Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

Li Shimin, who finally heard Li You's voice, didn't make things difficult for Li You anymore, but just kept this trick in his heart, and used it when he sent troops to the Turks in the future.

Afterwards, Li Shimin finished the discussion between his eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling, postponed the issue of bonds issued by the state, and returned to the palace with a look of excitement.

Li You, on the other hand, returned to the palace after Xinxue made a round of inspections.

For the next ten days, Li You's itinerary was the same. He visited Xinxue every day and then returned to the palace.

Just when Li You was getting used to this kind of life, good news came from Hexi.

After Zhou Huaian and Wang Xuance took over, they used the unequal terrain and intelligence to fight a beautiful ambush.

Not only did the loss of personnel be minimal, but it also severely damaged several small and medium-sized tribes nearby.

After severely injuring the looting troops of these tribes, these few people were murderous, and directly broke these tribes by following the clues.

Now, they are resting in Hexi with thousands of captives, and will leave Chang'an in a few days.

"Good job, dealing with these barbarians is to show our aura!"

"He came to rob when he had no money. This time, he took the robbers out of the pot. I'll see who dares to make a mistake so easily."

"Help me to write books for them, let Wang Xuance write letters to Jieli Khan of East Turkic and Tong Yehu Khan of Western Turkic in the name of the caravan, and let them strictly inspect. If such a thing happens again, the caravan will be destroyed." No longer going to the Turkic steppe."

This time, Shence Guards attacked with the momentum that the Tang army should have, so that other nearby tribes did not dare to casually attack the Tang caravan.

However, when Li You was very excited, Liu Ji brought a bad news.

There are signs of a locust plague in Guanzhong. Although the current scale is not large, it is still worthy of attention.

The plague of locusts refers to the catastrophe caused by locusts.

Once a locust plague occurs, a large number of locusts will devour the grain fields, completely destroying agricultural products, causing serious economic losses and even famine due to food shortages.

China has been a country with frequent locust plagues since ancient times.

As early as in the "Book of Songs", it has been mentioned that "get rid of the locusts (locusts) and their thieves, and they will not harm my Tianzhi. Tianzu has a god, and he is holding fire."

There have been locust plagues in China's history, and the affected areas are mostly concentrated in the three provinces of Hebei, Henan, and Shandong. They are also distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, and Hubei. In severe cases, they may spread throughout the entire Loess Plateau.

According to the statistics of the "History of Famine Relief in China", the average time was 8.8 years in the Qin and Han Dynasties, 3.5 years in the Song Dynasty, 1.6 years in the Yuan Dynasty, and 2.8 years in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

And there were also many locust plagues in Datang.

There are many reasons for locust plagues, but the main reason is the destruction of the environment.

Locusts must lay their eggs on land with less than 50% vegetation coverage. If a place is green and green and there is no bare land, locusts cannot reproduce.

The reason for the frequent occurrence of locust plagues in ancient times was the insufficient response to their respective natural disasters.

But this situation has eased after Li You traveled over.

The previous heavy rain in Guanzhong did not cause waterlogging, nor did it damage the local environment on a large scale.

At the same time, due to timely water control, not only did the heavy rain not cause damage, but also left abundant water resource reserves in various places.

After several days of exposure to the sun after the heavy rain, there was no large-scale drought.

It is precisely because of this that the Guanzhong locust disaster that has been recorded in history this time has not caused much harm so far.

You must know that in the original history, the locust plague in Guanzhong this time was quite terrifying.

The wide range of influence and the bad influence caused Li Shimin a headache.

It was directly circulated among the common people because of the things Li Shimin did at Xuanwu Gate, which angered the heavens, and the gods sent locust gods to punish Li Shimin.

In order to pray for God's forgiveness, Li Shimin specially ordered people to do it in Chang'an, the capital city, and prayed that the plague of locusts would recede quickly.

Li You had already anticipated this locust plague, and had been preparing for it since he first took office as Minister of the Household Department.

His chicken and duck farms in the suburbs, in addition to delivering enough meat and eggs, were prepared for this locust plague.

"Liu Ji, let the farms of the Ministry of Households transport all the chickens and ducks to the place where the locust plague occurs."

"Although chickens and ducks can suppress locust plagues, they must be managed by someone. In addition, eggs should not be sold directly recently. All chickens will be hatched and sent over."

"All the hatched chicks are also sent to the front line. This time it's time for them to 'go out'."

"Hey, this time, my chick will have a full meal."

Li You twitched his index finger when he thought of the delicious meat quality of these chickens and ducks, which were supplemented with protein from locusts every day.

Just a few days after Li You issued the order to the Ministry of Household Affairs, the imperial court finally received a report from the local government.

The two prime ministers in the imperial study told Li Shimin about this.

Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, locust plagues have recently been found in some parts of Guanzhong. Although it is still not serious, if it is allowed to develop, it may spread to other parts of Guanzhong."

Hearing the locust plague suddenly, Li Shimin was also shocked.

For the flood and drought disasters, he now has a way to alleviate the disaster, but he is still helpless about the locust plague.

"Xuanling immediately went to the folks to find someone who can control the locust plague, so let the household department prepare more food for disaster relief!"

"This year, there are new food crops such as potatoes and corn provided by Youer, so there should be no problem with food!"

Li Shimin paused for a while and said: "The weather is getting colder now, let the household department prepare more things to keep out the cold."

"The new palace temporarily suspends work, and we will do our best to deal with the disaster. Let's wait until the locust plague is over!"

It has to be said that Li Shimin cared for the people very much, and often put the interests of the people first.

Changsun Wuji was the roundworm in Li Shimin's stomach, and when he saw the opportunity, he immediately said, "Your Majesty, benevolent and love the people, such a move is the great fortune of the world!"

"The people in Guanzhong must be very grateful to His Majesty."

Although Fang and Du felt that Changsun Wuji's words were a bit exaggerated, but after thinking about it carefully, there are really many emperors who can do this in the past dynasties, and they are now echoing them out loud.

However, the news from the household department in the afternoon surprised them greatly.

According to the household department, they are already solving this matter, so that His Majesty and the prime ministers don't have to worry.

"What? Yu'er said there is a solution? And it has been solved?"

Li Shimin was taken aback.

In fact, not only Li Shimin was surprised, but even Fang Xuanling was the same when he first heard it.

If it was someone else, he might immediately scoff at it, but there are so many things that have happened to Li You in the recent period, and it doesn't seem surprising that there is one more thing.

So he came to Li Shimin to report the truth: "It's not what the king of Chu said, but Liu Ji, the chief historian of the Chu palace, who answered."

It is well known that Li You doesn't care about the affairs of the household department.

It has been more than nine months since he joined the household department, and he has never been to the yamen of the household department, and all things are left to the chief secretary Liu Ji.

Although he had the answer from the Ministry of Household Affairs, Li Shimin was still not at ease, so he took everyone to the Chu Palace to ask the truth about this matter.