The locusts were all used as animal feed after the addition of bran and alfalfa, and it was surprising to find that the animals that ate the locust feed were particularly fat.

Sun Heding said: "The teacher said as early as in "Removing Locusts": Chongzhen Xinsi, Jiahu Dry Locust, the people of the people catch locusts and feed ducks, ducks are very easy to fat, and people and pigs in the mountains can not buy food, try to feed them with locusts, the pigs weigh 20 catties at the beginning, and they are fattened to more than 50 catties in ten days. If people can eat it, birds and beasts have no reason to oppose it. Locusts can be used for pigs and ducks are no wonder, and it is feared that it will not stop there, and it will be specially expressed. It shows that raising livestock with locusts is indeed a wonderful method, which can turn harm into benefit~~"

When Sun Heding said this, he reminded Song Youliang that he could make the purchased locusts into animal feed and sell them. As a result, the killing of locusts in the Hai Duong area has become a means for the victims to make a living in the famine years. For a time, locusts piled up in Haiyang City, but very few people actually bought this kind of feed.

Immediately afterwards, Song Youliang arranged for Gu Yushan and others to stay in the pasture for ten days, so that they could see with their own eyes how many catties of meat the livestock fed the locusts had in ten days. As a result, Gu Yushan and the others were surprised and had to admire Song Youliang, saying that he was a bit of a golden finger that turned stone into gold. When people saw locusts burning incense and kowtowing, they were helpless. And Song Youliang can even use locusts to make money, he is really a strange person who has never been heard of for eternity.

After seeing that it was profitable, Gu Yushan and other chamber of commerce shopkeepers actively contacted ships and manpower to help Song Youliang make locust feed and sell it to all parties. Later, Zhao Lianli and Xia Minghao also joined in, and even Song Guozheng, the commander of Da Songwei, joined the locust industry chain.

Naturally, it was impossible for such a big action to pass through Jinyiwei's eyes, and on the third day when Song Youliang began to buy locusts, a secret report of Jinyiwei had already appeared on the imperial case of Emperor Chongzhen's breakfast.

After lunch on this day, Chongzhen came to Concubine Tian's palace again, with a smile on his face that he hadn't seen for a long time.

"What's wrong with the emperor today, what happy event did you encounter, so happy?" Concubine Tian personally made a cup of tea for Chongzhen

Chongzhen smiled and said nothing, and gently put the secret report of Jinyiwei on the garden table with the Su embroidery table stall, "Aifei read it herself~~"

With a snort, Concubine Tian, who read the secret report, couldn't help laughing, "This little Qianhu really can think of anything and do everything~" Since Jinyiwei began to closely monitor Haiyang, a tabloid every day and a big newspaper on the fifth day, what happened in Haiyang has been continuously sent into Chongzhen's ears. And Chongzhen likes to share his joys, sorrows and sorrows with the favored Concubine Tian, so he understands what the little thousand households in Haiyang have been making trouble recently, and it has become the spice of Concubine Tian's lonely palace life

After laughing, Concubine Tian folded the secret report again and respectfully put it back in Chongzhen's hand, "Your Majesty, it's just that locusts are heavenly insects, but they can't be caught, this Song Youliang acts like this~~~ The concubine is afraid~"

"Afraid of what?" Chongzhen said disdainfully: "Could it be that Concubine Ai also thinks that I don't cultivate virtue and politics, so that the sky will bring disasters?" ”

Concubine Tian hurriedly knelt down in panic, "The concubine doesn't dare, but the concubine is afraid that the little thousand households will make trouble, in case they annoy the heavens and bring greater disasters, then the people of Shandong will suffer~"

"I have sinned against myself many times~ How can I reflect? I have been conscientious since I ascended the throne, but there are rogues inside, there are Donglu outside, and part-time natural disasters continue ~~" Chongzhen held his forehead in distress

Concubine Tian knew that she had aroused Chongzhen's worries again, and she felt guilty, she stepped forward to hug Chongzhen's head, trying to relieve the pressure for him with warmth

When Song Youliang's locust business was booming, an unexpected guest arrived. This person is the confidant prince Lin Wang Tongzhi, the confidant of Chen Guoying, the governor of Dengzhou Prefecture. Along the way, the tun houses are connected by flat roads, and the wheat fields beside the road are continuous, and many chickens and ducks can be seen foraging back and forth in the continuous wheat fields. Men and women who walked out of the hut were wearing new clothes, all with rosy faces and satisfied smiles. Although their lips were a little chapped due to lack of water, like the farmers in Dengzhou and other places in Shandong, Wang Tongzhi did not see the same locusts everywhere as elsewhere. Instead of leaving their homes and burning incense and praying, the people, men, women, and children carried locusts in various containers to thousands of households, and brought a pitiful amount of water from ditches and wells, and dropped it drop by drop to the roots of the crops. These scenes, compared to the fact that there are many displaced people near Dengzhou Mansion, are lifeless, and they are really like two worlds.

On the way here, Wang Tongzhi saw an endless stream of refugees with children walking slowly in the direction of Haiyang, their faces were full of longing, and even comforted each other, saying that as long as they arrived in Haiyang, they would have a way to live

"Can this Song Youliang really turn stones into gold?" Wang Tongzhi shook his head, "I actually sold locusts to make money, and he could figure it out~~" Wang Tongzhi smiled, "There are really people who want to buy it~"

The carriage was running fast and steady on the newly paved road, and Wang Tongzhi saw a few soldiers standing at the gate of the tun hut through the window. They were stout, wearing brand-new fat jackets, and although they were holding knives in their hands, they were shining with cold light, and they looked at everyone who walked in front of them with serious expressions.

Wang Tongzhi used to pass by the Haiyang Thousand Households when he was transporting grain and wages, and compared with now, it is simply a place where birds don't. "It's really thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, it's less than three years~" Wang Tongzhi said to himself: "If all my Ming officials have the ability to have this thousand households, then why do I have today?" ”

There are many hawkers gathered around several tun huts, forming a small market, vegetables, cloth, charcoal, tea, rice wine, and people dressed as farmers, carrying local products such as green vegetables, garlic, green onions, leeks and squatting on the side of chowder noodle stalls, mutton bone stalls, and fruit stalls. The vendors of all kinds shouted, one louder than the other

"We're at the boundary of Dengzhou Mansion, right?" Wang Tongzhi asked the followers around him

"Lord Hui, it's in Dengzhou Mansion, Haiyang Thousand Households in Wendeng County~~" replied

"But I remember that my Dengzhou Mansion is in drought and locust plague~~" Wang Tongzhi frowned, "But you see here~~ The fields are full of dealers, and there is such a lively market~~"

The chagrin smiled: "My lord, I heard that this Haiyang's Qianhu was seriously injured the year before last and almost died, and then he didn't die, and then he began to toss and turn, and he actually tossed such a big name~~"

"Toss?" Wang Tongzhi snorted coldly, "Can you toss out of this situation?" ”

The errand knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he quickly kept silent

Soon, the carriage arrived outside Hai Duong City. I saw many masons dressed as men shoveling the old mud from the city walls and replacing them with loose bricks. The circumference of the city of Haiyang Thousand Households is 971 zhang, two zhang and four feet high, and there are four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest. The city was built on a hillside slope high in the northwest and low in the southeast according to the topography. The city wall is rectangular in the east-west shape, and the east-west street and the south street in the city are still the avenues leading to the east-west gate and the south gate in the past. After hundreds of years of glory and war, the walls of Hai Duong City are mottled, some places are covered with moss, and some corners have obvious collapses, and it is long overdue to repair. However, the imperial court has always been too lazy to repair, and the successive Haiyang Qianhu really have no money to repair. Nowadays, Hai Duong can make a profit of 140,000 taels just by trading grain and salt every year, so the plan to repair the city is once again on the agenda. So Song Youliang ordered a batch of bricks one and a half feet long, 8 inches wide and 5 inches thick from a nearby brick kiln, and now they are being transported to Haiyang City in a steady stream.