The people of Chang'an have never seen such a scene.

Rows of heavily armed Forbidden soldiers walked up the streets of Fangshi - they did not carry murderous weapons such as horizontal knives and spears, but carried sacks, barrels and other things, and the leading officer carried a strangely shaped burlap bag, which did not look like a war, but resembled a mercenary.

Obviously, there were no black and white maid outfits in the Tang Dynasty, and these soldiers with sharp eyes and horizontal flesh on their faces were not young ladies who came out to perform and sing rainbow cats.

"Xianggong, this can't be a war, right?"

"You clumsy woman, don't you see that these soldiers don't have knives and guns in their hands? How can you fight with wooden barrels? ”

"How..."

"Shhh ”

A group of Chang'an citizens with a strong desire to learn peeked through the crack in their door that the leading soldier put a finger on the burlap bag, and in the blink of an eye, the burlap bag swelled to the sky, and there was a buzzing noise.

"Don't be alarmed, this is a newly developed artifact by the Craftsman's Supervisor, which has the effect of killing locusts. ”

The leading officer shouted loudly as he aimed his swollen burlap bag at the locust.

The modified insecticidal machine was really unusual, the powerful air suction directly sucked away all the locusts crawling on the ground wall, and the sharp cluster blades installed at the tail easily split the five horses, and the corpses carrying the viscous liquid squirted out from the tail of the burlap pipe, and were picked up by other soldiers with wooden barrels, so that they would not be poured on the ground in vain.

After all, these are all live proteins, and when there was a locust plague in previous years, the government encouraged the people to catch insects, and dried and crushed the locusts into powder and mixed them into cakes as a meal....

As for the dish of oil-fried locusts made by Anduin, it has not yet been popularized to thousands of households.

According to the "Qi Min Yaoshu", because of the use of vegetable oil in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the technology of boiling oil and quick frying was developed, but in the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people generally used steaming, boiling, roasting and other cooking methods, although there is such a thing as stir-frying, but the proportion occupied is very touching - roughly the same as the Mexican cuisine in China in later generations, it is a rare dish that has never been heard of.

By the way, don't think that the ancient life is very good, and the future of the traveler is bright, you don't see that even in the rule of Zhenguan, the time-traveler still can't eat the food that later generations are accustomed to.

In terms of the simplest pork, the pigs of the Tang Dynasty were gelding..... This also means that the pork is extremely fishy and difficult to swallow, and the degree of curiosity is comparable to that of incomplete undigested vomit, which the rich and noble will never eat - not to mention that the wrought iron technology of the Tang Dynasty was not so developed, and the iron pot could not reach the thinness that could be easily fried.

Secondly, the literati of the Tang Dynasty liked to eat fish belly, that is, sashimi, this culture was transmitted to Japan from the Central Plains mainland, and was cited by the latter as the quintessence of the country - no way, China is basically freshwater fish, with many parasites, while Japan is an island country, and saltwater fish have fewer parasites and are safer to eat.

In fact, there is a small story about this sashimi, Guangling guarded Chen Deng in the Eastern Han Dynasty, that's right, it is Chen Deng, who has a high intelligence in "Three Kingdoms", and likes to eat fish in his life, but one day Hua Tuo passed by and said that he was sick, and his stomach was full of parasites.

After the illness was cured, Chen Deng, who was a foodie, still couldn't resist the temptation of sashimi and continued to eat, and sure enough, he was only in his thirties and hung up - the degree of grievance was similar to that of King Henry I of England in 1135 who ate too many lampreys and died (here you can think of Jin Jinggong in 581 BC and George II in 1760).

To get back to the point, thousands of forbidden soldiers quickly killed most of the locusts in Chang'an City, and Li Dong was overjoyed and asked the martial arts masters of the Hundred Cavalry Division to go to the nearby villages of Gyeonggi with insecticidal machines to provide relief.

Changed to the hands of different people, the output power of the real gas engine immediately had a qualitative change, just now it was still a small bridge flowing water, and now the shotgun has become the super cylinder of the Land Rover Humvee, buzzing towards the sky, like a reverse version of the dragon absorbing water, sweeping away all the swarms of locusts.

This process also caused some problems, the burlap bag was too broken to be crumpled and soon overflowed by a huge number of locusts, and the craftsmen of the craftsman supervisor quickly made a new bag out of more solid and friction-resistant sheepskin to relieve the urgent need.

The locusts killed by the new model of insecticide can be piled up into a grain pile every minute, and in the hands of martial arts masters with superb skills and flying eaves and walls, they can destroy an entire locust cloud in a lively manner.

From Laizhou in the east to Qinzhou in the west, the elite of Li Dong's 100 cavalry divisions took ten people as a small group, and rode fast horses to the cities of various states and prefectures to the villages to strangle locusts.

Although the bulk of the grain will definitely not be saved, at least it will not be harvested - in fact, the main purpose of this insecticide activity is to let the people of the world have a psychological comfort, so that they can see that the Tang Kingdom will not even be able to resist the locust plague, and chew the root of Li Dong's tongue behind his back, so that the heavens will send down heavenly punishments and the like.

At the same time, the insecticide machine also gave the bureaucrats a lot of confidence, so that they could see the hope of stopping the spread of the disaster, and they were more emboldened when they opened warehouses to release grain and help the victims.

As for whether those Daomen and Buddhism have used their brains because of the excellent sound and light effects of the True Qi Engine Engine, Li Dong can't care about it so much, except for sending the secret agents of the palace ** Feng to take care of Li Shuangyu, there seems to be no better way.

With the issuance of various imperial decrees, the plan for the control of the locust plague was gradually advanced, the victims were resettled, the affected fields were compensated, and even the young children who were sold by their parents in desperation were ransomed by the money sown by the internal funds and returned to their parents.

And Li Shuangyu, who made great contributions to this disaster relief operation, was also rewarded by Li Dong: it doesn't matter if he is a loose official from the seventh grade, after all, he is only ten years old at most after the New Year, and now he is suspected of being too favored. The title of the county boy is not low even if it is placed in Chang'an, and as for the silk silk and satin gold ingots that he appreciated together, in the eyes of Li Shuangyu, it means the wealth that can bring his mother and little sister to live in Chang'an City.

There is not much to say about the details of this locust plague, and the joys and sorrows of those individual individuals are only bubbles that do not even count as a splash in the grand epic. In addition to the pompous kneeling and licking texts written by the royal literati, even in the Tang calendar, it is only a simple line of small characters.

"In the second year of Zhenguan, the locusts in the world were fortunately blessed by the auspicious true qi machine, and the disaster relief was timely. ”