Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Cui Mao put down his raised heart slowly: "This time, thank you all!"

After some casual politeness, and after confirming the plan for the future, Cui Mao sent them all out the door and back.

"Li Erlang, let me see what you do this time."

Cui Mao sneered in his heart: "If you want food, you have to ask me in person, as long as you ask me obediently, I may give you some."

"Master, Minister of Civil Affairs Pei Ju is here!"

At this time, a servant came in and said.

Pei Ju!

People from the imperial court came so fast.

"Please come in!"

Cui Mao was disdainful in his heart, but he didn't expect that Li Shimin would have no face to come by himself, so he let a Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs come over first.

"Cui Dalang, long time no see!"

After Pei Ju entered the door, he smiled and cupped his hands and said, "You didn't bother me, did you?"

Cui Mao seemed to change his face, and smiled enthusiastically: "No, it's my honor that Mr. Pei can come. May I ask Mr. Pei to find me, what can I do?"

Pei Ju cut to the chase and said, "Naturally, there is something to ask for. The Dilong in Jinyang turned over, and the drought in Hebei, Cui Dalang should be very clear. At present, the imperial court is short of food for disaster relief, so I will come down to collect food on behalf of His Majesty."

Cui Mao said with a sad face: "I also want to contribute to the court, but you should be very clear, Mr. Pei, that I lost a lot of money and even food because of certain things a few years ago. Now our Cui family is also short of food." grain."

Sure enough, Pei Ju's face darkened, your Cui family is very rich, no matter how much you pay, it will not cause internal food shortage, but you just don't want to pay.

Before Pei Ju could speak, Cui Mao said again: "But the court has requests, and as a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, I can't stay out of it."

"Come here, pack two buckets of rice and let Mr. Pei take it back, it's my kindness."

Hearing this, Pei Ju's complexion became even darker, so dark that it was about to drip water.

Before he came, he thought that he might have to look at their faces, but he didn't expect to be humiliated by two buckets of rice. He had been respected for so many years, and this was the first time he encountered such a thing.

"So, thank you very much!"

Pei Ju's skill in nourishing qi was very good. Although he was unhappy in his heart, he didn't get angry directly.

In the end, he left Cui's house with two buckets of rice and was going to find Li's house in Longxi.

Li Shimin is also from Longxi. Pei Ju thought that this would be a success, but he left with two buckets of rice in the end.

After visiting all the five surnames and seven Wangs, Pei Ju only collected fourteen buckets of rice, and returned to the Ganlu Hall with a flushed face.

Even an old man like him, who has been calm for so many years, can't help but get angry.

If it were someone else, I'm afraid they would be so angry that they would spurt blood on the spot.

"Pei Gong, what's the result?"

Gao Shilian first asked expectantly.

The others looked at him expectantly.

"Ah! It's my incompetence. I only collected fourteen buckets of rice back."

Pei Ju took a deep breath and suppressed the unhappiness in his heart.

boom!

Li Shimin slapped the case hard, and said angrily: "What a surname and Qiwang, how dare you humiliate Mr. Pei like this, you should be killed!"

At this moment, his murderous aura directly overwhelmed the entire Ganlu Temple.

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Chapter 62 Preparations Before Selling Grain

Not only Li Shimin, but other people in the court also looked angry. The five surnames, Qiwang, and even Pei Ju dared to play tricks. No matter who went, the result was the same.

Li Shimin said that they should be killed, and that's all. He didn't dare to use a knife on them yet.

"Your Majesty, have we all forgotten sir?"

Just when everyone was angry, Wei Zheng reminded: "I remember, Mr. once said that he has a way to resolve this crisis, even deal with the five surnames and Qiwang. Otherwise, last year Cui Mao paid a lot of food to Mr. We can also borrow food from Mr.

"gentlemen!"

Li Shimin patted his forehead, he was so busy during this time that he even forgot to sleep and eat, and he couldn't remember anything about Li Yi'an for a while.

A long time ago, when he asked his husband to accept Li Chengqian as his apprentice, he once said that there was a way to resolve the crisis of food shortage.

"That's right, I'm going to find Mr.!"

After Li Shimin came to his senses, he asked them all to disperse, and immediately went back to change into casual clothes, let Li Junxian follow him, and hurried out of the palace gate.

However, the moment he left the house, a bug soared down from the sky and landed on his head.

"Your Majesty, be careful!"

Li Junxian stretched out his hand to grab it, picked it up, and said in panic, "Your Majesty, it's a locust!"

locust?

Li Shimin took a look and felt his scalp go numb.

Because this is a locust, this year not only the earth dragon turned over, but also the drought, and even the locusts came out to make troubles. How will the people of Tang Dynasty survive?

Whenever there is a drought, locusts will arise, and locusts often occur with droughts.

In the arid environment, whether it is climate, soil, humidity, water, etc., it is extremely suitable for the breeding of locusts. In addition, Chang'an has not had a lot of rain for a long time, which just provides a suitable environment for locusts.

Now that the first locust has appeared in Chang'an, and even more than one locust, will it be far from the swarms and tens of thousands of locusts appearing?

"Locusts... hurry up and find out, I want to know where the locusts come from."

Li Shimin panicked. If there is a locust plague, how many farmers will starve to death this year.

However, before Li Junxian had time to arrange for someone to investigate, he saw Zhangsun Wuji rushing in, panting, "Your Majesty, it's not good... locust plague, locusts are coming from Hebei, and they are about to reach Chang'an."

"Really?"

Li Shimin trembled all over: "Could it be that I really don't deserve to be an emperor, is this God's punishment for me?"

Just after changing the reign name, so many things happened. If it wasn't for the punishment from heaven, Li Shimin really couldn't think of it. There are other explanations.