Faced with these pedantic views stated by Wang Bi, Li Su of course wanted to retaliate immediately. There are too many arguments available in this regard, it is nothing more than listing the achievements of eunuchs in previous dynasties. Later generations should treat things rather than others, learn from others' strengths, and abandon flaws and use them...

However, what surprised Li Su was that he didn't even get the opportunity to speak out, and the "referee of this game" had already ended in person.

Of course, it was not Liu Bei, but Sikong Cai Yong.

"Random! Why is it so turbid? The sage does not expect to practice ancient times, and it is impossible to discuss worldly affairs because of preparation. The story is based on the world and is suitable for things.

Although the ten regular servants are in trouble with the country, they may not be all their deeds. You don’t need to do it because of the creation of eunuchs. So why do you read? I abandon all the folded scrolls and go back to read bamboo slips. Although I have the same surname as Mr. Cai, I never feel ashamed."

When Cai Yong opened his mouth, of course he was directly citing the classics and did not have to consider the audience. He was a role model of the articles of the times, and it was also the fault of the people below.

Moreover, if you take a step back, even if Cai Yong’s statement doesn’t make a complete sense, can a small minion like Wang Bi still compete? Even Zhang Yi can’t speak out. The reputation of the academic community alone is not equal, and it is a crushing situation.

Li Su touched his nose, and his father-in-law helped him kill the enemy in seconds, and in a very fair manner, he didn't need to take action.

He didn't do anything more, but took advantage of the opportunity of his father-in-law's speech and secretly lowered his voice to ask his assistant Deng Zhi, "What is this king's origin? I didn't notice it at first, why did it be his turn to jump out today? Didn't Hou Zhizhong take the lead in attacking the overturning method a few days ago? Isn't he temporarily changing his official position to explore the way? Did he come from Guandong?"

The reason why Li Su asked this question was because Wang Bi was not an unknown person in history. He had vaguely mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that it should be Cao Cao's talent. In the end, he helped Cao Cao to pacify some rebels during the Xuchang Rebellion in 218, and was then killed.

Could it be the same name and surname?

Deng Zhi started in Chengdu and was a secretary for Li Su. He had been following him for a long time. He knew the work that Li Su should worry about, and it was a memo. Deng Zhi immediately responded in a low voice:

"The prefect is really a clever lesson. This king must be the envoy sent to the court to thank the governor of Yanzhou two years ago after Cao Cao asked for the title of the governor of Yanzhou. When Cao Cao asked for the title, it was Xun Yu, and when he arrived in Chang'an, Wang Yun was in power.

After Xun Yu returned with his appointment, Cao Cao was overjoyed and sent the king to come with great gifts. As a result, Li Jue was in power. He detained the envoy and later became a small official in the court. When this king was in the capital, he gradually became acquainted with the local prominent family Wei family. This time, it may be the Wei family and Du family sent to ask for directions by the Jingzhao family."

(Note: "Prefection" is a formal official position, only in the Song Dynasty. At the end of the Han Dynasty, they were both "Prefection Lords", but Jingzhao Yin and Henan Yin were exceptions and could be called "Prefection Lords")

Of course, Li Su didn't know these historical details and nodded to show his understanding.

But in fact, there are other twists and turns behind this. Only those who have to open the perspective of God understand that there are several butterfly effects involved in the middle:

In the original history, Wang Bi, as an envoy of Cao Cao, came to Chang'an and caught up with Li Jie's chaos in politics. He was indeed at risk of being detained, but he was advised by the Huangmen Minister Zhong Yao to advise Li Jie.

Zhong Yao said, "Cao Cao's attitude towards whether to respect the Emperor Chang'an was different from the two Yuans. When Yuan Shao wanted to support Liu Yu, Cao Cao also expressed his opposition. Therefore, although Cao Cao had hatred with the Battle of Chenggao with the Xiliang army, as long as he respected the Emperor Chang'an, the general had the hope of winning over Cao Cao to check and balance Yuan Shao." Li Jue felt that Zhong Yao's words were very reasonable, so he let the king go back.

In history, the reason why Zhong Yao was most trusted by Cao Cao among his old ministers in Chang'an was the most trusted by Cao Cao. After Cao Cao became the emperor, Zhong Yao became the leader of the Guanzhong region was also related to the fact that Zhong Yao and Cao Cao were connected to him at that time. It was equivalent to that Zhong Yao had been in contact with Cao Cao through Wang Bi from 192 to 195.

But now all this has changed. In 192, Zhong Yao was sent by Wang Yun as an angel to Nanzheng as an angel of imperial decree to enthrone Liu Bei. Before he could return to Chang'an, Li Jue killed Wang Yun. Zhong Yao was gone, and of course no one advised Li Jue to release Cao Cao's envoy, so the butterfly effect was detained to this day.

However, Li Su knew after all, through Deng Zhi's interpretation, who was behind Wang Bi - in fact, it was very easy for Li Su to check, but the key was that he was busy a while ago, and he had been busy with disaster relief and had no intention of confronting people. Deng Zhi helped him get the black materials ready, which would be the easiest.

...

Wang Bi said some righteous but unrealistic words, but with Cai Yong's tone just now, it was obvious that these suggestions were useless.

But let alone, Wang Bi finally acted like "I am an official" and begged Li Su not to abuse the people's power, and should consider "digging canals, repairing and overturning, when will it stop?" It should set a clear timetable, which sounds quite reasonable.

Li Su was right to things, and Liu Bei also made everything about the purpose of saving the people. Finally, he personally agreed to this point - because the matter of repairing water conservancy is to let the people work more, and heavy physical labor will lead to faster food consumption. Some fields that have been drought for a long time are destined to be rescued this year.

For example, if you haven't filled the water to relieve the crops, you can only use it next year if you repair it from mid-June to the end of July. This year, you will have to die of drought.

In order to make the people eat fewer bites, Li Su's plan really needs to finally evaluate the time to step on the brakes. However, there is no need to step on the locusts to be controlled, and you must always insist on killing locusts, because that is the benefit of destroying one day and one day.

When Li Su heard Liu Bei speak, he quickly agreed: "What the king said is very true. I have also expected this. I was busy surveying before and didn't take into account this point. I thought that on the tenth day of June, I asked all counties and townships to investigate the drought conditions and the current situation of crops in the fields. If they have not been irrigated by the tenth day of June, they can basically be judged to have a complete drought death, and there is no need to save them this year."

Wang Bi said 80% of the things he said before, but was refuted, and finally found 20% of the things he said were right.

Liu Bei and Li Su didn't realize any conspiracy or splashing dirty water in it yet. Seeing that the king must admit defeat, he passed this one first.

Li Su observed Wang Bi's actions and thought to himself: Did this man see Li Jue die, so he wanted to go back to Cao Cao. He felt that this little official in Chang'an did not need to be cherished, and deliberately contradicted the official without committing a crime, so he would take the opportunity to get a good reputation and be dismissed from office and sent off?

However, he was not very concerned about the inner scenes of such a small character for the time being. He was not a talent anyway, so it would be not much of a danger to run back to Cao Cao.

Subsequently, several officials in charge of civil affairs criticized the current problems encountered during the disaster relief implementation. Li Su also discussed the matter, rectified the things that should be rectified, and rejected the things that should be rejected were handled in an orderly manner in front of Liu Bei and Cai Yong.

After about half an hour of chatting, most of the meeting was over, and the drought control matters were discussed. Finally, it was the turn of Grand Secretary Zhang Yi to appear, this time it was mainly to attack Li Su's locust-killing policy.

Zhang Yi first said some nonsense about "respecting heaven and law ancestors, cultivating virtue to extinguish the anger of heaven, and waiting for the locusts to die out themselves." This cannot be blamed for Zhang Yi's ignorance. It is true that the scholars and officials of this era did not understand the scientific principles of locusts.

Of course, Li Su had to continue to refute the habits of locusts and why others failed to successfully destroy locusts in previous years, especially emphasizing that "the more people killed locusts, the more they destroyed, the more they did not offend the heavens, but the wrong method was not scientific."

Therefore, Li Su tried his best to emphasize the characteristics of locusts that reproduced for three months, and combined with the current use of locusts to light-taste, burning straw fires in the fields at night to attract locusts. The Tang Dynasty began to use these strategies, and Yao Chong also destroyed locusts in this way. Li Su was limited by technical means, so of course he could only do this.

When Zhang Yi said that technical problems were defeated, he began to emphasize "the punishment of heaven that was descended by God because of the destruction of locusts."

Zhang Yi did not tell Li Su, but turned to Liu Bei: "King, since the locusts were eliminated in May, I have sent people to investigate the people's situation. Jingzhao Yin ordered the Chengdan army, prisoners of war, and the poor refugees in the two counties in the north to rush locusts and let them eat locusts to fill their stomachs. So far, hundreds of people have been poisoned and died. There are still no reports. If all of them are included, it is possible that more than a thousand will be.

The toxicity of locusts is erratic. Some people do not work hard to rush locusts, and they do not die even if they eat locusts. Some prisoners of war work hard to rush locusts, and they also eat locusts. They die suddenly in a moment. What is this not a punishment from heaven?"

Zhang Yi obviously did his homework sincerely and presented a description of the deaths of locust-eating deaths reported by various counties.

However, this thing is not only available in Zhang Yi, but also in Li Su. Even the statistical methods are required by Li Su. For example, if the deceased appears, the deceased must report the cooking method of eating locusts, and what kind of locusts are they eating.

Since Li Su also did his homework, he could of course easily refute it.

Li Su told Liu Bei: "King, I know everything about this matter and have tried my best to avoid it. I have summarized the characteristics of locust poison. However, the civil servants sent by Jingzhao Yin and Hucao to various counties and counties have a mixed sense of responsibility and ability. It is inevitable that there will be inadequate publicity and implementation. I have ordered Deng Zhi to record the statistics and filing, and in the autumn, I will determine the performance of each county based on the execution ability.

Locusts are not toxic at most, but at most they are some unclean eggs and fine miasma, which can be detoxified by heating. After the locusts turn from locusts to locusts, their toxicity increases slightly, but they can also be eliminated. Generally, we inform all counties that when the locusts are enough to eat them, they can eat them all and burn them to ashes. The locusts are not enough and they still have to starve to death, so they recommend eating locusts.

In this regard, our government has conducted many comparative experiments before promoting it. Even if we have to eat locusts, the best way is to fry for interpretation. However, the poor have no oil and can still be roasted on open fire. It is just that dry roasting is not easy to heat evenly, cook inside and outside, and it is time-consuming and fire-consuming. Even if the straw pile in the fields on summer nights is not enough to cook enough locusts, so occasionally some people boil it in large pots.

In fact, if it is just boiled in water, if it is cooked thoroughly, it will not be good in taste and may not be toxic. However, some people may sweat too much in order to conceal their taste, and their bodies lack salt. When cooking locust soup, they add salt before boiling, and even mix straw ash, which leads to the combination of the two things and the ignorance of the minor officials of Xuanguan."

These words were the most difficult thing that Li Su refuted today, and the audience accepted it was mainly because he was reluctant to use the junior high school chemistry knowledge that everyone in the future could understand.

Li Su’s understanding of the toxicity of locusts is actually not very deep. He was completely a joke on Douyin before he traveled through time in later generations. He saw locust plagues in Pakistan, the Middle East, and the Afghanistan countries. Then the people in the comments said that they were eating locusts, while others said that locusts were poisonous and could not be eaten. Then he learned it when watching the fun.

Of course, Li Su is a curious person. He didn't listen to the keyboard warrior directly, so after watching it, he didn't forget to take it on Baidu, and he still vaguely remembers it.

The reason why locusts are poisonous is that after the locust matures, trace amounts of hydrogen cyanate may be produced in the body. The concentration of hydrogen cyanate in Africa is higher, and the domestic ones are actually much better.

Although hydrocyanic acid is also toxic, excessive intake will definitely kill people, but there is one advantage, that is, the hydrogen root is unstable, and the hydrocyanic acid will decompose after heating, so it is safer to fry thoroughly.

What I really fear is boiling in water, especially the pot has not yet been cooked to a temperature of sufficient decomposition of hydrogen cyanide, and the body structure of the locust has been boiled, and hydrogen cyanide is spread into the soup to reach a certain concentration.

If salt is added to the soup at this time, hydrogen cyanate and sodium ions are combined, and the hydrogen element is replaced to form sodium cyanide, the toxicity will be increased by a hundred times instantly. Sodium cyanide has a bitter almond flavor and is an obvious poison.

What’s even more terrifying is that if the soup is mixed with wood ash formed by burning straw or the bottom ash of the cooking pot, the thing contains potassium salt, potassium nitrate.

Potassium ions react with cyanate to form potassium cyanide - there is no need to explain this thing, it is much more powerful than sodium cyanide. Look at the end of the 19th century to World War II, in order to prevent being captured, spies were hiding this thing in poisonous fangs, and they died within dozens of seconds after biting it.

Therefore, there is no problem with eating locusts. The key is to be careful when cooking. Not only should you not add salt and wood ash, but there are requirements for water quality. There should be no high concentration of sodium ion potassium ion salt. Even if you have to cook it, you have to pour the soup, because the reaction between salt and cyanate is carried out in the soup.

...

Poor Li Sukong has a lot of knowledge, but even such basic principles cannot be explained through common sense of chemistry. Fortunately, he still has "experimental data", so he refuted Zhang Yi one by one, reminding Zhang Yi to pay attention to the reported death methods. Basically, more than 95% of the dead died after eating boiled locusts.

I also have a lot of curiosity in committing crimes against the wind. Because I sweat too much, I want to drink a hot soup, so I put salt into the soup because I die.

Zhang Yi looked at it one by one and found that this rule seemed to be quite obvious, so he had to believe it from the experimental results.

However, many people still think that Li Su is the cause of the consequences and speaks nonsense. Afterwards, Zhuge Liang temporarily summarizes the death record afterwards.

When Li Su faced this accusation, of course he could only learn from Yao Chong. Fortunately, he was prepared.

"Everyone! I don't say that the strange powers are chaotic, and the heavens are always in the way, and I will not survive for Yao, nor will I perish for Jie. I, Li, have this knowledge of investigating things and gaining knowledge, so I will naturally be consistent. How can I beautify it? If you don't believe me, I have summarized this rule long ago, so how dare I try it with me?

Today I really prepared one stone outside Chang'an City. The locust that had just scattered and pulled its wings and calf. We were experimenting in Jingzhao Yin Mansion. I fry it thoroughly in unsalted oil and eat it thoroughly. If it is poisonous, I will die.

If you don’t believe in the principle of this toxicity, you don’t need to eat boiled locusts. After all, there are hundreds of people who have been poisoned by boiled locusts. Just take a sip of boiled locust soup with salt. Don’t you believe that the poison is caused by boiling soup? Don’t you have to blame the locust itself? Take a sip of the soup with salt, and I will give up the method of killing locusts. Dare you! Come on, set the pot!"

Li Su didn't talk nonsense to them, and directly asked someone to set up a pot of oil and water at the entrance of the government courtyard to perform in public to calm people's hearts.

Zhang Yi retreated a little, but it was difficult to step down. After thinking about it, Dingniu said, "I am old. If the salt soup really causes poison, I will regard it as a sacrifice to the country to save the people. Just compare!"

After a while, the oil pan was hot and Li Su had already fried. Amid the screams of everyone, Li Su ate more than a dozen locusts with their wings and heads and calves in public. Although he was not afraid of poison, he also had to pay attention to taste. Who made him a food lover?

Seeing Li Su so generous, Liu Bei couldn't help but perform in public. After eating a little from Li Su, Liu Bei took the lead. Of course, other officials who wanted to please Liu Bei to stand on the side also.

The water pan was hot slowly. Before it was boiled, Li Su asked someone to add salt. Zhang Yi gritted his teeth and saw that the water began to boil. He took a spoon and took a sip.

Seeing that he was a righteous man, he was too pedantic and ignorant, and he would not die of sin. He pulled his arm to stop him from drinking: "Drink slowly, take a rest for a while. If you feel dizzy, carry it down and rest. Don't be anxious. If you drink urgently, you can't even save it."

"I'm not afraid!"

Zhang Yi still has to keep his face, but Li Su will not give him a chance, so he will hold him down and not give him too much at once.

After a few minutes, Zhang Yi gradually fainted, and Li Su had no antidote, so he had to let Zhang Yi's family carry it away and wait for the toxicity to be metabolized by himself.

"The prefect is really sure. He is indeed a person who knows the destiny of heaven. He knows everything about heaven and is normal, and he even understands these."

"The king really loves the people and benevolent, and he dares to eat fried locusts himself. Alas, it seems that the man is saved."

"Locusts are the meaning of the emperor. In previous years, the study of disasters, prophecies and divination was said to be the will of heaven that sinned against the king and the loss of virtue, so that there would be locust plagues. This year's locust plagues, earthquakes, and droughts came early. Li Jue made a rebellion and the emperor escaped.

Especially when the earthquake broke through the Chang'an city wall in the end, Emperor Gao's spirit in the sky was dissatisfied with his descendants and abandoned the country and fled to the palace of all officials, causing Li Jue to be crazy. Just blame the emperor for this kind of disaster.

The King of Hanzhong actually ate locusts himself, opposing the theory of disasters and dissent, and did not take the opportunity to blame the old three dukes. It can be seen that the king truly has the virtue of Duke Zhou, and does not seek to kill dissidents, and does not want to cultivate his followers. It is ridiculous that those old ministers are in danger of being in danger, thinking that they have different ambitions, and they are really short-sighted."

The small officials and officials watching at the gate of Jingzhao Yin Mansion were whispering like this. Ordinary people are not qualified to come here, but even if there are no support from the common people, hundreds of people have watched this farce today.

Jiexing has made another wave of selfless dramas about serving the country and the people.

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Chapter completed!