The officials forgot that the price of grain on the market was rising day by day, but the price of grain given by the imperial court was constant, although the people were not smart, but they also knew that it was still cost-effective to exchange grain from the imperial court, and the grain of the imperial court was still good grain, unlike those sold on the market were old grain, and there were a lot of moldy mixed in it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just after the emperor issued the decree, as the new son-in-law who followed the emperor's pace and even had the courage to walk in front of the emperor, Wu Yuanqing once again asked people to go to the surrounding states and counties to spread the news that the Wu family had also begun to buy locusts, and only collected the dried ones, and all of them were settled with grain.

For a time, Guanzhong was boiling, and it was unheard of for the emperor to let the people eat locusts to satisfy their hunger.

When did locusts become so sought-after?

Then when people knew that the emperor had led his family to taste the locusts first, the people were shocked and moved.

It is said that the people in many places knelt and kowtowed in the direction of Chang'an as soon as they knew the news, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

Then, the entire Guanzhong, as well as all the surrounding places affected by the locust plague, began a vigorous battle to catch locusts.

The locust god who used to avoid snakes and scorpions has now become something that can fill his stomach, and the bold ones are directly roasted according to the method on the notice, boiled and filled their stomachs, and the timid ones dare to take bags full of insects all over the ground, and dare not eat them or dare to exchange them for some food.

Of course, there are also many stubborn people who think that the overwhelming appearance of the locust god is to punish the bad Li Shimin, a bad emperor who has not been properly positioned.

All kinds of rumors have come and gone, and many people who spread rumors have been caught by the hundred horsemen before, and many words of heavenly punishment have been stopped, and since Li Shimin ordered to eat locusts and buy locusts, they have resurged, and they have become more and more intense.

Among them, the shadow of the Shandong scholar clan appeared in it, and the scribes and students everywhere were also unstable, and many people dared to criticize the policies and resolutions of the imperial court in front of the public.

The key thing is that the local government has not strictly managed it, allowing these people to speak out.

On the surface, there seem to be nothing special about these places, but if you dig deep into their backgrounds, you will find that the political officials in these places are inextricably linked with the Shandong scholars.

Either he has a marriage with the Shandong Shi clan, or he has entered the door of the Shandong Shi clan.

And the same is true of the student scribes who speak out loudly.

The bigwigs in the DPRK and China are all well aware of this situation, and they all know that it is the Shandong Shi clan who is doing something, which is nothing more than a counterattack against the Li Tang royal family, who made the Li family, from Li Yuan to Li Shimin, the two emperors have great vigilance against the Shandong Shi clan, and looking for an opportunity is like weakening the power and influence of the Shandong Shi clan.

Although they all understood it very well, few ministers gave an idea to the last table.

Even Li Shimin's henchman, Fang Xuanling, was very indifferent and didn't say a word.

There is no way, who will let Fang Xuanling, his powerful wife is Fan Yang Lu's people.

I have to say that the emperor's jealousy of the Shandong scholars is extremely reasonable, and so many ministers in the court have marriages or relatives with them, and no emperor can sleep well, and he doesn't want to weaken them.

Although most of the ministers were dumbfounded, Li Shimin was very confident and calm.

There is a saying that if the family has surplus food, do not panic in case of trouble. Li Shimin is the same, he has grain in his hands, and he can also buy a lot of locusts to make food, so he is not afraid that the people in the world will be chaotic.

If the people are not chaotic, let alone just the Shandong Shi clan, even if they go to the Jiangnan Shi clan, it will be in vain to do things together with the Longyou Group.

Of course, this Longyou military group is a supporter of the Li family's royal family, and it is unlikely that it will fight against Li Shimin.

And the Jiangnan Shi clan said that it was not good, it was a little far away, and it was more difficult to do things.

The remaining Shandong Shi clan is deeply rooted in Shandong, and their influence is extremely huge, and it is very easy to incite the people in their local area, but it is a bit out of reach to the people of Guanzhong Pingyuan, who are most directly affected by the Li Tang royal family.

Those stubborn and ignorant people just found someone to talk about how unkind, unjust, disloyal and unfilial the emperor killed his brother and forced his father to abdicate, and before the words came out, they were stopped by the people who were grateful to the emperor, and then these people would say how good the emperor was, how benevolent and righteous, and then the two sides would quarrel, and then the people who said bad things about the emperor would be isolated.

The more this kind of bad words are said to others, the more isolated they are, and within two days, these stubborn people found that the people around them began to hide from themselves, and seeing themselves was like seeing a ghost, and they could hide as far as they could.

Then these stubborn and ignorant people could only gather into groups on their own, cursing the emperor every day within the members for all kinds of bad self-esteem.

This is a counterattack from the common people against the people who are doing things.

And the emperor's counterattack came extremely quickly.

The rumors of the people, naturally the people spontaneously dealt with them, and the emperor's counterattack was directly aimed at the foundation of the survival, reproduction, and growth of the Shandong scholars, knowledge, that is, the books that carry knowledge.

was impeached for tearing books before, Wu Yuanqing said at the time that tearing books was no big deal, and the reason why people thought that tearing books was a big deal was nothing more than because books were too difficult to obtain, and he could make making books easy and easy to obtain.

The improved papermaking technique has been successful, and the papermaking workshops have been producing a steady stream of paper a few days ago.

In the printing workshop, although the movable type printing is still in trial production, the ink required for engraving printing has been successfully produced, and the engraving of the Analects has been engraved ten days ago.

After the engraving was completed, the printing began non-stop, and in ten days, the book of the Analects that had been printed and bound was almost ten thousand strategies.

And the emperor's counterattack was that these nearly 10,000 copies of the Analects were distributed, distributed free of charge, and all school-age students who went to school and read in Guanzhong were given a copy of the Analects for free.

And there will be more books to be sold at low prices in the future.

As soon as this news came out, the entire Guanzhong suddenly boiled, except for those who had interests with the Shandong Shi clan, everyone else praised each other, praising Li Shimin as rare in heaven and nothing on earth.

The emperor's prestige reached its peak for a while, and at this time, if someone provoked the students to speak ill of the emperor, they would be spit directly on their faces.

However, when the small actions of the Shandong Shi clan all disappeared and obediently admitted defeat, everyone thought that the emperor's counterattack should end, but found that Li Shimin's counterattack had just begun.