Wu Yuanqing, a wounded and sick man who devoted himself to raising poultry, was called to the palace, lying on a stretcher with a frown and a frown on his face, and Li Chengqian was heard by the emperor and queen. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"So, you raise chickens and ducks just to let them eat the locust eggs in the soil, so that the high-yield crops that will be planted in the future will not fall into the mouths of locusts," Li Shimin asked expressionlessly.

"Your Majesty Shengming, that's exactly the case" Wu Yuanqing slapped the emperor on the back at the right time.

Li Chengqian nodded on the side.

"Then you can feed in Sinong Temple and get rid of the locust eggs there, why do you raise so much in the Imperial Garden, look at what kind of disgusting it is to make the good Imperial Garden full of filth" Li Shimin said disgustedly.

Wu Yuanqing raised his forehead, thinking to himself that I didn't understand what I said just now, and after thinking about it carefully, he found that he really didn't say it clearly.

"Back to Your Majesty, locusts have wings, especially flying locusts, when that guy became an adult, his wings fluttered and flew everywhere. This palace is only separated by a wall from the imperial city, so if it is not too effective to eliminate the locust eggs in the field on the side of Sinong Temple, only the eggs in the inner garden with flowers and plants such as the imperial garden on the side of the palace can be eliminated, so as to reduce the loss of locusts to high-yield crops. Wu Yuanqing paused, thought for a while and said again: "Not only do you have to raise it now, but you have to raise it for a long time in the future, because other places in the city will also have locust eggs, which will give birth to locusts." Even locusts from outside the city may fly over the walls and invade the city. Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth and safe growth of high-yield crops, Your Majesty and the concubines in the palace need to endure for a while before the locust plague is over."

"If you want to raise until the locust plague is over, won't it take nearly half a year?" Empress Changsun couldn't help but lose her face when she thought that the palace would be ravaged by poultry for half a year.

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian were also confused, especially Li Chengqian, Wu Yuanqing told him that he would only raise them for a few days, and the locust eggs would end when they were eaten, and now he knew that Wu Yuanqing had lied to him by killing him this day.

Li Chengqian glared angrily, and Wu Yuanqing raised his head and smiled.

"Your Majesty, Niangniang, compared to the importance of high-yield crops to Datang, the minister feels that some chickens and ducks are still tolerable" Seeing that the family of three was disgusted, Wu Yuanqing smiled secretly in his heart, but said seriously.

Wu Yuanqing said so, what else can Li Shimin say, if he can't bear this little thing, how can he be a master of the ages.

Si Nong Temple Field.

Plough the ground and eat insect eggs.

After eating the eggs, they began to plow the land and sow seeds.

While Wu Yuanqing was methodically busy with spring plowing and sowing, other places were also busy with these things, the only difference was that they did not raise chickens and ducks to eat insect eggs.

Throughout Guanzhong, spring ploughing is in full swing, and all the farmers are looking forward to a good harvest in autumn.

As the days passed, everything was slowly growing, but it was a pity that the expensive spring rain did not come.

No matter how people pray for rain, God is reluctant to drop a drop.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the crops in the field are growing green shoots, but the soil is getting drier and drier, making the green shoots wilt a little.

There were some small bugs starting to pop around in the ground, not big, but a little too numerous.

A thick shadow was cast on everyone's hearts, and the price of food in Chang'an City began to rise silently. From one bucket to ten wen, it has risen to thirty-five wen, and it is still rising, the samurai's secret action of buying food has stopped, first, there are already a lot of purchases, and the rented treasury can not be put down, and secondly, after the initial period of eating alone, there are already many people who have joined the team to buy food.

There are the eldest grandson's family, the Fang family, the Du family, not to mention twenty or thirty high-ranking officials and nobles who are buying grain, and some of these people still have grain stores in their own homes, and they all sell grain, and now they don't sell them anymore, and they are closed and closed.

Although they are all bought secretly, the grain stock in Chang'an City is limited, and the supply exceeds demand, and the crazy growth of grain prices is not without the factors that these people secretly add fuel to the fire.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

At this time, Wang Lun and Prince Yu's brothers and sisters came to Chang'an, and there were many seven aunts and eight aunts who came with them, all of whom lived in the Huangmen Shilang, the prince's right concubine, and the Wang Si Mansion of the Duke of Yongning County.

And Wang Qi is a member of the Taiyuan Wang clan and the uncle of Wang Lun and Prince Yu's brothers and sisters.

As for the reason why the Wang family came to Chang'an, they came to get married.

The marriage partner is Wu Yuanqing and Wang Ziyu, and the marriage date of the two is two months later.

Normally, when getting married, the relatives are sent from the mother's family to the husband's family, but this Jinyang is too far away from Chang'an, and the Wang family can only come to Chang'an in advance to prepare.

The Wang family also has a house in Chang'an, but it can't be better than living in the clan uncle's house, the key is that this clan uncle is now the highest official position in the Wang family, and the acting servant is also a well-deserved prime minister.

And the group of people who followed the Wang family to Chang'an also included the grain transportation team of the Wu family, as well as Wei Xiaobao, who had not seen him for a long time.

When Wu Yuanqing left from Jinyang, Wei Xiaobao, who wanted to do business, stayed in Jinyang to help take care of Jinyang's affairs.

The two of them who haven't seen each other for a long time giggle when they see each other, you beat me and I'll kick you as a greeting gift.

After laughing, Wu Yuanqing got down to business: "It takes a few more times to finish the grain storage in Jinyang."

Wei Xiaobao's eyes widened, and he made a frightened and frightened look, and shouted loudly: "How many times do you have to finish pulling?" How dare you think about it. This time, it's all finished, okay, your family has secretly purchased a total of more than 200,000 stone grains, and all of them have been pulled over, so that Jinyang has run out of grain, and the price of grain has risen a lot."

"So fast?" Wu Yuanqing was greatly surprised, more than 200,000 stones is not a small amount, tens of millions of catties, according to a cart pulling 1,000 catties, it will take about 30,000 sorties.

"What do you think" Wei Xiaobao glanced at Wu Yuanqing and said: "In order to transport these grains, all the carriages that can be found around Jinyang have been found, as well as trolleys, I have staggered this arrangement, and I have led the team to Chang'an three times, not to mention the other people's sends, so that others still think that there is going to be a war, we are a grain transportation team." ”。

"Okay, good, I've worked hard for you, I'll give you a big meal in the evening," Wu Yuanqing said with a smile.

"Let's talk about big meals and big meals, I just want to know if Chang'an is so short of food now" Wei Xiaobao asked with a solemn face.

Although the emperor gave a gag order, Wu Yuanqing still told Wei Xiaobao, who was the biggest steward in Jinyang, so he asked this question.

"Short, very short, don't look at the amount of food we have gotten, enough for more than 200,000 people to drink gruel for a year, but you must know that this year's disaster will be affected by the entire Guanzhong and surrounding places, even Longyou, Jinyang These places will also be affected. Roughly speaking, the number of people affected is at least in the millions. I estimate that this year's grain is basically no harvest, and from this year to next year's autumn harvest, our grain is at most a drop in the bucket. ”。