The locust plague is raging, and the fields outside Chang'an City are full of people driving locusts, but their actions are in vain, although they can temporarily drive the locusts away from their own fields, but the locusts in other people's fields can fly over at any time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This kind of futile act may seem ridiculous to future generations, and even the most ignorant people know that what they are doing now has no effect at all, but they are still working very hard to drive away the locusts, because in the face of this natural disaster, they must do something, even if it is just this seemingly futile action, it can make them feel better, at least they have tried, and the government also needs to mobilize the people, so as not to cause other chaos under this natural disaster.

Li Xiu on the carriage looked at the busy farmers in the field, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little heavy, he also thought that it was a bit ridiculous for the government to organize people to drive away locusts, but now that he thinks about it, I am afraid that there is no way to do it.

After a while, Li Xiu's carriage came to the gate of Chang'an City, but at this moment, Li Xiu felt that the speed of the carriage slowed down, at first Li Xiu didn't care, after all, Chang'an City is full of people, the city gate has always been a gathering place for people, and it is normal for the carriage to slow down, but then he heard a commotion outside the carriage, as if someone was shouting something?

Out of curiosity in his heart, Li Xiu opened the car window at the moment, only to see that a large number of people had gathered next to the road in front of the city gate, and someone in the crowd shouted loudly, seemingly very excited.

"This is ......" Just when Li Xiu wanted someone to ask what happened, he suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance, which made him stunned at first, and then couldn't help but show a surprised expression, because this smell turned out to be the aroma emitted by fried locusts, he ate so many locusts yesterday, he would definitely not smell wrong.

"Someone is blowing locusts here, can you say ......" Li Xiu muttered to himself at the moment, and then took a closer look at the middle of the crowd with the window of the car, and then the carriage was getting closer and closer to the crowd, and after a while, he saw Xu Jingzong in the crowd, and he was not alone, but with a group of young people, holding a plate of fried locusts in his hand, and was loudly introducing the harm of locusts to the people around him, and the necessity of eating locusts.

Seeing Xu Jingzong and the people around him, Li Xiu couldn't help but show a shocked expression, after all, he only handed over this matter to the other party yesterday, and as a result, Xu Jingzong started to act today, this kind of execution is simply terrifying, no wonder his character is so poor, but he can still be a supreme minister later, and it is estimated that this is one of the most important reasons.

In addition, Li Xiu was very keenly aware that most of the young people standing with Xu Jingzong were wearing long robes, and they all looked extraordinary, and they knew that they must be scholars without asking, and when they advertised eating locusts to the people around them, they even quoted scriptures and classics endlessly, and they might still be the best among scholars.

Looking at the performance of Xu Jingzong and those scholars around him, Li Xiu understood what was going on after a little thought, this must be Xu Jingzong's encouragement of these young scholars to help him promote the benefits of eating locusts after he went back yesterday, so there is the current scene.

Thinking of this, Li Xiu couldn't help but admire Xu Jingzong's mind. No matter what era, the people who are most likely to be encouraged are students, they are educated, they know what it means to be a family and a country, and they take the rise and fall of the world as their own responsibility, plus they are too young, and their temperament carries the impulse of young people, so as long as they find a way, it is easy to encourage students, for example, you can look at almost all the student movements in later generations, and there are almost people behind them.

The scholars of the Tang Dynasty also belong to the student group, and it is almost conceivable that Xu Jingzong instigated the process of these students, and there was no need to agitate at all, those scholars were originally respectful of ghosts and gods, and even some people did not believe in it at all, and they saw with their own eyes the huge losses brought by the locust plague to the people, so as long as Xu Jingzong said some high-sounding words, such as "eating locusts for the people of the world" and the like, and then took the lead in eating locusts to show his determination, it was easy to motivate these scholars.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the influence of ancient scholars is far stronger than that of later students, especially these scholars like Chang'an City, many of them came to participate in the imperial examination, in other words, they are the reserve of Tang officials, plus the status of scholars is already high, for example, when in the countryside, the decrees of the imperial court need to be interpreted and conveyed by scholars in the countryside, which also makes the influence of scholars among the people extremely strong.

Li Xiu can think of the above, Xu Jingzong must also think of it, so he encouraged these scholars to come out with him and preach the benefits of eating locusts to everyone, the support of a group of scholars must be much stronger than himself, and if this matter can cause a wave among readers, then it will definitely be promoted faster, and even he himself can use this incident to enhance his reputation among readers, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

"Awesome! It's really amazing, why didn't I think of encouraging these readers who have eaten all day and have nothing to do? Li Xiu couldn't help patting his head at this time and said, it was really a big mistake for him to ignore the class of scholars who controlled public opinion.

"Stop, I've got something to do!" At this moment, I suddenly saw Li Xiu raise his head and shout to the coachman, with his instructions, the carriage immediately stopped on the side of the road, and then Li Xiu jumped out of the carriage, and the guards immediately separated him from the people around him to prevent anyone from approaching, since the last time Wang Junkuo happened, no matter what he did, there were a bunch of guards around him, which was also unanimously requested by Princess Pingyang and Yi Niang, and it was useless for Li Xiu to oppose it.

At the moment, Li Xiu squeezed through the crowd, and it was easy to come to Xu Jingzong's side, only to see that in the open space surrounded by everyone, an oil pot was burning, and the table next to it was full of fried locusts, and those who read were holding plates one by one, some denounced the crimes of locusts, and some preached how delicious locusts were, and even demonstrated how delicious locusts were, and even demonstrated eating locusts in person, it can be seen that they are all working very hard.

"Fellow villagers, people take food as their life, but they are eaten by this little locust, so that the people of the world have no food to eat, and I don't know how many people die of hunger in the future, it can be said that this little locust is the murderer, in the next scholar, although there is no long thing, will never be afraid of this little locust, today as a pasta, if there is really a locust god, then in the next with a body of righteousness and fight with it!"

At this moment, I saw Xu Jingzong suddenly standing on a stone and shouting condescendingly to everyone, after speaking, he grabbed a handful of locusts, threw them directly into his mouth and chewed them, with a righteous and awe-inspiring expression on his face, if there was really a locust god coming at this time, it seemed that he would dare to fight with the other party.

Xu Jingzong's words also attracted the applause of the surrounding readers, and they ate locusts in front of everyone at the moment, the scene was quite spectacular, but although there were many onlookers, some young people also showed expressions of interest, but most of them still did not take action, after all, the legend of the locust god is too terrible, and it is difficult to change their concept for a while.

Seeing the reactions of the people around him, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh secretly, stepped forward at the moment, and came directly to Xu Jingzong's side, and when the other party saw him, he couldn't help but show a look of surprise, and immediately saluted: "See Guogong!" ”

When Xu Jingzong said the word "Guogong", he deliberately raised his voice, which also made everyone around him show a look of surprise, although there are many powerful people in Chang'an, but it is still very rare to be named Guogong, not to mention that the other party is still so young, and it looks no different from those scholars around Xu Jingzong.

"No need to be polite, just now the national government heard your preaching, and my heart also quite agreed, this year's locust plague is raging, this little locust almost eats up the grain in Guanzhong, it is really hateful, today the national government will take the lead in eating these locusts, I hope you can also understand the painstaking efforts of these scholars, everyone eats a locust, you can keep a grain of food in the future!" Li Xiu also made a distressed expression at this time, and after speaking, he also grabbed a handful of locusts and stuffed them into his mouth.

Li Xiu said "national duke" when he spoke, in order to let the people around him understand his identity, after all, even he, the national duke, has eaten, and it is estimated that he can also drive many people.

After Li Xiu ate the locusts, he didn't greet Xu Jingzong, in fact, at this time, he communicated with Xu Jingzong as little as possible, so as not to be thought that they had colluded in advance, although this is a fact, but concealing this fact can increase the persuasiveness of his actions, so I saw that he immediately said goodbye and left, and when he left, he also made a special salute to those scholars, in order to show his support and respect for them.

Seeing Li Xiu, the young Guogong, leave, everyone also showed curious looks, and then a scholar behind Xu Jingzong finally asked, "Brother Yan, I don't know who this Guogong is?" ”

Xu Jingzong was waiting for someone else's words, and he couldn't help but show a faint smile at the moment, and then said loudly to everyone again: "Everyone, everyone has seen the Guogong just now, this Guogong is not an ordinary person, he is the concubine of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess of Pingyang, and it is also our Tang Dynasty's Yan Guogong Li Xiu, speaking of this Yan Guogong, I'm afraid I don't need to talk too much, right?" ”

Xu Jingzong reported Li Xiu's identity, everyone was in an uproar at the moment, especially those who read, one by one showed an excited look, this year's Li Xiu's poem moved Chang'an again, many of them regarded Li Xiu as an idol in their hearts, and the people around them were also discussing, and their faces were full of shocked expressions, no one expected to see the legendary Yan Guogong in this situation, and then thought that even a person with Li Xiu's status had eaten locusts just now, what else did they have to be afraid of?