Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 590
Hearing that Liu Mu asked the county magistrates to participate in the crime, Li Shimin couldn't stand it anymore, and was about to refute.

Liu Mu said: "These county magistrates took the blame for Datang, and then lent them to me. I will take them to Wa Island. Guaranteed that they will enjoy the treatment of entering the fifth level in Wa Island."

After Liu Mu finished speaking, Li Shimin's eyes narrowed.

As long as it doesn't involve him as the new emperor ascending the throne, there will be natural disasters, and Liu Mu will give the county magistrates who are responsible for the blame a lot of compensation, so this matter can be done.

But Li Shimin couldn't open his mouth and said that he would just do it.

Liu Mu said it for him, it was a hundred times better than him speaking, Li Shimin didn't want to bear a bad reputation.And Liu Mu didn't care, and there was no such thing as a reputation.

When Liu Mu was waiting for Liu Zhenghui to think about it, he said again: "Sage, please help me send a document to the General Secretary."

"What kind of documents?" Li Shimin asked.

"Saint, I am always in charge of harvesting locusts. The dried locusts are exchanged for two stones of rice. Grinding locusts into powder is very useful for treating whooping cough in children. It is also very beneficial for the queen's qi deficiency and shortness of breath. Of course, the queen Medication also needs to be compatible with other medicinal materials. Its most important value is military medicine."

"Military medicine?" Li Shimin was taken aback.

"Take it with wine to cure seven-day wind."

"Ah! Seriously?" Li Shimin knew that after many soldiers in the Tang Dynasty were injured, it seemed that the wounds were recovering, but suddenly they died of convulsions.

Liu Zhenghui also said: "Seven-day wind is a mortal disease. It is said that Song Xianggong died of seven-day wind after injury."

Liu Mu remembered very clearly that in ancient times there was no way to deal with tetanus, this disease was too terrible.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was only a record in the book "Compendium of Materia Medica". Grinding locusts into powder, three grams each time, three times a day, and taking it with wine can cure seven-day wind.That is tetanus.

Li Shimin immediately wrote a copy in hand, and asked Fu Yi to go to the Medical Sacred Hall in person, and the seniors with excellent medical skills in the former Taoist sect calculated and verified according to Liu Mu's statement.

At this time Liu Mu said to Liu Zhenghui again: "Liu Shangshu, I will definitely tell Shang Shusheng about my reminder just now, please consider my proposal carefully."

"Okay, I will consider it, and I will go to Shang Shu Sheng to discuss this reminder with Shang Shu Sheng on your behalf."

"Thank you."

"As far as my duties are concerned, Prince Concubine Liu might as well go with me, and I will explain in detail about your official document."

Li Shimin interjected: "Put a banquet, I will discuss with you tonight and evening."

"Yes, that minister will leave first."

Only a quarter of an hour later, thousands of riders came out from the four gates of Chang'an, and everyone kept shouting: "The general secretary buys the locusts of the sunshi, and one catty of locusts is exchanged for two catties of high-quality rice, and they are exchanged at the county government offices. "

With such a speed of transmission, I believe it will not exceed two days, and the whole Guanzhong will know that Liu Mu brought back 500 million shi of rice, and then exchange the rice for dried locusts in Chang'an.

But this order was changed by Gao Jian in just a few hours.

Just harvest locusts, two catties of locusts are exchanged for one catty of rice, and there is no need to dry them.The dried ones are still exchanged at the original price.

In the evening of that day, the meeting that Liu Mu was looking forward to did not take place, not because no one came, but because Liu Mu spent almost two hours explaining the locust issue.

Moved from Li Shimin's study to Tai Chi Hall.

There is a large blackboard standing on the Tai Chi Hall, and Liu Mu is drawing on it with chalk.

"What is a locust? All seniors are well-read people, but I say you are wrong."

Yao Silian came to the blackboard and bowed to everyone: "Everyone, when the drought is dry, fish and shrimp will turn into locusts, so there will be plenty of fish for a good year."

Liu Mu's face turned red after hearing this.

Yao Silian smiled at Liu Mu: "The old man thought that Liu's son-in-law was allowed to swear."

"Nonsense." As soon as Liu Mu heard that he could swear, he immediately began to curse: "The abundance of fish is due to the countless locusts dying in the water, and then this thing is very nourishing, and the fish will be abundant after eating it."

Liu Mu's writing on the blackboard is very poor, and his painting skills are also very average.But Liu Mu is still the locust that he learned in elementary school.

"This thing is a bug. To put it simply, it's a big cricket. This thing is very interesting. You catch one and put it in a small bamboo cage and feed it green onion leaves. This guy can make it scream all night. "

Liu Mu slapped the blackboard vigorously.

Without Liu Mu's explanation, until the end of the Song Dynasty, it was believed that locusts were formed from fish eggs, and then flew into the sea to turn into fish.

"Fighting crickets, have you ever played it? This thing is very interesting."

Most of the people present shook their heads, but Ma Zhou said that he had seen cricket fights as a bet.

"Locust plague!"

Hearing Liu Mu mention the word locust plague, everyone fell silent.

"In fact, there are also locust plagues in the four counties under my jurisdiction, very mild locust plagues. I have arranged for people to clear them up and sent [-] chickens to sweep away the locusts."

Li Shimin interrupted Liu Mu: "Get to the point."

"The living habits of locusts like to eat drier plants and dry places. It can be explained in this way. The drought makes the water level drop, the well water becomes deeper, and the water in the soil decreases. Then locusts like such places, at most There can be 50 egg masses per square foot, and there are 80-[-] eggs in each egg mass, and there will be tens of thousands of locust eggs per square foot."

"This thing lives in groups, lives a lot, and eats everything, and can fly. Moreover, the locust eggs hide in the ground and may even turn into insects for several years. The locust plague is because they eat up one place and then change another place Keep eating."

"There are records in the annals. Based on the Qin and Han dynasties, it was once every nine years on average. But in the former Sui Dynasty, it was once every five years. In the reign of Wude, there were only ten years. There were eleven locust plagues, large and small, in the Tang Dynasty. Why?"

"Why?" Li Yuan, who was originally just here to listen to the fun, asked.

The locust plague will be recorded as the emperor's moral failure, etc. Li Yuan heard that he had been emperor for ten years, and there was still a year and a half in the period of ignoring the government, but there were eleven major locust plagues.

"Father, have you heard of locust plagues in the history of Lingnan?"

"No." After Li Yuan replied, he looked at the important ministers, and the important ministers said that they had never heard of similar records.

But Liu Mu knew that later generations artificially raised locusts in Guangdong, and then exported them in large quantities.

These are irrelevant.

"Father, saint, seniors. Locusts can only survive in places where the coverage rate of green land is less than [-]%. In places with beautiful mountains and rivers and high density of plants, it is impossible for locusts to survive in large numbers. A few are not enough for birds to eat."

Immediately afterwards, Liu Mu shocked the Tai Chi Hall with three words.

Only Liu Mu asked: "Father, Brother Huang. Have you heard of... Huang Heqing?"

From the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, the Great Tang Emperor Li Shimin, down to the ordinary little eunuchs in the entire Tai Chi Hall, everyone froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

(End of this chapter)