Chang'an City, above the palace, the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Tang Jian, almost all the Wenchen team gathered here, and the folds were circulated among several people, Li Shimin waved his hand, and the waiter brought up a few chairs, and everyone sat down solemnly behind Xie En.

Li Shimin said: "Just like you can see, if you can't control it, this locust plague will become extremely terrifying in half a month, there will be no food near Chang'an, and those people's mouths will not let me go."

The eldest grandson Wuji said: "Your Majesty, you can first mobilize the people to exterminate the locusts, there are 100,000 people in Chang'an, and now there are no 100,000 locusts."

Before the eldest grandson Wuji finished speaking, a black-faced man stood up and said: "The minister does not agree with what the eldest grandson said, the people think that the locusts are originally heavenly insects, also known as the locust gods, if the imperial court mobilizes the people to exterminate the locusts, the ministers are worried that it will not have any effect, but will cause instability in the people's hearts."

"Lord Wei is right, locusts have a very high status in the hearts of the people, and rashly launching locust extermination may indeed cause the people to revolt, but it is imperative to exterminate locusts, and the minister does not believe that those so-called locust sacrifice spells can play any role" Du Ruhui got up and said.

After Du Ruhui finished speaking, Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, compared to the locust exterminator, the people should be alive first, no matter how successful or unsuccessful the locust extermination, the people's farmland has been eaten by locusts, Your Majesty, as long as the people are alive, the locust plague will always pass."

"Yes, you can first mobilize grain in other state cities, some time ago set up a righteous warehouse to prevent floods, there is already a lot of grain in stock, in other state and town food is not enough, you can open a warehouse to release grain as a last resort" Du Ruhui followed closely.

"Your Majesty, the minister has something to say," the eldest grandson Wuji said.

Li Shimin said: "But it doesn't hurt to say it"

The eldest grandson Wuji got up and said: "The grain in Yicang is to prevent floods, and the ministers are afraid, once these grains are used for locust plagues, when the water is born again, isn't there no food available in Datang, it is true that most of the floods in various places have been controlled these days, but the grain in Yicang still has to be cautious, and the counties near Chang'an are afraid that they will be affected, and the grain transferred from other states and counties is afraid that it is a drop in the bucket, which is far from enough for Chang'an!" ”

The discussion in the hall continued until the evening, and the ministers still did not have a suitable solution, Li Shimin sighed and said: "I let people read history, since the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, there have been one hundred and thirty-one locust plagues in Chang'an, even the tyrant of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty has not sent any heavenly punishment, I have not dared to slack off at all since I ascended the throne, but floods, droughts, locust plagues, that is the same as the lack of the Tang Dynasty, God is really unfair!" ”

Li Shimin's voice fell, and the ministers who were arguing a second ago suddenly fell silent, "The ministers are incompetent!" Wei Zheng, who had a black face, took the lead in kneeling, followed by the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Du and the ministers.

Li Shimin got up and said: "Everyone, get up, heaven's will is like this, no wonder you"

Li Shimin turned his head and left, and the ministers in the palace were still kneeling in place, and they couldn't worry about the king, because the courtiers were incompetent.

Night has come, everyone in Qingyunguan has fallen asleep, knocking on the door, Ye Lin opened his eyes irritably, put on his robe, got out of bed and walked to the door of Daoguan, and said: "It's late, don't accept pilgrims, don't go back!" ”

"Dao Chief, it's me!"

"Who are you?" Ye Lin asked impatiently.

"I'm Li Shimin," replied the man at the door.

"Who?"

"Li Shimin" said again.

"Your Majesty, it's cold outside, come in" The next second, Ye Lin came out in the view and said with a smile.

Li Shimin sat down on the stone steps of the gate and said, "I won't go in, you can sit down too, I have something to ask you."

Ye Lin obediently sat next to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin opened his mouth and pointed to the carriage lane not far from the Taoist temple: "They are also here with you?" ”

Ye Lindao nodded, and Li Shimin said again: "How are they?" ”

Ye Lin replied: "It's okay, after leaving Zixuan, the two sisters will temporarily live here in the poor road, and it will be a lot easier."

Li Shimin said: "You guessed my identity when I asked Guanyin to go to Chongzhou, right?" ”

Ye Lin nodded, and Li Shimin said again: "Does the Taoist know my intention today?" ”

Ye Lin shook his head, and Li Shimin said: "Since the Taoist chief knows, please ask the Taoist chief to help."

Ye Lin frowned, remembering that he shook his head just now, Li Shimin saw that Ye Lin was silent and said: "What the Taoist chief said is right, it won't be long before Chang'an City will be full of victims."

"Your Majesty is for the plague of locusts?"

Ye Lin said that Li Shimin followed closely and said: "The Taoist chief really guessed it, and asked the Taoist chief to help."

Ye Lin thought about it, the locust plague should be nothing to Li Shimin, as for coming to his own small Taoist temple late at night and letting himself help, he didn't bother to help him, and when he was forced by the locusts, he couldn't help it, and when he started eating locusts, he could solve the locust plague soon, and he didn't need to be poor at all.

Thinking of this, Ye Lin said slowly: "Your Majesty, this is a natural disaster, and there is no way to do it, very early on, Your Majesty asked Poor Dao, why don't you want to be an official, this is the reason, there is no way to do natural disasters and man-made disasters, Poor Dao has weak shoulders, and he can't resist responsibility, that's why Poor Dao doesn't want to be an official, compared to His Majesty's civil and military officials, Poor Dao has no talent."

"But the Taoist found the locust plague before them, and then went to Chongzhou in advance to take refuge, this strange me, the Taoist said to me that there was a locust plague, but I didn't take it to heart" Li Shimin sat on the stone steps and said.

"But he still called you back!"

The voice appeared next to Ye Lin, Ye Lin secretly said that it was not good, Zi Yi had already killed Li Er, and now Li Er came to Qingyunguan alone, this is the way to die!

"Are you Ziyun or Ziyi?" Li Shimin looked at Ziyi who was not far away and asked.

"You like to guess so much, why don't you guess," Zi Yi said coldly.

Ye Lin got up and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, please go back, Poor Dao really can't help you"

Ye Lin said, grabbed Ziyi's hand, took Ziyi into the temple, and then closed the door.

Outside, Li Shimin looked at the closed door, sighed again, and a pair of beautiful eyes stared at Ye Lin inside, Ye Lin hurriedly let go of his hand.

Ziyi said: "Don't help him!" ”

Ye Lin nodded obediently, and Zi Yi saw this and said, "Thank you for the concubine."

Ye Linxin said: "If you don't kill Li Er, I'll thank you."

Ziyi was about to go back to the house, when her eyes fell on Ye Lin's body again, and she stepped forward and whispered, "Do you want to go back to the house with the concubine to sleep?" ”

"Nope! I'll go back to my own room," Ye Lin firmly refused.

Zi Yi said quite disappointedly: "In this way, if the Dao Chang wants, the concubine and her sister will be waiting for the Dao Chang Ao in the room at any time!" After all, the night is still very long, and it is okay for the Taoist to regret it."

Ye Lin smiled awkwardly, turned around and went back to the room, and locked the door with his hand.