This is the first time that Zhao Bing's edict has been rejected since the re-establishment of the three provinces, and the reason made him even more amused. The general idea was that the use of barbarian strategies would lose the dignity of the Song Dynasty and deteriorate the prestige of the great power of the Celestial Empire. However, this reason was difficult to convince him that the great power of the Celestial Empire was still pressed on the ground for decades and was asked to give it to his eldest grandson.

But Zhao Bing knew that when he was fighting from time to time, the disaster was like fire, and the earlier policy could reduce the loss. He issued an edict to convene a court discussion to discuss the matter of destroying locusts. Soon, the heads of the three provinces and six ministries all entered the palace by the imperial edict.

"There are signs of locust plagues in Huaidong and Huaixi states. Ten days have passed. The court's strategy to eliminate locusts has been delayed for a long time and rejected my opinion. I wonder if you have a better strategy?" After sitting down, Zhao Bing did not greet him as usual, but asked straight to the point.

"Your Majesty, I have urged all the ministers to propose suggestions and formulate a strategy to eliminate locusts. There are many plans now and are stepping up the sorting. The relevant prefectures will be promulgated soon!" Lu Xiufu reported.

"Well, where is the Ministry of Revenue?" Zhao Bing was obviously very satisfied with his answer, and asked Chen Zeweng with a cold face.

"Report to Your Majesty, I have ordered the relevant departments to clear and review the basic amount of the Changping warehouses in the two places, allocate the reserve materials related to locust-killing and the money and grain required for post-disaster relief. After the imperial edict is issued, it can be allocated immediately!" Chen Zeweng reported.

"Well, where is the Ministry of War?" Zhao Bing nodded and asked again.

"Report to Your Majesty, I have issued pre-orders to the Huaidong and Huaixi garrisons to assist local prefectures to eliminate locusts. Now all the ministries have made relevant preparations and strengthened monitoring and inspection of disaster prevention in the ground. We can take action only if we order the order." Chen Renweng also replied.

"Where is the Ministry of Rites?" Zhao Bing asked again.

"Report to Your Majesty, I heard that there were demonic sorcerers who bewitched the people in the disaster area and made money in the name of sacrifice to the locust gods. They have ordered the Youzi to demolish the altars and temples and punish them. They have also ordered the provincial and county scholars to teach the people not to believe rumors in vain and use them for the use of evil people." Xie Ao reported.

"Report to Your Majesty, I have ordered the states to prepare materials and build locust-killing equipment, and I am waiting for the imperial edict to the court!" Zhou Xiang, the Minister of Works, looked at him with his eyes, and took the initiative to bow and report without waiting for a question.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Personnel has begun to formulate reward and punishment measures, and wants to list the results of locust-killing as the basis for future promotion. It has selected a list of officials who have made significant achievements in disaster relief in previous years and are ready to be referred to the order at any time." Someone started, and Xie Fangde also took the initiative to report.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Justice, the Privy Council and the Censorate all reported their preparations, and Zhao Bing was basically satisfied with this, which shows that everyone realized the seriousness of the consequences of the disaster and expressed their determination to fight the disaster. It can be said that "everything is ready is not the east wind", but things seem to be stuck in the two places of the Secretariat and the subordinates. He looked at Wang Yinglin and asked: "Prince Wang, why should I reject my proposal!"

"The main reason for rejecting Your Majesty's proposal was that the imperial edict was that the adoption of the Mongolian Yuan's strategy of treating locusts would damage the national system, and believed that the Mongolian Yuan was a barbarian, and that the strategy of treating locusts was just an imitation of the east, and it was inappropriate to copy the strategy." Wang Yinglin replied.

"Oh, the reason is that it is still too late to let go. I think it will damage the majesty of our great country, right?" Zhao Bing asked with a frown.

"Well, this is generally the case!" Wang Yinglin answered vaguely when he saw the emperor's face was not kind.

"Haha, it's really nonsense!" Zhao Bing said angrily, "Don't you understand the principle of using the past for the present and taking advantage of the barbarians? If the locust plague spreads due to delay, causing refugees from the Song Dynasty to rise up and starve all over the world, is that called having face? I really can't figure it out that for the sake of the so-called face, national affairs are like children's jokes, and the lives of the people are like grass. That's called dereliction of duty. You all have to leave this shameful mark in history books, which is a detriment of all ages!"

"Your Majesty is the fault of me!" Wang Yinglin saw His Majesty get angry and quickly apologized.

"Your Majesty, you can't blame the King of Kings for this matter. The use of the Mongol Yuan was just the last plan of our dynasty. Is there anyone who offered good advice and adopted the method of the Tartars?" Deng Guangjian said at this time that he defended his disciples.

"Hmph, there are hundreds of memorials piled up on my desk, and there are still many sayings about gods and ghosts, and some are just empty things that pick up the teeth of our predecessors. Thousands of words are nonsense, and there is no way to use them." Zhao Bing snorted coldly.

"Your Majesty, all the ministers are incompetent!" Lu Xiufu saw that the emperor was angry, and all the ministers did not dare to say anything again, and quickly explained, "Your Majesty, our dynasty has been in Qiongzhou for many years, and many officials have not experienced locust plagues. When suddenly encountering such a thing, it is inevitable to deal with mistakes."

"This is not a reason. If you don't understand, you can learn. If you can ask the wise, you can ask the wise. Wouldn't it be a mistake to talk nonsense?" Zhao Bing heard what he said and knew that what he said was also a fact. His officials all came from the General's Mansion. They had low official positions at the time, and there were few locust plagues in the hinterland and coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River. He had not had such experience and lacked experience, so it was difficult to come up with a good solution in a short period of time.

"What Your Majesty said is exactly!" Wang Yinglin said again, "There is another reason to reject Your Majesty's proposal."

"Tell me!" Zhao Bing was a little puzzled. Is there something else in it?

"Your Majesty, this memorial was submitted by the criminal official Zhang Song. He was worried that he would be ill-behaved, so he rejected it!" Wang Yinglin said.

"Zhang Song..." Zhao Bing thought the name was familiar when he reviewed it, but now there are only thousands of Beijing officials, and there are thousands of local officials in prefectures and counties. He remembered it clearly everywhere and did not think much. After he mentioned it again, he suddenly remembered, "Is this person the governor of Haozhou who caused the tide of escape from the people because of his poor governance?"

"It's this person!" Wang Yinglin replied.

"This person has been dismissed for more than a year. Has he not been convicted yet?" The incident happened during the Northern Expedition, and now it has been more than a year since the army was in power. Zhao Bing said a little strangely.

"Your Majesty, because Zhang Song was handled by Your Majesty himself, the ministers dare not discuss the crime without authorization, so this case has never been decided!" Wang Yinglin said embarrassedly.

"Then how could he write a letter to offer advice?" Zhao Bing said even more strangely.

"Your Majesty Zhang Song was just waiting for the crime to be punished. He was sent back to the capital and waited for him, so he only placed him in an inn and was not detained in prison. This time, the court asked for a plan to eliminate locusts. He thought he took the opportunity to write a letter, and the review was not strict, so he was lucky to pass the trial and it was found on the imperial case!" Wang Yinglin guessed.

"Haha..." Zhao Bing couldn't help but smile bitterly after hearing this. It was his fault that his proposal was rejected after a long time. What was this called? He had a lot of things every day, thinking that the company had dealt with it, so he would have forgotten this matter long ago. If it weren't for this misunderstanding, he would have thought of this person at all.

"Your Majesty, I am guilty, please punish me!" Seeing that the emperor was embarrassed, the ministers dared not let him take responsibility, so they apologized in unison.

"Forget it!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and said that he would not pursue the matter anymore, so he calmed down his emotions, "If this report was to eliminate what the criminal officials said, and not to care about the common methods used by the Mongol Yuan, do you think this strategy is feasible?"

"I think that if you eliminate prejudice, it is a good way to cure locusts!" Wen Tianxiang first expressed his opinion.

"I also think this strategy is feasible and can be used as a reference!" Jiang Xu also agreed.

"In this case, I have no objection!" Lu Xiufu agreed with the two first officials in the Shangshu Province who thought it was operational.

"I have no objection!" Wang Yinglin and Deng Guangjian looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and no longer insisted.

"Well, as long as the disease can be cured, it is good medicine. Since this policy is feasible, why bother to care about who issued it?" Zhao Bing glanced at the ministers and said, "The Secretariat immediately formulated detailed policies based on this. After the Secretariat's preliminary review, it will be sent to the door for review immediately. After nothing wrong, it will be promulgated immediately and announced to the local government for implementation!"

"I will accept the order!" The chief officials of the three provinces replied immediately.

"The Privy Council and the Ministry of War will also immediately discuss and come up with a plan to order the garrison to assist the local government in destroying locusts, and not to be slow!" Zhao Bing ordered again.

"I will accept the order!" Han Zhen and Chen Renweng immediately took the order.

"At present, locusts are just the first to come out of the ground, and they are still larvae. The wings are not ready to travel far. This is a good opportunity to slap. Once the wings grow and gather in groups, they will travel a hundred miles apart while riding the wind, causing the spread of disaster. All provinces and ministries and relevant departments should not be neglected, and they should send capable personnel to the local area to assist in the fight against locusts. The Censorate also needs to send officials to supervise them. Officials who are not good at implementing the edicts and are perfunctory can immediately remove their posts and investigate them." Zhao Bing said solemnly.

"I will obey the order!" The ministers politely said again...

Under Zhao Bing's inquiries, the provinces and ministries immediately took active action. Three days later, the court issued the "Love Elimination Order" to inform the disaster areas that they should be implemented immediately and not slackened. The dispatched officials also left Beijing and went to Huaidong and Huaixi to assist and supervise. After receiving the order, the troops also sent troops to assist the local government on the basis of maintaining combat readiness. A vigorous locust-killing operation was launched in a timely manner.

Zhao Bing, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, received a report that the envoys sent by the Mongolian Yuan had arrived in Beijing to inform the Song Dynasty that the real gold had passed away, and that the empress Kuokuozhen was the governor of the country and Tiemur was the culprit. Although the two countries were enemies in the past, they were "friendly countries" after signing the peace agreement, at least in name only. According to convention, envoys should be sent to pay their respects.

If you ask me about my true intention, Zhao Bing really doesn't want to send envoys to pay condolences. The matter is like a two colleague in his previous life fighting like a black-eyed chicken, but when he got married, he gave you a wedding invitation. When he went there, he not only had to take gifts, but also pretended to be generous. He would definitely be frustrated in his heart; but if he didn't go there, it was not only him, but his colleagues would also think that you were stingy and loved to hold grudges.
Chapter completed!