Nothing in the entire Shandong East Road can be as popular as a locust in Shandong East Road.

The whole nation catches locusts!

By the river, in the fields, in the fields.

During the day, there are people digging trenches everywhere, just like tunnel warfare, with ditches everywhere. Fortunately, these trenches do not need to be dug very deeply, and countless people are cutting wood, no matter what kind of mixed wood and thatch are cutting. The cut firewood is pulled to the edge of the river beach in the fields and piled up a lot of them at a distance.

When night fell, everyone lit piles of firewood.

When locusts come to the fire and the people who have already been waiting for good, they will set up a network to wait, big networks, small networks, and even hold willow baskets directly.

The locusts were taken down, put them directly into a cloth bag, covered in a basket, and threw them into the water to drown. The locusts were too powerful. If they did not drown them, they could even bite the bag.

One night, the fire kept adding firewood to burn a lot of firewood, and the locusts caught were even more amazing. Although the locusts this fall have not yet reached the overwhelming shock of the huge locust plague, there are quite a few.

One night, hundreds or thousands of bags of locusts can be caught by a fire.

In the morning, when the locusts stop extinguishing the fire.

Everyone extinguished the fire and started loading baskets of locusts into the truck, and then pulled them to the mills.

Many large mills have been built in various prefectures, counties and townships recently. Large mills need to be pulled by mules and horses, and some are directly built by the river and driven by hydraulic power.

Throw bags of locusts directly into the grinding trough, grind them into paste, then steam them, and then dry them after steaming.

It looked disgusting, and after grinding and steaming, it turned into locust powder. Then it was taken to disaster relief cake shops in various places, and it was equipped with various grains, as well as wheat peel, chaff, leaves, grass roots, etc., and processed them into disaster relief food.

The number of locusts caught was shocking.

In Xiangzhou alone, more than 100,000 rocks were caught in just a few days. More than one million stones were captured in the entire 16 prefectures of Shandong East Road.

"Prime Minister, it is too easy to catch locusts. It is much easier than fishing. In one night, you can catch countless locusts. Every ditch next to the fire is full of, and you can't even fit with a bag or a frame. That scene is scary."

"That's a good thing. Locusts eat crops, so we will eat locusts to see who is more powerful!" Li Chao heard that the results of catching locusts were amazing, so he smiled a little.

This is also a victory in the first battle.

Locusts are insects, but not poisonous insects, they can be eaten. Although their wings and feet are hard and unpalatable, and the things in their stomachs are not delicious without removing them, they are not bothered at this time. This is like surviving on a deserted island. What you consider is not the taste or appearance, but only simple protein and calories.

"If people in the past understood this, so many people would not have died during the famine." A group of officials sighed.

"This is the role of the government and the power of the organization. No one plans and coordinates, no one commands the organization. Although there are many people, they cannot reflect their strength. It is just a group of loose sand. If organized properly, a plate of loose sand can condense into iron. Natural disasters and famines are not the most terrible. The most terrible thing is the lack of management. After losing order, chaos is the most terrible."

How terrible is the power of an organization?

Anyway, the entire Sixteen State of Shandong Province is now striving for food. Everything that can be eaten is being captured and picked, and it was processed and stored. The wild beasts in the mountains, the birds in the sky, the fish in the water, the fruits on the trees, the wild vegetables on the ground, the vegetables in the fields, and even the edible leaves, bark, and the roots.

Get them all down and process them.

Li Chao ordered that now all the grain stores in the sixteen prefectures of Shandong East Road have basically been unified by the government. Even if they come with grain coupons, they can only receive grain from nine to one, nine points for disaster relief and one point for pure grain.

Almost all restaurants, hotels and restaurants are closed.

This feels like it was in the later generations. It would not be possible to close the door. They could not buy food. Now they all buy food based on grain coupons. The government does not give these catering industries a fixed amount of business. How can they do business with their own food?

Now there are only a few restaurants left in each place, and you still need to obtain a special business certificate. If you go to these restaurants, you can only use food coupons. This is to take care of those who are away from home. You must be outsiders to eat in the restaurant, and you have to be guided by the way. You are a local, and you are not qualified to go to the restaurant even if you have food coupons.

A large number of black households have also surfaced.

When you get food coupons everywhere, black households mean that you can’t buy food even if you have money. Although there is still a black market. The landlords and tyrants still have a lot of food in their hands, but the government prohibits the black grain market. Once discovered, not only will it be confiscated, but it will also be punished, not only will it be fined, but only the grain will be fined.

If you dare to sell one stone, the government will dare to punish you ten stones until you don’t dare to sell them secretly.

Many black households are not rich people. Many of them are just tenants. At the beginning of the famine, the land was completely harvested, and the family could not receive the grain stored at home. The master did not dare to give them food at this time. If they dared to give it, they would be severely punished if they found out.

The black households were forced to come to the government to register. Only after registering could they buy food and receive relief food.

For these black households, especially those who have no money, Li Chao's way of dealing with them is to send them to the frontier. He prepared some locust cakes for them, and then collected a batch and sent them a batch.

If you send some away, the food shortage will be reduced. Instead of trying to find ways to transport grain from various places to disaster areas, it is better to send people directly from disaster areas to places with food.

Although the border is remote, it does not lack food. Even if the cultivated land is insufficient, it can still be grazed and hunted, and can also trade with nomadic tribes.

Even if you take the blame, you can exchange several sheep with the herdsmen.

Everything seemed to be going well, but Li Chao did not dare to be careless. He knew that he was actually walking on thin ice now.

Sometimes, what you worry about will really come.

When the locust harvest was reported continuously in various places, a fast horse ran into Xiangyang City.

"Fangzhou urgently reported! The local powerful Sun family has rebelled. It has now broken through Shangyong County. Many local big families responded. Now the rebels have gathered more than a thousand people!"

Against it.

Someone finally turned the rebellion.

Li Chao was surprised and not surprised at this news.

Many of Li Chao's policies in Shannan were to grab grain from the rich and powerful people, but Li Chao wouldn't do it if he didn't. Under his high-pressure policy, many powerful people were still enduring it, but finally some people couldn't help it.
Chapter completed!