Emperor Gao Dedi thought about it again, and finally could only compromise, if he acted willfully, he waved his hand and said that he did not agree. The ministers are expected to have opinions, and then complain at him. Emperor Gao Dedi hated those ministers the most, and from time to time he wrote to him satirically.

Qi Qingchu didn't know that Li Jicai was Jiang Xihu's subordinate who was placed in the Kua Chair, and simply thought that Jiang Xihu just placed Li Jicai there and wanted to hide it from him, but he didn't expect to be known by the well-informed Xi Zien.

And it just so happened that Xi Zien told him.

Coincidentally, the book is not written, and Jiang Xihu did not explain that the success of being able to suppress the bandits has a great relationship with Li Jicai.

Even in the court, Li Jicai was not mentioned.

For Jiang Xihu, Li Jicai's desire to be an official is a fool's dream, and it is impossible to achieve it at all. Even if she is a little smart, but it is not enough to be like a man, she can only be used by him and hang her with a thought.

Jiang Xihu originally looked down on her because of the relationship between Li Jicai and Qi Qingchu, but after the success of the bandits, he felt that Li Jicai was more useful.

As far as the current situation is concerned, although he could not go to the place where the locust plague occurred for the time being, in a few days he pretended to report to the court that the locust plague had been reported by his subordinates, saying that the situation was very serious and that he had to rush over to deal with it himself, and that his father would have no reason to stop him at that time.

He saw that the ministers in the court were quite supportive of him, especially An Ge Lao.

To be honest, this An Ge was always the most neutral person in the old school, and this was the first time he had spoken for him, Jiang Xihu couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

However, all this is just the beginning, Jiang Xihu believes that more ministers will be on his side in the future, instead of standing by his brother who is nostalgic for the gentle country.

It's getting hotter and hotter this day.

The summer cicadas began to shout hoarsely among the trees and grasses, not stopping, shouting, making people feel even more upset in the scorching summer.

The hot weather is about to tan people's skin and flesh, and the vendors who walk the streets and alleys shout weakly about what they sell, and their voices echo in the streets and alleys for a long time, selling nothing more than mung bean soup, sour plum soup and other thirst-quenching things, occasionally resting for a while under the shade of the eaves of the mansion, until they are driven away, they will lazily get up and carry the burden and leave.

The heat was rolling and the air was burning, and there was really no way to get over this day.

This is still the case in the capital, but it is even more tragic in Liangzhou.

A large area of Liangzhou is barren for thousands of miles, the land is dry and cracked, and there are no grain crops or even a single inch of grass.

The great rivers and lakes have dried up, and the fish carcasses and the sediment have mixed together, which shows how serious the drought is.

The people only moved to the interior of the country, and the grain distributed by the government was simply not enough to eat, and the situation was even more difficult because of the deductions on it.

So much so that there was a scene of 10,000 people begging, and every family from old to young, everyone had a broken bowl in their hands.

When moving south to areas with abundant rain, whenever you see someone eating on the road, a honeycomb of people rushes up to grab it.

All the bark of the trees along the way was stripped away, and not a single grass was spared, whether it was poisonous or not.

Hunger has made people lose their minds, and it is not surprising that they have become beasts.

In addition to those bark, those weeds that are a source of food, there are also large and small animals, as well as human corpses.

Whoever starves to death on the road, the body will be taken away before it can be buried.

If you are lucky, you can still hold the white bones and put them into the ground. Bad luck accidents are gone.

Even in such a situation, there are still people who uphold filial piety and slaughter their children with their own hands and feed them to their old fathers and mothers.

Some people can't bear to let their children fall into other people's mouths and become food for others, so they bury them alive in a hidden place.

Some are afraid of this beast-like team, and the whole family has joined hands to die.

The tragedy of the situation is so tragic that it is eye-popping, and all of them are jaw-dropping.

Originally, the harvest here has not been very good, relying on those grain crops can barely survive, once the drought occurs, there are not many seedlings, and now the locust plague is also coming, and there is no harvest.

The grain allocated by the government was supposed to wait for the drought to pass for a while, but the spring has passed, and the summer has passed, and the shortage of this food has gradually begun.

Local officials concealed the situation and did not report it, and it did not matter if people in their jurisdiction fled in all directions.

When Lee arrived at these places, he realized how bad the situation was.

The source of the locust plague could no longer be found, so they had to follow the place where the locusts migrated, and then follow them.

The entire land near Liangzhou is full of locusts, how to deal with it? How do you start governing?

When these officials received orders from above, they felt that they had no idea what to do, and they even lazily did not want to go.

But I heard that the manpower arranged by His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince is here, if he doesn't go, he will definitely be reported, and if he reports, he won't be able to keep his black yarn hat.

So there was no way, they had to reluctantly go.

Now the place where the locusts have reached Huze.

It is between Li Zhou and Kuayi, and the direction of the locusts is not yet determined, and it is estimated that they will attack wherever there is food.

Led by Cheng Cheng, the county officials in these four places formed a total of seven people, and after discussing it, everyone met in Hu Ze.

The refugees who fled have left it alone, they are running south, and they are expected to help absorb these refugees when they receive news from various places in the south.

What is still stranded here is the opening of the granary for a fixed amount of daily replenishment, which is concentrated in Huze.

As for the reason why it was not distributed everywhere in the first place, it was because it was easy to cause unrest.

Too little food and too many people.

A granary can only last a few days when it is opened, and there are too many refugees, because the grain output here is not abundant, so they have not hoarded much in the past few years, but have lost a lot.

Although the boss has been saying that he wants to allocate grain, this news has not come down for several years.

All the grain that could be distributed locally was distributed, and the respective officials escorted a lot of grain to Huze, which was convenient for overall arrangement.

Everyone is waiting to see how the people under the Four Princes will deal with this huge locust plague, after all, a big locust plague like this is rare once in ten years, and if it happens, it will be a heavy loss every time.

Moreover, the people were passive resistance to the locust plague, and did not catch the locusts, but basically fled from their homes, because they felt that these locusts were a punishment from heaven, a punishment for the place where they were.

Even many officials think so, although the whole national situation is said to be necessary to deal with the locust plague, but there are very few people who really control the locust plague, so there are even fewer ways to deal with the locust plague.

Often, before the locusts have had time to put into practice, the locusts have eaten up one area and moved to the next.

The worst thing is that the locusts eat and breed more locusts at the same time.

All the people who have witnessed the scene of the locust plague have patted their chests to suppress the disgusting feeling of their own churning from the chest, and the black pressure is densely pounced on people's faces, and the sound of flapping wings is like a sonata of death, which makes people tremble, if they are surrounded by locusts, they feel that their eyes, ears, mouth, nose and even body are crawling with locusts, and they can't even breathe.

But there is no savior at this moment, which is the most desperate.

Since the beginning of the control of locusts, there has not been a locust exterminator who has been praised and talked about.

There is no hope of curing locusts.

When Li Jicai saw that in the lobby of Hu Ze's official mansion, there were a few people sitting lazily and lazily wearing official uniforms, he subconsciously frowned, a little dissatisfied.

Looking at the impatient faces of these people, all of them lazy, and full of indifference, she thought of the fat and round chair of the county lord who colluded with the mountain bandits.

Of course, Wang Fatzi has already landed on the ground at this moment.

These people are no different from Wang Fatzi, in terms of their performance today.

If these people are all corpse vegetarian people, then Li Jicai will definitely not be polite when he uses them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the little woman will introduce herself first, the person sent by the Fourth Highness to be stationed here is the little woman, if you have any doubts, you can bring them up earlier, if not, you will do your best to help me in the next locust extermination."

Li Jicai took Jasper and Biluo, and since the day he knew about the outbreak of the locust plague, he had been visiting everywhere, and after receiving the news, he finally chose to come to Hu Ze to take charge of major affairs.

In Li Jicai's view, dealing with these officials is like coordinating a few subordinates who should be responsible for what kind of part of their own stores, each performing its own duties can assign tasks in place, and then arrange Cheng Cheng to be responsible for supervision, and naturally it will be implemented in place.

"What! Ridiculous! What do you know as a woman! I'm afraid that His Royal Highness is not dizzy, right? Li Zhou's county master was the first to shout, jumped up directly from his seat and said.

It wasn't until Cheng Cheng's cold gaze was cast that he shrank slightly, he was indeed impulsive just now, is the Fourth Highness also a person like him who can easily comment?

"No, my lord, aren't you joking with your subordinates? Such a woman, to deal with the locust plague? But really? ”

Cheng Cheng heard Li Zhou's county master say this, his face was expressionless, and he didn't say anything.

He understands people's hearts very well, and if he shows that he is also very confused and suspicious at this moment, then all the county lords and everyone present will not obey Li Jicai's arrangement.

At first, he didn't understand why His Royal Highness would let such a woman handle such an important matter, but later he saw that Li Jicai was indeed a little unusual, so he temporarily made a wait-and-see meaning.

Later, Li Jicai's return made him even more puzzled, and after the locust plague, he knew that this woman was afraid that she had noticed something, so she stayed.

This woman is not simple.