Thuan An Province

A few old horses walked slowly on the road, and the people sitting on them looked around quietly, silently, almost in the same color as the night.

It wasn't until the oil lamp hanging on the side of the road in front of him gradually approached that the person on this horse gradually revealed his face, led by Qi Hongxin, the governor of Shun'an Prefecture.

He rode the oldest of the horses collected from the three gangs, and he could no longer go to battle, and this kind of old horse could barely be used by an official of the rank when he went out on business alone.

I didn't want to come over in an ox cart, the movement was too loud, and it was easy to alarm people, Qi Hongxin looked at it quietly, and seemed to ask casually: "Zhilin, you have followed me for almost ten years, right?"

"Yes!" Yu Zhilin looked around vigilantly and replied: "At that time, I remembered that I was still eight or nine years old, and I forgot a little. ”

"You forgot, I didn't. Qi Hongxin smiled and said, "You still wanted to kill my young man at that time!"

Qi Hongxin looked at the man in front of him with soft eyes, this young man has followed him since ten years ago, guarding himself again and again, and intercepting many assassinations.

It's been ten years, and it's been ten years since I delayed people.

"At that time, I was deceived that you were a corrupt official and a cool official. Yu Zhilin pressed the sword and said, strafing left and right: "Later, I learned that you are a great Qing official, a great official." ”

"Actually, I'm not a clean official, the word greed may be negotiable, and the cool official is worthy of the name. Qi Hongxin said gloomily: "The villagers are bewitched, and this official actually doesn't have to kill fifty-three people. ”

"It's just a matter of encircling and suppressing the three gangs, and the deputy inspector He Bi has been killed, even if he should die according to the law, he will go through the procedure, not me to kill. ”

"I'm really cool, but I can't help it. ”

"The twilight of the day is over, so I did it perversely, and I didn't say a word wrong. Qi Hongxin sincerely thinks so, and he himself found that with the third term, his mentality has changed, anger and resentment have gradually filled his heart, and his actions have gradually become extreme.

"Moreover, this time, knowing that the twenty-three court officials were involved, I could only give a jujube once, just by virtue of this, how can I be considered clear?"

"How can it be so easy?"

"Poof, what did the lord say, those corrupt officials should have been killed, what kind of cruelty should they talk about, as for the twenty-three court officials, being a good official is not a stupid official. ”

"If you lift the table, not only will the master not only become an official, but also have the disaster of killing, how can he benefit one party again?"

"Master, others don't know, I've been with you for ten years, and what I see is a blessing to the people, adding up to no more than a million. Yu Zhilin simply looked back: "Master, I know your thoughts, I just feel that you have wasted me - but I don't think so, I am nothing more than a military attache of eight or nine grades." ”

"How can I be as good as now, if I protect you for one day, I can save thousands of more people. ”

"Yes, you have such confidence in me, I don't. Qi Hongxin smiled and did not speak.

How many monarchs, first wise, then mediocre.

How many courtiers, first wise, then greedy.

"I am the same, but I am old and sick, and alas, I should not be able to wait for that day. ”

"That's a good thing. ”

As he entered the area with dense farmland, he saw more and more oil lamps, and one by one they went straight to the bonfire burning in front of him, and Qi Hongxin stopped.

Most insects are phototaxis, and locusts are no exception.

Buzz, buzz, buzz......

The sound from the sky made Qi Hongxin hold the reins of the horse, and when he looked up, he saw that under the hazy moonlight, the black pressure was overwhelming, and it flew straight from afar.

"The locusts are coming! The locusts are coming!" Someone not far away also heard the sound, looked up and saw this scene, and immediately screamed in surprise.

Some old peasants shouted: "Don't panic! They are flying towards the bonfire, picking up the basket and broom, and preparing to kill!"

Qi Hong's new heart is tight, whether this method can succeed or not, whether it is effective, success or failure is in one fell swoop.

His eyes were firmly locked on the bonfires that were a little closer to him, and in the night, the people who were hiding around were also nervously waiting, waiting for a large number of flying insects to flutter over, except for a few people who screamed one or two, everyone else held their breath, for fear that the sound would startle away the attracted locusts in advance.

Airplanes!

Until a large black spot fell straight on the bonfire, and wanted to escape because of the burning of the flames, someone shouted: "Quick!"

One, two, three...... Several figures rushed straight over, raised their tools, and pounced on the locusts that had lost their ability to fly due to the fire, or who had been slow to react.

The large black dots that had just wanted to fly again crackled and fell into the bonfire, not only did they not extinguish the fire because of their fall, but on the contrary, the fire more than doubled in an instant when it dimmed!

The smell of meat that made people move their index fingers wafted out of the campfire.

If it weren't for the fact that it was the smell of it, it was a terrible locust, and I was afraid that someone would swallow it.

And farther away, the figure swayed, and there were obviously not a few people who followed the action.

Tens of thousands of taels of silver can already mobilize the whole province to kill locusts.

It worked out really well.

Qi Hongxin's heart that he had been carrying finally fell into place, and he only felt that his forehead was sweating because of the nervousness just now.

"It only takes about ten days to completely kill the locusts in the house, and all the locust eggs in the field can be removed. ”

Even if the bonfire attracts locusts from the county government next door, and a few county governments don't spend a penny, they can enjoy the benefits plainly, and they will definitely not be angry if they are replaced by others, but Qi Hongxin thinks that this is fine.

"Even if it's not the people of Shun'an Mansion, if they suffer from locusts, I can't bear to see it, they don't care, then I'll take care of it!"

"My lord!" was thinking, and his thinking was interrupted again, Qi Hongxin turned his face in surprise, and saw Yu Zhilin pointing: "Look." ”

"Don't say anything else, if you lift the table and make a big case, the officials of the Manchu Mansion are now all in order to protect the black gauze hat, and no one can take care of serious things. ”

"Now, see how attentive they are?"

"Yes!" Qi Hongxin couldn't help but show a smile, and disappeared in a blink of an eye: "But to mobilize such a large number of people, these tens of thousands of taels are distributed in the seven counties of the whole province, and it won't take much time." ”

"Let's go, let's go back, the mining rights must be at least 30,000 taels, right?" After turning around, Qi Hongxin, who was very satisfied with the locust extermination operation, summoned Su Ziji to see him as soon as he returned to Fucheng.

When Su Ziji arrived, he was not polite, and asked directly: "Master Su, how are you in charge of the mine?

Su Ziji smiled: "It's almost done, I'm waiting for adults to see it." ”

"Oh?"

So mysterious?

In fact, this is not the style of officialdom, how can it be like this?

And Qi Hongxin has always been bold in doing things, and he doesn't like this kind of trickery very much, but in the face of Su Ziji, who helped him a lot as soon as he arrived in Shun'an Mansion, Qi Hongxin still has some tolerance.

"It seems that Master Su has already done this? ”