Chapter 210: Sacrifice to Heaven
Faced with the obscure reminder from the Tang Dynasty, Li Anran naturally could not understand the other party's meaning. At that moment, he had to send someone to exchange the batch of dried rice that he had brought before and the flour that was of poor quality but was also not bad to eat, directly with the grain merchants for cheap food, and then he got the cheapest grain, corn from modern time and space.
The reason why I didn’t buy corn but Chenyu and flour was mainly because these two things are cheaper than corn due to the quality and the owner’s eagerness to turn around. As for why I didn’t just make millet or millet from modern time and space, the reason is very simple. The price of these two kinds of grains is even much higher than that of ordinary rice and white flour.
Although the corn that Ang Lee then got was not a popular sweet and glutinous corn variety in modern time and space, it was the most common old yellow corn, which was much inferior in taste and nutrition. However, no matter whether it was ground into small particles and then cooked directly into corn rice, or ground into corn flour and then made into corn cakes, corn buns and other pasta, it was absolutely fine to fill the stomach.
In order to avoid the unacceptable new grain of corn, Li Anran also printed a large number of leaflets on how to eat corn in modern time and space, and asked Xiangyun to send people to deliver them to the purchase sites together with corn. He even asked the purchase sites to make corresponding food in advance and distributed them to the people who came to exchange for dried locusts.
As for those people who are still unwilling to exchange corn, they will not be forced to exchange. Anyway, the previous batch of dried rice and flour was exchanged for a large amount of corn and millet, so they can choose which one they want to exchange for. Even out of their love for food, Li Anran also made someone make the yellow buns in the documentary "Food on the Bite of the Tongue".
When returning to modern time and space collection, Li Anran also unexpectedly discovered that the old Huang couple who became famous for making yellow buns in "Food on the Tip of the Tongue" has now become the spokesperson for the special yellow buns for Xibei Northwest Cuisine, personally "supervising" this country neighbor snack to the dining table for more people.
According to online news, the price of this image spokesperson should be 300,000 yuan in three years. Although it is more than a little worse than those celebrity endorsements. But for a Lao Huang, who originally had an annual income of about 10,000 yuan, an annual salary of 100,000 yuan is already a very good price.
The old man's financial mind was actually pretty good. After receiving the endorsement fee of 300,000 yuan, he did not retire because of it. Instead, he used the money to set up a simple house next to his Sankong Cave as a processing room to expand the production of yellow buns. At the same time, he also registered a company called "Yulin Huang Laohan Food Co., Ltd.".
With the effect of his fame, Old Man Huang not only no longer has to tow his car to sell it himself. Moreover, the yellow buns that were originally one yuan each have also increased to two yuan each. The brand endorsed even sold at most three yuan each. It really makes people unable to help but think that it is not that he can't figure it out, but that the world is changing too quickly...
However, it has to be admitted that the yellow buns produced by using a series of procedures such as soaking, grinding, sieve, and fermenting, filling, steaming, and so on. The taste is indeed very distinctive. Compared with common rice with rice, this kind of steamed yellow buns that have been fermented cannot be easier to digest and have a better taste.
Especially the stuffing made of red dates and red beans on the buns made the yellow buns with a slightly single taste sweeter. Unfortunately, for the people who were suffering from locust plague in the time and space of the Tang Dynasty, those who were not filling were no longer at all, and the key was to be able to fill their stomachs.
Because the scale of this locust plague was quite large, in order to supply enough corn, Li Anran also worked tirelessly to return home. Taking advantage of the convenience of giving money in China, you can send a large amount of grain to the Tang Dynasty through the warehouses under the branches of the trading company in Nanjing and Shanghai.
It was precisely because of this batch of food that controlled the price of food that had originally surged due to the locust plague, which reduced Li Shimin, as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, a little less pressure. However, as the king of a country, it was naturally impossible to have no action when there was such a natural disaster on the other side. As the locust plague became more and more intense, a ceremony for offering sacrifices to heaven was grandly held.
Li Anran, who did not want to join this matter at all, politely declined the invitation sent by Li Shimin to the ground on the grounds that he still needed to transport food from the upper realm. However, he still learned about the grand occasion of this ceremony of worshiping the sky.
Considering that the locust plague was raging, Li Shimin was not so stupid as to create a big scene. He just brought a group of senior officials to show off on the altar built outside Chang'an City.
Li Anran had to admit that Li Shimin, as His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is indeed a ruthless person who killed his brother. When offering sacrifices to heaven, this person directly ate locusts and cursed him, saying, "People take grain as their life, and you harm it, which is to harm our people. The people have made mistakes, and I am giving one person. If you are spiritual, you should eat me and not harm our people!"
However, a group of civil and military officials persuaded him on the grounds that he might get sick by eating locusts. However, Li Shimin said: "What I want to avoid disasters when I move them?" As a result, none of the ministers could escape, and all enjoyed the treatment of tasting locusts.
If these people just eat the kind of baked locust dried meat, or the locusts sprinkled with five-spice powder after frying, Li Anran doesn't think it's anything. After all, although these two ways of eating are very disgusting to most, they can definitely be called two good dishes in terms of taste alone.
But it was speechless that the Tang Dynasty officials led by Li Shimin ate the kind of live locusts caught. According to unreliable news, there were many ministers who vomited after sacrifice to the sky. I heard that some people were directly unable to get out of bed after the incident and became sick.
After the sacrifice to the sky, Li Shimin, who found that the locust plague had no intention of reducing it, had to send someone to Xiaoyao Villa for help. Li Anran had to take advantage of his opportunity in modern time and space to get a considerable number of chickens, ducks, geese, quails, sparrows, partridges, turtle doves and other artificially raised edible poultry to send to several severely affected areas in the Tang Dynasty time and space.
Taking advantage of the impact of time and space travel on these poultry and birds, these things have resisted the initial pain and their amazing appetites have directly swallowed up a large number of locusts. At the same time, after receiving sufficient food and nutritional supplements, Li Anran also obtained a considerable batch of poultry and eggs, which is a good unexpected harvest.
Although a large number of artificially raised poultry such as sparrows, quails, partridges, turtle doves still have more or less flying capabilities, which directly led to the "lost" of this group of poultry, for Li Anran, this little loss will not be taken into his heart. Besides, isn't Li Shimin still the backer?
According to historical records, this locust plague lasted for a long time before it finally eased and ended with the strong intervention of the natural ecological system. However, with the actions of Li Anran, coupled with the wild birds, animals and even some insects in nature, it also put a lot of effort into it. As a result, the originally raging locust plague came to an end ahead of schedule.
Invisibly, it was a response to Li Shimin's previous act of worshiping the sky. In this way, rumors that had a lot of impact on Li Shimin were soon spread from somewhere. The saying that Li Shimin was ordered to go to heaven, and after worshiping the sky, the locust plague immediately began to disappear began to spread widely in various disaster areas.
It is precisely because of this that Li Anran, who was rushing around in the disaster areas of modern time and space and Tang Dynasty, was very dissatisfied. After a long time, his hero who rushed to the front line became a foil. Not only did he lose some practical benefits, but he also paid a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to enter.
Fortunately, Li Shimin is not the kind of person who kills donkeys, at least in targeting someone and the current situation. When the locust plague finally began to dissipate, the imperial edict from the Chang'an City Palace also arrived.
Chapter completed!