Chapter 859: The Locust Plague Spreads
"Your Majesty! If the emperor is willing to go to Suizhou, the concubine is willing to accompany the emperor to Suizhou with the method of exterminating locusts that the concubine knows. We ate locusts together to show the local people, and if we could both eat them, why didn't they eat them? ”
Long Xingche looked at the outside tidying up, and Chang Zhengwen, the head of the household, also trotted over to this side, and said to Fu Wenjing firmly: "I see that you want to go to Suizhou in your heart, so you deliberately dragged me to go!" ”
"The emperor Shengming, the concubines really want to go to Suizhou and contribute to the disaster there, the emperor will take me with you!" Fu Wenjing hugged Long Xingche's legs, and rarely sprinkled a coquettish on Long Xingche!
Long Xingche had actually made a decision in his heart to go to Suizhou. But he deliberately said: "I see that you are used to being wild outside, and you don't want to go back to the palace!" If I agree with you to go to Suizhou, do you have anything to thank me? ”
"If the emperor agrees to the concubine to go to Suizhou, the concubine will listen to you when she comes back!" Fu Wenjing really didn't want to go back to the palace where there was only a boxy sky.
Long Xingche straightened up, then said loudly with his hands behind his back: "Okay! But don't forget the promise you made to me today! Just running for your words, I will go to Suizhou this time! ”
Hubu Shangshu Chang Zhengwen was about to come in and report to Long Xingche about the fact that he could rush to Suizhou immediately, but after hearing that Long Xingche was also going to Suizhou, he was so frightened that he was stunned in place, his face was pale, and sweat came out!
"Hubu Shangshu, do you have something to report?" Long Xingche saw Chang Zhengwen standing there stupidly, so he pulled Fu Wenjing up.
Chang Zhengwen hurriedly raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat on his head: "Your Majesty, Weichen has finished dressing up according to the emperor's instructions, please show the emperor!" ”
"Good! Even so, I and Concubine Jing also went to Suizhou. Let's go on horseback, and you'll come up with food!" Long Xingche said, and pulled Fu Wenjing to walk outside.
"Yes! Wechen obeys! ”
Chang Zhengwen is the new head of the household department, and since he became the head of the household department, he has dealt with some relatively ordinary trivial things. The locust plague in Suizhou was the first tricky thing he experienced. Now that even Long Xingche is going to Suizhou, he can't help but get nervous! I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do my errand, and I was asked for my head by Long Xingche!
Suizhou and the capital are not too far away, if you are not in a hurry, you can arrive in two whole days. But because the locust plague in Suizhou was too serious this time, Long Xingche was worried about the safety of the people in Suizhou. After traveling day and night, he drove for a day, changed three horses, and came to the boundary of Weizhou, which is adjacent to Suizhou.
Long Xingche saw that it was obviously the season when the grass should be green on the ground, but not even a single green grass was gone, and groups of locusts flew around in the sky! Shocked: "It seems that this locust plague is indeed very serious, and it has spread to Weizhou!" ”
Fu Wenjing looked at the locusts like black clouds flying in the sky: "The most terrible thing about the locust plague is that it will eat all the food crops in a place, and then quickly migrate!" The territory of Suizhou is very large, although the grain crops are not rich enough, but because there are many woods on the mountain, there are many wild fruits in the woods on the mountain, so the locusts are trapped in Suizhou for a few more days. Otherwise, it is estimated that all the nearby states and counties will be affected by the locust plague! ”
Long Xingche got off the horse and threw the reins of the horse to the guards next to him: "We won't go to Suizhou, there is no need to go to Suizhou." It is estimated that all the locusts there have come to Weizhou! ”
Fu Wenjing also dismounted, followed behind Long Xingche, and watched Long Xingche's heavy footsteps on the bare ground in Weizhou. She quietly glanced at Long Xingche, and found that his face was tense, his eyebrows were tight, and she knew that he was really sad in her heart, so she persuaded: "Your Majesty, we have found a way to control locusts!" "Housekeeper
"The plague of locusts here is so bad, but I am still in the palace, enjoying myself with peace of mind. I didn't even know that the food from the household department for disaster relief had not been transported to Suizhou. So many people died of hunger, and I am so useless to be the emperor! Long Xingche threw the horsewhip to the ground with hatred because he was angry!
Fu Wenjing knew that Long Xingche had always wanted to be a good emperor, and in fact, he had always been diligent in government and loved the people. But not every member of his gang of officials is loyal and good. There are also some people who forget their righteousness. took advantage of the country's suffering, fished for oil and water, and filled his own pockets.
Fu Wenjing and Long Xingche stood on a high place, and seeing that there was a resolute expression on his face, they knew that Long Xingche had made up his mind to deal with the locust plague matter as soon as possible!
Fu Wenjing put her hands on Long Xingche's arm: "The emperor should not blame himself, it is not too late to make amends, the Chen country is so big, there are so many subjects." Since the emperor knows that the locust plague is so serious now, then we should make an emergency response immediately without further ado! ”
Long Xingche patted Fu Wenjing's hand holding his arm, and then after coming down from the height, he quickly wrote a holy decree and sealed it, and said loudly to Xia Zhiyu who came with him: "You take my tiger talisman and holy decree to the camp in Hengyang, the southern suburb of Weizhou, go to the school captain He Yunhui there, and act according to my will immediately!" ”
"Yes!"
Long Xingche's personal guard, Xia Zhiyu, took Long Xingche's holy decree and tiger talisman, and led people to the Hengyang camp in the southern suburbs of Weizhou according to his orders!
After He Yunhui, the captain of the camp in the southern suburbs, saw Long Xingche's holy decree, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took his men and horses, took some nets and cloth pockets to catch locusts!
They spent half a day and one night catching a lot of locusts, and then brought them to the place where Long Xingche was stationed.
At dawn, Hubu Shangshu Chang Zhengwen just arrived at the boundary of Weizhou, and Long Xingche left some of the relief grain he brought and put it in Weizhou for disaster relief. Then he also left several large barrels of cooking oil for later use.
At the beginning of the day, the locusts began to spoil the crops in the fields of the farmers in Weizhou. Those ordinary people who were distressed about food sat on the ground and wept bitterly! They have worked hard for this year, because this locust plague has all been in vain!
"Bang-bang! Bang - Bang! ”
"Listen, the emperor knows the seriousness of this locust plague, and he cares about everyone's lack of rations, so he put delicious food at the gate of the Weizhou Yamen, please go and get it!"
At this time, the sound of a gong came from the field, which was the voice of the soldiers He Yunhui transferred from the southern suburbs battalion shouting!
The ordinary people who farmed the fields, although they still had some surplus grain at home, but considering the locust plague, they had eaten all this year's grain, so they followed those soldiers to the Weizhou Yamen.
Weizhou Prefecture Yamen
When the ordinary people who heard that they were going to receive "food" came to the gate of the state government, they saw a basket of fried locusts at the gate of the state and county, and they began to whisper for some reason.