For Sima Shu, vigorously promoting charity on the occasion of the locust plague is both an economic and a political need.

Fundraising can reduce the economic losses of the imperial court in fighting disasters, and the so-called political needs mainly refer to the fact that Sima Shu can raise funds to unite people's hearts by fighting against locust plagues.

The common people of the world respect Sima Shu, which is the benefit of the Juntian system introduced by the greedy court; The wealthy family of the family is mainly based on Sima Shu, and they are afraid of Sima Shu's military might. Whether it is a low-level common man or a wealthy family, I am afraid that in the past few years, they may not be able to completely convince them.

Once there is a crisis in Sima Shu in the future, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will think again, or abandon Sima Shu and go away, or raise the flag and rebel, such things have happened too much in history.

Since ancient times, if you want to succeed, you must do something to win the hearts of the people, such as the three chapters of the law when the ancestor entered Xianyang in the past.

Today's locust plague in Qingzhou happened to give Sima Shu the perfect opportunity to continue to win people's hearts.

Moreover, locust plagues are the common enemy of mankind. If Sima Shu, as the emperor, can personally advocate this matter, it will help him quickly accumulate prestige, win the hearts of the people, and truly stabilize the foundation of his rule.

After meeting with the Heavenly Master, Sima Shu officially promulgated the "Locust Eradication Order" to the people of the world, which has four contents:

First, during the locust plague, it is forbidden to hunt frogs or shoot birds. Dare to catch a frog and whip ten; Dare to shoot a bird, ten rods.

Second, urgently recruit all chickens and ducks in Chaohu. And to concentrate money, from the Lujiang River, Jiangnan, a large number of chickens and ducks. Grazing in the fields.

Third, all new land that has not been cultivated is planted with beans; If the land that has been planted can be replanted with beans, all the fields will be destroyed and beans will be planted instead.

Fourth, Li and Jia gathered Baoding, cultivated beans, and organized personnel to hunt locusts.

Frogs, birds, chickens and ducks. They are all natural enemies of locusts. Later generations proved that they were very effective in eliminating locusts. Locusts eat wheat and rice, do not eat soybean beans, and plant soybean beans. There is no risk of locust plague.

When the "Locust Eradication Order" was transmitted to Qingzhou. Swarms of terror locusts are ravaging some counties in Qingzhou.

When the swarm of locusts comes. Flying all over the sky, like dark clouds covering the sun, turning a sunny day into a cloudy day. That's 100 million locusts. Or tens of billions of locusts? The locust swarm covered the sky and spread to several counties, and ordinary people couldn't help but have a little dry lips when they saw this, and they were full of despair about the locust plague.

There are too many locusts, too many!

It doesn't matter if you kill 10,000 or 1 million, it won't help at all.

Seeing the swarm of locusts pressed by the wall that covered the sky, countless displaced people fell into despair and lost the heart to fight: "How can such a terrifying swarm of locusts be killed?" Forget it, let's continue to flee! ”

Fortunately, Sima Shu came from later generations, and after receiving the emergency report from Qingzhou, he quickly took effective measures.

Jianqiang, the assassin of Qingzhou, endured the despair in his heart, led 5,000 government soldiers and militiamen, and personally went to the battle array, guiding all counties and counties, burying locusts, burning locusts, and preventing locust plagues from recurring next year. Even if we are unable to resist the locust plague this year, we must ensure that we do not repeat the locust plague next year.

In order to encourage the people of Qingzhou to resist disasters, Shan Jian held the imperial court decree and shouted: "Your Majesty has a decree to send Heavenly Master Zheng Yin to help us exterminate locusts, and will arrive in Qingzhou in the near future with a huge amount of money!" ”

In order to solve the locust plague as soon as possible, Zheng Yintianshi and his entourage all rode horses and cars overnight, and thanks to the imperial court's vigorous repair of roads around the country over the years, the master was spared the pain of the journey, but even this made Zheng Yin suffer a lot, but when the heavenly master saw the tragic situation of the people in the disaster area, he couldn't care about the pain of the boat and horse, so that his subordinates continued to speed up the march.

The closer they got to the boundary of the disaster area, the place they saw was full of desolation, and the victims had been under the leadership of local officials, gradually implementing the law issued by the imperial court to control the locust plague, watching them release all the chickens and ducks they had at home to feed on the locusts, Zheng Yin and his party all nodded, as long as everyone took action, the locust plague would soon be controlled until it perished.

When he arrived at the destination, Heavenly Master Zheng Yin negotiated with the local officials in Qingzhou, where to dig a canal to divert water, and plant more trees there, all of which were carried out in an orderly manner, and all the Lingbao Sect disciples who came with him joined the ranks of drug extermination.

In order to guide everyone to eat locusts, Heavenly Master Zheng Yin personally instructed people how to eat these locusts, and at first everyone was afraid and did not dare to eat them. But when everyone saw that Heavenly Master Zheng Yin cooked and steamed the processed locusts, put some condiments, and then ate them one bite at a time, they began to eat them.

In this way, everyone said that what the Heavenly Master said was true, and before the disaster relief money and food were delivered, these things could temporarily solve the problem of food and clothing for the victims.

After the mood of the victims stabilized, the Heavenly Master Zheng Yin began to explain to everyone that the imperial court had not forgotten everyone, and was urgently transferring food here, only to see the Heavenly Master say to the people around him: "We have an emperor who loves the people like a son, he saw the people suffering, and has asked the cabinet to allocate enough money and food, and it will be there in a few days, everyone must believe in the imperial court, believe in our emperor, after all of us work together, after the water and soil are improved, we can plant some crops, and the weather is slowly getting colder, and the locusts will definitely be eliminated by our joint efforts." ”

"Everyone must listen to the will sent by the emperor, with the officials from all over the country to build water conservancy, so that there is no drought and flood, and to achieve a large area of barren land planting, so as to change the growth environment of locusts, so that the climate here will change, which is not conducive to the regeneration and reproduction of locusts, everyone must not cut down trees indiscriminately......" Zheng Yin gushed to the surrounding people to teach the knowledge of locust prevention and control.

After hearing this, the victims knelt down in the direction of the capital and said loudly: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Zheng Yin thought to himself, how about the emperor see the people's hearts that I have brought to you! After watching the people get up, they all followed the officials and got busy, and the people brought by Zheng Yin also went to help.

With the help of Zheng Yin and Lingbaojiao, the locust plague was managed very smoothly, and a large area was basically controlled, and the money and grain sent by the imperial court were then sent by the imperial court five days after the arrival of Zheng Yin and his party, and they personally supervised the officials to distribute the relief materials of the imperial court to the people, and the people thanked the imperial court and the emperor.

A month later, Sima Shu received a piece of music from Qingzhou Thorn History, and laughed happily, "Good, good, good!" "Said three good things in a row," Heavenly Master Zheng Yin really lived up to my trust, and the locust plague in Qingzhou was finally controlled, hehe, this time the Lingbao Sect has contributed a lot, and the imperial court can't help but express it, but the other party is a person outside the party, and it is not suitable to be contaminated with the world. If it weren't for the people of Qingzhou this time, the Heavenly Master would not have gone out of the mountain in person. In this way, spread my will, appreciate the incense and fire money of the Lingbao Sect, and crown the Heavenly Master and the disciple Ge Hong Daochang as a real person! ”

More than a month after Zheng Yin arrived in the stricken area of Qingzhou, through the efforts of both the government and the people, the lives of the people in the affected areas have basically returned to stability, and the control of the locust plague is almost complete.

The locust plague in Qingzhou was quickly suppressed with the concerted efforts of the entire imperial court, and the losses were minimized. While the court was calming the 'wounded' hearts, a sudden battle broke the peace of the court.

"Your Majesty, Huainan Urgent!" At night, Sima Shu was untying in the Green Bead Palace, and was suddenly awakened by a rapid shout, he opened his eyes that seemed to be sleeping, and asked with some dissatisfaction: "What's the matter?" Can't talk about it tomorrow? After saying that, he moved his body, reached out to hug the beauty in his arms, and then found a comfortable position to re-enter the dream.

It's a pity that reality shattered his dream, and Concubine Shuzhu gently persuaded him in his ear, "Your Majesty should get up and take a look, if there is no emergency, how dare Xiao Dengzi disturb His Majesty's rest?" ”

"Well, well, I really didn't even get a good night's sleep." Sima Shu endured his sleepiness under the persuasion of Lu Zhu and got up, and then under Lu Zhu's service, he quickly dressed up, and after a while, he saw Xiao Deng Zi walking in with low eyebrows.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?"

"Your Majesty, I don't know what happened to the slave maid, but the first assistant of the cabinet, Lord Zhang, and the Privy Council, General Zu Ti, jointly asked to see you, saying that the situation in Huainan has changed, and they are waiting for Your Majesty to make an idea?" Xiao Dengzi didn't dare to hide it when he saw His Majesty's anger, and told Sima Shu the ins and outs of the matter one by one.

When Sima Shu heard that there was something wrong with Huainan, he was in a hurry and hurriedly rushed to the Jiade Palace. But when he entered the house, he found that Zhang Bin and Zu Ti did not show a trace of worry, but a look of joy, seeing Sima Shu like this, he was also relieved, it seems that something good happened, otherwise his right-hand man would not be so calm and happy.

"See Your Majesty!" Seeing the emperor come in, the two people who were chatting and farting hurriedly bowed to Sima Shu and saluted him seriously.

"Two Aiqing, please sit down, Xiao Dengzi went to ask the cooks in the palace to prepare some supper and bring it, the two Aiqing are also on duty in the middle of the night, I'm afraid I'm hungry at this time, just accompany me to eat something." Sima Shu sat on the top and instructed the little Deng Zi next to him.

"No, the slave will arrange it."

After Xiao Dengzi left, Sima Shu asked with a straight face: "Let's talk about the two Aiqing, what happened in Huainan that is worth making such a big move?" Sima Shu is justified in saying this, it can be said that the entire empire is centered on the three of them, and as the general situation has become more stable and favorable over the years, it is rare for the three of them to gather together at the same time to discuss.

"Your Majesty, this is the battle report just sent by Lord Liu Kun, the Governor of Huainan, please take a look at it."

"Battle report? Liu Kun and Jiangdong exchanged fire? ”

Sima Shu was very surprised, the imperial court has always pursued the strategy of first north and then south, after the capture of Huainan, the imperial court has been actively defensive against Jiangdong, as long as Jiangdong does not touch the bottom line of the imperial court, the Huainan Xiang army will generally not take the initiative to attack, so when Sima Shu realized that he was in his hands is from Huainan 'war report', he will be very surprised.

"Yes, just five days ago, on the Huainan front, due to the fierce conflict between the Chaohu Water Division and the Jiangdong Water Division, the two sides of the conflict invested more than 230 large and small ships, and after the war, our army eliminated more than 3,000 rebels and took the entire Chaohu line, completely consolidated the security of Hefei towns, and drove the Jiangdong forces out of the Chaohu Lake." (To be continued......)