From the sky, Chang'an City, which follows the principle of "law, heaven and earth", is all square, the emperor is respected, hundreds of officials are served, and countless fang markets are divided by straight and vertical streets, like a rhombic castle.

The city covers an area of 80 square kilometers, which is 2.4 times that of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, 1.4 times that of Kyoto in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 5 times the size of the ancient Roman city, and 8 times that of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire in the extreme west, and has a population of nearly one million.

And at this moment, the most prosperous and prosperous capital in human history has fallen into a terrible dead silence.

The sunlight was obscured by the crowded swarms of insects, and the swarms of locusts descended like thick clouds, crouching on all the grass and trees as far as the eye could see, devouring and devouring, and the sound of chewing was all over the ears.

In the imperial garden in the north of the city, the monarch and the ministers inspected the disaster.

"The people take the grain as their life, and you eat it, and you would rather eat my lungs and intestines. ”

Li Dong, who was wearing a brocade robe, grabbed a handful of locusts with tears and cursed, stuffed it to his mouth and prepared to swallow it.

The courtiers on the side hurriedly knelt on the ground and persuaded him: "Evil things may become diseases." ”

"I am suffering from disasters for the people, and there is no way to avoid diseases. ”

In an instant, the juice splashed, and the brown locusts were bitten in two by his front teeth, and the barbed feet trembled wildly, sticking to Li Dong's lips.

The fishy smell in his mouth made his complexion change several times, but Li Dong was also a ruler who wanted to compete with the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, so he stubbornly stuffed the writhing half of the locust head into his mouth and swallowed it with a gulp.

"Your Majesty is mighty. ”

Wei Chigong at the back of the team smiled slightly, and with his big palm, he scooped up seven or eight locusts from the ground and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing them with a mouth full of white teeth, and looked at the other ministers with threatening eyes.

Damn, you just slap yourself on the back, what are you doing with us?

The ministers had already greeted the female creatures of the previous three generations of Wei Chi Jingdezu in their hearts, but they did not hesitate at all, and each grabbed a few locusts and put them in their mouths.

Fang Mou Du Duan, Changsun Wuji and others are also heroes who survived the melee at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and they can not vomit after eating a locust, but those pure and weak scholars behind them will not be able to, the locust is placed on his lips but he has put it down several times, and his face is ugly compared to hearing that the house is on fire and his wife is unfaithful.

Li Dong's cold gaze swept over, and the rows of civil officials immediately received the order, and viciously swallowed the locusts into their stomachs, and they also praised His Majesty's benevolence and love for the people.

There is no way, the feudal agricultural country has almost no resistance to the locust plague, and the most that can be done is to open a warehouse and release grain, and how much can be saved.

"Hebei Henan Province, Guanzhong and even Lingnan have all received news of locust plagues," Fang Xuanling said quietly: "Shuzhong doumi has risen to a silk cloth......

Du Ruhui opened his half-squinted eyes and said lightly: "Your Majesty still needs to sacrifice to the sky to stabilize the hearts of the people." ”

After all, according to the theory of heaven and man induction, what terrible natural disasters appear on the ground, they are all caused by the unethical and immoral nature of the Son of Heaven, Li Dong killed his brother and slaughtered his brother for fun, and ascended to the throne by the bloody Xuanwu Gate change.

Everyone's hearts are heavy, even these vested interests at the top of the pyramid, sometimes in the dead of night silently wonder if this locust plague is really related to the coup d'état.

Li Shuangyu, who was at the back of the line, gritted his teeth, could it be that this disaster could not be achieved, did he really have to rely on the emperor's edict to resist it?

Originally, according to his extremely low official rank, he was not qualified to appear here. It's just that because the True Qi Engine Engine, which is a confidential matter, is a big trouble, and he is a little younger, Li Shuangyu, who can piece together the engine, also makes an exception and can enter and leave the palace at will.

The color of struggle on his face continued to emerge, the knuckles of his clenched fists turned white, and the nondescript super-small official robe continued to tremble with his body.

Finally, he stepped forward, bowed to Li Dong and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan to solve the locust plague." ”

His uncle's complexion changed suddenly, and he stepped forward to reprimand regardless of the courtesy of the monarch and ministers: "Don't talk nonsense in the yellow-mouthed child. ”

However, Li Dong didn't care, turned his head and said in a deep voice: "Do you know what you're talking about?"

Li Shuangyu's hair was already wet with sweat, and he moved his tongue with difficulty, "The craftsman has already copied nearly a thousand True Qi Machines, if they are all used for disaster relief, maybe they can stop this disaster before the locusts can completely eat the food." ”

After saying that, he suddenly knelt on the ground and slammed his head on the ground: "Weichen knows that the true qi machine is a big trouble, but disaster relief is like fighting a fire, and if you act early, you can save an extra load and a bucket of food." ”

Li Dong looked around, the ministers looked at their nose and mouth, and closed their eyes and concentrated like clay dolls.

"What do you want to do?"

"The True Qi Engine can stir the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to the greatest extent, if you distribute the True Qi Machine to the states and cities, and start it when the locust swarm takes off, you can roll the wind and strangle the swarm. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Chen has done experiments in the Craftsman Prison, if a 'strong' level warrior holds the True Qi Machine, the wind that rolls up within a radius of one mile can break the wings of the insect swarm, making it unable to fly. The warrior is lightweight, and he can clear a space in three or two clicks. ”

Li Dong turned his head to Wei Chi Jingde and asked, "How many 'strong' level martial artists are there in the left and right camps?"

"About a thousand people. ”

"The flying rider can still make up about five hundred, which is enough. Li Dong's eyes were like electricity, he looked directly at Li Shuangyu and said, "Show me." ”

After a while, the waiter took a few True Qi Engine engines from the Craftsman Supervisor and a private wooden box from Li Zhai, which Li Shuangyu had requested.

"Weichen's intelligence is low, he has been eating and waiting to die in the craftsman's prison for the past few months, and he hasn't done anything serious, and the only thing that is still a little bit of achievement is this strange and obscene skill that is difficult to get into the hall of elegance...."

As he spoke, Li Shuangyu opened the wooden box and took out a pipe about one zhang long and made of thick linen, with a large horn made of iron sheet connected to the end of the head, a hollow iron ring in the middle, and a bulbous sheepskin pouch at the end, and a hole-like inverted groove for exhaust on the pouch.

Everyone wondered, "What is this?"

"It's called a vacuum cleaner. Li Shuangyu said a little shyly: "There is a lot of dust around the craftsman's supervisor, and it is quite troublesome to take care of, so the minister made such a thing in his spare time." ”

As he spoke, he pinched the engine of the real qi engine through the cloth, carefully put the engine into the hollow iron ring in the center of the linen pipe, and stretched out a little finger to touch the engine.

The True Qi Machine touched the human skin and slowly operated, and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi stirred to pump a huge amount of air into the parchment tube, making the linen cloth tube a pillar of optimism.

The ministers were dumbfounded and muttered, "This, this is not ......"

That's right, the linen pipe in the *** state looks completely indescribably indecent, or an extra-large thickened and lengthened model, as if it can support the reincarnation of Chang Yu who can support the wheel of history.

"This thing is called a vacuum cleaner, although it doesn't look very elegant...... Li Shuangyu put the *** linen pipe on the ground, and the air that was quickly extracted rolled up the countless locusts that were gnawing on the grass and trees on the ground, and were sucked into the end sac through the trumpet-shaped entrance, and the excess air was discharged through the hole-like inverted groove.

The pouch was completely filled with locusts, almost bursting.

"There are layers of dense silk in this inverted trough, and the air can go out, but the dust can't get out, so the minister often uses it to remove dust. ”

Li Shuangyu slowly stopped the engine of the True Qi Engine, and Zhengse said: "If the pouch is removed, and a sharp blade is added, then this vacuum cleaner can be converted into a fluke that specializes in strangling locusts." ”

The ministers celebrated with their crowns, and some ministers slandered Li Dong to give him a name for this auspicious rui, Li Dong stroked his palms and laughed, and said: "This thing is driven by a real gas turbine and woven with linen cloth, seeking well-being for the well-being of the society and protecting the people from hanging upside down.

It should be called Vortex Ma Social Security. ”