A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Volume [-]: "Chasing the Deer in the Central Plains: Xuannv's Breaking Formation Song"

【281 Extreme drought and locusts】

As the saying goes, "When there is extreme drought, there will be locusts." If there is a drought, there will be a locust plague.

The land of Hubei and Henan on the border of Zhou and Qi has been plagued by locusts recently.

At that time, in Wancheng, Nanyang County, Zhou State, outside an octagonal pavilion, a dark group of armored soldiers were stationed among the green bamboos.The soldiers who were supposed to be solemn and solemn were now waving their wrist guards one after another to swat the three-inch locusts in their faces.

The octagonal pavilion was also surrounded by the imperial guards. Several people under the pavilion were seated around the stone table, playing with elephants against the chessboard.

At noon that day, the warm sunshine splashing all over the place was filled with the crisp buzzing sound of locusts flapping their wings.

The only thing that could break the hot buzzing of insects was the occasional sound of jade chess pieces knocking and falling on the chessboard.

Another round chess piece made of white jade and gold was pushed onto the chessboard by a delicate hand stretched out from Xuan Qi's sleeve.

As soon as the chess piece fell, the voice started to speak——

"The Dazai ordered his ministers to serve as the Supervisor of the Eastern Expedition to escort medicine and food and provide advice to His Majesty. When they arrived, they found out that Duke Wei had just dispatched troops to accomplish a major event."

The chess player was wearing a far-traveling crown, which made his beardless face look particularly handsome.He sits facing west and faces east. He wears a Xuanhui jacket with black bottom and red edges and large sleeves, and a Sichuan embroidered apron tied around his waist.

Although he didn't raise his eyes to look at his opponent when he said this, the man with double braids who was standing behind him to watch the battle picked his ears and spoke in an impatient tone.
"Dong Anping did not guard your Jinzhou on the border of Heluo, but came to the Nanyang battlefield to offer advice. Does he want to cause the emperor to lose Wancheng just like you lost Jianzhou in the battle of Luoyang?"

Before Yu Wenzhi finished speaking, a voice came from the main seat facing east and west in front of him: "Sixth brother! Stop being rude to me!"

After hearing this, Yu Yi just narrowed her eyes with a smile, looked towards the opposite side and continued,
"Although people who slaughter cities and plunder wealth and eat each other have existed since the first three kingdoms, and it was not the first creation of Wuhu. However, the Jie people tried to annihilate their clan and eliminate China, which eventually led to a "Kill Hu Order" and hungry tigers counterattacked. After changing the Zhou Dynasty, they became enemies with the Great Zhou Dynasty and attached themselves to Gao Qi. To this day, Han people still make up the majority in this land of China."

Yu Yi paused for a moment, then narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around. All the people in the room were wearing clothes and there was a silent barbarian.

He sighed, "And Mulan City is a battleground on the border. Duke Wei's move has lost the hearts of the Han people and is not conducive to the eastward expedition to seize the city. Moreover, I originally had a plan to capture the magpie's nest, but now it is difficult to implement it. I'm afraid I'll kill the chicken to get the eggs."

At this time, sitting on the main seat facing east and west, there is a black-robed Xianbei man who is incompatible with the noise of locusts. He is wearing golden armor and flowing brocade robes, with a golden crown hairpin and a thin body of white jade covering his face.

The smooth skin on his chin and neck was almost whiter than the jade face on his face.

And he was able to play chess comfortably because of a tiger general standing beside him, helping him drive away the locusts.

After hearing this, Emperor Zhou Yuwen Huaibi also stretched out his hand to play a chess move. With his long eyelashes slightly lowered, he said in a cold and nonchalant voice: "Perhaps it is the locust plague that brings the disease. There has been a plague in the army recently, so I had no choice but to use the road." The Mulan Medicine Mountain of Qi State disturbed the people and the soldiers and civilians of Qi State opposite, and made Zili laugh."

As he spoke, he glanced at his brother next to him again and spoke in a stern tone.

"Yu Zili inherited the teachings of his father, Taishi Wen, and devoted himself to serving the country. It is your turn to be so unbridled? This year, the crops have experienced droughts and floods, and there has been a locust plague again. Don't you know? The Qi State is about to have a good harvest. Fortunately, you and others were not injured in the massacre. and its wheat fields.”

Yuwen Huaibi seemed to be blaming his younger brother, but in fact he was cleverly telling the whole story of the plight of farmers in Hubei and Henan, and was complaining about his poverty to the Anping Duke.

But after hearing this, Yuwen folded his arms unconvinced and hummed,

"I dare not bear the charge of "destroying the hearts of the people of Han" so-called by Duke Anping! In the first three countries, when the Cao and Wei armies had no food, they would really kill people by massacring the city, but now I only seek wealth. Duke Anping Xu is Have you been the prince-consort of the Western Wei Dynasty for a long time, and have you been smitten by the empress of the Yuan family who is dedicated to reviving China?" Thinking of this, Yu Wenzhi looked at Yu Zili, who was dressed in Han attire, with a mocking and arrogant look on his face.

"Dong Anping forgot that he is a Xianbei, not a Han? Moreover, it has been more than [-] years since Wu Hu entered China, and the Xianbei people do not have the same cannibalism as the Jie people. Whether it is the Tuoba Yuan clan or the Yuwen clan, both We live peacefully with the Han people and respect the Han empress more than the Han people!"

The more Yu Wenzhi spoke, the more confident he became. At this moment, he even turned his back and said, "Right now, it's just the two camps fighting for hegemony, not a fight between Hu and Han. Don't try to provoke Hu and Han to unite."

When Yu Yi came, he knew that since the beginning of the year there had been a long drought in the central plains of Hubei and Henan, and after the Houliang dike digging and flooding of the Qi army in April, eighty-eight percent of the spring-planted farmland on the border had been washed away, and now it was approaching the midsummer harvest. It was actually looted by locusts again.

What's more, what Duke Wei Guo said was reasonable, and Yu Yi agreed,
"I know that your Majesty cares about the army and the people of the country. Duke Wei's move is really expedient. There are still four or five days before Xiaoshu. Now both sides of the Taiwan Strait are focusing on the slightly yellowed wheat in Qi. Maybe one night the south wind will blow and the wheat will Then it will cover Long Huang, and you can put it all in your bag."

Yu Wenhuai tapped his chin under his jade face, "I also have this intention. I don't know that Dazai is in Beijing... but have you heard about the border incident?"

Yu Zili shook his head slightly,
"Your Majesty, do you want to ask about the Jade Seal? I heard that the Jade Seal has arrived in Nanchen and was captured by Chen Yuanxiu, the Crown Prince of the Chen Kingdom. Xiao's incident was bizarre. Since he wanted to offer it to Northern Qi with great fanfare, it triggered a fight between Zhou and Qi and was intercepted by Xi Liang. , but it still fell into the hands of our enemy Chen."

Yu Wenzhi is a straight-tempered person. When he heard about the strangeness of the Yuxi case, his eyebrows immediately stood up, "Could it be that the Xiao and Chen families were guarding theft, and they slipped away for us to play with?"

Yu Zili nodded in agreement, "In the past, Chen Yuanxiu and his father Chen Shaoshi were taken to Chang'an by the Empress of the Western Wei Dynasty as hostages. Now, regardless of their face, they claim to have seen the jade seal in Chang'an and it was authenticated. I'm afraid we will all be fooled by Xiao and Chen Er. What a joke! The Xiao family brought the lost jade seal back into view through the competition between Zhou and Qi, which is actually claiming that Nanchen is the orthodox destiny."

The two men who were engaged in an elephant fight were not idle, and they did not make any mistakes with their chess pieces. They did not delay their multitasking.

The stone bench that matched the stone table had no backrest. In such a harsh situation, the Xianbei emperor wore an extremely compliant and slim-fitting black narrow-arm, large-sleeved shirt.After sitting there for half an hour, he was still sitting with his lumbar spine straight and upright, showing his nobility.

Even the voice he spoke was as cold as jade, and only the slightly fluttering eyelashes could reveal a hint of emotion.

"There must be something hidden behind the jade seal falling into Nan Chen's hands. Zi Li knows, where is the Xiao family who presented the jade seal going now?"

"I heard that he had no face to see his elders in Jiangdong and returned to his ancestral home in Lanling, Shandong."

As soon as he heard "Lanling, Shandong", Yuwen Huaibi was immediately touched by some hidden hatred, "Humph, if I were the King of Lanling, I would arrest him and torture him about his true intentions, and implicate his accomplices."

at the same time!

In a corner where no one was paying attention, a palm-sized locust flew onto the face of the person lying on the ground, went straight to the nostrils and bit him.

"Ah! Ahhh——"

The sudden cry of pain interrupted the conversation between the two, and only then did Yu Yi remember that there was a white-robed soldier lying unconscious at his feet.

He watched the locusts flying outside the pavilion for a long time. At this time, several locusts landed on the face of the white-robed soldier who fell to the ground, biting the man until his nosebleed. He finally woke up from the pain and was struggling to open his red and swollen eyelids. A wail of agony.

Yu Yi then waved to the armored general behind His Majesty,

"This is the tongue I caught on the way here. After being tortured by the ministers, I found out that it was originally a private soldier of the Xiao family in Nanliang. The evil situation between Xiao family and Nanchen is no less than crossing the river in white. Please take it down with General Wang Gui. "

Wang Gui, who had a strong body and covered his face with armor, stepped forward and picked up the white-robed soldier like a chicken.