It's one thing for locusts to be hard to catch.Moreover, the locusts in the locust plague are not quite the same as ordinary locusts, not only do they not have half a silk meat, but they are also flying locusts, agile and fast.Chongzhen didn't want to argue with the ministers about eating locusts, but Wen Tiren was right about one thing.This locust still has to be killed.But Chongzhen is not ready to just order the people to be hunted and killed, he has to give an order to the government and let the government organize, so that he can get twice the result with half the effort.Chongzhen looked around at the Manchu Dynasty and said slowly, "Wen Aiqing is right, I immediately ordered to capture the locusts and transport them to Beijing, which can offset part of the taxes and forced labor.The more locusts an official catches under his jurisdiction, I will increase the number of officials and even give the title of the fifth generation, which is admirable!"
Chongzhen has already figured it out.The locusts must be exterminated, and the enthusiasm of the government must be mobilized, and a little sweetness must be given to these mediocre officials of the Ming Dynasty.Otherwise, without the vigorous organization of the government, there is absolutely no way to eliminate locusts by relying on the common people to hunt and kill.This thing is overwhelming, and it can devour all the green plants in a few days, even hours, and the common people can't guard against it.But if there is a government organization, it is different, in view of the cement invented by Chongzhen, the main roads in many places in the Ming Dynasty are now paved with cement, and the speed of information transmission is much faster than before.In addition, Chongzhen improved the horse breeding technology.How can our Emperor know how to keep the horse breed unchanged?
Well, in fact, it's still due to the fact that he used to like some indifferent websites, and he didn't learn serious things, but he learned a lot of crooked things, such as horse breeding.To tell the truth, since ancient times, China has not been good at raising horses, and with frequent wars, no one has anything to eat, let alone horses.You must know that horses are very delicate creatures, unlike donkeys and mules, which can be fed no matter how they are fed, donkeys and mules can grow fat and strong by eating bran and straw poles, and horses must eat good food.Horses, if you feed them a little poorly and the environment is a little dirty, it will lose weight or get sick.Therefore, the Central Plains Dynasty finally got back the good horse breed, but in a few generations, it can degenerate into bad horses, these bad horses are not used to carry things, and they are even more fucked up when they fight, and they can't run fast when they come to run.Later, the nomads have been guarding against the Central Plains, and they will not bring good horse breeds to each other, so although there are many horses in the Ming Dynasty, good horses are scarce, and war horses are even less and fewer.All this changed in the Chongzhen Dynasty.Now Bu Lost Rabbit dominates Mongolia.Coupled with his wool trade with the Ming Dynasty, he had a lot of silver on hand, and Mongolia has been in contact with many Western countries since ancient times, and Bu Lost Rabbit introduced Arab war horses.This guy is now loyal to Chongzhen, the heavenly khan, and naturally he will not be stingy with good horse breeds, and countless Arab war horses and Mongolian excellent horse breeds have entered the Ming Dynasty.These horses have improved the horse breed of the Ming Dynasty, whether they are pack horses or war horses, they are more than one grade higher than before.In fact, now the herdsmen of the entire Mongol Khanate are grateful to Emperor Chongzhen, and Chongzhen is their heavenly khan.Today's Daming is full of good horses.Countless horses galloped on the cement official road of Daming, passing all kinds of letters and materials in all directions.Therefore, as soon as the locusts appeared in a county, all the surrounding counties and towns knew about it, and then the common people, under the organization of the government, deployed in advance to arrest the locusts.Compile a small net that can catch locusts, light a fire at night to trap and kill, countless locusts have not had time to land, they are caught by the common people, with the organization, the power of the masses is great.Then these poor locusts were taken as political achievements by the local officials, and they were pulled to the capital by trucks and boats.Countless locusts are about to fill the several large warehouses set up by Chongzhen.Chongzhen looked at these things, and he was about to die, and now the locust plague is in sight, although it is gratifying.But it's not a matter for all these dead locusts to be piled up in the capital, looking at the diaphragm.Although locusts can be eaten, to be honest, these flying locusts are not the type of locusts that are delicious.They are all thin and thin, and they are completely different from the kind of chubby green locusts that Chongzhen caught in the countryside when he was a child.Consumers won't buy it.It's hard to eat.Lost, reluctant.Sent to the Northwest for relief of disaster victims?
The victims are dying of hunger, and they shouldn't dislike these dead locusts, but Chongzhen feels a little unauthentic.If it is written by the historian, what will future generations think?
Well, although Chongzhen's reputation now is not very good.Nima, these things are also what he bought with countless official positions, as well as tax money and food, isn't it a pity to lose them in vain?
After thinking about it, Chongzhen suddenly remembered the spicy noodles he had eaten in modern society.The raw materials of spicy noodles are extremely cheap, and the spicy noodles made of soybeans and flour are considered conscientious spicy noodles, and there are even spicy noodles made by melting them in plastic bags, which makes me sick to death when I think about it.This thing is quite low, it can be called the first junk food, but it is such a low-level spicy strip, but it sells quite hot, and it is known as a divine object.Regardless of whether you are staying at home or playing games all night in an Internet café, eating a pack of spicy noodles is simply very happy, and there is an inexplicable sense of steadiness.Right!
I made these locusts into spicy strips.Spicy strips are actually very simple to make, and they don't require any high-tech stuff.Chili peppers, salt, oil, sugar, plus a lot of MSG, and some messy junk condiments will do.Chili peppers don't need any good chili peppers, just chili peppers.Salt, although Chongzhen can't master the salt policy now, there is still a lot of sea salt in the Ming Dynasty, which is simply inexhaustible and inexhaustible.Chongzhen had already ordered Zheng Zhilong to secretly open up several sea salt farms, and a lot of coarse salt came out.And with modern technology, the impurities in the coarse salt are removed, and these toxic sea salts become modern fine white salts.In addition, now that Daming has developed transportation, these sea salts can be transported to various places in minutes, and then impact the current salt market.Of course, Chongzhen is not in the mood to fight with the salt merchant now, the salt industry, the interest group is too deep, and now he doesn't want to have a few more assassinations or anything.Well, though there has always been no shortage of enemies who want to assassinate him.Sugar is a bit tricky.Sugar has been a luxury since ancient times, and it is not easy for ordinary people to eat sugar in ancient times.If Chongzhen uses sugar to make spicy strips, this is a bad behavior and will kill you.What is the difference between this and in modern society, where Ganoderma lucidum is fried and eaten as shiitake mushrooms?
Chongzhen thought about it and died of a headache.It seems that the locust spicy strip can't be done, what can these dead locusts be used for?