Yan Zhenqing is still dealing with the resettlement of victims in the locust-stricken area, but his advance report has already been sent to the imperial court.

The handling of the locust plague had already been decided in the imperial court, and Yan Zhenqing was not discussed again at the imperial court, and the report was only conveyed in a small area in the Zhizheng Hall, and was soon sent to the desk of the crown prince Li Shi.

Li Yu, the Son of Heaven, has gradually delegated power, and these things don't need to be asked by him, and they will take effect directly after being signed by the crown prince Li Shi.

Yan Zhenqing's report mainly has a proposal to vigorously commend the success of Fengzhou's locust drive, which needs to be voted on by the Zhizheng Hall, so Li Shi came to the Zhizheng Hall and convened four ministers other than Yan Zhenqing to discuss the matter.

"Now there are two problems!"

Li Shi pointed to the report and said to everyone: "One question is whether to accept Yan Xiangguo's proposal, and the second question is, if you accept the proposal, how much reward does the imperial court need?" Let's talk about it! ”

Liu Yan raised his hand and said, "Let me say a few words first!" Tianbao eight years, I experienced a locust plague in Huaibei, I have a deep understanding of the difficulty of exterminating locusts and driving locusts, it is basically impossible to succeed, millions of locusts are overwhelming, even if the people of the county are mobilized to fight to exterminate locusts, in the end even they can not be wiped out, can only watch the crops being eaten up, if you want to drive locusts successfully, you must prepare very carefully, mobilize all the military and civilians, everyone can work together to succeed, so Fengzhou can successfully drive locusts, I know the hardships behind them. ”

Han Yun also said: "Liu Xiangguo is reasonable, Fengzhou not only successfully drove locusts and kept a large area of fertile land, but also relieved the victims of disasters in other states and counties, and solved problems for the imperial court. ”

Li Shi nodded, and asked Cui Youfu and Chang Gon again, "What about the opinions of the two Xiangguo?" ”

Cui Youfu immediately stated, "I support!" ”

Chang Gon was silent for a moment and said: "Four of the five prime ministers have already expressed their support, what else can I say, I don't object to this proposal." ”

In fact, even if Chang Gon objected to it, it was meaningless, and this proposal was passed after Han Yun expressed his support.

Li Shi said with a smile: "Since we agree to commend Fengzhou, then let's talk about the specific commendation plan, and I personally suggest that the commendation plan for other disasters be used as a reference." ”

After a pause, Li Shi continued: In the second year of Tianbao, the Yellow River breached, and the Bozhou government led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to resist for three days and three nights, and finally blocked the breach. ”

Li Shi's proposal has been unanimously supported by everyone, since there is no objection to the decision to commend, then in terms of the specific amount and method of commendation, everyone must give the prince a face, let the prince decide.

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Coming out of Zhongshu Province, Li Shi came directly to the imperial study of Ziwei Palace, Yan Zhenqing wrote a total of two copies, one was to propose to commend Fengzhou for driving locusts, and the other was more important, suggesting to increase troops in Fengzhou.

The second copy was not taken out in the Zhizheng Hall, Li Shi had to take it to his father to decide, after Yu Chaoen was exterminated, the Son of Heaven Li Yu took back the military power, unless a large-scale war was launched, otherwise the general army mobilization and deployment were directly decided by the Son of Heaven, and could not go through the political hall.

Yan Zhenqing's second suggestion, Li Shi, apparently had to report to his father.

After waiting at the door of the imperial study for a while, Li Shi followed the eunuch into the imperial study, and in the imperial study, Li Yu, the son of heaven, was reading a notebook, and when he saw the eldest son coming in, he smiled and said, "What does the emperor need to ask me for instructions?" ”

"Back to my father, the son just passed the proposal to commend the locusts in Fengzhou in the political hall, and the son will write a specific plan for his father to see."

Li Yu smiled faintly and said: "Commendation is a must, since the Zhizheng Hall has passed it, there is no need to show it to me again, you can directly implement it after you sign it!" ”

"Sons obey orders!"

Li Shi bowed and saluted, and continued: "The second thing is also Yan Xiangguo's proposal, but it must be approved by the father, please see it!" ”

After speaking, he presented Yan Zhenqing's second fold, Li Yu took the fold and looked at it, he put down the fold and said: "Guo Song has already taken the same copy of the fold to increase the number of troops before, this is actually Guo Song persuaded Yan Zhenqing, Yan Zhenqing is helping him to propose, it is not impossible to increase the troops, but I need a good reason, I have not approved it before, it is because Guo Song's reason is not sufficient, he wants to have enough troops to destroy Xue Yantuo, I think this reason is not enough, since there is a Shuo army, Then why build another army to destroy the Xueyantuo people? ”

Li Shi bowed and said: "Yan Xiangguo seems to have put forward more reasons in the twists and turns, and they are very convincing. ”

Li Yu continued to look at the twists and turns, Yan Zhenqing mentioned the 1,500 hectares of military fields in Fengzhou, and mentioned that Fengzhou was fertile for thousands of miles, and it could be built into a granary, and the military rations of the two armies of Hexi and Shuofang could be provided in Fengzhou, but it was impossible to protect the granary of Fengzhou close to the 3,000 troops, so it was recommended to increase the garrison to more than 10,000 people, and at the same time protect the wharves, warehouses and other facilities outside the city.

Li Yu nodded, "This reason is quite convincing, if this is really such a request, then I can consider increasing the number of troops in Fengzhou, what about the emperor's opinion?" ”

"Son's ....."

Li Shi hesitated and said, "Erchen still supports Yan Xiangguo's suggestion. ”

"Alright! I will think about it, in addition, this letter was written to me by Guo Song personally, I gave him this power, you can take a look! He put forward the proposal about the alliance with the Tubo, I think it is very reasonable, we really can't force the Tubo to reconcile with Tuyuhun, encourage the outbreak of war between them, it is in the interests of the Tang Dynasty, after you read this letter, communicate with the political affairs hall and make a decision as soon as possible. ”

"Erchen must go back and read it!"

Li Shi took the report and bowed down and said, "If my father has nothing else to do, the son will retire." ”

"Go ahead! The matter of increasing troops in Fengzhou, I will have a conclusion in the next two days. ”

Li Shi slowly retreated, and Li Yu carefully read Yan Zhenqing's report again, falling into deep thought.

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After the end of the autumn harvest, it soon entered October, although the sun was shining during the day, but the chill at night was very obvious, especially from the northern grasslands, the cold air continued to invade Toyoshu, and the late autumn season in Toyosu was gradually coming to an end.

The Fengzhou government is still busy with the resettlement of the victims, from Shengzhou, Xiazhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, and even Yan'an Prefecture, Suizhou and other places in the Guannei have also flocked to Fengzhou, a total of nine batches of victims have come, plus the victims in Yulin County and the people who are unwilling to return to Hebin County, a total of nearly 30,000 victims have poured into Fengzhou, in addition, Lingzhou has also poured into tens of thousands of victims.

It is also unrealistic for all the victims to be resettled in Jiuyuan County, Guo Song resettled some of the victims in Feng'an County, and Fengzhou established the first batch of 29 villages in the suburbs of Jiuyuan, built a large number of mud and grass houses, three or four rooms per family, and then surrounded a large courtyard, and 100 households formed a village.

The rest of the people were temporarily settled in the city, and at the same time distributed basic rations, Fengzhou gave two kinds of rations to the victims, one is called basic rations, one liter of wheat per person per day, after grinding into flour, only children and the elderly can eat, and adults can only maintain half full, Fengzhou does not raise lazy people, if you want to be full, you must receive a second part of food, called labor relief rations, that is, work in exchange for rations.

All young men over the age of 17 and under the age of 40 took part in the work, and the three main aspects of labor were quarrying, logging and road construction, while the local young men were concentrated for military training, and they themselves were militia soldiers, and of course they had to use their spare time for military training.

Just half a month ago, Li Yu approved Fengzhou's request for additional troops, allowing Fengzhou to increase 12,000 troops, of which 6,000 troops were drawn from the Longyou, Hexi, and Shuofang armies, and the other 6,000 troops were only given quotas and equipment, and the soldiers were recruited by Guo Song himself, which was also a practice since the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court could only solve a part of the soldiers, and the other part was called self-recruited army, which was recruited by Fengzhou with its own funds and food.

In fact, this is a practice with great hidden dangers, such as An Lushan, which recruited a large number of self-recruited soldiers loyal to him, and finally rebelled.

There are also feudal towns in various places, which also have their own armies and are not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

However, Guo Song's self-recruited army is not the same thing as the feudal towns in various places, this is the quota given to him by the Son of Heaven, and the respective feudal towns have no quota at all, and they still recruit troops without authorization.

On this morning, Guo Song arrived at Li Yan Village, which is located in the northeast of the county seat.

Li Yan Village is not a new name, but an old name in the past, this village produced a prodigy named Li Yan in the era of Wu Zetian, and was rewarded by the empress Wu Zetian, and the village was renamed Li Yan Village.

There are 97 families in Liyan Village, mainly from Xiazhou and Shengzhou, who are victims of the disaster, but they have their own houses in Fengzhou, although they are mud and grass houses, but they can be built into stone-walled and tiled houses after the spring next year.

Amid the barking of several dogs, Guo Song and his party walked into Li Yan Village.