After some simple preparations, Li Er took a group of civil and military officials and rode towards Lantian County.

The Tang people are still martial, especially in the early Tang Dynasty, at this time, not only the military generals will ride horses, but among the civil officials, there are few people who do not know how to ride horses, Li Er, as the emperor, generally does not choose to ride a dragon chariot, but a horse, because it is much more convenient to ride a horse than to take a dragon chariot!

"Xiao Xuan, tell you the truth to the old man, when you bought chicken seedlings in Chang'an City last year, did you already anticipate this year's locust plague?"

On the way, Cheng Yanjin deliberately stayed behind, standing side by side with Li Zexuan, seeing that no one around paid attention to them, Cheng Yanjin hurriedly asked in a low voice.

Li Zexuan understood that when he proposed to use a heavenly chicken brigade composed of 150,000 chickens to exterminate locusts, many ministers in the court began to suspect his true purpose of purchasing chicken seedlings in the first place.

"Uncle Cheng, I can't hide it, my master had measured two hexagrams for my Tang Dynasty before his death, one hexagram accurately predicted the change of Xuanwu Gate, and the other hexagram predicted that a big locust plague would break out in the Guanzhong area in June of the second year of Zhenguan.

At the beginning, the little nephew was just a commoner, and he only wanted to let his own farmers avoid the locust plague, so the little nephew purchased a large number of chicken seedlings for the villagers, but because of this, he was impeached by Yuan Shaoqing and entered His Majesty's field of vision! Later, as the little nephew was lucky enough to make a lot of contributions, the official became bigger and bigger, and there were more and more dealers under his hands.

Later, Uncle Qin realized that something was wrong, and asked the little nephew why he wanted to buy so many chicken seedlings, the little nephew was helpless, and told the truth, Uncle Qin made a statement, and the little nephew woke up like a dream, only to realize how heavy the courage was on his body, and when the locust plague came, even if the little nephew was fully prepared, I am afraid it would be difficult to resist alone!

Therefore, in the end, Uncle Qin found His Majesty, and told my master's prediction of the locust plague and told it, His Majesty was shocked, and wanted to edict the little nephew to enter the palace, but it happened that day that the rain was kidnapped by the bandits, and the little nephew resisted the order to save people, and afterwards His Majesty ordered the little nephew to come up with a strategy to control the locusts, and presented it to him, His Majesty saw the three strategies proposed by the little nephew to control the locusts, found Fang Xiang, Du Xiang and Zhao Guogong, and after discussion, decided to implement the new policy, while sending the fleet south to exchange grain, and on the other hand, to implement the policy of raising chickens and reducing the amount of money in the Guanzhong area!

The prophecy of the locust plague is very important, and once it is leaked, it will definitely cause a huge panic among the people, so the little nephew did not tell Uncle Cheng about it, and asked Uncle Cheng to forgive me! ”

With Li Zexuan's narration, Cheng Yanjin finally figured out the cause and effect, thinking that he had been kept in the dark for the past year, and if it wasn't for his brain, the housekeeper also followed Li Zexuan to buy 30,000 chicken seedlings, it is estimated that his family's Zhuangzi will also suffer from locust plague at this time, thinking of this, Cheng Yanjin's face darkened, and said:

"Hey! Excuse me! Forgive the fart! The old man used to treat you like a nephew, but you didn't even hide this from the old man, and the old man won't forgive you easily! Unless...."

"Snort~! Cheng madman, you don't want to be cheap, and you sell well! ”

At this moment, Wei Chi Jingde's voice came from the side: "Last year, in the entire Chang'an City, except for Xiao Xuan, you Cheng Zhijie bought the most, you just muttered a few words to your little servant, you should have told him to return to Cheng's Zhuangzi and use chickens to destroy locusts, right?" ”

Cheng Yanjin turned his head to look at Yu Chi Jingde, and said angrily: "Hey! Didn't you see it, Yu Chi Lao Hei looks black, but your eyes are quite bright? The old man said two words to the house slave, and you all looked at them! ”

The scolding does not expose the shortcomings, Cheng Biting Jin's words made Wei Chi Jingde almost break out:

"Cheng madman, do you want to fight again?"

"Hit it! Who's afraid of whom? After coming back from Lantian County in a while, let's have a fight! ”

"Good! Whoever runs this time is the grandson! ”

"Good! You run you are grandchildren! ”

Seeing that these two old boys turned on the bickering mode, Li Zexuan quietly kicked Da Bai's belly and chased towards Qin Qiong in front of him.

Just now he thought that Cheng Biting Jin would be angry with him, but when he heard the word "unless", he knew that Lao Cheng was definitely not really angry, but wanted to use this matter to ask for some benefits!

"Yong'an Hou! Your Majesty has asked you to accompany you! ”

As soon as he walked to Qin Qiong's side, before he could speak, a forbidden army trotted over on horseback and hugged Li Zexuan.

"Let me accompany me?"

Li Zexuan was stunned, and said in his heart when he had such a business, but this was not the time to dwell on this, he quickly came back to his senses and nodded: "Okay!" Ben Hou is going! ”

After that, he said a word to Qin Qiong, and then beat his horse and ran towards the front of the team.

"Huh! Are you kid here? ”

Li Er was in front of the hundred officials, except for the guards of the forbidden army, there was no minister to accompany him, when Li Zexuan came over, it attracted the envious eyes of many ministers, Li Er said at this time.

"Uh... Your Majesty has something to do with your ministers? ”

Hearing Li Er call himself "you kid" instead of Yong'an Hou, Li Zexuan sighed in his heart, and secretly guessed that Li Er would definitely have no good words next.

Sure enough, with a meaningful smile on the corner of Li Er's mouth, he said, "I heard that you are in great need of locusts, so I thought about how about reselling the locusts that the imperial court bought from all over the world at twice the price in the future?" ”

When Li Zexuan heard this, his old face turned black, and he almost vomited blood. Does Lao Li want to be a second-class dealer?

Previously, in the court, Lao Li claimed that he wanted to pay out of his own pocket to buy the locusts in the world, and he also moved the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but he didn't think that Li Er wanted to sell the locusts he collected to himself, and Li Zexuan really thought that 10,000 alpacas were galloping by....

But then again, the locusts that Li Er collected could only be handed over to Li Zexuan, because Lao Li's people would not be able to do Feihuang Tengda, let alone be able to fully use locusts in medicine like Sun Simiao!

"What? You kid feel like you're at a loss? But I heard that last autumn you bought locusts from the farmers, and the price at that time was three cents a pound! If I sell you a penny and a pound, you won't suffer a loss, right? ”

Li Er glanced at Li Zexuan lightly, his eyes flashed with a strange light, and said.

Li Zexuan secretly rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, can the situation be the same this year as last year? Now that locusts are everywhere, we can't buy them at last year's price!

But thinking that Li Er had always taken good care of himself, Li Zexuan just wanted to refuse, so he swallowed back the words of refusal, and he arched his hand and said:

"Don't suffer! Don't suffer! The minister is willing to buy the locusts obtained by the imperial court at twice the price! ”

The price of a penny and a pound is not expensive, 10,000 can collect 8 million catties, so why not let Lao Li take a small advantage, when the time comes, I will process it casually, and a plate of fried grasshoppers can be sold for consistent money, or blood to earn!

Li Zexuan thought so in his heart.

"Hmmm! Good! Alright, go down! ”

Li Er glanced at Li Zexuan deeply, and said with great joy.

Li Zexuan was speechless, could this be regarded as being kicked away after being used?

"Oh~!"

Arching his hand, Li Zechuan hit the horse and returned to the back of the team.

Seeing Li Zexuan's sullen expression, Qin Qiong couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Xuan, what is Your Majesty looking for you?" ”

"What else could it be? Thinking about how to pit me? ”

Li Zexuan rolled his eyes, and when he saw Qin Qiong's puzzled expression, he immediately told what had just happened.

Qin Qiong stroked his beard, then looked at Li Zexuan and said, "You, you!" Your Majesty's move is to protect you, you don't have to be resentful and live up to Your Majesty's kindness! ”

"Protect me? Uncle Qin, how is this protecting me? ”

Li Zexuan was stunned for a while when he heard this, and couldn't help but be surprised.

Qin Qiong pointed at Li Zexuan with some hatred, then lowered his voice and said: "Xiao Xuan, think about it yourself, if Your Majesty does not personally pay for the purchase of locusts in the world this time, but lets you pay for it, then all the people in the world will be grateful to you, and your reputation will certainly be as high as the sky, and you will also become the desire of the people."

But as the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, you are young, and you bear such a big reputation, it is inevitable that you will not be attacked by villains! If someone with a heart uses this to drive a wedge between you and His Majesty's monarchs and ministers, Xiao Xuan, your glory today, I am afraid that it will disappear in an instant!

Your Majesty sold the locusts you bought at twice the price, first, the court was indeed unable to dispose of such a huge number of locusts, and secondly, it was to completely remove you from this matter, which was to protect you! ”

Qin Qiong's words shocked Li Zexuan's heart, indeed, this kind of thing of buying the hearts of the people, only Li Er can do it in the whole world, thinking back to the court, he came up with 20,000 yuan to help Li Er buy locusts, this is really a stupid decision, fortunately Li Er rejected him in court, otherwise when this matter spreads, all the people in the world will really be grateful to him, and when the time comes, he will be really dangerous!

After Li Zexuan traveled to the Tang Dynasty, he just wanted to live a good life with his family, and he just wanted to live a good life with the people around him, he never wanted to buy any people's hearts, let alone raise the flag to rebel!

"Thank you Uncle Qin for reminding me! You really wake up the dreamer with a word! Only then did the little nephew understand His Majesty's good intentions, and it was indeed the little nephew who lacked consideration in this matter! ”

Li Zexuan solemnly arched his hand towards Qin Qiong, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Qin Qiong nodded and said, "Xiao Xuan, you must be cautious when you are in the court, you can be regarded as a big family now, every step you take is related to the rise and fall of many people's honor and disgrace, you have to be cautious!" ”

Li Zexuan was silent, and after a while, he arched his hand and said, "Thank you Uncle Qin for your teachings!" ”

It is said that there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, it is also the same in the court, with Qin Qiong, a reliable elder on the side, to help and remind him, Li Zexuan can avoid many detours and wrong roads!

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"Seventh Master Han, where are Uncle Hu and them?"

Half an hour later, the group finally came to Hanjiazhuang, Lantian County, and saw that there were only some old people in the village, and all the young and strong women and children were not there, Li Zexuan hurriedly hit the horse into the village, found an old man and asked.

"Young master, Hu Li is taking the people from the village to Wangjiazhuang to exterminate the locusts!"

When Han Qiye saw Li Zexuan, he hurriedly bent his waist and replied.

"Went to Wangjiazhuang? Have the locusts in the fields of Hanjiazhuang and Meicun been cleaned up? ”

Li Zexuan asked again.

Han Qiye suddenly smiled and said, "It's cleaned up!" Cleaned up! Young master, our Zhuangzi is the first Zhuangzi in Lantian County to clean up locusts, and now we can only see a few sporadic locusts in the field! ”

Li Zexuan suddenly put his mind at ease, he Han Qiye said, "That's okay, Han Qiye, you are busy, I'll go first", and then he hit his horse and came to the head of the village, dismounted and arched his hand towards Li Er: "Your Majesty, Hanjiazhuang's Tianji Brigade has gone to other villages, and the fields in Zhuangzi are basically free of locusts now!" ”

Hearing this, everyone was shocked and couldn't help but whisper.

Li Er couldn't help but laugh and said, "Okay! Good! All Aiqing went to the field with me to have a look! Look at the first Zhuangzi in the entire Tang Dynasty to eliminate locusts! ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

Naturally, everyone couldn't ask for it.

Under the leadership of Li Zexuan, everyone came to the farmland in the south of Hanjiazhuang, it is now the middle of June, some of the wheat in the field has turned yellow, and the heavy wheat ears press the wheat stalks that can't stand up to the waist, Li Er took hundreds of officials to line up on the ridges, and went to inspect the fields to see if there were locusts.

"This! There really are no locusts left! ”

"It's not that there are no locusts, it's just that there are very few!"

"That's right! Compared to the farmland we saw on the way here, the locusts in the fields of Han Tianzhuang are completely negligible, and the Tianji Brigade of Yong'an Hou can really eliminate the locusts of thousands of acres of fields in a short period of time! ”

After the civil and military officials carefully inspected the farmland, they couldn't help but exclaim one by one.

Qiu Xinggong's face was a little ugly, he originally planned to see Li Zexuan's jokes this time, but he didn't expect to see Li Zexuan's infinite spring breeze!

"Good! Good! Good! This day, the Rooster Brigade was well established! ”

Li Er's eyes brightened the more he looked at it, and finally he couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Your Majesty, it has been proved that the strategy of Yong'an Hou to exterminate locusts is completely feasible, and the locust plague in the Central Plains that has made the emperors of all dynasties helpless, this time it is expected to be quickly extinguished under the leadership of the saint, this is the blessing of the common people!"

Fang Xuanling walked over with a happy face at this time and congratulated Li Ergong.

Li Er smiled and was about to speak, when suddenly a locust flew to his shoulder in the field, Li Eryan quickly grabbed it, looking at the locusts struggling desperately between his fingers, Li Er's eyes gradually became a little hateful, he looked at the locusts in his hands, and said: "People take the grain as their life, and you eat it, it is harmful to the people." The people have had, in one person, you have a spirit, but when you erode my heart, it harmless the people, otherwise you would rather eat my lungs and intestines! ”

After that, everyone didn't have time to react, Li Er directly stuffed the locust in his hand into his mouth, chewed it twice with a frown, and then swallowed it directly!

"Your Majesty! Cannot! ”

"Your Majesty! No! Beware of the dragon's body! ”

The ministers reacted and dissuaded one after another, but at this time, the locusts had already entered Li Er's abdomen!

"Your Majesty is dedicated to the people, and he is really a saint of the ages, and the old minister and grandson are Wuji, and he is willing to share weal and woe with His Majesty!"

The eldest grandson Wuji looked sad, hurriedly went to the ground, searched for a long time and finally found a locust, and then closed his eyes and stuffed the locust into his mouth.

"The old minister Fang Xuanling is willing to share weal and woe with His Majesty!"

"The old minister Du Ruhui is willing to share weal and woe with His Majesty!"

One by one, the ministers went down to the fields to search for locusts to show their loyalty, Li Zexuan's heart suddenly flooded with bitterness, although this scene is a famous scene in the history books, but he doesn't want to encounter it at all! And now he eats this locust? Or do you eat it?

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