Chapter 9

"Your Majesty, your majesty, something bad is happening!"

"Longyou Road, Longyou road..."

"Drought!"

Cheng Yaojin panted into the Tai Chi hall.

When the sound falls.

A trace of horror flashed in Li Shimin's eyes.

"Longyou Road, what happened?"

Cheng Yaojin grabbed a pot of tea on the desk that had been put for an unknown time, gulped it, and then said:

"The drought in Longyou road is thousands of miles away, and the ground is really like what shopkeeper Xiao Zhang said. When you go down with a hoe, there are all locust eggs!" even, some victims scramble to eat insect eggs... "

"What!?"

Li Shimin's head exploded with a "buzz!".

Quickly came forward and drank: "where's the document? Come on, give me the document!"

He grabbed a thick stack of documents from Cheng Yaojin. Li Shimin took a deep breath and opened them one by one.

"In Tonggu County, Chengzhou, Qinzhou, Tianshui County, Wuzhou, Ganzhou, Shazhou and other areas of Longyou Road, the surface water source is almost dry, and even the underground water has dried up! There are enough ten insect eggs in every inch of soil!"

"A large number of livestock died of thirst in Yiwu County of Yizhou and Jiaohe County of Xizhou, and some even dug out insect eggs to cook..."

Li Shimin was shocked.

Looking at the contents written on each document, I couldn't help but hear a burst of thunder again in my mind.

"God! Really! This is true! There are really insect eggs!"

"The shopkeeper's God? You can guess..."

"Mowgli, bite gold, you say, is there really an immortal in the world? Or is there really someone who can predict?"

Cheng Yaojin just wanted to veto.

At the thought of Zhang Feng's mystery and the things investigated in this matter, he didn't dare to talk nonsense.

After pondering for a moment, changsun Wuji said, "emperor, there should be no immortals in the world... Maybe shopkeeper Zhang, use the means we don't know and the information we get through channels."

Li Shimin shook his head noncommittally.

Take a deep breath, put everything in your heart down temporarily, rubbed your forehead and said, "this matter is very important. No taboo. It is announced that Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and Du Ruhui will come to my study for discussion immediately!"

"The imperial edict orders Li Yuanjing and Li Jing, the kings of longyoudao, to come and wait for the edict!"

Changsun Wuji also knew the seriousness of the matter. He hugged his fist and left in a hurry.

"I obey your orders!"

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A moment later.

Tai Chi hall is a side hall in Li Shimin's study.

Everyone looked at Li Shimin with a puzzled face.

Li Shimin waved and let the people sit down.

"Today, I have three important things to discuss with you."

"First of all, there is a severe drought in Longyou road. There may be a large-scale outbreak of locusts in the near future!"

Li Shimin's voice fell, and everyone was stunned.

They all know about the drought in Longyou Road, and during this time, everyone is running to solve it.

But why are there locusts now?

"Emperor, is this... Unreliable? Where will there be a plague of locusts?"

"Moreover, I just came back from Longyou road. I didn't hear of a plague of locusts. I didn't even see a locust!"

"I have also heard of this. Although there are insect eggs in the ground, where are there insect eggs in all the earth?"

"Whether these eggs can break out of their shells under such high temperatures is a problem. How can they form a plague of locusts?"

"Yes! There are locusts every year. How can locusts break out this year?"

Everyone could not help chattering.

Li Shimin waved his hand slightly.

"Have you ever dug the soil and looked through the insect eggs? Bite Jin, tell me what you see!"

Cheng Yaojin's voice was dignified.

"Before, I personally went to Longyou road for investigation according to the emperor's secret order. I found a large number of insect eggs in the soil of sandbars, Ganzhou and other places. Even in some places, a bowl of insect eggs can be dug out in a field as big as a dustpan!"

"What!? so many?"

"No! These are not locust eggs, are they?"

"This... A sea bowl... Hiss!"

Cheng Yaojin glared at the crowd.

As soon as he shook his hand, he threw a document on the desk to the people, who hurriedly checked it.

The more they looked, the more dignified their faces were.

Li Shimin continued, "this is just one of them. Do you know how long there has been no news of Tubo and Tuyuhun?"

Fang Xuanling thought.

"Back to the emperor, there has been no news of Tuyuhun and Tubo since the 21st of last month. Is this related to the locust disaster you said?"

"That's right!"

"Tuyuhun, Tubo and Longyou road have encountered the same problem! Drought! And the problem seems to be more serious than my Datang. They are blocking the news!"

"What!?"

"No wonder so! No wonder so!"

"Your Majesty, our chance has come!"

"If you send troops at this time, you will win Tubo and Tuyuhun in one fell swoop!"

Li Shimin nodded.

"You're right. At this time, Tubo and Tuyuhun would think so if they knew the drought in Longyou road!"

“……”

When they heard the speech, they couldn't help looking at each other.

No wonder it was suddenly broken before. The secret agents of Tubo and Tuyuhun were blocking the news!

However, at this time, Li Shimin said leisurely again: "not only that, I know that there will be serious locust disasters in Tuyuhun and Tubo! At that time, locust disasters will be rampant and the Tang Dynasty will be in danger!"

moment

Everyone was shocked.

Didn't Tubo and Tuyuhun block the news?

They don't know the drought in Tubo. Why does the emperor know so clearly?

Where did you get the news from the emperor?

So, until now, people are doubting the authenticity of these two things.

Wei Zheng, who had been silent all the time, asked leisurely, "emperor, where did the emperor know about these documents and news? Why didn't we receive any news?"

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