The locusts in the capital were still raging until winter, showing their tenacious and terrifying vitality. However, under the induced by the Han River's "money to catch locusts", the soldiers and civilians in the Jingji who filled their stomachs quickly attacked the group of pests, fearing that they would run away or be frozen to death by God. In just half a month, the locusts were swept away, and seven locusts were caught in Princess Tang'an's mansion. Emperor Li Shi personally issued an edict to commend Jingzhao Prefecture and the counties in the Jinwei. At the same time, Han Hua also told the emperor that the locust eggs like drought and fear humidity, so the emperor made a cruel decision and forced the destroy of the water made by the powerful and powerful rivers and canals around the capital, so that most of the orchards and fields could be watered, so that after the spring warms up next year, the locust plague will not rekindle.

In addition, Li Mi's strategy also worked a lot. The emperor was originally worried that if the field was built in the northwest and the patrol would be set up, it would cause a huge burden to the Duzhi Department, but the facts proved that this worry was completely unnecessary. Li Mi persuaded Zhang Yanshang and Cui Zao to take out more than 100,000 pieces of cloth from the treasury.

Of course, these cloths are all crude and inferior, and are inferior products from tribute. The emperor himself did not use them, nor did he dare to use them to reward soldiers. However, Li Mi wanted to turn them into treasures. He asked the palace workshops to dye all these cloths beautifully and transport them to the northwest.

It happened that when the Tang Dynasty and Xibo negotiated peace, Longzhou, Jingzhou, Lingzhou and other places opened mutual markets. The Xibo area produced many cattle, and they used these livestock to transport supplies to the border troops. After transportation, they despised that the cattle would consume food when they returned, so they simply threw the cattle in the wilderness of Yuanzhou to let them live on their own.

Li Mi instructed Liu Haibin, Fengxiang Yin Duan Xiushi, Lingzhou Grand Governor Kang Rizhi and others to use these inferior cloths to exchange cattle with Xifan border troops. In the end, the price was reduced to the point of a cloth for another cattle, and 30,000 to 40,000, and a lot of balance were collected. Then Li Mi distributed these cattle to the border army or Shence army towns for camp.

Li Mi had long considered the farm tools and seeds. He advised the emperor that since the year of Tianbao, officials have offended Changliu Lingnan, Lingxi, and Guizhou Prefectures, and there are no less than two thousand people in Lingnan alone. These officials are in a miasma and are afraid of returning to the court without fate. Now Your Majesty can issue an edict to allow them to make a new life and ask them to pay a ransom, and then move their amount to the northwest to enrich the border defense. In addition, if anyone in the world wants to sue the official, they can also "invest millet to donate to the official" - the two ministers will come down. The money and rice they get can be replaced with agricultural tools and seeds, and they can be sent to the northwest border town for the start-up capital of the field, so that they will not burden the Duzhi Department.

At the same time, Han Huan's younger brother Han Hui reported to the emperor in the Jin and Shang prefectures, saying that Shang Yushan had a large amount of copper ore and was very close to the capital, and could add furnaces and smelting coins. The court could make 110,000 jin of profits each year and alleviate the money shortage.

The emperor was overjoyed and implemented as Li Mi and others said. Sure enough, a large amount of money and rice were raised in a short time, and then distributed the money to Fangzhen, which had an iron official, to work hard to forge agricultural tools and military weapons. Among them, Gao Yue's Xingyuan Mansion received 20,000 guan.

Not only did he become the defensive observer of the Five Prefectures, but he also obtained a large order for Xingyuan Prefecture. At the same time, he also witnessed the success of the imperial court's border town policy. Gao Yue's trip to Chang'an was a great achievement.

After the ceremony at Hanyuan Hall on the Winter Solstice, Gao Yue gave the emperor a farewell letter and prepared to return to Xingyuan to take charge.

The emperor also personally summoned him and Wei Gao in the side hall of Xuanzheng, advised Gao Yuefan, and said to them: "You two return from Chen Cang Road side by side to facilitate the delivery of Feng and Xingzhou."

Although Wei Gao wanted to bring Feng Yi army into Dongchuan, the state army and the land unit, finance and other things had to stay in Feng and Xingzhou, so there was a process of delivery with Gao Yue.

At this time, Gao Yue told the emperor that I would soon implement the "official military system" in the five prefectures of Xingyuan Prefecture, and also wanted to revive the academic schools in prefectures and counties, but the staff was insufficient. I asked Dr. Su Yan, who was recruited from the Imperial College, to go to Xingyuan Prefecture to guide the academic schools.

"Interesting, Gao Qing, you are the first person to let a doctorate in the Imperial Academy open a local library." The emperor felt a little incredible.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Imperial College System was called a clear soup. Gao Yue had a deep understanding when he was a student of the Taishou, and the country is now powerless and unwilling to carry out education. Since the local government has more than enough talents to "governmental tribute" every year, then the Imperial College, which mainly focuses on unpractical classics, of course, grandma does not love my uncle. So those doctors and assistants, want to go to the local shogunate to serve as assistants, hoping to get out of this sea of ​​suffering as soon as possible.

But Gao Yue was surprised that others hired the Imperial College to go to the shogunate to be responsible for documents such as "report and letter of letter" and so on, but Gao Yue still asked Su Yan to go to Xingyuan Prefecture to educate his own bank, so the emperor felt strange.

However, Li Shi also likes literary elegance. He agreed to Gao Yue's opinion very happily.

In the Imperial College of Wubenfang, Su Yan squatted on the steps of his humble house. His wife has not died of illness in the past few years, but has not recovered. She is still lying on the old couch, constantly coughing, and sometimes she has to support her sick body to sew the clothes of her husband and children.

As for Dr. Su, he was repairing the fishing nets and bamboo pits himself. In recent years, although the whole country was turbulent, Su Yan still couldn't stop. The Changwu Shi turned into a rebel and entered the city. The emperor and the bureaucrats moved to Fengtian City. At that time, Gao Yue sent someone to call the masters and apprentices of the Imperial College to go with him. But it happened that Dr. Su went to Kunming Lake to fish. After returning in the evening, he found that there were crowds of people running away at the city gate. He thought it was wrong, so he ran home to pick up his wife and children, and he could never leave this time.

However, during the fall of Chang'an, he lived a very safe life. Perhaps because the Imperial College had no sense of existence, the rebels did not attract their interest at all, but Zhu Li also sent some rice to help him from time to time.

But during this period, Dr. Su's eleven-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son died.

Looking at her daughter's body, Su Yan was in pain and could not help herself. The child would be able to get married soon. But who would have thought that God would ask her to come to my house? However, Su Yan couldn't cry again. He wrote a tribute to his daughter. He realized that he had no money to mourn his daughter. He could only pull a cart and bury a pair of children on the plateau outside the city, and the grave was accompanied by Zhang Tanzhi, who died in the Imperial College.

When we left the city, the rebel soldiers asked about Dr. Su’s condition at the city gate. They all sympathized with him and did not make any difficulties. They said that if you want to surrender to Fengtian or want to return to your hometown in Fujian, we will write a long certificate for you and run away after burying the child.

Su Yan smiled bitterly and said, "I can't pass Xianyangyuan (which was occupied by Li Xilie at that time) I'm afraid I will die. Forget it, if I die, I will die in Chang'an City!"

Later, the emperor came back and did not make things difficult for him (the emperor didn't know this person at all). Dr. Su's life was still poor.

He thought he had to survive, and there were still a few children underage. His ambition to use articles to manage the world when he was young was gone. He just wanted to fulfill his responsibilities as a father.

"Oh, I seem to hear the sound of a carriage and a horse." At this time, the sick wife suddenly said this.

Su Yan squinted his eyes. After a while, he saw a group of people at the gate of the Imperial College, holding two horses, bowing in front of the Lu Saint Palace, and then walked towards the school hall.
Chapter completed!