In order to celebrate the birth of the third son of the emperor and the birth of the first prince after Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, Li Jiancheng issued an edict - the whole country was exempted from taxes for one year. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info especially in the Qilu area, Tai'an, the base of the Qilu Cao clan, the Boling Cui clan, the Qingyang Lu clan, the Langya Wang clan and the Qilu Gao clan, as well as the local officials in the Tai'an area, all gathered in Tai'an to congratulate the Qilu Cao family:

"Ahh Congratulations! ”

"Oops! Now Cao Niangniang not only gave birth to Lin'er, but also received the title of Concubine De, and in the future, this glory and wealth will be inexhaustible. ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! Concubine De is very favored in the palace, and this time she is exempted from paying taxes in the world, or because Concubine De gave birth to three princes. On the one hand, the officials of the family present complimented the Qilu Cao family, and on the other hand, they were also happy for their own purses, because the imperial court did not collect taxes, and the land in their hands could be rented for a long time.

"Ahh Where, where! Ladies and gentlemen, you have a good reputation. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats! The Qilu Cao family and the Xiahou family entertained the guests, and the Yingge Yan danced the next morning, when the local officials in the major families of Qilu and Tai'an said goodbye to the patriarch of the Cao family, suddenly, the sky was overcast, and some people's wine had not yet woken up:

"Hmmm! How? Isn't it already dawning? Why is it suddenly dark? Isn't it going to rain? ”

"Look, there's a dark cloud over there." I saw a yellow-black cloud floating in the sky, and when I flew closer, people realized that it was a large swarm of locusts.

"It's not clouds, it's locusts! It's locusts! ”

"It's locusts! What locusts! "A lot of locusts flew on people.

"Quick, quick, go to the fields." All the people ran to their fields in panic, and when they came to the fields, they saw locusts the size of their thumbs eating the seedlings in the fields. In less than a moment, the seedlings in the entire field were gnawed bare. Farmers busy in the fields want to cry without tears. And those landlords also want to cry without tears - this year's harvest is gone, and the landlords of this era are not like the landlords preached at that time in the Republic of China in later generations, because most of these tenants in the farmland can be said to be the property of these big families, if because of the famine, those tenants leave their hometowns in order to escape the disaster, then in the coming year, who will farm for them! In addition, after Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, the indicators for officials are a matter of people's livelihood. Therefore, once there is a famine, the landowners of those big families will open their warehouses and take out grain to relieve the victims. Subsequently, the locusts spread to Qingzhou, Dezhou, Qizhou, and spread to Zhuozhou, Bianzhou and other places, and then, the people in the world were in turmoil, rumors were everywhere, there were many people who said that the locusts were heavenly insects, and someone had angered the heavens, so God sent the locusts to rain down the disaster, and the witch and the stick were active, and even more, it was directly said that at this time, the heavens gave an early warning, and the local officials quickly wrote a good report and sent it to Chang'an. In the Taiji Palace of Chang'an, after Li Jiancheng received the report, he immediately convened the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty to discuss:

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, locusts are heavenly insects, and the ancients made words and combined them with the emperor's imperial characters and insects to form words, just because this insect is a heavenly worm, and the appearance of this insect is actually a disaster from heaven, which is beyond the reach of man! The minister thought that His Majesty should bow down to introspection, bathe in incense, worship the gods and raise virtues, and let the heavens take back this worm. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty, this insect was started by Qilu, Qilu is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and God will descend this insect to Qilu, is it that Confucius and Master Meng have any hints for us? Belch! The third prince was born more than a month early, and his mother is from the Qilu Cao family, could this sign come from the third prince? ”

"Impossible, the birth of the third prince is a celebration of the imperial court, how can it be far-fetched? Besides, how is it possible that the Qilu Cao family and the Xiahou family helped the imperial court pacify the people in the north of the Qilu River, and made great contributions? Li Jiancheng was angry, in the later Celestial Empire, Li Jiancheng often saw it on TV, and often accused the baby of being a disaster or a demon because of natural disasters or something, and immediately became angry. The official saw that Li Jiancheng was furious and immediately shut up.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although the third prince was born more than a month early, and although the locust plague is from Qilu, the minister thinks that this matter should not be counted on the third prince and Concubine Cao De?" Li Jiancheng nodded, but the official's words in the future made Li Jiancheng want to pull him out and cut him down.

"Your Majesty, this matter should be the reason why the third prince and Concubine Cao De blocked the evil for Your Majesty, Your Majesty, think about it, the third prince was fine, but why was he suddenly born early, and why was the third prince born when the emperor accepted Zhaorong, and Qilu also had a locust plague a few days later, and it spread immediately, it must be a demon girl entering the palace......"

"Smack!" A jade inkstone smashed to the ground, and all the officials present saw Li Jiancheng angry and immediately knelt down:

"Bastard, the saint has clouds, the son is silent and confused, you are good, one by one is not saying that the heavens will send disasters, that is, the demon girl will enter the palace, and the heavens will send disasters, am I a faint king? When I was the crown prince, for the sake of the people of the Central Plains, I was stubborn and stubborn to level the war, and for the sake of the people's livelihood, I had the help of the Taishang Laojun to turn the green salt into snow salt to eliminate the salt shortage in Guanzhong, and then produced snow sugar to enrich the lives of the people! I have practiced so much virtue, why does heaven send disasters? Okay, God warns, I think that after I ascended the throne, I have never slackened off the government and abused the people, besides, if I am a faint king, then you are traitors, God warns, you also have a share, I will also behead you together to show the public, in order to calm the disaster! When the officials present saw Li Jiancheng angry, they immediately knelt down! Li Jiancheng found that most of the first people to speak to him were officials who opposed his marriage with the Turks at the beginning, and the children of the family accounted for the majority-hmph! These things have jumped out again. Looking at the kneeling minister, Li Jiancheng continued:

"Ministers, since this locust is a heavenly worm, and it is some kind of calamity from heaven, then I have decided to take this calamity with my body again." The officials present all pricked up their ears and listened to Li Jiancheng's words:

"I have decided to eat the locusts myself as a token of my determination to eradicate them!"

"Ahh Your Majesty, by all means! The locusts are heavenly worms, and they must not be eaten. Your Majesty! ”

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, the Son of Heaven has issued an edict against himself, and fasted and bathed, and sacrificed to the heavens to show respect for the heavens and show repentance. Your Majesty, it is better for Your Majesty to issue an edict against yourself! Seeing these people chattering and chattering non-stop, Li Jiancheng really had an urge to pull these people out and cut off their heads.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this ancient man-made word, the locust character composed of the emperor and the word insect, should be because the locusts are large, and they are swarms and overwhelming, so the locusts are regarded as the first of the insect plague, which should attract the attention of the emperor and the imperial court, and it is definitely not a natural insect." It was Wei Zheng who said this, because Wei Zheng was born and a landlord of the Shu clan, and he never agreed with the theory of heavenly insects, plus Wei Zheng knew Li Jiancheng's thoughts, so he would naturally help Li Jiancheng speak.

"Your Majesty, locusts are heavenly insects, although Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, but if you eat heavenly insects, I am afraid that you will be punished by heaven!"

"Yes! Your Majesty, Your Majesty's golden body, don't take risks lightly! Your Majesty! At this time, Fang Xuanling said:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, in the Spring and Autumn Period, one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, the King of Chuzhuang had eaten leeches by mistake, at the beginning, leeches were also called insects, and then the King of Chuzhuang got sick, and told the ministers that the lonely king ate insects by mistake, and today he suffered a curse. Who knew that a few days later, King Chuzhuang recovered from his illness, and he also defeated the original overlord Jin Guo and became the overlord of the world! Therefore, the minister thinks that since ancient times, there has been a virtuous king, and he is definitely not afraid of the saying of heavenly insects! ”

"Your Majesty, Fang Xuanling is talking nonsense and has ill intentions! Your Majesty! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister Du Ruhui thinks that the early birth of these three princes is a coincidence with the locust plague in the Qilu Central Plains, but the minister thinks that Your Majesty does not need to hesitate to sacrifice the dragon body for the sake of market rumors, everything is important to the dragon body!"

"Your Majesty, by all means! Your Majesty! Li Jiancheng shook his head:

"You don't need to say more, I have already realized that tomorrow, I will put an iron pot at the entrance of the imperial city of Chang'an Taiji Palace, filled with butter, and I will personally eat the locusts, with the determination to destroy the locusts! Needless to say. "On the next day, the inner chamberlain obeyed Li Jiancheng's will and put a big iron pot at the entrance of the Xuanwu Gate of the Imperial City of Taiji Palace in Chang'an. Outside the Xuanwu Gate, butter was placed in a set iron pot, and the underground fire burned the butter, and Li Jiancheng shouted to the people below:

"Ladies and gentlemen of Li Tang, I heard that the common people were suffering from locusts, and I was deeply distressed, and I even heard that you felt that locusts were natural insects, so I had to endure the pain and let those locusts destroy your crops and grain. After listening to Li Jiancheng's words, the surrounding people discussed:

"The emperor is going to eat the locusts himself!"

"Yes! The emperor really loves the people like a son! ”

"Humph! Who knows if it's a real locust or a fake locust! ”

"Hey! Don't talk nonsense! At this time, one of the attendants poured the locusts he had caught into the pan of oil. Soon, a very fragrant fragrance came out:

"It smells so good!"

"Don't smell it, the more fragrant it is, the more poisonous it is! Check it out first! A chamberlain scooped up the fried locusts. Sent it to Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng twisted the locust, shook it in front of the people, stuffed it into his mouth, ate it, twisted up a chopstick, ate it, and ate it three chopsticks in a row:

"Hmmm! Not bad! The hue is delicious, and the taste is good! ”