Chapter 8: The Old Man Destroys His Reputation

The atmosphere in the court was relaxed, and a smile finally appeared on the emperor's face.

The third solution to the locust plague was so easy to come up with.

The emperor couldn't help but glance at Chen Changfeng a few more times.

I found more and more that Chen Changfeng had the demeanor of his youth.

If you can cultivate it well, maybe you will become a generation of Ming Empire like yourself in the future.

But the emperor just came up with this idea, and he was cut off by himself.

Chen Changfeng's confused performance over the years is not that today's surprise can completely make the emperor forget everything.

Moreover, the two princes in front of him, one literate and one martial, are both talented, and there are hundreds of civil and military officials behind him.

The emperor actually preferred one of the two of them to be the crown prince.

Otherwise, if the two of them followed the outsiders to target the crown prince, he, the emperor, would not let them go.

And Chen Changfeng, everyone under his command ......

The emperor shook his head, he didn't want to think about these things anymore, but looked at the gloomy face of the Great Chu envoy in front of him.

Obviously, the envoys of Great Chu did not expect that the third solution to the locusts would be these chickens, ducks and geese.

"Great Chu envoy, what do you think of this method?" The emperor spoke, and the hundred officials instantly fell silent.

Everyone's eyes fell on the faces of the Great Chu envoys.

The Great Chu envoy still felt that his calf was in sharp pain.

Knowing that Fang Cai's stick was deliberately beaten by Chen Changfeng, he had no way to reason with Chen Changfeng.

Now the Ming Emperor asked himself about his views on the third method.

Even if he was reluctant, he could only nod his head and admit it at the moment.

"Raising chickens, ducks, geese and eating locusts is a method that I have always had in Dachu, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Daming stole my Dachu's method of controlling the locust plague, which is very powerful." The envoys of Great Chu will not just forget it.

At this moment, he also said with a clear conscience that the third method was his Great Chu's method of controlling the locust plague, and now he was secretly learned by Chen Changfeng.

The emperor smiled, the Great Chu was founded for 300 years, 20 years earlier than the Ming Dynasty, and for 300 years, there has never been a locust plague.

And every twenty years in his Ming Empire, there will be a locust plague.

Last year and this year have happened in a row.

But none of them had a solution in the Ming Empire.

Will Da Chu, who has never had a locust plague, have a way?

This third method is said to belong to his Great Chu Empire, and the emperor does not believe it at all in his heart.

The second prince and the third prince didn't dare to continue to help the Great Chu envoys to embarrass Chen Changfeng, and Chen Changfeng's words had already made them a little frightened.

At the moment, I can only watch everything silently.

"Although it was stolen by His Royal Highness the Prince of Daming, I will not pursue this matter, after all, it is all for the people of the world, I just hope that His Royal Highness the Prince will not make such a mistake again in the future." The Great Chu envoy said righteously.

"Now please ask His Royal Highness the Prince of Daming to continue with the fourth way." The Great Chu envoy took a step back.

He wanted to see what other ideas Chen Changfeng, who had already come up with three solutions to the locust plague.

The eyes of the court once again focused on Chen Changfeng.

Everyone thought that it was already commendable that Chen Changfeng could come up with these three solutions to the locust plague.

It also made everyone realize that the Royal Highness the Crown Prince in front of him was not a useless waste.

But to come up with a fourth and fifth way, it is probably impossible.

This gamble will eventually end with the defeat of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

It's just that no one knows whether the bet will be fulfilled in the end.

Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor would really cut off the crown prince's head to the Great Chu envoys?

When the emperor heard that the envoys of Great Chu asked Chen Changfeng to continue the fourth method, he was both expecting and worried.

If Chen Changfeng's skills are poor at the moment, how should he, the emperor, do it?

"Your Highness, the villain brought an extra cage of locusts." The Janissaries are smart, and the locusts are ready in advance.

Chen Changfeng nodded, and then looked at the officials of the Tai Hospital.

The official of the Tai Hospital was a little nervous, and said in his heart that Chen Changfeng would not be ready to settle the previous account with himself now, right?

The prince can't think of a fourth way, and is ready to take himself, a petty official from the Tai Hospital, away?

Not really!

"His Royal Highness the Prince, what the minister just said is just the truth, there is no other meaning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must not be jealous of villains." The hospital officials were so frightened that they fell to their knees.

The Great Chu envoy smiled.

He also felt that Chen Changfeng was preparing to take away the official of the Tai Hospital who had offended him before he died.

The second prince and the third prince were also a little nervous at the moment.

Secretly said that if Chen Changfeng was really crazy, would he fight with the two of them, after all, the two of them did not stumble Chen Changfeng.

Chen Changfeng was a little stunned, and only after a moment did he react and reprimanded: "What kind of thing are you, you can also be jealous of this prince?" ”

"Do you have wormwood in your medicine box, take it out with Prince Ben."

Hearing that Chen Changfeng just asked for the wormwood in his medicine box, the whole person of the hospital official lit up.

Quickly opened the medicine box, took out a piece of wormwood, and respectfully handed it to Chen Changfeng.

"Get out of the way." Chen Changfeng scolded.

Do you seem to be a murderer?

Isn't this old thing ruining its reputation?

The official of the Tai Hospital hurriedly left, and then shrank aside, looking at Chen Changfeng cautiously.

He didn't know what Chen Changfeng was going to do when he asked for wormwood.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, what are you going to do with this wormwood?" Prime Minister Yao Xiaoren and Chen Changfeng asked.

He only knew that wormwood was hung on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival, saying that it could ward off evil spirits.

But what's the use of Chen Changfeng asking for this thing.

"Wormwood, perennial herb or slightly semi-shrub-like, the plant has a strong aroma, the whole herb is used as medicine, and it has the effects of warming menstruation, removing dampness, dispersing cold, stopping bleeding, anti-inflammatory, relieving asthma, relieving cough, stabilizing the fetus, anti-allergies, etc."

"In addition, the whole herb is used as an insecticidal medicine or fumigant, and is used as a room disinfection and insecticide." Chen Changfeng explained to everyone.

But apart from the officials of the Tai Hospital, few people seem to understand.

Everyone looked at Chen Changfeng in confusion.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is saying that wormwood can repel worms, that is, it can repel locusts?" The officials of the Tai Hospital hid behind and whispered.

was also afraid of being targeted by Chen Changfeng, so he shrank behind Yao Xiaoren.

"Looks like you're still a little useful old guy." Chen Changfeng praised a Tai Hospital official, and then continued: "It is natural for locusts to be afraid of wormwood, and they sprinkle wormwood ash around the heavens and the earth, and the locusts dare not approach, let alone eat crops. ”

"How amazing it works?"

"Really?"

"Why haven't I heard of it before, and the people in the hospital don't know the role of this thing?"

The hundred officials whispered, and the officials of the Tai Hospital at this moment felt that they were dead.

If this wormwood is really useful, and he hasn't discovered it as a hospital, then the emperor won't hack himself to death?

The officials of the Tai Hospital looked at Chen Changfeng with resentment.

"This thing usually doesn't be noticed, it grows on the edge of the field, on the road, and no one will pick it after the Dragon Boat Festival, so it's normal that the hospital doesn't know."

The officials of the hospital were so moved that they were about to cry.

He bowed three times to Chen Changfeng from afar.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you came up with it yourself, why haven't I heard of such a method?"

"There is no basis for what you say, if the locusts are not afraid of this thing, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will lose."

"When the time comes, His Royal Highness the Prince's head, the foreign minister will not be polite!" The Great Chu envoy had a cold face, his eyes staring at Chen Changfeng.