Before dawn is the darkest hour, as long as you get through this darkest period, you will soon be able to see the dawn, but the darkest hour at this moment is not visible to Datang, it only stays in the darkest.

There were two soldiers guarding the tower of the Mingde Gate, and they stood face to face at both ends, and as the night deepened, and as the voice of the husband disappeared, the two of them were sleepy from the spirit of the first post, so they sat down and leaned against the city wall to take a nap, and soon they fell asleep.

I don't know how long later, a sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, waking up the two, and before the two could react, the sound of horses' hooves was close to their ears, and then a hurried sound came.

"Red Feather Urgent! Open the gates! ”

One of them reacted relatively quickly, his eyes fell on the iron horse that was galloping, and when he saw the red red feather, the whole person immediately sobered up, and opened the city gate without hesitation.

"It's so dangerous, fortunately, you reacted quickly, if you open the city gate late and delay the emergency report, you and I will have to move." Another soldier who reacted was sweating.

"It seems that there is a big event happening in the imperial court, and we have to lift our spirits in the future, otherwise it will be difficult to save our lives."

Boss Li of the Ganlu Hall was asleep, and was having a sweet dream, and the dream was about to end, but he was pulled back by a rapid emergency report.

"Someone!"

"The minions are here." A yellow door attendant rushed in, stood outside the side hall, and bowed to the side.

"Who's coming? Why is there such an urgent report? ”

"I heard the messenger say that Tongguan is coming."

"There has been no war in Tongguan recently, how can there be any report, and it is still so urgent for eight hundred miles." The eldest grandson got dressed and got up, and put on a large number of dragon robes for Li Lao.

Boss Li frowned, and said in a deep voice, "What's the urgency?"

The waiter in the Yellow Gate hurriedly handed over the fold and retreated, Boss Li opened the seal and took out the fold and read it quickly, his eyebrows shrank deeper and deeper, and he sat on the bed as decadently as if he had been hit, and the eldest grandson saw him like this, and took the fold suspiciously and browsed it, his face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but cry out.

"Tongguan locust plague?! It turns out that there is really a locust plague, and what Lin Fan said is not false! ”

Boss Li let out a long sigh and sighed for a long time: "Lin Fan is really a strange talent, he has predicted locust plagues since he was a young pest, and this kind of talent is unparalleled in the world."

The eldest grandson nodded, and suddenly thought of something The whole person became relaxed, rubbed Boss Li's shoulder and said with a smile: "Fortunately, Your Majesty has long been prepared to let the harem reduce expenses and store more surplus grain, and now these surplus grains have finally come in handy."

Boss Li smiled and said, "I call this far-sightedness."

A letter of the report followed, the horses arrived in the capital one by one, the map of Tongguan, Fufeng, Huaxian, Fengxiang, Jingyang, Sanyuan, Qishan, Zhou Zhi, and then to Chencang The entire pass is planted with a yellow disaster flag, locusts cover the sky and the sun, where they pass, the crops are gone, at this time the eldest grandson can't laugh, Li Boss can't laugh either, he now regrets saying the far-sighted words proudly when the Tongguan good news, and now no one in the court is still in the mood to talk and laugh.

This is far more than Boss Li's budget, there are only six states in his plan, and only three states at the beginning of the year when the drought hits, this time he is doubling his preparations, he thought it was already very proper, enough to deal with it, but he never thought that it would be far from enough, this time it was ...... Twenty-seven states!

Boss Li finally couldn't hold his breath, his roar was often heard in the Taiji Hall of Taiji Palace, several bigwigs from the Tang Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and Shangshu Province, as well as the six Shangshu of the Six Ministries, were no longer idle, they were called by Boss Li to the Liangyi Hall to discuss the locust plague, in the past, the Liangyi Hall would only gather high-ranking officials from the three provinces and six departments when discussing the war, this time Boss Li actually used the Liangyi Palace, it can be seen that he attaches great importance to this locust plague, and it also shows that he is powerless about the current situation.

Everyone's opinion is different, so the Liangyi Hall of Taiji Palace is also very lively, and sometimes you think that there is a dry fight inside......

When the big bosses of the Tang Dynasty were arguing, when there was a locust plague in various places, Lin Fan had already experienced a bumper harvest with the villagers in Anyang, and the warehouses of every household were full of new grain, and they were all eating rice cooked with new rice.

There are a few people in Yayu Township who believe in the Lin family in Anyang more like Tianli, so they also imitate their approach, and in the end Tianli suffered less losses, and the other three miles did not have a very good relationship with Anyangli, and they did not trust them very much, and in the end they suffered big losses like other townships.

Looking at the happy smiles on the faces of the villagers, and listening to their words of thanks, Lin Fan felt indescribably happy in his heart, and it was only then that he briefly felt that he had done something meaningful after all.

Now that the disaster has happened, he feels that there is nothing, but there is a sense of relief, and there is a kind of Qinggao that everyone is drunk and only sober.

When the disaster came, the Lin Academy was forced to take a vacation, not because he was worried that the locusts would eat the students and he couldn't afford to take the responsibility of causing people's lives, but because Lin Fan wanted to enjoy the feeling of being high in person.

In the center of a street next to Suzaku Street, there are ten barns in a row, and each barn is pasted with a large piece of paper with the word grain written on it, and there are two young people dressed as housekeepers guarding each gate, and in front of the ten barns there is a long strip of cloth with the words written.

"The granary is open, welcome new and old customers to patronize!"

The middle warehouse has been opened, a long table is placed at the door, Lin Fan is sitting there gorgeously, waiting to watch a good show, Xiaoxue is sitting beside her, she heard that her brother is on vacation to set up a stall, she is so excited that she keeps saying that she wants to follow, anyway, the locust plague is coming, most of the workers in the workshop have not come to work, and she is relatively idle now.

Ling'er is purely here to join in the fun, unlike Xiaoxue who has a pen and paper in front of her and is ready to count, and the pedestrians who look at the passers-by as leisurely as Lin Fan take out one or two from these pedestrians from time to time as a condiment for small talk.

Within half an hour of the opening of the granary, many people came to inquire about the price, and when they heard the price of fifty horses of cloth for a bucket of rice, they all sighed and slipped away.

The locust plague is rampant, there is no harvest in the fields, and there is not much surplus food, so it is already a question whether they can survive this winter, let alone survive next year's autumn harvest.

Lin Fan didn't want to embarrass these poor people, but he hadn't seen the buyers he wanted to see yet, so naturally he couldn't lower the price, and it wouldn't be so simple if he wanted to go up again.

After another half an hour, a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper finally came, at first glance, he was from a rich family or an official household, this person asked the price, and the second stunned man was about to say the price but was stopped by Lin Fan, he raised the price by twenty, and the man immediately left when he heard it, but he didn't take two steps and came back.

He has run all over Chang'an, the east and west markets have been searched, but there is enough surplus grain here, the lord has already instructed to buy food today, and then worry about being preempted by others, now the entire Chang'an officials and nobles are buying food everywhere, and they don't know where to find it when it's late, and all parts of the country are basically locust plagues, not to mention buying grain from elsewhere.

After pondering like this, the housekeeper gritted his teeth and ordered a cart of five big bags of grain, and the second stunned took the initiative to accept the business.

"The teacher is really profitable, half a silk horse is bought, fifty horses are sold is already very high, and I am not satisfied with adding twenty, and the profit is one hundred and forty times, hehe, I can't imagine that the teacher's heart is so black." As soon as the housekeeper left, Ling'er came up and chattered excitedly.

Lin Fan said disapprerovingly: "What is this, I'm giving them a bloody lesson... ”

The second stunned shook his head and patted his chest and said: "How come, I will follow what Brother Lin does, if I knew the reason, I would still go to Luoyang to buy grain... Hehe, it's really ****** cool to see those people who are anxious about food now." ”

Lin Fan smiled: "Didn't they say I was stupid, I should know who was stupid now, I said that I made them laugh enough at the time, and now let them hide in the bed and cry enough." ”