Prosperous Tang special forces

Chapter 178: Destroying Locusts
Some people take the lead and others follow. Although these locusts are unbearable to eat, they are still a good choice to feed chickens.

Now that there is a way to exterminate the locusts, the people will naturally not foolishly worship the locust god and ignore the real culprit.And Long Feiyu made them more excited here than the Locust God.

With the locust plague, the officials in the entire Hedong have nothing else to do. At present, this is the most severe natural disaster. If the locust plague is not resolved, all their efforts will be in vain.

With Long Feiyu's method, the common people followed suit, and more than 100 million locusts were caught all day long.And at night, Long Feiyu ordered people to light a bonfire in the field to attract locusts, and dug trenches beside the bonfire. Attracted by the fire, locusts rushed towards the fire in large numbers, and fell into it one by one. In the trenches, as long as there are enough people, the people will bury the trenches.Then start another ignition.

In order to defend the fields, there are long dragons made of torches everywhere in the fields at night, and the people in twos and threes gather at the place where the locusts stay, and start to gather to light the fire.

From the beginning to the end, Long Feiyu stayed here, pointing out these people from time to time what to do. At first everyone was a little afraid of this high official, but gradually Long Feiyu's casual behavior and witty conversation aroused everyone's sympathy. The fear of him gradually decreased.

Looking at the officials who had been busy all day, the people nearby spontaneously went home to bring food and sent it to them.The head of the Liu family also rushed here at this time. In order to impress Long Feiyu, he specially ordered someone to make food and put it in a lunch box.

Xue Li and Miss Liu naturally followed behind him, but it seemed that he was still not very satisfied with Xue Li.From afar, he shouted to Long Feiyu: "My lord, I have prepared some food for everyone, let's eat first." As he said that, he waved his hand, and someone moved the tables and chairs from the carriage.

Long Feiyu nodded, and waved to a group of busy yamen servants: "Don't be too busy, Patriarch Liu is here to reward everyone, come and eat."

Listening to Long Feiyu's words, hundreds of people rushed around, but looking at the lunch boxes he was carrying, Patriarch Liu's smiling face just now turned into embarrassment.He only cooked food for one kind of official, Long Feiyu, but he really didn't expect these government servants.

Seeing Patriarch Liu's embarrassing face, Long Feiyu glanced at the servants who surrounded him, and before he could speak, some people said to the magistrate: "My lord, the people in our ten miles and eight villages heard that your lord Come to help us eradicate the locust plague and prepare special meals to reward everyone."

Hearing what the people said, the county magistrate saw Patriarch Liu's embarrassment, and hurriedly shouted to the servants: "Go, let the adults eat here, and we will get food."

Hearing what the magistrate said, Long Feiyu chuckled and said, "Don't bother, since they are all rewarding troops, just bring them up. Wouldn't it be fun for everyone to eat together?"

Then he said to Wang Tao, "You people in Hedong listen to me eating, and I also want to invite you to have a delicious meal with local materials. Go, let someone bring some big pots."

Hearing what Long Feiyu said, Wang Tao wondered, "What are you doing?"

"Fried Locusts"

"Locusts? Can this be eaten?"

Long Feiyu waved his hand and said: "Locusts are good things. They can relieve coughs, relieve asthma, nourish, and they are very delicious. Those of you here can go home and find your wife, boil the locusts in boiling water, remove the head and wings, remove the The internal organs, then bring them here, and I will cook them for you."

Hearing that locusts have such an effect, everyone wondered. As for Long Feiyu's words, they also believed deeply, and they all went down to get things. Anyway, every family had packed several sacks of locusts. Deep frying, they all went home and informed their wives to follow what Long Feiyu said.

Anyway, the crops have already entered the belly of the locust, and eating it now is considered revenge.There are many people and strength, and it didn't take long for someone to lift the cage and bring a cage of treated locusts.

And Long Feiyu had already had someone set up a frying pan. Seeing that the locusts had been processed, he put in the seasoning and started frying them.After a while, the aroma overflowed, and the locusts had been fried into golden yellow.

He fished out the locusts from the pot with a colander and put them in a basin and handed them over to everyone. Seeing Long Feiyu hand over the locusts, although everyone thought the color was pretty and their appetites increased, no one dared to do it.

Seeing this, Long Feiyu ordered others to continue frying, and at the same time took out a plate of fried locusts, gave it to Wang Tao and said, "Taste it."

The group of people who were waiting for Long Feiyu to eat all looked at Wang Tao with nervous eyes, Wang Tao shook his head hurriedly and said, "No, is this food edible? What if it is poisonous?"

Long Feiyu snorted, "Do you want to eat? If you don't, I'll ask someone to open your mouth and stuff it in for you."

Hearing what Long Feiyu said, Wang Tao was inclined to Long Feiyu's obscenity, helplessly, frowning, swallowed with difficulty, found the smallest one on the plate, picked it up and stuffed it into his mouth.

I wanted to swallow it whole, but I chewed it naturally, and then I couldn't control it, my eyes widened, and I took another one into my mouth, chewing, and waved: "Taste it all, tasty."

Seeing that Wang Tao was eating delicious food, some bold servants also stepped forward, picked it up and ate it.Some people take the lead and others will follow. Seeing that the people who have eaten are full of praise, everyone gathers around for a while. Seeing everyone scrambling to eat, Long Feiyu smiled and shouted to the people around him: "The locusts eat the food!" We will eat them in our fields tonight. After we finished our meal, we all split up. Now the locusts are gathered in the fields for three or four miles around us. If we can’t eliminate them tonight, they will continue to move forward tomorrow. By then, more people will suffer.”

Saying this, Long Feiyu asked people to mix the food brought by Patriarch Liu with the food brought by the common people. This seemingly simple action made Patriarch Liu a little guilty, but the servants felt slightly warm .

The things that Patriarch Liu sent were all good things, how could the food brought by those common people be comparable.But Long Feiyu asked people to mix the dishes together, but it made everyone have a delicious meal.

After finishing all this, Long Feiyu took a bowl by himself, and took the lead in making a bowl of rice out of the rice container. He ate the food sent by the common people, and at the same time, he did not forget to go to the chef who was frying the locusts. In front of him, he caught some locusts and put them into the bowl.

Then he greeted a group of people to start eating. Although this move was simple, it made Patriarch Liu blush and at the same time let everyone understand why Long Feiyu gained such a high reputation in the army.And because of this move, those yamen servants worked harder after eating.

In Chang'an City, at the court meeting, Li Shimin was in a good mood these past few days, and he had completely walked out of the shadow of Empress Changsun's death. Another reason was that Long Feiyu hadn't bothered him for several days, which made him overjoyed.

Wei Zheng's opinions are all formal, but Long Feiyu always touches his soul.Now that Long Feiyu is gone, how can he not make Li Shimin happy.

Seeing Long Liang's appearance, Li Shimin carefully probed: "Long Aiqing, why is Long Zuocheng not in court today?"

Before Long Liang could speak, suddenly a soldier outside the main hall shouted "report" and ran in, bowing down to Li Shimin and saying, "Your Majesty Qizuo, there has been a large number of locust plagues in Bingzhou, and there is no harvest this year."

Hearing the locust plague, Li Shimin suddenly sat up from his seat, and asked with a gloomy face, "How is the locust plague?"

"The plague of locusts covers the sky and the sun, there may be millions of people, and they have already reached the east of the river."

Hearing about the locust plague, Li Shimin felt a little headache. In the second year of Zhenguan, there was a locust plague in the capital. At that time, in order to appease the people, he had no choice but to swallow the live locusts in front of his officials. One day, Li Shimin was heartbroken by the tragic loss of grain.

While talking, someone ran into the hall again, cupped his hands to Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, Mr. Zuocheng, please hurry up!"

"Eight hundred miles in a hurry? Where did he go when the locust plague was so severe?"

Hearing Li Shimin's dissatisfied words, the visitors rushed over: "Your Excellency is organizing the army and people in Hedong to fight against the locust plague in Hedong."

Hearing that Long Feiyu had gone to Hedong, Li Shimin said in surprise: "I just received a report of the locust plague, how did Long Feiyu know about the locust plague?"

The person who came shook his head and said, "Master Zuo Cheng seems to be going north to Bingzhou, and stayed in Hedong for a while, and happened to encounter a plague of locusts, so he and the governor of Hedong culled the locusts in the field."

Hearing that Long Feiyu was hunting and killing locusts, a minister stood up and said, "Your Majesty, what Long Feiyu has done will definitely offend the God of Locusts and make the people restless. Your Majesty should call him back."

Hearing what the minister said, Long Liang retorted: "Man conquers nature, how do you know that locusts cannot be hunted and killed? If you don't kill them, can you just watch them harm the people?"

"You? Long Liang, I won't talk to you. In the second year of Zhenguan, there was a severe drought in the capital. You also saw the locust plague at that time. How can you resist it?"

Although they were disgusted with not boycotting Li Shimin, they really had no choice but to take the locusts.Li Shimin sighed, looked at the scout and said, "How is the current situation?"

"The locust plague has been basically brought under control, but the generation of Bingzhou has been ravaged by the locust plague. Mr. Zuo Cheng hopes to get His Majesty's order to open warehouses for disaster relief in some areas in the eyes of the disaster."

Hearing that the plague of locusts had been brought under control, Li Shimin said in astonishment, "That's four to five million people. What did Long Zuocheng rely on to stop these locusts?"

"Your Excellency used a kind of lamp that could be raised by Zhuge Kongming during the Three Kingdoms period, pulled the cloth strips that were more than ten steps high and hundreds of steps long, and rotted in the air on the migration route of locusts, and dug a trench under the white cloth. , and then smoked the locusts with poisonous weeds, fell into the ditch and buried them."

Hearing what the scouts said, Li Shimin was surprised: "What about those locusts that never fell into the ditch?"

"This lord led the people in Hedong to dig ditches in the fields, trap them with fires at night, and in order to prevent the road network, he also gathered a large number of chickens, ducks and geese into the locust-infested fields, and controlled the flood of locusts in one fell swoop. situation."

Hearing what the scouts said, Li Shimin clapped his hands and laughed loudly and said, "Okay, the Three Guarantees drafted an order, agreeing to Long Feiyu's opening a warehouse for disaster relief, and at the same time commending the soldiers and civilians in Hedong."

"Yes"

Seeing that Sanbao was going to draw up the decree, the scout came again: "Master Zuo Cheng invented a dish made of locusts, and specially presented it to His Majesty. He said that locusts have the effect of relieving cough and asthma, and can also be used as a dish." Nourishing only."

Hearing what the scout said, Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Submit it."

(End of this chapter)