From Kowloon's Inheritance

Hua Wuying also stepped forward to eat.

The other officials also moved forward one after another, eating.

But the surrounding people still hesitated.

"Here I come!" A middle-aged man in a short shirt came out, stepped forward, grabbed the locust and ate it, and said while eating, "It's delicious, delicious, it's delicious. It's better than fish tofu. The villain, Li Erhei, is nothing big, but he is brave. The adults just said that it is delicious, so it must be delicious. Are you still deceiving us grassroots people who think too much of themselves!"

"If people are starving, they will eat people, eat tree bark, and eat Guanyin soil. Compared with eating locusts, eating locusts is really nothing, can they still be poisoned to death!"

"Even if it is poisoned to death, it is still a ghost of fullness, not a ghost of starvation!"

"But locusts are the messengers of the gods and gods, so it is ominous to kill locusts," said a commoner weakly.

Li Mu said with a smile: "The emperor is the son of heaven, what is the son of heaven? The son of heaven is the son of the emperor of heaven, and the gods are just the servants of the emperor of heaven, so there is a saying that the son of heaven enshrines the gods. Do you say that the son of heaven is greater, or the gods are greater?"

"The emperor is big!"

cried a commoner.

"That's right!" Li Mu laughed, "The emperor said that if we want to exterminate locusts, we must also exterminate locusts. God of locusts, in front of the emperor, you are not a fart!"

"Come and eat!"

Immediately, several people came forward to eat locusts.

Immediately, countless people came forward to eat the locusts, and the taste was really good.

Li Mu is very satisfied, please ask for a few entrustments, the acting is still good.

There is an example in the front, and the people in the back follow and eat locusts, and the people all have a herd mentality.

The first step, initial success.

But in the face of overwhelming locusts, eating alone is not enough. Even if everyone in Youzhou eats it, they won't be able to finish it in a short time.What's more, those who are willing to eat people are still a minority.

"This locust is a rare delicacy. If you don't eat it, it would be a pity. This Marquis encourages the people to catch the locusts. No matter what method you use, if you catch a hundred catties of locusts, you can exchange for one catty of grain with me. Catch the locusts It's easy!" Li Mu said intentionally.

Immediately, a policeman stepped forward, took a huge net bag, and waved it towards the sky.

After a while, the net bag was already densely swarmed with locusts.

Li Mu took the net bag and motioned the people to look at it, "You all see, it's so easy, there are at least five catties of locusts in this net bag. It's easy to catch locusts!"

Immediately, under the call, the people began to catch locusts.

This scene happened at the gates of various prefectures and counties at the same time, and the whole people fought against the locusts.

There are scenes of locust extermination everywhere, but the scene of locusts eating at the scene.

The battle between humans and locusts begins.

But there are too many locusts, there are billions, tens of billions, or even more, but there are too few human beings, and they are scattered everywhere. Try to kill the locusts, but it is still too slow, and it can't catch up with the locusts. speed.

But it's just nice to say.

Relying on the whole population to eat locusts, relying on the whole population to catch locusts is only to reduce the harm, it cannot really eliminate the locusts, it just reduces the loss.

Locusts are terrifying, but locusts bring harm and great fear.

With the arrival of the locusts, countless people began to rush to buy food from major grain stores.However, when the people arrived at the grain shop, they found that all the major grain shops were closed.

Are the people really short of food?

Not necessarily!

In this era, many people generally lack a sense of security, and they all have the habit of storing food at home.

There is surplus food at home.

Except for a few poor people who can't get rid of the pot, most of them have surplus food.

The so-called panic buying now is just a sign of panic.

Li Mu immediately issued an order to limit the purchase of food, receive according to the household registration, and the policy of food stamps.

Grain purchases are limited, and only people who have their household registration certificates can go to the vicinity of the official storehouse to buy grain, and the grain is limited to once every three days.

The food stamp policy also restricts the buying and selling of food and cracks down on speculation.

However, it is still not enough, and the grain stores still have to open.

In the government office, the bosses of the major food companies were gathered together, and the owners of the food companies showed excited smiles on their faces, and inadvertently showed contempt in their eyes.

Feng Shui turns around, and finally came to the government to ask for our time.

"Youzhou Zhizhou, Wushuanghou has arrived!"

With Li Mu's arrival, other officials arrived one after another, and the grain merchants who were talking about it just now became quiet.

"Everyone, the purpose of inviting you here today is obvious to everyone."

said an official.

"The locust plague is imminent, and the court is short of food, and the official food of the court alone cannot help the people. I hope that everyone will join us in uniting as one, and do a good job in helping the people. Here, thank you all."

"Wherever there is, it is my duty to open a warehouse to release grain. It's just that I don't look at the grain in my hand. The grain transported from other places is a lot of loss, and the price will have to be increased!" A boss said, "When the time comes, the price of grain will inevitably increase. Ascension, my lord didn't say I'll wait, just speculate and drive up prices!"

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Chapter 343 Building a Railway

"Master Hou, there is a shortage of food, and the rising price of food is a trend. We are operating on a small budget, so we can't do business at a loss, right?"

"My lord, food price increases are inevitable!"

Another grain merchant said.

Other businessmen also spoke one after another.

It seems that the price increase of food is a reasonable thing.

But in fact, it doesn't make sense at all.

As long as Li Mu opens his mouth, the merchant can increase the price without a bottom line.

Not long ago, the price of a bucket of rice was [-], but as long as he opened his mouth, it was possible to directly increase the price to [-] or [-] for a bucket of rice.

Of course, Li Mu relied on government orders to forcibly set the price of grain at a certain position, but this would lead to a continuous decrease in the normal circulation of grain in the market, while the price of grain in the black market would continue to soar.