In the evening of the same day, Li Er convened the Evening Dynasty because of an emergency, and at the beginning of the court meeting, Jiujiang and Luling were sealed, expanding the scope and amount of fiefdoms, and rewarding hundreds of slaves and craftsmen each.

Outsiders don't know the reason for this anomaly, and they only feel inexplicable for a while.

After all, His Majesty has dozens of brothers and sisters, more and more children under him, there are countless Chinese martial arts elders in the court, as well as former dynasty relics and new talents, and His Majesty needs to pay attention to too many people.

How could he suddenly reward two eldest princesses who happened to be at a prime age? What's the secret here?

You must know that the area of these sealed fiefs is not small, and the actual fiefs have reached 3,000 households, and the total number of servants and craftsmen is a huge number, which has almost wiped out the redundancy of the imperial city.

Only the eldest grandson Wuji and others understood the reason.

Princess Jiujiang can always resonate with the novelty invented by Chen Chu for the first time, but Princess Luling is timid on the surface but moves very much behind her back, and directly calls all the brick kilns in the fiefdom to burn the bricks that Chen Chu has in mind day and night, which makes Chen Chu very happy when he learns the news.

It has always been a crying child who has candy to eat, and His Majesty didn't mean to bring other eldest princesses to Chen Chu to have fun together.

The problem is that they all missed out on for various odd reasons, and a few of them are also unmarried or divorced, and they have no fate, who can blame them.

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A serious locust plague has occurred in Guanzhong Prefecture, and it has swept the whole territory in just a few days, and even the locust plague vanguard is not far from Chang'an City.

This sudden change disrupted all the plans of the imperial court, and the people were panicked.

This is also the reason why Li Er hurriedly summoned hundreds of officials, this kind of big event in full swing really can't be delayed for a day, and the news from hundreds of miles away, who knows how long it has been delayed.

If you start to discuss tomorrow morning, you will waste too much time.

When the evening court learned of this terrible news, many ministers screamed in fright, and even some who had experienced the disaster even hugged their heads and cried.

Such an accident also washed away Li Er's good mood in recent days, the drought problem has not been completely solved, and the locust plague will destroy almost all their efforts.

How to solve the locust plague and how to restore production after the locust plague? How to solve the livelihood problem of so many people?

All of a sudden, they were in a huge predicament.

Li Er suddenly remembered that Chen Chu wanted him to repair the road from Chang'an to Guanzhong.

Chen Chu is really right, if there is such a road in Datang now, what is the locust plague afraid of?

The people migrated to Chang'an, with the grain hoarded in the warehouses in the previous two years, and the grain left by the Sui Dynasty in Xingluocang and Huiluocang, which supplied millions of people in the entire Guanzhong.

Even if it starts from Chang'an in the east and reaches Longxi in the west of Guanzhong in the west, it is only three or four hundred miles away, and as for Jiuyuan, Beidi, Shangjun, and Yunzhong, there is only one avenue, which can take into account development, and the army can rush out of Yunzhong when the military situation is urgent.

Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is really the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and then to the west is the blind spot of the Tang Dynasty's rule, and at the same time faces the threat of the west, north and southwest, only the Tang Dynasty firmly stands here, and the inland tens of millions of miles of rivers and mountains can be preserved.

This thought flew through his heart, and Li Er decided to put this matter on the agenda when the imperial court was a little richer.

"Don't panic, who has any suggestions for controlling the locust plague?" Li Er shouted.

Locust plagues have occurred frequently since ancient times, and they have been frightened by the world, and the scene of the overwhelming end of the world has never been seen a second time in a lifetime.

In the past, there was no land to grow, and all the food and plants that could be eaten would be gone, which would be a devastating blow to agricultural production.

Yu Shinan and other old ministers had experienced a locust plague more than once in their lives, and after calming down at this time, they quickly thought with all their strength and began to think about coping strategies.

Once the locust plague spreads to Chang'an, the consequences are unimaginable, I am afraid that the lives of millions of people will be greatly affected, and the imperial power will also be dealt a heavy blow, which is extremely fatal for Li Er, who is not in the right position.

So no matter what, Li Er had to keep the locust plague out of Chang'an.

"Locusts shall not be killed! Your Majesty, we suggest that we let them rampant and loot for food, we only need to rush the victims, and when the time is almost right, the locust plague will naturally recede! ”

Many officials who were frightened by locusts suggested that the ancients had a long history of fearing locusts, and there were many people who thought so.

"All it takes is a heavy rain, and the locust plague will naturally be resolved, and if we come forward to interfere, I'm afraid it will cause the wrath of the heavens and the people!"

There was a lot of discussion, and even more than half of the voices in the court were opposed.

"If we resist stubbornly, once we anger the gods, I am afraid that the heavens will send more punishments!"

Li Er felt aggrieved in his heart, he didn't believe in these things in his life.

The problem is that there are many people who believe in it, and he is now unsure whether to fight the locust plague, and if he is used to accuse him of being in the wrong position and spreading false rumors, it will make people lose their hearts.

This is a very serious consequence, so what exactly should be done?

If the locust plague spreads all the way through Chang'an, what about Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong?

You must know that the east side was hit by a disaster only last year, and if it comes again this year, where will the people survive.

When the time comes, will there be enough food in the world for so many people to eat, and how will it be transported if the road is difficult?

Fang Xuanling said: "Last year's flood, this year's drought, this will be the phenomenon of locust plague, now the drought continues, no one knows how long it will take to rain, hope in the weather, pure nonsense!" ”

Yu Shinan also said: "Yes, to a certain extent, Guanzhong is the barrier of Shanxi and Hebei, if the locust plague is not resisted here, the entire north will be flooded by the locust plague, and the losses will be incalculable." ”

With these vicious ministers supporting the extermination of locusts, the voice of the court is not one-sided.

will hold on until the end of the evening dynasty, and the courtiers disperse one after another in the lights, and Li Er also returned to the palace tiredly and went to read the relevant classics in history.

Such a major event naturally spread quickly in Chang'an City, causing a panic that night.

On the street, people rushed to tell each other, squeezed in the grain store, rice store and other places to buy food, the night of the curfew, a large number of merchants and people crowded to the city gate to want to go out of the city, the public order was chaotic.

Chen Chu walked on the street, and naturally learned the news, he even saw a small green locust falling from the sky, and after trampling it to death, several pedestrians around him scattered in horror.

It can be seen that the reverence of the ancients for locusts, or "locust gods", is really not fake.

This Nima, Chen Chu is also a little afraid of the locust plague, after all, there had only been a worldwide locust plague in the world before he crossed over, and the scene was simply terrifying.

Even the modern world is very prepared for locust plagues, not to mention the low productivity of ancient times, the people will starve to death in large numbers if they have no food, and the crops cannot be restored to production, and the local area does not know how long it will be abandoned.

He was not afraid of the locust plague itself, but he was afraid that the Tang people would not be able to extinguish it, and even let the locust plague rush because of his fear of them.

"Grandma's legs, these little brutes must be destroyed!" Chen Chu waved his sleeves vigorously, but he could only be anxious for the time being, because he had no practical way at present.

Modern special methods for controlling locust plagues are basically based on modern technology, and there is only one most effective way to extinguish them manually, and that is to use poultry and birds to deal with them.

"System, system, you can do it, I don't ask you to make anything powerful, at least give me something to protect myself, locusts can't get close to my Xiao Chen, this request is not too much, right?"

Chen Chu secretly prayed for the system, and the system didn't communicate with him, who knew if his prayer would not work.