'Can you eat it?' Several prime ministers were stunned. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At the info meeting, Li Chen also handed out a reward for the people to catch locusts in exchange for money. Li Chen still used remittances, or in the Tang Dynasty, to transfer the money to the accounts of local governments, so that the government began to use bonuses to attract people to kill locusts.

Some people say that it is good to feed the chickens and ducks to eat, Li Chen said, what is waste, eat it yourself.

'Why can't you eat it, Emperor Taizong ate it back then. Li Chen is not unrestrained and indiscriminately distributes money, he wants to buy locusts, and it will be useful.

'Locusts are very nutritious, more than eggs.' It can also be used to heal diseases. For example, locusts can be used for children with swollen neck and the back of the neck, as well as tuberculosis. Li Chen thought for a while, and tasted back, "Locusts are actually quite delicious." ’

Well, I'll show you first, and let people catch some locusts and eat them for everyone to see. What kind of punishment from heaven is clearly that God sees the hard work of the world after the disaster and gives delicious food, but as a result, people destroy the heavens, but it's a pity. The prime ministers looked at each other, they knew that Emperor Taizong took the lead in eating locusts in order to exterminate locusts, but this locust can really eat? Still delicious?

In fact, Li Chen has never eaten it at all, and what aftertaste looks like is a deception at all. However, it is true that locusts are delicious, and modern people eat them in many places, mainly to overcome that discomfort.

Moreover, locusts have high nutritional value, surpassing eggs and meat, with modern research, his body contains 18 kinds of essential amino acids, which is very suitable for the weak to replenish the body.

Therefore, in Li Chen's view, the so-called punishment of the world, it is better to say the other way around, it is God's mercy on the world that it is not easy to live after the disaster, and it is specially descended. The occurrence of locust plagues is usually accompanied by floods and droughts, and once floods and droughts occur, crop damage is certain.

Heaven has mercy on the world, allowing locusts to multiply and bring food to mankind. Especially in this era, there are no pesticides, pure natural, no chemical additives, they are all grown up by eating grass, and they are even more delicious.

Li Chen said that he would do it, and after a few days, he really caught a lot of locusts from near Chang'an. Li Chen used a good way to control these locusts. There is an imperial chef who first pours the locusts into boiling water, boils them to turn them from green to brown, and then dries them to remove their wings and feet. Then fry it in oil.

There are also those who do not fry and eat them directly. Some are fried and then ground with barley to make flour and burned. There is also a direct charcoal fire slow roasting. There are also those that are directly wrapped in flour and fried. This eliminates the problem of the type.

In several ways, the locusts were cured, and after the court meeting, he took the lead in eating. The ministers took the plunge and ate with them. I found that it was actually really delicious, and it tasted good to eat it directly on the roast. Li Chen even brought the family to eat together. Demonstration locusts, which can really be eaten. Several children, who had eaten the floured locusts, were greatly amazed when they ate them. Li Chen simply announced that in the future, all states would treat locusts as tribute.

This incident made headlines in the three major newspapers and local newspapers. Preach that locusts are really delicious. In addition, there are experiments by the Department of Doctors that prove that locusts can cure children's neck and post-ear swelling. And tuberculosis. and insomnia. These conditions can all be treated with locusts.

Even, Shuntian Daily, under the instruction of Li Chen, began to hype up eating locusts, and through Li Chen's announcement, locusts became a tribute, and eating locusts was hyped into a fashion, which was a high-end atmosphere and high-grade, and it was fashionable to eat it with popularity.

In an instant, in a short period of time. Locusts were actually hyped up to a high price. There is no need for Li Chen to pay, the locust plague has been in several states, and the people have flocked to make up for the locusts. As a result, a locust plague that may spread to several states and cause a catastrophe was suppressed in this way, and even, in the territory of Datang itself, no locust plague has been heard for a hundred years, and as soon as there is a sign of locust plague, it is captured, and various locust foods have been studied.

Even, even, some people began to raise locusts for a living. Because of its medicinal value, it is bought by many people to replenish the body of children and the elderly.

In a thought, Li Chen solved a matter, he didn't expect that this matter would have such a far-reaching impact, causing the Tang Dynasty to have never heard of a locust plague for hundreds of years. It's a change of concept, turning bad things into good things, it depends on how you look at it.

Then, we began to deal with the rebel states and how to pacify them. However, I didn't expect that worse and more serious news would follow.

Regarding, the Eastern Zhejiang Army has to solve the best problem, just send a new Jiedu envoy, and belittle Li Ne as the school secretary, if you haven't forgotten, this school scholar has started from a newcomer to a hard job. Li Chen didn't plan to demote those prisoners to some remote places like before.

Seriously, that's not fair to the local people. Because the new incumbent went with a sense of resentment. It's hard to say how it will. He intends to build the whole Datang into a happy land. Even if he developed the American colonies in the future, he did not want to turn some remote places into places of degradation.

He hopes that those remote places will become places where new officials take office. Let those new officials who are energetic and energetic work hard to develop the localities, instead of demoting some convicts to remote places. The best thing is that they ignore political affairs and write some poems to vent when they are depressed. This is unfair to the development of the local community and to the local people. Why should they be treated poorly?

He wants to develop the whole Tang Dynasty, and some remote places will become starting points, so that those officials who are willing to endure hardships will become capital for their promotion, and some prosperous places will become places for those who have ordinary bureaucrats or retired bureaucrats to recuperate.

Since we talk about retired bureaucrats, that is, if you don't go to the frontiers, you will have limited achievements in the future. Mix with those who are going to retire, and don't think about what you will achieve in the future. Don't think you can borrow any connections, he has plans to turn this into a custom, he has not experienced frontier affairs, and he doesn't want to be the prime minister.

The highest is to reach a certain position in the central government, and don't even think about the six Shangshu and Shilang. As for their collusion and the problem of their own hands, of course, there will be supervision. Won't give them a chance to mess around.

All this is still far away, now deal with the matter of quelling the rebellion. Regarding the rebellion of the Xuanshu army in the wealth-rich land, Li Jue, the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, and the Xuanshe observer envoy, led the troops to recruit, and appointed Wenzhang, the assassin of Songzhou, as the training envoy of the Xuanzhou regiment, and jointly marched into the army to recruit.

Li Jue, the word is waiting for the price. He is considered to be the leader of the Niu Party in the Niu Li Party Struggle, but he himself probably does not think so, he served as the prime minister in the Wenzong Dynasty, and was quite trusted by Wenzong, but he was caught in the dispute between the friends, which made him very disgusted, and he repeatedly asked for resignation.

However, it is a fact that he and Li Deyu disagreed, and during the Wenzong period, Youcheng Wei Wen befriended Yang Sifu and Li Jue, and persuaded them to requisition Li Deyu and release their previous suspicions, but the two did not accept it.

However, he was almost dead, because he was trusted by Wenzong, and entrusted him with the aftermath, but he did not plan to establish Wuzong, so after Wuzong ascended the throne, he was disgusted by Wuzong and almost died. After Ma Yuanzhen took office, he promoted him.

However, to say that he is a eunuch is not necessarily true. His human nature is insensitive, he lost his wife early, he did not have concubines, and he had no pay. Proficient in Confucianism, he was naturally disgusted with eunuchs, and he didn't pay attention to Ma Yuanwu at all. After that, he was able to serve as the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, thanks to Wei Mo's recommendation.

Li Jue has the talent to do everything, and he is quite popular in Huainan. Quelling the Xuanshu army rebellion is not a problem. As for the military turmoil in Jiangxi, Guangluqing and Wei Zhou were the observers of Jiangxi, and the military turmoil in Jiangxi was not very serious. Lingshan Nandong Jiedu made Xu Shang send troops to quell the chaos with Wei Zhou.

He was chosen because his father, Wei Dan, was well governed when he served as the Jiangxi Observer Envoy, and the military and the people still miss him. With him as an observer, you can quickly level the ground.

The Rongzhou army was in turmoil, and ordered Annan Jingluo to make Song Ya send troops to fight, and first appointed him to temporarily lead the Rongguan Jingluo envoy. After quelling the rebellion, a new envoy was appointed.

In the Lingnan military rebellion, Li Chengxun, the envoy of the Jingyuan Festival, was the envoy of the Lingnan Festival. Loyal soldiers are dispatched, and they all wear yellow hats on their heads, so they are called the Yellow Head Army. Dispatch 100 people of the Yellow Head Army to the town to quell the rebels.

Interestingly, Song Ya won the army, and he also imitated the loyal army, wearing a yellow hat, which was not the Yellow Turban Army. Li Chen asked, why do you wear a yellow hat. Several prime ministers thought about it, and Wei Mo said, maybe it was because of the loyal army, the world's fine taxes, and Song Ya followed suit. And the yellow-headed army is mostly Uighurs and Shatuos, and their traditions.

Li Deyu said that in the Han Dynasty, there was a Yulin Huangtou Army, which was a water fighter in the Yulin Army. Also, in the era of Emperor Liang Shuyuan, the man of the yellow-headed tiger in the feather forest, the wind and clouds rose, and the agitation was upside down. That's probably what it means.

Since they all say it's elite, it should be fine. Then, there was news that the Changsha army was in turmoil, but it was also suppressed. Because the deeds of the rebel soldiers were not secret, when a series of rebellions broke out, the Hunan Metropolitan Regiment Training Observation Envoy, and the Tanzhou Assassin Shi Cui Shenyou became vigilant, and immediately launched after the chaos and military outburst, eliminating the rebellion invisibly.

Another surname Cui De is from the five major surnames. To be honest, these five surnames really deserve to be the five major surnames, and the children are quite good. Li Chen has a very complicated feeling about this family, and wants to eliminate them, but seeing that their children are quite outstanding, he is a little reluctant, anyway, the Tang Dynasty has already raised the head of the imperial examination, and leaving some children with five surnames is also a restriction. He just waited and watched.

As for the party struggle, you say that he is not good, but in fact, for the emperor, it is a means of restraint. If it is used well, it is that the emperor has a sword, Li Chen hates party fighting, but he has not thought about what to do for the time being, and at present, he hopes that there will be more sources of officials and different interests, so that they will not be complicit in the future.

In the last Xu Si army rebellion, Zhao Yi Chengjie made Lu Hong stop the rebellion. Lu Hongzhi, who had previously served as a household servant, proposed the reform of the salt law, which was fruitful. Later, he served as the envoy of the righteous festival. The Volunteer Army, although the place is small, but it is very important. At the same time, he ordered Zheng Guang to send troops together to quell the chaos. It is imperative to open up the Grand Canal as soon as possible.

After discussing for so long, from the day to the evening, I didn't even go to the morning court, and at noon, several prime ministers had dinner in the Ayaki Palace, and they had to discuss it in the afternoon, and finally there was a result. Li Chen was in a cold sweat behind his back, these rebellions were too ruthless and accurate.

Fortunately, it didn't work out, if it really happened, Datang would be finished. Judging from the map, Xuzhou, Jiangxi, Changsha, Xuanzhou, Lingnan, Rongguan, plus the military rebellion in eastern Zhejiang. If it is all done, the wealth of the Tang Dynasty will be completely destroyed,

Although western Zhejiang, Huainan, and Ziqing are still in the hands of Datang, but the shipping has been cut off, and Datang is really in danger. Several towns rebelled at the same time, although the strength was not large, but it was really terrifying. However, this is not difficult for Datang.

For now, though, there's still a problem. It's about asking for money. At present, the summer tax has not been confiscated, and the Grand Canal has been cut off again. The Datang treasury may be out of money. For this reason, Li Chen discussed with the prime minister and recruited Suleiman again. In the end, an agreement was reached.

Tang Ting will use the salt tax as collateral to borrow 5 million yuan from the First Bank of Datang. The Datang salt tax could reach more than 600 last year. Nowadays, although the war is discounted, it is not a problem to use the salt tax as collateral and borrow 5 million.

Regarding the imperial court to borrow money, Suleiman did not agree. Didn't say yes right away. The richer he became, he looked like he was in business, and said that he wanted to study it again, but he couldn't answer immediately.

'Datang Bank is the bank of the imperial court, and now at the time of national crisis, what is the intention of such a prevarication. Zhou Qi was furious, he drank Suleiman, and then said to Li Chen, if you don't borrow, you can borrow it. Otherwise, he will be a collaborator and get a name.

The old god Suleiman is here, and he has no fear, not only he is Li Chen's father-in-law, but also the father-in-law. Also, Datang First Bank also has royal shares, and it is not afraid at all. And his attitude is also instructed by Li Chen, and he is official, so his old god is here.

'Aiqing, don't be bored. Li Chen stopped Zhou Qi with a smile, "The bank, not only the money of the government, but also the savings of the people. My intentions are the same, and prudence is the best. ’

In order to avoid that in the future, if the court is in deficit, it is necessary to borrow money from the bank at every turn. I'll pay it back, but what about in the future? If the rules are not established now, sooner or later this bank will become a tool for the court and the future generations. ’

This is undoubtedly killing chickens to take their eggs and drinking to quench their thirst. If there is no bank, the court will only borrow but not repay, and the court's credit will be bankrupt and in danger. After Li Chen finished speaking, the prime minister was silent.

Banks have efficacy, they know. It is true that now the imperial court does not have to save money conscientiously as before, just for future wars and disaster relief. Now it's just a matter of borrowing money. If you act recklessly and the bank goes bankrupt, then you will go back to the old way. Zhou Qi is actually just intimidating.

The matter was thus settled, and Suleiman said that the discussion was just an attitude, and of course he would borrow it. It's just that under Li Chen's instructions, he must put on a correct posture, and he can't let the court borrow if he wants to borrow in the future, and if that possibility really happens, the bank must not borrow.

Finally, the rebellion was finally settled. In July, at the latest by the end of July, the Tang Xia tax was raised, although it suffered a military disaster, it was the same as last year, which was already very good. Several troops marched to level Youzhou, and also surrounded Youzhou, seeing that the major events were settled, and the disaster started.

The coalition of all ethnic groups outside the territory, 200,000, coerced the Tang Dynasty... The world was shocked.