After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 72 The Princess Laughs

With the fall of the executioner's butcher's knife, Liu Cheng and a group of important prisoners were all beheaded.

Amidst the cheers of the people, Yang Kuo, who had a flesh and blood body, was cut to the bone.

Some people in the city even fought for his flesh and blood, packed them up and took them home to feed their dogs.

The censor of Guannei Road, who was a disaster, ended his sinful life in this way.

Maybe there is a destiny in the dark, at the moment when Yang Kuo was cut, the sun was shining in the sky, and it suddenly rained heavily.

The drought-stricken Kunzhou City seems to have been baptized and regained a new life.

Regardless of high or low, the common people embraced each other and reveled in the rain.

The bean-sized raindrops wet Li Lingyue's clothes, and the rainwater flowed down her forehead and into her mouth, it was cool, with a hint of sweetness that was endlessly aftertaste.

Gong'er found an oiled paper umbrella from nowhere, and just about to put it on for her, Li Lingyue waved her hand and looked up at the sky, like a statue standing quietly in the rain.

It's all... finally over!
At dawn on the second day, the sound of firecrackers in the city of Yanzhou continued for a long time. Li Zhi woke up from his sleep, and Eunuch Chen took several maids to wash and dress him.

"Eunuch Chen, what happened outside, why are there firecrackers all the time!" Li Zhi asked curiously.

While arranging Li Zhi's belt, Eunuch Chen replied uncertainly:
"Returning to Your Majesty, it seems that merchants are setting off firecrackers, maybe it has something to do with the imperial decree?"

"Imperial decree? What imperial decree?" Li Zhi was puzzled.

Eunuch Chen reminded softly: "It's the imperial decree that the princess took yesterday. Because it rained yesterday, the princess didn't read it out, so early this morning, the princess went to the governor's mansion and asked Si Bo to copy the imperial decree into a notice." , distributed to the states!"

"Oh? Have you ever read it, what exactly is written?"

Eunuch Chen hesitated a little, and replied cautiously: "It's about taxes and corvees. The imperial decree said that in the dozen or so prefectures affected by the disaster in Guannei Road, the imperial court will buy a large number of cattle and farm tools for free for the people to recuperate. Compassionate for the common people, announced tax reduction and exemption for three years, all young and strong men, only farming and mulberry, do not have to be called to do forced labor, miscellaneous labor, and military service for two years, and also said..."

"Bastard!"

Before Eunuch Chen finished speaking, Li Zhi became angry again!

There is nothing wrong with Li Lingyue doing good deeds under his banner, but the key point is... the benefits given are so great that the Ministry of Household Affairs knows about it, so they can be impatient with him, the emperor.

Datang's economy and politics seem to be on the right track, but there are frequent rebellions in the country, coupled with natural disasters such as drought, floods, and insect infestation, resulting in poor harvests every year. For this reason, Li Zhi also issued an edict to prohibit folk wine making, Coupled with the instability of the frontier, strong enemies such as Turks and Tubo are all around, forcing the Tang Dynasty to use troops abroad every year, coming and going, and the imperial court's finances are very tight. Only by taxation and corvee can the basic operation of the empire be maintained.

But Li Lingyue was lucky, and directly exempted more than a dozen states from taxes for three years and exempted from corvee labor for two years. Such a great favor undoubtedly ordered Li Zhi's own life.

"It's unreasonable, go, call that unfilial girl back to me!" Li Zhi was so angry that he blew his beard and stared.

Eunuch Chen looked bitter, "Your Majesty, the matter has already happened, and it won't help if you call me back!"

"Then have to go!"

"As ordered!"

Eunuch Chen sighed, bit his head and led the people out of the camp.

And that 'unfilial girl' that Li Zhi said was sitting on a mountain of copper coins, sipping tea and candied fruit, like a silly daughter of a landlord, happily counting money for others.

A long queue formed outside the east gate, each carrying a sack on their shoulders. Before dawn, they took the whole family and went to the ground to catch locusts.

As soon as the way of "locusts for money" was opened, the pests instantly became rare goods. This stuff can be eaten and sold. People no longer look sad when they see it, but their eyes shine, feeling like a small Another rush.

Gong'er waved a cattail fan, fanning Li Lingyue constantly, looking at the huge amount of money thrown out, she muttered a little bit.

"Princess, collect so many locusts, can we finish eating?"

Li Lingyue took a look at her, and said angrily: "Who told you that you have to be eaten by others?!"

"It's not for people to eat, so who is it for?"

"Of course it's used to feed pigs!"

"Feed the pig? Even the pig can't eat it!"

"Aren't there still thousands of chickens, ducks and geese waiting to be fed?"

"Oh! This servant understands!" Gong'er suddenly opened her mouth and said, "I said why Mr. He brought so many people to repair the pig shed and chicken coop. It turned out to be to deal with locusts!!"

"Smart!" Li Lingyue patted her little head approvingly!
According to her idea, all the harvested locusts are ground into powder, dried and directly made into feed. Using this thing to feed poultry will not only solve the inventory, but also increase the production of pork and chicken. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

What Li Lingyue is least worried about now is the flood of locusts. Under the trend of profit, people will soon learn how to use locusts to generate income for themselves.

More importantly, as soon as the imperial decree was promulgated in the morning, the people will pay more attention to farming in the next three years. You must know that the real wealth in the hearts of farmers is food. As long as there is surplus food in the family, life will be better.

Therefore, even if Li Lingyue can't spend money to buy locusts in the future, the common people will spontaneously unite and devote more energy to exterminate the locusts in order to cherish this opportunity of tax exemption.

After being busy until noon, Li Lingyue took Gong'er back to the city and found a restaurant for dinner.

When the shopkeeper of the restaurant saw the princess arriving, he hurriedly greeted her warmly with Xiao Er.

After Li Lingyue was seated, she looked around and found a plate of 'fried locusts' on the tables of many diners.

"Shopkeeper, are you selling locusts as vegetables?" Li Lingyue asked with great interest.

The shopkeeper cupped his hands and said with a smile: "It's all thanks to the princess, we have this dish in our recipe!"

Gong'er interjected, "Since it's included in the cookbook, does it have a nice name?"

The shopkeeper looked at Li Lingyue, and said with some hesitation:
"This...of course there is. The diners call this dish..."Princess Smile"!"

With a "chi" sound, Li Lingyue drank the tea in her mouth and gushed out, and asked dumbfoundingly:
"Who gave this name? What's the meaning?"

The shopkeeper smiled apologetically: "This...is taken blindly by scholars and scholars. It is said that it is a locust that everyone talks about. Only the princess will smile when she sees it, so I named it Princess Smile!"

Li Lingyue was speechless for a while. If the news got out, people would think of her as a princess when they saw the locust in the future, and they might as well die.

"Shopkeeper, can you change the name? The princess smiled, the name is not aggressive enough, and the meaning is not good enough!"

"In the eyes of the princess, what should I call it?"

Li Lingyue thought for a while, and smiled at the shopkeeper: "This princess thinks of one!"

"Quick! Bring the pen, ink, paper and inkstone!" The shopkeeper ordered to Xiao Er, who immediately brought the Four Treasures of the Study.

Holding a brush in her hand, Li Lingyue wrote four big characters like flying locusts - Locust Tengda!
Locust Tengda, the homonym of a word, has a higher meaning.

"Good name, thank you princess for giving me the word, from now on this dish will be called Fei Huang Teng Da!"

The shopkeeper stroked Li Lingyue's calligraphy, smiling from ear to ear...

　Locusts were not called locusts in ancient times. For the convenience of reading, just call them locusts.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)