Chang Lin suddenly changed color and got up, wanting to resign to Yan Xing. How could Yan Xing not understand the temper of these celebrities, so he hurriedly grabbed the other party's arm and said more earnestly:

"The country is in danger, Hanoi is a little safe, you need to be as talented as Mr. to help, how can you leave lightly, what Yan said, is worried about national affairs, and do not doubt Mr. 's heart, I have already submitted to the court, please take Mr. Hanoi as the Taishou, shepherd the land of Sangzi, who can Mr. She, today's worries, are all state affairs, Mr. should know me!"

After listening to Yan Xing's words, Chang Lin also soothed his color, followed the stairs, and saluted Yan Xing and said:

"The general's heart of worrying about the country and the people is really the blessing of Hanoi Li Shu!"

Yan Xing smiled, he understood what Chang Lin meant, and solemnly said to Chang Lin:

"Na Yan thanked Mr. Hanoi Li Shu for him!"

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Yan Xing was ready to entrust political affairs to Chang Lin in Hanoi, reward the meritorious soldiers, and leave 10,000 soldiers and horses of Xu Huang and Ma Lin to garrison in various cities in Hanoi, and then withdraw 15,000 soldiers and horses from Ganling, and he continued to go to Henan with grain and grass to meet Pei Qian, Zhai Hao, Wei Xuan and other civil and military officers who stayed in Henan.

Pei Qian, as Yan Xing's brother-in-law, Yan Xing is also ready to go to the table to ask the court to take Pei Qian as Henan Yin, the relationship between the two is very close, and there is no need to abide by etiquette like Chang Lin when they meet, and they can also discuss more military and political matters that cannot be announced.

Luoyang City, the hall of the official temple.

This official temple was originally the residence of Zhao Zhong, since Dong Zhuo moved the capital, the city of Luoyang was burned, the former prosperous palace, turned into a ruins of weeds, Pei Qian's Luoyang Lingguan Temple was naturally destroyed in the war, he could only choose a large area, not completely burned Zhao Zhong's mansion, as the official temple.

Dong Zhuo's relocation of the capital and Lu Bu's search prison made Henan a thousand miles of red land, Li Shu was scattered in all directions, and there were no two out of ten, and the escaped people from the mountains and wilderness were also in danger of death, and they were in danger, and then Zhu Jun and Li Dao, Guo Yan and others fought here, which made the recovery of people's livelihood in Henan even worse.

When Pei Qian first arrived in Henan, he couldn't believe it, the ruins in front of him were the towering Luoyang City in the past, and the white bones and wails along the road were faintly audible.

Entering the city, the city that destroyed the city walls was empty and uninhabited, not only thorns everywhere, but also the jackals foraging for food were infested in the meantime, if it weren't for Zhai Hao's soldiers and horses, I was afraid that the jackal beasts that devoured people would all pounce on them and intercept the convoy accompanied by Pei Qian.

The scribes and servants brought by Pei Qian, when they saw this kind of ghost in the world, they all changed color, but Pei Qian knew the difficulties and was not afraid of hardships and dangers, he encouraged the entourage to take a long-term view and rebuild the paradise on the ruins.

That night, Pei Qian, Zhai Hao and other soldiers hunted jackals, bonfires were distinct, and they stayed on the ruins all night, singing loudly, making fun in suffering, and singing for a long time.

After that night, Pei Qian set an example, personally removed the thorns, collected the bones, led the officials and soldiers to clean up the mansion of Zhao Zhong, the regular servant of the Zhongchang Servant, as a temporary official temple, and then built a shed outside the city, sent people to recruit the displaced people who fled in the mountains, announced the exemption of land taxes, and sent people to continuously repair the houses in the city, rebuild the Cangfu City Prison, and make three chapters of the law with the returning refugees, and strive to resume production.

Zhai Hao was ordered to build a camp outside the city, and led his soldiers to defend the regained vitality of Luoyang City. During the day, the soldiers had to recruit the homeless and eliminate the bandits, and at night they had to return to the camp to defend themselves against the attacks of wolves, beasts, and robbers at night.

This kind of day, how bitter and difficult, can not be clearly expressed in a few words.

Later, Henan suffered from the war between Hongnong and Hedong, Pei Qian and Wei Xuan led the people who had just settled down, fled to Yanshi, Gongxian and other places, until Zhai Hao returned to Henan, and then regained Luoyang City, and surrendered many Hongnong soldiers who had no leader and no way out.

Although Hedong has never cut off the supply of grain and straw in Henan, Yan Xing couldn't help but be moved when he saw Pei Qian, who had lost a lot of weight and had a dark complexion, and held Pei Qian's hand and said:

"My brother-in-law is guarding Henan, kissing the thorns, not avoiding hardships and dangers, on the broken wall, rebuilding the peaceful people's happy land, and making great contributions, Yan can get rid of Zhang Yang and Zhang Ji's disciples today, my brother-in-law is indispensable, and I need to take care of my body for national affairs and family affairs!"

Although Pei Qian has lost a lot of weight, his eyes are still bright and bright, and he remembers what he saw and heard when he first arrived in Luoyang, and he is also full of emotion. But the Pei family is now closely related to Yan Xing, sharing honor and disgrace, seeing that Yan Xing defeated Zhang Yang, Zhang Ji and other strong enemies, and sat in the land of three rivers, Pei Qian was also overjoyed for his sister-in-law.

He looked at Yan and said:

"Henan was originally a fertile land rich town, but Dong Zhuo, Li Guo's gangsters were violent and unreasonable, and the name of the dynasty was ruined, and now I can see the fertile soil of the former famous city, bit by bit from the hands of our officials, restored, even if it is hard and tired, it is also honorable, not to mention, this is also the credit of the Hedong County Government's strategizing and the concerted efforts of the officials, how dare I take credit alone."

"The fields and people's livelihood in Henan are still recovering, and they can't stay away from the transportation and support of grain and grass in Hedong, which the general still needs to understand."

Pei Qian was not arrogant, but slowly explained the actual situation in Henan to Yan Xing, Yan Xing nodded, he knew that the recovery of Henan was not as he wished, after all, it may only take a few days to destroy a famous capital, but it will take more than three or four years to rebuild a new city.

What's more, at present, both sides of the river are also suffering from a serious drought, and if Henan can recover a little vitality in the next two years, can be self-sufficient, and does not need to continue to transport grain and grass to Hedong, it will already have to make great efforts.

Yan Xing promised Pei Qian's request, and explained that he was about to go to the table with Duan Xuan to ask the court for Pei Qian to grant the position of Henan Yin, and Pei Qian did not shirk this title.

If he had the title of Henan Yin, he would have been able to deal with more things, get rid of the talented scholars like Zheng Hun and Pan Miao, appoint officials to govern the surrounding cities, and appease the powerful who had fled into the mountains to build dock forts to defend themselves······

The danger of the pass in the Ruoyang area has been captured by neighboring Hanoi, and Duan Xuan of Hongnong has also become an ally of Yan Xing, and Yan Xing has rewarded Pei Qian, Zhai Hao and other civil and military officials in Luoyang before continuing to set off to Hongnong's Shaanxi County to meet Duan Xuan.

The fourth thing that Duan Xuan planned was also related to Yan Xing. The two will jointly submit a petition to the Chang'an Imperial Court to grant Duan Xuan the post of Hongnong Taishou, Chang Lin the post of Hanoi Taishou, and Pei Qian the post of Henan Yin.

This is actually a procedural etiquette issue, Hongnong, Henan, and Hanoi counties have all fallen into the hands of Duan Xuan and Yan Xing, and what they lack is only the legitimate domination of righteousness, in fact, whether they have it or not, these territories have been included in their pockets.

The deeper part of this move is to test the attitude of Li Dao and Guo Yan, although the two are constantly fighting in Chang'an, and there are several small-scale fights among the soldiers below, but the large-scale confrontation between the two has not yet broken out.

At this time, Hongnong, Hedong and other places suddenly underwent great changes, and Zhang Ji, one of their former three captains, lost his division, leaving only a few hundred remnants of the defeated soldiers to flee to Chang'an to join Li Dao and Guo Yan, which has definitely aroused their vigilance and attention.

It is also difficult to predict whether Li Dao and Guo Yan will be able to turn their troops to Hongnong and Hedong because of this incident, adhering to the principle of "brothers are on the wall and resisting insults from outside".

In addition to the joint statement of this matter, Yan Xing and Duan Xuan also agreed to form an alliance one after another to jointly guard against Li Dao and Guo Yan in Guanzhong.

After staying in Shaanxi County for two days and accepting Duan Xuan's banquet, Yan Xing crossed the river and returned to Hedong.

The plague of locusts is coming!

Ancient China did not know the root cause of locust plagues, but based on the experience of locust plagues in previous dynasties, it also summed up a valuable experience of "locusts in drought".

If it is the time of peace, Yan Shi, Wei Qi and others may also take precautions, prevent the slightest slight, and prevent the outbreak of locust plague in time, but in the past few months, the soldiers have continued, and when Zhang Ji led the army to invade Hedong at the most critical juncture, the city of Anyi was even more shocked every day, and Ding Zhuang in the city was organized and trained, and when he was ready to go to the city for defense.

The counties were also busy mobilizing soldiers, levying civil labor, and transporting grain and grass, and few people paid attention to the gradual changes in the land during the drought.

As a result, after the locust plague began to break out, the officials of the cities felt a little helpless, and sent fast horses to the county government to report the emergency.

When Yan Xing heard the news, he also hurried to Anyi, and after returning to the county government, he couldn't take a rest and changed a set of clothes, so he hurriedly convened the Peng Shi in the mansion to urgently discuss how to deal with the locust plague that had begun to rise.

At that time, people did not have enough understanding of the locust plague, some thought that it was a "divine locust", and some thought that "when the locust entered the sea, it turned into fish and shrimp"; if the Confucianism of "heaven and man induction" was combined, it would become a kind of punishment for the tyranny of the politicians, and the disaster that would fall from heaven would be induced by this.

If the measures to exterminate the locusts are not timely, and if the public opinion of the people is not guided, it is inevitable that there will be some people who will attribute these locust plagues to the recent tyranny of "suppressing the big surnames and raising up the sword soldiers" in Hedong, and even gather public opinion to force the county government to force the county guards to depose the turbid officials and pray for the disaster to calm the people's hearts.

Fortunately, Yan Xing's vision was farther and broader than that of the time, and Yan Zhu, Jia Kui, Wei Qi, Sun Zi, Pei Hui, Pei Ji and others in the county government were not corrupt Confucians who only knew scriptures and did not understand practice, and they all agreed with Yan Xing's decision to summon the army and the people to exterminate the locusts to varying degrees.

In the discussion with the history of Pengzhong in the house, Yan Xing also knew that although the ancients did not understand the outbreak of the locust plague, which caused the "providential" divine locust judgment to prevail, this does not mean that there are no predecessors with outstanding vision and practice to make bold practices in locust extermination and disaster prevention.

During the period of Emperor Ping of the former Han Dynasty, the locust plague in Qingzhou broke out on a large scale, and the imperial court once "sent messengers to hunt locusts, and the people hunted locusts and officials, and received money with stones and buckets." "A special locust hunting messenger was dispatched from above the court to direct the government affairs of locust extermination in the disaster area, and the people were encouraged to actively exterminate locusts on their own, and handed over the captured locusts to the officials, and received rewards according to the standards of stones and buckets.

Wang Chong of this dynasty also recorded in his "On Heng Shungu Chapter" that "locusts are born from time to time, or fly or gather, and the place where they are gathered, the grain and grass are withered." The officials led the people to make a barrier, and the list drove the inside of the trench, and the locusts accumulated in a thousand hundreds, and they were attacking the locusts. "The method of exterminating locusts.

Although the recorded method of driving and burying deep ditches is not efficient in Yan Xing's view, it has proved that the officials of the two Han Dynasty are not waiting to be killed in the outbreak of the locust plague, but boldly seek strategies to hunt down these locusts that harm the people.

The measures to exterminate locusts can be traced in the past and in the present day, which makes the whole government of Anyi County work together and make up their minds to extinguish the locust plague through human remediation.

In Hedong, the locust plague in Beiqu and Puzi was the first to break out, and there is a tendency to gradually spread to Pingyang and Linfen in the north, while the locust plague in Dayang and Hebei in the south is relatively mild and has not yet caused large-scale disasters.

Yan Xing immediately ordered Jia Kui to be the envoy to the south and Wei Qi to the north, and led the officials and soldiers to the north and south of the river to preside over the extermination of locusts.

During the day, the method of driving away the golden gold, the method of deep burial in the ditch and the method of plundering the locust wings in the early morning, when the locust wings are wet and difficult to fly, and other means, and at night, the method of trapping light and the method of fire are used, and the method of digging seeds is used in areas where the locust plague is serious to prevent the locust plague from breaking out again in the next year.

And these methods were taught to the common people, and the Qianshou Li Shu was encouraged to spontaneously extinguish the locusts, and use the locusts' corpses to go to the official temple to receive the reward according to the stone calculation.

The inscriptions of the Anyi County Government will soon be quickly distributed to the entire county through the renovated Pavilion Post House. At the same time, Yan Xing would also revise books at the same time to explain the situation to Duan Xuan, Chang Lin, and Pei Qian in Hongnong, Hanoi, and Henan.

The locust plague induced by the drought is by no means only in Hedong, it is believed that Henan, Hanoi, Hongnong and other places will also break out one after another, and each county has a mountain and river topography and county boundaries, but the locusts will not pay attention to these geographical boundaries, where they pass, not a single inch of grass grows, and the neighboring counties have suffered, and it is also difficult for Hedong to be alone.

After the deliberations were over, the Peng Shi in the mansion returned to Cao to do things, and Yan Xing paced to the outside of the hall, looking at the white clouds and dogs in the clear sky, and was silent for a long time.

The heroes are competing with each other, the states and counties are divided, and the states and counties may be enemies of each other, but they are also Han people, and they are the governors of the prefectures and counties whose lives are related to the people.