worry on his face, "Your Highness, will locusts fly to Lingnan?"

"No." Zhao Yao said, "I have already written to my father and told him how to relieve the locust plague."

The fellow asked curiously: "Your Highness, how to solve the locust plague?"

"eat."

"Eat?" Tongxi didn't understand. "Your Highness, do you mean eating locusts? Can locusts be eaten?"

"Of course it can be eaten, fried or fried, and it's delicious." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "Although locusts are pests, they still have high nutritional value. Eating them can supplement protein and beautify the skin. Relieves cough and asthma.”

"Ah, locusts can beautify the skin and relieve coughs and asthma?" Tongxi heard this for the first time, and his face was full of disbelief, "Is it true?"

"Of course it's true." Zhao Yao told Tong Xi, "Go and call my second uncle."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Two moments later, Liang Run appeared in front of Zhao Yao. Seeing him, Zhao Yao told him about the impending locust plague in the north. After hearing this, he had the same reaction as Tongxi, with fear written all over his face.

Zhao Yao told Liang Run how to deal with the locust plague. Liang Run was shocked after hearing this. He didn't expect that locusts could be eaten, and there were so many benefits to eating locusts.

"Second uncle, you will leave for the north tomorrow. When you arrive in the north, you will go around to buy locusts."

"Buying locusts?" Liang Run was surprised.

"Second uncle, as long as someone pays to buy locusts, there will be many people trying their best to catch the locusts, so that the locust plague can be solved quickly." Money can make the world go round, let alone locusts. "After you buy the locusts, ask the restaurant chef to fry or fry the locusts."

Liang Run thinks Zhao Yao's idea is good, but...

"Yao Yao, I believe you said locusts are edible, but will others believe it?"

"Second uncle, when you get to the north, you will spread the word that eating locusts can beautify your skin and strengthen your yang and kidneys. Someone will definitely buy it, and there will be many people buying it." Zhao Yao winked at Liang Run, "Especially emphasize that it can strengthen yang and strengthen the kidneys." kidney."

Liang Run instantly understood what Zhao Yao meant, with an ambiguous smile on his face. He gave a thumbs up to Zhao Yao, "Yao Yao, you are still the best."

"Hey hey hey..." Few men can resist the temptation of strengthening yang and kidneys. "Second uncle, I'm not afraid that no one will eat locusts by then."

"High, high, high. It's really high." Liang Run was more and more impressed by Zhao Yao's business methods. "I didn't expect that locusts could still make money. When I get to the north, I want to taste the taste of locusts."

"Second uncle, are you trying to..."

Seeing that Zhao Yao had misunderstood, Liang Run quickly explained: "No, I didn't. Don't think about it. I just heard you say that locusts are delicious, so I tasted them."

Zhao Yao had an expression of "I understand, just don't explain", "Second uncle, for safety reasons, we have to prepare food to prevent grain merchants from taking the opportunity to raise food prices." Over the years, Zhao Yao has been giving instructions to the Liang family Buy food. In fact, without Zhao Yao's orders, Liang Run and the others would buy food and store it just in case.

"it is good."

"By the way, I will ask my grandfather to send some ducks to the north."

"Why send ducks to the north?"

"Ducks eat locusts." Zhao Yao was worried that there were too many locusts, so he decided to send some more ducks to the north.

"Ducks actually eat locusts." Liang Run knew this for the first time.

"Eat it, locusts are a good thing for ducks and sparrows." Zhao Yao added, "The meat of ducks that eat locusts will be very delicious. After the ducks eat the locusts, they can also make roast duck, killing two birds with one stone." Influenced by people from the capital, northerners also like to eat roast duck.

"Then we can make a lot of money by then." Yaoyao is still good at business.

Zhao Yao gave Liang Run some more instructions before letting him leave. After he left, he quickly wrote to his grandfather and asked Prefect Liang to find ways to buy ducks. However, it is probably impossible to buy enough ducks for 100,000 ducks. We can only buy a few more.

After arranging everything, Zhao Yao's heavy mood felt better.

"Ugh."

Hearing Zhao Yao's sigh, Tongxi asked: "Your Highness, haven't you made arrangements to deal with the locusts? Why are you still sighing?"

"I'm worried that the King of Han will interfere with it." After Zhao Yao just finished speaking, he immediately took out a paper and pen and wrote to the King of Chu and the King of Wei, informing them of the impending locust plague in the north and asking them to keep an eye on the King of Han and not let the King of Han take advantage of the locust plague. Make small moves.

After writing the two letters, Zhao Yao asked the people from the secret guard camp to rush 800 miles to send them to the palaces of King Chu and King Wei. (End of chapter)