"Master Hou, it's... Actually, it's nothing! Sending away the elated Li Chengqian, Zhao Chen had just come in from outside, and he saw Mu Qiu, who had always been taciturn, squirming and pinching, looking at Zhao Chen and speaking.

In the past few days, since the emperor called on everyone to eat locusts, almost no one has been broken in Zhao Chen's mansion, including Cheng Yanjin and Li Ji.

The wingmen can eat insects and ants, so they all wanted to borrow a few people from Zhao Chen to go over and eliminate their locusts, but they were all rejected by Zhao Chen.

In the past, as long as these people put it forward, basically, Zhao Chen would not refuse, but in this matter, Zhao Chen was quite resolute!

As he said to Li Chengqian earlier, these bureaucrats, who abandoned their families and children from Lingnan, followed him to Chang'an, and never complained.

If he just lent it out like an item, it would be really hurtful!

"It's okay!" Zhao Chen knew Mu Qiu's thoughts, but he was worried that this would make Cheng Yanjin and the others unhappy, so he smiled at Mu Qiu and said, "It's just a little locust, have you forgotten your identity as a marquis?" ”

"Hey, hey!" As soon as Zhao Chen's words came out, Mu Qiu's dark face suddenly showed a slight doubt, but then he reacted, looked at Zhao Chen, scratched his head vigorously, and cracked his mouth and laughed.

"That's right!" Zhao Chen saw that Mu Qiu was smirking, and suddenly seemed to remember something, looked at Mu Qiu and said, "Speaking of eating locusts, in a few days, you really have to eat them!" ”

"It's okay Hou Ye!" Mu Qiu, who had just been smirking, immediately patted his chest as soon as he heard Zhao Chen's words. looked like he was going to go to the soup anytime and anywhere, looked at Zhao Chen and said, "You just have to arrange it!" ”

"Arrange something!" Zhao Chen saw Muqiu's appearance as soon as he saw it. smiled helplessly, and suddenly lowered his voice at Mu Qiu and said, "It's just one or two days." The prince's side will arrange a locust eating contest in the entire Guanzhong, and whoever eats more will be rewarded! ”

"Reward for eating locusts?" Mu Qiu stared at Zhao Chen with a look of great incomprehension, this thing is usually used to satisfy their hunger.

When their own Hou Ye didn't come to Lingnan at that time, they couldn't catch a pot of locusts, but now it's good, Chang'an City is full of locusts. Forget about eating fat, and if you eat too much, you will be rewarded!

"So!" Zhao Chen stretched out his hand and patted Mu Qiu's shoulder and said, "If this kind of thing happens, then don't miss it, if you take the reward, you can just ask for a beautiful woman!" ”

Muqiu is not small, and it is time to ask for a daughter-in-law, hearing Zhao Chen's seductive words, Muqiu's dark face suddenly reflected a layer of light in the sun.

When Zhao Chen turned around and went to the back house. The wooden mound standing there suddenly rushed out of the Hou Mansion like a gust of wind and went straight to the old mansion of the Zhao Mansion.

The Tang people are stupid. Eating locusts can still give money, where to find such a good thing!

Just as Zhao Chen just said to Muqiu. The attention he gave Li Chengqian was to hold a locust eating competition. Anyway, Li Chengqian has money, and he takes out some of it. It's nothing at all.

Moreover, as a person of later generations, Zhao Chen can know too well how terrible this kind of thing is that the whole people actively participate in.

If it really provokes the enthusiasm of the people, the effect is much greater than Li Er's eating locusts in the Taiji Palace.

With Li Chengqian's major reward attraction, it will inevitably cause a new round of locust eating climax in Guanzhong, if the operation is good, then the audition, semi-finals, finals or something, after a series of sets, how many locusts are enough to eat?

"Locust contest?" At this time, in a pavilion in the Taiji Palace, Li Er, who was accompanying his eldest grandson to enjoy the cool, listened to Li Chengqian's explanation of his latest plan, and suddenly leaned back in the chair, shook his legs slightly, and frowned slightly.

"How could Qian'er come up with such a method?" The eldest grandson beside Li Er, listening to Li Chengqian's grand plan, 1510 and 1510, was slightly stunned, and immediately covered his mouth and looked at Li Chengqian with a smile and asked.

As soon as the eldest grandson said this, the person sitting there Li Er couldn't help but let out a chuckle of 'hey', but he didn't say a word.

And when his eyes fell on Li Chengqian, he saw Li Chengqian, smiled awkwardly at the eldest grandson, and said: "The child doesn't dare to deceive the queen mother, this... This method was heard by the child from the Marquis of Chang'an! ”

"This kind of method has never been heard of in ancient times, and Chang'an Hou can think of it!" Li Chengqian's voice fell, and the eldest grandson's face showed a little disappointment, but Li Er on the side looked indifferent, as if he had already guessed that it would be so.

"What does Father think?" Hearing Li Er's words, Li Chengqian didn't feel embarrassed, it was like this, but he was more concerned about whether his father agreed with him to do this.

"That's a good idea!" Li Er changed to a more comfortable position, sat there and shook his legs, heard Li Chengqian's words, groaned slightly, and said: "At such a moment, being able to stir up the enthusiasm of the people is a way to go too far, and you can't try it!" ”

Agreed!

As Li Er's words came out, Li Chengqian, who was still a little apprehensive, suddenly put it back in his stomach, as long as his father agreed, it meant that he would no longer have to eat those nausea locusts.

"I'm a little curious about why this kid always comes up with so many strange methods!" Watching Li Chengqian leave happily, Li Er lay on the chair, looked at the eldest grandson beside him, and said with a slight frown.

"What is the second brother curious!" The eldest grandson on the side, hearing Li Er's words, chuckled slightly, looked at Li Er and said: "That kid's mentor is an immortal, there is such a teacher, what kind of outrageous method that kid comes up with, the concubine is not curious!" ”

"Ha, Guanyin can think about it!" When Li Er heard this, he suddenly got up from his chair, came to the white jade fence of the pavilion with his hands in his hands, looked at the dazzling Xihai in the sun, and said in a deep voice: "I sometimes suspect that this kid is not a person in this world at all!" ”

"Second brother, how can you have such an idea..."When the eldest grandson heard Li Er's words, the expression on his face couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and he even covered his mouth and looked at Li Er and laughed.

"Maybe I'm thinking too much!" When Li Er said such words, he also felt a little ridiculous, and when he turned around, he looked at the eldest grandson and smiled.

Li Chengqian's style of doing things is roughly similar to Li Erxiang, they are all urgent, as long as they decide something, they will not delay for a moment.

When Li Er agreed, as soon as Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace, he immediately gathered his subordinates of the East Palace and started the plan of the locust competition, and in less than half a day, the plan took shape.

Subsequently, it was printed in the newspaper overnight, and the next day, the fast riders of the post station, carrying the newspaper that still exuded the fragrance of ink, rushed to the 27 prefectures of Guanzhong.

The first locust eating contest in Datang quickly spread in Guanzhong in such an atmosphere!

As Li Er said, such a thing is really unheard of, and when the newspaper was sent to the state capitals, it really made the assassins in the state capitals stunned for a long time.

Eating locusts? Race?

The most important thing is that this set, no matter how you look at it, is like entering Beijing to catch the exam!

Along with the newspaper, there was also a supplement signed by Li Chengqian, which clearly stated that the local government yamen would first supervise and select the local outstanding locust eaters, and finally the local government would send them to Chang'an.

Finally, in Chang'an, select the best among them!

Moreover, what surprised the state officials everywhere was the locust eating competition led by the prince, and the final prize was quite rich.

Money, real estate and even a ploughing cow, there is no limit to the number of people in the competition, there is no limit to the identity, the only requirement is that you can eat it!

No matter how ridiculous the local officials think such a so-called competition is, since it is led by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, there is nothing to shirk and hesitate.

And he commanded the scribes to take a copy of the original copy, and to stand at the door of the government as before, and read it to the people.

As a result, the craze for eating locusts just now has not gone down, and then there is a craze for eating locusts in Guanzhong!

And just when Guanzhong once again set off a craze for eating locusts, a fast horse, galloping from Heluo, entered Chang'an City along the official road, and after a while, the fast horse entered the palace.

On the afternoon of the day when the fast horse entered the palace, on the dock of Chang'an, a speedboat had just stopped, and a dusty man jumped down from the speedboat.

And half an hour later, this middle-aged man appeared in the front hall of the Hou Mansion, stood respectfully in front of Zhao Chen, and handed over a secret letter to Zhao Chen.

This is a secret letter from Lingnan, Zhao Chen took the secret letter from the hands of the middle-aged man, checked the fire paint on it, and after confirming that it was in good condition, he ordered Zhang Lu to take people down to rest, but he opened the secret letter in the front hall.

This secret letter was written by Ma Zhou, Zhao Chen unfolded the letter, and when he looked at the content on it, his face began to turn black little by little, the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and his eyes were filled with murderous aura a little bit.

And when he finished reading the content of the entire letter, Zhao Chen, who saw it, slammed the letter on the table, and almost shouted: "Feng Ang is really damned!" (To be continued.) )