Chapter 28: The Locust Plague Arrives
The plan in Zhang Gao's hand, which was written by Li Chengqian in the past few days, actually doesn't have much to do.
It is to write some precautions such as product confidentiality, and some suggestions on sales in the future, and their market positioning, as well as a management system for these people.
But it was these things that Zhang Gao was very excited to see, as if he had won a treasure.
But if Li Chengqian tells him that these are some furs, that is, he has seen too much and knows a little, he will not know anything if he is really powerful, and he doesn't know what kind of expression Zhang Gao will have.
But these Zhang Gao are destined not to be known in this life.
And now Li Chengqian, after coming out of there, took Xiao Anzi and those guards to walk slowly on the road, and Li Chengqian poked his head out of the carriage from time to time, like a curious baby.
"Xiao Anzi, what's going on with the crowd in front, you go and see" Just when Li Chengqian stopped and walked and came to Mingde Gate to prepare to go back, he saw a large group of ragged people, standing there and being stopped by the soldiers of the city guard, Li Chengqian hurriedly ordered Xiao Anzi to take a look.
Xiao Anzi, who got the order, immediately ran like that group of people, and hurried back to tell Li Chengqian after inquiring about what was going on.
It turned out that these people were farmers from other counties in Guanzhong, and they thought that they had been plagued by locusts, so they left their hometowns and wanted to come to Chang'an to make a living.
Li Chengqian, who knew the reason, got down from the carriage and looked at the people in front of him, Li Chengqian was full of emotion in his heart, and he was glad that he had crossed and possessed the prince of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would encounter such a natural disaster and possess the peasants, and now he will work hard like them to eat and survive.
It's not like now, you don't have to take care of what you eat, and you don't even have to think about how to eat and drink well, and you don't have to use leaves and toilet chips like them do when you go to the toilet.
This is the height that determines his different life.
"Wait, what the hell am I sighing, locust plague, doesn't that mean, there are grasshoppers everywhere now, that's a good thing" As a person who grew up in the south of the colorful in his previous life, how could he not be tempted by hearing about this delicious delicacy of grasshoppers.
You must know that in that era, if you wanted to eat grasshoppers, you had to go to the market to buy them, and they were expensive and expensive.
And he has always said on the Internet that Guangdong eats everything, that is always a view, saying that Cantonese people eat everything, then he must not have been to the south of Caiyun, if he has been, then he will not say such a thing, after all, eating all kinds of wild animals is the lowest, eating flowers, grass, and insects is the best choice.
The fried grasshoppers, bamboo insects, bee pupa, cold bracken, Houttuynia cordata leaves, stir-fried wild vegetables and black horse leaves, all kinds of fried or cold edible flowers, and all kinds of wild mushrooms, is to think about Li Chengqian's saliva to stay.
"Xiao Anzi, you go and ask if there are any locusts in the vicinity, you go and get some nets for this king," Li Chengqian finished instructing, and after Xiao Anzi and a guard, he sat in the carriage and waited.
As for the refugees in front of him, that's not his responsibility, he can't take care of it, it's all his emperor's father and those ministers of the court, what he is thinking about now is how to catch more grasshoppers and go back.
Soon Xiao Anzi and the Naming guard, who went out to run errands, came back, but the guard didn't find the net bag, so he brought back a few sacks.
Li Chengqian didn't care so much, and asked the guards to make many small openings in the sack and took them to the place where Xiao Anzi inquired.
When I arrived at the place, I watched the live locusts wreaking havoc in the lush millet fields in front of me, and there were many villagers burning incense and praying next to them.
Li Chengqian didn't care about them, and directly asked the guards to catch them with sacks, but those guards were stunned when they heard that they were asked to catch locusts, after all, in their thinking, locusts can't be caught, otherwise God will punish them.
And Xiao Anzi is also thinking about how to persuade his master.
But Li Chengqian didn't care about this, seeing that those guards didn't move, Li Chengqian didn't blame them, and explained to them tomorrow that he would go directly to catch locusts after taking a sack.
And when they saw Li Chengqian going to catch locusts, the villagers who had been praying next to him were startled and wanted to stop them, but when they saw Li Chengqian's clothes and the guards around him, they didn't dare to step forward, so they could only whisper, "This is the son of that family, why is he so ignorant, if this is angering the locust god, what can I do?"
And Li Chengqian was really happily catching locusts at this time, and he found that those locusts were not afraid of people at all, they could catch them with their hands, and the sack he brought had completely become an ornament.
After a while, Li Chengqian caught a small bag of locusts, almost 2 catties, and then he walked back satisfied, threw the bag containing locusts into the carriage, and Li Chengqian beckoned Xiao Anzi, who was stunned, and they quickly set off to go back.
Hearing Li Chengqian's words, those already numb guards set off with a heavy heart, because this incident came too suddenly, and when they reacted, Li Chengqian had already caught a small bag of locusts and came back, and now they all knew that after they went back, they would all bear the monstrous anger from the Tang Emperor, just because they didn't stop Li Chengqian in time.
"There are so many locusts, it should be enough to eat several times, not bad, not bad, when you finish eating, you are coming to catch it" Looking at his harvest, Li Chengqian showed a satisfied smile.
And outside the carriage, Xiao Anzi and the coachman heard Li Chengqian's words, and they all said in their hearts, "You are the devil"
When he returned to the East Palace, Li Chengqian went directly to the kitchen with his loot.
"Liu Hai, hurry up and ask someone to boil the pot of soup for this king" Li Chengqian shouted loudly before he arrived in the kitchen, at this time he did not have the etiquette that a prince should have.
Hearing Li Chengqian's shout, Liu Hai hurriedly boiled water according to Li Chengqian's instructions.
While waiting for the water to boil, Li Chengqian asked Liu Hai to take out the chili noodles that he asked him to keep carefully.
"Bangs, you haven't touched this thing, if there is a little less in it, this king can't beat you" took the chili noodles that Liu Hai carefully handed over, opened it and checked it to see if there was anything missing, and turned into a joke with the bangs.
"Your Highness, I don't dare to eat the bear's heart and leopard's guts," but the frightened bangs of this joke knelt directly in front of Li Chengqian.
"Alright, I know you don't dare, get up! Bring the salt and peppercorn noodles to the king, and the king is useful" Seeing that Liu Hai was scared like that, Li Chengqian, who felt bored, quickly asked him to get up, and asked him to bring the refined salt that he had re-filtered and boiled before.
After all, the salt they used before was some coarse salt that contained a lot of impurities, and Li Chengqian, who was afraid of eating too much, would hang up, so he re-got these coarse salts by himself, but these were only the bangs who helped on the side, Xia Ju knew, and Li Chengqian also asked them not to say it.