Xuanzheng Palace.

At the Imperial Roundtable, each of the ministers present had a report in front of them.

Luo Cheng's face was a little haggard.

"Zhuqing, you have been summoned to the Xuanzheng Palace today to discuss the matter, mainly about the locust plague, the report in front of you is by Jinyiwei, the Imperial City Division and the military hospital worked together, and it took a lot of energy to drive it out, you can take a closer look at it first, and then we will discuss it after reading it."

Fang Xuanling looked at the report in front of him and knew that things were definitely not simple, and it was definitely tricky to make the emperor so worried. The more I read it, the more surprised I became, this report was so auspicious.

At the beginning, it talked about the living habits of locusts, and then talked about some of the causes and terrible consequences of their disasters, and even directly painted the appearance of locust eggs, five-instar hoppers, flying locusts and other stages. Finally, there is the results of Jinyiwei's investigation and sampling of locust eggs in various places, as well as the early warning of locust plagues.

Finally, the report concludes that there will be a big locust plague this year, from Longyou in Hexi to Shuofang in Guanzhong, from Henan to Shandong, from Hebei to Shanxi, from Bahan to Hubei, and then to Huainan, and the entire Yellow River Valley, the northern part of the Yangtze River, and the Huaihe River Valley, there will be a major locust plague, involving half of the country, dozens of counties, and hundreds of counties.

The severity of this locust plague may be once in 50 years or even once in 100 years, and it will be much more serious than the locust plague once in eight or nine years.

If not properly handled, the consequences can be devastating.

After reading it, there was silence in the hall.

"Is this report exaggerated?" The newly appointed Imperial Historian Zhongcheng Sun Wuji asked.

"There is also a report here, which was made by Prince Jiawen himself." The emperor beckoned, Feng Lishi sent a report to the ministers, this report is much simpler, written by the prince himself, the content of which is his experience of digging locust eggs with the emperor on the Yellow River beach north of Luoyang, which also attached a lot of data, such as the prince dug a centimeter of land, and dug out more than 20,000 locust egg masses, and each locust egg mass, there are 50 to 100 locust eggs.

Now the eldest grandson Wuji can't say anything, the prince digs it himself, or the emperor accompanies him, this can't be faked.

The ministers were secretly frightened, they had read a lot about the locust plague in the history books, and even experienced a lot of it themselves, but they didn't know about the causes of the locust plague, the habits of locusts, and so on.

Now I see this data one by one, and I am more and more shocked.

Li Gang was a little surprised, he was the crown prince Zhan Shi, not only the prince's teacher, but also the chief official of the East Palace, Zhan Shifu was originally set up by the Shangshu Province of the imperial court, but the prince did not call him for this, nor even told him, which made him feel that the prince had a relationship with him.

"Your Majesty, locust eggs do not mean that there will be locust plagues, locust plagues are actually related to the emperor's virtues, as long as virtue and good governance can be eliminated."

His set is completely related to the induction of heaven and man admired by the Confucians of the Han Dynasty, what earthquakes, catastrophes, and even meteors in the sky, these can be classified as warnings from heaven, saying that morality and politics are not repaired, and so on.

In fact, how many of the Han Dynasty Confucians, who were the elite at that time, did not know that these things had nothing to do with the governance of the emperor or the prime ministers?

But they just wanted to pretend to be confused, and deliberately came up with such a set of theories of heaven and man induction, just to restrain the emperor in order to restrain the emperor, after all, the emperor is the son of heaven, and none of the courtiers can control the son of heaven, so they can only use the pretense of heaven to warn and the sky to show a vision, so as to restrain the emperor.

This is actually like the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the king of heaven Hong Xiuquan called himself the second son of God and called Jesus the heavenly brother. As a result, Yang Xiuqing claimed to be possessed by God the Father, so he asked Hong Xiuquan to come to worship him and obey his orders. And Xiao Chaogui said that he could get the rumors that his brother Jesus was possessed.

It's all the same thing.

Luo Cheng looked at Li Gang with a smile.

Sure enough, as he expected, Li Gang then began to talk about the impropriety of some of the emperor's court affairs, saying that the emperor refused to cultivate literature with martial arts, refused to rest with the people, continued to recruit troops from abroad, and engaged in royal industries, competing with the people for profit, and said that the emperor's wanton division of princes was really to sow disasters in the future.

He also mentioned that the professional military system of the forbidden army and the internal army is not good, and tens of millions of military expenses are spent every year, which is redundant soldiers. It is also said that the officials have broken the boundaries of promotion, which is to make the turbidity indistinguishable.

Luo Cheng simply set up Erlang's legs and listened to the old man squirting there.

Seeing that he sprayed from this policy to that policy, his saliva was flying, Luo Ye simply let him spray to the end.

"According to what the scholar of the East Pavilion University said, is it that I have been condemned at the moment?" Luo Cheng waited for him to finish spraying and asked slowly.

Li Gang was stunned.

"Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great. As long as Your Majesty can find out that he is lost, it is a great good. ”

"I asked Li Dongge, if I have already committed my crimes, if I change these national policies as you said, and change according to what you said, then can this year's locust plague be avoided? Won't those locust eggs hatch? ”

Li Gang was blocked there, of course he knew that the locust plague was mainly related to nature, although it was also related to people, but it was not related to these.

If he dared to say this to the emperor, he was afraid that he would not be able to say it.

But now that it's about this, there's no way to go back.

He can't go back on his word.

"Your Majesty, the old minister asks Your Majesty to practice benevolent government and cultivate virtue and good governance, which will naturally quell the locust plague."

"Ridiculous!"

The emperor slapped on the table, Luo Cheng understood Li Gang's thoughts, and wanted to use this locust plague to persuade the emperor, but now he still says this, it is really nonsense, this is already an act of disregarding principles and not abiding by the bottom line, such a beginning is a bad example, if everyone is like Li Gang, then wouldn't he become the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty?

"Ignoring the facts, reversing black and white! I really misjudged you, I thought you were of good character, so I specially asked you to be the crown prince Zhan Shi, and worshiped you as a scholar of Dongge University to enter the Hanlin Academy as an auxiliary minister, but you disappointed me too much. At the moment of the locust plague, what the imperial court needs is not to talk about cultivating virtue and good governance, but now it is about how to prevent it, to talk about the places where the disaster is about to occur, to actively dispatch and reserve food, how to catch locusts and dig eggs, and minimize the disaster, even if the disaster happens, even if the crops are eaten up, the people cannot be famine, there is no food to eat, and people cannot eat each other, but you are talking to me about what Yanwu Xiuwen is, what else to talk about, you are pretending to be confused, you are doing evil! ”

Li Gang stood there in a daze, unable to imagine that the emperor would criticize him so ruthlessly.

"Minister... The minister was so accused by His Majesty, and continued to stay in the Hanlin Courtyard without a face, and continued to stay in the East Palace without a face, and asked to resign and return to his hometown for retirement! ”

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