Sun Xiangfu's guards were all born in the government, although most of them had not seen Li Shimin at close range, but when they heard the self-proclaimed 'I', they immediately closed the image of the future and the Tang Emperor, and hurriedly bowed down and saluted, however, the body still did not let Li Shimin in.

"Why, you dare to stop me?"

Seeing that he had identified himself and the guards still didn't let go, Li Shimin's face changed, and at this time, the Qianniuwei soldiers led by Chang He also bullied forward, and if the situation was not right, they were ready to draw their swords at any time.

"Your Majesty, my lord and Daochang Li are studying a medicine for smallpox here, and before they entered, my lord ordered that no one should be allowed to enter unless they were cured, and if something happened to them, we must burn everything here and their bodies to ashes with a blazing fire."

"What? You're saying that they gave themselves smallpox in order to study the drug? Hearing Zhang Ke's explanation, Li Shimin was shocked.

"It should be!" Zhang Ke actually didn't understand why Sun Xiangfu would give himself such an order, since the emperor wanted to think so, Zhang Ke felt that it was also a good thing, and he would not hesitate to find medicine to prevent smallpox for the imperial court, how to say that it was also a great achievement!

Hearing this, Li Shimin seemed to have something knocked over in his heart, smallpox, that is an incurable disease, with that kid's greedy character and fear of death, shouldn't he hide far away? How dare he gamble his life?

"How long have they been in?" Li Shimin couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it anymore, and was even more worried about the result.

"It's been more than a day, but they have taken the food that has been thrown in every meal, and although they look sick, they are still alive."

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive, come here, go to Chang'an to pass the order, and transfer all the twists and turns here, before they come out, I will live here."

Hearing Zhang Ke say that he was still alive, Li Shimin suddenly felt a lot more relieved, with his order, the entire imperial court began to operate, and it didn't take long for Xiao Yu, Fang Xuanling and other ministers to rush to Xingfu Village, and Sun Xiangfu's house had been occupied by Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, there are many people in Happy Village, Sun Xiangfu has brought the plague over again, this place is no longer safe, since the war has ended, Your Majesty should return to the palace as soon as possible and preside over the overall situation." Entering the main house of Sun Xiangfu's house, Xiao Yu found that Li Shimin was sticking out his head to watch a little girl on the square table write, and he couldn't care so much, so he stepped forward to persuade him.

"Shhhh

As he spoke, Li Shimin pointed to Sun Xiaomei, who was writing.

At this time, Sun Deshou, who was carrying a bookbag, came in, bowed to Xiao Yu, Fang Xuanling and others very respectfully, and said to Sun Xiaomei in front of the table, "Little sister, have you calculated the grain, rice and vegetables consumed in the village canteen tomorrow?" ”

"It's been calculated a long time ago, according to the requirements of the eldest brother, each adult has a meal of three taels of rice, two taels of fish and meat, two taels of vegetables, 43,000 people, and needs 8,0062 catties of rice, 5,375 catties of fish and meat, and the same vegetables. The number of children is 17,000······"

A series of numbers crackled out of Sun Xiaomei's mouth, and Sun Deshou immediately recorded this set of numbers in a booklet in his schoolbag, and only after writing did he say, "Your Majesty, are the people you brought going to eat in the big canteen in our village?" ”

"Uh, yes." Li Shimin, who was watching the excitement, was suddenly questioned by this half-old child, and subconsciously nodded and replied.

"Can you tell me how many people you've brought? After we calculated, we could put rice and cook vegetables according to the head, and the eldest brother said that we can't put food on hot days, and only make just the right amount for one meal. Sun Xiangfu asked Li Shimin very politely.

"This, such a complicated number, can you calculate it clearly?" In fact, Li Shimin is not surprised by this, he has long known that Sun Fu uses algebraic symbols to calculate numbers very sharply, but Xiao Yu only returned to Chang'an in the second half of last year to serve as the prime minister, and he is usually busy with government affairs, so he pays little attention to this aspect.

"Hehe, there is a shortage of food in our happy village, in order to avoid waste, it will be distributed according to the amount, and those people can't eat us in vain, my eldest brother said, labor is not used, it will be invalid when it expires, and disaster relief is not for them to eat in vain. So, they eat our food and help us with the corresponding work. Sun Deshou explained with a smile.

"Labor is not used, and it is invalid when it expires?"

In just one sentence, Xiao Yu actually felt empowered.

In the past, whenever there was a catastrophe in the country, the court was blindly giving porridge, giving porridge, but I never thought that danger and opportunity coexisted, at this time, as long as the people were given a bite to eat, they would be willing to work for the court, repair the city wall, build the palace, open the mountain and dig the mausoleum and other major projects, they should choose this time to do, anyway, the food is also for those disaster victims to eat.

In normal years, if you let the people do these jobs and give food to the people, the people will also scold the emperor for not cherishing the people's power and not giving food, and the people will even more scold the emperor for being a tyrant without virtue.

"Yes! At first, we didn't know this truth, we wasted a lot of food in vain, but now it's different, these people will be sent out to catch locusts at night, two or three people in a group, raise a fire, you can catch several bags of locusts back, the eldest brother said that although the cake made of locust powder is not as delicious as fish fillet rice porridge, but the nutrition is not bad at all, let's reserve a lot, in the middle of winter, when there is a real shortage of food, and then take it out to help those who have no food to eat. ”

At present, most of these victims are tenant serfs who were released by the family gatekeeper, farmers who have fields to plant, and there is grain to eat at home, at least there is no problem before the autumn harvest, the real shortage of grain is from after the autumn harvest, midwinter is the most, and then, until the autumn harvest next year, there is no output in the fields, and a large amount of grain is needed for disaster relief, and from the middle of winter, the canal is frozen, perhaps even the road is blocked by heavy snow, even if there is grain in the southern prefectures and counties, it is difficult to transport it to Chang'an, at this time, It is the time of life and death for the people in Guanzhong.

If you want to deal with such a big problem, you must prepare early, and Happy Village is undoubtedly preparing now, and there is nothing else in Guanzhong at present, that is, there are many locusts, and more people are organized to catch more, even if people are not willing to eat, it is good to make feed for chickens, ducks, and fish.

"Hehe, this method of relief is used well, if it is calculated by two catties, the grain collected in your village is more than the relief is sent out, so that the victims can reserve food for themselves for the winter in advance." After figuring out the whole link, Xiao Yu, who is good at government affairs, smiled and said.

"If it weren't for His Majesty's previous order to prohibit the killing of locusts, the eldest brother would have ordered to spend money to buy locusts, and the eldest brother said, no matter how many locusts there are, they can't stand being eaten, and if everyone eats it, we people in the Tang Dynasty can eat it as a protected animal in minutes." Sun Deshou learned from Sun Xiangfu's appearance when he said this.

"Minutes? What is a protected animal? ”

Li Shimin, who had been watching the conversation between Xiao Yu and Sun Deshou, couldn't help but ask.

"Well, the minute, it's a unique way of keeping time in our farm, an hour, exactly one hundred and twenty minutes, that, protected animals, that is, animals that are about to become extinct." Sun Deshou told several people the answers he had gotten from Sun Xiangfu before.

"Do people eat locusts to extinction?" Several ministers, like Li Shimin, have an old avenue with their chins open.

"It's not impossible, but the eldest brother once told us a story about a biological chain, saying that all living things in the world are part of the biological chain, especially insects, and it is better not to become extinct.

For example, the mosquito in this summer, don't look at it sucking blood, it also has the effect of spreading plant pollen, those melons and fruits by the river grow well, but it may not be the reason for the lack of water, because there are many mosquitoes by the river, so, where the melons and fruits are pollinated is very sufficient, if the mosquitoes are extinct, many plants that are not easy to pollinate naturally will be greatly reduced, and eventually extinct, when there are more types of extinct plants, other organisms will also be affected, and eventually lead to the extinction of one after another······"

Well, Sun Deshou's problem is that he is a good teacher, he talks a lot, and the ministers who are stunned when he talks about the topic of a biological chain are stunned, and they no longer chase him to ask questions, but what he said is not false at all, people are the most domineering animals in the world, think about the crayfish that flooded in the eighties and nineties in the future! The people of the whole country began to eat it, but within a few years, they could only rely on a large number of artificial breeding to supply the market, and the price went all the way up.

After a long time, Li Shimin waved his hand at everyone and said, "Everyone, Aiqing, come with me to see what kind of strange things live in this happy village." ”

Soon, Li Shimin came to a big house behind the happy village house, the first thing he saw was the workshop responsible for grinding locust powder, there is a mode of operation of the food supervision department, that is, a very small number of people can command most of the ordinary people, these ordinary people who can't, all only need to complete a very simple process, and the whole production is completed.

The washed and dried locusts are first ground into powder here, and then they are sifted out by the female workers with a sieve to sift out the hard shells, tentacle dregs, and so on, and finally some powder that is coarser than flour is obtained, which is compacted, beaten into fixed packages, and sealed up, and what is difficult for people to eat will be added to the chicken feed and stored in a large warehouse row behind the commune, where a lot of this customized package of locust powder has been stored.

"I've heard for a long time that this locust can be eaten, but can it be finished well? Bring out some and give me a taste. Li Shimin summoned a farmer who was in charge at the scene.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is a large canteen in the public house, and those who have eaten the rationed food and still feel hungry can go to the window to get a piece or two of steamed locust flour cakes."

The farmer who was recruited by Li Shimin is called Lu Xiaojun, only about ten years old, Lu Quanyou's son, and one of the first students to learn knowledge with Sun Xiangfu. If it seems to outsiders, this is disrespectful to the decree, and there is no king and no father, but Li Shimin, who knows a little about the content of the agricultural sect, knows that the peasant sect teaches all agricultural knowledge, but he does not teach the Confucian principle of treating the king as his father.

Yes, he just smiled and led the ministers towards the window of the big cafeteria.

The fragrance of fish fillet porridge can be smelled from afar, and it is rare that in each bowl of porridge, there are a large number of Chinese cabbage planted in Happy Village last winter, and then all made into jars, as well as a lot of bean sprouts that are now found to grow.

In Datang, not to mention the victims, it is a normal year, and it is difficult for ordinary peasant women to eat with fish fillets and vegetables, this is a disaster year, how dare Xingfu Village give tens of thousands of victims such a good meal?

After looking at the treasury of Happy Village, Li Shimin and the ministers understood, Happy Village had already prepared, last year they planted one more crop than others, and most of the things that were planted were stored by them, thinking of this stubble, Li Shimin suddenly remembered that his Huangzhuang should also have a lot of harvest, he went to Yu Xiu'er last year. I just don't know if it's all as well stocked as Happy Village, if so, then in the most difficult moment in the future, he has a lot of things that can be released to help the victims.

After seeing the tip of the iceberg of Happy Village, Li Shimin realized the importance of preparing in advance, and began to think about the system of the imperial court. If you can do all the work in advance, then when facing problems, will it be easier and more effective to deal with them?