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With disheveled clothes, Shen Ming felt ashamed and had no choice but to avoid talking about it.

He put the document in his hand on the table and showed it to Lu Chengjing, and said eagerly, "Your Majesty, it has been snowing heavily in Yizhou since October this year, and there are frequent frosts..."

Lu Chengjing waved his hand, interrupted his words, and put his finger to his lips, signaling him to keep silent.

Shen Mingan looked at him inexplicably, and saw Lu Chengjing take out a small bamboo cage bordered with gold silk from his side. Inside the bamboo cage were a section of elm tree branch and two blue-red cicadas. It was more than an inch long, with transparent wings dotted with yellow-green spots. It looked very big, but its spirit was a little tired. Lu Chengjing took a small stick and poked the body of the cicada, and the cicada let out a tiny cicada. Ming, fluttered its wings and fluttered in the cage, but failed to fly after flapping twice, and fell back into the cage again.

It is winter now, and cicadas are rare, let alone Shen Mingan has never seen such a big cicada.

Before he could speak again, Lu Chengjing placed the bamboo cage on the table, carefully teased the two cicadas, his eyes followed the ups and downs of the cicadas in the cage, and said to Shen Ming'an: "Ai Qing, I remember you Are you from Jiangzhou?"

"Yes, my ancestral home is Jiangzhou." Shen Mingan looked at the two cicadas in the cage in puzzlement, and asked aloud, "Your Majesty, this is?"

"There are so many cicadas in Jiangzhou!" Lu Chengjing patted the table with his palm, threw down the small stick in his hand, and said to Shen Ming'an with a smile: "This is the Han Lingcicada that Zhao Tianshi found for me. In summer and autumn, wait for the cicada to shed its shell, get the cicada slough, grind the cicada slough finely into powder, add the treasure from Master Zhao, put it into the alchemy furnace together, and then you can make the elixir of immortality."

The more Lu Chengjing talked, the stronger the smile on his face, but after a while, he sighed with a sigh: "It's a pity that these cicadas are hard to find. Zhao Tianshi searched for me for a long time, and only these two are the only ones. It is far from enough to make a pill. I think You are from Jiangzhou, and there are many types of cicadas in Jiangzhou, so I want to ask you here."

Lu Chengjing leaned forward and looked at him with a smile, as if he was thirsty for talents. Shen Mingan didn't know how to answer for a moment, and stumbled: "I, I grew up in Jiangzhou, but I have never heard of this Hanling cicada. Never seen it either."

Lu Chengjing pondered for a moment, then said: "Then I will go down to find the will of the Hanling cicada, and gather the power of the people, and I will be able to find a few more!"

"Your Majesty, it's December now, most of the cicadas can't get out of their nests, let the common people go where to look for them." Shen Mingan opened the document, pushed it in front of Lu Chengjing, and said anxiously: "Besides, Jiangzhou is on the edge of Yizhou. The snowstorm in Yizhou this year is very serious, there is no grain harvest, the people live in poverty, they can't even eat enough, and the tax is still heavy, if the people are asked to look for cicadas at this time, many people will freeze to death and starve to death."

Lu Chengjing casually flipped through the documents in his hand, "I know it's hard to find cicadas now, and I didn't say that I won't give rewards, so let the people go looking for cicadas, and whoever can find this Han Ling cicada will be rewarded." Qianjin, Tianshi Zhao told me that there is another kind of golden cicada slough in this world, which has the effect of bringing the dead back to life, and whoever can find the golden cicada slough, I will reward him with [-] gold."

"I have often dreamed about Mo'er in the past two years." Lu Chengjing looked into the void, his eyes were no longer as sharp as before, but a little cloudy, and he said softly: "Whenever I see the eyes of the third child, I will think of Mo'er." , It’s so similar, I wish I could dig out his eyes so that he can’t look at me like this again.”

"Seven years ago, someone came to report to me that Lu Ciheng was wooing court officials. His wooing methods were so clumsy that I found out right away. I wanted to kill him right then. You begged me all night , I also think what you said is reasonable, if you kill him directly, those knife and pen officials who wrote my chronicle will definitely say that I am a tyrant, so it is better to throw him to the northwest and let him fend for himself." A flash of light flashed in Lu Chengjing's eyes. Killing his intentions, he snorted and said: "I didn't expect that he not only survived, but also became a general. He is indeed the son of that man."

Lu Chengjing regretted: "Tell me, why didn't he die in the army?"

Shen Mingan pursed his lips and remained dumb for a moment, then said: "Your Majesty, the Third Prince has no real power in his hands now..."

"But I still want to kill him!" Lu Chengjing was furious, "How dare he covet my seat!"

Lu Chengjing's angry voice echoed in the empty hall, and the voice subsided, but Lu Chengjing's chest was still heaving because of his anger.

There was a moment of silence in the hall.

After Lu Chengjing's anger subsided a little, Shen Ming'an gritted his teeth and said in the silence: "Your Majesty, there are very few people who can really find this Han Lingchan, but with this decree, several prefectures and counties near Jiangzhou will be called out." The common people in Yizhou are fighting to find cicadas. People in Yizhou can't pay taxes. In order to get the reward of a thousand gold, they pay taxes and eat food. Women, children, old and young will go out to search for cicadas in this ice and snow. The emperor is more concerned about the people, and withdraws the order of seeking cicadas."

Lu Chengjing frowned and shouted: "Yizhou, Yizhou, Yizhou again! Didn't I already cut Yizhou's tax by half when I collected taxes in the middle of the year? How come Yizhou can't pay taxes at the end of the year? !"

"Yizhou is adjacent to the river. Floods broke out in May and June, and the heavy snow that began to fall in October froze the food to death. It is still difficult to maintain food and clothing for the people, let alone various exorbitant taxes." In Jing's anger, he got up and got off the soft couch, knelt on the bricks, and said in a dignified voice, "I ask the emperor to reduce Yizhou's tax and open a shed to give out porridge."

"I see." Lu Chengjing turned a blind eye to Shen Mingan who was kneeling below, picked up a small stick and began to tease Han Lingchan in the bamboo cage, and said after a long while: "You go out first."

Shen Mingan wanted to persuade again, "Your Majesty..."

"Shen Ming'an, I let you go out!" Lu Chengjing's face suddenly changed, and he cursed: "Are you trying to resist the order?!"

"I dare not..." Shen Mingan had no choice but to put his hands on the tiles and struggle to stand up from the ground.

The sky outside the hall was getting brighter, and the wind was howling. As soon as the door was opened, a bitter cold wind blew towards his face. Shen Mingan leaned on the door frame to stabilize his precarious body.

His eyes were blurred, his head was dizzy, his lower abdomen was slumped, and it was painful. Shen Mingan felt that his whole body was burning hot when the snow melted. on him.

The cloak weighed heavily on his body, and Shen Mingan's legs were so weak that he couldn't stand up. He coughed hard while supporting the door frame, and saw Liu Heyu eagerly talking to him, but his consciousness gradually lost consciousness, and he couldn't hear a word. clear.

It was too painful and exhausting, but before he passed out, he didn't expect the coldness in the snow.

Someone hugged his falling body.

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