After Li Jiancheng finished eating the locusts, the people around Chang'an kept staring at Li Jiancheng, and Li Jiancheng walked down from the tower of the Xuanwu Gate of the Imperial City:

"Look, Your Majesty has come down. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Ugh! Your Majesty has nothing to do! Li Jiancheng shouted to the people around him:

"Ladies and gentlemen, you see, I have nothing to do, you are afraid that the locusts will be punished by heaven, I have already eaten the locusts myself, if there is any heavenly curse, I am willing to bear it as one." After the surrounding people heard Li Jiancheng's words, they whispered again.

"Your Majesty is truly a saint of the ages! Willing to bear the wrath of God for us! ”

"Don't speak, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, what is the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven, naturally he will not be punished by God. What are we, the little people, the little ghosts on the ground, and it won't be punished by us little people when the time comes......" The soldiers of the Chang'an Guard Battalion next to him, the palace guards, and the Imperial Forest Army shouted loudly:

"Shut up! Licentious! Speak again, lock you up! The whispering people stopped talking. After Li Jiancheng saw it, he said in his heart - it seems that the treatment of ordinary people and bureaucrats cannot be completely reasonable. When it's time to take the whip, you still have to take the whip! Li Jiancheng shouted to the people and officials present:

"Folks, I know that you still suspect that this locust is a heavenly worm, and you dare not exterminate the locust, I will issue an order now, I will order the imperial dining room to enter the locust every day, I eat locusts every day, as long as this locust plague is not extinguished, I will not eat anything else, only locusts! If there is any retribution from God, it will be retribution! Chin this! Also, do you feel sorry for your crops or for the locusts? Li Jiancheng shouted, and turned around and went back to the palace angrily, and after returning to the palace, Li Jiancheng ordered:

"Ladies and gentlemen! I have decided that in addition to eating locusts every day, I have also decided that this locust extermination should also be recorded in the evaluation of the magistrate, and if the local official does not work hard to exterminate the locusts, he will be dismissed from his post immediately. After the ministers received the order, they left in twos and threes. Just when Di Renjie was about to leave, Li Jiancheng's father-in-law Mingyu came to call Di Renjie:

"Master Di! Master Di, please stay! Di Renjie heard Mingyu's father-in-law calling himself, and immediately stopped:

"Yo! Mingyu's father-in-law, what's the matter! ”

"Your Majesty has a will! Xuan Qilin's secret guard commander made Lord Di Renjie meet him! ”

"Yes! Wechen obeys! Some of the officials next to him had different reactions when they heard Li Jiancheng proclaiming Di Renjie again, and most of them looked at Di Renjie coldly - since Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, he immediately canonized Di Renjie as the title of Earl of the Founding County, and granted him the right to directly face the monarch at any time, and several officials have lost their official positions because of the accusations of the Qilin secret guard. Therefore, many people secretly say in their hearts: "I don't know who is going to be unlucky again." ”

Di Renjie walked in front of Li Jiancheng:

"Your Majesty!"

"Huaiying! Since the establishment of the Qilin Secret Guard, the achievements have been remarkable! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the compliment!"

"Huaiying! I don't think it's easy to see what has happened during this period of time, and it seems that there are some people here who are making trouble! ”

"Yes! Your Majesty, the minister understands, and the minister must sweep away the small and small for His Majesty and protect the imperial power. Li Jiancheng nodded:

"Hmmm! Very well, remember, closely monitor the movements of the officials of the major families in Chang'an, as well as the situation of locust extermination in various places. Local officials must be closely supervised! ”

"Yes! Your Majesty, Wechen understands! After Xu Jingzong returned to his mansion, he immediately summoned the whole family of the mansion and announced:

"From today onwards, our whole family will be eating locusts."

"Ahh Eat locusts! "Don't say that Xu Jingzong's son Xu Ang has been clothed and fed since he was a child, that is, Xu Jingzong's wife Pei Shi, who has also eaten rice and fine noodles and fish since he was a child, and the locusts look disgusting to death, in addition, in their hearts, they are heavenly insects, and they don't know how much fear they have in their hearts. Pei Shi put his hand on Xu Jingzong's forehead:

"Master, are you sick, do you want to ask a doctor to take a look?" Xu Jingzong stopped Mrs. Pei's hand:

"Madam, I'm not sick, I've already said that from today onwards, there will only be locusts in the kitchen, and whoever doesn't eat it will be served by the family law, and there will be absolutely no mercy! Besides, didn't the emperor also eat the locusts himself, can the emperor eat them, can't we share the weal and woe with Your Majesty? After Xu Jingzong finished speaking, he walked into the inner room without looking back, Xu Ang looked at his mother, and said to Pei Shi bitterly:

"Mother, do you think my father is going crazy?" Pei looked at the inner house of the Xu Mansion and sighed at Xu Ang, when Xu Jingzong was not in the beginning, Mrs. Pei was like a tigress at home, and now Xu Jingzong has become Li Jiancheng's favorite minister and important minister, and his authority in the family is naturally high.

"Ang'er! Your father's decision should have his reasoning, and besides, didn't your father say the same! The emperor can eat, can't we share weal and woe with Your Majesty? Listen to your father. Xu Jingzong did what he said, not only did the whole family eat locusts, but also someone visited, and when he stayed for dinner, he also invited them to eat locusts! Moreover, Xu Jingzong probably also felt that eating locusts alone was a bit too bitter, and on the basis of Li Jiancheng's fried locusts, he invented locust steamed buns, locust nest nests, steamed locusts, locust soup, etc., and what is even more exaggerated is that when Xu Jingzong was working in the imperial court yamen or chatting with colleagues, he also took out a few fried locusts into his mouth from time to time. Ask Xu Jingzong why? Xu Jingzong always replied directly and seriously:

"The emperor and the locusts do not share the sky, are not afraid of the curse of heaven, eat locusts every day, I Xu Jingzong, as a holy courtier, should share the worries with the saint. Not afraid of God's damnation, he ate locusts with the Holy One. If you want to be punished by heaven, I Xu Jingzong and Your Majesty will block it together! Suddenly, the title of Xu Locust spread throughout Chang'an, and many people said that Xu Jingzong was a flattering person, and in order to please the emperor, he even ate locusts. When Li Jiancheng heard about it, he smiled to himself:

"Huh! This Xu Jingzong! I still love to drill camps and pat on the back, but I like it very much! "Li Jiancheng knows that sycophants are not necessarily traitors, and sometimes, sycophants are more reliable than those courtiers who claim to be loyal ministers, because these sycophants rely on the 'horse' that they pat on the horse's buttocks, if the horse is gone, then these sycophants are worthless. Of course, there are officials who pat Xu Jingzong on the back, and there are also officials who directly hit Li Jiancheng's forehead against the dragon scales. Li Jiancheng received a recital from Meng He Ming, the assassin of Bianzhou:

"Your Majesty, since the locusts came to Bianzhou, the ministers have been working day and night, leading their officials and people to desperately extinguish the locusts, but the locusts are still swarming, and they have covered the sky, and the minister still thinks that the locusts are natural insects, which cannot be solved by manpower. Please stop exterminating the locusts, issue an edict against yourself, and cultivate virtues, so as to move the heavens and take back the locusts! Return Li Tang to the next peace! Li Jiancheng looked at Meng Heming's excerpt, and angrily threw Meng Heming's excerpt directly to the ground, and then, Zhongshu Ling Changsun Shunde also used Meng Heming's excerpt to Li Jiancheng and said:

"Your Majesty, Meng Heming's excerpt makes sense! This locust is a heavenly worm, a messenger sent by heaven to the world, please stop your majesty's will to exterminate locusts, stop baozheng, and cultivate virtue and government from the new to calm the people! ”

"Eldest grandson Aiqing, I don't know what kind of virtue politics this virtue is, and which ones are baozheng!?"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that your Majesty's opening of the imperial examination, the establishment of a Qilin secret guard to spy on the privacy of hundreds of officials and local officials is baozheng, marrying a barbarian, this can be said to be Your Majesty's family matter, and besides, Your Majesty already has a son-in-law and the eldest son, since ancient times, it is not the turn of the barbarian to be in charge, but it will eventually confuse my royal blood! Your Majesty, and this imperial examination is one of the baozheng in the world! Your Majesty! In the past, the former Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty opened the imperial examination, but only accepted the children of the Guanlong family, the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened the imperial examination, expanded the scale of the selection and examination, and also received the folk mud legs to the imperial court, so that the family centrifugation, the emperor, since ancient times, the upper grade has no cold door, the lower grade has no scholars, the family is the foundation of the court and the world, His Majesty has opened the imperial examination from the new, and those grass and wild people have also been pulled into the imperial court, and we are in the same column as the ministers, and our ministers are deeply humiliated, please abolish the imperial examination; Also, the Qilin secret guard, since ancient times, His Majesty's eyes and ears are the imperial historians of the imperial court, and now there are more than 100 imperial historians of the imperial court, but the Qilin secret guards secretly insert undercover agents into the homes of hundreds of officials and local officials, which is the matter of hundreds of officials lying on the couch, and the court and His Majesty know that the civil and military officials have no privacy at all. And there is also the authority to take the six grades of the imperial court and the officials below the six grades, please Your Majesty to remove the Qilin secret guard, and return the right to speak to the hundred officials, these remarks are extremely loyal to Your Majesty, and your Majesty will be asked to understand the loyalty of the ministers! His Majesty ...... "The eldest grandson Shunde was illustrated, and probably didn't think it was touching enough, so he howled loudly in front of Li Jiancheng. Li Jiancheng looked at the eldest grandson Shunde like this, and originally wanted to reprimand, but he couldn't help but give face to such an old minister, in the end, this eldest grandson Shunde was on the one hand the old minister from Conglong who Li Yuan raised troops in Jinyang, and he was also the nail who was planted in the Qin king Li Shimin and provided information. Li Jiancheng could only suppress the resentment in his heart. Secretly said in my heart:

"Humph! Okay, your eldest grandson Shunde, so don't know whether to live or die, Pei Lian, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi, Wu Shiyi, and Li Shentong all know that their exact location doesn't dare to make a mistake in front of me, and they all obediently stay in Renshou Palace to accompany the emperor, you are good, and you are still making noise here with me. Hum! You wait for me, and I will clean you up sooner or later. Li Jiancheng said quietly:

"Alright, Lord Eldest Sun, I already know your recital, you go down first! I'll think about it. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! Wechen retires! ”