Fang Xuanling is Li Shimin's first confidant, and the eldest grandson Wuji is Li Shimin's eldest brother, removing these two items, even in the court, Li Shimin will not talk to Leng Feng, and directly say that the locust plague will threaten the imperial power. The chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty has just been decided, and few two hundred and five will choose to do things at this time.

Of course, except for the five surnames, they are the heirs of the oldest and most firm idea of "Heavenly Imperial Power", and at this time they were suppressed by the emperor's various restrictions.

"Locust plagues are everywhere, thousands of miles of terracotta, hundreds of acres of rice fields, and there is not a meter in autumn. Threats to imperial power are secondary, what I am worried about is the suffering of the people, and now that the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty has just been calmed down, I really can't stand the toss. So, Leng Feng, I only ask you how to predict the locust plague and how big it is this time. ”

Looking at Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, and the eldest grandson Wuji, and then thinking about what he did on a whim yesterday, Leng Feng suddenly had the feeling that a child made a mistake, and the adult did not do it first, but asked who the accomplices were first.

"When it comes to locust plagues, it's actually very simple, and the natural sciences and biological sciences of the Faculty of Letters can predict many things when they go deep. Last year's drought caused small locust plagues in three states, and locust plagues meant that there were a lot of locust eggs in the land. With less rain, the fungus in the land cannot destroy the locust eggs.

Coupled with the fact that there was only one snow in winter, and there were no locust eggs in the soil layer frozen by the severe cold, this year's locust plague seems to be inevitable. ”

Li Shimin and the three of them listened to what Leng Feng said, they didn't know what a fungus was, but Sun Simiao might know it, because he had been studying penicillin.

Fang Xuanling couldn't wait to ask, "Which state is that?" What about the scale? ”

If the scale can be known, then the imperial court can preemptively formulate countermeasures to prevent the displacement of people and even the emergence of people dying of starvation as much as possible.

Since ancient times, the Chinese people have revered the "heavens", especially when they encounter something that cannot be understood by common sense, they must first consider the heavens, gods, and monsters. Some people have questioned why the people don't eat locusts when the locust plague has arisen and the people have nothing to eat. You must know that the invasive species of crayfish has been eliminated by the foodies of our Celestial Empire, and it needs to be raised in captivity to meet the market demand~

In fact, it's not that the people don't want to eat, it's that they don't dare to eat. The people of Yuezhou believe in the god of dragons, so they never hunt crocodiles, and they scare it at most when they encounter it. The people all believe in the locust god, and there are even small temples of the locust god in many places, and the locust plague is everywhere, and they would rather eat Guanyin soil than choose to eat locusts.

Because their ancestors have believed for generations that the locust plague is God's punishment for the people, and eating locusts will anger the heavens and bring even greater disasters.

Leng Feng scratched his head, to be honest, about this locust plague, only the story of "Li Shimin eating locusts" has been handed down, judging from the fact that the place where Li Shimin ate locusts is the Imperial Garden, it is likely to happen in Gyeonggi Province, as for the scale, it is not recorded in the history books, where does Leng Feng know.

"The location should be around Gyeonggi Province and Kannai Province, and the scale is really hard to say, so I pulled the military into the water, but I hoarded too much and wasted, and I am familiar with them and can resist it."

With the blessing of gunpowder weapons, at least the military will not tear his face with him, and if he can't fight, he will pay them out of his own pocket.

"That's it~"

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, knowing the location is good, Gyeonggi Province's Guannai Province has convenient transportation, which is conducive to grain transfer, if it is a remote area, the imperial court is powerful and difficult to use.

Eldest Sun Wuji didn't speak, and his mind was now full of thinking about what the "fungus" Leng Feng just said was.

Smart people have a common shortcoming, that is, they have to solve problems that they can't solve, even if they can only reap their own praise.

"Fungi, fungi, fungi ........."

Hearing the eldest grandson Wuji's muttering, Fang Xuanling smiled slightly, he knew too well that the eldest grandson Wuji was conceited, and simply asked, "Gong Xi Guo, what exactly is the fungus you just said?" The old man is really unheard of. ”

"Mushrooms, as well as mildewed green hairs, are a type of fungus." Leng Feng did not hesitate to cite two examples: "These two are more common and visible to the naked eye, in fact, there are more fungi that we can't see with the naked eye alone, and we need to wait for the glass to study to a certain extent and build a microscope to see it." ”

"Something like your clairvoyant?"

Li Shimin played with binoculars and sniper scopes, and once pondered taking one of them for his own use, and when he heard Leng Feng mention the microscope, he first thought of this.

"It's all about the same thing, but the principle is different, and the Academy of Letters hasn't reached the popularity of biology and other disciplines yet, so I'm not in a hurry to build it."

"Biology~" Li Shimin remembered what Leng Feng had just said, so he asked: "You just said that the Academy of Literature will not teach this subject for the time being, why?" ”

Fang Xuanling and eldest grandson Wuji are also very interested, their eldest son is studying in the Academy of Literature, if they can learn anything about biology and nature, it may be a creation!

"No one~" Leng Feng complained: "There are many literate teachers, but there are too few arithmetic teachers, Yu Shinan Kong Yingda helped vigorously, and only then did he get three or four arithmetic teachers from Guozijian and Hongwenguan."

That's it, there are still not enough people, even the crown prince, the king of Wei, and the king of Shu have all come to the podium, which shows the difficulty of the arithmetic professor. Follow-up learning, if you can't learn words well, you can't do arithmetic and can't learn at all........."

This is a good opportunity, it seems that biology is even very interesting to the emperor, and it is really a waste not to take advantage of this time to complain and ask for a little help.

Li Shimin heard Leng Feng's complaint and fell into a dilemma.

He heard that Leng Feng wanted to draw the power of the Guozijian Hongwenguan to strengthen the Academy, but the Guozijian and the Hongwenguan were really a bit important.

In the fourth year of Wude, he set up a "Literature Museum" in the west of Chang'an Palace, recruiting famous people from all over the world, known as "Eighteen Bachelors", Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Yu Zhining, Lu Deming, Kong Yingda, Yu Shinan and other celebrities are in this list.

In the second month of his reign, he ordered the gathering of 200,000 volumes in the Hongwen Palace, and changed the Literature Hall to the Hongwen Hall, which was also the place where he recruited literary scholars. Chu Liang, Yao Silian, Cai Yungong, Xiao Deyan and others are all flocking to it.

"On the occasion of listening to the court, it is introduced into the temple and the lecture is written" and "or until the end of the night" is enough to show its prosperity.

Seeing that the emperor was a little hesitant, the eldest grandson Wuji said: "Your Majesty, don't you know that using earthworms as bait is easier to fish than dregs as bait?" ”

“？” Li Shimin glanced at the eldest grandson Wuji, and then came to his senses!

(End of chapter)