"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. ”

Li Tao is familiar with Li Longji, and knows that he often takes Emperor Taizong as his role model, so he said this in a targeted manner, which will definitely touch Li Longji.

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

Li Tao continued: "The flying locusts have a very strong reproductive ability and move fast, if they are not hunted and killed as soon as possible, and they spread around, then it will not be a disaster in Bianzhou, and when the situation is uncontrollable, starvation will inevitably provoke a civil uprising, will you still be able to sit still, third uncle?" ”

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, Li Tao knows that his words will definitely make Li Longji make a choice.

Without waiting for Li Longji to speak, Li Tao hit the railway while it was hot: "Don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people." Choose Yao Chong as the phase. It was the third uncle who thought it through, and in fact, this choice was not wrong, and the results of Yao Chong's governance were gradually emerging. Nowadays, there are few people in the court who support Yao Chong's extermination of locusts. If you don't say anything, Uncle San, then Yao Chong will be unsustainable. Similarly, if you don't express your attitude, Third Uncle, those courtiers will have even more reason to unscrupulously oppose Yao Chong's extermination of locusts. ”

Li Longji corrected his mistake and nodded: "Tao'er, you are right, I am a little indecisive. I immediately issued an edict to fully support Yao Chong's efforts to exterminate the locusts. ”

Li Tao said with a smile: "Third uncle, it's not enough to just give an edict. I have to come to something practical to help Yao Chong reduce the resistance! ”

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

"Third uncle, listen to me......"

……

March 16 is not the day of the last dynasty in Japan. But all the officials above the sixth rank in Beijing have been notified: His Majesty will give a banquet to the ministers in the Hanyuan Palace.

Hanyuan Hall is the first palace of Daming Palace. It is usually a place where important ceremonies are 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 chuckle in their hearts: not only Li Longji was waiting there early, but Li Tao, the king of Lantian who had not appeared for a long time, also appeared in front of everyone.

According to past experience, there is a place where Li Tao appears. He's always going to make some moves, and the movement is not small. Come to think of it. Everyone turned their attention to Li Tao.

Yao Chong looked at Li Tao without exception, as soon as his gaze made contact with Li Tao, Li Tao 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 Li Tao, the king of Lantian, and all the Aiqing can listen to the arrangement of the king of Lantian!"

Li Longji said such a sentence and stopped talking.

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

Under Li Tao'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 Li Tao to use the special identities of these two people to create momentum for the extermination of locusts.

Sure enough, when the two finished speaking, Li Tao 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? ”

Li Tao 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: "King Lantian 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: that is to exterminate the locusts with all their might.

Li Tao saw that the opinions of the ministers had been unified, and he said: "Recently, I have gathered 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. ”

When the ministers heard this, there was an uproar.

Li Tao said with a smile: "I know that everyone doesn't believe it, so today I specially prepared a table of good dishes for the people present, everyone can try it." ”

Speaking of this, Li Tao shouted outside the hall gate: "Come in!" ”

The door of the main hall opened, and many attendants rushed in.

"The first dish, flying locust shrimp steak, is made of 20 locusts and 12 fresh tail shrimps, and the dishes are characterized by beautiful color, crispy and palatable."

"The second dish is drunk locusts, the raw material is a pound of live locusts, the basic characteristics are fragrant and fishy, and the taste is delicious."

"The third dish is spicy locusts, the raw locusts are one pound and two taels, winter bamboo shoots, celery, green onions, the basic characteristics are fresh and fragrant and slightly spicy, and the locust meat is soft and delicious."

"Fourth course locust Tengda ......"

"Fifth course fried locust ......"

"The sixth course braised locust ......"

"Seventh course fried chicken ......"

"Eighth course of golden sands and flying geese ......"

…… (To be continued......)