Chapter 193 Suicide by swallowing locusts
A good nature class turned into a food class in the blink of an eye.
Qin Lang also invited an old Chinese doctor to explain the medicinal properties of locusts.
"Locusts can warm the stomach and help yang, invigorate the spleen and eliminate food, and have the effect of dispelling wind and relieving cough. Used alone or in combination, locusts can treat a variety of diseases, such as tetanus, convulsions in children, fever, asthma, fever, and For chilblain, chilblain, etc., ten can be decocted and taken, or it can be fried and ground into powder. For frostbite, it can be fried and powdered with sesame oil and applied to the affected area, it will have a miraculous effect..."
This old Chinese medicine man with a white beard, Qin Lang introduced him as an expert recruited by the Zhenfu Division, who studied under the medicine king Sun Simiao and was a direct disciple of the medicine king.
When the name of Medicine King came out, everyone was naturally surprised. Sun Simiao's reputation in Guanzhong was too great, but he didn't care about this official recruited for several dynasties, and he had no intention of official career.
The apprentice of such an old **** is naturally an expert. He said that locusts have miraculous effects, so they must have miraculous effects.
And Qin Lang personally cooked several migratory locust delicacies, such as fried chicken, drunk grasshopper, grilled flying shrimp, migratory locust Tengda, Jinsha flying geese, spicy grasshopper, and grasshopper crossing the snow mountain. ·····
One dish after another is made in exquisite style, and it smells delicious from a distance.
Li Shimin and the princes and prime ministers did not expect that this Yi Guogong, who is particularly capable of doing things, turned out to be a hidden culinary master.
It’s no wonder that he is a master who can write the Three Character Classic. Looking at the dishes he cooks, they are obviously made of locusts, but the name of the family is nice, like chickens, shrimps and geese.
“I recently wrote three books, one called The Sky Chicken Cookbook, one called The Value of Locust Feed, and one called The Locust Medicine.”
Li Cunxiao cooperated very well today. Every time Qin Lang cooked a locust dish, he showed a full demeanor of eating and broadcasting. There were all kinds of real fragrances in his mouth. One person ate dozens of locusts.
Then Pei Xingjian joined in midway.
In fact, he is also Qin Lang's entrustment, and he has already tasted the delicious food. If it wasn't for Qin Lang's arrangement, he could not wait to come up to eat it.
Then Li Jinxing's sons Li Sijing and Li Xiu also came up.
They are originally barbarians, so there is no psychological taboo to eat these wild game.
Maybe it's because the fried locusts are really delicious, maybe it's because Cun Xiao and the others taste crunchy and tempting, Li Shimin and others are still frowning, but many students finally couldn't help but come up one by one.
At the beginning, I was still trying to taste it carefully, but after one bite, it became a competition between you and me.
Wei Wang Li Tai has been at war with heaven and man in his heart for a long time, and finally he couldn't resist the temptation to go up. His chubby figure knows that he is also a foodie. Seeing how delicious everyone's food is, how can he resist it.
A fried chicken entered the mouth, so it got out of hand.
This man is very filial, knowing that his father is here today, so after eating a few, he quickly remembered to run to Li Shimin with a plate of fried chicken.
Li Shimin looked at the fried locusts in front of him, and was a little scared.
Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and others shouted that they couldn't eat it.
Qin Lang stepped forward, taking one bite at a time.
"Why can't I eat it?"
Xiao Yu still insisted on his theory, "Locusts are messengers sent by heaven to warn, how can they be eaten?"
"The meat of this locust is soft, tender, and as delicious as shrimp is better than chicken. You really don't know how to eat it!"
"You will offend the heavens by doing this."
"I only know that these locusts will eat our crops and food, and will make the people of my Tang Dynasty have no food to eat, and will make countless people hungry. They will even sell their wives and daughters in the future, and what's more, they will exchange their children for food. So I don’t think it’s an angel, it’s a pest, and its only use is to eat it, feed it for chickens and ducks, or make it into medicine.”
"Your Majesty, I believe that all the people in the world should be called to eat locusts and catch locusts."
"If the locusts are really angels, then they have become the food of the people in this disaster year, and they have immeasurable merit. Wouldn't it be better?"
Li Shimin listened to Qin Lang fighting the group of Confucians alone there, and suddenly stretched out his hand to pick up a fried locust and put it into his mouth. He came back to his senses amidst an exclamation.
Damn it, the smell is so enticing, Li Tai held the plate right in front of his nose.
Although he was startled awake, Li Shimin found that the thing in his mouth was really delicious.
I don’t know whether it’s Qin Lang’s skill or his secret thirteen incense. In short, after deep-frying, it is indeed charred on the outside and tender on the inside, as delicious as shrimp.
"Your Majesty, how does it taste?" Qin Lang asked with a smile.
Li Shimin looked at the ministers who were staring at him, thinking about it.
As Qin Lang said, if locusts want to eat the rations of his people, they should let everyone exterminate the locusts. Now the locusts are really delicious, and the disciples of the King of Medicine testify that this food is not only edible but also invigorating the spleen It has functions such as warming the stomach, so why not eat it? Do you really want to sit back and watch these **** angels eat up the food and crops of the people, and finally let the people build locust temples for them to worship them?
Shit!
There was a small plague of locusts in three years, and a major disaster in 1989. Li Shimin has seen the consequences of locust plagues several times, especially the kind of large locust plagues that can sweep thousands of miles and make hungry people everywhere.
No matter how unpalatable the locust is, he has to eat it, not to mention, this thing is really delicious.
Li Shimin took another big bite.
crunch.
crunch.
The monarch and his ministers crunch together.
Wei Wang Li Tai also picked up one and crunched it.
Finally, even Xiao Yu's son handed one to it while crunching.
"Song Guogong, people depend on grain for their life, but locusts eat it, which is harmful to the people. The people have no fault, but I have a soul. If it has a spirit, it will eat my heart and harm the people."
As Li Shimin said, he picked up another one and started to chew it.
Xiao Yu's mouth twitched, but he still said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you will become ill, so don't do it."
Li Shimin has a face full of righteousness in the world, "I am looking forward to averting the disaster, so how can I avoid it?"
So, I picked up another one and continued to crunch it.
Qin Lang was on the verge of applauding Li Shimin, this acting made Xiao Cai feel so embarrassed.
In fact, in the final analysis, whether it is Li Shimin, Qin Lang, Xiao Yu, etc., everyone knows the essence of the induction between heaven and man. This is what the literati and bureaucrats used to restrain the emperor. No one can restrain the emperor anymore.
Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, the Confucians had no choice but to come up with such a theory of induction between heaven and man, just to restrain the emperor. You are the emperor, and we human officials cannot restrain you. .
The emperors of all dynasties have not known this trick, but what the emperor needs to maintain is the monarchy and gods to stabilize his imperial power, so sometimes he has to hold his nose and admit it. After all, the courtiers don't dare to use the induction of heaven and man for everything, and only dare to borrow it when they encounter major natural disasters.
It’s okay for everyone to meet each other psychologically.
Now, Xiao Yu and others are using this as an argument again, and Li Shimin wanted to pinch his nose to admit it, but the investigation report from the Zhenfu Department really shocked Li Shimin. At this time, it is not whether he is willing to recognize the induction between heaven and man, but Xiao Yu shouldn't say this at this time.
Li Shimin is now eating locusts in public, and he has made a name for himself.
It is said that the heavens have committed crimes, but the people are innocent, so if you want to punish them, you can directly punish me. You don’t want to eat the people’s grains, but you can directly eat my heart.
In this way, Li Shimin didn’t say that the locusts were not the messengers of heaven, but he said that I was responsible for the crime alone, and if I went to eat the people’s grains, you would not give me Li Shimin face, and the people can eat locusts.
Xiao Yu really didn't expect the emperor to play this trick with him.
I couldn’t find a rebuttal for a while, I can only say that eating locusts is sick, but the disciples of the medicine king all showed up, saying that this stuff can cure diseases and protect health, Qin Lang also said it was delicious, they said it was sent down from heaven to help the people survived the famine.
In this way, everyone has a set of rhetoric, who can represent God?
Of course, the emperor has the final right of interpretation.
Cheng Yaojin had been sitting there and taking a nap before, and the argument had come to an end, so he immediately strode forward, grabbed a handful of fried locusts and threw them into his mouth.
crunch.
"If the crime is punished, please let the minister share the burden, but it eats my heart!"
"My minister, please share, but it eats my heart!"
More and more princes and prime ministers came up to eat locusts. At first, they seemed to die generously, but after one bite, they became really fragrant.
Xiao Yu stood there, but he couldn't get off the tiger.
You talk about the induction between heaven and man, but Li Shimin has already cracked it. Now that you are against the generals, if you don’t eat locusts, you are unwilling to be with the emperor, and you are unwilling to share the sins of heaven for the emperor.
Originally, heaven and man respond to heaven and man. In the Han Dynasty, if there was a warning from heaven to punish the crime, it was often the prime minister who had to bear the responsibility first, and the prime ministers often took the blame and resigned.
Now that the Tang Dynasty is not in favor of this kind of thing, you are not asked to take the blame from the prime minister, but you must share the burden with the emperor at this time, right?
Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Yu Chigong, Hou Junji, each grabbed a handful of fried locusts in each hand, and ate them viciously, glaring at Xiao Yu while eating.
Li Jing, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, etc. are also eating.
Xiao Yu had no choice but to know that he would not be able to eat today.
In the end, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and grab one, closed his eyes, tried not to look or think about it, and threw it into his mouth cruelly.
He swallowed it straight away.
As a result, Qin Lang handed over another one.
"Song Guogong eats so fast, let's have some more."
Xiao Yu refused and couldn't refuse, so he had to eat again, but this time the one Qin Lang gave him was too big, he didn't swallow it in one bite, and he didn't dare to spit it out in front of the emperor, so he had to chew it up, and ended up chewing it a few times.
How to really chew the more flavorful.
crunch.
crunch crunch crunch.
It seems that the chicken is really delicious and scary.
Chew two more bites, crunching.
It smells so good!
(end of this chapter)