Chapter 183: The Minister of the Imperial Mission

When Su Dingfang heard this, he immediately smiled and said:

"The Prime Minister laughed, Dingfang is busy with military affairs every day, and he is already anxious, where is there still spirit at all. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

After a pause, he said:

"Now that there is a locust plague in Hongzhou Mansion, I don't know if there is a suitable candidate for this disaster relief?"

Yin Kaishan immediately frowned when he heard this, and said:

"Hongzhou Mansion is thousands of miles away from here, and the road is difficult and dangerous, and the grain transportation is difficult, and the money and grain that the nearby states and counties have only recently handed over are not rich, and they cannot be transported nearby, which is difficult to do."

After a pause, he said:

"Don't hide it from my brother, just rush this food problem, this errand is going to be messed up, I have found several people in private, and no one wants to go."

When Su Dingfang heard this, he immediately said:

"Prime Minister, Su Moubao will definitely be able to complete this important task, but the Prime Minister still needs to help him in all aspects, otherwise this errand is still not easy to do."

Yin Kaishan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said:

"Who are you protecting? You can rest assured, as long as someone is willing to go, the old man will naturally give his full support. ”

Su Dingfang pointed to the thundercloud when he heard this, and said:

"What I am promoting is Lord Lei Yun, although Lord Lei is young, but he has a skill, he is a handsome among people, and he will definitely be able to complete this important task."

When Yin Kaishan heard this, he immediately glanced at Lei Yun with a strange face, and said:

"Thundercloud, are you really willing to go? If you don't want to, you can just say it now. ”

When Lei Yun heard this, he immediately knew that Yin Kaishan was a good intention, and he was afraid that he would mess up his errand, so he said:

"Your Excellency Prime Minister rest assured, I will definitely go all out and be confident that I can complete the important task."

Su Dingfang also said:

"Prime Minister, my Xuanwu Army will definitely fully support Lei Yun, as long as you help, this matter will definitely succeed."

Yin Kaishan received a lot of silver from Lei Yun, so he naturally had to take special care of Lei Yun, and now seeing that Lei Yun had made up his mind, he said:

"In that case, the old man will definitely do his best to help."

As soon as the words fell, I suddenly heard a long "Shang Dynasty" sound, it turned out that it was the Tang Emperor Li Shimin who was there, and the early dynasty began.

At the beginning of the early dynasty, several imperial histories reported the locust plague in Hongzhou, and Li Shimin immediately frowned when he heard the words and said:

"It's bad, Hongzhou is thousands of miles away, and there is no food in the surrounding states and counties now, we must immediately arrange disaster relief, otherwise it will be bad if it triggers a civil uprising, Hubu Shangshu, how to handle this matter, you can talk about it."

A white-haired official immediately came out and said:

"Long live Qizuo, the disaster in Hongzhou can only be transferred from Chang'an to spare military food relief, there is no grain in the neighboring states and counties, but Chang'an is thousands of miles away from Hongzhou, and the waterway is not passable, although the grain is currently in sufficient reserves, but the transportation is difficult, if the normal transshipment, I am afraid that the food has not arrived, and the people will starve to death."

When Li Shimin heard this, he immediately said:

"Don't be verbose, there's food, right? Okay, Aiqing, who of you would like to go to Hongzhou for disaster relief? ”

As soon as Li Shimin's words came out, the court immediately fell silent, and some people who talked loudly on weekdays did not even dare to look directly at Li Shimin now, for fear that His Majesty the Emperor would misunderstand that he wanted to go to disaster relief.

When Li Shimin saw such a scene, his beard was almost crooked, and he immediately said angrily:

"How can this be reasonable, you all think of yourself as capable ministers on weekdays, and now you don't talk about things, do you want me to go to the disaster relief in person?"

When Yin Kaishan heard this, he immediately looked at Su Dingfang and motioned for him to hurry up, Su Dingfang smiled slightly when he saw this, and immediately went out of class to play:

"Long live Qiyu, the minister Su Dingfang will definitely be able to complete the disaster relief, but...

Li Shimin was immediately overjoyed when he heard this, and said:

"Or can General Su share my worries, say quickly, who do you want to go? What's the difficulty? ”

Su Dingfang said unhurriedly when he heard this:

"This person is Lei Yun, the new head of the festival of Yuetuling."

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this, and said:

"Thunderclouds? Who is it? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

When Lei Yun heard this, he immediately had a black line in his head, and his heart was difficult for Lao Tzu to fight for more than a year, and you didn't even know who Lao Tzu was.

Yin Kaishan on the side immediately said when he heard this:

"Lei Yun is the chief soldier of the Xuanwu Army before, and the old man also thinks that this person is competent."

Li Shimin was surprised when he heard this, so he said:

"Even the Prime Minister knows? Why am I not impressed at all? However, since both adults are promoted at the same time, this person must be competent, where is the thundercloud? ”

Hearing this, Lei Yun immediately responded and stood beside Su Dingfang, Li Shimin looked at it when he saw this, and then nodded and said:

"This... It is worthy of being a military general who has been in battle for a long time, and he seems to be in good health, Lei Yun, I now appoint you as the commander-in-chief of Hongzhou Disaster Relief, and the minister of Qincha, you will immediately escort the military rations to the disaster relief. ”

When Lei Yun heard this, he immediately received the order to thank him, Yin Kaishan and Su Dingfang saw that Li Shimin asked Lei Yun to leave now, so they hurriedly retired together, and went with Lei Yun to arrange to receive food and prepare to leave.

Lei Yun did not have a formal holy decree in his hands at this time, but because Yin Kaishan and Su Dingfang were there, he still quickly got nearly 50 million catties of military rations, all of which were collected into a food box with unlimited capacity.

It was the first time for Yin Kaishan to see that Lei Yun had such a method, so he immediately put his mind at ease and hurriedly went to arrange the matter of obtaining the holy decree, and Su Dingfang also sent a team composed of experienced followers to assist Lei Yun in handling disaster relief matters.

Seeing that the matter was so urgent, Lei Yun simply called Xuanchen and the three of them over, and then asked the followers to wait for the holy decree, and as soon as they got it, they immediately rushed to Hongzhou.

Xuanwuwei's flying horses have not been tested well since they were obtained, and this time they just tried their foot strength, and after a few people got on the horse, they galloped all the way towards Hongzhou.

After sitting on the horse for a while, Lei Yun was relieved, it turned out that although the pegasus was carrying two people, it was still not on all fours, and it was running very easily, but the forage and water were consumed very quickly, but the speed was very fast.

The four of them rode the pegasus all the way without stopping, and after two days and nights of trekking, they finally came to a fork in the road, and there was a boulder standing on the fork road, with three big characters of "Hongzhou boundary" written on it.

For the past two days, everyone has been eating and living on horseback, and they dare not stop for a moment, but now that they see their destination, they stop to rest and prepare to move forward on foot.

After resting for a while, they entered the territory of Hongzhou, and after walking for more than an hour, they came to a village.

At this time, the appearance of this village is already very terrifying, the fields around the village are no longer grass, and the trees are all left with branches, and the leaves have completely disappeared, and the most exaggerated thing is that even the thatched roofs of the houses in the village have been eaten by locusts, but the strange thing is that Lei Yun did not see a locust at all.

As soon as the Lei Yun people walked to the entrance of the village, they saw more than a dozen old people sitting by the wall basking in the sun, all of them looked weak, so they quickly took out a bunch of steamed buns and handed them over.

As soon as the old people saw the steamed buns, their eyes immediately lit up, and they took it and ate it desperately, Lei Yun was afraid that they would choke, and quickly asked Xuanwuwei to take a lot of water from the well next to him.

After the old people finished eating the steamed buns, Lei Yun asked:

"Old man, we were sent by the imperial court to provide disaster relief, where have the rest of the people in the village gone?"

When an extremely thin old peasant heard this, he said:

"Where are there other people, who can escape a long time ago, we old things can't walk, so we have to stay and wait for death."

Hearing this, Lei Yun nodded, and said:

"This locust plague is a bit strange, I haven't seen a single locust."

When the old farmer heard this, he immediately said:

"Who said no, I've lived for decades, and it's the first time I've seen such a powerful locust plague, come and see."

After saying that, the old farmer took the thunder cloud to a field next to the village, and when the thunder cloud saw it, he followed, and the old farmer came to the field, looked around, picked up a hoe, and hoeed it down, and then turned it over vigorously, and immediately turned over a piece of soil.

A large mass of locusts was immediately turned out, and as soon as it touched the air, it immediately scattered in all directions, and then as if a gap had been opened, more locusts flew out again, and soon disappeared.

When the old peasant had finished ploughing the ground, he said to the thunderclouds:

"See, the ground is full of locusts, and there is no way to grow crops at all, where is this locust plague, it is clear that people will not live."

Lei Yun was also taken aback when he saw this, and hurriedly asked:

"Is this the case in the entire Hongzhou Mansion?"

When the old farmer heard this, he said:

"I've heard that it's similar everywhere else, but the specifics are not clear."

Lei Yun thought about it when he heard this, and then said to Meng Yuan, who turned around:

"Use the frozen ones, freeze all these guys to death, and see if it works."

Meng Yuan nodded when he heard this, and immediately said something in his mouth, and then stretched out his hand and pointed to the sky, the sky suddenly darkened, and then soon there were dark clouds, and after a while, it actually snowed heavily, and the cold northwest wind also blew.

When the old farmer saw that Meng Yuan had such a skill, he immediately bowed his head and said in a continuous voice:

"It turned out to be the manifestation of the Dragon King, long live the Dragon King."

Seeing this, Lei Yun hurriedly asked Xuan Chen to help the old farmer, and then took the other old people to find a big house and live in it, at this time the people in the village had run out, and the houses were there, which was just convenient for Lei Yun and everyone to take care of these old people.

After Meng Yuan's escalation, the area had expanded to a radius of 5,000 meters, which just happened to completely cover the small village, so it was not long before the fields and houses were completely covered by thick snow.