Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 7
The ceremony of inviting the gods has become a ceremony of inviting the locusts, and Li Tai knows how crazy it is to see the locusts in the wild.

When the locusts crossed the border, the original green vegetation in the wild was eaten up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the weeds that had just grown in the field were chewed up by the mouths of the locusts.

In the whole world, as long as the locusts pass through, there will be nothing green left.

Seeing the desperate scene, the people knelt in front of the locust god statue and wept bitterly, and some kept kowtow to the locust god statue.

They kept chanting, "Great Locust God, please accept your supernatural powers!"

The people are ignorant and insensitive, but they know what can keep them from living!
For the people, the locust plague that attacked again kicked them into the abyss.

And the officials of Sinong Temple were also at a loss.

Reasonably speaking, the Confucian classics they accept all say that natural disasters are caused by the king's failure to cultivate his virtue.

But today's saints take the lead in swallowing locusts, admit mistakes, accept advice with an open mind, so why not practice virtue.

And building a locust temple to communicate with the locust god to quell the locust plague has been a method since ancient times.

If this doesn't work, then what will!
Not to mention the common people at this moment, even the dignified and upright officials in Sinong Temple are all confused and in a daze.

Because what they thought was in the Bible was in sharp conflict with reality.

They have a lot of insight, but when their insight is broken, they may not be any better than these ignorant people.

They were also overwhelmed by the situation in front of them.

Li Tai pulled Zhao Yuankai's sleeve slightly, tiptoed and whispered something in Zhao Yuankai's ear.

Zhao Yuankai's eyes widened, he looked first at the limp Dou Jing, then at Li Tai, but shook his head!

Li Tai didn't talk nonsense, he just waved his hands and said,
"Go!"

Zhao Yuankai had no choice but to leave, but leaving this stagnant atmosphere, Zhao Yuankai couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

He sighed deeply, and hurriedly found someone to tell the craftsman to go.

Li Tai looked at Dou Jing, who was paralyzed on the ground, and said:

"The plague of locusts has come back again. It seems that the God of Locusts that Dou Si Nong puts his hopes on will no longer protect the people of our Tang Dynasty."

"The King of Yue..." Hearing Li Tai's words, Dou Jing wanted to argue but closed her mouth helplessly!
Because the plague of locusts came back again, and it came back on the day of the ceremony of inviting the gods.

There is no need to fight any more. My own method of controlling locusts has failed, and it is meaningless to say anything else.

"Since the path chosen by Dou Sinong doesn't work, let's follow my path!" Li Tai continued.

When Dou Jing heard Li Tai's words, she couldn't help being a little stunned. Is Li Tai trying to seize power? !
And Zhao Yuankai came to Li Tai and held an ax in front of Li Tai.

Li Tai was also polite, raised the ax with both hands, looked at the sculpture of the Locust God, curled his lips,
"Give me a table!"

Zhao Yuankai naturally had no objection, and immediately moved a table over and placed it in front of Li Tai.

"King Yue, what are you doing?!" Kong Yingda looked at Li Tai's appearance, but said in horror.

"Don't you see this!"

Li Tai looked at Kong Yingda and took it for granted.

During Li Tai's words, he had already stepped on the table set up by Zhao Yuankai, raised his ax, and slashed fiercely on the statue of the Locust God!

A touch!
The ax hit the statue's neck, and the force of the feedback made Li Tai almost unsteady!
"What are you kid doing, offended the locust god, but you have good fruit to eat!" A commoner knelt down and said.

"Hmm! And then!"

Li Tai held the ax in both hands, and said solemnly,

"All of you are kneeling on the so-called locust god, does he control you?

Aren't you trapped by the plague of locusts, and then plan to just wait to die? ! "

Hearing this, the people talked a lot. Even the trick of inviting the locust god could not deal with the locusts. They really didn't know how to deal with the locusts.

With their limited knowledge, they are really helpless.

"King Yue, don't mess around, this is no small matter!"

Kong Yingda looked at the people below from confusion to despair, afraid of triggering a civil uprising, he hurriedly said,

"Come down quickly and put down the axe!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hands, but Zhao Yuankai stood in front of Kong Yingda, blocking Kong Yingda's way!

"Zhao Yuankai is not the time for you to flatter the Lord!" Kong Yingda shouted at Zhao Yuankai angrily.

But Zhao Yuankai ignored it!
Zhao Yuankai understood very well that since he had taken refuge in Li Tai, no matter what Li Tai wanted to do, he had to let Li Tai finish the matter.

Looking forward and backward, there is no future.

Zhao Yuankai stopped Kong Yingda and said,
"Here, this is a matter of Sinong Temple, do you want to intervene?"

"Zhao Yuankai, you flattering minister, if you don't handle it properly, there will be a civil uprising. Can you take this responsibility!" Kong Yingda said.

Hearing this, Zhao Yuankai, who was a little timid, couldn't help hesitating a bit, and at this moment, a shout came from behind.

"I deserve it!"

Li Tai looked at Kong Yingda and said,
"My father is the Son of Heaven, and I am the Son of Heaven.

The Locust God doesn't bless my Tang people, how can I enjoy my Chinese incense.

Huaxia Shenzhou, do not raise idle spirits!
From today onwards, the Locust God is the Locust Demon.

If there is another person who worships the locust god, he will be like the head of the locust demon! "

During Li Tai's words, he pulled out the ax again and chopped it on the head of the locust god statue.

Li Tai only felt that his ax seemed a little lighter as he roared.

Slashing up with an axe, the head of the locust god's locust was directly chopped off by Li Tai.

The head of the locust god rolled down with a crash, and rolled on the ground under the eyes of everyone!

The people looked at the scene in front of them, their heads were buzzing, but they recalled Li Tai's words.

Li Tai is the son of a saint, the saint is the son of heaven, he is the grandson of heaven, the saint has the right to canonize the righteous god, Li Tai just cut off a god who didn't work...

Is this a problem?
It seems that there is no problem!
Shouldn't the sons and grandsons of heaven kill immortals who don't work? !

Kong Yingda was also in a trance for a while, because there was really no better explanation than this.

The sage did not lose his morals, but the locust demon did not lose his morals, because he was incensed by the people and ended up not working, and continued to let the locusts harm the world.

Therefore, it is very reasonable for Li Tai to kill the locust demon in the name of the grandson of heaven, and return the world to a bright future.

This logic doesn't matter whether you approve it or not, at least the people agree, and at most it's a question of whether Li Shimin will be held accountable.

At least the basic theory of heaven and man's induction that restrains the monarch has not been destroyed, and it still has the effect of restraining the behavior of the monarch.

Of course, there is still a big trouble now, Kong Yingda looked down at the kneeling people, but his face was a bit ugly.

Please God's plan failed, so there must be some other plan to give the people hope.

Otherwise, the desperate people will have another disaster because the saint has no virtue and Li Tai is domineering.

At this time, Li Tai said,

"Tian Xingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement, people must rely on themselves after all, and you are the same.

Those who are willing to believe that I can control locusts, each village elects a representative, and everyone works together to solve the locust plague.

I can't subdue the wave of migratory locusts in May, but if we work together to suppress the locust plague in July and August, we can still suppress it! "

"Heaven... Heavenly grandson, there will be locust plagues in July and August?!" The expressions of the people below changed when they heard this!
Calculating the time, Li Tai usually takes two or three months for the locusts to hatch in about one season. Now it is the end of May and almost June, and the time is about the same.

Li Taidao: "As early as the beginning of July, as late as the end of August, the locusts will definitely come again.

If you are willing to join hands with me to fight locusts, then send someone to act with me.

I promise to suppress the next locust plague! "

The common people were naturally skeptical when they heard Li Tai's words. Although Li Tai looked very imposing and he was a grandson, Li Tai looked like an eight-year-old child after all.

How can such a child be believed.

No matter how extravagant Li Tai's words are, the common people have no idea.

Li Tai frowned as he watched the common people talking about it, but no one stood up.

To be honest, if I knew this kind of thing happened earlier, I would definitely put a few supporters in it.

But this was an emergency, and Li Tai never expected that the plague of locusts would strike again on the day of the god invitation ceremony.

I can only take advantage of the situation to persuade the people.

But because this matter was an accidental change, I didn't grasp the overall situation of this matter.

The people below are discussing enthusiastically, but they don't necessarily trust themselves. After all, I am just a child, how can these people trust children!

At this moment, an elegant young man in green clothes said, "Your Majesty, I'm going to wait, but I'm in charge of the meal!"

"A village is limited to three young and middle-aged people, and food and housing are in charge!" Li Tai said decisively after hearing the words of this elegant young man.

Hearing this, the people present were overjoyed and began to discuss, feeling that this matter is feasible.

They really didn't believe that Li Tai could solve the locust plague, but they knew that now that the locust plague was all over the place, they couldn't do much work, and the young laborers had a lot of food around them, but they were trying to consume food.

Allowing these young people to hang out with Li Tai can save at least three people's rations, and the saved food may be able to make six more people live in the village.

"We do, we do!"

When these people saw that there was something to eat, they naturally agreed.

Li Tai was very satisfied seeing this scene. The manpower for the expansion of the duck farm will be solved!
Li Tai wanted to find the young man who was the first to open his mouth to rescue him, and let him be a manager, which would be reciprocated.

Looking up, he saw that Tsing Yi turned around and was about to leave, he flicked his clothes away after something had happened, hiding the gesture of merit and fame.

"Zhao Shaoqing, you come to arrange the registration of manpower, and give priority to choosing good families with land." Li Tai said to Zhao Shaoqing beside him.

"No!" Zhao Shaoqing immediately agreed after hearing Li Tai's words.

After Li Tai handed over this matter to Zhao Shaoqing, he hurriedly ran towards the direction where he left the person, shouting as he ran, "Mr. Tsing Yi, Mr. Tsing Yi, just wait a moment."

Everyone looked at their clothes, but they saw the man in blue stopped, turned to look at Li Tai who was chasing him all the way, and asked doubtfully, "King Yue, are you calling me?"

"Mr. Tsing Yi, why is he walking so fast that I almost couldn't catch up with you!" Li Tai took a few breaths.

"I'm not from Chang'an, and I didn't buy land in Chang'an, so I'm not someone the King of Yue needs!" Tsing Yi Lang Jun said.

"Eh..." Li Tai's heart was shocked suddenly, he raised his head and said to the gentleman in Tsing Yi,
"Could it be that Mr. Lang guessed what I was going to do, so your cry was intentional."

This Tsing Yi Langjun's eyes are like stars, even though he is wearing Tsing Yi, he said with indescribable confidence:

"The king of Yue advocated the use of ducks to control locusts, and there were some rumors among the scholars in Chang'an.

If scholars really develop artificial hatching eggs, it will take a lot of people to manage chickens and ducks.

The real difficulty is how to quickly deliver these ducks to the needed villages when the locusts come.

Therefore, the King of Yue took advantage of the opportunity to recruit the locusts to fail, and recruited manpower from various villages in order to allow them to send ducks to various villages.

Blossoms on the tree will benefit endlessly! "

Li Tai heard the words of Tsing Yi Langjun, and felt that he had really met a talent, so he said seriously:
"As Lang Jun said, I recruited these people precisely because they are the good families of the villages.

They are the people who most want to be rescued in their hometown and fields, and they are also the people who need help the most in Datang.

It's really a great talent for Mr. Lang to see this. I don't know how to call Mr. Lang? "

"Qinghe Ma Zhou, you can call me Ma Qingyi." Qingyi Langjun said to Li Tai confidently.

Ma Zhou?He was actually Ma Zhou, Qinghe Ma Zhou!

Li Tai looked at the man in Tsing Yi in front of him, and his eyes suddenly changed. If Li Tai originally wanted to make friends with the man in Tsing Yi, then now he wanted to take Ma Zhou down.

Li Tai decisively said to the horse:

"Ma Qingyi has extraordinary insight, unparalleled determination, and the ability to know the autumn with a single leaf, would you be willing to check for my leaks and fill in the gaps to fight locusts together.

I am willing to hire you as the head of the king of Yue, so that Mr. Wang can solve your doubts! "

"The king of Yue is Bo, from the sixth rank!"

Ma Zhou was a little dizzy when he heard Li Tai's words.

He didn't expect Li Tai to put so much capital on him, and he said he was a sixth-rank official.

"Mr. is not satisfied, but the official positions above the sixth rank need to be canonized by a sage himself. I am not qualified to be canonized directly, but as long as I have made merits in fighting locusts, I will definitely recommend you as the sixth rank!"

Li Taiguo broke the maximum price!
Just kidding, this is Ma Zhou, if he can really dig him out, will he be afraid of Li Chengqian if he seizes the heir in the future? !
Even if Changsun Wuji met Ma Zhou, he would be afraid!

Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai with surprise, joy, fear and suspicion in his eyes.

If Li Tai were Li Chengqian, he would naturally join Li Tai's command without hesitation.

The problem is that Li Tai is not the prince, which makes it difficult for Ma Zhou, who has a long-term vision, to make a decision.

He knew very well that if he agreed to Li Tai now, then he would be in Li Tai's party for the rest of his life.

In the future, I will definitely be Li Tai for success and Li Tai for failure.

But there is a chance to follow Li Tai, especially the control of locusts that the government and the public are concerned about is a big opportunity. If it is done well, it will definitely attract attention.

Ma Zhou is confident that he can stand out from the crowd, but no one has ever put him in his pocket!

If I miss this opportunity, I think I can only go to General Chang He as a guest.

Now as long as he agrees to Li Tai, he will be able to be an official. If Ma Zhou is not tempted, it is naturally impossible.

Faced with Li Tai's choice, Ma Zhou couldn't help hesitating!

(End of this chapter)