The Great Grandson of the Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the slaughter of General Tiance's mans

Chapter 241: Next spring, expedition to Goguryeo

The delicacy of fried locusts has become popular throughout Henan Province in a short period of time, and is loved by many wealthy people.

Rich people lack nothing and have eaten everything. They just like to try something new, and locusts, a delicacy and snack, naturally satisfy the ideas of many rich people.

The most important thing is that the locusts even ate the sun, so they naturally wanted to give it a try.

So soon, many people who had not dared to catch locusts picked up the guy and went out. They began to search for locusts everywhere in the fields. After catching them, they sold them to rich people in the city, or ate them themselves.

Because locusts are considered meat after all, and they cost nothing. They are everywhere in the sky and on the earth. You can catch a lot of them casually, and it is easy to make.

People voluntarily go hunting for locusts, which is much more effective than calls from the government.

In the face of interests, screw the locust god. Making money to fill your stomach is the most important thing.

After the idea of ​​eating locusts as delicacies spread to other places that were not affected by locust plagues, people in other places were surprised.

Forget about catching locusts, but actually use them to cook food?
It is hard to imagine.

And the initiator of all this, the ordinary farmer, was also cleaning and preparing locusts caught during the day at home.

That day, after his fried locusts were liked by Madam Zhu's house, he made more the next day and brought them over. After the lady came to the house, she gave them to some of her friends, and then said this The snack spread among the upper class circles in Chongzhou City and quickly became popular.

And the man was officially hired as the chef of the Zhu Mansion yesterday, and he went there specifically to make delicacies using locusts.

"Daddy, daddy, I still want to eat, why don't you make me some more..."

The child came to the man's side and looked at the cleaned locusts eagerly and said.

"Qing'er, be good, dad prepared these for the adults in the Zhu Mansion. Dad has developed several new methods, and those adults will definitely like them."

"When dad makes money, can he buy you candy and a kite?"

The man touched his son's head and persuaded.

He couldn't bear to eat these locusts. Now many people throughout Chongzhou City were scrambling to catch locusts. There were fewer and fewer locusts in the fields and they were becoming more and more difficult to catch.

The kid nodded sensibly, then turned and ran away.

……

Since frying locusts, many chefs have been exploring more methods, and surprisingly, the dishes made with locusts are especially delicious!Once various eating methods were developed, they were loved by countless people!

At first, it was only sought after by people from Henan Province and other places, but the news about the deliciousness of locusts spread out at some point, and soon businessmen from other places came to places where locusts were infested to buy locusts!

That's right, it's an acquisition!
It is said that wine and meat in Zhumen stink, and bones are frozen to death on the road.Locusts, which are shunned by ordinary people, are just delicacies in the eyes of some extraordinary people.

Overall, though, it's a good thing.

No one expected that locusts would be so popular now, which is really a big surprise.

So far, locusts, which have been regarded as nightmares and disasters since ancient times, have simply transformed into the God of Wealth!
This is simply money flying in the sky!
More people's enthusiasm for catching locusts was aroused, and some people even made up for the loss of crops by selling locusts, and still had a slight surplus!
From the whole people fearing locusts, to the whole people hunting locusts, to the whole people eating locusts, this series of changes, if there really is a locust god, I am afraid he will be stunned.

Come on, this is a locust plague!One of the four major natural disasters!Can you give me some face? !
……

In this way, I don't know if it was the effect of Li Chengdao's words "man can conquer heaven" at the ceremony to worship heaven. The super drought that affected the entire Guanzhong area finally ended in the fifth month.

Not long after Li Chengdao's heaven-sacrifice ceremony, the land of Guanzhong, which had been dry for five consecutive months, finally received its first downpour.This heavy rain lasted for six full days, allowing the cracked land to be moistened, allowing the dry riverbed to flow again, and bringing tears to the eyes of countless people.

They have been waiting for this rain for too long.

Not only the drought, but the locust plague that has affected various places has also been repelled by the people rushing to hunt them down.

Wealth and silk moved people's hearts. After the people gave up their fear of the so-called locust god, they began to use all means to kill the locusts, so that the locust plague was extremely effectively contained, and it was not as rampant as before.

When early autumn came, the locust plague and drought came to an end, and the entire Tang Dynasty finally settled down.

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The palace, the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, this is the statistical list of losses caused by the disaster in various places. Please take a look at it."

Wei Zheng handed over a booklet, which was the statistics of the losses incurred by various places in this natural disaster, as well as the materials invested by the imperial court, as calculated by the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

However, after Li Chengdao took the booklet, he threw it directly on the table without even looking at it.

"It's okay if you don't look at this kind of thing. If you look at it, it will only make you annoyed. Just ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to take care of it. Autumn has arrived and winter is not far away. Are the food reserves sufficient?"

Li Chengdao asked, the food issue is his biggest concern now.

Wei Zheng was calm and replied truthfully: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that the Ministry of Household Affairs has made arrangements so that famine will not occur and people everywhere can survive this winter safely."

After receiving Wei Zheng's answer, Li Chengdao nodded with satisfaction.

"As soon as this winter is over, we will start the expedition against Goguryeo. Otherwise, it will be difficult to make up for the losses suffered by the court this year."

Li Chengdao sighed in his heart.

The losses caused by this year's locust plague and drought were so great that he didn't even need to look at the statistical books.

More than a quarter of the entire Tang Dynasty was affected by the disaster, and countless fertile fields were affected and no crops were harvested. In this case, the affected people were unable to pay taxes, and as the emperor, he had to temporarily exempt these people from paying taxes. Pay taxes to show benevolence.

It's one thing to see a big tax cut. In addition, the imperial court has massively adjusted grains to provide disaster relief, which consumes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.

Although a lot of food comes from the mouths of major aristocratic families, and it seems that they have no burden on the court, in fact, it is a debt of favor that is constantly being cut and messed up.

A drought made Li Chengdao owe a favor to aristocratic families of all sizes, and he would have to repay it in the future.

As for the losses in other areas, I will not list them one by one.

The only way to make up for the losses in a short time is to conquer another country through war and use their country's wealth to fill the treasury.

Goguryeo is undoubtedly the best target. Goguryeo is the overlord of the Northeast, with a rich country and powerful military. And because they have invaded the Tang Dynasty border, they can directly carry out conquests with a reputation.

"Wei Qing, let the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War make the best arrangements to launch an expedition to Goguryeo at the beginning of next spring!"

Li Chengdao looked away from the window and ordered Wei Zheng with a sharp look.

Wei Zheng's eyes lit up and he bowed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

(End of this chapter)