Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Shen Bihua's heart lit up again rarely, and patted the table beside him. This time, the legs of the table sank three feet again.

Shen Bihua was originally a person who was very good at nourishing qi, but when it happened to Li You, everything went wrong. He felt that Li You was impeccable.

"I have to change the table again this time..."

Seeing this, Li Tai swallowed. The table from the last time had already been shot directly into the ground by Shen Bihua. This table is almost like this now.

It's just that Li Tai is just as melancholy as Shen Bihua, why is it all over before he has time to do anything! ?

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With the passage of time, the large locust plague has completely broken out across the country.

Although the common people have been fully mobilized to catch locusts, and there are also effective methods of catching locusts, the government has accumulated more and more locusts, and the locust swarm has also decreased a lot, which is quite effective.

However, these actions have still failed to prevent the arrival of the great famine, because in the locust wave, even the giant locust locust appeared!

This is an incomparably powerful guy. It can be called the largest species of locusts in the world. There is no one. Any large locust plague with locust guides is devastating!

Although the locusts have been extinct in modern times, they are still active in the Tang Dynasty. Just look at the terrifying body shape that is almost the size of a baby's arm to understand the terrifying lethality of the locusts.

Because they are too large, they are less likely to be stunned by smoke, which means that the current method of catching locusts is completely ineffective for locusts.

Moreover, the locusts not only eat the grains, they are so hungry that they even eat the bodies of humans and animals, which is extremely terrifying!

Chapter 582 The Great Famine!Catastrophe! (fifth more)

The sound guide locust has another alias, called the sword-armored locust.

This is because the rear feet of the locust are sharply serrated, and the frequency of the wings is extremely high, so the place where the locust passes by is like a sharp blade rotating at a high speed.

If you hit someone, you can immediately draw a bloody hole!

Therefore, although the locust locusts will not directly eat living people, it is different from the ordinary locust plague. If a person is accidentally drowned by the locust plague with the locust locust, it will really kill people!

It is precisely because of this that although the people of the Tang Dynasty resisted vigorously, the great famine was still coming step by step.

In the second half of the ninth year of Zhenguan, a great famine broke out!

The crops were completely eaten up, there was no grass everywhere, and the people were in panic all day long.

Under such circumstances, the most terrifying thing is that there will be a wave of refugees and a large number of dead people.

In addition to eating grass roots and bark, the people have nothing to eat.

There are still many people who can't even find grass roots and bark, because they have been dug up and eaten up by others. They are so hungry that they can only eat Guanyin soil and grass seeds!

As soon as they talked about this situation, Li Shimin and Wei Zheng looked at the sumptuous meal in front of them and felt that it was hard to swallow.

"Hurry up and eat it, or it won't taste good when it's cold."

Only Li You was still eating and seemed to be unaffected at all, and everyone else looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

"His Royal Highness Chu's mentality is really good. As long as I think of the people who are almost running out of food, and I am eating here, I feel a strong sense of guilt."

Xiao Yu said with a wry smile, his words had no irony, but just expressed his feelings.

"There's nothing to feel guilty about," Li You put down his chopsticks and said indifferently, "Now that the great famine has come, all we can do is to do our best to secure our destiny."

"In this regard, I have done my best to protect the people of the Tang Dynasty, and I have done everything I can to protect the people of the Tang Dynasty. Then this king has a clear conscience, and I don't have to treat myself badly when it's time to eat and drink well."

"That makes sense," Fang Xuanling had a strange expression mixed with a sigh and a smile, "It's just that His Royal Highness the King of Chu used to be young, and he may not have any impression of the previous great famine, but in our opinion, it is a deadly purpose. thing."

Li You waved his hand and said, "This king naturally knows, and there are even tragedies of cannibalism in some places. Even if you don't eat people, eating some Guanyin soil and grass seeds is also terrible."

Although the name of this Guanyin soil sounds good, it is a very deadly thing, without any nutrition, after eating it can only be a little full, it can't delay people's footsteps of starvation, and even make them even more pain.

The worst thing is that Guanyin soil is not only indigestible, but also cannot be excreted. In the end, all the Guanyin soil accumulates in the stomach, causing the stomach to look bigger and bigger, and the person who eats Guanyin soil will also die in pain.

And grass seeds are even more terrifying.

The so-called grass seeds are plants that grow everywhere in the countryside. They have yellow leaves and thick stems.

Victims who are really hungry will go and chop down the grass, then pick off the small grass seeds on it little by little, then rub the skins with their hands and put them in the pot to cook, at least they are more like food. a little.

Hearing what Li You said, everyone present showed a very scared expression on their faces.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu knows very well, especially the grass seeds, which are much more terrifying than the Guanyin soil." Wei Zheng said with a reminiscence look, "The grass seeds can be boiled into a kind of porridge, which looks like the King of Chu. His Highness sold the same instant noodles before, but in fact..."

Li You twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "Don't take my instant noodles as an example... As long as the grass seed porridge is a little cold, it will be as tough as the tendons, and it will not be chewed at all, and it is delicious and filling. The instant noodles are far from good.”

Wei Zheng smiled and said, "It's true, although the grass seeds can last a few days after eating them, but that's just adding to the pain. Grass seeds, like Guanyin soil, are indigestible and can only be bitten hard one by one. Come down and vomit at the end!"

As soon as it came to this point, Li Shimin and the others lost their appetites.

Because this grass seed cannot be excreted like Guanyin soil, if it is not vomited quickly after a long time, it will start to swell, and eventually the person will swell to death!

The worst thing is that some people are so hungry that they drank all the grass seed porridge while it was still hot. This is a typical suicide behavior, and they can't even save it.

As soon as the grass seed porridge that has not solidified is drunk, it will solidify in the stomach, and then mixed with other grass roots and bark, it will be directly blocked in the intestines. !

363 "The most despairing thing is that the people have experienced countless famines. Everyone knows that eating Guanyin soil and grass seed porridge will kill you, but you still eat them one after another, just for the comfort of that little satiety!"

Li Shimin let out a long sigh and could see his fists clenched, clearly angry at the inability to do anything about the past famine.

In the great famine in previous years, even the emperor fled with the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty. Just like the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty, they were caught by surprise when they encountered a catastrophe. As a result, they could only run away in a hurry. Embarrassed.

Even Li Yuan has done this kind of thing, so it is so painful for Li Shimin to recall it.