Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1218 Locust God
"Li Gang, you let me down so much!"

The emperor said coldly.

Li Gang stood there and asked to resign, refusing to admit his mistake and bow his head.

Seeing that the atmosphere was tense, the other prime ministers also came to persuade him.

"If you don't agree with each other, you have to pick someone to leave?" Luo Cheng sneered. In the past, Luo Cheng still respected Li Gang. He thought that Li Gang had good moral character and could be regarded as a teacher of the prince.After all, the crown prince is the future emperor, and the crown prince needs good moral character, so it doesn't matter almost in terms of talent, but as long as his moral character is good, he can take over well.

But now it seems that Li Gang is not good either, and he also has a lot of selfishness. His greatest selfishness is the desire to reform the emperor, just like those Confucian scholars since the Han Dynasty, but his own talent is not good, but he always thinks that his own talent is not good enough. That's right.

If the emperor doesn't accept his transformation, he will pick and leave.

He really felt that he had seen through Li Gang a little bit.

"If you want to resign, I won't allow it."

But Li Gang said, "I can't advise His Majesty, please resign."

"Okay, okay, okay." The emperor said three good words in a row, but he still hadn't accepted his resignation, "I won't allow you to resign, I don't think you are qualified to be a bachelor and Prince Zhan Shi, I will stop now your job."

There is not much difference between resignation and dismissal.

If Li Gang's resignation is approved by the emperor, then even if he becomes an official, he can still enjoy the treatment of the prime minister before resignation, but it is different when he is dismissed.

"I demoted you to Yanshi County Chancellor, Eighth Rank."

Li Gang's complexion was pale, and he really didn't show any sympathy. Originally, he was a bachelor of the Dongge University, but this was a second-rank title, and he was also the teacher of the honorable Prince Zhan.But now, as soon as he was demoted, he was demoted to the eighth-rank green robe, and he couldn't even wear the green robe.

As for the title, of course it was also taken away.

"Go to Yanshi and assist the county magistrate in digging locust eggs, preparing for disasters and famines, don't make high-profile talks with me, and do something practical in the face of a catastrophe."

"Veteran Li Gang, take the order to thank you."

Li Gang also has a stubborn temper. Originally, the prime minister's withdrawal had to be signed by the prime ministers of the government. If he admits a mistake, and the prime ministers help to say something nice, maybe the matter will be turned around.

But now he directly received the decree to thank him, and took off the three-beam Jinxian crown on his head, and the thirteen-gold gold and jade belt around his waist, and then took off the purple robe, and finally took off his The jade wat was placed on the table, and even the golden crane amulet and the golden crane bag were taken off and placed on the table.

He was wearing a white tunic, and bowed his head and said goodbye to the emperor with his head bare.

Seeing his obstinate appearance, Luo Cheng didn't bother to persuade him.

"Feng Lishi, send Prime Minister Li out of the palace on my behalf."

Feng Lishi helped Li Gang out of the hall, and in front of the hall, Feng Lishi said kindly, "Why is Mr. Li so arrogant, I know you are willing to give advice, but it is not such a way of admonishing, besides, what was going to be discussed today is how to prevent disasters. Beihuang, it's good for you, you will tell His Majesty like this as soon as you come up, it's not that you don't know His Majesty's temper, it's too unworthy of you to do this."

In fact, the moment Li Gang walked out of the hall, he felt a little regretful, not because he was in love with power, but because he felt that he was too irresponsible to leave.

I'm afraid that if I leave in the future, there will be one less person in the Xuanzheng Palace who can persuade the emperor. Who else can be as straightforward and willing to advise as myself?

"Hey, thank you, Mr. Feng, please go back."

Feng Lishi could only shake his head, and beckoned to two Qianniuwei to send Li Gang out of the palace.

"Old Li, when you arrive in Yanshi, be pragmatic and take precautions against disasters. As long as the locust disaster is over, if the disaster prevention effect in Yanshi is good, His Majesty will definitely restore Mr. Li to his post."

Li Gang walked down the steps silently, not knowing what to think.

Feng Lishi looked at his bleak back, just sighed, then turned his head back into the hall.

in the temple.

University scholar Yu Shinanzheng suggested to the emperor, "Since Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty, every time there is a locust plague, he will worship the locust god and ask God to solve the locust plague."

Luo Cheng was very disdainful of the proposal of this famous contemporary calligrapher.

"I don't talk about strange powers and chaotic gods. How can there be any locust gods and insect kings in this world? When I was rectifying the world's obscene temples a few years ago, I ordered people to demolish those temples of locust gods and insect kings. People in the world will worship God of locusts, is it useful? The plague of locusts ended not because the God of locusts played a role, but because when the time came, the locusts would die. After hatching, the locusts could live for a few months. No matter whether they worshiped or not, they would die in the end. , the key is whether we can minimize the losses after these few months, the locust god can't!"

Begging the locust god for a few months, the locust plague ended, not because of their begging for the locusts, but because they only had such a long growth cycle.

"Instead of asking the locust god and insect king, it is better to organize the people to dig locust eggs. This can also kill a large number of locusts in advance and reduce the number of locusts. After the eggs that slipped through the net hatch, before they can fly, we must find a way to return to the locusts." Hunt and kill. Mobilize all the people and do something real."

"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible. I think that the locust disaster that is rare in a century may be related to the destruction of the locust temple by my dynasty. I also ask your majesty to order all counties to immediately resume the construction of the locust temple. Tree locust statue, provide incense!"

Luo Cheng couldn't help but patted the table again.

This Yu Shinan, he felt, was just like Li Gang, pretending to be ignorant on purpose, but he didn't believe that Yu Shinan, the most famous contemporary calligrapher and also a master of essays and poems, such a son of a famous family, would actually know how to write. Believe in the locust god.

"Yu Shinan, you also disappointed me."

Yu Shinan didn't dare to refute.

"It's not yet the locust hatching season, but it's not far away. We need to go to places where drought and locust plagues may occur, and then increase our food reserves. At the same time, we must start digging locust eggs. All the government offices have taken action to organize the people to dig locust eggs, and to organize plowing in places where eggs are easy to lay."

Digging eggs can kill locusts, and plowing can also kill many locust eggs.

"People dig locust eggs, they can feed them to chickens and ducks, or they can exchange them with the government. One catty of locust eggs can be exchanged for three catties of grain, and the government can exchange as many as there are."

Chu Liang came out to object, thinking that the court could not get so much food to exchange for such useless things. After all, where there are locust plagues, there will be droughts, and food is precious, so it must be saved for disaster relief.

"Since this is the case, then I will let the royal family use the money from the internal treasury to purchase food from other places, and then go to the disaster area to buy locust eggs. One catty of locust eggs will be exchanged for three catties of grain, and you can exchange as much as you have! I will never break my promise."

The emperor is willing to use the money from the internal treasury to buy grain in other places in exchange for the locust eggs. He does not use the money from the treasury or the grain in the disaster area. Chu Liang has nothing to say now, but he still feels that the emperor is a little messy. What's the use of locust eggs? It's self-help for people to dig them up. Why bother to exchange them for food.

(End of this chapter)