"These are divine locusts, and they can't be pounced! The locusts all hold grudges, and the more they pounce, the more fierce the trouble will be in the coming year! The respected villager was very anxious, and opened his arms to stop everyone's reckless actions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The family of the daughter of the salt clan stopped, not only because of the authority of the village elders, but also because they found themselves in vain. The locusts fell one after another, and they didn't care about culling, but when they fell one piece, other locusts quickly made up for it. Hundreds of locusts died, and new locusts came from the sky, and they seemed to have taken a fancy to the place, like a raging river, breaking through the weak dikes of the villagers.

The villagers gave up, threw away their tools, and as the villagers knelt on the ridges, they kept kowtowing to the locusts, flying towards the locusts, chanting words in their mouths, praying for the locusts to leave quickly.

They said that this year's drought made it difficult for the villagers to keep these crops. They said that Yanchi-eup was a poor place, and that the thousands of acres of land in this area could not withstand the devotion of the locusts, so you had better go elsewhere. There was a pleading and reverence in the eyes of the people, and they seemed to believe that his own prayer would move the heavens and make these little creatures lift up their mouths.

But to no avail, the swarm of locusts showed no mercy.

As the sky grew brighter, the crops dwarfed little by little, the willows and shrubs turned bald little by little, and the meadows disappeared little by little...... The whole Yanchi-eup was in a gloomy, as if it had ushered in the middle of winter in advance.

At the same time, a steady stream of flying locusts appeared in the air, and some people began to cry helplessly in the rain of locusts, and the cries soon resounded throughout the city.

Everyone has foreseen that this winter will be very cold, hungry, and difficult.

The daughter of the salt clan did not cry, her father and brother stared blankly at the situation in front of her, and she hugged her mother tightly and comforted her, but there was only fear in her heart.

She wondered if these monsters, which were biting at everything, would eat meat, and once they had finished biting on the crops, they would come and bite people. Even though experience had taught her that locusts don't eat people, she was secretly worried.

The more times like this, the more she misses her husband, before he suddenly disappears, he is her heaven, giving her rich food and clothing, a safe environment, no matter what is in front of her, he will keep her safe.

He was sturdy, with a pair of eyes full of murderous intent, and the scholars who had looked at her a few more times on the streets of Xinjiang were so frightened that they fell to the ground and begged for mercy when he glared back. I wonder if if he yells at the locusts now, will they disperse?

But now that he was gone, the daughter of the salt clan was like duckweed floating in the heavy rain, lonely and helpless.

The fate of an individual is so small in the face of natural disasters......

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"Lord, Anyi, Yanchi, Quwo, Xinjiang, there are locusts falling in various places to harm the farmland, what should I do?"

In the city of Anyi, not far from Yanchi Xiaoyi, Wei Manduo had a solemn face, and after his subordinates came to complain, he immediately changed into a sacrificial dress, and knelt in the family temple without eating or drinking to pray.

Others felt that the head of the Wei family was really worried about the people, but in fact, he scolded in his heart, scolding why this year's New Year was so strange, and why Qin Guo was fine, but he was continuously suffering from drought locusts. For how to deal with the disaster, Wei Manduo does not have any rules, and the drought can also be done in accordance with the "Twelve Articles of Waste Administration" summarized by the Great Situ of the Zhou Chamber, although it is not as good as Zhao's, but it is also somewhat effective.

But for the more fierce and more harmful locust plague, since the beginning of the record, Zhuxia has no choice but to let it plague the crops. Especially this time, the scale is so large, it has covered most of the Hedong region, Zhao, Wei and Han have all been affected, and the Wei clan's territory is concentrated in Hedong, and there is nowhere to go if you want to immigrate.

But he couldn't let the people see his helplessness, so Wei Mando could only play according to his own routine during the drought.

After he came out of the family temple, he said to his subordinates in a serious manner: "Wait until you go down and issue a proclamation to educate the people in the filial piety of fathers and sons, and the harmony between husband and wife." ”

"This ......" The ministers of the Wei clan were very confused, the problem now is not what kind of education, but locust plague, is this useful?

Wei Manduo has his own crooked reasoning: "You don't see, there are places in Hedong where locusts are not available, and some places are eaten with fine food, and the places where they are eaten are all caused by the local people's unsimple customs!" It's deserved! ”

Everyone suddenly realized, and Wei Mando continued to preach to them: "Natural disasters and earth demons, so the master of the people, after the drought, there are flying locusts. According to the old people in the countryside, these are all divine locusts, which cannot be controlled by manpower, and can only be lifted by relying on the god of Tian Zu. ”

"I see." Many of the Wei family's ministers believed it to be true.

At the end, Wei Manduo said meaningfully: "Moreover, the reason why there will be continuous disasters this year is still to find the reason from within the Jin Kingdom......

Not every aristocratic politician in the Spring and Autumn Period had the progressive cognition that "heaven is far away, humanity is good", and even Confucius could not do it. In the "Spring and Autumn Period" of the Lu State compiled by him, there are more than ten places where the occurrence of locusts is recorded in the immediate aftermath of political change, and the meaning is self-evident:

The plague of locusts cannot be prevented, and even the result of the "loss of morality" and the collapse of etiquette by the Son of Heaven, the princes, and the rulers.

Obviously, the people who are disorderly in the Jin Kingdom are, of course, Zhao Shangqing, who has been tossing and turning since he came to power!

The most obvious evidence is that the origin of this locust plague is the Zhao family's Taiyuan County.

For a time, this kind of statement spread in the Wei clan's territory, and the scholars of the Wei clan speculated one after another, perhaps Zhao Wuxian continued to use troops to crusade against the country of Rong Di, violating the traditional "desert clothes and not levy", causing yin and yang instability?

Maybe it was Zhao Wuxian who forcibly moved the capital to Tongba, causing the mountains and rivers to shake, right?

Maybe Zhao Wuxian is good at promoting power, and finally makes God dissatisfied, right?

Even if he flatly denied it, according to the convention, the rulers should be responsible for the disaster, if it was in the past, the Marquis of Jin should have issued an edict ordering Zhao Wuxian to step down.

However, now that the Zhao family is dominant, no one dares to let him hand over the ruling position, or return to the Marquis of Jin. Wei Manduo just wanted to blame the Zhao family for causing the disaster, so that the people under his rule hated the Zhao family, not themselves.

Wei Man did a lot of drama, and he also wrote a letter to Han and Zhao Erqing, saying that he had been dedicated to worshiping the heavens before, which made the heavens rain, which showed that it was effective. Now when the altar is set up to worship as before, Zhao Wuxian, as the ruler, should set an example and ask the monarch to hold a ceremony to worship the god of Tianzu in Tongji, and build locust temples in various places to worship the locusts, so that they can leave the country as soon as possible, so that the people will suffer less......

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"If the emperor is in power, the drought will cause the snail to become a locust......"

Outside the city of the eldest son, Zhao Wuxian finished reading Wei Manduo's letter, crumpled it up and threw it to the ground, and sneered.

After he received the news of the flying pigeon in Taiyuan, he immediately set off for Changzi County, but unfortunately the speed of the locusts was faster than him, and when he came here, he saw that the locusts were flying all over the world, biting and devouring. Where it flies, there is not an inch of grass left, and the sky is clean and clean.

The whole territory of Changzi County was affected, and after Zhao Wuxian came here, the emergency report flew like raindrops, and all the counties reported to him how big the locust swarm in the county was, where it had flown to, and how many of the affected townships were, as if to report where the war had burned......

In addition to being nervous, Zhao Wuxian actually received Wei Manduo's ill-intentioned letter of blame, and immediately laughed angrily.

This is a life-and-death battle between insects and people, and those who do nothing and build some temple of gods and locusts to please insects are simply traitors to mankind! Disgrace!

He complained to others: "The locust eggs all over the ground are not invisible, the mites are changed by fish snails, and some people believe this statement?" ”

Zixia on the side said with a smile: "The people in the capital usually don't go to the countryside and grass, let alone stare at the locusts like those students in the school palace, from male and female, to laying eggs, to hatching into larvae, and finally to the whole process of becoming nymphs, so the believers are seven or eight out of ten." ”

Zhao Wuxian shook his head and said: "Wei Qing is a person who understands, the real purpose of his doing this is to hold high the banner of 'immoral governance, disasters from the sky', and make the people of the whole Jin Kingdom hate me." It not only diverted the contradictions within the territory, but also took revenge on the Zhao family's hoarding of grain...... No, if the people really think that I caused the disaster, then I will have to give food to calm the people's anger, which is really clever. ”

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes: "Since he Wei Manduo is unkind, don't blame me for being unjust!" ”

Zixia couldn't guess what Zhao Wuxian planned to do to the Wei family, but judging from the fact that he didn't report the disaster last year, hoarded grain, and introduced Langya salt into the Central Plains market, Zhao Shangqing had already planned against the Wei family. Wei Manduo is scheming, and he has already realized that using the disaster to put pressure on Zhao Wuxian this time is also a means of temptation.

But what is more important is how to deal with the disaster, because the locust plague is no better than the drought, and there is no precedent for successful control before. However, the Zhao family's territory is vast, and the eldest son is affected by the disaster, and he can also move food from other places to relieve it, but watching the locusts cross the border is not a solution.

"How?" Zhao Wuxian already had a plan in his heart.

Wei knelt in front of the ghosts and gods and prayed, hoping to "rule the demons with virtue", and also suggested that he, the "culprit", should bathe and change clothes, go to the temple of the gods and locusts to fast and apologize, and the locusts would lie on the ground and stay still, and finally stay away.

Of course, this is useless, and Zhao Wuxian decides that he wants to make himself the object of the people's prayer for trust.

He wants to bring them hope and lead them to work together to defeat natural disasters with manpower!

At least, he won't grovel to a swarm of pests!

This is the least pride of being a human being, especially for future generations!

The field where they were was severely damaged, and the locusts obscured the sky, and Zhao Wuxian caught a locust with a casual grab. It was neither big nor small, and its powerful legs kept kicking and struggling.

"The ants are still stealing life, but you want to live, and the people want to live too!"

Zhao Wuxian stared at the locust for three full seconds, and then made an astonishing move in front of everyone.

He violently removed the locust's head, threw it in his mouth and swallowed it.

"Eat the rest of the people's grains, like the rest of the heart, and eat the rest of your flesh and blood to relieve hatred!"

(To be continued.) )