The Xiangyang prison was suddenly overcrowded.

More than 300 famous grain merchants in Xiangfan were taken from Hefenglou to the provincial capital. Niu Jianhu and Cheng Chumo sent these famous big merchants who had just been famous to the prison, but ignored them.

No matter how they shouted, they could not see a prison guard.

The nights in August were already very cold, and there was nothing else in the cells except for a pile of straw with a smell of mold. It took a long night to get over it.

When it was dawn, the sun shone in through the small square hole in the wall of the cell, and finally became warmer.

But my stomach is hungry and thirsty.

"We want to drink water."

"We want to meet Li Xiangguo."

"I want to see His Highness the Crown Prince!"

No one cares. If they hadn't heard footsteps outside occasionally, they would have thought they had been forgotten. Some people have already started to shake their arms and their arms can't resist their thighs.

Wang Xiaoan sat on the straw, still pretending to be calm, and he was also afraid. But he still didn't believe that Li Chao could do anything to him. There were more than 300 people here. They were all famous figures in Shannan. They did not make any mistakes. At most, they violated the curfew and the alcohol ban. Could Li Chao dare to kill such a small matter?

It's dawn.

Li Chao got up and he led a group of students to practice guns.

The prince stood in front, and the other groups of children also stabbed hard with a customized silver spear.

Shangguan Yi stood on one side and waited for Li Chao to finish practicing the gun before coming over.

"Teacher, those people were shouting in prison all night. Last night, they were shouting to see you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and now they were shouting to have breakfast."

Li Chao took the towel, wiped his sweat, and chuckled, "If they want to have breakfast, then I'll send it to them. Well, each one has a piece of disaster relief cake and another cup of white water. Two meals a day, not much."

"Give them disaster relief cakes?" Shangguan Yi asked in surprise. Which of these people is not a powerful person or a rich man. He usually doesn't talk about delicacies and various delicacies, so he can eat them all. I'm afraid they won't want to eat locust cakes.

"I didn't invite them to visit. They are now in prison." Li Chao said.

"What should these people do?"

"Don't worry about these people first, throw them in prison first, don't pay attention, and don't contact them. Just give a piece of locust cake every morning and evening. As long as you can't starve to death, let them taste the feeling of being frozen and hungry."

"How much do you need to dry?"

"Let's hang it for ten days and half a month first." Li Chao said.

Li Chao really cannot kill these people.

But they can't just accompany them to make trouble and don't deal with them. They really don't know that the world is high and the earth is thick.

Today’s breakfast is locust cakes and wild vegetable soup.

Not only is Li Chao's breakfast this, but also the prince's breakfast this way. He didn't plan to eat this every day in the future, but at least everyone must understand and know what the locust disaster relief cake looks like.

Especially for the crown prince, Li Chao did not want the crown prince to be like Sima Zhong, Emperor Hui of Jin. When the ministers reported that the people had no food to eat, they asked why not eat meat minced.

Under the osmanthus tree in the yard, Li Chao, who had changed his clothes, sat at a long table with his own group of students.

In front of each person was a porcelain plate. The white porcelain from Xingjiao, Hebei was white and crystal clear and very delicate. There was also a pair of knife hairpins and chopsticks, silver hairpins, and a pair of wooden chopsticks. The tableware was very beautiful.

"Teacher, what are we eating today?" Changsun Chong asked.

Li Chao fiddled with the white napkin and replied with a smile, "You will know in a while."

"Supreme, will you serve your meal now?"

Li Chao nodded.

The attendants who had been following the capital brought breakfast, and the dining plate was covered with a cover, making it impossible to know what was there.

The lid was removed to reveal the breakfast inside.

Some yellow round cakes.

The cookies are very ordinary, and even when placed close to them, there is no fragrance coming out.

A group of children were disappointed, but they didn't expect that the breakfast would be a piece of cake.

"Is there anything special about this cake?" asked Prince Chengqian.

"This cake is really special. It's a disaster relief cake, and the ingredients are very rich." Li Chao said with a smile.

"Locust cake?" Cheng Qian asked, "It doesn't seem to be the same as the locust cake we used to eat."

Li Chao nodded. It turned out that everyone had eaten locust cakes, but that kind of locust cake is specially made and is more attentive. It is also fried in oil and added with pepper and other seasonings. Of course, it is very different.

But what they want to eat today is the standard version of disaster relief cakes.

A disaster relief cake with many ingredients.

Rice, wheat, millet, wheat peel, chaff, soybean, sorghum, bean dregs, locust powder, dried fish, dried wild vegetables, locust leaves, elm bark, grassroots, etc., salt is also added.

In general, grains such as rice, wheat, and millet account for less than 20%, while auxiliary grains such as soybean, sorghum, bean dregs account for 30%, locust powder, dried fish, and dried vegetables account for 30%. The remaining 20% ​​are leaves, bark and grass roots.

There are no other ingredients except for salt.

Such disaster relief cakes must not be said to be delicious, and they even lose their taste.

Because there are many ingredients and storage issues must be considered, the processing method is mostly made by milling powder, steaming and then drying. Therefore, the cakes made in the end have no taste at all and tastes like chewing wax.

The only benefit is that this cake has a lot of nutritional ingredients, including grain, vegetables, plants, locust meal, fish and meat powder, etc.

This combination is quite reasonable.

If you only eat bran, there will be very bad consequences and you may not be able to pull it out after eating it.

In general, Li Chao's recipe for disaster relief cake is still relatively scientific. At least it won't kill people, and it has a better effect of resisting hunger and even maintaining nutrition.

The only disadvantage is that it has no taste.

However, Li Chao had no choice. Before the famine broke out, he made plans in advance to process more disaster relief cakes with the small amount of grain in his hand and various materials. It would be better than eating grain now, then eating bran, bark, and grass roots in the future.

Even so hungry, the hungry people can only eat soil to satisfy their hunger.

Guanyin earth is not nutritious, but when people are extremely hungry, the stomach will feel even more uncomfortable. Something needs to be able to fill the stomach. But in fact, the stomach cannot digest the chaff and earth at all. Therefore, at most, you will live for a few more days, and then you will swell or die of nutritional loss.

Now this disaster relief cake is added with bran and bark, but it is actually not nutritious. This thing is to deceive the stomach and make people feel full and eat less.

If you only eat some porridge made with grain, it is not enough. Adding other ingredients can at least have some effect. Especially locusts, dried fish, grass roots and leaves can also be a little nutritious.

Li Chao picked up the cake and took a bite.

A bite of scum.

The prince also picked up the cake, looked down and took a few glances before biting it.

Changsun Chong and others watched Li Chao and the others chewed bite at a time and asked, "Is this cake delicious?"

Cheng Qian said while eating, "It tastes pretty good, you guys try it."

After hearing this, Changsun Chong believed it, so he picked it up and took it and took a bite. As a result, he chewed it twice, turned his head and vomited.

"The cake I gave me was bad, it didn't taste at all, it was all slag!"

The other children vomited as soon as they ate.

Li Chao glared at them.

"This is a disaster relief cake, and it tastes like this, not bad. When it comes to famine, it's thankful that you can have such a cake. You still choose it. Today, you have to finish eating this cake, and you are not allowed to spit it out in one bite. Whoever spits another bite will be punished by copying the Three Character Classic a hundred times!"

The group of little guys frowned and looked at the cake that had been bitten in their hands, and they were almost crying!
Chapter completed!