In a short time, dozens of locust dishes were added to restaurants and hotels in Chang'an. Even the streets of the East and West City and the roadsides outside the city gates of Chang'an also added many new stalls, specializing in various locusts. There are all kinds of roasted locusts and fried locusts. Those past vendors were attracted by the fragrance. After coming to try it for free, most of them happily paid for one or two servings and went there with satisfaction.

Li Chao has not been idle these days, and the one-acre and three-part land at home has been harvested.

The locust project has grown bigger and bigger. More and more people are joining, especially after Li Chao brought Prince Li Chengqian into the project and named it.

This project was different immediately.

The prince personally participated, and the Cui family in Boling, Cui family in Qinghe, Zheng family in Xingyang participated, plus the Li family in Bashang, Empress Changsun, Empress Dugu family, and major prime ministers participated.

This project has also been changed to a new name, no longer a locust to exchange for food, but a disaster relief cake project. The collected locusts will also become the same material as disaster relief cakes, and the disaster relief cakes are portrayed as excellent disaster relief food.

After Li Chao's personal development, disaster relief cakes have several flavors and recipes. A small piece of disaster relief cake can keep an adult strong man for three days. Eat one piece and have the strength to eat a day, at least it can be equivalent to a large bowl of rice. However, the cost is extremely low. Locust powder and chaff as the main ingredients, sorghum is the auxiliary ingredients that account for a very small proportion. As for chicken and duck jerky, fish jerky powder, disaster relief cakes, but very little, but salt.

In terms of taste, although Li Chao spent a lot of effort, it was really not very good.

I can only say that it tastes similar to eating bran, not as difficult as swallowing, but it also tastes like chewing wax. However, there are still nutrients, which are much stronger than eating bran. There are many essential nutrients for the human body.

It is still okay to fill your hunger and maintain your physical strength in the short term.

Moreover, these biscuits are compressed biscuits, which do not occupy space, are easy to store and transport, and are very suitable for disaster relief in all aspects.

After the cookies were made, they were immediately delivered to the court.

Li Shimin and the prime ministers tried it themselves, and they finished it one by one with difficulty, and then found that they could indeed resist hunger. Finally, they gave a comment on the good product for disaster relief.

Moreover, he also received a large order from the court.

The court asked Li Chao and his workshop to produce a large number of disaster relief cakes. After the order is completed, the court will distribute these cakes to various places to serve as disaster relief reserves.

Because Li Chengqian was named, although he did not take out half a copper coin to invest, Li Chao finally gave Li Chengqian one percent of his shares.

"Only one percent?"

Li Chengqian has received a lot of praise from Li Shimin and the Prime Minister because of this disaster relief project. He has been a little proud recently and looks like he is erect.

Seeing that Li Chao had only given him one percent of the shares, he immediately jumped up.

"Is Gu's reputation and Gu's reputation only worth one percent?"

Li Chao snorted coldly, "Then how much do you think it's worth?"

"At least it's worth 10%! No, 20%."

Li Chao said disapprovingly, "Do you know how many partners there are in this project? Five families, the Guanlong family, the nobles in the capital, and even the slightly famous local tycoons, almost all brought in. Which one is not spending money and efforts and people? We spend money everywhere to buy locusts, sorghum, chaff, dried fish, etc., and we also set up workshops in various places to recruit people. Have you calculated the money spent here? You didn't pay anything, just named it, accounting for one percent. You are still thinking that it's too little. Prince, you have to learn to be content!"

Li Chengqian still felt that his name was too worthless.

"How many shares do you own, teacher?"

"I? Not much, just 30%."

"What? 30%?" Li Chengqian jumped up like a cat with a stomped on his tail. "Teacher, what did you do have, actually accounted for 30%, and I only 1%!"

"I am the actual operator of this project. I have provided the project plan, provided the recipe for cookies, or contact person. Without me, there would be no project. Therefore, I don't think I account for 30%, so what's wrong."

"But my name is also very important. If it weren't for my name, those families would not have participated so actively, and the court would have agreed so quickly. What's more, this first big order was all based on me."

Li Chao smiled and said, "You're thinking too much."

Disaster Relief Cake has cooperated with many families to use their influence across the country to establish workshops, recruit people, then purchase raw materials, process and produce, and set up warehouses across the country to allocate storage.

The shareholders who joined the gang are optimistic about this project. There will be severe droughts and even major locust plagues next year. This incident has quietly spread in the upper class. There is no news for ordinary people, but for those top wealthy families, this is already well-known and even received a piece of news that everyone believes in.

In the year of disaster, food increases, which is inevitable. Everyone is preparing to stock up on food, but the amount of food is limited. Li Chao's disaster relief cake does not require too much food. It can even make it a hunger-fill for disaster relief, which means that a lot of new food has been added.

Everyone knows how expensive food is in the year of disaster.

Everyone knows more about making money in the year of disaster.

What's more, this thing can make a name for itself.

If you have more disaster relief cakes in your hands, you don’t have to use your own granary during the disaster year, and you can use these to dispel many victims. As long as they can have something to satisfy their hunger, they will not be messed up, and they will naturally be safe.

These powerful families also know that the victims have nothing to eat and are anxious to eat, but they will come to eat from the big ones.

Ham, bacon, smoked chicken and duck, salted fish, and sausages are also very good dry foods and can be stored for a long time, especially for ham and bacon. If it is well preserved, it will be fine for three to five years.

In Chang'an City, news that the emperor was about to go out to patrol the south of the mountain began to be released.

All the yamen were selecting people to Xiangyang to take the lead station. When they arrived there, they would make some preparations. Then the second group of people would come over. They would set up the yamen in Xiangyang, so that when the emperor brought the imperial officials to Xiangyang, they would be able to start working immediately.

The emperor did not leave Beijing until after the autumn, but now he needs to send an important official to Xiangyang to take charge of the overall situation.

This candidate ended up falling on Li Chao.

After all, Li Chao was originally the Xuanfu Envoy, the Grand Governor, and the Hanjing Construction Envoy.

The eunuch of the king came to Bashang with the order, and Li Chao was about to set off in three days.

"Teacher, I'm going to Xiangyang too!"

"You have to ask Your Majesty this. If Your Majesty allows you to go with you, I have no objection." Li Chao replied with a smile, but under normal circumstances, Li Chengqian will definitely not be able to go. The prince is the crown prince. Under normal circumstances, the prince has to stay in the capital.

Even if the enemy is in front of you, the emperor will usually lead the army in person, and the prince cannot move.

After autumn, Li Shimin went out to patrol Shannan and stayed in Xiangyang. Li Chengqian was most likely to stay in Chang'an, and might even have to add the name of a state supervisor.

Li Chengqian really asked the eunuch Wang to bring a letter back to the palace, and he asked Li Shimin to go to Xiangyang with Li Chao.

Li Shimin responded quickly and agreed!

After hearing this reply, Li Chao was stunned for a while. Shouldn’t the prince be left behind? Why is he now the one who stands before the fight?
Chapter completed!