At the beginning, he will be divided by five horses of Tang Taizong

After scolding, Changsun Wuji finally asked: "Did you meet that person at Princess Gaoyang's mansion yesterday? How do you feel?"

"I saw it, it's amazing, it's unparalleled in the world!"

"Oh, it feels like this just after seeing him once?" Changsun Wuji couldn't help but be amazed.

Although my son is not a high-ranking official and has some talents, he is extremely arrogant. He has never seen anyone who has been subdued before, and he is subdued after only seeing him. This is not in line with his character!

"Tell me in detail what happened yesterday!" Changsun Wuji said with burning eyes.

Chang Sun Chong carefully recalled the scene after seeing Qin Shou and His Majesty yesterday, and began to talk slowly.

When talking about pests and posting small advertisements, Changsun Wuji couldn't help being shocked, and murmured: "As expected, as expected, I knew..."

When he went to court today, he already thought about where His Majesty might go, but when he really confirmed it, the shock in his heart was still so strong.

Let’s talk about locusts being edible and extremely effective.

Changsun Wuji's eyes flickered, and his mood was shocked beyond the sky.

In the end, Chang Sun Chong pondered for a long time, and then followed Qin Shou's example, pulled out the chopsticks on the table, and said in a loud voice, "A pair of chopsticks is broken lightly, but ten pairs of chopsticks are tightly hugged into a ball. Unity is strength... ..."

Hearing it on the first day, it was nothing, but then Changsun Wuji's eyes widened suddenly, and he felt as if a thunderstorm fell on his head on a sunny day, and his brain buzzed continuously.

Hiss...so fucking philosophical!

The implication is endless!

Yoshihisa

Changsun Wuji recovered from the state just now, he sighed and said: "Such a strange person, I thought he was the best in the world, but I didn't expect him to be a man of righteousness, hey... and Li Let's be nice to everyone..."

"Reconciliation? What reconciliation?" Chang Sun Chong couldn't help asking.

"Guess what, go away!"

"..."

Suddenly, something fell from the sky

When I took a closer look, it turned out to be alive, and jumped up just after falling.

locust!

......

ps: In the past two days, I have encountered difficulties in the 5G project. There are bugs everywhere, and I need to stay up late and work overtime. This project passed the acceptance test today. Don’t worry, I have at least two chapters a day, and I will make up what I owe this week!

Thank you for your kindness, gentlemen!

Chapter 35: Hunting

The news that the Princess Mansion was on fire could not be concealed, after all, the flames were raging in the sky in the middle of the night...

There must be many people discussing this in normal times, but now everyone's attention seems to be not on it, because the locust plague has arrived.

Scattered locusts even landed in the city of Chang'an.

Another aspect is that in addition to the "pest list", the "locust extermination list" is posted on the street, and the six methods of locust extermination are written on it.

The most shocking one is the last one, locusts are edible and fresher than minced meat.

This is what shocked the people the most.

Li Shimin came over in a hurry, seeing that Qin Shou and Gao Yang were fine, he comforted him a few words, turned around and was about to leave.

It is urgent to exterminate locusts!

Seeing his father-in-law was about to leave, Qin Shou hurriedly stopped him, and told Li Shimin some details about the locust extermination.

"Father-in-law, the food transporter needs to be replaced..."

When Gao Yang heard this, his body couldn't help shaking, he was really afraid of something.

Li Shimin didn't say anything, but took a deep look at him, and then hurried away.

To Qin Shou's delight, his father-in-law accompanied him with a gift of [-] guan for purchasing grain. Although it was not too much, considering that his father-in-law was just a landlord, it was enough.

......

Chang'an is a few miles away.

At this time, the crowd is surging.

In the past few days, the "Pest List" and "Locust Elimination List" have let countless people know that locusts are pests and can be hunted and killed. The fire in their hearts has already ignited raging fire.

Now I heard that His Majesty came to exterminate the locusts in person, which attracted countless people to exterminate the locusts.

The scene is extremely spectacular

The emperor, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and other important officials in the court were all there, and the sergeants could be seen everywhere. The left and right camps, the left and right Yulin army, and the left and right Longwu army were all transferred by Li Shimin.

At the same time, many disciples of Confucianism came, and there were not a few officials above the fifth rank in the court.

Hearing that His Majesty went out of the city to exterminate the locusts, these Confucian scholars were furious and wanted to rush over to stop them.

Unfortunately, this group of Confucian scholars were stopped by soldiers.

They even brought in the great Confucian Kong Yingda.

Kong Yingda is the 31st grandson of Confucius. He was born in such a well-educated family.

He was not a person who fights, but he couldn't tolerate this point. He couldn't help asking: "What's going on? Under the locust plague, why did His Majesty go out of the city to destroy the locusts?"

The Great Confucian Kong Yingda's face was gloomy and terrifying, his brows were so frown that it could kill people.

The surrounding Confucian disciples said angrily one by one:

"Isn't it because of the pest list? Everyone knows that the pest list and the locust control list have been noisy during this time!"

"Destroy the locusts? Don't joke, how can the locusts be killed?"

"That's right, I'm waiting for you, Mr. Hope, to persuade Your Majesty not to kill locusts. It's a waste of people and money,..."

Kong Yingda nodded, "It's time to advise His Majesty."

Immediately afterwards, he asked again: "Did Wei Zheng give any advice?"

"no!"

Kong Yingda couldn't help being startled, and there seemed to be a flash of doubt in his eyes.

Not only that

After hearing about it, all the people from the noble family came, but they didn't get close, they just watched from a distance.

Since Li Shimin promulgated the imperial examination reform edict and disaster relief food, the attitude of the five surnames Qiwang and other noble families towards the Li and Tang royal family suddenly changed and became extremely indifferent.

Therefore, even though they have countless disciples, they just watched with cold eyes during the extermination of locusts

They didn't learn the words of Confucianism, and they didn't know that exterminating the locusts would offend the Confucian scholars and cause an uproar, but they didn't say anything, just watched...

Some landowners and gentry also came

They want to see how His Majesty will kill the locusts.

......

The locusts finally came, covering the sky

At first glance, there is a haze in the distance, and it is getting closer

The sky was still clear just now, and it became dark in an instant

Immediately afterwards, the sound that people heard first, the sound of buzzing and flapping wings, rushed towards the face like a sandstorm.

All the people fell silent.

"Gudu!"

The people present swallowed hard, and all silenced

Even the complexions of those aristocrats and Confucian disciples have all changed at this time.

This scene.......

Is this the sound of locusts?

Why is it so big?

It's like the demon wind of hell!

Everyone was stunned by the scene of the locust plague, and the fear in their hearts immersed them in the water like a tide, unable to breathe.

People looked at this scene in shock and exclaimed:

"Oh my god, that's scary!"

"Can we really hunt and kill at this scale?"

"God, how many locusts are there!"

"Die, there are so many, will they eat people?"

at this time

Even those who had read the list of pests posted on the street before, and those who had spoken out loudly before, were timid now.

Those officials and soldiers looked at the sky at this moment, their hands were trembling, and their hearts were beating.

until the locusts fell before their eyes.

They haven't gotten over it yet.

Even the officials are like this, let alone the common people.

Even Li Shimin's heart was straight at this moment.

His eyes dimmed, and he took a deep breath.

How can you be frightened by locusts after so many years of fighting in the South and North?

If they all retreated, would the common people who grow grain have a way out?

So, under everyone's gaze, Li Shimin walked over to meet the locusts.

Even if the emperor was like this, the soldiers below were even more bloody when they saw this.

The onlookers looked at them with burning eyes, waiting to see how to kill the locusts.

But in the eyes of noble families and Confucian disciples, even if Li Shimin faced the locust plague, so what?

It's just for show.

They think that catching locusts is just a method of Mingjin, burning, etc. In the case of high density of locusts, the effect will be very small.

Can make them surprised eyes.

Li Shimin pulled up something together with the officers and soldiers.

What is this?

I saw that the sergeants cooperated with each other to open the fishing nets that were joined together, and the fine yarn... made the block.

They are propped up with sticks at both ends, and raised high, facing the locusts

The common people held up net bags made of rags.

The method of making these things has actually been announced in the Six Laws of Locust Elimination, but due to the short time, everyone really uses whatever they can find.

then

The locusts visible to the naked eye fell into the net, fine yarn, and rags like a stream of water...

"My God, there are so many locusts!" Another person exclaimed

"Stop it, stop it"

"Huh, huh, huh!" A large number of locusts touched those nets, and they fell down naturally

This makes the officers and soldiers and the people very excited

At this point people finally reacted

At this moment, it is really feasible for people to watch the locusts being stopped from such a quiet distance!

It turns out that locusts can really be stopped.