Chapter 1219: Locust Feast
After Bao Zheng finished speaking, he was about to give orders, but at this time, Hua Lang stopped him, seeing that Hua Lang stopped him, Bao Zheng was a little strange, thinking that Hua Lang was against him doing this, so he asked: "Brother Hua, but what is the problem?" ”
Hua Lang nodded: "Brother Bao ran out like this and ordered the people, I'm afraid they won't dare to do it, I don't think it's as good as this, this evening on a street in front of the Yamen of Huainan Mansion, how about we open a flowing water banquet, it's called a locust feast." ”
After Bao Zheng heard this method, he nodded again and again, but he felt that it was inappropriate, and asked, "Just eat this flying locust Tengda?" ”
Hua Lang shook his head and said: "Fei Ye, out of this flying locust Tengda, there are also chicken and shrimp steaks, Shanghai drunken grasshoppers, spicy grasshoppers, fried locusts, braised locusts, fried chicken, fried flying shrimp, grasshoppers over the snow mountain, a total of ten dishes, enough for the people of Huainan to eat enough, and now what we have to do is to have enough locusts, so this point has to bother Brother Bao to order people to go down, and in addition, I also need dozens of cooks, after all, the people of the entire Huainan City come to the banquet, and it is not enough to have dozens of cooks, of course, The kitchen is not enough, but this is not difficult, and the kitchens of the people in the neighborhood can be borrowed. ”
Hearing Hua Lang say so many dishes, everyone's saliva flowed out, as for the kitchen and chef he said later, they didn't listen to it for a while, until Hua Lang said it again, these people hurriedly did what Hua Lang said.
Everything is going on, and everything is going well, many people are catching grasshoppers in the fields in the suburbs, there are many people, and even if there are more grasshoppers for a while, most of them are caught by the people, so after catching the locusts, they deal with them according to the way Hualang has done it, and after processing, they are sent to the kitchen by the chef to start cooking, and the cooking technology, Hualang has been handed over to them, but now Hualang, but he doesn't have to do it himself.
Dusk finally came, and the street in front of the Yamen of Huainan Mansion was full of tables, and people were sitting on each table, and these people's clothes were very dirty, not at all like going to the banquet, but no one said anyone, because everyone was the same, and in addition to being dirty, they also had another common feature, that is, expectation.
After being hungry for so many days and eating rice for so many days, they can finally eat meat, how can they not look forward to it?
The meals were served to the table one after another, everyone smelled the fragrance, they were a little unbearable, a plate came up, immediately grabbed and emptied, and then a plate came up, immediately grabbed and gone, so everyone ate until the cold wind rose in the evening, this was slightly full, this is so many days, they eat the fullest, but also the most fragrant one.
After eating, everyone dispersed one after another, there was a moon tonight, under the moonlight, the street in Huainan City seemed deserted, and just now, it was lively here.
The cold wind is blowing, but Hua Lang feels so tired, he only hopes that his efforts are not in vain, today's banquet, it can be said that Hua Lang's plan is half successful, because there are many locusts that everyone culls today, otherwise it would not be able to eat for so many people.
And when everyone remembers the deliciousness of those meals, they will consciously go to catch locusts to eat, so that even if there are many locusts outside, it is not enough for these people to eat a few meals, so that not only the locusts are eliminated, but also let these people eat their stomachs, which is really a good thing.
The wind has cooled slightly, the locust matter is solved, and next, Hualang they have to solve the problem of food, the food they got in the stream shop is too little, it is not enough to distribute to the people, can only be used as the need to open porridge tents, but if you want these people to spend this winter, and plant crops in the spring of the next year, then you must have more food, according to Hualang's speculation and calculation, you may need rice grain in all the rice grain shops in Huainan City.
And according to Hua Lang's plan, he asked for these rice grains and did not spend a penny.
They can't spend any more money, first of all, they don't have so much money, and secondly, through the continuous increase in the price of rice grain in these rice grain shops for a period of time, the money paid by the people is enough to buy the rice grain in these rice grain stores.
Although the business pays attention to your love and my wishes, but these profiteers are raising prices regardless of the lives of the people, and before Bao Zheng comes, many people starved to death, and these rice and grain stores continue to increase prices, just like murderers, and they are lucky not to be punished.
It's just that it's not easy to get those rice grains, although according to Hua Lang's meaning, the owners of these rice grain shops have made enough money, and they won't lose money if they take their grain, but those rice grains are their own things, how can they let them donate them for no reason?
This is obviously unlikely, even if those people feel uneasy, they can't donate the rice and grain from the store, they are not stupid!
The night was late, there was nothing to say all night, the next morning, the people in the city rushed out of the city, they wanted to catch locusts, after the locust feast last night, their fear of locusts has turned into love, it is all food, we must hurry to grab it, the more you rob, the more you can eat, the more you can live in this situation.
For a while, all the people were rushing to fight the locusts, and their purpose was very simple, to eat those locusts as food, or even when it could be said to be a reserve, even if they couldn't finish a day, they could also keep it and wait for the next day or third day to eat, after all, they still relied on the help of the porridge tent, and the help of the porridge tent could not let them eat at all, but only let them not starve to death.
And what if the porridge tent is no longer available, so they have to do their best to catch locusts.
There are thousands of locusts in the suburbs, but under the crazy actions of these people, they were caught within two days, and the locusts caught by each household are basically enough for them to eat for seven or eight days.
Many times, for the people at the bottom, happiness is really that simple, just be able to eat enough!
And when the people were frantically catching locusts, Hua Lang and they had already begun to fight the idea of rice grain in those rice grain stores in Huainan City, and it was a bad idea.