Chapter Four Hundred and Twenty Seven: Do Not Do Not Die
For a time, locust plagues occurred in most of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, including Jiannan Road, Shannan Road, Huainan Road, Henan Road, Hebei Road, Hedong Road, and Guannai Road.
Fortunately, this is only the initial stage of the locust plague, only larvae, and the damage to crops is limited.
But these locusts grow very fast, and it may take less than a month to cause a disaster.
By then, I am afraid that most of the Tang Dynasty will be barren of grass and crops will fail.
After a famine, if disaster relief fails, refugees will spread everywhere, and riots may even break out.
Locust plagues on such a large scale are really rare.
But every time it happens, it will have catastrophic consequences.
The people had run out of food, refugees were everywhere, and people were starving to death on the streets everywhere, even to the point of exchanging their children for food.
"It's over, it's over. The locust plague broke out. Everything is over."
"How should we spend this year, woo woo"
Countless people, faced with locusts, became pessimistic and despairing, crying bitterly.
They are so small and powerless in the face of such natural disasters.
No one even thought about eradicating these locusts.
Because the number of locusts was so great that they felt that they could not eliminate them at all.
The outcome is already irreversible anyway, so why bother doing any more useless work?
This news was quickly passed to the court.
This gave all the civil and military officials in the court a huge headache.
Once such a natural disaster occurs, it is impossible to avoid or reverse it.
And once it is not handled well, it is likely to trigger a civil uprising.
In addition, there are many foreigners ready to take action.
If they take advantage of this opportunity and take advantage of this loophole, it is very likely that the country will be shaken.
Regarding this matter, all civil and military officials in the dynasty were very cautious and looked sad.
In fact, just last year, Datang just experienced a drought.
Last year, if it hadn't been for the King of Shu promoting three new crops in Shu.
Maybe last year had already caused a disaster.
Rao is because the three new crops introduced by the King of Shu stabilized the disaster caused by last year's drought.
However, the food in stock was also used up due to disaster relief.
Now in the Tang Dynasty, there was no excess food reserves.
Now that there is another locust plague, they really have no energy left.
It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
The Tang Dynasty was really full of disasters, which made Li Shimin, who wanted to become the emperor of the ages, look extremely ugly.
Over the years, Li Shimin worked hard and managed the Tang Dynasty in an orderly manner.
Li Shimin wanted to wash away his bad reputation for killing his brother and forcing his father, and to establish an unparalleled great cause.
But in recent years, there have been constant natural and man-made disasters.
Could it be that God is deliberately going against me?
Li Shimin's face looked a little ugly, and he turned to the ministers and asked: "My dear friends, there is a locust plague in most of the Tang Dynasty. Do you have any good countermeasures?"
After Li Shimin asked, there was silence.
After a while, Wang Xin stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that the culprit of this locust plague is King Li Min of Shu. I would like to ask your Majesty to punish King Li Min of Shu."
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Wang Xin's words were like a huge stone thrown into a lake, causing a stormy sea.
This Wang Xin really dares to say anything.
How could this locust plague be blamed on Shu King Li Min?
Even if your fifth surname, Qiwang, and the King of Shu don't deal with you, they haven't framed you like this, right?
This is really true. Why bother to accuse someone?
After hearing Wang Xin's words, Li Jing couldn't help it at first.
Huo, this guy has provoked my granddaughter again and again. He really has never died, right?
Just when Li Jing was about to stand up and confront Wang Xin, someone stood up before Li Jing.
Cheng Yaojin picked his nostrils and dug out a piece of black booger, which flicked directly onto Wang Xin's face.
Then he stretched out a finger as thick as a carrot, almost poked Wang Xin's forehead, and said strangely: "Wow, Wang Xin, aren't you dead? You used death to impeach His Highness the King of Shu."
"But the train built by His Highness the King of Shu can really pull so much cargo. His Highness the King of Shu is not bragging, it has really been done. Didn't you say that as long as His Highness the King of Shu can do it, are you willing to die?"
"Then are you a dead person talking now, or are you shamelessly pretending to have forgotten this matter? I am confused by this. Can a dead person still impeach someone?"
After the last bet, Li Shimin has been holding the life and death documents of these officials of the Five Surnames and Qiwang Faction, and they have been undecided.
Li Shimin naturally wanted to get rid of all these people.
But if so many officials are removed, the court will not be able to replace so many people at once.
Moreover, removing so many people at once would cause unrest and panic.
Since we can't take them down in one fell swoop, we might as well leave it undecided.
In this case, they would not dare to be presumptuous.
In fact, Li Shimin's strategy is also very effective.
During this period of time, Wang Xin and other officials of the Five Surnames and Qiwang Faction have indeed become much more honest.
On many issues, even though Li Shimin touched the interests of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes family, they did not dare to jump out.
For Li Shimin, it was also a good choice to use this method of boiling frogs in warm water to gradually weaken the power of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes faction.
Therefore, Li Shimin has not touched these people in the past few months.
But what Li Shimin didn't expect was that today, Wang Xin actually jumped out.
Does he really think that I don’t dare to kill anyone?
Suddenly, Li Shimin's expression became cold.
And Wang Xin said loudly: "Gong Lu, I have not forgotten this matter. I can fulfill my promise at any time, but in this matter, I still want to impeach the King of Shu. It can be said that without the King of Shu, there would be no this time."
"Locust plague"
Hearing these words, Li Shimin's face became even more sinister and terrifying. His eyes were like lightning. He looked directly at Wang Xin and asked in a deep voice: "Wang Aiqing, I hope you can provide evidence. If it is baseless, you are slandering someone like this."
As a prince, you should know the consequences."
At this time, Wang Xin also risked his life. Even if he risked his life, he would impeach the King of Shu to death today.
In fact, the reason they were impeached with death last time was because they were sure of victory.
But they didn't expect that they would be overturned by the King of Shu in the end.
And this incident made their Five Surnames and Seven Wangs family very passive.
And the way they finally chose to break the situation was to sacrifice Wang Xin.
If Wang Xin is not sacrificed, they will remain passive.
However, although he chose to sacrifice Wang Xin.
But before he died, Wang Xin had to bite off a piece of King Shu's flesh.
Therefore, at this time, Wang Xin turned into a mad dog
