lying down

A few days later, Chang'an Imperial Study Room.

"Keming, how's the disaster situation these days? How's the food price?" Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair, holding a jade pen in one hand, stroking his forehead with the other, staring at the memorial on the table with frowns.

When Du Ruhui heard Li Shimin's question, he quickly got up from Jindun and replied, "Your Majesty, the disaster situation has improved a little recently. The price of rice in the capital and several nearby states has stabilized at around 25 cents per bucket, but..." looked up at Li Shimin , went down again.

"Say!" Li Shimin's voice turned sharp, without looking up, he was still looking at the memorial.

Du Ruhui glanced at Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, and they nodded to him in unison, and then he said softly: "It's just that the Hedong Road has opened a warehouse to release grain. Although there is no comprehensive relief, the price of rice has risen instead of falling. Gao Pan. It's a bit weird." Speaking of this, he raised his eyes slightly and looked over from the corner of his eye.I saw Li Shimin stopped in Zhu's hand, and began to approve the memorial again.

"Tell me your opinion, don't shy away from it." Li Shimin waved to the eunuch Wang De, Wang De nodded to the court lady, and walked out with irrelevant people.

Fang Xuanling opened his eyes, then narrowed them again.Standing up, he replied: "Your Majesty, according to the news, the weirdness here is probably related to the remnants of the previous dynasty, and it is also tainted with Eastern Turks."

The entire study fell into silence, Li Shimin closed the finished memorial, and rhythmically tapped the table with his left index finger.After a while, Huo Ran raised his head and said: "Let the people on the east side of the river to investigate, don't disturb them, the centipede is dead but not stiff, you must not be careless, and you must not bite the wronged, I want evidence!"

"Yes, Your Majesty. There is one more thing, but it's a happy event." Seeing that Li Shimin didn't want to discuss it too deeply, Du Ruhui just sent someone to investigate the news.He knew that the emperor took this matter to heart, the more Li Shimin cared about things, the less he would casually talk about them. He knew this habit after following Li Shimin for many years.

"Oh? There's good news? I've approved countless papers this month, but I haven't seen anything that would make me happy." Li Shimin smiled lightly and shook his head. Thinking about the past month's events, they were all about global relief. As for those who reported losses in various places, Du Ruhui must be able to speak out today, which must have some meaning.

Without waiting for Li Shimin to ask again, Du Ruhui handed over the booklet he just got from the Ministry of Officials Examination.

Li Shimin took it and opened it, looked at it with a smile on his face, and said: "At this time of continuous natural disasters, this news is very comforting to my heart! This Ouyang Yu is interesting, he is actually good at curing drought and locusts, No loss of food in the whole village? No population outflow? If every village is like this, why worry about the Tang Dynasty not being strong! What is the opinion of the Kao Gongsi?"

After the praise, Li Shimin asked about the handling of the meritorious examination department. Du Ruhui and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from their hands lightly and said, "Your Majesty, the meritorious examination department has not come up with an opinion yet. As soon as the paperwork arrives today, I will give it to you." The emperor saw it, among Yi Chen, this person, this village, and this county should be rewarded."

"No!" But Fang Xuanling frowned and interrupted: "Keming, if the report in this book is true, why did Panshan Village make preparations for drought and locust prevention early, while other villages in Shenshan County did not?" Unprepared, could it be that someone in Panshan Village wanted to monopolize his contribution or the county government didn't pay attention to it?" After saying that, he narrowed his eyes again.

"What Xuan Ling said is so true, I almost ignored it." Li Shimin frowned again. "Wang De!" He said to the door, and the eunuch Wang De immediately pushed the door lightly, came in and saluted, "Your Majesty, please order."

"Go and check for me. In the past few months, I have obtained all the documents about Panshan Village in Shenshan County. I will bring them here. I will also serve some refreshments to my loved ones." Li Shimin ordered.

A group of people in the imperial study chatted and waited for Wang De to investigate. It took about half an hour.Wang De came in, holding a booklet in his hand, looking a bit old.

"Your Majesty, here is a notebook, which is the method of controlling locusts reported by the governor of Yunzhou and the county magistrate of Shenshan more than two months ago." After finishing speaking, he handed it with both hands.

When Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui heard this, their hearts skipped a beat, thinking that someone was going to be unlucky, and if they really had this report in advance, it meant that Ouyang Yu of Panshan Village had reported his prediction of severe drought and locust plagues to the county. However, the county government and the state government only mentioned the law of controlling locusts, which shows that they did not pay attention to the prediction of severe drought and locust plagues.

"Huh!" Li Shimin quickly read the notebook, with a worried face, and threw the notebook on the table.

"March ago, there were already signs of severe drought near the capital. I don't believe that Hedong Road, Governor's Mansion, and Shenshan County have not heard the news. If we pay attention to it early, how many lives can be saved and how much national power can be saved? This Does the county magistrate of Shenshan only have utilitarianism in his eyes?" The more Li Shimin said, the more angry he felt, and then he said: "I will pass on my order, the magistrate of Shenshan will not ask if he knows, and he will be relegated to the post of county magistrate if he fails to report. Ouyang Yu Loyalty to the country, good fortune, Feng Kaiguo county man, reward silver

One hundred taels, five bolts of silk.The villagers in Panshan are commendable, and they are indeed role models of the Tang Dynasty. They have performed especially well during this period of severe disasters. I especially bestow the name of "the first village of the Tang Dynasty" to inspire people's hearts. "

Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling looked at each other, thinking to himself that this kid Ouyang Yu is lucky, and the Jianguo County man is treated at the fifth rank, which is not something ordinary people can get.

"Your Majesty, no!" Wei Zheng remained silent until he stepped forward, "I heard that Ouyang Yu has only tied his hair. If you give him the man of Jianguo County, he will be proud of his actions. Why don't you observe the time and let him Tried, if it is really beautiful jade, there will be a time to shine, and it will not be too late to reward."

"Xuan Cheng, you..." Li Shimin said helplessly, this Wei Zheng never gave him comfort, but it was precisely to benefit the country and the people. "According to Xuan Cheng's words, go to Jianguo County to reward the male. Others remain the same. Immediately draw up an order and ask someone to do it."

"I will obey the order." Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Wei Zheng bowed to receive the order.

Not to mention how desolate the magistrate of Shenshan County was, on this day, I saw a few horses galloping towards the only road leading to Panshan Village.It didn't stop until the gate of Li's Courtyard.

"Is Ouyang Yu, the eighth son of the Li family, here? The imperial decree has arrived~!" A young eunuch in eunuch costume shouted at the door.

"What? Did I hear correctly? The imperial decree arrived?" Ouyang Yu was reading an ancient book to pass the time in his room when he heard such a voice.As for the old lady and Erlang, Wulang, and Qilang, things were even more chaotic.I only heard that the house was busy for a while, and when Ouyang Yu came out, everyone was already standing in front of the little eunuch who delivered the order.

"Who is Ouyang Yu?" The little eunuch looked solemn, holding the copper plate containing the imperial decree in both hands.

"The grass people are Ouyang Yu." Ouyang Yu walked forward and bowed in salute.He has never seen this scene, and he doesn't know how to deal with it. He has only seen it in movies and TV shows.

"Let's set up an incense table to receive the order." The little eunuch smiled slightly.

After all the preparations were completed, the little eunuch announced: "Master: Accumulate kindness and simplicity, and you can uphold your style. Diligent to the country and the people, the righteousness of the world, according to your local officials, I am worried about ending the local famine. Alone and simple Ouyang Yu, a good man, helped the people to eliminate disasters, warded off droughts and eliminated locusts. His righteousness is commendable and his potential virtues should be shown. Here is a special reward of one hundred taels of silver and five bolts of silk. Specially bestow on Panshan Village the reputation of "the first village of the Tang Dynasty", which will last through the ages Tran..."

Ouyang Yu lay on the bed and couldn't sleep, thinking of the past few months in Panshan, it was as colorful as making a movie.It's just that in the past few months, I have also gone down to the jungle where I first transmigrated with the company of Seventh Brother, and I didn't find any traces of my wife and children transmigrating here.After all, I am alone and weak!Thinking about this severe drought and locust plague, I reminded the county magistrate with historical traces and experiences thousands of years ago, but he ignored it. How many people were killed?Since God made me reborn, more than ten years younger, and with rich and advanced historical knowledge, it is definitely not my character to live my whole life in a daze, and I can't be a mortal!

I need a brand new stage to make my body more colorful, walk around and have a look, maybe God will open an eye, so that the nightmare of the past will never reappear.

After staying in Panshan Village for two months, the locust plague was completely gone. By the way, he and Goro made another "Panlong Bow".Ouyang Yu bid farewell to his family and decided to go to Jinyang City, Bingzhou, where his second brother lived, to look for opportunities.

He refused everyone's request to see him off all the way, and decided to go forward while asking, to experience the demeanor of the legendary prosperous Tang Dynasty.He left 50 taels of silver and a few bolts of silk to his mother-in-law, and put the remaining silver, the newly made Panlong bow and a few things from his previous life into two long and short packages and carried them behind his back, holding the specially made Panlong for him by Wulang. The mulberry stick went to Jinyang city in Bingzhou alone.

When he took a step out of Panshan Village, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, did he know that history would be reinterpreted?Or will he make new history...