I am not in the position of Zen [Three Kingdoms]
Chapter 98 Chapter 98
After listening to Xi Zhi and telling the story, Lu Bu snorted disdainfully: "I think people on both sides are idiots. The smartest people who attacked the city came up with such a bad idea after thinking about it for a long time. What's even more stupid is that the defenders The people in the city are still being fooled?" He looked at Xi Zhicai suspiciously, and thought that this story could not be made up by Xi Zhicai himself.
Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "If this huge Trojan horse is not so precious, ordinary people might think of breaking the Trojan horse's stomach to see what is inside."
Hearing this, Lu Bu's heart moved: "Your Majesty, could it be that you want the other party to behave like this, and we will use our tricks?" He thought for a moment, and immediately had a clue: "No wonder Beijing sent fire powder. Fire powder is flammable and explosive. Use this usage."
Xi Zhicai nodded slightly: "Just prepare the rockets. I already have a plan for the people in this city. After seeing the wooden cows and horses left behind, I will guide everyone to open the stomachs of the cows and horses, take out the fire powder and pile them up in front of everyone."
"Put the fire powder in a box, and you can add thunderbolt bombs in the box." Lu Bu's mind turned quickly: "When they opened the box, we fired a salvo of rockets to catch them by surprise."
Zhang Liao, the general of Zhengnan, commanded his soldiers and acted according to the plan of the two.Three days later, a gap was unexpectedly opened in the south gate, and the imperial army took the opportunity to flood into the city like a tide. After fierce street fighting, they captured the important town of Langzhong City.
After slaughtering Liu Yan's cronies, the future Langzhong prefect, who had been on standby with the army for a long time, immediately took over with the support of the army and began to rectify Langzhong.
The most important strategic location of Yizhou is nothing more than the two counties of Hanzhong and Langzhong.Hanzhong and Langzhong are located between the Guanzhong Plain and the Chengdu Plain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but they are a deep wedge inserted into Yizhou.Moreover, the two places have fertile soil and a large population, making them natural battle supply stations.
Liu Yan's management in Yizhou was still too short, his foundation was still shallow, and he punished the powerful and established his prestige, which made the local powerful and officials centrifugal.After the important town of Langzhong City was captured by the imperial army, news spread throughout the prefecture.The officials were at a loss, and the prefects of counties and counties wrote letters to the court one after another, expressing their sincerity.
Xi Zhicai mainly appeases them, accepts all their surrenders, and promises not to move their interests.
When discussing the matter, Lu Bu said disdainfully: "These people seem to surrender to us, but in fact they are just betting on both ends. They cannot be easily trusted."
Xi Zhicai said soothingly: "The most urgent thing is to let them give up resistance when our troops are approaching the city. There is still plenty of time to settle accounts after the autumn. Our troops are limited, so we can only act like this first."
"Anyway, you are a military adviser and you have the final say. You can discuss it with Zhang Liao." Lu Bu snorted, "Don't forget, I agreed to their request. If you don't fulfill it by then, it will damage the court's reputation." He slammed the curtain and walked out of the main tent.
Zhang Liao had no choice but to explain with a smile: "Sir, please don't be angry. Fengxian also considered that when the city is taken over, His Majesty will definitely send new officials. If these people lose their official positions, they will definitely feel resentful towards the court."
Xi Zhicai shook his fan and said with a smile: "It's okay, I agreed to them personally, with the head of someone in my Xi Zhi as a guarantee. It's just that General Lu cares about fame, what a sun!" Come out from the west."
Zhang Liao was a little unhappy when he heard this: "When Bandit Dong was here, although Fengxian was notorious, what he did was to protect the royal family and the Bingzhou army. Now Fengxian is no longer famous for defending against foreign enemies and countering rebellion and civil strife. "
"I'm not sarcasm, I'm just a little bit moved that General Lu is restrained."
Zhang Liao sighed softly: "After all, Fengxian started from the beginning, and now he is only the title of captain, and it is inevitable that he will be reluctant." Since Jingzhou was pacified, he has now been promoted to General Zhengnan.However, Lu Bu came to Yizhou to join the army as a commoner. Although his military rank has been upgraded rapidly, he is still far away from being a governor.
Xi Zhicai said unhurriedly: "When Yizhou is conquered, it won't be long before the official returns to his original post."
"I hope so." Zhang Liao sighed: "Sir, if we agree to many of their demands and enter the city tied up, the officials sent by the imperial court may not be able to tolerate them in the future."
"For these counties that subsequently surrendered, capturing their cities is of little significance to us. The important thing is to consume their armaments." Xi Zhicai squinted his beautiful eyes: "It's okay, we will take their troops with us." Most of the time, I will take it to attack Liu Yan's base camp. If we put our people there, the officials can also replace them from a long distance, but it will take some effort." He paused: "What the emperor wants is not a thousand-year-old man. Yizhou is riddled with holes, isn't it?"
It took a lot of effort to take Yizhou by gentle means.It was not until more than two years later that Yizhou was completely recovered by the imperial court.Xi Zhicai officially became the governor of Yizhou. Under the command of two powerful generals, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, Xi Zhicai led a group of newly appointed prefects, superintendents, and the head of the Dali Temple to rectify the powerful, set up local imperial examinations, and selected talents.
In the fourth year of Chuping, drought occurred in the northern states.Lu Bu, who was the Marquis of Wudu in Yizhou at that time, received an urgent order from the emperor to transport grain and grass to Luoyang.
He set foot on the road back to Luoyang with five thousand soldiers transporting grain and grass.Accompanied by his side were the five hundred Bingzhou elites who had followed him into Yizhou.
Seeing that the land was dry and the people were picking bark to eat, Lu Bu was worried: "The further north we go, the worse the disaster will be. I'm afraid there will be a rebellion in the north." Everyone thinks that Luoyang is rich and prosperous, and they rush to Luoyang by picking up the bark and grass roots all the way.
The personal guard Cao Xing asked: "I heard that Luoyang City is very large, with a population of one million. His Majesty has also built a new city outside Luoyang City, which is also quite large. I wonder if we can accommodate these refugees?"
Another guard next to him sneered and said, "Cao Xing, are you omnipotent when you consider the capital city? Since ancient times, there is no reason to open the city gates to let the exiles enter the capital city? Ordinary big cities will not let them in. If they do, there will be chaos." .”
Cao Xing said unconvinced: "Although I have never been to Luoyang, but I heard that the emperor's house is kind-hearted, the court gives porridge in the streets of Luoyang every day, and there are medical officials who treat the people for free. Maybe it will be accurate."
Lu Bu shook his head: "Even though the new city built outside Luoyang City has a considerable scale, it will definitely not be able to accommodate so many people. It will not open the door and let them all in." It is not only a question of how many people can live in, but the most important thing is that Poured into so many hungry mouths, there must be nothing to satisfy.And once a person is hungry and frightened, no one can tell what dangerous things he can do when he sees other people living well.
Lu Bu thought to himself: Could it be that there are already signs of chaos in Luoyang?Does the emperor want to personally escort the food and grass to Beijing?
Luoyang.
The severe drought caused turmoil in the court. Some advocated offering sacrifices to the heavens, some advocated that His Majesty should issue an imperial edict to punish oneself, and some even asked living people to sacrifice to the water god.
Liu Xie was very annoying. He knew that these were useless, so he refused to approve them.
The last years of the Han Dynasty coincided with China's transition from a warm and humid period to a cold period.It was precisely because of the period of climate change that extreme weather often occurred in the last years of the Three Kingdoms, which also gave birth to several major plagues.
The severe drought involved many counties in the north.Due to the extensive water conservancy efforts in Sili Prefecture and Yuzhou over the years, many reservoirs have been built, and there are many water trucks to draw water, so the impact of the drought is relatively small.
In the past two years, under the persistent promotion of Liu Xie, the state-owned management units in these two prefectures planted a lot of relatively drought-tolerant fruit trees such as chestnuts, persimmons, and jujubes.Moreover, Liu Xie sends soldiers to dig deep wells in these two states every year, just in case of emergency.
In other prefectures and counties beyond the reach of the whip, some prefects and governors have done a perfunctory job in building water conservancy, and now the shortcomings have been exposed.Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Taiyuan County in Bingzhou are places where the drought is severe.
Under the severe drought, the Yellow Turbans rose again, and the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou were powerful. Kong Rong was trapped by the Yellow Turbans. Thanks to Bao Xin's rescue, he escaped.
But to fight against the Yellow Turbans, Bao Xin was in short supply.Yellow Turbans can break into cities and wantonly rob other people's food, but the soldiers of the imperial court can't.
Liu Xie was worried, so he had to allocate grain from Ye County in Jizhou to Qingzhou.However, the long-distance transportation of food and grass consumes a lot of money, and Bao Xin's soldiers are still hungry and full, fighting desperately with the Yellow Turban Army.
"If things go on like this, people's hearts will collapse sooner or later." Liu Xie never forgot that Bao Xin died fighting against the Yellow Turban Army in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.If Qingzhou falls, Cao Cao, who has been training in Liaodong for three years, may make a comeback.
However, Liu Xie convened the advisers of the DPRK and China to discuss several times, and it was really hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.
Xuzhou can only be self-sufficient, and Yanzhou is also suffering from famine now.Jizhou is the main force of grain and grass production in the north, and has the most grain storage. However, it is too much for this disaster relief to take into account Qingzhou and Taiyuan at the same time.
Among the counties and counties in the south, except for Yizhou and Jingzhou, no one can produce much surplus food.Jiaozhou is the area of Guangdong and Guangxi today, with many mountains, a small population, and little development. It is even more difficult to transport grain to the north.Yangzhou is today's Jiangnan area, with many rivers and turbulent water waves. Although it has not been affected by drought, it has suffered floods this year.
In addition to this kind of trouble, Liu Xie is also worried about the catastrophes mentioned in the novel.At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were continuous disasters, locust plagues and plagues always came one after another, and people were displaced and changed their children for food.
If it's just a severe drought, many people can survive by eating wild fruits, vegetables, and peeling bark.But if a plague of locusts ensues, migratory locusts will eat anything, especially the thick leaves of plants. Wherever they pass, the food will be almost exhausted, and the people will howl in the wild.
Therefore, when he heard that there was a plague of locusts in the western suburbs of Luoyang, Liu Xie took his guards without hesitation.
Fortunately, the migratory locusts have not yet swarmed.
"The locusts haven't taken off yet, and it's a good opportunity to eliminate them. What's the matter with you standing here without moving?" Seeing a group of people standing on the ridge of the field pointing at the locust larvae, Liu Xie immediately became angry. "Liu Bei, what did I tell you before!"
Liu Bei hurriedly knelt down, his face flushed red: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I was ordered to pay attention to the locust plague, and rushed over as soon as I heard the news. It's just..."
Liu Xie said angrily, pointing his delicate chin at him: "What time is it, you're still hesitating!"
Zhang Fei was the first to say: "Your Majesty, it was Zhou Shilang from the Ministry of Rites who stopped us from being killed! He said that the punishment was brutal, and God punished him. He not only stopped us, but also incited the villagers not to do anything!"
Liu Xie raised his eyebrows, and sneered at Zhou Shilang next to him: "What did you say just now, repeat it completely for me."
Zhou Shilang didn't expect the Son of Heaven to come in person, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, knelt down tremblingly and said: "Report to Your Majesty, the old minister doesn't remember."
Liu Xie expected that the old man didn't say anything good, so he turned his head and told the guards: "Slap your mouth, I will give you a long memory."
Xu Chu rolled up his sleeves, raised his palm like cattail leaf fan, and slapped it cracklingly.
At this time, a small official came out more and more, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister came early and heard clearly. Zhou Shilang was just telling the people that Luoyang will revitalize the army, build the city and drill the ground, and if the virtue of heaven and earth is lost, insects will cause disasters." , I want everyone to accept the punishment of God and not intervene in natural disasters."
After he said this, Liu Xie suddenly remembered that in ancient times, people regarded locust plagues as a sacred thing and dared not catch them easily.
Oh, it's just that Zhou Shilang said that, as if he meant something.
Liu Xie glanced coldly at Zhou Shilang, who was so whipped that he was crying for his father and mother, and nonsense as calmly as possible: "You and other mortals don't know that this locust is made of fish eggs, and it is a locust in a severe drought. If it is abundant, it will be born as a tail fish, so what has it to do with the punishment of heaven?"
After all, he picked up a locust larva lying on the leaf and threw it into his mouth.
"His Majesty!"
"Your Majesty can't!"
Everyone hurriedly stopped, and Liu Bei stretched out his hand fearfully: "Your Majesty, take care of the dragon body!"
Liu Xie suppressed his nausea, chewed it up and ate it, and said sharply: "Stop talking nonsense, this is just fish roe, why can't I eat it!"
Everyone was silent for a while, and after a while, seeing His Majesty's face was as usual, they were relieved.
Liu Xie asked everyone to catch locusts, and popularized science: "Once their wings harden and start to fly, it will be difficult to catch them, so try to catch them before they fly."
This catch is one day.At night, Liu Xie ordered a bonfire to be lit in the wilderness: "The locusts face the light. As long as the fire is lit at night, the nearby locusts will be attracted."At a glance, trypophobia is almost committed.Liu Xie had been supervising them for so long and was tired and hungry, so he ordered the soldiers to put the iron pan on, and asked Xu Chu to bring someone from a restaurant in Luoyang to bring a large barrel of soybean oil, wash the locusts a little bit, throw them in and fry them, and add some more Salt goes in.
Immediately, the fragrance drifted away.
Liu Xie took the lead and ate a bowl of fried locusts, and let the soldiers and the people share the rest.
Seeing that the Son of Heaven ate it all, these people were no longer afraid, and they were eager to try it.At this time, ordinary people and soldiers, where can they usually eat this kind of fried food, feel that it tastes delicious in the world.
The fried locusts are crispy and fragrant.In this day and age, people dare not catch and eat locusts, and they don't know that locusts are edible.At this time, a mainstream view was that locusts were a punishment from heaven, and eating locusts might offend God, which might lead to even greater disasters.
"You guys are different from me. You have the blessing of heaven's temper, so you can't eat locusts raw. If you are too hungry, you can cook them, but you must cook them at a high temperature. If you don't eat them, you must burn them with fire." Otherwise, if you bury it in the soil or throw it into the water, it will regenerate.” Liu Xie Kepu said that it is impractical for ordinary people to waste a pot of oil for locusts, so he recommended boiling Familiar with this way of eating.
Locusts are commonly known as grasshoppers by modern people. They are usually gentle and high-protein foods. They are not cheap delicacies on modern people's tables.However, when food is greatly reduced during a severe drought, the locusts will gather together and become extremely ferocious, and even produce a poisonous substance in their bodies, so that birds dare not easily prey on them.Because he was afraid of being poisoned, Liu Xie didn't let them eat it raw.
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Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "If this huge Trojan horse is not so precious, ordinary people might think of breaking the Trojan horse's stomach to see what is inside."
Hearing this, Lu Bu's heart moved: "Your Majesty, could it be that you want the other party to behave like this, and we will use our tricks?" He thought for a moment, and immediately had a clue: "No wonder Beijing sent fire powder. Fire powder is flammable and explosive. Use this usage."
Xi Zhicai nodded slightly: "Just prepare the rockets. I already have a plan for the people in this city. After seeing the wooden cows and horses left behind, I will guide everyone to open the stomachs of the cows and horses, take out the fire powder and pile them up in front of everyone."
"Put the fire powder in a box, and you can add thunderbolt bombs in the box." Lu Bu's mind turned quickly: "When they opened the box, we fired a salvo of rockets to catch them by surprise."
Zhang Liao, the general of Zhengnan, commanded his soldiers and acted according to the plan of the two.Three days later, a gap was unexpectedly opened in the south gate, and the imperial army took the opportunity to flood into the city like a tide. After fierce street fighting, they captured the important town of Langzhong City.
After slaughtering Liu Yan's cronies, the future Langzhong prefect, who had been on standby with the army for a long time, immediately took over with the support of the army and began to rectify Langzhong.
The most important strategic location of Yizhou is nothing more than the two counties of Hanzhong and Langzhong.Hanzhong and Langzhong are located between the Guanzhong Plain and the Chengdu Plain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but they are a deep wedge inserted into Yizhou.Moreover, the two places have fertile soil and a large population, making them natural battle supply stations.
Liu Yan's management in Yizhou was still too short, his foundation was still shallow, and he punished the powerful and established his prestige, which made the local powerful and officials centrifugal.After the important town of Langzhong City was captured by the imperial army, news spread throughout the prefecture.The officials were at a loss, and the prefects of counties and counties wrote letters to the court one after another, expressing their sincerity.
Xi Zhicai mainly appeases them, accepts all their surrenders, and promises not to move their interests.
When discussing the matter, Lu Bu said disdainfully: "These people seem to surrender to us, but in fact they are just betting on both ends. They cannot be easily trusted."
Xi Zhicai said soothingly: "The most urgent thing is to let them give up resistance when our troops are approaching the city. There is still plenty of time to settle accounts after the autumn. Our troops are limited, so we can only act like this first."
"Anyway, you are a military adviser and you have the final say. You can discuss it with Zhang Liao." Lu Bu snorted, "Don't forget, I agreed to their request. If you don't fulfill it by then, it will damage the court's reputation." He slammed the curtain and walked out of the main tent.
Zhang Liao had no choice but to explain with a smile: "Sir, please don't be angry. Fengxian also considered that when the city is taken over, His Majesty will definitely send new officials. If these people lose their official positions, they will definitely feel resentful towards the court."
Xi Zhicai shook his fan and said with a smile: "It's okay, I agreed to them personally, with the head of someone in my Xi Zhi as a guarantee. It's just that General Lu cares about fame, what a sun!" Come out from the west."
Zhang Liao was a little unhappy when he heard this: "When Bandit Dong was here, although Fengxian was notorious, what he did was to protect the royal family and the Bingzhou army. Now Fengxian is no longer famous for defending against foreign enemies and countering rebellion and civil strife. "
"I'm not sarcasm, I'm just a little bit moved that General Lu is restrained."
Zhang Liao sighed softly: "After all, Fengxian started from the beginning, and now he is only the title of captain, and it is inevitable that he will be reluctant." Since Jingzhou was pacified, he has now been promoted to General Zhengnan.However, Lu Bu came to Yizhou to join the army as a commoner. Although his military rank has been upgraded rapidly, he is still far away from being a governor.
Xi Zhicai said unhurriedly: "When Yizhou is conquered, it won't be long before the official returns to his original post."
"I hope so." Zhang Liao sighed: "Sir, if we agree to many of their demands and enter the city tied up, the officials sent by the imperial court may not be able to tolerate them in the future."
"For these counties that subsequently surrendered, capturing their cities is of little significance to us. The important thing is to consume their armaments." Xi Zhicai squinted his beautiful eyes: "It's okay, we will take their troops with us." Most of the time, I will take it to attack Liu Yan's base camp. If we put our people there, the officials can also replace them from a long distance, but it will take some effort." He paused: "What the emperor wants is not a thousand-year-old man. Yizhou is riddled with holes, isn't it?"
It took a lot of effort to take Yizhou by gentle means.It was not until more than two years later that Yizhou was completely recovered by the imperial court.Xi Zhicai officially became the governor of Yizhou. Under the command of two powerful generals, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, Xi Zhicai led a group of newly appointed prefects, superintendents, and the head of the Dali Temple to rectify the powerful, set up local imperial examinations, and selected talents.
In the fourth year of Chuping, drought occurred in the northern states.Lu Bu, who was the Marquis of Wudu in Yizhou at that time, received an urgent order from the emperor to transport grain and grass to Luoyang.
He set foot on the road back to Luoyang with five thousand soldiers transporting grain and grass.Accompanied by his side were the five hundred Bingzhou elites who had followed him into Yizhou.
Seeing that the land was dry and the people were picking bark to eat, Lu Bu was worried: "The further north we go, the worse the disaster will be. I'm afraid there will be a rebellion in the north." Everyone thinks that Luoyang is rich and prosperous, and they rush to Luoyang by picking up the bark and grass roots all the way.
The personal guard Cao Xing asked: "I heard that Luoyang City is very large, with a population of one million. His Majesty has also built a new city outside Luoyang City, which is also quite large. I wonder if we can accommodate these refugees?"
Another guard next to him sneered and said, "Cao Xing, are you omnipotent when you consider the capital city? Since ancient times, there is no reason to open the city gates to let the exiles enter the capital city? Ordinary big cities will not let them in. If they do, there will be chaos." .”
Cao Xing said unconvinced: "Although I have never been to Luoyang, but I heard that the emperor's house is kind-hearted, the court gives porridge in the streets of Luoyang every day, and there are medical officials who treat the people for free. Maybe it will be accurate."
Lu Bu shook his head: "Even though the new city built outside Luoyang City has a considerable scale, it will definitely not be able to accommodate so many people. It will not open the door and let them all in." It is not only a question of how many people can live in, but the most important thing is that Poured into so many hungry mouths, there must be nothing to satisfy.And once a person is hungry and frightened, no one can tell what dangerous things he can do when he sees other people living well.
Lu Bu thought to himself: Could it be that there are already signs of chaos in Luoyang?Does the emperor want to personally escort the food and grass to Beijing?
Luoyang.
The severe drought caused turmoil in the court. Some advocated offering sacrifices to the heavens, some advocated that His Majesty should issue an imperial edict to punish oneself, and some even asked living people to sacrifice to the water god.
Liu Xie was very annoying. He knew that these were useless, so he refused to approve them.
The last years of the Han Dynasty coincided with China's transition from a warm and humid period to a cold period.It was precisely because of the period of climate change that extreme weather often occurred in the last years of the Three Kingdoms, which also gave birth to several major plagues.
The severe drought involved many counties in the north.Due to the extensive water conservancy efforts in Sili Prefecture and Yuzhou over the years, many reservoirs have been built, and there are many water trucks to draw water, so the impact of the drought is relatively small.
In the past two years, under the persistent promotion of Liu Xie, the state-owned management units in these two prefectures planted a lot of relatively drought-tolerant fruit trees such as chestnuts, persimmons, and jujubes.Moreover, Liu Xie sends soldiers to dig deep wells in these two states every year, just in case of emergency.
In other prefectures and counties beyond the reach of the whip, some prefects and governors have done a perfunctory job in building water conservancy, and now the shortcomings have been exposed.Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Taiyuan County in Bingzhou are places where the drought is severe.
Under the severe drought, the Yellow Turbans rose again, and the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou were powerful. Kong Rong was trapped by the Yellow Turbans. Thanks to Bao Xin's rescue, he escaped.
But to fight against the Yellow Turbans, Bao Xin was in short supply.Yellow Turbans can break into cities and wantonly rob other people's food, but the soldiers of the imperial court can't.
Liu Xie was worried, so he had to allocate grain from Ye County in Jizhou to Qingzhou.However, the long-distance transportation of food and grass consumes a lot of money, and Bao Xin's soldiers are still hungry and full, fighting desperately with the Yellow Turban Army.
"If things go on like this, people's hearts will collapse sooner or later." Liu Xie never forgot that Bao Xin died fighting against the Yellow Turban Army in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.If Qingzhou falls, Cao Cao, who has been training in Liaodong for three years, may make a comeback.
However, Liu Xie convened the advisers of the DPRK and China to discuss several times, and it was really hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.
Xuzhou can only be self-sufficient, and Yanzhou is also suffering from famine now.Jizhou is the main force of grain and grass production in the north, and has the most grain storage. However, it is too much for this disaster relief to take into account Qingzhou and Taiyuan at the same time.
Among the counties and counties in the south, except for Yizhou and Jingzhou, no one can produce much surplus food.Jiaozhou is the area of Guangdong and Guangxi today, with many mountains, a small population, and little development. It is even more difficult to transport grain to the north.Yangzhou is today's Jiangnan area, with many rivers and turbulent water waves. Although it has not been affected by drought, it has suffered floods this year.
In addition to this kind of trouble, Liu Xie is also worried about the catastrophes mentioned in the novel.At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were continuous disasters, locust plagues and plagues always came one after another, and people were displaced and changed their children for food.
If it's just a severe drought, many people can survive by eating wild fruits, vegetables, and peeling bark.But if a plague of locusts ensues, migratory locusts will eat anything, especially the thick leaves of plants. Wherever they pass, the food will be almost exhausted, and the people will howl in the wild.
Therefore, when he heard that there was a plague of locusts in the western suburbs of Luoyang, Liu Xie took his guards without hesitation.
Fortunately, the migratory locusts have not yet swarmed.
"The locusts haven't taken off yet, and it's a good opportunity to eliminate them. What's the matter with you standing here without moving?" Seeing a group of people standing on the ridge of the field pointing at the locust larvae, Liu Xie immediately became angry. "Liu Bei, what did I tell you before!"
Liu Bei hurriedly knelt down, his face flushed red: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I was ordered to pay attention to the locust plague, and rushed over as soon as I heard the news. It's just..."
Liu Xie said angrily, pointing his delicate chin at him: "What time is it, you're still hesitating!"
Zhang Fei was the first to say: "Your Majesty, it was Zhou Shilang from the Ministry of Rites who stopped us from being killed! He said that the punishment was brutal, and God punished him. He not only stopped us, but also incited the villagers not to do anything!"
Liu Xie raised his eyebrows, and sneered at Zhou Shilang next to him: "What did you say just now, repeat it completely for me."
Zhou Shilang didn't expect the Son of Heaven to come in person, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, knelt down tremblingly and said: "Report to Your Majesty, the old minister doesn't remember."
Liu Xie expected that the old man didn't say anything good, so he turned his head and told the guards: "Slap your mouth, I will give you a long memory."
Xu Chu rolled up his sleeves, raised his palm like cattail leaf fan, and slapped it cracklingly.
At this time, a small official came out more and more, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister came early and heard clearly. Zhou Shilang was just telling the people that Luoyang will revitalize the army, build the city and drill the ground, and if the virtue of heaven and earth is lost, insects will cause disasters." , I want everyone to accept the punishment of God and not intervene in natural disasters."
After he said this, Liu Xie suddenly remembered that in ancient times, people regarded locust plagues as a sacred thing and dared not catch them easily.
Oh, it's just that Zhou Shilang said that, as if he meant something.
Liu Xie glanced coldly at Zhou Shilang, who was so whipped that he was crying for his father and mother, and nonsense as calmly as possible: "You and other mortals don't know that this locust is made of fish eggs, and it is a locust in a severe drought. If it is abundant, it will be born as a tail fish, so what has it to do with the punishment of heaven?"
After all, he picked up a locust larva lying on the leaf and threw it into his mouth.
"His Majesty!"
"Your Majesty can't!"
Everyone hurriedly stopped, and Liu Bei stretched out his hand fearfully: "Your Majesty, take care of the dragon body!"
Liu Xie suppressed his nausea, chewed it up and ate it, and said sharply: "Stop talking nonsense, this is just fish roe, why can't I eat it!"
Everyone was silent for a while, and after a while, seeing His Majesty's face was as usual, they were relieved.
Liu Xie asked everyone to catch locusts, and popularized science: "Once their wings harden and start to fly, it will be difficult to catch them, so try to catch them before they fly."
This catch is one day.At night, Liu Xie ordered a bonfire to be lit in the wilderness: "The locusts face the light. As long as the fire is lit at night, the nearby locusts will be attracted."At a glance, trypophobia is almost committed.Liu Xie had been supervising them for so long and was tired and hungry, so he ordered the soldiers to put the iron pan on, and asked Xu Chu to bring someone from a restaurant in Luoyang to bring a large barrel of soybean oil, wash the locusts a little bit, throw them in and fry them, and add some more Salt goes in.
Immediately, the fragrance drifted away.
Liu Xie took the lead and ate a bowl of fried locusts, and let the soldiers and the people share the rest.
Seeing that the Son of Heaven ate it all, these people were no longer afraid, and they were eager to try it.At this time, ordinary people and soldiers, where can they usually eat this kind of fried food, feel that it tastes delicious in the world.
The fried locusts are crispy and fragrant.In this day and age, people dare not catch and eat locusts, and they don't know that locusts are edible.At this time, a mainstream view was that locusts were a punishment from heaven, and eating locusts might offend God, which might lead to even greater disasters.
"You guys are different from me. You have the blessing of heaven's temper, so you can't eat locusts raw. If you are too hungry, you can cook them, but you must cook them at a high temperature. If you don't eat them, you must burn them with fire." Otherwise, if you bury it in the soil or throw it into the water, it will regenerate.” Liu Xie Kepu said that it is impractical for ordinary people to waste a pot of oil for locusts, so he recommended boiling Familiar with this way of eating.
Locusts are commonly known as grasshoppers by modern people. They are usually gentle and high-protein foods. They are not cheap delicacies on modern people's tables.However, when food is greatly reduced during a severe drought, the locusts will gather together and become extremely ferocious, and even produce a poisonous substance in their bodies, so that birds dare not easily prey on them.Because he was afraid of being poisoned, Liu Xie didn't let them eat it raw.
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