The third party rebellion was different from the previous two times, and this time it was particularly intense, and all party members' protégés, former officials, fathers, sons, and brothers were all dismissed and imprisoned for life, and the five ethnic groups were implicated, and the scope of the party was even expanded, and more innocent people were affected.

History has long shown that there are too many intellectuals and how much of a disaster it is for a feudal empire to have too many intellectuals and the right to speak.

These intellectuals all wanted to be officials, and in addition to being officials, they disdained to engage in agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, commerce, medicine, soldiers, and other industries that were considered inferior at that time, but now that Liu Hong has opened the party system, he has really cut off the way out for a large number of intellectuals, and it is strange that the party people hate it.

And students like Jia Xu and Wang Lang are the main force of the future scholars, although they are not affected by the party, but the party people have a very high status among the scholars, which still makes them feel related.

In February, the Nangong Ping City Gate and the East Wall House of the Arsenal broke down. The arsenal, the hidden of the forbidden soldiers, that is, the armory; East wall, outside the library barrier.

Because of the inner house of the Nangong Ping City Gate, the arsenal house and the outer Dongyuan House, Cai Yong said: "The Ping City Gate, the Gate of Zhengyang, and the Palace, the suburbs worship the law from the out, the most venerable of the door." Arsenal, hidden by forbidden soldiers. East wall, outside the library barrier. "Yi Chuan" said: "The villain is in power, the upper and lower are salty, and the demon city gate collapses. "Qiantanba" said: "The palace tile has fallen by itself, and the princes are strong and the tomb is the master." This is all the fault of the villain's manifestation and disorder. ”

Fuquan felt ridiculous when he heard it. How can there be a house wall in the world that will not be naturally damaged?

Even later generations of reinforced concrete houses will fall into disrepair, let alone ancient houses? I didn't expect the ancients to be able to pull traitors and villains to bring disaster to the court, who can traitors and villains refer to?

Only the eunuch's ear, it can be seen that the scholars really want to be stubborn when they seize the opportunity, and they praise and ridicule the eunuchs, even scholars like Cai Yong are not immune.

In April, there was a great drought and locusts in seven states.

When the news reached Luoyang, the whole court was shocked, and the ministers all said that the state had traitorous ministers, and asked the emperor to thoroughly investigate the corrupt officials and cool officials in the world. Liu Hong played the quasi-performance, and ordered the three public officials to play harsh and corrupt people, and dismiss them. But can this really cure the locust plague?

The ancients were no strangers to locust plagues, generally speaking, locusts must be destroyed after a long drought, and locust plagues often occur after major droughts, because locusts are insects that like warm and dry, and the arid environment has many benefits for their development and survival.

Everywhere they go, the three-light policy is implemented, because locusts are mostly omnivorous, and eat everything, not only for the sake of crops, weeds and woody leaves can be used as its feed, where they pass, the grass and trees are left behind, the ears of grass and bamboo leaves are gnawed clean, hungry locusts, and even the hair of livestock can be chewed into the mouth......

And locust plagues are more intractable than droughts, which can be alleviated by waiting for rains. But the locust plague is different, the locusts swarm in groups, migrating and flying along the wind and air currents, and can travel hundreds of miles a day, and there is no time to be on guard in advance.

At this time, the locusts were called locust gods, and everyone from kings to nobles and doctors to the common people believed that they were a warning from the gods, and they not only did not hunt them, but prayed to the gods for protection.

They believe that whenever human beings disobey the will of heaven, the heavens will send disasters, droughts, floods, locusts, plagues, etc. to punish human beings, since Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools, and respected Confucianism, Dong Zhongshu reformed the pre-Qin Confucianism, and incorporated the theory of yin and yang and the five elements into Confucianism, this kind of thinking was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that later there was a superstitious behavior of the disaster.

In addition, locusts appeared before in the Han Dynasty, and some people used the "ditch method" to exterminate them, that is, first dig a ditch on the ground and the side of the road, and then everyone lined up, holding branches, wood chips and other things, waving and shouting, driving the locusts into the deep ditch of the ground, and then burying them with soil.

However, this method may not be effective, and most of the locusts do not die and come out of the soil to destroy the crops again. Because the locusts do not die, the ancients became more superstitious, which led them to later generally believe that the locust plague was caused by corrupt officials and corrupt officials and political inclarity.

In the Changqiu Palace, Emperor Liu Hong was holding his eldest daughter Liu Jia and teasing, and the Empress Song beside him was staring blankly, wanting to interject, but Liu Hong ignored her.

Liu Jia, the child, has grown more than three feet, and is babbling and laughing at Liu Hong, looking very cute and interesting. Although Liu Hong has a son, after all, he was raised outside the palace because he did not have a deep affection for the son who had not seen him a few times, but liked this little daughter very much, probably because of the so-called "father and son are enemies, and father and daughter are lovers".

In the past few days, Liu Hong will often come to the Changqiu Palace to stay for a while, because the locust plague has almost affected half of the Han Dynasty, and it has become more and more intense, and the trend of flooding has become more and more intense, but no one in the court has given good advice, just blindly let him thoroughly investigate the corrupt officials and cool officials, but it has no effect, which makes him very distressed, which is very fatal to his rule, so that recently he has not even been too interested in the newly recruited beauties in the harem, and can only use the smile of his precious daughter to relieve his sorrows.

At this time, Zhang Rang entered the palace to report to Fu Langjun to ask to see, Liu Hong was stunned, and secretly said that according to the law of Fu Quan's coming to the palace, he should not come today, but he still recruited him into the palace.

Fu Quan followed Zhang Rang into the hall, his cold appearance, and he thought that Fu Quan owed him tens of billions.

In his opinion, if it weren't for Liu Hong's permission to let him enter the palace, he might not even be able to see the shadow of the emperor at all, but the factions between the two are different, and they are naturally hostile, what can be done?

After saluting the emperor and empress, Fu Quan was quite surprised when he saw Liu Hong's expression, and Liu Hong rarely frowned in his memory, but he didn't expect him to meet him today.

Song Hou sat on Liu Hong's side, gave him a look, and after a little thought, Fu Quan became clear, and asked softly: "Uncle-in-law is worried about the locust plague?" ”

Liu Hong responded: "Yes, this locust plague is becoming more and more powerful, affecting seven states, and I am afraid that half of the Han Dynasty is in danger of flooding." ”

Sure enough, Fuquan understood and said in a loud voice: "I have a method to cure the locust plague." ”

"Oh? Seriously? Liu Hong's eyes lit up, and he stared at Fuquan intently, for fear that he was just child's play.

As soon as Fu Quan was about to reply, he heard Zhang Rang shouting: "The erector is nonsense, the natural disaster and the demon of the earth, so the master of the people is also, after the drought, the locusts are even flying." The locust is a natural disaster, and it is beyond the reach of manpower, only by relying on the prayers of the gods of heaven, how can you speak wildly and eliminate the locust plague? ”

Zhang Rang himself was hostile to Fu's relatives, at this time when he heard Fu Quan's wild words, he was happy in his heart, and his first reaction was to lose his face in front of His Majesty, plus he was lost face by Fu Quan after the plague a few years ago, he has always been angry, how can he let it go if he has the opportunity today?

"Zhang Chang said that I am talking nonsense, but I have a way to cure the locust plague, I don't know if Chang Shi has another way?" Fu Quan's eyes lit up, and he said lightly.

"This ...... The princes of the DPRK and China have proposed good laws, and I believe that they will be cured soon. Zhang Rang was speechless for a while, how could he have a way to govern it, just now according to the inertia of thinking, he just wanted to mock Fuquan.

"Oh? I heard that all the princes in the court said that the state has corrupt officials and corrupt officials, embezzling the people's ointment, and His Majesty also ordered a thorough investigation, but it seems that most of the people investigated are relatives of Zhang Changshou's protégés, could it be that Zhang Changshou is the biggest traitor? ”

"Shaft! You, your blood spurted ...... mouth" Zhang let his finger Fuquan and shouted urgently, he didn't think about it before he said a few words, and he was ridiculed by Fuquan, and it was in front of Liu Hong, if the emperor was suspicious of him, it would be bad.

Liu Hong said in a deep voice: "That's enough, what I want is a strategy to control locusts, not to listen to the noise of the two of you." ”

"The nephew is guilty."

"Slaves and maids are punished."

Seeing Liu Hong angry, Fu Quan and Zhang Rang hurriedly confessed.

"Tannu, you continued." Liu Hongdao.

"Have you ever seen a moth fighting a fire?"

Liu Hong was puzzled: "It's just a matter of burning your body, why do you ask?" ”

"Moths and locusts belong to the same kind, and my uncle knows that locusts will not follow suit?"

Liu Hong slapped his thigh, and at the same time, he said again and again: "I didn't think this truth is so simple, but how to practice the law?" Even Empress Song and Zhang Rang looked surprised, and looked at Fuquan with wide eyes.

Fuquan looked at it and smiled secretly, the famous Yao Chongzhi locusts in later generations have been passed down through the ages, and his method of curing locusts has been regarded as a classic by later generations, and today it will open your eyes.