Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Yu Shinan was still not persuaded, and asked: "Then dare to ask Mr. Xiao, the great locust plagues in previous years must be accompanied by great famine, so why did the common people eat locusts? According to Mr. Xiao, the common people should not be extremely hungry for everything. eat?"

Xiao Yu was at a loss for words because he suddenly realized that he had neglected one thing.

That is, in the eyes of ordinary people, the plague of locusts is the punishment of God's wrath, and it is also an unclean thing. Many people would rather starve to death than dare to touch it. It may affect the eighteenth generation of the ancestors and the descendants of future generations. Sun cursed locust.

It can only be said that the superstition of this era is to a level that is completely unimaginable in modern times. In addition, the more poverty and hardship, the more people pin their hopes and spirit on gods and Buddhas, and naturally they will not touch locusts.

It is precisely because of this that the great famine has happened so many times in history, and no one has ever discovered that the accompanying locusts can be eaten to satisfy hunger!

"This king understands what Master Yu means, and what Master Xiao thinks," Li You said at this time, "According to this king, firstly, the common people's idea that locusts should not be eaten is deeply ingrained, and secondly, it is because common people This happens when we don't know how to handle locusts."

Yu Shinan nodded his head, while Xiao Yu frowned deeply.

"Then, the best way to solve this problem is to let everyone in the world know that locusts can be eaten before the great famine... or even the great locust plague!"

Li You paused and said with a smile: "Then, I think it's better than this - this king will go back and hold a locust feast, and the dishes are all kinds of locusts, and then the adults will come to the feast to eat. locust."

"And this locust feast, I will let Datang Daily report on this matter, so it is equivalent to setting an example for the whole world!"

Chapter 548 What are you laughing at? You are the same (Chapter [-])

When everyone heard the words, their faces became bitter.

Even if they praise Li You's noble sentiments for daring to eat locusts, it's one thing to praise others, and it's another thing to eat them yourself. If they really want to eat locusts, they are still psychologically unacceptable.

Although every official knew very well, Li You's method was indeed very effective.

As long as every ordinary person can see the news through the Datang Daily, which is spread all over the world, it can indeed let them know that locusts can be eaten-after all, even the dignitaries dare to eat them, so what are we ordinary people afraid of?

And ordinary people yearn for the life of the dignitaries and nobles. When they see them eating locusts, it may even spark a trend and make ordinary people rush to imitate this behavior.

"Yang Jie is right," Li Shimin was very happy to see it, with a tone of schadenfreude, "As the court officials, you really have to set an example for the world, and Yang Jie dares to eat so much. What? Is it better than a child?"

This said, everyone's face turned black. Indeed, it was as if their courage and awareness were not as good as that of a young man from His Royal Highness King Chu, and it was very humiliating.

——Although Li You's performance has always been so unbelievable, basically everyone forgot that Li You was just a teenager.

However, Li Shimin's tone really made them uncomfortable.

Li You squinted at Li Shimin, and said: "Father, as the Lord of the Tang Dynasty, of course you had better come to participate, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty ate the locusts himself, that must be more convincing than anything else. ."

Li Shimin stopped smiling.

Li Shimin was silent.

On the contrary, the rest of the civil and military officials were secretly happy: "What are you laughing at, you have to come and eat locusts...!"

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In the end, His Majesty Tang Taizong, who was full of consciousness, decided to set an example for the world and come to eat Li You's locust feast.

It's not that Li Shimin is hypocritical or pretentious, but ordinary people will instinctively feel extremely disgusted when they see the worm's ferocious appearance.

Even if they accidentally step on or smash bugs, many people will feel disgusted and go to clean them like crazy, let alone put them in their mouths and eat them!

Coupled with the various bad legends before the locust... It can be said that this is extremely courageous.

It's not that Li You says they can eat it, so they can eat it. It has nothing to do with trust. Just like in modern society, many people in the Celestial Dynasty know that people in Africa actually eat insects, such as making mosquito cakes.

But even if they know that it is really edible, how many people are willing to resist nausea and disgust and eat this mosquito cake?

Therefore, before this, Li Shimin was always in the mood of "Even if I, Li Shimin, starve to death, die outside, and jump from here, I will never eat you a little locust."

After all, even in the event of a great famine, it would not affect Li Shimin's meals. Historically, when emperors encountered great famines, they would take Manchu civil and military officials and many people from Guanzhong to take refuge.

So normally, Li Shimin doesn't need to eat locusts all his life.

However, since Li You had already run on it like this, and the officials and officials were staring at him with no good intentions, Li Shimin had no choice but to take the lead to taste the locusts.

Like Li Shimin, the civil servants and military generals who came to the Chu palace for a banquet basically came to eat locusts with a heroic and self-sacrificing mentality.

Such a group of dignitaries who seem to be going to the execution ground are still constantly self-adjusting their mentality until they are seated.

"It's okay, isn't it just locusts? It's not poisonous!"

"Even His Royal Highness the King of Chu ate it safe and sound, what should I be afraid of?"

"This is regarded as a payment to the people of the world!"

After their psychological comfort, they still felt that it was not enough, and they chatted with each other like brothers and sisters.

"You also have to come to eat this locust feast because of your face?"

"Yeah, otherwise wouldn't it look like I'm timid and selfish? It's really impossible..."

"Hey... As soon as I think of this, I admire His Royal Highness King Chu. How did you say it before?"

"Me too, I can't imagine that locusts can be delicious! When I imagine what locusts look like on a dinner plate, I feel terrible!"

Amidst all the sighs, Chef Li You appeared in person.

To be honest, in this court, he was really the first person to eat locusts, but he just ate it after the next court.

Since Li You has the skills of a chef, he is a master chef himself. Of course, he must try his own work first.

Li You, who grew up in modern society, has a smaller psychological barrier than Li Shimin. They immediately asked people to catch locusts and made several dishes to try.

The result is that Li You is very satisfied, especially after the current iron comes out, Li You can create a good iron pot, and develop cooking methods such as cooking that the Tang Dynasty did not have. Eat burst clothes!