Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Lu Huaishen Accompanying Food as Prime Minister Yao Worships the Imperial Decree to Exterminate Locusts

Yao Chong likes people like Lu Huaishen. Lu Huaishen, Fan Yang's Lu family, a famous family, and Yao Chong are the prime ministers. Lu Huaishen is not good at making suggestions, secondly, he is not good at rules and laws, and thirdly, he is not good at analyzing and making decisions. He really cannot compare with Yao Chong. It is often said that people like to find a helper who is not as good as themselves, which is human nature.However, the emperor is the smart Li Longji. Yao Chong has found such a person who can't do anything to be an official in the same dynasty as him to discuss political affairs. Isn't he afraid that Li Longji will find out?

Yao Chong was still calm, because Lu Huaishen was selected by Li Longji himself, so, being able to become prime minister without talent can only show that Li Longji has a unique vision. The difference is that although Lu Huaishen doesn't know anything, he is clean and thrifty, holds the position of prime minister, and his family is poor.All the rewards and past wages he received, he never hoarded, and distributed them to those in need.Lu Huaishen's home was very dilapidated. His wife and son were often too hungry to eat, but they didn't make trouble. Li Longji often tried to find some things that couldn't be sold to reward him, but afterward, Lao Lu turned the things into money and gave them out.Things go this far, even the gods are hard to save.Because he knew that he was not as capable as Yao Chong, every time he made a decision, he let Yao Chong make up his own mind.This is why Yao Chong likes him.However, an accident not long after, showed people the usefulness of Lu Huaishen.

Because of the sudden death of one of Yao Chong's sons, Yao Chong specially asked for more than ten days' leave.Before Lu Huaishen, there were a lot of big things that he couldn't analyze. Lu Huaishen was very frightened, and after a few days, he lost a lot of weight, just like a child with poor reading ability, who took a minute to understand, but he couldn't understand it in a day.Lu Huaishen didn't close his eyes for several days and nights. In the end, he couldn't hold on any longer, so he ran to Li Longji and kowtowed to apologize. He said he was stupid and incapable of being the prime minister.

Li Longji hurriedly greeted Lu Huaishen to get up, "I have given Yao Chong all major affairs in the world, and let him do it when he comes back. I let Aiqing stay in the position of prime minister, not to help me manage the government, but to advocate A role model for the customs of the world!" Li Longji ordered Yao Chong to come back quickly. Yao Chong returned to the official office, saw Lu Huaishen's backlog of political affairs for him, he laughed (the son was so happy after his death, this father is too cunning), he started to write, and in an instant, the mountain of incidents was covered. The verdict is over.

Yao Chong was very proud, he looked back at Qi Huan, who was surprised by Ziweishe, and pointed to himself proudly, "I am a prime minister, who can I compare to?" Qi Huan looked at Yao Chong, but did not answer.Yao Chong frowned, and asked: "I asked you, but you just talked about it. How is it compared with Guan Zhong and Yan Zi?" Qi Huan, a university student who knows everything about the past and present, glanced at Yao Chong, "The policies of Guan Zhong and Yan Zi Although it was not implemented in later generations, it was carried out all the time at that time. Yao Gong often repeated things, and he could not compare with them."

Yao Chong felt embarrassed, "Then what am I?" "Yao Gong, you can say that he is the Prime Minister who saved the time!" Yao Chong's brows suddenly relaxed, quite conceited, he threw the brush, clapped his hands, and said, "Saving the prime minister, it's not easy for me!" Compared with Yao Chong's "Prime Minister of Saving Time", Mr. Lu Huaishen is known as "Prime Minister of Companion Food" because he knows nothing. What is "companion food"? The so-called accompanying food means eating public meals with others, but not doing anything.This nickname is too harsh. In the near future, people will understand that Lu Huaishen's role is far beyond people's imagination.Lu Huaishen gave Yao Chong modesty in everything, and when a catastrophe befell Shandong, the first conflict between the prime minister who accompanied the food and the prime minister who saved the time arose.

After the Dragon Boat Festival in the third year of Kaiyuan (715 A.D.), a dark cloud suddenly rolled over the sky in Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places. The overwhelming dark clouds drifted closer and pressed down in the low sky, and people could see clearly that they were actually overlapping, flying and intertwined, extremely disgusting insects.This scene can also be compared with what it was ninety years ago.Ordinary people have never seen such a terrible locust plague. Some people began to kowtow to God, but God didn't seem to appreciate it. He led hundreds of millions of locust troops to eat up hundreds of miles of crops, leaving no hairs on the common people.

Everyone started to cry, this year's harvest is gone, so why not go hungry? But no one thought about how to fight against the locusts. They just repented and thought about all the bad things they had done, because everyone thought that the natural disaster was the punishment of God.Locusts are naturally a kind of scourge, either someone moved the kitchen god or the foundation of the land, and the reply of the talkative seventh-rank heavenly official made God very unhappy with the people of Shandong, so he invited the locusts out to have a feast.Locusts are lucky because they eat millet.The poet once said, "Plant one grain of millet in spring, and harvest ten thousand seeds in autumn." The millet here is the crop suitable for planting at present.

It was planted in February in spring and harvested in August in autumn. The common people expected it to have a good harvest, but it was wiped out by locusts.The people set up platforms in the fields, burned incense and worshiped, and prayed for God to show kindness.However, God has no conscience. The locusts did not decrease in any way, but more and more. Yao Chong said that locusts were a disaster in Shandong prefectures and counties, and the local prefectures and counties should be responsible for arresting and burning them. Everyone was in an uproar. This is simply a joke, the locusts are all over the sky, too numerous and complicated, and it is impossible to catch them one by one.Li Longji also had this doubt.Yao Chongdao: "Locusts are all over Shandong, especially in Hebei and Henan. The people there have been exiled. We don't do anything now, just sit and watch them eat the seedlings. Is there any way? Even if we can't kill them all , is better than raising them!"

Li Longji clapped the case and applauded, and was about to follow Yao Chong's plan, and Lu Huaishen stood up. "I think it's not good to kill too many locusts." "What's wrong with Lu Qing?" "It hurts the harmony of nature..." The audience was silent. I'm hurt...and peaceful... Yao Chong was a little flustered, seeing that Lu Huaishen, who had never argued with him, stood up on this matter, and even said that killing locusts would damage the law of heaven. Sickness, Sun Shuao killed two snakes and brought good luck, but we are here discussing whether we should catch locusts." The anger became more and more serious, until it became so loud that the speed of his speech accelerated to the point of a machine gun, "I can't bear to see Do you have the heart to watch the people die when the locusts die? If killing the locusts really causes any disaster, let me, Yao Chong, take care of it alone!"

A TV station interviewed Yao Chong. "Mr. Yao Chong, how did you think of such an example as King Zhuang of Chu?" "Hehe, when I was angry for a while, examples naturally came out of my mouth. I am not so good at speaking..." Immediately afterwards, the TV station revealed the truth that "Yao Chong is ignorant, and King Hui said he was King Zhuang": "Facts have proved that no matter how awesome a character is, there are times when mistakes are made. Because of being too excited, Yao Chong said that Chu It was a big mistake that King Zhuang cured himself by eating leeches, because the protagonist is not King Zhuang of Chu, but King Hui of Chu.” The story goes like this, back then Comrade Chu Hui Wang loved to eat pickled vegetables (he actually had such a hobby), and when he was eating that day, he saw a dead leech in the pickled vegetable dish his fat cook gave him. Fearing that the cook would die if others saw it, King Chu Hui hurriedly picked up the leech and ate it.That night, King Hui's stomach hurt unbearably, so he went out to defecate.After farting a few loud farts, the leech was sprayed into the latrine. Since then, King Hui's confidant's pain has miraculously healed.After the court doctor heard about it, he came here to study King Hui and the cesspit.Doctors were surprised to find that the dried leeches actually have the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing stasis.Since then, leeches have become a traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that leeches are pungent, salty, flat, slightly poisonous, enter the liver meridian, and have the effect of breaking blood, removing stasis, clearing the meridian and eliminating symptoms. Therefore, King Hui was very grateful to the cook who let him eat worms.He asked the cook: "Tell me, what is this?" The cook was helpless and grateful, "I can only say that it just happened." Sun Simiao once used leeches to invent a special medical method.He took advantage of the blood-sucking property of leeches, and put a living leech (mouth) on the bitten venomous mouth. Comrade leeches are naturally fond of drilling flesh, so they will naturally suck pus and toxins. Using this method to treat snake venom is extremely effective. Good, with immeasurable merit. Thanks to the leeches, people understand that whether it is a locust or a two-headed snake, it is not a life-threatening thing, and it may even save people. Yao Chong's speech was supported by a small group of people. However, among this small group of people was Li Longji, who had never believed in evil. Li Longji handed everything over to Yao Chong.I don't know if it was because of Yao Chongqi's grandeur, or because of Li Longji's magnanimity, in short, as soon as the order to kill the locusts was issued, the locusts disappeared automatically. The people of Shandong sighed a long time. Fortunately, they can still receive relief.They will never forget the plague of locusts in their lives, locusts, don't come here again!Therefore, in the summer of the second year, the locusts felt that the people would definitely miss them, and formed a group to come again. In the early summer of the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716 A.D.), the locusts came more than a month earlier than in the third year of Kaiyuan. What's even more abnormal is that this time, the locusts covered a wider range, harmed for a longer time, and were more destructive. Yao Chong still maintained his strength, and ordered the states and counties to hunt and kill them quickly without any mistakes. Ni Ruoshui, the governor of Bianzhou, once ran education, built Confucian temples, and established schools in Bianzhou. The people of Bianzhou loved him very much.Now the censor personally supervised and came to Bianzhou with the decree, but he didn't entertain him.However, he had a chance to talk to Yu Shi, and he was not confident in Yao Chong's plan, "Locusts are natural disasters, and it is impossible to catch them with hands alone. It is best to practice virtue and cure them." Liu Cong (Sixteen Kingdoms) The king of the Han Kingdom) caused locusts, and he was caught, and a big pit was dug and buried, and the people were exhausted!" Ni Ruoshui was determined not to carry out the order, and Yao Chong knew that he was a stubborn scholar. But almost all scholars are afraid in their hearts.Yao Chong accurately grasped this point, and issued an ultimatum: "Liu Cong is a false monarch, and it is normal for his virtue to be inferior to evildoers. Today is a holy pilgrimage, do you think it is the same as Liu Cong? You said that the locusts entered the country because of virtue. No, the locusts entered the country today because the imperial court was immoral, right?" Ni Ruoshui was frightened by his son-in-law, who said the emperor was bad?I just feel that I should reflect on myself! He panicked and tried his best to carry it out. In May, the imperial court sent envoys to counties and prefectures to check the situation of locust catching. Those who did not do their job well were notified to the whole country, and those who were able to do it well should also be highly praised.Soon, the list came out. Comrade Ni Ruoshui from Bianzhou was able to handle things effectively. After only one month of catching locusts, he caught 140,000 shi (3.78 million catties).From then on, the locust plague really got better. Yao Chong was very proud. He found Lu Huaishen, but he could only let out a long sigh. Because Lu Huaishen was seriously ill in bed and was about to die. In the winter of the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716 A.D.), Lu Huaishen was dying of illness, and he was ashamed all day long for not being able to do anything for the court and the people.On his thin and cold bunk, he shook his beard to explain the funeral.However, he didn't say how many hidden treasures he has, how many related households he has, not to mention how his descendants should be arranged, and how much savings the family has.What he has always said is that whoever is talented should be reused. Those who listened had sweaty palms, because the people Lu Huaishen recommended were all sinners who had made big mistakes and suffered relegation.