"Your Majesty, this white-burning flying shrimp must be dipped in a little sauce, which is the best. In order to remove the fishy smell from the flying shrimp, this sauce is specially filled with minced ginger, garlic and dogwood, plus a little aged vinegar and soy sauce, and the taste should be very special."

After the stewed flying shrimps in the oil, the finale is the white-burned flying shrimps.

This locust dish is the most likely to be eaten by ordinary people and has the lowest threshold.

So whether it is Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji and others, they all value this dish very much.

"Compared with shrimp, it is slightly less tough, but its soft and glutinous taste is very unique. Especially the dogwood is still the finishing touch, making the white-burning shrimp delicious all of a sudden."

This time, Li Shimin started to taste it slowly.

Because I had eaten a lot of fried shrimps and braised shrimps in oil just now, my stomach was a little too late to hold.

"The spicy taste of dogwood will stimulate the taste and make people's appetite better. However, if dogwood is replaced with chili, the taste will be better. Unfortunately, the peppers in Weichendi are still growing at present. Otherwise, they will chop them up and make them into chili sauce. Whether they are used for rice or dipping sauce, the taste will be very good."

After seeing the three kinds of locusts in succession, Li Shimin felt completely relaxed.

The Tang Dynasty is not short of food now. Even if Guanzhong is affected by locusts and grain output is greatly reduced, there will be no major problems.

However, it is really hard to say what will happen if someone is determined to take advantage of the people's fear of locust plague and provokes some troubles.

Li Kuan’s three dishes now completely dispel everyone’s concerns about locusts.

In addition, the shops in the Chu Prince's Mansion are willing to buy locusts at a high price of one by one. What else do you have to be afraid of?

Maybe when the locusts flew outside Chang'an City, the people of the entire Chang'an City were busy catching locusts.

No matter whether it is carp, oyster, locust or crocodile, if it becomes the food on the plate of the Tang people, there is no need to worry about too many and flooding.

"Kuan'er, in the next few days, how do you think you can let the people know how to make a locust feast as quickly as possible? While the information of the locust plague has not yet completely spread, we will directly eliminate the people's fear of locust plague. Then there is nothing to be afraid of in this locust plague."

After confirming that the three locust dishes were really delicious, Li Shimin began to consider the next step.

The first of the three methods Li Kuan mentioned just now is completely future-oriented, and you can wait until the locust plague has passed before making arrangements.

As for the second thing, it is that you need to wait until the locusts approach Chang'an City before it is more suitable for action, because most chickens and ducks are raised around Chang'an City.

You can't drive a large group of chickens and ducks to the county to eat locusts, right?

How can a beast with two feet move faster than a locust with two wings?

"This is also simple. The court arranged for people to write a few articles to be published as the front page headlines of all newspapers in Chang'an City. At the same time, it was required that all storytellers in brothels and restaurants explain the content of the commentary on how to eat locusts as the theme, so that they can become popular science members of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, no matter how much I say, I don’t see it with my own eyes, so I feel that taking this opportunity, I can set up a large food stall in many places in Chang'an City, focusing on locust feasts and barbecue. I think it can solve the employment problems of some people and give as many people as possible the opportunity to see the deliciousness of fried flying shrimps."

Before Li Kuan entered the Summer Palace, he had already guessed today's theme in advance.

Now, no matter what Li Shimin asks, he answers very well.

"Okay, Chang'an City can make arrangements like this. I think there will be no major problems. But what should I do if the counties that have already had locust plagues?"

Li Shimin is now full of confidence in Li Kuan.

A delicious locust feast is more convincing than anything else.

"This is also very simple. After Weichen left the palace, he immediately arranged for people to go to those counties to purchase locusts. All merchants in Chang'an City could also go to these places to purchase locusts and then resell them to the shops of the Chu Prince's Mansion. Those people, who were originally worried, became excited when they saw the scene of catching locusts and selling them for money.

At that time, the scene of the whole people catching locusts will definitely rise in these places. If one or two typical figures can be supported to let everyone see the locust plague and rely on catching locusts to make a fortune, then the people's fear of locusts will further decline.

At that time, some experts who catch locusts may wish they would be plagues every day."

Although Li Kuan had never seen the scene of locust plague with his own eyes, when the overwhelming locusts descended on the ground, if they caught locusts, they would just put them into the basket one by one.

If you are lucky, you can catch hundreds of kilograms a day, which is not a problem at all.

If the whole family mobilizes them all, they can even catch one or two thousand kilograms of locusts in a day.

Even if it is dried, there are still hundreds of kilograms.

That's hundreds of cents.

This is definitely higher than the family income of most people in a month.

If it lasts for a few days, many people will become rich.

The rice lost in the ground immediately became less distressed.

Raising chickens and ducks requires food. Now that the locust eats rice seedlings, it is considered as the cost of breeding locusts.

"Okay! If Kuan'er, you can calm the locust plague in Guanzhong within half a month, then I will definitely be rewarded! You can call the personnel of various yamen in Chang'an City during this period. If anyone dares to disobey the arrangement, you can come to me directly."

When Li Shimin saw Li Kuan's confident appearance, he immediately handed over the locust plague to him.

There is no need to work for two people!

Since the plan to deal with the locust plague was proposed by Li Kuan, it is naturally best to let Li Kuan do it as well.

Li Shimin could calmly watch Li Kuan deal with the headache-inducing locust plague.

"I obey the order!"

Although Li Kuan didn't really want to take on this job, no one is more suitable than himself at the moment, so he had to reluctantly agree.

After all, Li Shimin spent a lot of money to support Li Kuan this time. He can be mobilized by Li Kuan in all the yamen in Chang'an City during this period.

This right is absolutely great enough to have no boundaries.

If Li Kuan took advantage of this time to do something big, he would have really succeeded.

...

Weinan County, Changjia Village.

Chang Hongjian sat in his own field with a sad face.

Looking around, it can be said that it is full of devastation.

It's time to head rice, and we could have waited for the harvest to arrive.

However, the sudden locust yesterday destroyed all this.

Although the locusts just arrived, they could not reach the overwhelming scene, but the number was absolutely impossible to count.

At the beginning, Chang Hongjian struggled for a while, desperately going to the ground, and pinched one locust after another to death.

But where could he grab his hands?

After a while of "smoking", my own rice fields became bare.

Chang Hongjian has the desire to die.

You rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and water to eat the water.

Relying on dozens of acres of land at home, Chang Hongjian relies on these land to support himself.

"Lao Chang, Lao Chang, come back soon!"

Just as Chang Hongjian was thinking about how to live this year, his wife's voice came from afar.

The roar of the lion in the east of the river made everyone in Changjia Village hear her shout.

However, no one laughed at her at this time.

Because of similar shouts, they appeared one after another in Changjia Village.

Soon, the villagers who worked in the ground and drove locusts in the ground turned back one after another.

There, two guys drove a four-wheeled carriage and repeated strange words to the villagers over and over again.

"We want as much as the dried locusts, each penny per pound! Today you start catching them, clean the locusts according to the method we said, and then dry them!"

"If everyone thinks that handling this is troublesome, there is also a simple way, which is to kill the locusts directly, dry them and sell them to us, but the price is only one cent or two kilograms."

"We will stay in your village tonight and start buying tomorrow! Now the sun is so strong that it will be 60% or 70% in just one day. If you want to speed up, you can bake it in the pot, so that you may start buying tonight."

The two guys answered the villagers' questions one by one.

"You can buy as much as you really have?"

At first, Chang Hongjian thought he had met a liar, but when the other party said that they were from the Chu Palace in Chang'an City, Chang Hongjian no longer doubted it.

Some people in Changjia Village work hard in Chang'an City. When they come back during the holidays, they have praised His Highness the King of Chu.

In fact, there are countless craftsmen in the entire Chang'an City who have received the favor of the King of Chu Mansion.

In other words, all the craftsmen gained benefits because of Li Kuan's willingness.

The difference is just the size of the benefits.

"No mistake, you need as much as you want. If one of our carriages can't be loaded, you can also store it in your village first."

These guys received special instructions before setting off.

Soon, when a villager who first heard about the guy's acquisition of locusts, successfully exchanged three cents from the guy with a box of locusts that had just dried out of the pot, the villagers of Changjia Village had no doubts.

"Go ahead, catch the locusts!"

"I just saw a group of locusts flying from the end of the village. I guess they are eating crops now, and I just happened to take revenge."

Soon, the villagers took action.

For example, Chang Hongjian even brought his family to his family, allowing his son, who had just turned six, to go to the ground to catch locusts.

That scene is definitely much more spectacular than when doing farm work.
To be continued...