Yao Chong thought about the resistance he had encountered in the past few days, and shook his head with a wry smile.

"Besides, I'm going to tell you in advance, will you still do Li Linfu's matter for me?"

"You're so cunning!" Yao Chong said angrily: "Li Linfu has already gone to Guozijian to take up his post, now you should help me solve the problem, right?" ”

Zhang Baoer smiled: "I'm already doing this, you can go back with peace of mind and wait for my good news." ”

After sending Yao Chong away, Zhang Baoer went straight into the palace to see Li Longji.

"Bao'er, you're here just in time, I have something to discuss with you!" Li Longji, who had a sad face, saw Zhang Bao'er, and his eyes lit up.

"Your Majesty, the minister knows what His Majesty wants to discuss, Your Majesty had better let the minister say a few words first, how about it?"

"Okay, let's talk first!" Li Longji readily agreed.

"In the second year of Zhenguan, Taizong went to the North Imperial Garden of Xuanwu Gate, saw locusts on the flowers and grass, caught a few, and said to his subordinates, the people rely on crops to feed their lives, and if you eat the crops, I will eat you. After saying that, he raised his hand to eat locusts, and the officials on the left and right were shocked and dissuaded Taizong, eating raw locusts is poisonous and makes people sick. Tang Taizong said, I am not afraid of getting sick if I suffer for the people. As he spoke, he ate the locusts. Taizong ruled the world with the royal way, the court should treat the people well, the court policy should take the people as the core, consider the interests of the people, and put forward the wise saying that 'the king is the boat, the people are the water, the water can carry the boat, and the boat can also be overturned. Taizong knew that the people's hearts were related to the safety of the country's society, and took the people-oriented as the general strategy of governing the country, so he often thought about the people in his heart, thus creating the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty. ”

There is no doubt that these words were discussed by Zhang Baoer and Wei Xianyun in advance. Zhang Baoer knew that Li Longji often took Emperor Taizong as his role model, so he said this, which would definitely touch Li Longji.

Sure enough, Li Longji couldn't help but bow his head and ponder after hearing this.

Zhang Bao'er continued: "The locusts have a very strong reproductive ability and move fast, if they are not hunted and killed as soon as possible and spread around, then it will not be a disaster in Bianzhou, and when the situation is uncontrollable, starvation will inevitably provoke a civil uprising, and your majesty will be able to sit still at that time?" ”

Li Longji is a pragmatic person, the reason why he hesitates is because of his false name, if he compares his false name with the throne, he will definitely choose the latter, Zhang Baoer knows that his words will definitely make Li Longji make a choice.

Without waiting for Li Longji to speak, Zhang Baoer hit the railway while it was hot: "There is no doubt about employing people, but there is no need for suspicious people." The choice of Yao Chong as the prime minister, His Majesty was well thought out, in fact, this choice was not wrong, and the results of Yao Chong's governance were gradually emerging. Now there are few people in the court who support Yao Chong's extermination of locusts, and if His Majesty does not express his position, then Yao Chong will be difficult to continue. In the same way, if His Majesty did not express his attitude, those courtiers would have even more reason to oppose Yao Chong's extermination of locusts with impunity. ”

Li Longji corrected his mistake when he knew it, and said: "Bao'er, you are right, I am a little indecisive, and I will immediately issue an edict to fully support Yao Chong to exterminate the locusts with all his might." ”

Zhang Bao'er said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's not enough to just give an edict, you have to come to the actual one to help Yao Chong reduce resistance!" ”

Li Longji said blankly: "Then what should I do?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is ready to ...... like this"

……

On March 16, this is not the day of the previous dynasty, but all officials above the sixth rank in Beijing have been notified that His Majesty will entertain the ministers in the Hanyuan Palace.

Hanyuan Hall is the first palace of Daming Palace, and it is generally a place for important ceremonies to be held. Today, Li Longji wants to feast his ministers here, which is really strange.

Many ministers didn't know what to do, and they searched around for news, but the news they got made them dumbfounded: even the first assistant Yao Chong didn't know why His Majesty was feasting the ministers.

When the ministers came to Hanyuan Palace, they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: not only Li Longji was waiting there early, but Zhang Bao'er, the Duke of Dingguo, who had not appeared for a long time, also appeared in front of everyone.

According to past experience, where Zhang Baoer appears, he will always toss some movements, and the movements will not be small. Thinking of this, everyone turned their attention to Zhang Baoer.

Yao Chong looked at Zhang Bao'er without exception, and Zhang Bao'er gave him a look, meaning to let him calm down for a while. Although he had a stomach full of doubts, Yao Chong could only wait and see what changed.

After everyone sat down in front of their respective desks, Li Longji spoke.

"All Aiqing, today's banquet is presided over by Dingguo Gong, all Aiqing just listen to Dingguogong's arrangement!"

Li Longji said such a sentence and stopped talking.

Under the gaze of everyone, Zhang Baoer said happily: "Before eating, I will invite two masters to discuss the Tao for everyone, which can be regarded as appetizing!" ”

Under Zhang Bao'er's arrangement, the senior monk Purun and the leader of Shilin Lu Xiangxian made impassioned speeches respectively. Of course, there is only one main thrust of their speeches: exterminating locusts will do no good, and stopping them will be unpopular.

It was only at this time that Yao Chong somewhat understood, daring Zhang Bao'er to use the special identities of these two people to create momentum for the extermination of locusts.

Sure enough, when the two finished speaking, Zhang Baoer walked straight to Lu Huaishen's case and questioned: "Elder Lu Ge, Master Purun and Mr. Lu have already made it very clear just now, locusts are living beings, aren't people living beings?" If you can't bear to watch the locusts die, can you just bear to watch people starve to death? If you are afraid that killing locusts will cause disaster, then let Yao Ge Lao do the work of exterminating locusts alone, so that it will not affect you, how about it? ”

Zhang Bao'er is using the method of agitation, as soon as he says this, Lu Huaishen is not good to oppose it again, if he opposes it again, won't he be full of selfish thoughts and dare not take responsibility! Although Lu Huaishen's ability is poor, he has always been very strict in moral self-discipline, and he does not want to be underestimated.

Lu Huaishen got up and said generously: "Dingguo is serious, Lu Mou's opposition to the extermination of locusts is not because he is afraid of attracting disasters, since the extermination of locusts is beneficial to the court and the people, then he will go all out to assist Yao Ge Lao to do this well, please rest assured." ”

Li Longji put on such a posture, even a fool can understand that His Majesty is in favor of exterminating locusts in his heart. In addition, Lu Huaishen also changed his mind, and the remaining ministers still have any objections.

In a moment, there was only one voice left in the court that was still arguing yesterday: exterminate the locusts with all your might.

Zhang Baoer saw that the opinions of the ministers had been unified, and he said: "Recently, I have convened a lot of famous doctors, consulted ancient books, and today I learned that locusts are not only a delicacy, but also have high medicinal value, is a good medicine, it can be used alone or in combination to treat a variety of diseases, such as the treatment of children's convulsions, whooping cough, shortness of breath, internal wind, antispasms, etc., and also has the effect of nourishing and strengthening. ”