The emperor wants to leave the palace, but it is not a trivial matter, and not everyone can pay a private visit.

Out of the palace to talk about the rules, divided into two categories, the first type is to travel with great fanfare, front and back, the pomp must be large, this is generally the Son of Heaven out of the patrol, in order to win people's hearts, show the mighty of the sky.

The second type is casual travel, but this type is also accompanied by many people to protect, and there are ministers around to follow, so as not to do anything out of the ordinary.

Wu Zhi wants to leave the palace, naturally she has to go to the second type, she just wants to go to the vicinity of Jingshi to see how effective those villages that are experimenting with locust extermination are after using Wu Qiong's locust extermination method.

Before leaving the palace, Wu Zhi also deliberately asked people to go to the official office to say hello.

The Son of Heaven will go out on patrol to inspect the situation of the locust extermination, so that you and others will know.

Then you can't just know it, the Yushitai side was the first to react, and several people wrote a chapter on the spot, wanting to state the stakes of the matter, let the Son of Heaven stay in the palace, and don't run around.

But these excerpts, Wu Zhi didn't even look at them, probably that's what happened, could it be that because of a few excerpts in the Imperial History Tower, the emperor didn't leave the palace? To put it bluntly, this persuasion is just a show.

As long as the emperor leaves the palace for a reason, the courtiers will not really stop him, for fear that the emperor will go out of the palace and make nonsense, go to the Qinglou or something.

Ordinary people go to the Qinglou, that is a vassal elegance, the Son of Heaven goes to the Qinglou, what kind of system does it become!

However, Wu Zhi is the empress, and the problem of going to the Qinglou is directly negligible.

A group of ministers came over in an uproar, mainly the prime ministers of the three provinces, the courtiers who gave the matter, the imperial history and so on.

Counting the guards, there were dozens of people in total, and they went out like this.

The Son of Heaven traveled in a small sedan chair, and the rest of the people followed the side on horseback, and the team went out of the palace from the side gate, and went straight to the suburbs near the capital division.

If you want to exterminate locusts, you naturally go to the fields to exterminate them, so the pilot area for locust extermination arranged by the imperial court is in several villages near Jingshi.

Pilot it for a few days first, and if it is really effective, it will be promoted to the whole country at that time, which is also the general process.

"Your Majesty, the three places that have been arranged before, Shili, Wutai, and Duqu, are all places where there are more locust nymphs found today, if Your Majesty wants to see the effect of killing locusts, it would be good to go to these three places."

Prime Minister Cao Cheng rode a horse, accompanied by the royal driver, and said.

Wu Zhi sat in the sedan chair, nodded, and said:

"Let's go to Duqu."

"No."

The order was passed down, and with the imperial team of the Son of Heaven, they soon headed towards Du Qu.

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At this time, the people of Duqu still didn't know the news that the Son of Heaven was coming.

After all, the Son of Heaven did not notify in advance, and in everyone's opinion, the Son of Heaven just suddenly got up and wanted to come and see.

So it wasn't until the royal drive of the Son of Heaven that someone rushed into the county office, and the county was still dealing with government affairs.

"Really? Your Majesty has arrived at the Duqu Realm?! ”

After getting another affirmative answer, Zhixian ran across the horse and rode away, but it didn't take long before he crashed into Wu Zhi's team head-on.

Seeing the Son of Heaven, the magistrate immediately dismounted and saluted, and then said in fear:

"Your Majesty has driven here, and the people of Duqu still don't know anything, and I ask Your Majesty to agree, and Weichen will go to inform the people everywhere and let the people come out to greet them."

Wu Zhi, who was dressed in civilian clothes, heard this, raised his hand and said:

"I'm just here to see, so you don't have to inform the people, just to see what the effect of my locust extermination method is."

The Son of Heaven said so, and the magistrate had nothing else to say, so he rode a horse and followed behind, while introducing the situation of the locust extermination method.

At this time, there are three pilots, and Duqu is one of them.

After receiving the notice, Du Quzhi County had already arranged personnel to go to the county to supervise the matter as soon as possible.

After all, if you want the common people to turn over the soil, drive ducks to the fields, and fill the low-lying places, if you don't send someone to supervise, which common people are willing to do this kind of thing?

It's tiring enough to work in the field, but now I have to do these useless work, I'm afraid I don't think that ordinary people are perpetual robots.

Although the official yamen said it very well, it was said that it was used to exterminate locusts.

But in the eyes of the common people, this locust is the locust god, where can it be destroyed casually?

Therefore, it is also necessary to send people to supervise, at least under the supervision and command of the court personnel, the common people do not have so many taboos.

If you really offend the locust god, it will also be offended by the court of the Son of Heaven, and we ordinary people just listen to the command, and most of the people think like this in their hearts.

Therefore, when Wu Zhi's team came to the place where the fertile fields in Duqu County were located, they could see many people wearing official uniforms, directing the people to work.

Some of them are holding tools for turning the soil, and they are turning over the dry places.

Wu Zhi saw a group of people, working on a small knoll, and walked over with people.

When those ordinary people saw this huge crowd coming, they were also startled, and there was an official on the side, holding the handle of the knife, and seeing so many people coming, it was actually a little blind.

But when this official saw the county magistrate in the crowd, he was stupid, how could the magistrate be so cautious, humble and respectful?

Look at the side again, one by one, either middle-aged or white-bearded. Although they are all wearing casual clothes, one by one, they all have natural expressions, and they are not surprised, and when they look at the temperament on their bodies, they are in a high position for a long time, which is different.

That feeling is as if the magistrate of Duqu County has become a pawn, and these people are all big leaders.

And among this group of people, the obvious leader is a man dressed white and hairless, although this person is dressed in men's clothes, but he does not look like a man at all.

But the official saw that even if he checked again, he knew that the identity of this white and pure person was definitely not simple, so he hurriedly led a group of people and saluted respectfully to the group of people who came.

Although I don't know who the other party is, I salute first.

Wu Zhi didn't want to make too much noise, and after letting everyone be exempt, he asked an old man with a wrinkled face:

"Old man, what is the effect of the locust extermination method given by the imperial court?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, then pointed to the soil that had been turned over behind him, and said:

"The court said that this locust god likes to lay eggs in the dry soil, and I will open it later, and if it is so, I will see a lot of nymphs of the locust god!"

This nymph is what locust larvae call it for.

The people on the side also nodded:

"yes, yes, it's amazing."

"It turns out that these locust gods all lay eggs in the cracks of the soil."

"I'm not sure it's the eggs of the locust god, right?"

"This is what the Son of Heaven said, naturally it is true."

Everyone was talking to themselves, and Wu Zhi was about to ask again, when he heard a noise behind him.

When I turned around, I happened to see a young man driving a flock of ducks into the field.

Wu Zhi waved at everyone.

"Let's go, go see if this duck eats locusts or not."