1078. Chapter 1078
As long as the people are willing to get rid of the locusts, the disaster of the locust plague is still very easy to solve, after all, no matter how many locusts there are, there are many ways to stop the people. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The power of human beings is very strong, and any kind of creature can be destroyed if they want to.
After several days of hard work, the locust plague in Chang'an was finally suppressed by the people, although many crops were eaten by locusts, but relatively speaking, they still reduced the losses to a minimum.
In the first early dynasty after the locust plague was lifted, Tang Zhou's mood was so good that he laughed with all the ministers before and after coming to the palace gate, but several officials in the court threw him an indescribably complicated look from time to time, but Tang Zhou didn't pay much attention to these Tang Zhou.
After chatting with the adults for a while, everyone went to court one after another.
In the court, Li Shimin spoke highly of Tang Zhou's elimination of locusts, and other ministers also praised him, and Tang Zhou, who praised him, was a little embarrassed.
But at this time, a speech official suddenly stood up and said: "Holy Lord, the little marquis is naturally merit in eliminating locusts, but the means he used in the process of eliminating locusts are too much and unacceptable. ā
The speech of the speech officials is the freeest, and the purpose of keeping them is to let them speak and impeach, so no matter who it is, they dare to impeach and criticize, and now, they are pointing the finger at Tang Zhou.
Hearing Yanguan's words, Li Shimin said: "Oh, what exactly is Aiqing referring to? ā
"The beating of Du Shui, the county commander of Bafeng County, Lord Du Shui is diligent and loves the people, which is obvious to all, but just because he opposed Tang Zhou's elimination of locusts, he was beaten by Tang Zhou, how wronged Lord Du is, the little marquis uses lynching like this, it really violates the law of my Tang Dynasty."
After one of the officials finished speaking, the other officials also hurriedly chimed in, proving that Tang Zhou was wrong from different aspects.
Li Shimin was also a little surprised to hear that such a thing had happened in the process of eliminating locusts, so he turned his head to look at Tang Zhou and asked, "Tang Aiqing, is there such a thing?" ā
Tang Zhou didn't expect these officials to impeach himself at this time, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, he didn't do it to get rid of locusts, otherwise you thought things could go so smoothly?
After standing up, Tang Zhou said: "Returning to the sage, it is true, but it is wrong to say that I beat him because Du Shui did not get rid of the locusts, the reason why the minister beat him was because he had no respect, and the minister took people to the county government of Bafeng County, but he closed the door, and the minister was in charge of Gyeonggi as the assassin of Chang'an City, but Du Shui turned the minister away, people like him, should the minister beat him?" ā
After Tang Zhou finished speaking, the others in the court hurriedly stepped forward and said: "You should fight, this kind of person is too lawless, you are his top boss, such a person can't be beaten if he doesn't fight." ā
"That is, I have to beat, if it were me, I would have to beat him and maim him."
If you are smaller than other officials, you still want to show your superiority everywhere, who will you beat if you don't beat you? This is a rule that everyone knows, and Li Shimin also admires this the most, otherwise no one will treat him as an emperor, how else can he govern this Tang Dynasty?
After listening to Tang Zhou's words, Li Shimin nodded: "It makes sense, this Du Shui really deserves to be beaten." ā
The real reason for beating Du Shui is naturally because he opposes the elimination of locusts, but Tang Zhou said that he is disrespectful, which is very in line with Li Shimin's point of view.
As for whether Du Shui will be affected by this in the future, it is not something that Tang Zhou should care about, but in his mind, with Li Shimin's words today, it is certain that his life will not be good.
Originally, after beating Du Shui that day, Tang Zhou felt very guilty about him, so he thought about treating him well in the future, but he didn't expect that the locust plague would be solved and this matter would be caused again, so he couldn't treat Du Shui well.
If you want to blame, you can only blame those officials for having nothing to do.
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After the early dynasty, Tang Zhou did not go to the mansion, but went home directly.
Since he used the ghost fire to scare people that day, Tang Zhou felt that he could give the tools for making the fire a little more convenient.
In ancient times, the fire was made by drilling wood to make fire at the beginning, but later the flint was discovered, so it was relatively convenient to make a fire, but if you want to use flint to make a fire, you can't do it without a cup of tea.
This is too slow and a waste of time, Tang Zhou wants to invent a more convenient and fast one, of course, the lighter is definitely not good, and he can still consider the match.
The ghost fire is actually white phosphorus, white phosphorus is easy to burn when heated, and the ghost fire in the grave at night is caused by the burning of white phosphorus in the bones, but to extract white phosphorus, it seems to be a lot, but there is no need to rummage through the bones.
However, white phosphorus is too easy to burn, so if you want to make matches, it is best to use red phosphorus, red phosphorus can be extracted from some ores, but Tang Zhou does not know whether it can be extracted under such conditions, so he has to go home to experiment.
After returning home, Tang Zhou's several experiments had no effect, after all, he was just a cook in his previous life, and it was really a bit difficult for him to play with things in chemistry, otherwise anyone could become a chemical bond.
The production of red phosphorus failed, Tang Zhou could only think of other methods, he used to watch TV series, and knew that many people like to use a kind of fire fold at night, which is to blow it to have fire, which is much more convenient than matches.
He thought that he could develop a fire fold, and if he could have a fire fold, although it was not as convenient to carry as a match, it should be better than using flint, right?
The fire fold actually appeared before the Tang Dynasty, but because it was too flammable, it was just a flash in the pan, after all, it was too flammable and there were no good protective measures, it was easy to cause a fire, and no one wanted to let their home be burned because of the fire fold.
So all Tang Zhou needed to do was to find a way to make the fire fold safer.
He rummaged through ancient books and found records related to it, which said that the fire fold was invented by a palace maid back then, but later caused a fire in the palace, and then it was forbidden to use it.
The raw materials of the fire fold are relatively scarce, and few people can afford to use it, so that until now, everyone is still using flint iron sheets, and the more convenient fire fold is abandoned.
Tang Zhou spent a day making the fire fold recorded in the ancient books, he experimented with it, it is indeed very convenient, but it is also easy to spontaneously combust, a little touch, even shaking may burn, so naturally it cannot be kept.
But fortunately, Tang Zhou has thousands of years of knowledge than the people here, and he still has a way to make this kind of fire fold not easy to spontaneously combust, and he must blow it quickly before it can burn when he uses it.
And in order to make such a fire fold, Tang Zhou spent another three days, and after three days, he finally succeeded, and he wanted to find a chance to try it.