After becoming the protagonist of abuse

Having figured out this locust disaster from the script early on, Luo Xi also specially asked Sun Shiwei to bring in and catch locusts with a bag, but he caught quite a few.

Luo Yu took a look, and looked away in disgust, "This bug is really ugly."

"It will be of great use later," Luo Xi asked someone to call Yang Yu, and specially asked him to go to the kitchen.

Luo Yu has been a little bored recently, Luo Xi glanced at him, "Why don't you go to the Wenhui?"

Luo Yu said, "A lot of people came to me to challenge, those literati, if they have nothing to do, they call me over to attend lectures."

Once or twice, that's called popularity, many times, that's deadly.

He didn't even want to listen to the lectures in the academy, not to mention that everyone in the literary club cites classics and reprimands Fang Qiu.

Luo Yu's heart was full of anger, and he came to bully him if he couldn't beat his second brother. This group of people really shameless.

Luo Xi shook his head, without much persuasion.

Street lights were placed on the nearby road, and someone was responsible for refueling.It was getting late, and the people at the Wenhui gradually dispersed, Luo Xi arranged for someone to take them back to a special inn to rest.

At the end of the street, someone came trotting over on a horse. Guard Sun narrowed his eyes and moved a few steps towards Luo Xi with a calm expression, in case someone would assassinate him.

When the people got closer, Sun Shiwei was taken aback, and silently stepped aside.

Luo Xi was a little surprised, "Aren't you supposed to be in your mansion?"

"I ran out, it's fine if I don't go back these few days," Yang Yanli confidently stretched out his hand towards Luo Xi, motioning him to come up, "Have you forgotten what day is tomorrow?"

The street lights flickered all the way, corresponding to the galaxy, the crescent moon was clear and shallow, there were no extra people on the street, and Luo Xi could only see Yang Yan in his eyes.

Luo Xi held Yang Yan's hand, directly got on Yang Yan's horse, flicked the rein and led the man away, "Go to my place."

The guard at the back didn't understand what the two of them were playing, and looked at their boss, "Boss, do you know what Mr. Yang is talking about?"

"Tomorrow is the seventh day." Sun Weiwei raised his eyelids slightly, it is already July.

The next day, at the essay meeting, Luo Xi brought Yang Yan to the stage.

Everyone in Song had a strange expression on their faces. The masters who originally wanted to walk towards Luo Xi froze for a moment, a little hesitant.

Luo Xi didn't care about the movement here, but just asked Yang Yu to bring a plate of dishes.

The particularly active disciple of Master Song took a look and exclaimed, "It's locusts."

It was just dead and seemed to have been deep fried.

Everyone Song has subtle eyes. This is because they have a deep hatred for locusts, so they fry them deliberately, hoping that locusts will not come to Yuyang in the future?

Luo Xi looked over with great interest, "Do you want to try it?"

The disciple's face turned green instantly.

It's not that Luo Xi deliberately punished him because of his bad remarks during this period of time.

Luo Xi looked at Luo Yu, Luo Yu quickly took a step back, full of meaning of avoidance.

The corner of Luo Xi's mouth twitched, and she took the chopsticks by herself.

Yang Yan took the chopsticks away from Luo Xi's hand, as if facing a formidable enemy, "I'll do it."

What if the fried locusts are poisonous?What if it is particularly unpalatable?

Luo Xi smiled helplessly, "Try it, it's actually not bad."

Yang Yan's face was serious, he picked it up carefully, and took a bite.

It was rare for Luo Yu not to quarrel with that disciple, and together he looked at Yang Yan with the same eyes as he would look at a warrior.

Yang Yan took a sip and was slightly taken aback, "It's quite fragrant."

Luo Xi invited everyone to sit down and eat together, and she also took the chopsticks, "It really tastes good when fried."

Song everyone looked around helplessly, took the chopsticks himself, and Dayi took a mouthful.

The disciple stared at Master Song intently, saw him take a bite, then frowned, quickly caught another locust, and took another bite...

Everyone in Song was silent, and the rest of the people joined in one after another. After taking a sip, their eyes lit up and they quickly moved out their chopsticks.

This time without Luo Xi's persuasion, the others quickly finished the three plates of locusts.

Everyone in Song was a little sorry, he ate too much for breakfast, and although the locusts were delicious, they couldn't eat more.

Mr. Liu said implicitly, "I haven't had lunch yet, so it's better to eat casually, so I don't have to eat the big fish and meat that I originally prepared."

Luo Yu was more straightforward, "Second brother, are there any more?"

"No more," Luo Xi shook her head regretfully. This was all troubled by guard Sun. They didn't have many locusts here, but there were quite a few ducks. There were not many left for them to catch.

Luo Xi got up, "I have to trouble everyone today. In ancient times, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, and now there are masters who taste locusts, so as to prevent the people from panicking about locusts."

Everyone in Song thought of the news that some people in the village worshiped the Locust Empress a few days ago, and they immediately stood in awe, "The responsibility lies, and I dare not take credit for it."

Master Liu and others got up one after another to send Luo Xi away.

In the next issue of the newspaper, the common people found that this time there seemed to be many well-known literati writing articles describing the delicacies of that locust feast.

Many people removed the incense offered to the Locust Empress at home, and instead began to think about it, or they should catch some and try it, and tell them that it is also a dish eaten by countless celebrities... They can't get those dragon livers and phoenix marrow. But locusts are much simpler.

Yang Yan stayed here with Luo Xi for a long time, hanging out with Luo Xi at night, but doing some serious things during the day, helping Luo Xi to train the trilogy and the defenders, trying to play down the influence of Ba Hong, and let Xiao Xi The captain obeyed Luo Xi directly.

If it wasn't for the successive messages from Yang Yan's government office, urging Yang Yan to come back quickly, Yang Yan might still be able to stay for a few days.

Luo Xi calculated that the military strength of Yuyang was [-] defenders, [-] soldiers sent by the imperial court, and [-] songs he brought, totaling [-].

Now that Yuyang has silver taels, it is possible to expand the army again. Luo Xi thought about it, adding [-] troops, [-] troops is not too small.

At the end of the essay meeting, Luo Xi specially came to see them off, and also brought many gifts to the masters.

Seeing that this place is thriving, some masters deliberately kept a few of their favorite disciples behind, hoping that Luo Xi could arrange for them to become officials, or be a staff member.

To be honest, they were a little envious of Luo Yu's ability to easily arrange a plan for a county town, and hoped that Luo Xi could teach them well.

Luo Yu grinned at Master Song's disciples, "We meet again."

The disciple took a step back vigilantly.

Seeing this, Master Shi decided to be cruel, and sent his own sons to Luo Xi, saying that it was just arranged by Luo Xi, and the other families followed suit and sent many children.

Luo Xi glanced at the list, and was very satisfied. Now that he was about to expand the scale and speed up the operation of the government office, he lacked these manpower.

It was probably because the days were too smooth. Although the locust disaster was terrible, it was also controlled by Luo Xi. The court didn't think much about it, so there was a new moth.

In August, the emperor wants to increase taxes because he wants to build Xiantai.

Of course, the official article is definitely not written in this way. The order Luo Xi got here is that it has been beautified countless times, writing about what His Majesty saw in his dream, and remembering his ancestors. .

Taxes have increased everywhere, but Yuyang has increased the most.

When Luo Yu saw the decree, his face darkened instantly, "That's the food I worked so hard to supervise them to grow!"

Yuyang is full of disasters and disasters, and the population is not large.The locusts were driven away, and the fields were carefully protected. This year is a disaster year, and it is not considered a bumper harvest.It's nothing more than a serious matter, the emperor asked the immortal to increase taxes, why?

Luo Xi also had a bit of a headache. He had already calculated all the harvested food. He bought part of it and put it in the treasury as future food reserves, and part of it to reward those rebels. He will still use these people in the future.

Unable to directly reject the emperor, Luo Xi was thinking secretly, trying her best to mess this matter up.

Naturally, the newspapers dutifully reported the tax increase, and the tax adjustments in various places were attached to the newspapers one by one.

The people of Yuyang used to have smiles on their faces, but now the smiles suddenly cast a shadow.

The autumn harvest in August, Luo Xi secretly sighed, there was no detailed description in the script, it was only written until the end of August, when a group of people rose up.Is it because of this incident?

In fact, the endurance of the people is still very high, at least not for now.

Until mid-August, Luo Xi kept observing the movements in various places.

At the end of August, the latest news came from the north. Anjian County was plundered by the nomadic Qiang people. There were countless local casualties. After being sent out, he led the defenders to kill, lost to the Qiang army, and died in exhaustion.

It's a pity that this book was passed on all the way, and it took people to clear up the relationship to speed up the delivery, but the county magistrate was dead, so no one cared about this book and put it in the cabinet. It was backlogged by the court for a long time. day.

After the Qiang people retreated, the remaining officials wrote a note, imploring His Majesty to postpone the tax payment this time, and hoped that the imperial court would send a new county magistrate, and it would be best to give one or two more compensations to appease the people.

At the end of August, part of the tax revenue from various places had already been sent. The emperor finally found out about it, but he just dismissed it with a cold face, reprimanded the county magistrate for his incompetence, and sent a new county magistrate to pay the tax.

People in Anjian County soon got the news.The children in the frontier were brave and good at fighting, and one or two were full of anger. When the new county magistrate arrogantly demanded to collect grain, if he couldn't get it, he sent the defenders to go to various places to grab the grain, and finally died at the hands of the angry people.

The original county magistrate's tomb was repaired again, and Anjian County rejected the officials sent by the court, and organized a garrison internally, completely falling out with the court.

For the first time, the imperial court suppressed the news about the crime in Anjian County, and specially sent people to the Luo Mansion to warn the newspapers not to disclose the rumors.

The emperor pondered for a long time, and sent Yang Binghua out of Beijing to suppress them. He led [-] troops to suppress the mob.

The Luo family sent news from the imperial court to Yuyang one by one. Luo Shangshu did not forget to comfort him when he was busy and wrote, [It's just a small accident, don't worry]

Luo Xi looked at the note, silent.

This "little" change directly caused the subsequent chaos in the world.