Li Yue led Wang Teng and others to all the towns and villages in Nan'an County in one day, and forced those Lizheng, Jiachang, and Baochang to come to a village where the locust plague was very serious, and hundreds of people were swept together, alarming all the people in the village.

That night, Li Yue commanded his soldiers to light a bonfire in the field. The locusts flew in when they saw the light, and then concentrated on culling; At the same time, a large pit was dug at the edge of the field and burned while beating.

Li Yue made the momentum very loud, and the people of several neighboring villages came in groups to watch. Li Yue stood next to the fire, impassionedly explained to them the cause of the locust plague, and took out insect eggs and dead corpses on the spot to explain to the people.

After a night, the people really took action and burned and killed the locusts according to the method Li Yue said.

After really starting to do it, people found that what Li Yue said really made sense. In less than three days, the local locusts were wiped out, and the local people wept with joy.

This news slowly spread, and they were forced to go back to Deli Zheng that day, and the first captain and the chief of the security department also began to act. Li Yue led the cavalry to supervise the progress of the locust eradication in Nan'an County, and because the locust plague in Nan'an County was not serious, it took only half a month to basically eliminate it.

Li Yue went non-stop to other counties in Quanzhou to continue to supervise the elimination of locusts.

It didn't take long for the new governor to exterminate locusts in Nan'an County spread throughout Quanzhou Prefecture, and it was much easier to eradicate the locust plague at this time than before, even if there were still some old stubborn stubbornness, under Wang Teng's big knife, he either gave in or gave his head.

Two months later, the locust plague in Quanzhou Province had greatly eased.

Li Yue's already resounding reputation has risen by leaps and bounds again because of this locust control. His method of controlling the locust plague spread to other state capitals on Fujian Road, and they followed suit.

As a result, Daliang Fujian Road avoided a severe famine that would have been most likely caused by a locust plague. Li Yue could finally enter Quanzhou City with confidence and sleep peacefully in his own mansion.

Li Yue didn't know how long he slept this night, but he woke up naturally. As soon as I opened my eyes, I stretched out comfortably.

"Head, I didn't bring my sister-in-law to Quanzhou, did you ask someone to find you a girl who warms the bed?" Wang Teng, who heard the movement in the house, asked maliciously as soon as he came in.

Li Yue, who was sleeping on the bed, suddenly sat up and scolded: "Warm your head!" Let your sister-in-law know, I can't let her pull off my ear. ”

"But the bed warmer has been waiting for you for a long time."

"How long has the young lady of the Lin family been here?" Li Yue asked.

"It's been two hours, I'm going to wake you up, she said you're tired for days, let you sleep more. By the way, head, how do you know I'm talking about Widow Ting? Looks like she's really warmed her head over the bed! Wang Teng couldn't help but praise: "The peach blossom luck is really getting more and more prosperous." ”

"Don't open your mouth and keep your mouth shut about widows, how many times have I told you, treat women with respect from the bottom of your heart." Li Yue couldn't help but teach: "Look at the people Du Sanjin to Xiao Leek, if you can't beat it, you won't be scolded or not." Otherwise, you deserve to be a single dog, learn more in the future. ”

Wang Teng knew that Li Yue was a master who couldn't afford to lose anything, including in his mouth, he could come up with a new word of scolding every three or five times. In order to prevent him from using words such as single dogs on himself, Wang Teng closed his mouth knowingly.

As he spoke, Li Yue got dressed and walked out of his bedroom. The offices of the governors of various parts of Daliang are the front hall and back room, that is, the front office area and the back living area.

In the middle of the office area is the main hall, which is the place where the chief sits in the court to hear cases and issue major decrees. The side hall is a place to handle daily government affairs and receive visitors.

Widow Ting was waiting in the hall with a man in his thirties, with a dark complexion and a thin body as thin as a bamboo pole.

As soon as Li Yue walked into the side hall, the bamboo pole stood up and bowed and said, "Grass farmer Peng Geng has seen Lord Zhizhou. ”

"This Boss Peng has been engaged in trade with Japan all the year round and is quite familiar with its national conditions." Widow Ting also stood up and stood beside Peng Geng and introduced.

"You may be seated!" Li Yue stretched out his left hand and said, then ordered the official to serve tea, and then sat on the main seat.

Widow Ting didn't sit down, but said: "You didn't even bring an envoy girl when you came to Quanzhou, I'll go to the kitchen to get you some wine and food." ”

Li Zhizhou, who had just taken a sip of tea, almost didn't squirt out, this widow Ting really didn't treat herself as an outsider.

Peng Geng was silent on the surface, but said in his heart: It seems that it is rumored that this widow Ting has a special relationship with the new Li Zhizhou, and it is indeed windless and waves. The predecessor Zhizhou Tang Yuan saw the widow Ting, and everyone in Quanzhou knew about the Sandeng Lin Mansion. This widow Ting is really a good means, whether she really has an affair with the two governors or not, but just based on this rumor, who in the business community in Quanzhou dares not to give her some face?

Although Li Yue barely swallowed the tea in her mouth, she was obviously choked by the widow Ting, and covered her mouth with her right hand and coughed violently a few times before asking: "May I ask Boss Peng, who is in charge of Japan now?" ”

Li Yue didn't know anything about Japan in this time and space, and since he wanted to go there to pan for gold, he naturally knew a little more about the situation. Although he believed that as long as the 2,000 flintlock muskets of the Ordnance Inspector were in place, it would not be a problem to set foot on the Japanese archipelago, but it would not be wrong to know more. Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles!

"Lord Huizhizhou, at this time, it is the Minister Taira Kiyomori who holds the power of the Japanese government." Peng Geng said with a few treasures: "This person is fifty-one years old this year, and he was originally a local samurai. During the Hogen War, Taira Kiyomori and Minamoto Yoshitomo overthrew the previously ruling Fujiwara clan. Three years later, during the Heiji Rebellion, Taira Kiyomori exiled or executed all Genji's officials in the court. The prominent positions of high-ranking officials in Japan were almost monopolized by the Taira clan. ”

"So the Japanese imperial family doesn't have real power in the government?" Hearing Peng Geng say this, Li Yue felt that the Japanese imperial family seemed to have no chance to show their faces in this change in the court.

Indeed, for more than 200 years before the rise of the Taira clan, it was the Fujiwara clan, the imperial family, who monopolized the power in Japan. The Fujiwara family has been intermarried with the imperial family for generations, so many of the heads of the Fujiwara family were regent with their grandfathers when the emperor was young. Peng Geng explained: "About a hundred years ago, Emperor Shirakawa retreated in order to regain power from the Fujiwara clan, giving way to his eight-year-old son, who proclaimed himself Emperor Taijo. A court was established in the residence, officials were appointed, and a samurai to the north of the temple were set up to defend the temple. ”

Li Yue couldn't help but praise in his heart, Emperor Shirakawa's establishment of the Imperial Hall was indeed a good move to resist the Fujiwara clan. The reason why the Fujiwara family was able to control the government for a long time was that they could control the young emperor by relying on their blood relationship with the imperial family.

When the emperor came of age, he was either afraid of the power of the Fujiwara family and was willing to be a puppet, or he was overshadowed by the Fujiwara family, depressed, and then died young. Then the Fujiwara family can continue to control the little emperor.

But the courtyard hall has a higher legal status than the emperor, not to mention your Fujiwara family, even the little emperor has to bow down when he sees it.

"Although the establishment of the imperial hall can resist the Fujiwara clan, it will also cause conflicts within the imperial family. If the little emperor is an adult, how can he be subject to the emperor with peace of mind? Li Yue couldn't help but smile bitterly, isn't Zhu Chongli, the current emperor of Daliang, subject to Zhu Gaoyan, the emperor of Deshou Palace, everywhere.

"Lord Zhizhou is really discerning. The Hogen Rebellion was triggered by a power struggle between Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Emperor Shotoku. It was Emperor Go-Shirakawa who supported him back then. ”

Peng Geng's sycophants made Li Yue very useful, and he laughed and said: "The political situation in Japan is really a mess!" ”

Hearing this, Li Yue didn't bother to ask again. It doesn't matter if he is an emperor or an emperor, what Fujiwara or Taira Genji, the more chaotic Japan is, the better. When the time comes, we can pull the bias and decide the lawsuit, just more litigation fees, right?

Peng Geng was worthy of being a businessman, very shrewd, and saw that Li Yue didn't want to talk anymore, so he immediately retired.

As soon as Peng Geng left, the widow Ting beckoned Wang Teng and several officials to bring the wine and food to the side hall. Li Zhizhou, who was in a good mood, looked at the beauty, drank the wine, and enjoyed the meal very comfortably.