Listening to politics is the policy of destroying the country! With the examples of the two Empress Dowagers of Liang in Western Xia, many neutral officials turned to Zhao Xu, after all, it was too important for the imperial power to be inherited in an orderly manner.

Zhao Xu was originally an official family, and his pro-government was justified, and the Empress Dowager Gao should have returned to power, and the Great Song Dynasty could no longer withstand the civil strife, otherwise it would be taken advantage of by the two countries of Liaoxia.

Seeing the change in the attitude of the Manchu officials, Zhao Tingzhi and other conservatives were anxious, and they couldn't help but set their eyes on a figure in the forefront of the hundred officials, Liu Zhi, a scholar of the Guanwen Palace.

Liu Zhi sighed and said: "The official family has a benevolent heart, and it is a blessing for the ministers to order the seriously ill Lord Cai to return to Beijing, but the official family has forgotten that the Empress Dowager is also suffering from illness, and how can it be filial piety to persecute the Empress Dowager like this." ”

"Liu Zhi!" Zhao Xu's face couldn't help but change, Liu Zhi was once the prime minister of the dynasty, and he was impeached and dismissed by Lu Dafang, thanks to the Empress Dowager Gao's protection, he gained a firm foothold in the court.

As soon as Liu Zhi made a move, he used filial piety to attack Zhao Xu, no matter what reason Zhao Xu had, his behavior of forcing the palace was a kind of unfilial piety.

Fan Zheng relieved Zhao Xu and said: "Lord Liu is surprised by this, the Empress Dowager is suffering from illness, and the Chinese Medicine Hospital and the Empress Dowager Hospital have worked together to find a good prescription for the Empress Dowager, and will definitely make the Empress Dowager's health better." ”

Liu Zhi shook his head and said: "The doctor's change is prosperous, Liu does not deny the doctor's medical skills, and the medical prescription he prescribes will definitely be effective, but I heard that Master Fan is the best at heart disease, dare to ask the empress dowager how to come to the doctor for heart disease?" ”

Fan Zheng frowned suddenly, he didn't expect Liu Zhi's attack to be so tricky, the Empress Dowager held great power, but she was suddenly forced into the palace, she must be resentful, how to cure such a heart disease?

Liu Zhi took the opportunity to say again: "The emperor is not filial, there must be a warning from heaven, and now the land of Gyeonggi has suddenly suffered a large-scale insect plague, which is a warning to the official family, and please don't insist on going your own way." ”

"Insect plague!"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but be surprised, and stared at Liu Zhi in surprise, he didn't expect Liu Zhi to be so insidious, and he would use the name of heaven to warn him.

The literary style of the Great Song Dynasty was at its peak, and the Confucian celestial and human induction was extremely popular, and every natural disaster, earthquake, flood and drought was a warning from heaven, and the imperial court would amnesty the world, which was one of the reasons why the Great Song Dynasty granted amnesty to the world so frequently.

If there is no catastrophe today, Liu Zhi actually came up with an insect plague to suppress him.

Liu Zhi's face remained unchanged and said: "This matter is not the old minister's words, but it has spread all over the land of Gyeonggi, and Lord Su, the prefect of Kaifeng, can testify for the old minister." ”

In an instant, the eyes of all the officials were focused on Su Song's body, Su Song has always been an upright person, and he will definitely not give false testimony for Liu Zhi.

Su Song frowned and said: "Qiqi official, not long after the beginning of spring, the counties of Kaifeng came to report that there was already a plague of insects, and now it has become a prairie fire, I am afraid that the grain production in Gyeonggi will be reduced by more than half this year." ”

Insect plagues occur every year, and most of them are not serious, but this year's winter is not cold, and many insect eggs have not been frozen to death, so that the insect plague has broken out just after the beginning of spring.

Liu Zhi continued: "This year, not only the land of Gyeonggi, but also the land of the Central Plains may also be affected by insect plagues, the grain production has been greatly reduced, and the people are miserable. ”

Zhao Xu's face changed, he was ambitious to revitalize the Great Song Dynasty, but who would have thought that an insect plague would suddenly break out in the land of Gyeonggi.

As soon as the insect plague came out, the grain production in the Central Plains was reduced, and the armament was definitely insufficient, and the old school that followed the Empress Dowager Gao seized the handle and used the natural disaster to coerce him.

Liu Zhi's election was extremely delicate, and now that Zhao Xu has just forcibly pro-government, the foundation is unstable, and in the name of God's warning, he will definitely give Zhao Xu a dismissal, if he can't properly solve this crisis, I'm afraid that the advantages he has worked so hard to build will be ruined.

Suddenly, a burst of wild laughter came, and I saw Fan Zheng say with a mocking face: "Poor in the middle of the night, don't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods, the insect plague is just a group of small insects, and being worshiped as a god by you is simply laughing off your big teeth." ”

Liu Zhi angrily reprimanded: "Little insect, do you know that the insect plague is overwhelming, I don't know that there are hundreds of millions, countless fields and grains have not been harvested, this is God's punishment, Liu has heard that Master Fan has the ability to heal ten thousand people, but I don't know that there is a medical skill to cure the suffering of ten thousand people in the world." ”

Liu Zhi sneered in his heart, the insect plague is a natural disaster, although it is common, once the outbreak is very harmful, floods, droughts, and locust plagues may only affect one area, and almost all the farmland in the world has been affected by the insect plague, which is an extremely headache for all dynasties.

"Unfortunately, Fan does have a party that can crack the insect plague." Fan Zhengzheng color road.

A group of conservatives were sneering at Fan Zheng, and suddenly heard what Fan Zheng said, and they were stunned.

"Qi Qi official, Fan Zhengchao is a believer, and the minister implores him to punish him for the crime of bullying the king?" Zhao Tingzhi immediately grabbed the handle and forced Zhao Xu to say to the palace.

Other officials also frowned and looked at Fan Zheng, the insect plague is a natural disaster, this is a well-known thing, Fan Zheng dared to say that he would crack the insect plague, it was simply arrogant.

Facing the scrutinizing eyes of the ministers, Fan Zheng said unhurriedly: "Fan can not only solve this insect plague, but also let the people of the world no longer have to worry about the insect plague." ”

"Seriously!"

In the face of Fan Zheng's arrogant words again, the officials couldn't help but be moved.

Everyone in the world knows that Fan Zheng loves evil prescriptions, and the prescription is to get rid of the disease, if Fan Zheng really has an evil prescription to solve the insect plague............

Thinking of this, the civil and military officials couldn't help but feel excited.

"Okay, if you have an evil recipe to solve the insect plague, the old minister will look forward to the official family from now on, if Lord Fan can't do it, then don't blame Liu for being ruthless." Liu Zhi sneered.

Zhao Xu's heart suddenly tightened, and he didn't answer, but he had personally seen the evil sect of Fan Zheng's evil recipe, and he suffered a big loss for it. If Fan Zheng's evil recipe can really crack the insect plague this time, then their killer weapon will be useless.

Fan Zheng looked around and said proudly: "Weichen's method is to fight poison with poison. ”

"Fight poison with poison!" Zhao Xu's heart jumped, in the palace, the poison of cotton oil had just been discovered, and he was naturally extremely sensitive to poison.

"When Wei Chen was determined to become a forensic doctor, he once said, but all living creatures are afraid of poison, insects are living creatures, and naturally they can be poisoned. Fan Zheng spread his hands and said in a relaxed tone.

"A bunch of nonsense, above the court, you even messed up with evil recipes, you can know that the insect plague is together, its number is innumerable, boundless, how do you poison so many insects, besides, food is an imported thing, you use poison on the crops, do you want to poison the people of the world?" Liu Zhi rebuked angrily.

Baiguan also stared at Fan Zheng with an unkind face, after the insect plague, the grain production was only reduced, and if the grain was poisoned, I am afraid that the people would be starved to death.

Fan Zheng looked at the ministers with a look of hatred for iron and steel: "The best understanding of poison in the world is none other than the doctor, the poison that can poison and kill insects is harmless to crops, and rice, wheat, and millet all have husks, and they will be washed when eaten, even if there is a very small residue, it will not be harmful to the human body, and Weichen prefers to call this kind of poison a pesticide." ”

"If there is a residue, you dare to say that it is harmless, a bunch of nonsense!" Zhao Tingzhi reprimanded angrily.

The other officials and ministers also frowned, after all, they didn't want to eat poisoned food.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "Compared with people, insects are like grasshoppers and trees, the dose that can poison insects is not a big problem for people, what is this residue, it is three points of poison, I still take medicine when I am sick, and fighting poison with poison is the only way to solve the insect plague, without the harm of the insect plague, it is enough to increase the yield of farmland by more than three percent." ”

"Increase production by more than 30%!"

Suddenly, the Manchu ministers were short of breath, and the insect plague was together, and the farmland was reduced by at least more than half.

If the pesticide is really as good as Fan Zheng said, not only to crack the insect plague grain production will no longer be reduced, but also to increase the yield by three percent, once the pesticide is used in all parts of the Song Dynasty, it will be the country's grain production increased by three percent, which is a great gospel.

"Is there really such a pesticide in the world?" Zhao Xu couldn't believe it.

Fan Zheng said proudly: "Where there is disease in the world, there are doctors, people are sick, poultry and beasts are sick, doctors have doctors and veterinarians, and plants and crops are sick, and doctors naturally have agricultural doctors." ”

"Killing insects with poison is just the simplest method of agricultural medicine, in addition to that, agricultural doctors also study various diseases of farmland crops to treat them symptomatically. There are even agricultural doctors who have the idea of developing a poison to kill weeds without harming the dealers, so that the people of the world can avoid the pain of pulling weeds. ”

Hearing Fan Zheng talk eloquently, the eyes of the civil and military officials suddenly burned, and with their knowledge, they naturally understood that it was feasible to poison insects with poison, not to mention, once the idea of agricultural medicine was realized, how much benefit it would bring to the Great Song Dynasty.

"How to poison?" Su Song asked.

He is proficient in medical skills, so he naturally knows that poison is easy to get, and how to administer poison is the biggest problem.

"Just dissolve the pesticide in water! The modified pump sprays the pesticide into a water mist and sprays it evenly on the crops to kill the virus. Fan Zheng replied.

The pump is the water dragon gun of later generations, and Zeng Gongliang of the Northern Song Dynasty painted a pump in an illustration of his "Wujing General Essentials", and there are levers and pistons in the pump tube, which is not a rare thing in the Great Song Dynasty.

"How do people avoid drugs?" Su Shi asked.

"Just wear a mask! At the same time, the doctor will also prepare the corresponding antidote, once poisoning, timely detoxification. Fan Zheng replied.

All of a sudden, the court turned into a pesticide promotion meeting, and no one supported the statement that the insect plague was a warning from heaven.

Liu Zhi's face turned pale suddenly, even if he was stubborn and conservative, he also understood that once pesticides came out, they could increase the grain production of the Great Song Dynasty by more than 30% out of thin air, such a huge benefit, not to mention a warning from heaven, even the gods could not stop the Great Song Dynasty from using pesticides.

"The tide is over!"

Zhao Ting smiled bitterly in his heart, this time, they lost, and once again lost under Fan Zheng's evil side.

(End of chapter)