In the afternoon of the same day, Tang Ju went to find several literate and hyphenated people to come back, otherwise he would definitely be exhausted to death if so many people signed up tomorrow, and he also found two account rooms to come back to keep accounts, and in the afternoon, many people began to send locusts to the county office.

Since Su Bai took office, the county government seems to have lost its majesty, and now everyone is not scared at all when they enter the county government. Tang Ju felt that this would be detrimental to his majesty, so he informed the people that starting tomorrow, the place where the locusts would be collected would be changed to the Dongshan cement workshop, because the large warehouse there was ready-made, and there would be a place to place the locusts after they were collected.

Early the next morning, the people who came to sign up had already lined up in a long line, originally Su Bai thought that there would be men, women and children, but it turned out that they were all strong young men, and after asking, they understood that these simple people didn't want to take advantage of Su Bai, and felt that women and the elderly were slow to work, so wasn't that just pit Su Baiqian

A sentence to Su Bai said a little tears, the people smiled and said, "My mother-in-law, father, mother and children are all outside to catch locusts, I have already caught many young and old when I came to sign up in the morning, they catch locusts at home every day to earn money, I come to work, and I also earn money, thanks to you, adult."

Su Bai waved his hand again and again, he didn't do anything, he just couldn't bear to watch people sell their sons and daughters, he just wanted to help as many people as he could, and he believed that everyone who grew up under the red flag was like this.

When he was a child, he lived in an orphanage, there were more than 30 orphans, eating, drinking, Lazar, education, etc. were all in charge of the old dean, and the most common sentence on the old dean's lips was that the important thing for being a human being is kindness, which is the most important thing for a human being.

Usually more than 30 orphans are counting on government relief funds to live, one day if you are lucky, there will be some volunteers who come to donate some food, then it can be counted as the New Year, Su Bai once asked the old dean when he grew up, why did he do this If there is no oil bottle like Su Bai and them, I feel that the old dean should not be as tired as now.

The old dean didn't answer him, he just touched his head and said that he would know when he grew up, dean, am I now an adult

Shouted a few subordinates, and asked them to bring the notices written in the morning to all the villages in Juxian County to post them, and told all the squires that Su Bai is now collecting locusts, how many there are, and there is still grain for sale, but the strong young men in the village who have a limit of grain according to the number of people can also go to Juxian to work, and now there are many people in Juxian County

As soon as the front foot of the ministry arrived at the place and posted the notice, Li Zheng came behind him with the whole village and told them to take it away, and they would come back in the evening. In this way, the ministry brought many people back to build roads.

The people's thirst for money is very high, and even the usually playful bear children are seriously catching grasshoppers. The grasshoppers that could be seen everywhere in the field suddenly decreased by more than half in less than two days

Regardless of the county seat or the village, the whole county has set off a wave of catching grasshoppers, only the people of the cattle village are not very happy, the reason is that Wang Xing's chickens have eliminated the grasshoppers, and the people in the village have to walk the mountain road that is not close to the grasshopper in order to catch the grasshoppers.

There are many people and great strength, and in less than two days, the Dongshan warehouse was loaded with one-third, and there were too many grasshoppers to dry them, so they could only be dried, and then some women were hired to grind them into powder and use them to feed the pigs later.

Today, half of the people in Chang'an came to the front of Suzaku Street, looking at the city tower, they all heard the news, saying that His Majesty will worship the heavens here today, and pray to the heavens for the locust plague to leave. Although most of the people in Chang'an have some net worth, in the face of the locust plague, who doesn't want to be safe, they all want to see how His Majesty the Emperor sacrifices to the sky. More people have never seen the emperor again, and this time they came simply to see the excitement.

"Here it is, here it is"

"That's it"

"Nonsense except Your Majesty, who dares to wear bright yellow to find death"

Li Shimin led the military generals behind him to the city tower, and the crowd was dense at the moment, and the patients with dense phobia were afraid that they could die directly at a glance

Li Shimin has been fighting horses all his life, his physical fitness is naturally very good, and his voice is loud: "The people have been plagued with locusts for seven days, and the crops in the field have been eaten up, this is all my sin, and the locust gods and people take food as their heaven, and the people rely on the crops in the ground to live, and you will eat all the crops, that is to eat the lives of the people, since you want to eat the crops, then come and eat my stomach first."

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he reached out and grabbed a live locust in front of his eyes and threw it in his mouth, chewing half of his face turned green, but so many people saw it, how could they not spit it out, otherwise it would be a shame to lose people

"Your Majesty may not"

"Your Majesty"

Behind him, all the civil ministers and generals screamed, and the people in the city were all stunned, what did Your Majesty do just now Eat locusts, this, Your Majesty is not crazy, the locusts will die after eating

"Your Majesty, this kind of thing, let me do it for you" A yellow-faced man also reached out to grab a locust, and was about to send it to his mouth, Li Shimin grabbed his hand and said, "Uncle Bao, this locust plague is all my sin, how can you take me to suffer", this sentence moved the generals behind him a lot. Li Shimin said secretly, I finally swallowed it, you are still stealing the limelight with me

The people below all fell to their knees, these people had experienced the Sui and Tang wars, and it could be said that they were used to seeing life and death, but they had never seen an emperor who acted like this. Hundreds of people knelt on the ground and wept incessantly, perhaps crying about the locust plague, or perhaps rejoicing that there was such an emperor.

Li Shimin looked at the people with tears in his eyes and said, "People, this locust plague has only been here for seven days, and it has destroyed this year's crops, and the poor have even sold their sons and daughters, which is my sin."

"Don't blame Your Majesty," hundreds of people shouted, spreading the sound of Chang'an in half of the city

"The people are all my sins"

"Don't blame Your Majesty" and then spread half the city

Li Shimin waved his hand and said: "I want to take the money from the treasury out and redeem all those children and redeem the food of the people, I have prepared in advance, and this year's taxes will be all exempted, and the people are willing to join me to defeat this natural disaster and defeat this locust plague."

Before the people could reply, the generals behind them had already knelt on the ground, and they all cried bitterly and said, "My subordinates are willing to follow Your Majesty to destroy the natural disasters and destroy the locust plague."

The people below also shouted in unison, "Willing, willing to defeat the natural disaster, defeat the locust plague"

Li Shimin coughed lightly and said, "The people can catch locusts and send them to Ju County, where I have already arranged for five catties of locusts to be sold for a penny." Now the people were in an uproar, this locust can be sold for money, and this locust everywhere is copper money everywhere

There was an uproar, the people were completely boiling, just this locust everywhere, there is no problem for one person to catch thirty or forty catties a day, and the family of three is more than twenty yuan enough to buy grain, and then Li Shimin announced another news, this news is not friendly to businessmen, there is only one, this year's grain is not allowed to increase in price, but it can be limited

For a while, all the people on Suzaku Street went crazy, except for saying a long live Your Majesty, as if they had lost their ability to speak other languages.

When Su Bai heard the news, it was already two days later, and there were several truckloads of locusts that came with the news, Su Bai was dumbfounded, what was the situation, even locusts from other counties were sent here, so can he use the money

Frightened, Su Bai hurriedly asked Wang Lang and Wang Chao to go to Chengfu and Liaozhai, withdraw all his money these days, and finally go to Steward Wang to tell him about cement, and now spending money every day is like running water.

As soon as the people heard that even His Majesty had eaten locusts, they had no reverence for locusts. Su Bai told them that this locust was fried in oil, which was called a fragrant, and the people were willing to use so much oil, so they roasted it with fire and ate it, not to mention, it was crunchy and chicken-like

Su Bai instructed, now the full sale and purchase of piglets, it is still within a month, now there is so much feed, you can't dry it, don't wait for the pig farm to expand the scale, while expanding the first batch of pigs, now it is a hundred catties, and it can be killed if it is raised for three or two months.

Because of Li Shimin's will not to raise the price of grain, Li Shimin's status is now extremely respected in the hearts of the people, and if anyone dares to say a bad word about Li Shimin at this time, I am afraid that people will drown with spit.

Of course, there must be some people who say bad things about him, that is, when the group of grain merchants saw that there was a locust plague in the great drought before, they even hoarded these grains with money, but now Li Shimin has made a decree that they can only sell according to the normal quantity and price, and they must also sell more at one time according to the capitation. This is to kill them, and they originally planned to make a national fortune, but now that they look at it, they are thankful that they can keep it

No one among these people pities them, no matter what dynasty they are in, the most hateful thing is these people who make a fortune, they can't wait to exchange a stone of rice for a building, and force the people to sell their sons and daughters and fields, and as soon as the locust plague passes, the people will find that for the sake of those two mouthfuls of food, they can sell everything they can and can't sell cleanly.

The locusts that can't be counted every day are close to Ju County, and a lot of copper coins are flowing out, Su Bai is also a little distressed when he sees it, and he writes several letters to the emperor and folds them, the above meaning is probably that; I am the county magistrate of Ju County, and I originally only planned to take care of Ju County, but now I let you do this, my budget is a little insufficient, and I urgently need your support, Mo Da

As more and more people came to Ju County to sell locusts, the name of Wang Chouniu spread farther and farther

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