Dou Jing knew that she was staying on duty for inspection. If she did well next, let's forget about it, at least the punishment wouldn't be too ugly.
But if you still can't contain the locust plague, you can imagine the outcome that awaits you.
"Thank you, King Yue, for your help!" As the court meeting dispersed, Dou Jing thanked Li Tai. After all, it was Li Tai who took over the responsibility this time.
"You and I are doing our best to fight locusts, and I'm just telling the truth." Li Tai replied gently.
When Li Tai said this, he recalled that he stood up to help Dou Jing speak. Although Li Shimin did not express any position, to some extent, not expressing a position was the best position. He could still continue to fight against the locusts.
Li Tai looked at Dou Jing and said, "Dou Sinong, this is not the place to talk. Let's go back to Sinong Temple and talk in detail!"
"Please!" Dou Jing heard Li Tai's words and stretched out her hand to invite Li Tai.
After this incident, Dou Jing was willing to listen to Li Tai, and for Li Tai, this was a crucial step.
Just when Li Tai and Dou Jing returned to Sinong Temple, Li Gang and Kong Yingda also started talking.
Li Gang said to Kong Yingda: "I met the King of Yue yesterday at the Locust Temple and today at the court. What do you think of King Li Tai of Yue?"
When Kong Yingda heard Li Gang's words, he was silent for a while and said solemnly, "The king of Yue is like a saint."
"Is this a good thing or a bad thing?!" Li Gang couldn't help but ask after hearing Kong Yingda's comments.
"We will abide by the righteousness of our ministers and do it consistently. No matter what happens to the king of Yue, the world will eventually belong to the saints!" Kong Yingda said seriously.
"I thought Kong Yingda didn't like Li Tai, but now it seems that you didn't take what happened at the beginning to heart!" Li Gang replied.
"Li Taibao underestimated me. Could it be that I really couldn't care less about a six- or seven-year-old child?"
As Kong Yingda spoke, his expression changed, but he still had some doubts and asked Li Gang,
"Why did Li Taibao ask me this question?!"
"When the dynasty was dismissed just now, the saint asked me if I wanted to be the prince's young master." Li Gang looked up at the sky with some emotion.
"Originally I didn't want to refuse, but after seeing the performance of the King of Yue, I hesitated. I was afraid that the old thing would happen again."
Kong Yingda said, "The prince Qi Yi is benevolent and filial, and the king of Yue is bold and wise. This is a puddle of muddy water. I hope Li Taibao will consider it carefully."
"Yes..." Li Gang sighed, "But I am unwilling to do so. Could it be that I really can't teach a good prince?"
"..." Faced with Li Gang's sigh, Kong Yingda didn't know how to persuade him.
Because Kong Yingda knew that wanting to teach a good emperor had become Li Gang's obsession, at least he couldn't persuade him.
As for the performance of the King of Yue today, and his ability to resist locusts, it really doesn't matter to a monarch.
The most important thing is that everyone hopes that their military leader can take the credit, not that every good thing is his own and all his faults are his subordinates.
Perhaps it was precisely because the King of Yue showed some of these qualities today that the saint began to strengthen the training of the prince.
Kong Yingda thought, "Although the saint appreciates the performance of the King of Yue, he does not want to shake the crown prince's position!"
Li Tai didn't know Li Shimin's arrangements for Li Gang. Of course, even if he knew, he would still be grateful to Aye for paving the way for him.
After all, the reputation of Prince Li Gang as the killer was still too intimidating, so Li Tai felt that it was better to stay away from him.
At this time, Li Tai focused all his thoughts on fighting locusts.
Because Li Tai knew very well that if he took this step of fighting locusts well, his next path would become more and more stable.
After all, in the Zhenguan Dynasty, no strategy could beat hard work, making Li Shimin a strong contender to become the emperor of the ages.
Li Tai and Dou Jing returned to Sinong Temple. The officials of Sinong Temple were stunned to see Li Tai and Dou Jing coming back together.
After all, the two of them didn't act like they were on the same page yesterday. How could they have such a good relationship after meeting each other in the same court?
Of course, the one who felt the most heartbroken was Zhao Yuankai who came after hearing the news.
He watched Li Tai and Dou Jing walk into Dou Jing's office room with his own eyes, as if the owner of the lunch shop you often went to watched you enter his opposite noodle shop.
This scene made people watch it. It made everyone sad and weeping when it heard it. It almost made snowflakes fall in June.
However, Li Tai and Dou Jing ignored Zhao Yuankai and just closed the door heavily when they entered the office.
"Dou Jing thanks the King of Yue for protecting him at today's court meeting!" Dou Jing and Li Tai both knelt on the bed, and Dou Jing spoke first.
"You and I are both at Sinong Temple. We should work together to deal with this locust plague!" Li Tai replied.
Dou Jing looked at Li Tai's calm posture and sighed in her heart. It was hard to believe that this was an eight-year-old boy. Dou Jing said:
"As long as it is to fight the locust plague, if you, King of Yue, have any instructions, as long as they are reasonable, Sinong Temple is willing to help."
"There are many!" Li Tai said seriously after hearing Dou Jing's words, "Dou Sinong, are you familiar with locusts?
Do you know what locusts like to eat, how long they live, what their characteristics are, and what you need to pay attention to when dealing with locusts?!"
Dou Jing originally thought that Li Tai wanted to win over her.
To be honest, if Li Tai could help him solve the locust plague, even if he would not side with Li Tai, it would not be unimportant to defend Li Tai in front of Li Shimin in the future.
So Dou Jing had already made preparations and decisions in her heart. After all, in this moment of despair, Li Tai helped her.
But I didn't expect that Li Tai would solve the locust plague as soon as he opened his mouth. In other words, Li Tai really wanted to solve the locust plague.
When she thought of this, Dou Jing couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.
Li Tai watched Dou Jing listen to his words, and then got distracted while talking, and couldn't help but asked in shock, "Dou Sinong?"
"Oh..." Dou Jing came back to her senses and said, "Please continue to answer my questions, King Yue."
Li Tai looked at Dou Sinong, as if he was just distracted accidentally, and continued:
"In terms of lifespan, the age of locusts is generally one season, two months at a time, and three months at a time.
This is why there was a wave of locust plagues in early March and another wave of locust plagues in late May. I suspect there will be another locust plague in July and August.
Locusts reproduce by laying their eggs in the soil and waiting until the weather is warm and dry to hatch.
I have checked that every year before the locust plague comes, drought is basically recorded, so I think this inference is correct."
Dou Jing listened to Li Tai's words quietly. There were many things that she had not noticed at first. Now that she heard Li Tai's words corresponding to each other, Dou Jing felt a sense of openness. The originally mysterious locust plague was now revealed in Li Tai's mouth.
Revealed little by little.
Seeing that Dou Jing was silent, Li Tai continued to tell his understanding of locusts:
"Locusts and migratory locusts are the two stages of locusts. Locusts are non-toxic and can be eaten by ducks and birds. But after becoming migratory locusts, the locusts will have toxins and will not be able to eat them anymore."
Dou Jing nodded and said with some enlightenment: "So, the King of Yue has always advocated using ducks to control locusts, which is to cull the locusts before they gather into migratory locusts!"
Dou Jing understood why Li Tai attached great importance to raising ducks and even developed artificial incubation technology.
Li Tai continued, “If you want to fight locusts, you can’t just rely on those ducks.
If someone really follows my method and relies only on ducks to kill locusts, I think the final result will definitely be unsatisfactory.
So in my opinion, to deal with locusts, we need to combine ground attacks, water attacks, bird attacks, fire attacks and other aspects according to the characteristics of locusts."
"Please also ask the King of Yue to elaborate." After hearing Li Tai's words, Dou Jing sat upright, even more seriously than when she was studying.
"The target of the ground attack is insect eggs. Locusts pass by and are full of insect eggs, some even deep in the land. Sinong can organize people through Sinong Temple to renovate acres of land and renovate the insect eggs in the soil, so that these insect eggs can
Let the sun bask in it and kill it.
Locusts like drought and hate humidity. When there are signs of locusts appearing in the wild, adults can ask their skilled craftsmen to invent devices that guide river water to irrigate crop fields, so that the crop fields will not be too dry and locusts will emerge from the soil!
Even if the locusts can't be killed, as long as they can be delayed from hatching, it's enough!
This strategy can be used as a water attack!"
"Delaying the hatching of locusts?" Dou Jing was a little confused when she heard Li Tai's words.
Li Tai explained, “July and August will drag on for a few months until October, and the weather will get colder and colder, and snakes and insects will not dare to come out.
Therefore, the locusts will not hatch during this season. If it is delayed until next year, we can concentrate our efforts on eliminating the remaining locusts."
"Then the next step is to attack the locusts. Are they targeting the adult locusts?" Dou Jing heard Li Tai's words and asked.
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded and said, "But ducks and birds may eat the seedlings of crops, so it doesn't matter if they are grazed in the wild. If they are used in crop fields, you'd better think twice!"
"Then this fire attack should be used to deal with migratory locusts!?" Dou Jing said with a bit of sigh.
Li Tai nodded, acknowledged Dou Jing's judgment, and said, "It is indeed dealing with locusts, but I'm not sure whether it will be effective.
This thing is based on the principle of moths flying towards the fire. I found that many flying insects will instinctively flock to the light of fire at night.
I don’t know if migratory locusts have such characteristics, but no matter what, if it is effective, it can be used as a means to eliminate locusts!”
"The King of Yue has such a thorough plan. This time the locust extermination will be done with twice the result with half the effort!" Dou Jing praised Li Tai.
"It is indeed easy to say it, but the real difficulty is how to do it!" Li Tai said, "To do things, you need funds and manpower, but this requires the help of Sinong Temple!"
Li Tai did not wait for Dou Jing to speak, but spoke of the difficulties himself:
"I have conquered the artificial hatching technology, but if I want duck poultry to cover the entire Gyeonggi Province, I need a lot of coal and feed.
If I want to raise them until the next wave of locust plague arrives, this cannot be done by me in a small way. Sinong Temple needs to come forward.
Moreover, coal will also be used in future fire attack plans, which will require a large amount of money in Gyeonggi Province.
Secondly, Sinong Temple needs to exert its appeal to the people.
After the peak of this wave of locust plague has passed, let the people cultivate the fields and take out the locusts in the land to bask in the sun.
This is another job that requires labor, money and food, and may even require the recruitment of corvees.
Finally, we need to manufacture large-scale drum trucks that can divert river water into fields, so that water can be delivered to crop fields that have been damaged by locusts, so that these fields have enough humidity to suppress the hatching of locusts."
Li Tai was silent for a moment, looked at Dou Jing and said,
“With so many plans being pushed forward at the same time, I’m afraid we need to fully mobilize the entire strength of Sinong Temple.
Although Zhao Yuankai is an official, his character is lacking. Now you are the only one in Sinong Temple who has such ability and leadership!"
Dou Jing listened to all of Li Tai's plans and understood why Li Tai wanted to help her at the court meeting.
Because Li Tai helps himself, but he is also helping Datang. At least now Dou Jing can't see Li Tai's selfishness.
Dou Jing saluted Li Tai and said solemnly: "This time we at Sinong Temple will go all out to fight the locusts."
Li Tai also returned the greeting to Dou Jing and said: "Work together to fight the locust plague!"
Li Tai and Dou Jing were completely on the same front from this point on.
After the court meeting, Dou Jing needed merit to wash away the negative impact of his fight against locusts, while Li Tai didn't care about merit. What he needed was to show that he had his own skills in fighting locusts, so the two hit it off.
And for such a matter that requires collective efforts, a person with questionable personal ethics like Zhao Yuankai cannot control the entire Sinong Temple, at least he cannot mobilize the enthusiasm of the officials of the Sinong Temple.
It's like in an organization, someone can handle personal relationships very well with everyone in the company.
But when there is a big problem and someone needs to take the lead, it is often the person who is upright and has a bad relationship with others, but is truly admirable. He can twist everyone into a rope and solve the problem through gritted teeth.
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And Dou Jing is such a person, he is not all-rounded, but his behavior is convincing.
Li Tai handed the plan to Dou Jing and asked Dou Jing to complete it. This was Li Tai's greatest contribution to Sinong Temple.
As for self-righteous interference in the operation of Sinong Temple, it will only cause problems for Sinong Temple, a mature political institution.
To be honest, the efficiency of bureaucrats is indeed not high, but this is without endangering their own reputation.
Dou Jing now knows very well that if the fight against locusts fails again, she might have just gone to the border to eat sand. If she fails now, she might have to retire and return home, so this directly makes Dou Jing full of motivation.
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Dou Jing has been working in the fields since he raised troops in Jinyang. Basically, he promoted all the officials in Sinong Temple.
If Dou Jing falls, several of the officials promoted by Dou Jing will be able to reap the rewards, and they will all be full of energy.
Li Tai returned to the duck farm and began to focus on the duck farm. He had small arms and legs. It was okay to make some plans and suggestions, but if he wanted to really do something, forget it.