[Three Kingdoms] After crossing, I opened the sick and weak main road line

Worshiping the heaven and the earth cannot make the locusts disappear, but it can inspire people's hearts and let the people know that there is a government behind them, and no matter how bad the situation is, the government will not abandon them.

Xun Yu, Ju Shou and the others understood the importance of offering sacrifices to heaven, but just now they thought it was inappropriate for their lord not to let the little emperor show up. After hearing Cao Ang's frightening words, they couldn't control their expressions in shock, and they all looked like a ghost To their lord.

They got it wrong just now, right?The lord didn't mention such terrible things as eating locusts, did he?

Yuan Huan smiled without saying a word, and walked unhurriedly to the carriage at the bottom of the hillside, nodded to Xun Yu and the others, and asked them to go back to the official office to arrange the next thing to do, and he got into the carriage to take Cao Ang back to the mansion .

Jitian is such a good opportunity to win the hearts of the people, he has to prepare well.

The people were simple and simple, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion could gather tens of thousands of people in a short period of time. Apart from the emperor's stupidity and natural disasters, which made it difficult to survive, Zhang Jiao, the leader, also contributed to preaching.

Yuan Huan does not intend to use the power of religion to win people's hearts, the people are the people, and the identity of the church will be even more uncontrollable, but without the power of religion, God, the boss who controls all the rise and fall of honor and disgrace, can come out yo.

——The country will suffer the failure of losing its way, but heaven will first send out disasters to warn it; if you don't know how to examine yourself, you will send out weirdness to warn you; if you don't know how to change, you will be injured and defeated. 【1】

There is a god standing three feet above his head. Nowadays, locusts are everywhere, and the common people and officials think that natural disasters are the punishment of heaven. He is the only one who knows that the atmosphere above his head is not some fairy world. It's not that he can say whatever he wants.

Yuan Huan got into the carriage after leaving a few words, Xun Yujushou looked at each other outside and didn't know what to say, Cao Ang hurriedly got on his horse, and even said with gestures to say that he would talk after returning to the city, for fear that he would be killed if he didn't take the carriage gone.

Ju Shou watched the carriage go away expressionless, rubbed his stiff face and asked, "Wen Ruo, what did the lord mean just now?"

Xun Yu twitched the corners of his mouth, unable to maintain his usual gentleness, "I don't know."

Their lord has deep thoughts, they thought they could guess what the prospective lord was thinking, but it is rare to be able to guess three or four out of ten times, the lord's smile was so unpredictable just now, where could they guess exactly what he was thinking? What do you want to do?

"Since ancient times, it has been all about cultivating morality to prevent disasters. My lord's method this time is very effective in dealing with locust plagues. However, if it spreads, some people may say that killing too many insects will harm the harmony of heaven. It would be better if locusts were sacrificed when offering sacrifices to heaven. If..." Jushou thought of the locusts that flew over the sky and covered the sky just now, and really couldn't think of how to enter them.

Folks regard locusts as insect gods and insect kings. If they do too much, it is impossible to guarantee that no one will take the opportunity to make trouble. The Yellow Turban Rebellion has just passed, and the lessons learned from the past are ahead. I'm afraid I won't be able to spare the energy to put down the chaos.

The locusts crossed the border and suffered more than one place. It took time to appease the people. Before Jizhou, they fed chickens and ducks and dug up insect eggs and did not dare to take it lightly.

It hasn't been long since their people arrived in Guanzhong, and only Xizhi in Yuzhou can do their best to support them. It is inevitable that there will be places that they can't take care of. If there is chaos in Guanzhong or Yuzhou, if they are not careful, there may be a second Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Xun Yu sighed helplessly, "Go back first, arrange the things to be arranged, and then go to ask the lord for instructions, at least know what the lord's intention is."

Are they stupid?

It should not be.

Then it can only be that the lord's thoughts are too extraordinary, and they mortals haven't reached the lord's level, so they don't understand what's going on.

Yuan Huan went out to see the situation with his own eyes. After returning to the mansion, he locked himself in the study. Cao Ang squatted at the door with a bitter face and wanted to go in but dared not.

It is understandable for him not to regard locusts as insect gods and the insect king. After all, they are harmful things. Can't be eaten by people.

After a while, Yuan Huan pushed open the door and came out, glanced at Cao Ang who was frowning and couldn't help but shook his head, telling him not to be so nervous, just relax, the locusts from outside cannot be eaten, and the locusts in Jizhou are not to the extent of causing disasters. If you catch them in time, you may not be able to eat them as snacks, "Remember, no black locusts, only green locusts that have just hatched in the field."

"Why do I feel that all the locusts flying in the sky are black, autumn or yellow?" Cao Ang muttered a few words in a low voice, and looked at their lord with a complicated expression, seeing that he even listed what the locusts needed looked like, Reluctantly, he could only arrange for people to go outside the city to catch the insects.

He has never seen such serious locusts. When he was a child, he often went to the fields to catch locusts in his hometown. It was hot in summer, and the whole family had to go to the farm to escape the heat. There was nothing interesting in the farm. He Tianli is the most fun, and he is also a well-informed person since he was a child.

What the lord is looking for should be the kind of locusts he caught when he was a child. Speaking of which, the ones he saw before were green locusts. Why are the ones he saw outside the city just now either black or yellow? There is also a difference between locusts and locusts. ?

Probably the appearance comes from the heart. The green locusts I have seen before are mild-tempered, easy to catch, and will not eat up the crops in the field. Among the locusts, they are also the handsome ones, black and yellow. If it appears, it will become a disaster. It must be the most disgusting wave in the locust swarm.

Pretty fun.

The news that Mr. State Shepherd wanted to offer sacrifices to heaven quickly spread throughout the city, and Yecheng Academy specially took a few days off because of the locust plague, and let those students go out and see for themselves, so as to know how difficult people's livelihood is.

Older scholars can move freely, and children like Yuan Jing and Guo Yi can't run around, so they simply pack up their things and go home to stay.

Young Master Yuan Jing is used to the life in the academy, and he doesn't want to let himself be idle when he is not in the academy. He recognizes characters early and learns things quickly. He has all kinds of books at home. He can read anything he wants, so he simply looked for it. This "Spring and Autumn" comes to watch and play.

He can't understand the big truth, but it's okay to just read the short stories inside.

On a certain day in a certain year and a certain month, this so-and-so played with the princes and caused chaos in the world. Unfortunately, the official historian took a small notebook to record it.

On a certain day of a certain year, this so-and-so had been in power for three years and had fun all day long. Not only was he not scolded, but he also uttered the famous saying that if you don't sing, you will become a blockbuster. Fortunately, the historian took a small notebook and wrote it down.

On a certain day in a certain year, this so-and-so sent a military general with a very good mouth and kung fu to fight, but he was wiped out by the opponent's entire army. Unfortunately, he was recorded by the official historian in a small notebook.

The little guy is fascinated by reading stories. He spends his days peacefully reading books, eating and sleeping, and is not even interested in playing war games with his friends.

The father and son in the study were busy with their own business. The young master Yuan Jing successfully read another new story. He puffed up his chest and was so proud. Although his father had already marked the above sentences for him, he did not ask his father this time. The new words, he read the whole article by himself, this is the first time.

"Father, can offering sacrifices to heaven let God know what happened in the mortal world?" The little guy chattered for a while, seeing his father still writing, he couldn't help asking after reading for a while, "That's the kind, God Hear our prayers, and let all the locusts outside die at once."

Tomorrow is the day of offering sacrifices to heaven, everyone can go out to watch, but he can't, Dad said he is young, afraid that there will be too many locusts outside and scare him, obviously he is not afraid at all, Dad will look down on people.

Young Master Yuan Jing also wanted to follow to sacrifice to heaven, but his arms couldn't twist his thighs. His dear father didn't let go, so he could only think about it if he wanted to follow. Who made him too young to sneak out even if he wanted to? Woolen cloth.

Yuan Huan put down his pen and rubbed his wrists, took a sip of water to moisturize his throat, looked at the little guy's eyes full of curiosity, raised his hand and greeted the little guy to his side, "Jing'er thinks that offering sacrifices to heaven and earth can solve the problem?"

"Should be able to solve it." Yuan Jing thought for a while, then nodded after finishing speaking, "If it's useless to worship the sky, why do you still have to sacrifice to the sky?"

Yuan Huan: ...

Well, the simple Chinese people who only believe in the god of usefulness throughout the ages will not disappoint him. Even children have this awareness. It can be seen that as long as locusts can be exchanged for food, ninety-nine out of ten ordinary people are willing to drag their families to catch locusts in exchange for food. .

Yuan Huan took the little guy to the small couch in front of the window and sat down, pondered for a long time before opening his mouth again, "There was such an emperor a long time ago, and there was also a plague of locusts in his country. Terrible, the crops in the field were eaten up, and people would starve to death without food. The emperor was very anxious. In order to quickly deal with the locusts, he hurriedly built an altar and prayed to the heavens. He only hoped that the heavens would see his sincerity. Let the locusts leave his country."

"Then what? Have the locusts left?" Yuan Jing climbed onto the small couch, and closed the window on their father's side, so as not to let the outside wind blow in and catch people cold.

He is physically strong and is not afraid of the wind, but Dad is not, so the wind outside should only blow him.

Yuan Huan was a little heartbroken by the little guy's little eyes begging for praise. He is actually not that delicate, and blowing on a hot day can't blow him away. Is the brat overly nervous?

The old father looked at the half window that his son had closed himself, and pursed his lips very unhappy. He had no choice, he was an adult, and he couldn't care about it like a child, just close it, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, this joint point Don’t dare to get sick.” The emperor built an altar to worship the heaven and the earth. At that time, some officials reported that the locusts in their place stopped eating the crops and ate the leaves and weeds on the roadside. Some said that it suddenly started to rain heavily, and the locusts were all killed by the heavy rain. What's more, the officials of counties and counties near the altar reported that the locusts in their place felt the majesty of the emperor, and they were afraid that the emperor would punish them after the emperor complained to heaven. starving."

"It's still like this?" Young Master Yuan Jing was stunned. He thought that the history books he had read already contained many silly little stories, but he didn't expect that there were so many outrageous things in places he hadn't read.

Yes, outrageous.

Although the little guy had only started reading history books not long ago, he knew that the locust would definitely not commit suicide because of the emperor's sacrifice to heaven.

He has grown so big, and he has never heard of locusts that are hungry.

Oh, he doesn't seem to be very old now.

Anyway, locusts dying on a hunger strike is outrageous. If offering sacrifices to heaven is so useful, why are there still locusts now? Those annoying bugs must have been wiped out hundreds of years ago by offering sacrifices to heaven again and again.

The little guy had an expression of "Dad, you are fooling me", and Yuan Huan couldn't help laughing, "The situation at that time was indeed like this. The emperor was very happy after hearing the good news from all over the world, and began to pray to God every day to hurry up. To wipe out all those locusts, even our Jing'er knows that praying is useless, so one can imagine how absurd that emperor is."

"Yes, that's right, it's too absurd." Young Master Yuan Jing originally thought that offering sacrifices to the heavens might not be of much use, but after all, offering sacrifices every year must be of some use. The child's mind changes quickly. Hearing what his father said, he immediately changed his mind.

Sacrificing to heaven is useless. Man will conquer heaven. Only by catching locusts and burning eggs like them can defeat locusts. Praying is useless. Relying on yourself is the best. "What next? That emperor is so ridiculous, he should not be able to solve the locust plague." ?”

"Then, of course, the locusts were raging, and the people suffered." Yuan Huan rubbed the little guy's head and smiled slightly, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "Most officials flatter, in order to let the emperor Happy people will only flatter, they ignore the locusts, and the locusts can reproduce unscrupulously."

Ordinary locusts can live for four to five months. If the conditions are right, there will be a new generation within a month. In this way, one generation after another, from summer to autumn, the number of locusts can be doubled several times.

There are too many locusts, and the situation is so serious that even if the officials want to hide it, they can't hide it. No matter how heavily guarded the palace is, they can only guard against people, not insects with wings that can fly. So many locusts cover the sky, Even if the emperor is a fool, he should know that he was cheated by the magistrate.

For three years in a row, there were severe droughts, locust plagues, and famines every year. The number of locusts increased year by year. The number of locusts was so large that the emperor's country could not hold them. They flew to other countries in the north, scaring people in other countries. Crying and calling for help, after all, there are so many locusts, and ordinary people really can't see them without a chance.

Yuan Jing wrinkled his nose and was very dissatisfied with the emperor. He ate and drank himself in the palace. What would the people do when the locusts ate up the people's food? How could such a person have the face to be the emperor? When the locusts first started to wreak havoc, they quit the Zen seat and replaced them with capable people. If they are not capable, can they let capable people clean up the mess?

Fortunately, he is not that emperor, he is not that stupid, if it is really him, he must be as capable as Dad.

The little guy snorted, raised his chin proudly, "Father, who is that emperor, tell me his name, and I'll write an article to scold him."

"Have you read all the words and write articles to scold people? Children can read at ease and don't think so much." Yuan Huan said with a smile, the emperor was the emperor many years later, his surname was Zhao Mingheng, the third emperor of the Song Dynasty Zhenzong, he can say it, but no one knows who it is except him.

"Don't tell me, Dad. I'll find him when I read too much. I must scold him so much that I dare not see anyone." The little guy clenched his fists, his eyes were burning with anger, even if he was a dead emperor. , he also wanted to scold that guy until he had no face in the ground.

It's too much!

The little guy is in a fit of anger, and now he can’t listen to what he says. Yuan Huan simply makes him sulk, and he can’t find it after reading too much. He reads history books thousands of years later. I turned over all the books and couldn't find them.

Yuan Jing waved his fists angrily, seeing that his father was going back to continue to deal with official business after telling the story, he quickly pulled his sleeve and asked the last question, "Father, since it is useless to worship the heavens, why do we still have to sacrifice?" Oh my god? Can't you sleep a little longer when you have free time?"

"Sacrificing to heaven is not useful for locusts, but it is useful for people." Yuan Huan helplessly looked at the little guy who turned into a hundred thousand whys, and explained to him very patiently. easy to understand.

To put it simply, sacrificing to heaven cannot make locusts commit suicide in fear of sin, but it can cheer up the common people under the plague of locusts. Originally, one sack of locusts can be caught a day, but after the encouragement of sacrificing to heaven, they can catch ten sacks a day. In this way, Locusts can be wiped out faster.

They respect and believe in God, but they can’t pin all their hopes on the illusory will of God. Ordinary people can’t do this, let alone officials. It's almost useless.

The little guy shook his head half-understood, went back to his own little desk and sat down, put his face on his face and thought for a while, but he didn't know how much he wanted to understand. In short, he had decided in his heart that praying to God was useless, like their family It is the most powerful that father can do everything by himself without the help of gods.

Dad is more powerful than a god.

Young Master Yuan Jing sat up straight and continued to read his "Spring and Autumn" with a stern face. That emperor is so absurd, he must be able to find out who that guy is in the history books, and it is not in vain that he had such a big accident just now. gas.

The little guy originally wanted to follow him to worship the heavens, but now he doesn't want to. He can't wait to read all the history books at once, and he has to find out who the hateful emperor is after being forced into his head by the letter.

The poor little son didn't know that he couldn't find the emperor in the story even if he really read all the existing books. However, his unscrupulous father didn't intend to tell him the truth, so he could only continue to look for it in the sea of ​​books and learning. The truth that doesn't exist.

The next morning, Yuan Huan got up early to pack up and go out. The altar was set up outside the city. They had to pass through the city. If they didn't go there sooner, the street would be blocked by people who came out to watch the sacrifice. They couldn't even think about it. .

Young Master Yuan Jing came out to see his father out in a decent manner, and held his father at the door for a long time. If it wasn't for the bad weather today, gloomy and no sun, he would even ask the guard next to him to bring an umbrella for him. His father shaded the sun.

Thinking of this, the little guy raised his head to look at the sun where he didn't know where, and thought in his heart that although offering sacrifices to the sky was useless, but with the power of their father, maybe the sky would clear up after offering sacrifices, so it would be better to bring an umbrella.

Yuan Huan, dumbfounded, coaxed his son, who was so worried that he couldn't stop, to study with Guo Yi next door, and finally got into the carriage.

Guo Jia is not here, there is no principal in the Guo Mansion, and the little ones don’t show up in the academy on weekdays, but they look deserted when they get home. He originally wanted Guo Yi to live with Yuan Jing as before, but they didn’t agree. The little guy is small but has a lot of ideas. He found a lot of reasons to convince him, and the eloquent one really looks like Guo Jia's child.

Cao Ang followed on horseback, looked at the cook sitting in the carriage behind, rubbed his arms and couldn't help the scalp numbness, clamped the horse's belly and walked quickly a few steps to the carriage where their lord was, leaned over to the window and asked in a low voice Said, "My lord, do you really want to eat locusts?"

Yuan Huan lifted the curtain of the car, smiled and looked at the young man who was so nervous that he was sweating on his forehead, "What? Are you scared?"

"A little bit." Cao Ang swallowed, his hand holding the horsewhip was trembling, and he didn't care about his masculinity at this time, and looked over pitifully, trying to avoid the next terrible thing, "My lord, what, I'm still young, and I'm not a few years older than His Majesty, can I not go to sacrifice to heaven?"

Young master, they don't need to worship the sky when they are young, and His Majesty doesn't need to worship the sky when he is young. Does the lord know that eating locusts is terrible, because he is afraid of scaring children, so he doesn't let them follow?

Swallowing locusts raw is too scary, the lord also brought a cook as a cover, what's the use of bringing a cook, locusts are not locusts if they are dead locusts?

My lord, open your eyes and see, those bugs are really scary.

It's been so many days, why didn't Mr. Wen Ruo persuade the lord? Alas, I will definitely let that brat Cao Pi read more books later. It's better to be more eloquent than everyone else, so that the lord will have any strange ideas in the future When you think about it, you are not afraid that no one will persuade you.

Cao Ang wanted to retreat pitifully, but unfortunately their master didn't give him this chance. The young man sitting in the carriage smiled like the sunshine in March in spring, so beautiful that it made people feel so dazed that nothing remained in their minds.

When the little boy Cao Ang came back to his senses, they had already arrived at the altar set up outside the city.