During the day, the people basically stayed in the fields to guard the crops and catch locusts, and everyone wished that they would grow two more hands, and they had no time to leave.

Even children with little labor force joined the army to catch locusts.

Therefore, the Xue family did not receive many people who came to sell locusts during the day, and only continued to prepare for the follow-up of the workshop.

In the evening, estimating that today's locust army should stop, Xue Kejing, who was in charge of this matter, began to gather a large number of people and let them stay outside the newly built workshops and storage rooms, waiting for the arrival of the locust sellers.

Before everyone could get ready, people with sacks on their backs flocked to the city, and some even came with ox carts.

In their eyes, these are all moving money, so it is naturally more reassuring to replace them with real copper plates as soon as possible.

It is said that this locust is a living creature, and it is not the same as ordinary cargo.

For other goods, just collect them and put them away.

But living creatures have a lot to think about.

The most important thing is not to let them all die.

No dead thing is worth as much as a living thing, and the same is true for locusts.

On the one hand, locusts are similar to other wild animals, and they should not be stored too densely, otherwise they will easily suffocate to death.

Even if they don't suffocate to death, they may kill each other and eat each other.

On the other hand, it cannot be slaughtered as soon as it is fresh, like other living creatures.

Unless it's killed and eaten.

It turns out that the newly caught locusts will contain feces in their bodies, and if they are not expelled from them, they will suffer after being slaughtered for a long time.

Therefore, we have to find a way to get them clean before they can be slaughtered.

There are many doors and doors, and they all need to be solved by the Xue family, otherwise, the workshop can be built so well? Can business be so good?

Moreover, judging from the locust plague last season, the number of locusts this time is even more unimaginable.

According to the previous law, as long as the locust swarm was not wiped out in the previous season, or the locust control was not good, then the locust swarm may appear several times, more than ten times, or even dozens of times in the next season.

It is conceivable how many locusts the Xue family can collect this time.

Some of them are busy.

Fortunately, the Xue family has sufficient hands, and the sweet potatoes from last season have also been processed, otherwise, they really can't bloom in many places like now, and they want to get involved in everything they catch and pave the road so widely.

Among other things, the amount of locusts required to collect so many locusts is extremely large in the workshops, storage rooms, and various tools for handling locusts.

And the only workshop tools that the Xue family has now are built and made in a hurry.

If it weren't for the fact that there was so much labor before, they really wouldn't have been ready in time.

Of course, there's more to prepare for later.

It just so happens that your sweet potato fields don't need to be guarded by too many people.

With so much manpower saved, some of them can be allocated to help deal with locusts, as well as build workshops and make tools.

The rest will go and help others.

After all, they are businessmen, and it is unrealistic for them to have to benefit themselves and others, and only when they meet their own needs can they have the energy to help others, and the same is true for this labor.

There are enough manpower, and the locusts have been obtained, so the workshop can naturally start.

In other words, the Xue family already has so many locusts in their hands, and they will continue to send them over, if they are not disposed of in time, even if they build more storage rooms, they will not be enough.

But how should it be distributed?

Is it fried? Pickled? Or is it sun-dried?

Jiang Qianyue discussed with everyone for a long time, and came to the conclusion that it should be mainly pickled and dried.

Because fried things are the most difficult to store, especially now that the weather is gradually getting hotter, the requirements for this aspect are even more so.

In Ning'an Mansion alone, there will definitely not be many locusts that can be digested, and they will have to be sold elsewhere.

And outside, no matter how fast the delivery speed is and how close the distance is, how many days will it take?

What's more, their Ning'an Mansion was plagued by locusts, and the nearby prefectures and counties were estimated to be unspared.

Locusts are not uncommon at all.

Especially dried locusts, which household has not dried some of them?

It's okay to pickle, after all, even if ordinary people catch locusts, they are reluctant to spend so much salt and spices, but they will buy some ready-made.

In this regard, the advantages of the Xue family are highlighted.

They got the salt lead!

You can get a lot of salt at a very low price.

The price of locusts is also low, and the labor cost is not expensive.

The cost is low, so the price of pickled locusts can be set lower.

As long as the price is right, it is natural that someone will buy it, especially in places that are not less affected by locusts.

However, although this thing is easier to preserve than fried locusts, it is not easy to store for a long time, and it is not a problem to leave it for a year or two like dried locusts, so it is better to sell it earlier.

But so many locusts are really hard to sell if they want to be made into pickled locusts, even with the help of the behemoth of the Zheng family.

Then, the rest will be dried into locusts, even if it does not make money at all.

As for dried locusts, they can be sold in the north, where food is scarce.

Even if they have eaten many locusts, as long as it is something that can fill their stomachs, and the price is not expensive, some people are willing to buy it.

It's even like food, you can buy as much as you want.

However, the Xue family first started to make fried locusts that were not easy to store.

Without it, this thing digests quickly.

After all, for ordinary people, oil is a luxury.

Usually cooking, it is good to have a little oiliness in the soup and dishes, and those who can use fried food have nothing else to think about except for large families, and ordinary people naturally dare not think about it.

But now, what they didn't dare to think about came directly in front of them.

It turned out that two days after the first locust plague appeared, the Xue family began to provide fried locusts to the entire Fengqing County, as well as many restaurants, inns, taverns, and restaurants in many neighboring counties and even other places.

Hey? That's weird!

Fried locusts are not something that the Xue family can do, as long as there is oil and locusts, which family can't do it? At most, it's just a matter of training with locusts and oil.

Then why don't they make fresh ones themselves, but ask for them from the Xue family?

Especially in a slightly farther place, even if the Xue family sent it over as soon as it was ready, it was so hot that it was not as good as their freshly fried ones.

It's very simple, because the price of fried locusts provided by the Xue family is more cost-effective than their own freshly fried locusts.

How much oil does it cost to make a dish of fried locusts?

And if you count all this oil money, the price of this dish is definitely not cheap.

The average diner can't afford it.

Especially those who eat in restaurants, they are ordinary people, and there are few people who can order such expensive dishes.

Occasionally make one or two servings, and the bosses of these shops can't even afford to pay for the oil to fry locusts.

Therefore, when the Xue family provided ready-made fried locusts, they bought them directly from others, which was not only cost-effective, but also convenient.