In a corner of the Four Elephants District, in a corner surrounded by a group of guards.

Bai Yuqi and Li Shimin sat at a small table, watching the lively scene and toasting each other.

Li Shimin couldn't help but exclaim, this was obviously a big famine year for the locust plague, and their Tang monarchs and ministers were still worried to death before.

But I don't know what's going on, as soon as Emperor Wuji came out, the style of painting seemed to be different, and he was stunned to turn the barren year into a good year.

Not to mention anything else, the locusts that originally plagued the crops were transformed into such a delicious delicacy in the hands of Emperor Wuji, which is also too incomprehensible.

You must know that in order to solve the locust plague before, Li Shimin also played a scene of eating locusts raw in front of the people under the advice of his ministers, but he couldn't bear it at the time, but as soon as he turned around, he vomited and died, this thing is really not for people to eat!

"The so-called innate self must be useful, everything born in this heaven and earth has its own unique effect, so there is no useless thing in this world, only something that will not be used. ”

"Just like this flying locust, the world regards it as a disaster, but they don't know that it can not only be eaten, but also can refine a variety of rare ingredients for medicine, if it is not too rapid to break out, manpower can not extinguish, the harm to food crops is too great, easy to cause food shortage, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a treasure!"

Bai Yuqi raised his glass happily, touched it with Li Shimin, and said with a smile: "It's like this bamboo cup in your hands and me......"

Nowadays, the bamboo products produced in Kuyucheng have penetrated into almost all aspects of the lives of the people of the Tang Dynasty, such as furniture houses, ornaments and containers, vehicles and ships...... Almost all of them are made of bamboo.

Because I am worried that in Datang, it has begun to be called the two banks of the Yellow River, and the soil erosion is too serious.

Bai Yuqi has begun to pay attention to the protection of forest resources, and try not to cut down trees, but to choose fast-growing, high-yield bamboo for daily use.

The bamboo cup in the hands of the two is not made of natural bamboo tubes, but is reshaped by melting bamboo using [wood plastic].

Not only are there verdant bamboo skins inside and outside that are easy to clean, but also the carved dragons and phoenixes are all over the pattern, and the shape is very beautiful, extremely light and durable.

The only problem is that it is a little bigger, and the bamboo cup with the thickness of the bowl mouth is 2000ml, which is commonly known as "a bucket of wine" in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin, who was still a little unaccustomed to Bai Yuqi's "clinking glasses", curiously took a sip of the emerald green bamboo cup with a layer of dense foam floating in the clear yellow wine, but he couldn't help frowning, and said with a strange expression: "Shimin is taught!"

As Bai Yuqi's prestige grew, Li Shimin didn't dare to take advantage of the fact that he was a royal brother, and he tried to avoid his usual titles.

On formal occasions, the two mostly refer to each other as "Your Majesty and Emperor", but in private, they have a tacit understanding to directly call themselves by their names, so as not to be awkward.

"Your Majesty, this ale wine is heroic, and you can't taste the feelings in such a small sip!"

Bai Yuqi laughed, picked up the bamboo cup, paused for a moment, poured it down heroically, and said happily: "It's still a little early at this time, wait until midsummer, it's best to drink after chilling, the entrance is bitter, the throat is sweet, and the mouth is back to the cage and the halogen door, and the smoke of the seven orifices is hearty!"

The Tang people, who are accustomed to drinking sweet rice wine, just started drinking this bitter ale wine, which was basically Li Shimin's reaction, and when they got used to pondering the taste, they would become like the generals on the table behind them...... Good guy, you don't need to tie a cup, just hold the bamboo bucket of wine and dry it!

Speaking of this beer, it was a pure accident that it was brewed!

Bai Yuqi originally thought that there were no hops in Huaxia, but later in Sun Laodao's pharmacy, he found a kind of dried flowers that were specially used to treat abdominal distension, which looked like strings of snakes, and felt very familiar.

When I asked, I knew that this thing is called "Hubu", also called "hop flower, hop grass", which grows in the northern region of Shubei in China, and is born by climbing vines in the mountains.

I didn't associate this thing with hops.

But Bai Yuqi didn't know that he had seen it there, and "hops" could be used as natural yeast for winemaking.

Through a system search, I found out that "hops" are actually "hops", so they are also called "yeast flowers" or "hops".

Although the "Huahubu" and "hops" varieties are somewhat different, the effect is the same, but the buds are smaller.

Not only in the northern region of Sichuan and Shu, but also in the Turkic areas where I went this time, when the mercenaries demolished the tents of the Turks, they looted a lot.

Because I don't know what it is, I only know that the Turks will use it to make water as tea to treat indigestion, bloating and puffiness caused by eating beef and mutton all year round.

So the mercenaries thought it was some kind of rare medicinal material, so they sent it to the guild to see if they could exchange some points, but they were all collected by Bai Yuqi and brought back by the way.

Although food is scarce, making beer from barley is much more cost-effective than making liquor from rice...... The malt concentration of beer is only about 10%, and more water is enough.

So Bai Yuqi couldn't hold back for a while, and built a set of large-scale beer tank brewing equipment by himself, and experimentally brewed such a batch of beer, which was just used to hold a food festival.

When the locust plague passed, food was no longer so scarce, and barley and hops were grown on a large scale.

Bai Yuqi is confident that before finding crayfish, he will lead a popular trend of "eating flying shrimp and hamai wine" in Datang.

Judging from the situation of the "food festival", the process of promoting the consumption of locusts is smooth.

The people of Datang had almost no ability to resist, so they accepted the setting that locusts could be eaten.

According to the calculation that each person can consume five catties of locusts per day, the more than one million people in the Taiji Imperial Capital alone can consume 2,500 tons in a day!

According to the calculation of 100 locusts per catty, that is 500 million, how many locusts must be eliminated in this month, and how much food will be saved?

The only thing that makes Bai Yuqi feel a little worried is that if the people of Datang are always allowed to eat such high-protein things, will they eat fatty liver at that time?

But this is not too much of a problem, first eat the locust plague...... No, it should be the right thing to do by destroying the locust plague first.

After confirming that there was no problem with the locust consumption plan, Bai Yuqi smiled and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, do you want to go with me to exterminate the locusts?"

"Present...... Hiccup~~~~~~!"

Li Shimin learned from Bai Yuqi to pour beer, and as soon as he poured out the taste, he couldn't help but open his mouth in astonishment when he heard the words.

As a result, he didn't expect a mouth, and he couldn't hold his breath and burst out with a long wine burp, which made the old face of the Tang Emperor blush, and he laughed dryly before he finished speaking: "Now?"