In the second year of Zhenguan, there was a drought in Beijing, and locusts rose greatly. When Taizong entered the garden to see the grass, he saw the locusts, picked up a few pieces and cursed: "People take grain as their life, and you eat it, which is harmful to the people." The people have had, and they have a spirit in one person, but when they erode my heart, they will not harm the people. Will swallow it, left and right admonished: "I'm afraid of becoming a disease, don't do it." Taizong said: "What is the hope of moving the disaster, what is the disease to avoid?" "Swallow it. The locusts are no longer plagued.

This is the very famous fragment of Taizong swallowing locusts in history, recorded in "Zhenguan Political Dignitaries"!

Tang Taizong's "swallowing locusts" may be out of true feelings, or acting for people to see, or both. But one thing must be certain: if he does not understand the calamity that locusts bring to the common people; If he regards the people of Li as a mustard and does not understand the pity and fearfulness of the common people, I am afraid that there will be no act of "swallowing locusts", and maybe there will be a joke of "why not eat minced meat"!

The stars are changing, the world is changing, and now the Tang Dynasty has Li Zexuan to wake up in advance, and the imperial court has made a lot of preparations for the locust plague in advance, this overwhelming locust plague does not seem to be impossible to eliminate, but Li Er is still at this time, choosing to devour locusts in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, and his intention is also very clear, that is, to do it for the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, and to show the people of the world, only in this way can all the people of the world completely let go of the fear of locusts and work together to exterminate locusts!

Although he understands Li Er's good intentions, but understanding is understanding, let Li Zexuan swallow locusts alive, Li Zexuan can only say "The concubine can't do it"!

This thing is more delicious if it is fried, but if you eat it raw, it will be disgusting!

But is it okay not to eat?

Look, Fang Xuanling is now nearly fifty years old, and he has personally gone to the fields to look for locusts; And how upright and unafraid of power Wei Trolls is on weekdays, doesn't he also catch a locust and feed it to his mouth at this time? Look at Cheng Biting Jin, Wei Chi Jingde and other generals, a few people rely on light skills, flying left and right in the wheat field, the purpose is just to find a locust, not that they want to show off a light skill, just because the locusts in the field here have been almost cleaned up by the Tianji Brigade, and it is not easy to find a surviving locust!

Pity those locusts in the field, just a quarter of an hour ago they were lucky enough to escape the sweep of the Tianji Brigade, but now they are being hunted down by those martial arts generals, and they can only blame the locust that flew to Li Er's body, if it weren't for it, it wouldn't have caused a wave of annihilation!

Seeing that hundreds of civil and military officials were privately looking for locusts to stuff into their stomachs to show their loyalty, Li Zexuan stood still alone and looked extremely abrupt, in order not to make himself appear so abrupt, Li Zexuan had no choice but to join the army of looking for locusts and swallowing locusts alive!

"Uh, Wo Cao! Do you want to be so coincidental? ”

Just when Li Zexuan searched for a long time and didn't find a locust, because he could escape the catastrophe, a stupid grasshopper flew up from the wheat field without warning and landed on his head.

"Oops! Yong'an Hou, hurry up, there's a locust on your head! Don't let it run! ”

As if he had discovered a new continent, Wei Zheng pointed to Li Zexuan's head and said excitedly.

"Thank you Wei Zuocheng for the reminder!"

Li Zexuan's face was full of black lines, and he originally wanted to quietly throw away the grasshopper on his head, but he was yelled at by Wei Troll's loud voice, so he had no chance to make small moves, so he had to grab the locust on his head in his hand, and then arched his hand towards Wei Zheng, and said sullenly.

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "Yong'an Hou is really a person with great luck, we have to work hard to find a locust, and Yong'an Hou only needs to wait for the locust to automatically send it to the door, which is enviable!" ”

Li Zexuan couldn't help but complain in his heart: "It's still lucky, master, sooner or later, I will be by your old troll!" If this is also lucky, I would rather not, sir! ”

Standing in place, holding locusts in his hand, Li Zexuan was a little speechless for a moment when he was choked by Wei Zheng, and then he swept his eyes inadvertently, and found that dozens of ministers, plus Li Er, were all looking at him with burning eyes, to be precise, looking at the locusts in his hands, the meaning he wanted to express was simply self-evident!

"Uh..."

Li Zexuan was a little dumbfounded, these ministers who had eaten locusts and Li Er didn't want to "let go" him! As for it........

"Yong'an Hou, what are you still hesitating about? Your Majesty can swallow locusts for the people of the world, why can't you? Are you more noble than Your Majesty? ”

Qiu Xinggong took the opportunity to say in a strange manner at this time.

This guy didn't even blink an eye after eating two grasshoppers, and he was really ruthless!

Cheng Biting Jin's brows jumped, and he wanted to come out to help Li Zexuan say something, but he was stopped by Qin Qiong, because at this time, Li Zexuan had no choice!

"Humph! When Ben Hou lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests with his master in the early years, he even gnawed the bark of trees, and there were only locusts, how could he be enough? ”

Li Zexuan also knew that the locust had to be eaten today, otherwise he would be openly slapping Li Er's face, so he snorted coldly at Qiu Xinggong and blew a bullshit, and then his eyes were closed, his mouth was opened, the locust stuffed into his mouth, and his cheeks agitated three or two times, and a wild locust fell into his stomach.

Holding back Gu Yaowang, who wanted to vomit, Li Zexuan glanced at Qiu Xinggong provocatively, but said nothing!

But today's Liang Zi is over, although Qiu Xinggong is famous in the history books, but if he really provokes Li Zexuan, Li Zexuan will definitely not be restrained!

"Your Majesty, for the sake of the common people, regardless of the safety of the dragon's body, swallowed locusts alive, this move will not only move the people, but also will go down in history and become a model for future emperors! Tomorrow's "Datang Daily" will definitely spread His Majesty's love for the people today to the world, so that everyone in the world can feel His Majesty's care, and at the same time, it can also call on all the people to work together to catch locusts! ”

After a pause, Li Zexuan arched his hand towards Li Er.

Hearing that Li Zexuan was going to publish his act of devouring locusts today in the newspaper, Li Er couldn't help but secretly praise Li Zexuan for being sensible in his heart, but he said quietly on his face:

"Swallowing locusts alive today is nothing more than an act of righteous indignation after I saw the locusts scourge on the crops! Insufficient with all the people too! ”

After that, Li Er saw that almost all the civil and military officials had "eaten" the locusts, waved his robe, and said, "Today's noon dynasty is over here!" All the ministers immediately returned to Chang'an, and then performed their duties, and it was necessary to mobilize the people in the affected areas to rise up and exterminate the locusts and prevent a large number of displaced people! ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

The hundreds of officials gave up their orders one after another, and then rode back to Chang'an.

Li Zexuan didn't leave because he lived in Lantian County and didn't have any errands in Chang'an, but planned to go directly to Wangjiazhuang to see the locust extermination process of the Tianji Brigade.

But Li Er stopped him: "Yong'an Hou, you go around with me!" ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

Li Zexuan agreed.

"Where is the Tianji Brigade now?"

Li Er asked at this time.

"Your Majesty, Wangjiazhuang in the west of Yunshan!"

"Good! Then go to Wangjiazhuang to have a look! ”

So, the two of them raised their feet and walked towards Wangjiazhuang, followed by dozens of forbidden troops, as well as Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong and other generals.

Because the management of locust plagues is the specialty of civilian officials, and even if they go back, they will not be able to help.

Two quarters of an hour later, the group came to the edge of the farmland outside Wangjiazhuang, and all they saw was dense chickens, as well as farmers and children driving away the chickens.

"Goo-goo-goo~goo-goo!"

The strange thing is that the chickens behind them heard this "cooing" sound, and they followed the children very obediently, and then fluttered their wings and swooped into the locust farmland, a flock of chickens about four or five thousand chickens, and it only took a dozen breaths to clean up an acre of farmland, and then under the "command" of the leading child, they pounced on another acre of farmland!

This looks like a general commanding thousands of troops, quite spectacular!

This kind of wonder made Li Er, Cheng Yanjin and others stunned for a while.

"Xiao Xuan, these dolls really know how to train chickens?"

Cheng Yanjin stared at him, a little incredulous.

Li Zexuan said with a smile: "That's natural, in the court before, the little nephew didn't brag to His Majesty and your uncles!" ”

Niu Jinda asked, "Xiao Xuan, where did they learn their ability to train chickens?" Didn't I learn it from you? ”

Because in Niu Jinda's opinion, Li Zexuan has a lot of strange skills, so he has this guess.

Li Zexuan hurriedly said: "Uncle Niu, where does the little nephew know these skills?" To tell the truth, in the spring of last year, the little nephew found a pair of sisters and brothers in Hanjiazhuang who were withdrawn, and the chickens raised at home all day long, the sisters and brothers were able to make the chickens obey them. No, now the children of Hanjiazhuang and Meicun basically know how to train chickens! ”

Cheng Yanjin couldn't help but say happily: "Hehe! Or Xiaoxuan, you have a lot of ideas! If you didn't let these dolls learn this skill, even if you have 150,000 chickens now, you can't wipe out all the locusts on Zhuangzi so quickly! ”

Li Er nodded and said, "Zhijie is right!" If it weren't for these children, Yong'an Hou would have 150,000 chickens, and he would just be a swarm of headless flies flying around, and it would be impossible for him to exert such an efficient action! What I think is, after all the locusts in Lantian County are exterminated, can your Tianji Brigade be transferred to other states and counties to eliminate locusts? ”

Li Zexuan arched his hand and said: "Even if Your Majesty doesn't say it, the minister also has this intention!" Not only that, Yanhuang Academy has been completely suspended, and students are now mobilizing farmers in various villages to drive away chickens and go to the fields to hunt locusts! After the locusts in Lantian County were basically cleared, the minister would immediately take the Tianji Brigade and the students of the academy to the neighboring disaster-stricken prefectures and counties! ”

"Hmmm! I'm glad you have that! ”

Li Er nodded and said.

"Xiao Xuan, the Cheng family still has more than 20,000 chickens, and when the locusts on the Cheng family's Zhuangzi are cleaned up tomorrow, the old man will let people drive these chickens to Lantian County and go to your chicken brigade!"

Cheng Yanjin said at this time.

Lao Cheng's family has a total of more than 5,000 acres of fertile land, and even if the locust extermination efficiency of the more than 20,000 chickens is not as high as that of the Tianji Brigade, one day is still enough.

Li Zexuan hugged his fists and said, "Then thank you Uncle Cheng!" ”

Qin Qiong also said at this time: "Xiao Xuan, the Qin family has about 15,000 chickens, and they will rush to your side when the time comes!" ”

Yu Chi Jingde: "Yu Chi's family has thirteen thousand...."

Niu Jinda: "The Niu family has 14,000 ....."

Li Jing: "The old man's family only has 8,000, and they will all be sent to Xiaoxuan when the time comes!" ”

These families all followed Li Zexuan at the beginning, and only raised so many chickens, and now they see that Li Zexuan has so many children who know how to train chickens, so they will not hesitate to send all the chickens they raise in captivity!

When Li Zexuan heard this, he hurriedly thanked them one by one, after all, at this time, he would not be too fond of chickens!

Li Er pondered for a moment and said, "There are about nearly 30,000 chickens in the Royal Zhuangzi, and I will send someone to send them to you tomorrow!" ”

Li Zexuan said happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" In this way, there will be enough chickens for 220,000, and then the minister will borrow some chickens from the farmers in Lantian County, and the Tianji Brigade may have nearly 300,000 chickens, doubling the number, and the speed of eliminating locusts will also double! ”

Li Er sighed and said, "It's strange that I didn't fully believe your prediction at the beginning, otherwise I would definitely build a Tianji brigade composed of a million chickens, and now I can quickly clean up the affected states and counties!" ”

After saying that, Li Er shook his head and left directly with a group of guards.

Qin Qiong and the others said a word to Li Zexuan, and followed Li Er.

Cheng Yanjin deliberately lagged a few steps behind, and whispered to Li Zexuan: "Xiao Xuan, Qiu Xinggong, you have to be careful in the future, this old guy is too utilitarian, and he wants to show loyalty in front of His Majesty, and this person is ruthless, you have to be careful in the future!" ”

Li Zexuan nodded and said, "Uncle Cheng, don't worry, the little nephew won't take the initiative to provoke him!" Besides, the little nephew has nothing to do with him on weekdays, even if he wants to find fault, he has nowhere to look! ”

Cheng Yanjin shook his head and said, "Xiao Xuan, you're wrong!" Have you forgotten that a few days ago, His Majesty just appointed you as the record of the Xuanjia Army to join the army? ”

Li Zexuan said strangely: "Uncle Cheng, of course the little nephew hasn't forgotten!" ”

Suddenly, he realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Cheng, could it be that Qiu Xinggong is also in the Xuanjia Army?" ”

Cheng Yanjin sighed and nodded, "That's right!" Qiu Xinggong and Duan Zhixuan can be regarded as the earliest generals in the Xuanjia Army, but Duan Zhixuan is more valued by His Majesty, so Duan Zhixuan is now the commander of the Xuanjia Army, and Qiu Xinggong is only the deputy commander! So if you join the army in this record, you will inevitably have to deal with Qiu Xinggong in the future! ”

Li Zexuan was stunned, and secretly said that this is really a narrow road, this has not yet been reported by the Xuanjia Army, and he has formed a bond with the second-in-command of the Xuanjia Army, how can he mix it up in the future?

"Uh... Uncle Cheng! The little nephew has now resigned from this errand with His Majesty, is it too late? ”

Li Zexuan said a little frantically.

Cheng Biting Jin's eyes glared, and said angrily: "What do you say?" Are you still afraid of that Qiu Xinggong? Don't worry, my old Cheng has long seen that old guy is not pleasing to the eye, if he deliberately makes trouble for you, the old man will go to the Xuanjia Army to find him to compete, and take the opportunity to beat him fiercely! And Second Brother Qin will not sit idly by, Duan Zhixuan has a good relationship with Second Brother Qin, as long as you don't take the initiative to make mistakes in the Xuanjia Army, Qiu Xinggong will definitely not dare to touch you! Even if you make a mistake, the old man and Second Brother Qin will support you in the back! ”

When Li Zexuan heard this, he couldn't help but be a little moved in his heart, he hugged his fists and said, "Thank you, Uncle Cheng!" ”

Lao Cheng patted Li Zexuan on the shoulder and laughed, "Hey! Why does a family talk two words? I heard that Xiaoxuan, there is also a kind of car called an electric bicycle in your workshop, when will you let the old man try to ride it? ”

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An engineering otaku mixed in the Tang Dynasty

An engineering otaku mixed in the Tang Dynasty