"The restaurant incident is not a big deal!"

"The locust plague is the most important thing now. It is natural for you to buy locusts. How should you deal with the locusts that can be bought? And is your price for 14 too high? Nowadays, one stone of rice is only five or six hundred yuan!"
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After a moment of silence, Li Shimin spoke again.

Li Shimin, as the emperor, is naturally aware of Li Ming's actions.

Such a large-scale acquisition made him a little confused.

"Father, locusts are not a disaster, but a wealth. They can be fed to chickens, ducks, pigs and other poultry. They are better than feeding grains."

"As for the price, it is only at this price for the initial purchase because it is necessary to prevent the locusts from continuing to expand. When the locusts become adults, the price will drop."

After speaking, Li Ming slowly explained.

The current price of locusts is naturally high.

But now is the critical period for locusts to hatch, and there is no harm in being high.

The purpose is to suppress the expansion of locusts.

Once the locusts become adults, the price will naturally drop.

Anyway, he is a buyer, and the price of the goods is completely determined by him. There will be no problems at all in this feudal society.

"Better than grain?"

Listening to Li Ming's words, Li Shimin was slightly stunned.

"Yes, the value of my father's locusts is actually very high. As long as there is no locust plague, they are not only non-toxic, but they can also make livestock grow rapidly. The pigs, chickens and ducks fed by my father and I have obviously grown much faster."

"And locusts can also be added to military rations, which can make soldiers healthier."

Li Ming nodded.

He is not talking nonsense about this, but during the period of feeding locusts, chickens, ducks, and pigs do grow much faster.

"Is this true?"

Li Shimin stood up instantly, and then looked directly at Li Ming, with a mixture of hope and disbelief.

As a horse-riding emperor, he knows very well what the army represents.

Locusts can actually make soldiers physically better. In the ancient army, the better the soldier's health, the stronger his combat effectiveness. This alone was enough to make him unable to hold back.

"It's true!~"

"If my father doesn't believe it, you can add some locust powder into the army rations."

"But my father has to pay for it."

Li Ming answered with a smile.

In previous lives, locusts were eaten in large quantities in many African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries and have always been used as food.

Locusts are an excellent source of protein and contain a variety of fatty acids and minerals. Although many people think that locusts are not tasty, they are an important food source in many other countries.

As for whether it's delicious or not, who cares in this day and age.

"Okay!"

"You prepare some immediately, and I will ask the Ministry of Accounts to purchase some. If it works, you have done a great job!"

Li Shimin nodded directly. Even if Li Ming said that he needed to buy it, he didn't care too much at this time.

If it can really improve the body of a soldier, no matter how high the price is, it will be enough.

"Father, you can rest assured that this will definitely be possible."

"However, locusts are best used as staple food. The taste is too bad. They can be added to bean cakes and other dry food for soldiers to eat."

Li Ming nodded with confirmation.

In this era when there is not enough protein supplement, any protein supplement will greatly improve the body of the soldiers, let alone the high protein of locusts.

Of course he can be sure.

"Haha, I didn't expect that locusts can be of such great use!"

"Fourteen, you can buy it with all your strength. If you have any needs, you can tell me at any time and I will definitely satisfy you."

Li Shimin laughed and spoke.

Li Ming's affirmative words left him without much doubt.

The huge role of locusts was something Li Shimin did not expect.

He was still worried about how Li Ming would deal with so many locusts after he acquired them.

If it cannot be processed and can only be destroyed at that time, then these millions of coins will really be a waste of money.

Now this is simply turning waste into treasure.

Even at this moment, he thought of a key question.

That is, locusts can be eaten, so why can’t they be used as food?

The taste is too bad.

Too bad can be worse than barkgrass roots.

In the case of food shortage, locusts are not a staple food.

It’s hard to imagine how many locusts there are. This is undoubtedly a massive amount of food.

At this moment, the original food problem seems to have been solved.

"Thank you, Father!"

Li Ming quickly thanked him.

"No problem!"

Li Shimin waved his hand, and the mountain weighing on him instantly became lighter. After all, the biggest problem for him before was the food problem.

Although there is a lot of food accumulated in the ninth year of Taketori, it can only be barely recovered. Facing the big disaster, I am still a little panicked. Now that locusts have joined in, at least a large part of the problem can be solved.

"By the way, how is the repair of your road?"

Li Shimin seemed to have thought of something and asked casually.

A month and a half ago, Li Mingke said that he would build a straight Qin Road.

Although there is still one and a half months left before the construction period, Li Shimin still thought of this straight path after no longer considering the food and locust issues.

After all, everyone wants to recreate the grand scene of the First Emperor.

Straightforwardness is undoubtedly one of the reasons why the First Emperor was able to create great achievements for thousands of years.

"According to Huai Dao and Chu Liang, it should have been almost completed yesterday!"

Listening to Li Shimin's inquiry, Li Ming smiled and spoke.

As the chief designer, although he has been paying attention to the locust plague and locusts recently, he is still extremely concerned about the construction of roads.

He even went over to check it out in person a few days ago.

It has to be said that Qin Huaidao and Cheng Chuliang are still very capable.

In one and a half months, it was almost completed by then, and it was just a matter of finishing.

Now that I have spent another four or five days, I think it should be completed.

"Oh?"

"So fast?"

Li Shimin didn't pay too much attention to Qin Huaidao and Cheng Chuliang's road construction. He just wanted to use the road construction to train them. What he cared about was that this time the road was repaired so quickly. In less than two months, to be precise, it was only

More than a month.

Three months has gone by very quickly.

Let alone more than a month.

You must know that in the past, the construction of an official road often took several years, or even more than ten years.

Even a small official road leading to Wannian County will take more than half a year to build.

But now it’s so fast.

This really surprised Li Shimin.

"It should be almost done."

"When I went to check it out a few days ago, the final work had already been completed."

Li Ming nodded and answered.

"Okay!"

"Let's go, I'm free today, let's go take a look!"
Chapter completed!