Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

"Commander, how does it taste?"

The two soldiers looked at Chen Yuanqing curiously.

Chen Yuanqing was confused. These two guys had never eaten before, so why did they trick him into eating first?

"You two have never eaten it. Why did I seem to hear you two saying in my ears that this food is delicious? Are you lying to me?"

Chen Yuanqing looked at the two soldiers with some amusement.

Hearing what Chen Yuanqing said, the two guards had embarrassed looks on their faces. They were Chen Yuanqing's personal guards and the people closest to Chen Yuanqing in the military camp. They were responsible for taking care of Chen Yuanqing's food and drink every day.

Of course, these two people also knew Chen Yuanqing's character very well. When they saw Chen Yuanqing's half-smiling expression, they knew that the storm was about to come. This was a sign before the storm came. Those who showed this expression At this time, it means that the commander is really angry and wants to punish people.

"Commander, we have never eaten it before and we dare not eat it. Marshal, you are a genius. If there is such a good thing, I will naturally let you eat it first."

The two guards were so frightened that they fell to their knees on the ground and did not dare to speak for a long time.

When Chen Yuanqing heard the explanations of these two people, he also showed a half-smiling expression on his face.

He waved his finger and pointed at the plate on the table and said: "I finally understand. Whatever His Majesty said must be true. You two have also seen it. I have eaten everything on the table. If not It’s delicious, can I eat all these bugs?”

The two guards nodded sharply after hearing this. This was indeed the truth. After a while, the kitchen brought a large plate of freshly fried locusts, which were fried to a crispy brown color with a layer of pepper sprinkled on top.

The fragrant smell made the two guards swallow their saliva non-stop. After seeing Chen Yuanqing grab a large handful and stuff it into his mouth, the two guards couldn't bear it anymore. They rushed over and grabbed a handful each and stuffed it into their mouths. His eyes suddenly widened, with a look of surprise on his face.

They have never thought that this kind of pest that destroys grains can taste so delicious after being fried.

"I know what your majesty means. It's actually to mobilize everyone to catch bugs in the fields. We have hundreds of thousands of people here, and our brothers usually run outside during training. Why don't we help your majesty catch bugs and go specifically to the places where there are the most locusts? .”

Chen Yuanqing stationed troops in the south of the Yangtze River. When a locust plague occurred in the south of the Yangtze River, he was naturally responsible.

After tasting the delicious food of locusts, Chen Yuanqing ordered the entire team to start heading towards the place where the locusts were most serious without waiting for Ning Fan's order.

I have to say that these well-trained soldiers work very quickly, even faster than the little wives in the village!

A team of 100,000 people arrived at the place where the locusts were most densely populated. There were simply not enough insects to catch. The insects caught in one day piled up like small hills, and all the crops in the fields were repaired cleanly.

"If we catch bugs every day at this rate, we won't have to worry about any locust plagues."

Chen Yuanqing looked at the mountains of locusts, feeling surprised and happy.

In fact, the newspaper also said that these locusts are not suitable for large amounts of food. Of course, they cannot be eaten by ordinary people as food, but these locusts can be made into feed.

Since Jiangnan was pacified, Chen Yuanqing followed Ning Fan's orders and led soldiers to farm in Jiangnan.

In fact, generally speaking, the entire Jiangnan region is vast and sparsely populated. After the land was released from the hands of the wealthy families, no one cultivated the vast fertile fields.

Nowadays, these idle plots of land have just been assigned to Chen Yuanqing's name, making them the best place for the Dragon Scale Army to farm.

These locusts are dried and ground into powder, which can be made into a large amount of feed according to the method announced by Ning Fan.

After blending these locust powder and rice bran, whether it is fed to chickens or pigs, you can get good results.

In addition to letting people go to the fields to catch locusts, there is actually a better way, that is, an army of ducks. Because if people catch locusts, they will inevitably trample the crops, which will have a great impact on future crop harvests. But letting the ducks go Catching locusts in the field is different.

It has to be said that businessmen in the northwest are very good at doing business. In a short period of time, a large number of ducks were transported from all over the country. There were tens of millions of these ducks and they were placed in endless fields. The duck army is the best little helper for eating locusts.

These ducks roamed the fields, and a large number of locusts were chewed up and swallowed directly by the ducks' mouths. In addition to the locusts being eaten, there were also eggs left behind by the locusts, which could not escape death.

These merchants bought large numbers of ducks to eat the locusts.

It’s not that they work voluntarily, or that they have money and nowhere to spend it, but after these ducks eat a lot of locusts every day, because of their sufficient nutrition, it is almost certain that they can lay one duck egg every day, and some ducks can even lay one egg in one day. Two eggs.

These merchants picked up buckets of duck eggs every day, and a large number of duck eggs were loaded onto ships and shipped to various places.

"I hope this locust plague will never end. Wouldn't it be great if we raised ducks here? These duck eggs are very popular. Even if they cannot be sold, they can be pickled into salted duck eggs. They will never go bad after being stored for several months. "

Several businessmen stood in the fields, watching the duck army sweeping away the locusts in the fields, and they felt extremely happy in their hearts.

At this time, Ning Fan, who was wearing a green gown, was walking nearby. Hearing the conversation between these businessmen, he couldn't help but smile.

Although the words of these businessmen are a bit biased, they reflect the psychology of these businessmen. In order to make money by selling duck eggs, they naturally hope that the locusts here will never end.

But they forgot one of the most important things, that is, once the locust plague continues, a large number of crops will inevitably fail. In the future, these ducks will definitely starve to death without locusts.

"Your Majesty, I heard that General Chen is also mobilizing soldiers to catch locusts in the fields, and the results have been quite fruitful in the past few days."

Song Chengzhou, who was following Ning Fan, leaned into Ning Fan's ear and whispered about Chen Yuanqing.

Chen Yuanqing had a good relationship with Song Chengzhou in Jiangnan. At this time, Chen Yuanqing had made a contribution. As the governor of Jiangnan, Song Chengzhou naturally had to express this contribution for Chen Yuanqing.

"I've been here in Jiangnan for several days, why haven't I seen this kid come to see me?"

Ning Fan smiled lightly.

Compared with the past few days, Ning Fan was in a good mood and his face was full of spring breeze.

The locust plague, which was originally thought to be invincible, has now been destroyed by more than half under Ning Fan's ingenious plan. I believe these locusts will be suppressed in a few days.