"Three years of ploughing, there is a year's accumulation. Nine years of ploughing, there are three years of storage. There is no perfect plan in the world, but preparing in advance and preparing in advance will also be very effective, and a lot of disasters will be alleviated at that time", Zhen Qian carefully reminded Fujiwara Shuxiong.

As long as it is a disaster year, not only the landlord's family will hoard grain, I am afraid that even officials will take the opportunity to hoard grain, who will be kind enough to sell grain at this time!

People's hearts are like this, if the imperial court does not use strong measures to control grain prices at this time, there is no need to think about the consequences at all, there are too many interests involved, and if there is no courage, it will not be able to do disaster relief at all.

Now there are not many people who can clearly think of the locust plague after the great drought, followed by the famine, which is not to say that the people of this era are not smart, but because the news of this era is closed, and the poor harvest in one place cannot become a disaster year, and the extent to which the locust plague can spread is not something that the small people can guess.

Usually after the occurrence of the incident, when there is a crowd effect, the people will realize it later, and then form a disaster year to panic and rush food.

In normal years, the people grow grain and pay taxes, and they also pay taxes in kind, such as planting wheat to pay wheat, planting beans to pay beans, and the salaries paid by officials are also food, which is completely different from the people in later generations who use money to pay taxes, and the salaries of officials are all paper money, so ancient officials and people also have a lot of grain in their homes.

Of course, the imperial court also had many grain depots, and in good years, they collected a little more grain, and sold some grain in disaster years to stabilize grain prices and control the market grain.

However, in fact, this is often not the case, taking Hizen country as an example, in a normal year, there should be three years of grain in the grain depot of Hizen country, and at the lowest time, there should be one year's grain stockpile. Hizen has a population of more than 250,000 koku, and according to the calculation of three koku of grain per person a year, it should be 780,000 koku of grain, but now the grain in the warehouse of Hizen is less than 200,000 koku, which is why Fujiwara Shuo wanted to buy 150,000 koku of grain when he first met Kibi Shinbei.

Fujiwara also knows the importance of storing grain, not that he is unwilling to save grain, but that he has no money in his hands.

After the three of them had eaten, Ji Bei really wanted to go to the field to have a look, and Zhen Qian did not stop him, so he took the two to the ridge behind the village.

Ten cents in exchange for a pound of dried locusts, or a pound of grain, this price is a big profit in Zhen Qian's opinion.

But for ordinary people, catching some locusts is not a technical job, and they don't even need the capital, but now is the time of farming, and beating children on rainy days: idle is idle, and if you can catch one, it is counted as one, and now that the weather is good, catch the locusts and put them in the water, and then put them in front of the house and behind the house to dry, and you can exchange them for food and money when you get Zhen Qian's money, and take Zhen Qian's money, and scold Zhen Qian's people for being stupid and pretending to be too much.

Locust catching is something that can be done from seventy or eighty-year-old people to three or four-year-old naughty children.

Dried locusts are more expensive, but ordinary people have their own little abacus in their hearts, for fear that they will catch the locusts and go back to dry Zhen Qian, and then they will regret it, taking advantage of Zhen Qian's lack of repentance, after catching the locusts, they will take it to Zhen Qian to sell, and they are not willing to spend time drying dried locusts.

The people of Saga Town knew that Zhen Qian was stupid and had a lot of money, and thought that Zhen Qian was doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, and even privately discussed whether Zhen Qian had destroyed the conscience of the Akiba family.

"Ten catties of fresh locusts are less than four taels, just calculate it according to ten catties, do you want money or food?"

On the ridge of the field, there were many people standing under the big trees, and several guards dressed as Japanese people watched as someone weighed the locusts and asked the villagers.

"Exchange money!"

The villager replied honestly, thinking that there were not many copper coins at home, and he couldn't exchange food for the cloth he wanted.

"The locusts that have not been dried are five cents a pound, and ten pounds of fresh locusts are exchanged for fifty Kaiyuan Tongbao!"

"Fifty Wen! All right! All right! ”

The villager felt that he had made a lot of money, a family of four or five people earned fifty yuan in one morning, although the weather was a little hot, but he was afraid of the heat? I thought to myself, two days ago, I heard that someone in Akiba Village exchanged money for locusts, and I didn't believe it at first, but today I caught some and came over to try my luck, but I didn't expect that there was such a good thing.

There are several large boxes at the feet of the guards, and the lid of the box has long been opened, revealing the yellow and clear copper coins inside, all of which are full of Kaiyuan Tongbao, which are completely different from some evil money circulating in the market, and the villagers are like mirrors in their hearts.

Some Japanese guards counted the copper coins and handed them to the villagers, and did not forget to instruct: next time I come to bring more locusts, in fact, fresh locusts are not valuable, there are many places to dry at home, after drying, the price can be doubled?

Why does it sound so plausible to the villagers who were waiting to sell the locusts to start their hearts come to life? Look at the villagers who have already sold locusts with money in their hands, although their faces are excited, they can hardly hide their frustration, they have suffered a loss, and they have lost half of their income!

Locusts can really be exchanged for money!

I was stupid in my heart, this Zhen Qian from the Tang Dynasty was really stupid and had a lot of money, and he even wanted worthless locusts, but he didn't know what else he wanted.

The copper coins jingled in their hands, and the villagers stuffed the money into their small pockets one by one, and they didn't forget to take a moment, the sound of the copper coins colliding was really pleasant, and they grinned and left satisfied.

"Next!"

Immediately, a villager came up with a bag full of locusts.

The villagers who had already sold the locusts did not stop for a moment under the tree, but hurried out, preparing to put the money home first, eat some food, and then summon all the people in the house to go to the fields to catch locusts and sell them.

Zhen Qian, who had just walked over with Kibi Zhenbei and Fujiwara Shuxiong, saw all this, with a warm smile on his face, as if he was a fortune boy.

"That's fine!" Fujiwara Shuxiong blinked his eyes and looked at the villagers selling locusts, and he didn't realize that Zhen Qian was pretending, because the ground on the side was already full of locusts, and there were already more than a dozen carts.

"Absolutely! Locusts are really a good thing, it is the best feed from heaven, grind the locusts into powder, and then add some grass seeds and bran, etc., it is the best food for chickens, ducks, pigs and cattle, and use such feed to raise livestock, livestock grow faster and better, and the egg production is high, this account is cost-effective! ”