Kong Yu asked Li Qing how he thought of building an underground reservoir, and Li Qing said his original idea. Kong Yu immediately glanced at Li Qing a few more times and asked, "How about I recommend you to join the court as an official?" “

Li Qing's eyes widened, and he said loudly: "Don't beat my mind, if you dare to destroy my beautiful life, I will hunt you down from heaven to earth." With that, he left.

Zhu Biao and Kong Yu said: "Master Kong, you should save it, he was willing to worship me as a teacher at the beginning, not for the sake of high-ranking officials, but for the bow of my righteous brother, and you gave me the idea at the beginning." After Zhu Biao finished speaking, he followed Li Qing behind.

Emperor Taizu nodded, agreeing with what Zhu Biao said, thinking about Zhu Biao's acceptance of apprentices, which made the people under him complain. said to Kong Yu: "I think he really doesn't want to be an official." “

The next night, the sergeant from the county town came to tell the county government that there was no extra food and water, and asked them to find Li Qing to find a way. Kong Yu found Li Qing for help, Li Qing only asked him one sentence, the food and water he helped was counted as a loan for disaster relief, or if the contract was borrowed by their adults, they had to pay it back.

Some civil officials said that they were aware of the people's feelings and made decisions for the people, and Li Qing, as the host, should make voluntary donations. Li Qing listened, took the account book of his free donation, threw it directly on the man and said, "If your family has more than I donated, I will donate as much as your family." If your family doesn't donate as much as I do, shut up. Why don't you donate yourself? Say that what others say is so good. I can't afford to support people like you, so I will feed you according to the food of the victims, so that you can know what the people's suffering is. The officials asked the people to donate food, and they really didn't have a backache when they stood and talked. After Li Qing finished speaking, he left.

From that day on, everyone sat down to eat, and it was all one person with one plate of meat and one plate of vegetables. Only the man had a bowl of rice soup, and the person who gave him the rice soup at the time also said that the victims had two meals of rice soup a day, and you could eat five meals a day.

When the others saw it, they wanted to give some food to the man. The person who delivered the meal said again, and the owner of their family said that if anyone wanted to feel the suffering of the people, they should share it with him, so as to ensure that the next meal of the person would be the suffering of the people. Suddenly, no one dared, none of them wanted to look at the big fish and meat, and only drank rice soup.

They stayed here for two days, and Li Qing couldn't leave without food. Emperor Taizu didn't think about it so much, and took Zhu Biao and Kong Yu to follow Li Qing around. Look at what people are doing, there is a famine outside, and Li Qing's realm can still grow food. Emperor Taizu asked him why he planted soybeans, and Li Qing said that because locusts did not eat soybeans.

Emperor Taizu was surprised that Li Qing even thought of these at a young age, Kong Yu immediately thought of the chickens, ducks and frogs raised on the edge of the reservoir, he saw such a large number of frogs at that time and was still thinking about what this thing was for, but he didn't expect it to prevent locusts. Sigh at Li Qing's erudition.

After resting for two days, a military general couldn't stay still and competed in the martial arts training ground in the village. The militia regiments in Li Qing's territory also came to ask for advice. At the end of the competition, it became a general to challenge Li Qing. As a result, he beat Li Qing with no more than one hand, and Zhu Biao was added. If it is a bow and arrow, Li Qing is invincible. Emperor Taizu sighed that no one in the Tang Dynasty could practice this archery, no wonder Zhu Biao begged to accept Li Qing as an apprentice.

Kong Yu saw that Li Qingwen was strategic, and it was absolutely not a problem to govern one side, and his love for talent was ready to move again. This time it wasn't just him, even Emperor Taizu was moved. A talent like Li Qing cannot be used by the imperial court, which is the incompetence of the imperial court. The behavior of Kong Yu is defaulted.

Kong Yu first found Zhu Biao and told him that Li Qing was indeed as he said, Wen Taowu was omnipotent, and if he could enter the court as an official, it would be a blessing for the people, and he hoped that General Zhu could persuade him. Zhu Biao replied to Kong Yu and said: "I want him to go to the battlefield to make contributions, but he is unwilling, and he can still intrigue with you." When he worshipped me as a teacher, it was because of my brother's bow, so don't dream. Kong Yu felt that it was unclear to tell Zhu Biao, so he should still ask Li Qing about it.

Kong Yu found Li Qing and said: "Nephew, you are a genius, you will have to make great achievements in the future, if you are an official, you will definitely be able to benefit the people and be famous for eternity." ”

Li Qing looked at Kong Yu like an idiot, and said, "I thank you in advance, but I don't want to be an official, and I don't want to be immortal." As the saying goes, the more an official does, the more he manages, the more he manages, the greater the responsibility, the greater the responsibility, the more scruples, and the more scruples, the less freedom he has. Think about my future days, every day without freedom, except for government affairs, or government affairs. For me, it is better to live than to die, I don't want to live as much as death, I don't want to benefit the people, I just want to live happily. ”

Kong Yu said anxiously: "How can you be so arrogant, I know that you love the people." Otherwise, you wouldn't have used so much money to help the victims? ”

Li Qing said: "What I said before was a bit exaggerated and adulterated. It's not impossible for adults to want to hear the truth. The lives of the people really have nothing to do with me. At the beginning, I was afraid that they would make trouble, so I exchanged rice and grain for their deeds of sale and land and real estate. Do you know how much I earned? I have 200 families of domestic slaves, all of whom have volunteered with me, and I have bought them in exchange for food and drink. Later, I was afraid that they would rebel and that they would rob me of my food. But I didn't want to continue to be relieved, so I asked the county magistrate to help me submit a request for the court to borrow grain. You have also seen my situation here, do you think that even if there is no arrears from the imperial court, I will go bankrupt? Don't bother me, my lords, I'm not going to leave here. Li Qing finished speaking and left.

Kong Yu has been getting along with Li Qing these days, and thinks that Li Qing is very emotional, and he is very good to the people underground. If you don't ask, you can't tell which ones are long-term workers, which ones are slaves, and which ones are villagers. Li Qing's prestige in Li Qing's realm is needless to say, and it can be seen by everyone's attitude towards him. Kong Yu didn't believe what Li Qing said at all. He felt that there must be a reason why Li Qing was reluctant to go out of office, and he wanted to find out who he was willing to ask Li Qing to go out.

Kong Yu said that Li Qing was resolute and wanted to ask everyone to help find a way. Emperor Taizu asked Zhu Biao what he thought, and Zhu Biao suggested that his apprentice could only go to the battlefield and become a civil official. Kong Yu is inclined to let Li Qing deal with the construction and pacification of the people after the disaster, the disaster has been nine months, and the locust plague after the drought will not be small, Li Qing obviously has a set of his methods, if he can enter the court as an official, it will be the blessing of the people.

The military attache disagreed, and in these days' competitions, the military attaché hoped that Li Qing could go to the field. Suddenly, the civil and military sides quarreled. Emperor Taizu was troubled by their quarrel and asked, "Did Li Qing agree to enter the court as an official?" Or did you promise to go to war? Everyone was quiet, and Li Qing was reluctant to go out of the mountain at all.

Emperor Taizu asked everyone to think about the benefits of being an official, and then persuaded Li Qing to go out of the mountain. He also informed Li Qing, he agreed to borrow grain, and went back to let the household settle together, and they were ready to leave tomorrow.