The strategy of fooling the people, a strategy that emperors like very much, is full of strange and strange conversations among the people, which may invisibly make them full of awe of the royal nobles, but it has also given birth to the unfortunate thing of "superstition".

Superstition is the cancer of the world, even if the future generations enter the 21st century and the era of science and technology, superstition is like a chronic disease entwined in the pace of the times.

Leng Feng didn't believe in those gods and monsters, even if he fled from the afterlife to the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, he didn't believe it, and what caused him to pass through must be a space-time tunnel that technology can't explain.

If a white-bearded old man stood up and said that he had used his magic powers to send Leng Feng to the Tang Dynasty, Leng Feng would definitely put a three-edged thorn on his neck, why didn't he send him to his parents before the car accident?

Li Shimin doesn't believe in those gods and monsters very much, at least he doesn't believe in them now, so at this time he doesn't think there is anything bad about messing around with the will of heaven, perhaps, even if there is God, seeing that he "made this decision" for the sake of the people, he will forgive his crimes.

100,000 chickens, ducks and geese are flying around in Chang'an, the locusts are big and taste good, and they have been hungry for two days, so they chase the locusts more vigorously.

Looking at the chaotic Vermilion Bird Street, Li Shimin lost no time in shouting: "The divine beast is a sign, and the locust plague must not be the will of God!" I follow the will of the phoenix and send a decree to the world! This locust plague will be extinguished! ”

"Extinguish the locust plague!"

"Extinguish the locust plague!"

………

Listening to Li Shimin's voice, those people who were originally watching the excitement stood up one after another, stepped on the locusts when they saw them, and some rushed all the way home, and after a while, they took wooden planks and other weapons to fight the locusts, and the clever ones did not forget to take the sacks out, but the people who went downstairs to collect locusts could exchange locusts for money and food.

Now there are these things everywhere, although it takes several sacks of locusts to exchange for a small bag of grain and a few copper coins, but you can't stand the locusts! That's it in the city, but if you go to a place outside the city where there are grass and trees, there are a lot of these things!

As a result, many people living in Chang'an took sacks and ran out of the city to avoid chickens and ducks.

Li Shimin didn't know when he walked to Leng Feng's side, glanced at Liu Shuwen, and then looked at Zhang Zhongqing's appearance, and said: "Although your play is disgusting in the eyes of people with a heart, the effect is still good for the people." ”

Leng Feng kicked away a big rooster that approached, and said to Li Shimin: "Let's go all out for disaster relief, we have to feed the people of Guanzhong for several months!" ”

Li Shimin nodded, then turned around and walked towards the palace, next, he had to announce the disaster relief process, and also look at the faces of those officials with five surnames.

In this game, Li Shimin won a complete victory, which finally made him a little happier.

The people who left the city threw themselves into the broken grass, and locusts were almost everywhere, and all they had to do was pat them with a shovel and shovel them into sacks, which was much easier than planting crops!

Lao Yuan had already stopped the dining in the downstairs of the world, and gathered all the hands on the street in front of the door of the world to prepare to collect locusts, the first to change the locusts was an old man, the old man was lucky, found a lot of locusts, and his son together with five sacks of locusts Although the locusts were light, the father and son still wasted a lot of effort to bring the five sacks to the door of the Tianxia Tower.

Lao Yuan beckoned the servants to help, and without weighing the weight, he threw five hemp bags into the carriage, and then handed the old man five new sacks, so that even the people's sacks were collected downstairs.

Lao Yuan took the father and son aside and asked, "Do you want grain or copper coins?" ”

The old man said without hesitation: "If you want food, do you think those locusts can be exchanged for a few bowls of grain?" ”

Lao Yuan pulled up a small sack from the grain pile, Lao Yuan had a little trouble pulling it with one arm, and it was full of millet seeds: "That's pretty much it, you see if it's okay, if it's not good, I'll add a few more bowls to you." ”

"Enough! That's enough! Thank you, shopkeeper! Thank you, landlord, what kind of father-in-law! ”

The old man originally thought that he couldn't exchange much food, but now it seems that this small bag of grain is enough for his family to eat four or five days of dry rice and ten days of porridge, and he and his son have only been busy for two hours.

Isn't it the benevolence of the landlord in the world?

Lao Yuan looked at the old man's gray beard and said suspiciously: "Old man, the announcement of the imperial court said that the old and weak women and children can go to the scattered grain points of various generals to receive food, why are you still catching locusts at such an old age." ”

The old man patted his son on the shoulder: "Although the old man is old, he can catch locusts, and there is still this filial son at home, so he doesn't need to go to white-collar food." ”

The habit of the people in Guanzhong, if they can change their hands for food, they will never bend down!

Looking at the old man who was going to catch locusts with a hundred times more energy, Lao Yuan sighed and beckoned the servants to set up the sacks, today is a day destined to be busy.

Sure enough, after a while, there were several people carrying sacks to exchange money and food, and it didn't take long for countless people to gather in front of the downstairs in the world, and the scene was very chaotic.

A wagon loaded with sacks would pull the locusts to the Tianxia Manor, where there was a newly leveled flat land, and after the locusts were crushed by Yan Liben's crusher, the farmers of the Tianxia Manor would lay them flat on the linen cloth on the flat land to dry, and then grind them into dry powder with a mill and store them in bags.

Compared with the downstairs of the world, the bulk grain points set up by the generals in front of the mansion are much more deserted, and an old man and old lady who come to receive food will appear every other pillar of incense, all of whom have no children and can't walk, and after receiving the food, they have to stubbornly kowtow and thank you.

Some people passing by with locusts will also praise the good deeds of the generals, and the people don't care how many people go to receive food, how much food the generals distribute, as long as it is placed, it is a good deed!

In this atmosphere of catching locusts for the whole people, in just three or five days, there are many, many fewer locusts around Chang'an.

However, locusts not only exist in Chang'an, the whole Guanzhong, everywhere has been affected, the landlords and rich households who have surplus grain are better, and those who have no surplus grain are unlucky, what people do not eat, locusts eat, what people eat, locusts also eat, after the locusts in the sky have passed, even if they want to eat tree bark, they can't eat it.

Without anything to eat, what could be more desperate than this?

It was in this atmosphere of despair that one or two gossip came out.........

"Have you heard, the emperor sacrificed to the sky, the queen worshiped the phoenix, the phoenix statue appeared that day, and sent down a lot of chickens and ducks to help us catch locusts, this is not known that the locust plague is not descended from God!"

"Did you hear that? ………”

"Anyway, I believe it!"

A villager held a hungry child in one hand and picked up a sack in the other: "Anyway, I believe it, the announcement said, didn't that official collect locusts for us to exchange food!" I'm going to catch it! ”

(End of chapter)