Zhizhang Datang

Chapter 264
After getting the right words from Li Shimin, Lin Sen went back and arranged for people to spread the news everywhere, saying that the Lin family had started buying locusts, as long as they were drowned in water and dried in the sun.

At the beginning, the price must have been relatively low, and a tentative price of one penny per catty was given.But for those desperate people who have been plagued by locusts, this little money is tantamount to giving charcoal in the snow.

Originally, the field could not produce anything this year, and it might even be damaged next year, but now the pest itself can be sold for money, even if it is less, it is better than losing everything.

Some free people heard that this thing can be sold for money, and spontaneously ran to catch this thing, because the money is almost like picking it up for nothing.

Although this thing is not very heavy on the scale, and the specific gravity is lower after drying, but in the field where the locust plague is serious, if you use one net to catch at least two or three catties of locusts, how much effort does it take to catch this net? If you throw it in the water, you will be drowned. If you throw it aside to dry, you can continue to make up the next net.

There are two or three nets coming in rotation, so the efficiency is not good. In one day, the income is several times higher than that of going out to work. The enthusiasm is very high.

The several purchase points opened by the Lin family are surrounded by people who sell locusts every day, and the money is spent like water, but Lin Sen doesn't mean to be too nervous, after all, he has a plan in mind.

The other familiar Wu Xun's families, like Cheng's and Qin's, basically bought them without asking any questions, and the price was the same as Lin Sen's.

It's not that they want to compete with Lin Sen, on the contrary, it's because of their trust in Lin Sen and the friendship between the two parties, they don't hesitate to help.

When they didn't know what these locusts were for, they shot without hesitation, which showed how much they valued and supported Lin Sen.

In fact, they all had similar ideas to Li Shimin, thinking that Lin Sen still wanted to help solve the locust plague, and this method could indeed mobilize more people's enthusiasm to help eliminate the locusts.

Even those farmers who were originally desperate because they were doomed to have no harvest have rekindled their fighting spirit. It can be seen that this method is very effective in fighting locust plagues alone.

After seeing this sign, the royal caravan, which was instructed by Li Shimin, quickly joined the team to buy dried locusts.

I really started to make this thing, and everyone realized that although the people who came to deliver the locusts looked turbulent, and there were actually a lot of big and small bags, but this thing was just a bluff, and the real expenditure was not expected so exaggerated.

Pulling a cart of this thing can’t exchange many copper coins, and a bolt of silk can’t be exchanged for how many carts of locusts. Even if the money is thrown away purely as a good deed, no one will feel so distressed. So simply open up the acquisition every day.

The only thing that makes me scratch my head is that there are so many dried locusts, I don't know where to put them.

With so many people catching locusts together, people gradually discovered that the locusts did not mean that they were really endless. The swarm of locusts that had covered the sky and the sun were obviously becoming more and more sparse.

In the past, there were always two or three catties harvested in one net, but slowly, only one or two catties could be harvested. Later, it was a bit difficult to even reach one catty at a time.

The desperate farmers are slowly starting to rekindle their confidence. As long as this momentum continues, the locust plague is expected to be wiped out this year.

As for Lin Sen's enemies, the gang of family members stopped temporarily and didn't bother Lin Sen anymore, but it didn't delay them from keeping an eye on Lin Sen's movements.

The purchase of locusts has caused such a big commotion. It can be said that people are collecting them everywhere, and those who go down to the fields are from those who are familiar with Lin Sen. Later, the royal family also participated. How could they not know.

Although they don't know what Lin Sen means, and they can't see any benefits in it at the moment, but Lin Sen has always been a master who doesn't suffer. Yes, we also start to collect.

Even if you can't get any benefits, it's worth taking a shot just because of the gratitude of the people to the group of people who bought the locusts.

Their reputation has not been very good recently, and the reputation they relied on the most has also been greatly discounted.

Although Li Shimin didn't intend to slap them to death, because of the reputation of the Cui family's stinky street, they have been reviled a lot, and now is a good time to redeem it.

As for the life and death of the people, they actually don't care too much. Of course, what they value more is their own interests.

It's just that things backfired a bit, and the public had different evaluations of their acquisition.

The heartfelt gratitude to Lin Sen and the others at that time was a lot of praise from the emperor, but when it came to the family members of the aristocratic family, it became a bait for fame.

Some people think that these aristocratic family members saw the interests behind them, so they came here to make a cross. Why didn't you see you earlier.

Although these people are actually right in scolding, but the family members of the family still feel very depressed. They have already spent money, but they can't even get a good one. It's strange not to feel aggrieved.

But since it has already started, wouldn't it make them feel more guilty if the anticlimactic end at this time, is it really as those people scolded.

Therefore, even if their purchase point looks a bit bleak and empty, they still have to bite the bullet and support the stall.

Against this background, with everyone regaining confidence, Li Shimin took a group of important officials to the most severely affected field and started inspection work.

As recorded in history, when Li Shimin saw locusts on the seedlings, he simply caught a few locusts in his hands, and then cursed: "The people regard food as their wealth and life, and you eat it, this is bad for the people." harmful.

If the people are guilty, all those crimes will be placed on me.If you really have a spirit, you can eat my heart and stop harming the people. "

Just as Li Shimin was about to swallow it, the people around hurried up to persuade him, saying: "I'm afraid you'll get sick if you eat it! Don't eat it!"

Li Shimin said: "I really hope that it will transfer the disaster to the people to me alone! Even if I am sick, I will never escape!", and immediately swallowed the locusts.

When the other important ministers saw it, the emperor swallowed it all, so let's not be vague, let's eat it.

But before they started to help catch the insects, a waiter came up with trays of locusts.

Alright, I can't even think about water skiing now, so let's eat honestly.Then the expressions of these important ministers became wonderful.

Fang Xuanling and the others, as well as Cheng Yaojin and his gang of Li Shimin's confidantes, exchanged winks. Although they didn't speak, their eyes conveyed similar meanings.

"Hehe, the taste is pretty good, what's yours?"

"I'm salt and pepper, what about you?"

"I'm spicy."

"I'm cumin-flavored."

"Do you want another one?"

"It's pretty good."

Hob knife meat like Cheng Yaojin never knew politeness, so he grabbed another handful from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth.

Well, chicken flavor, crunchy, delicious!

Those who came from aristocratic families were different. What they ate were the original dried locusts, and what they received was the same as it is now.

For those who are unlucky, they may not be too dry, chewing like a pimp, and inevitably have a strange taste.

You can imagine the expressions on these people's faces after they ate it.

Seeing Cheng Yaojin chewing intoxicatedly, some people couldn't help but turned their heads and vomited with a "wow".

　This section of Li Shimin's inspection is a direct translation of the record about this matter in "Zhenguan Political Leaders", so it may seem a bit strange, I hope everyone understands.

　　Today is the first day of the twelfth lunar month, and there is one month before the Chinese New Year. Time flies so fast.Thinking about it, this seems to be the third year I have spent in codewords. When you watched the Spring Festival Gala twice before, I was still struggling to codewords. I just don’t know what this year will be like...

　　Who told the author to have no holidays, the earth does not explode, we do not have holidays!The universe does not restart, we do not rest!We are waiting for you here in the wind, rain and festivals. There are no four seasons, only two seasons. If you look at it, it is the peak season, and if you change books, it is the off-season!

　　
　
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