Chapter 36: The Eldest Sun Empress's Dial
When the eldest grandson Wuji and the others went back, Li Shimin was in a very bad mood, and he only ate a few bites of dinner.
With a feeling of boredom in his chest, he walked out of the Manna Palace, thinking about walking around and breathing, and unconsciously walked to the sleeping palace of the eldest grandson queen.
Empress Eldest Sun looked at Li Shimin's melancholy face, her eyebrows were tightly locked, and she looked depressed, and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, why is your face so ugly, but what happened?" ”
"Alas, Guanyin, I'm upset!" Li Shimin looked at Empress Eldest Sun and said disheartenedly.
"What kind of thing can make our wise and martial emperor so helpless that he is upset?" Empress Eldest Sun said with a smile.
Li Shimin looked at Empress Eldest Sun quietly, and his heart seemed to be calmer.
For so many years, only Empress Changsun can give him the best comfort when he is most frustrated and helpless, and even give him good inspiration and help in various government affairs.
Thinking of this, Li Shimin looked at this wife who had given him a lot of help again.
Although he couldn't bear to bear the troubles with him, he still said, "Guanyin, do you know? Yesterday afternoon, I saw a peculiar young man, this young man can be described as a young talent, his calligraphy skills are still above Yu Shinan, and his literary talent is also unparalleled in the world. ”
"What is even more rare is that he has extraordinary talent and vision for governing the country. At the age of twenty-eight but ambitious, I wanted him to enter the Guozijian to study for a year, and then make him a scholar of the prince's middle school, but he refused without hesitation. ”
"Later, he told me the terrible news that there would be a serious locust plague in the Guanzhong area next year. I didn't believe it at first, but I asked Yuan Lao Immortal to deduce, and Yuan Lao Immortal also confirmed it. I found Fang Xuanling and a few Aiqing to discuss it, but I couldn't discuss a good way, so I was very upset in my heart! ”
"Guanyin, did you say that I did something wrong, I shouldn't have killed the eldest brother and the fourth brother like that, is this that God is also warning me Li Shimin?" After Li Shimin finished speaking, he sighed deeply.
Empress Changsun listened silently until she finally heard that there would be a serious locust plague in the Guanzhong area, and her heart was also painful, but she didn't show it.
She didn't have much to do about the locust plague, she just thought about it calmly, looked at Li Shimin again, and asked, "Your Majesty, didn't Old Immortal Yuan say anything in the end?" ”
Li Shimin thought about it for a while and said: "Old Immortal Yuan just said that there must be nobles to help this locust plague, and the nobles are in Chang'an City, but Guanyin, I am anxious, and I am anxious when I think that the people of Guanzhong will suffer because of this." ”
When Empress Changsun heard Li Shimin say that the nobleman was in Chang'an City, she suddenly blessed her soul and said calmly: "Your Majesty, you are a fan of the authorities, and a bystander is clear, why doesn't the emperor try to find that peculiar young man to ask him?" Since he can accurately predict a serious locust plague next year, he must also be a strange man, maybe there will be a better way? ”
After listening to the enlightenment of Empress Changsun, Li Shimin suddenly seemed to remember something, and said excitedly: "Empress, you are really my lucky star!" I was so confused, the boy seemed to have said when he left that if I believed him, he would do everything in his power to help us. ”
After Li Shimin finished speaking, he hugged the eldest grandson queen, smiled happily, and said happily: "Guanyin, fortunately there are you, otherwise I would have fallen into a dead end, and I didn't know that the nobles were under my nose." ”
Because Empress Changsun's call made Li Shimin walk out of the dead end all of a sudden, Li Shimin was suddenly as happy as a child.
Empress Changsun smiled slightly and said, "The concubines didn't help the emperor anything, the emperor was just too anxious and didn't think of it for a while." Then he said worriedly: "It's that peculiar young man, the emperor has to take advantage of it, such a genius, if it can't be used by my Tang Dynasty, it's really a pity." ”
"Guanyin, don't worry, although this young man doesn't want to be an official for the time being, but I believe that he has a heart for my Datang, Guanyin doesn't know, not long ago, this young man gave me a batch of rice seeds, according to him, these are high-yield rice that can produce more than ten stones per mu." Li Shimin said happily.
"There is also this kind of thing, and the concubine is also becoming more and more interested in this peculiar young man." Empress Eldest Sun smiled and said lightly.
"Guanyin, rest assured, when the rice is ripe, I will seal him as a county man, and I will definitely bring it for you to see at that time." Li Shimin said with a smile, solved the worries in his heart, and his mood became cheerful.
"Then the concubine will congratulate the emperor first." Empress Eldest Sun said.
"Well, then Guanyin, you rest first, and I won't accompany you. I had to send a message to the young man to come to the palace and ask him what he could do. After Li Shimin finished speaking, he couldn't wait to return to the Manna Palace.
called the eunuch and was about to pass on the decree to let Du Chengfeng come to the palace, Li Shimin suddenly remembered that he didn't seem to know Du Chengfeng's residence in Chang'an.
Chu Suiliang and a few people went to visit a few times, but they didn't tell themselves, it's really a good thing.
There was no choice but to ask the eunuch to send a message to Chu Suiliang and ask him to take Du Chengfeng into the palace.
When Chu Suiliang received the eunuch's message, he was also depressed, and he was about to become an errand.
There was no choice but to hurried to Du Chengfeng's courtyard and led Du Chengfeng towards the Manna Palace.
It didn't take long for Du Chengfeng to come to the Ganlu Hall again, and Li Shimin saw Du Chengfeng coming again, as if he had seen a savior, and hurriedly withdrew the eunuchs and palace maids left and right, leaving only Chu Suiliang to accompany him.
After Du Chengfeng sat down, Li Shimin said anxiously: "Du Chengfeng, I was so anxious by the news of your locust plague that I didn't have a good night's rest, tell me quickly, how to solve the problem of that locust plague." ”
Du Chengfeng looked at Li Shimin's anxious appearance, presumably because he was anxious by his own news.
Now that he has called himself, it must have been because the adults of the DPRK and Central China couldn't think of any good way to deal with the locust plague, so they called themselves over again.
It is no wonder that before the Song Dynasty, the ancients had no good measures for the prevention and treatment of locust plagues, and could only blindly resign themselves to the heavens and people, and it was really until Yao Chongcai, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, had a systematic method of prevention and control.
The locust plague is really not a problem for modern people, since Li Shimin believes in his words, in line with the concept of people-oriented, if the Tang Dynasty puts an end to the locust plague from now on, it is also a great good deed.
After all, the people are innocent, and maybe they can brush up another wave of prestige among the people, the best of both worlds.
Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, in fact, this locust plague is not as terrible as you imagined, as long as you find the right way and do a good job of prevention, the locust plague can also be eliminated in advance." ”