After Zhao Yao finished writing the letter, he tied it to Xiao Jin's feet, and instructed it with a serious expression: "Xiao Jin, you have to fly back to the capital as fast as possible, the sooner the better. When you arrive in the capital, you will immediately hand over this letter on your lap to my father, and you must not hand it over to anyone else, and you must not lose it, you know?" This letter is very important and the lives of thousands of people are at stake. If it weren't for the emergency, he would have sent the secret guards around him to the capital.

Xiao Jin nodded obediently: [Yaoyao, don't worry, I will fly back to the capital soon, and I will never lose your letter. 】

Zhao Yao believed that Xiao Jin could do it, touched its little head, and said softly, "When you come back from the capital, I will invite you to a big meal."

As soon as he heard the word "big meal", Xiao Jin's eyes burst into fine light. It raised one of its wings, patted its chest and said to Zhao Yao: "I will definitely complete the task and wait to come back for a big meal. 】

"Do you have the strength to fly away now, if you have the strength, you will fly to the capital immediately." The letter that Zhao Yao wrote just now was too urgent, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Xiao Jin to help send the letter back.

[I'm full of strength now, fly away now.] Jin waved his wings and disappeared into the night sky.

Zhao Yao stood at the window, watching Xiao Jin leave.

General Tiger walked over and rubbed Zhao Yao's leg with its big head.

[Yaoyao, what happened? The animal's intuition is the keenest, and General Tiger feels the tense atmosphere from Zhao Yao.

Zhao Yao came back to his senses, squatted down, reached out and touched General Tiger's head, and said in a heavy tone, "Something big has happened." Big thing.

What's the big deal? 】

"There is a locust plague in the north." The content of the letter that Zhao Yao had just written to the emperor was about the locust plague. "Thanks to you, I wouldn't have found out."

[We? General Hu tilted his head and looked at Zhao Yao with confused eyes, [Yaoyao, we didn't find the locust plague, and we didn't go to the north either. Also, what is a locust plague? 】

"If it weren't for you and Xiao Jin hunting in the woods every day during this time, I wouldn't have known that there was going to be a locust plague in the north." Zhao Yao found the clue from what Xiao Jin and General Hu had just said. "The plague of locusts is locusts, and locusts eat grain, and there is not a grain of grain left in their passing. If there is a locust plague, the people of the whole north will have no food to eat, and there will be many victims at that time, which is very unfavorable to the Great Zhou."

Although the tiger general is an animal, it has been raised by Zhao Yao since he was a child, and he is much smarter than ordinary tigers.

[Yaoyao, are there a lot of people who want to go hungry? 】

"Yes, there will be a lot of hungry people."

General Tiger asked with concern and eagerness: "Yaoyao, will you be hungry?" If you don't have anything to eat, I'll go to the mountains and catch deer for you to eat, and catch as many deer as you can eat, so that you won't go hungry. 】

Hearing General Tiger say this, Zhao Yao's heart was warm. He rubbed General Tiger's face and said with a smile, "I won't go hungry."

[Yaoyao, if you are hungry, you must tell me. General Tiger rubbed Zhao Yao's palm, [I'm so powerful now, I can grab a lot of things for you to eat.] 】

"My Tiger General was powerful back then." Zhao Yao patted General Tiger lightly on the head, "Now go out and help me call a hundred of them back."

[Okay.] General Tiger flicked his tail, and immediately jumped out of the window, and soon disappeared in front of Zhao Yao's eyes.

After General Tiger left, Zhao Yao returned to his desk and wrote another letter. The content of this letter is about the occurrence of a locust plague and how to solve it.

After Zhao Yao finished writing the letter, General Hu came back with a hundred.

One hundred is a sparrow, a descendant of Laiyi, who has been carefully trained by Zhao Yao. It took over the position of Laiichi and was the head of the sparrows, responsible for gathering intelligence and delivering letters.

"Hundred, you take some of your brothers on a trip to the north." Zhao Yao explained, "There will be a locust plague in the north soon, you go to the north to help me find out the situation, and when you find out the situation, you will immediately send a sparrow back to tell me."

【Locust plague? A hundred know the plague of locusts. Emotions are not visible on its small face, but it can be heard in its voice

out of its joy. Locusts are a good thing, and we like to eat them the most. 】

"When you go to the north, do everything you can to gather all the sparrows, and the other birds to eat the locusts." Zhao Yao now hopes that the locust plague in the north will not be as serious as he imagined.

[Okay.] One hundred and then said, "Yaoyao, can I take many brothers and other birds to the north to eat locusts? 】

"Of course, but can they fly this far to the north?" Lingnan is thousands of miles away from the north, and most birds can't fly to the north.

[I asked.] A hundred of them are trained to fly to the capital, and naturally they can also fly to the north.

"By the way, after you go to the north, you can do one more thing for me."

[Yaoyao, you say. 】

"When you go to the north......

After Zhao Yao finished speaking, one hundred immediately flew away. That night, he flew north with a number of sparrow brothers and other birds.

After a hundred flew away, Zhao Yao called the secret guard out and handed him the secret letter written to solve the locust plague.

"This secret letter is very important, and it is also very urgent, you can send it back to the capital in an urgent way for eight hundred miles."

The secret guard commanded, "Your Highness, rest assured, your subordinates will immediately arrange for eight hundred li to be sent back to the capital urgently."

Zhao Yao nodded at him, and then he retreated.

After the dark guard left, Zhao Yao called Tongxi in: "Go and call January."

When Tongxi heard this, his face changed greatly, and he immediately did not dare to have any delay, and hurriedly called January.

After a while, a very ordinary-looking woman walked in.

"Your Highness, what do you command?"

"Immediately take the men and set out to the north to find out the situation of the locust plague."

"A plague of locusts?" January was stunned.

"Well, the plague of locusts." Zhao Yao briefly told January about the imminent locust plague in the north, "I am worried that after the locust plague, grain merchants and other merchants in the north will take the opportunity to stock up grain and raise the price of grain. After you go to the north, keep an eye on them, especially King Han."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Zhao Yao ordered some things in January, which made her retreat.

January was quick to move, and left the swamp house a few moments later with some spies.

Tong Xi saw Zhao Yao's solemn face and asked with concern, "Your Highness, what happened?" He rarely saw His Highness like this.

"There is an imminent locust plague in the north."

Tongxi exclaimed, "What, locust plague?" His face was filled with horror, "Your Highness, is this true?" Although Tongxi has never experienced a locust plague, he knows what harm it will bring. Whether it's him, or someone else, talk about locusts.

Zhao Yao said with a calm face, "I hope it's fake."

"Your Highness, there is a locust plague in the north, then ......" Tongxi did not dare to continue.

"If it is handled in time, the matter may not be so serious, but no matter how fast ...... Xiaojin is, it will take five days to reach the capital. When his father receives his letter, he will send people to the north, which will take a few days. For more than ten days, I am afraid that the locusts have flown to the north. "I guess it's too late."

"It's too late, isn't that the ...... of the North," Tongxi asked with a worried face, "Your Highness, will the locusts fly to Lingnan?"

"No, it won't." Zhao Yao said, "I have written to my father and told him how to relieve the locust plague."

Tongxi asked curiously, "Your Highness, how to solve the locust plague?"

"Eat."

"Eat?" Tongxi didn't understand, "Your Highness, are you talking about eating locusts? Can the locusts eat it?"

"Of course you can eat it, fry it, fry it, and it's delicious." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "Although locusts are pests, their nutritional value is still very high.

"Ah, locusts can beautify and relieve cough and asthma?" The first time Tongxi heard about this kind of thing, his face was full of disbelief, "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Zhao Yao instructed Tongxi, "Go and call my second uncle."

"Yes, Temple

next."

Two moments later, Liang Run appeared in front of Zhao Yao. Seeing him, Zhao Yao told him about the imminent locust plague in the north. After he heard this, just like Tongxi's reaction, his face was full of fear.

Zhao Yao told Liang Run how to deal with the locust plague. After hearing this, Liang Run was very shocked, he didn't expect that locusts could actually be eaten, and there were so many benefits of eating locusts.

"Second uncle, you will set off for the north tomorrow, and when you get to the north, you will buy locusts everywhere."

"Buy locusts?" Liang Run's face was full of surprise.

"Second uncle, as long as someone pays for locusts, there will be many people who will try their best to catch locusts, so that the locust plague can be solved quickly." Money can make ghosts grind, let alone locusts. "After you buy the locusts, you will have the chef of the restaurant fry the locusts and fry them."

Liang Run thinks Zhao Yao's idea is good, but ......

"Yaoyao, I believe you say that locusts can be eaten, but will anyone else believe it?"

"Second uncle, when you get to the north, when the time comes, it will be advertised everywhere that eating locusts can nourish beauty and strengthen the kidneys, and there will definitely be people who buy them, and there will be many people who buy them." Zhao Yao squeezed his eyes at Liang Run, "Especially emphasizing aphrodisiac and strengthening kidneys."

Liang Run instantly understood what Zhao Yao meant, and an ambiguous smile appeared on his face. He gave Zhao Yao a thumbs up, "Yaoyao, you're still amazing."

"Hey, hey, hey...... Few men can resist the temptation of aphrodisiac and kidneys. Second uncle, I'm not afraid that no one will eat locusts when the time comes."

"High, high, really high." Liang Run admired Zhao Yao's business methods more and more, "I didn't expect locusts to make money. When I get to the north, I will taste the locusts."

"Second uncle, are you going to ......?"

Liang Run saw that Zhao Yao had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained: "No, I didn't, don't think about it, I just heard you say that locusts are delicious, so I tasted them."

Zhao Yao had an expression of "I understand, you don't have to explain", "Second uncle, for the sake of safety, we have to prepare grain to prevent grain merchants from taking the opportunity to raise grain prices." Over the years, Zhao Yao has been instructing the Liang family to buy grain. In fact, without Zhao Yao's orders, Liang Run and the others will also buy food to store, just in case.

"Okay."

"By the way, I'll ask my grandfather to send some ducks to the north."

"What do you do when you send a duck to the north?"

"Ducks eat locusts." Zhao Yao was worried that there would be too many locusts and decided to send some more ducks to the north.

"Ducks eat locusts." Liang Run knew it for the first time.

"Eat, locusts are a good thing for ducks and sparrows." Zhao Yao said, "Ducks that eat locusts will have very delicious meat. When the ducks eat the locusts, they can make roast duck, killing two birds with one stone." Influenced by the people of the capital, the northerners also like to eat roast duck.

"Then we'll make a lot of money." Doing business is still very good.

Zhao Yao told Liang Run some more things, so he let him leave. After he left, he hurriedly wrote to his grandfather, asking Liang Taishou to try his best to buy ducks. However, if you want to buy enough ducks for 100,000 ducks, it is estimated that it is unlikely, so you can only buy some more.

After arranging everything, Zhao Yao's heavy mood was a little better.

"Ugh."

Hearing Zhao Yao's sigh, Tongxi asked, "Your Highness, didn't you arrange to solve the locust matter, why are you still sighing?"

"I'm worried that King Han will get in the way." As soon as Zhao Yao finished speaking, he immediately took out a pen and paper and wrote to the kings of Chu and Wei, informing them of the imminent locust plague in the north, and asking them to keep an eye on the king of Han and not let the king of Han take advantage of the locust plague to make small moves.

After writing the two letters, Zhao Yao asked the people of the secret guard camp to rush to the palaces of the kings of Chu and Wei for eight hundred miles.