Lu Dynasty

Chapter 270
Mi Zhu came to Luoyang from Xuzhou to join me. Just when Liu Bei felt sorry for Mi Zhu's departure and took Wei Yan and Shamoke to drink, I was discussing with several advisers under my command how to control the locust plague.Like Xun Yu, Guo Jia and the others felt that the locust plague was an irresistible natural disaster.Although they proposed various methods, they were completely different from what I had in mind.I thought they couldn't come up with a more practical solution, so I laughed and said, "The gentlemen are all resourceful people, why didn't they think of letting the common people feed on locusts?"

Xi Zhicai was surprised and said: "My lord, this is not a joke. Locusts are a warning from the heavens. How can you eat them? If you eat locusts, the heavens will be wrathful and send down plagues. What should you do?"

I laughed and said, "Zhicai has experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but have you ever seen people who are about to die of starvation eating soil?" Xi Zhicai nodded, and I said, "Even the soil was eaten, why can't the locusts eat it?" Eat? If you don’t eat, you will starve to death. If you eat, you may survive, and you can even protect the food you planted from being eaten by locusts. Why don’t you do such a thing that kills two birds with one stone?” I asked one sentence. The four schemers were speechless.

Jia Xu, an old guy, started to play Shen Shen again, but Guo Jia said: "My lord, eating locusts will bring plagues! I'm worried that plagues are more terrible than locust plagues!"

"Don't worry!" I said with a smile, "You guys are talking about eating raw, I'm talking about cooking and eating. And you have to drink boiled water. I started to practice these in the Jiuyuan Grassland Camp. It has not been promoted. Anyway, Chang’an will be my territory in the future, let Li Jue and Guo Si forcefully promote it first, and those who are not convinced don’t need me to say it!”

Li Jue and Guo Si smiled and said: "You don't need to tell me, my lord. Although our martial arts are not as good as Wen Hou, we are still very good at killing people! But we have something to say, and we don't know whether to say it or not!"

I frowned and said, "Did I stop you from talking? Stop talking about this kind of nonsense in the future, and just say what you have to say. Even if you scold me, if you scold me right, I will reward you. Of course, if you scold me wrong There is also a reward, reward the whip!"

Li Jue smiled and said, "Master, Guo Si and I are slaughtering the clan like this now, will you let us be scapegoats in the future?"

"Scapegoat?" I wondered, "What do you mean? What are you two worrying about? As long as you are loyal to me, I will not let you suffer. What's more, these are my orders. My subordinates have always been rewarded and punished. What you are doing now is meritorious. Today, I promise in front of all the generals that I will never take the responsibility of slaughtering the clan now. punish you. Of course, you have to act according to the order."

"The lord is serious!" Guo Bang said: "We just heard some rumors, it seems that we are slaughtering the clan now, if someone defeats us in the future, we will definitely end badly!"

"Follow orders, do what you want!" I smiled and said, "These gossips are just to scare you. Only when you are afraid can the aristocratic families have a chance to stand up. You don't have to worry about it so much, just follow it wholeheartedly." I will never have a problem."

After listening to my words, Li Jue and Guo Si felt relieved, they clasped their fists together and said, "Understood, my lord!"

I smiled and nodded at them, and then said to Guo Jia's counselors: "If there is no objection, it will be carried out in this way. Let the people participate in the killing and eating of locusts, and ask them to cook the locusts and mix them into the grain to eat. It will not be a big problem. Also, for all the people under my rule, it is best to plow the land every winter, so as to prevent the breeding of locusts, and tell the agricultural officials to arrange and implement it! "

The four Chongmou nodded together to express their understanding, and Li Ru said, "My lord's actions are naturally justified, but I just don't understand why eating boiled locusts and drinking boiled water can prevent the plague?"

I also want to explain to Li Ru, but even if I say it, Li Ru may not be able to understand it.If you tell Zhang Ji and Hua Tuo, maybe you can get some approval.So I said: "It's not easy to explain. Just think that there is a kind of small bug in the water that can make people sick. After boiling, the bug will die. If it is not boiled, the bug will accumulate in the body of the human body, and wait for it to accumulate. When it reaches a certain level, it will become sick. Then the sick and the non-sick will infect each other, and it will become a plague!"

Guo Jia laughed and said, "Are the worms in the water the same as the erysipelas we take? It's just that erysipelas won't infect each other."

"Almost!" I said to Guo Jia: "When you go to Wubao, you can ask Zhang Ji, he may understand a little bit. Alright, I won't say much outside the topic, you go to your own business .” After speaking, everyone went back to their posts.

Huang Ming saw that we had finished the locust eradication seminar, so he walked in and handed me a piece of paper, saying, "Ba Xian, report urgently to Xuzhou!"

I took the paper and read it carefully. Huang Ming said from the side: "Xuzhou spies reported that when Cao attacked Xuzhou, Mi Zhu asked us for help. Later, Feng Xian attacked Yanzhou. After Cao retreated, Mi Zhu decided to come to Chang'an to serve. Now Mi Zhu is already on the way, but Mi Zhu sent a message saying that his younger sister Mi Huan and younger brother Mi Fang came first, and I hope the lord will accompany him!"

"Then send Xuan Gao to meet him, I think he should know someone from the Mi family!" I said with a smile, "Then Liu Bei let Mi Zhu go so easily? You must know that the Mi family is not ordinary rich!"

Huang Ming said: "Liu Bei originally planned to propose marriage to Mi Zhu, using kinship to keep Mi Zhu, but after Mi Huan heard about it, he ran away from home at that time. When Sha Moke went back, he arranged for Mi Fang to go first, and then he left Xuzhou. It's just that he left all the goods and food that he didn't have time to transfer to Liu Bei!"

I thought to myself: Mi Zhu in history was Liu Bei's close minister, and now he only left a little property and food for Liu Bei, which is already a very good result.So I laughed and said, "Only poor people like Liu Bei care about some goods and food. As long as Mi Zhu comes, I will be happy even if he comes empty-handed. What I want is Mi Zhu's ability to do business, not his goods. .In the future, I will arrange for Mi Zhu to cooperate with you, and you should learn from him!"

Huang Ming nodded and asked: "Zizhong's ability to do business is not bad, but he is the first, the scholar, farmer, businessman, and businessman is at the bottom. Why do you attach so much importance to business?"

I heard what Huang Ming said, and it was really funny.Obviously he is a businessman himself, but he looks down on the businessman. Isn't this just that he looks down on himself?But even if I explained it to him, he might not understand it, so I patted Huang Ming on the shoulder and said, "I'll tell you later!"

(End of this chapter)