Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

At Zhao Sheng's request, Shigang Village used his Zhenzhongyuan as the center and the area within ten miles around it as the village's economic zone.

The people don’t know what an economic zone is, but they know that everyone who works here can have enough food and clothing, and can also get paid.

Hu Yifei was originally a hunter and was good friends with Zhao Erniu. However, Zhao Sheng felt that Zhao Erniu was a simple and honest person, so he kept him in the compound and put him in charge of the compound's security affairs.

Now that Shigang Village is going to develop vigorously, Zhao Long in the periphery cannot just be the leader of the children. Moreover, these children are still young and not suitable for fighting and killing outside. Therefore, the defense of Shigang Village has become Zhao Long’s top priority.

"I think Hunter Hu Yifei is great. You can take him as your deputy so that you can look after each other. I have more important things to arrange for Zhao Hu. His task is to be responsible for product safety."

Zhao Sheng told Zhao Long about the planning, development and safety of the village. Although Zhao Long's father is now the village chief, he is basically not consulted on major issues in the village. Zhao Long has now become the most favored person.

"Zhou Cang from the Zhou family is quite good. Although he's young, he learned martial arts from me. Look..."

"I've already told you that from now on, the security of the village is in your hands. You'll be responsible for who they are, where they are, and what they can do. Having two people tip off during the day is enough for now.

But at night, you need at least six people in one class, and two classes means twelve people. You have to recruit twenty people first, as they will be useful later."

Zhao Long was absolutely serious about following Zhao Sheng's words, but soon Zhao Sheng said:

"The people you find must be capable fighters, and they must be vigilant and keep secrets. The key is that we are short of manpower in Shigang Village. If necessary, you can look for some heroes from your old subordinates or in society."

Now that the door has been opened, Zhao Long feels more confident. He has many old comrades and can find dozens of them nearby. However, some of them have already started families and he doesn't know whether they are willing to come.

The protein meat food processing factory has two yards, the outer yard is mainly for raw materials and finished products, but today another building was built next to the yard.

"Sir, are you planning to develop a protein meat factory?"

Zhao Hu is now the person in charge of the factory. He is active in his work and has become particularly serious.

"The factory next door will be even stricter than this one. You have to take good care of it. Our village will depend on it for its prosperity in the future."

Hearing Zhao Sheng say this, Zhao Hu became alert. He looked around and saw that everyone was far away. He asked quietly, "Sir, there won't be a powerful weapon in here, right?"

"That depends on how you understand it. In a sense, it really is a powerful weapon!"

The two people had different intentions, so Zhao Hu felt different as well. He was looking forward to what kind of powerful weapon it would be.

Cooking became increasingly popular during the Great Zhou Dynasty, starting from Zhao County. At that time, a transparent and pure oil became popular on the market, commonly known as soybean oil. No one knew how it was produced.

Folk doctors concluded that this substance is the essence extracted from edible beans, and one tablespoon each time can make people feel energetic.

The powerful and wealthy who were used to eating animal fats also learned about a case that showed that long-term consumption of these fats could easily lead to a disease that causes fatigue and sweating when walking.

Regardless of whether this statement is true or not, people's tastes have begun to change since the emergence of protein meat and soybean oil.

A pot of wine and a plate of stir-fried pork have become dishes often ordered by customers in restaurants and taverns. However, if the stir-fried pork does not have protein, it seems to lack a bit of soul.

Braised tofu, homemade tofu, cold tofu, tofu and meat soup...

Nowadays, there are many kinds of food on the market. There is a saying among the people: rich people eat meat, and poor people eat beans.

The beans mentioned here are no longer simply cooked as they used to be. Now, dried tofu can be eaten raw and is even a good dish to accompany wine. Because it contains salt, people no longer need to worry about salt.

Just imagine, a pound of salt costs five hundred coins, while a pound of protein meat only costs a few dozen coins, and it can still fill you up and you can eat salt at the same time.

The methods of making dried tofu have become more and more bizarre, from the previous single sauce tea dried to now also have green tea dried, seaweed tea dried and so on.

In short, a year later, Zhao County and even Zhaojiazhuang had become wholesale bases for soy products.

Whether it is Zhaojia Village or Shigang Village in Zhao County, no one worries about lack of food anymore, and no one feels weak due to lack of salt.

The six neighboring states of the Great Zhou Dynasty attached great importance to the soy products produced in Zhao County. Dried tofu can be transported in the summer, but it is only for three days. Protein meat has a long shelf life and is an excellent product for merchants to transport over long distances.

Even the bandits in the surrounding area would rush forward to grab a piece of the pie when they heard that protein meat was passing by.

Insect plagues are most likely to occur in the year following a severe drought.

At the beginning of summer that year, something unexpected happened in the Zhou Kingdom, and there were signs of locust plagues in many places in the country!

Especially in the Yuzhou area, locusts were flying all over the sky, destroying the fields in an instant and disappearing the green land!

In ancient times, those in power would usually burn crops and green land in an area to prevent locusts from passing through, but these locusts would then fly to another place.

Zhao Sheng is a person who traveled through time. He knows a method to trap locusts. It is similar to the ground trap used to catch eels. It is coated with a plant-scented oil. When there are too many locusts, they will fall into the bamboo cage.

He wanted to use this method to catch locusts before the locust plague reached its peak in July and August, so that each household could catch dozens or even hundreds of kilograms a day.

He introduced this method to Zhao Changsheng and the county magistrate Zhao Guangyi, and said that he would purchase a large number of these locusts and make them into feed, which could be used to raise chickens or other livestock, and would be a very good food.

He secretly told Zhao Guangyi that locusts can be specially treated, dried and then processed into protein powder with very high nutritional value, which is very good for the human body!

Now the people don’t care whether what Zhao Sheng said is right or not. Their crops are going to be destroyed anyway, so they can only use this trapping method to catch a large number of locusts. Moreover, the people have discovered that people from the government are organizing the recycling, and the price is not cheap.

Two pounds of locusts can be exchanged for one pound of miscellaneous grains. Some merchants took the opportunity to purchase them, exchanging three pounds of locusts for one pound of miscellaneous grains.

After all, the government has few people, and a large number of personnel are needed to process it, soaking it in salt water and then drying it. Since merchants are involved, the government will not stop these merchants from doing such speculative things.

The fact that the public was purchasing large quantities of locusts was soon known to the imperial court. Emperor Zhao Heng sent an imperial decree to order the third prince Zhao Hui, who was still in Yanjing, to investigate.

The third prince and the second prince do not have the same mother. They are both low-key in the palace, but they are very capable in doing things.

He soon discovered that the locusts were purchased and finally sent to Zhao County.

"The Third Prince has come to Zhao County in person. I wonder what his imperial decree is."

Zhao Guangyi knew that most princes would not come out casually, especially the third prince Zhao Hui, who had already been crowned a king and had lost the opportunity to compete for the throne.

However, some unspeakable events happened in the court recently. Since the emperor sent him here, no one can say for sure whether it is related to Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Hui saw that Zhao Guangyi was cunning and kept probing him with words, but did not report anything about the purchase of locusts.

Anyway, he was with many officials and soldiers, and he thought that Zhao Guangyi would not tell the truth, so he sat casually in the county government office and picked up a cup of tea to drink.