In his previous life, Wu Yuanqing didn't know where he had read a passage, saying that in the second year of Zhenguan, there were locusts in Jin. Pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info Xin Mao, go into the garden, see locusts, pick up a few, wish it and say: "The people take the valley as their life, and you eat it, and rather eat my lungs and intestines." Raising his hand to swallow it, he admonished left and right: "Evil things may become diseases." He said: "I am suffering from disasters for the people, what can I do!" "Swallow it. It is a year old, and the locusts are not plagued.

In the vernacular, in the second year of Jeongguan, locusts were found in the Gyeonggi area. On June 16, Tang Taizong went to the Forbidden Garden, saw locusts, caught a few, and cursed: "The people feed their lives on the crops, but you eat the crops, I would rather you eat my internal organs!" He raised his hand to eat the locust, and the attendants on the left and right dissuaded: "This is a filthy thing, and it may make people sick." Tang Taizong said: "I suffer for the people and am not afraid of getting sick." So he swallowed the locusts. This year, the locusts did not cause any damage.

From this passage, it can be seen that Li Shimin has a deep hatred for locusts, and he is also a good emperor who is anxious for the people's needs and is dedicated to the people, but what he said later is that after eating locusts, the locust plague did not cause any big disasters, which is too nonsense.

In the official history, both the old Tang Dynasty and the new Tang Dynasty have truly recorded the locust plague that occurred in the second year of Zhenguan Guanzhong, which was widespread and severe, and did not say that the locust plague did not have much impact.

Therefore, Wu Yuanqing is more inclined to believe that Li Shimin's eating of locusts has really happened, but it cannot have a little impact on mitigating the locust plague, but he just showed off in front of the ministers and the people of the world.

Even if Li Shimin was really thinking about the people when he was eating locusts at that time, but it was useless, it could only become a big show that was recited for a while, but the symbolic meaning was far greater than the actual significance.

Of course, in history, Li Shimin's eating of locusts did not alleviate the impact of the locust plague a little, and that was also because there was no traverser like Wu Yuanqing.

Now that Wu Yuanqing, a superb foodie, has eaten all kinds of insects, he naturally refuses to let such a thing as the emperor eating locusts disappear in history.

Of course, Wu Yuanqing didn't want to see the emperor eat locusts, and he knew that even if everyone in the world couldn't eat enough and didn't warm up, it wouldn't let the emperor get to the point of eating insects.

The symbolism of Li Shimin's eating insects is still far greater than the practical significance.

Only when Li Shimin eats locusts can he set an example and a model for the ministers and the people of the world.

Others will say, you see that the emperor can eat locusts, and Doctor Sun also said that there are benefits of eating locusts, so why can't we little people eat them?

Those victims are all hungry, if there is no imperial court soup porridge and grain, work for relief and other measures, it is definitely not an imagination to eat a child.

Even if the imperial court now uses work for relief to carry out soup kitchens, the victims everywhere are still only able to drink some gruel to fill their stomachs, and it is a luxury to eat full or half-full.

In the past, these people may have had all kinds of fear and fear of locusts, but as long as the Manchu Dynasty created an atmosphere where locusts can be eaten, not only can they be eaten, but also delicious, then these hungry victims will definitely flock to catch locusts.

At that time, the number of locusts will be greatly reduced, and not only will the stomachs of the victims be filled, but even the crops in the fields may be saved.

Therefore, Wu Yuanqing's reliance on deceiving the monarch to trick Li Shimin into believing that locusts can be eaten can be regarded as well-intentioned.

The waiter sent to Sun Simiao for questioning soon came back, as expected, with Wu Yuanqing mixed in it, the waiter just asked if the locusts could be used in medicine, and Sun Simiao also answered the symptoms of the locusts and the effects they played on professionally.

Then, the answer Li Shimin got was that locusts could be eaten.

In fact, Sun Simiao's answer only made Li Shimin believe that the last two percent, the first eighty percent of the key was said by Wu Yuanqing, and Wu Yuanqing said it in the name of Sun Simiao, plus he has always been quite good and well-informed, and the combination of these aspects finally made Li Shimin completely believe that locusts can be eaten.

Li Shimin groaned and did not speak, and he did not know whether he was thinking about the consequences of eating locusts or how to convince others of the fact that locusts could be eaten.

At this time, Wu Yuanqing spoke: "Your Majesty, what Doctor Sun said about eating locusts, the minister thinks it's still a little unreliable, how to eat this worm, I think it's disgusting, I think other people and ministers should think the same." Besides, the victims of the disaster can barely survive, although the food in our hands is not enough to support the end of this disaster, but we can finally let them spend more than half a year half-dead, and even if there is not enough food in winter, at most they will starve to death, so that there will be no large-scale starvation of people. Your Majesty is also right, the people in the customs clearance."

"No" may be that Wu Yuanqing's words behind him were a little unpleasant, which stimulated Li Shimin, who was bent on being the emperor of the ages, only to see Li Shimin's robe sleeve flicked hard, and he looked at Wu Yuanqing viciously and shouted: "Under my rule, I don't think the tragic incident of people starving to death is not allowed." Obviously, there are locusts that can be used to satisfy hunger, but because of nausea, he gives up, which is not only a way to deal with the locust plague, but also gives up the lives of millions of people in Guanzhong, which is a massacre, and I will never allow it. Since you are disgusted and can't eat it, then I, the Son of Heaven, will set an example for the people of Guanzhong and even the people of the world, so that these thousands of people can see that this locust can be eaten. ”

, even if there is no locust plague, it is not uncommon for the people of the world to starve to death, and this kind of thing will never be allowed to happen, you think that you are the emperor and you really say nothing, whatever you say, you don't brag and don't make drafts, and despise you.

"Your Majesty, this locust is worshiped as a locust god, if you eat locusts, what will the people think" Slandering Li Shimin's words in his heart, Wu Yuanqing said with worry on his face.

"If eating locusts is a sin, let this heaven punish me alone, even if I let the locusts eat my internal organs, I am willing."

Li Shimin's words were affectionate, but Wu Yuanqing looked sluggish, Nima, the rolling wheel of history is really not easy to change, although it is not said that the people take the valley as their life, and you eat it, and rather eat my lungs and intestines, but now the meaning of this sentence is almost the same, and it is really a striking similarity in history.

"Your Majesty cares about the common people, loves the people with benevolence, and is a locust with his body, moving the heavens and the earth, and the ministers can't be ashamed of the king's worries" Wu Yuanqing began to pat himself on the back, his face was moved, and there was a little strange expression.

"Since you are ashamed and ashamed, then you can eat this locust for me."