Li Lingyue looked at Li Hong's hypocritical smiling face that she wanted to pounce on and take a bite, with a pair of bright, dark, jewel-like eyes. She suddenly turned to Li Zhi and began to pout, and with those loving eyes, her full acting skills began. A sparkling water is brewing.
Li Zhi and Wu Mei looked at the little face of Li Lingyue's fan, feeling helpless and angry. The little princess in the palace had no one to control, and only the little brat in the palace could suppress her. They really agreed with those words: Evil people still need to be punished by evil people.
However, no matter how soft the old couple may be, at this time, Li Lingyue can't cry because he wants to talk about the real thing next. If Li Lingyue cries instead of talking about the real thing, I'm afraid Yilong Yifeng will put the real thing behind him, beat up the Prince first, and exhale himself for their beloved princess.
"Okay, okay, okay, stop pretending, Li Lingyue. Those questions are not good enough. Then I will ask you one more. After I finish asking, you can come and try. If you can't find the answer, don't come back..."
"Don't come back." Wu Mei Feather Duster said angrily as she refused to leave her side recently.
Li Hong sat on the chair and leaned back slightly to avoid Long Ma's invincible feather duster. He waved Li Lingyue over and asked under the curious eyes of Wu Mei and Li Zhi: "Li Lingyue, do you know that you like to eat fried food?" Where did the chicken legs come from?”
"I know, they were picked from the chicken." Li Lingyue lowered her head, her mind still a little confused by the question just now.
"Where did the chicken come from?" Li Hong continued to ask softly.
Next to them, Li Zhi and Wu Mei shouted in their hearts: "Isn't this nonsense? Of course it was hatched by a hen."
Li Lingyue raised her little face, the crystal clear eyes had long since disappeared, she looked at Li Hong strangely and said in her heart: "Brother Emperor, why would you ask me such a stupid question." '
Then he said: "Of course, the hen hatches it from the egg, and then plucks it from the body when it grows up."
"You are really knowledgeable in picking characters." Li Hong looked at Li Lingyue, who looked innocent and cute, gave a thumbs up and praised: "Then where do the eggs come from?"
"Brother, you are so stupid. Of course eggs are laid by hens. Hens lay eggs before they can hatch out chicks." Li Lingyue completely relaxed her vigilance and was bypassed by Li Hong again.
Not only Li Lingyue, but Wu Mei and Li Zhi also rolled their eyes at Li Hong's question, which was not a problem. This question was worse than the question he just made up to fool Li Lingyue. An unfilial son would not treat the royal family well. The princess’s wisdom is taken seriously.
"That's it, hens lay eggs and hatch chicks, so the question is, which came first in this world, the chicken or the egg?" A harmless smile similar to Li Lingyue's appeared on Li Hong's face again.
"Of course there is... first there is... the egg hatches the chicken, the chicken lays the egg, the chicken lays the egg, the chicken hatches the egg... I..."
"That's right, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Think about it carefully, if you can't find someone to help you catch a few chickens and study them to see which came first, the chicken or the egg, go ahead." Li Hong rubbed the head of Li Lingyue, who had just stepped out of the 'metaphysics' and immediately entered the realm of 'philosophy', and said softly.
"Oh, yes, I'm going to catch the chicken. Father, mother, queen, I'll take my leave first." Li Lingyue nodded solemnly, stepped up her legs, and ran to find the answer with the palace maid behind her.
After watching Li Lingyue leave, Li Hong clapped his hands proudly, turned around and saw Father Long and Mother Long staring at him with strange eyes: "What's wrong?"
Mother Long was a little confused: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"Yes, which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Father Long echoed Mother Long, and the two of them asked in despair.
“….”
After a brief period of calm, seeing that the old couple were still deep in thought, Li Hong had no choice but to stand up and walk up to them, waving his palms in front of them, intending to summon their three souls and seven souls back first.
"Li Hong, tell the queen mother, which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Wu Mei's eyes became clearer, but the question remained the same.
"Well, which came first, the chicken or the egg, Hong'er?" Li Zhi came to his senses, but still felt that this issue was worthy of further investigation.
"I don't know either." Someone threw out five words irresponsibly.
"You don't know either?" The couple asked in unison: "I didn't know you asked Li Lingyue?"
"Don't I know what to teach her? What if she figures out which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Li Hong said helplessly as he looked at the couple who looked like they were about to eat people.
"Forget it, Your Majesty, let's put aside the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Let's talk about the drought first." Wu Mei rubbed her aching head.
What worried her the most in the palace was the Crown Prince in front of her and the Princess who had just left. Wu Mei felt that having two children like these would shorten her life by dozens of years.
No, the mad princess just left, and the prince in front of her started to make her angry before she even said anything. The drought problems in Guanzhong and Henan that the court officials had reported to the court were not revealed in the court. The people arguing above were chattering away, but someone didn't even go to court.
But while most courtiers tended to let the emperor and empress worship the sky together to pray for rain, Wu Mei felt that she should ask Li Hong for his opinion. Li Hong, who had been able to surprise him since childhood, was not satisfied with the heaven here. Are you interested in something like this
But she didn't hold out much hope. If he, Li Hong, could even attract rain, wouldn't it mean that Wen Quxing had descended to earth? Therefore, the main purpose of summoning him to the palace was to hope that Er Genzi could be clean for a few days, and to send Li Lingyue to the East Palace for a few days.
As for the issue of drought, it was just a casual question at this time. You can't trick people into coming from the East Palace without saying anything serious. Then will this unfilial son still listen to you casually in the future
Li Hong looked at Father and Mother Long blankly, and said blankly: "For droughts, just divert water for irrigation, and there are no waterwheels in the Tang Dynasty now. Guarding the Yellow River can make the fields dry? This work The Ministry is too incompetent, don't worry, I will go to the Ministry of Industry and Finance to summon the Minister of Works to investigate and dismiss him."
"The amount of water is insufficient. The amount of water in the Yellow River this year has been much lower than in previous years. Even the Luoshui River has become a lot less water than in previous years." Li Zhi said lightly.
"In the ninth year of Zhenguan, the late emperor ordered Hou Junji and Li Daozong to inspect the source of the Yellow River when they went to Tuyuhun. However, they were always helpless to deal with the silt in the river. Now it seems that there is too much silt in one place, which temporarily blocked the river. Let the river flow down. "Wu Mei looked at Li Hong who was a little stunned and explained patiently.
"It's also possible that it was frozen. The climate in the northwest is cold. Could it be that it hasn't thawed yet? So it caused... It's not right, and it won't be the same in this weather." Li Hong said half-way, thinking he was smart, and then immediately denied it. .
Seeing that Father Long and Mother Long looked worried, Li Hong had no choice but to say, "I'd better order the Ministry of Industry to go upstream to investigate and see if there's anything we can do."
"Is it too late? Seeing that spring plowing is approaching, your father will go to Liaodong after the spring plowing. If the drought cannot be solved immediately, whether your father's expedition to Liaodong will be possible will be a problem." Wu Mei sighed helplessly.
After finishing speaking, he immediately raised his head and glared at Li Hong, so Li Hong immediately swallowed back the words that came to his lips: "This is a good thing."
Li Zhi looked at Li Hong and suddenly said: "What can you do? The ministers hope that I and your mother will pray for rain. Do you think it is feasible?"
"This... then you and my mother will try it. The weather outside is clear and clear, without a cloud at all. How can we ask for rain?" Li Hong walked to the window, looked at the blue sky, and asked for rain. It’s not such a way to ask for help.
If weather like this can bring rain, we might as well write Journey to the West during this period, so we don’t have to wait until the Ming Dynasty to trouble Wu Chengen.
"But so what, if we miss the spring plowing, it will be another disaster year. The amount of water in Luoshui River is also decreasing. The big ships originally brought from the south are now a little difficult to sail." Li Zhi walked to a In front of the map, he looked at the canal above and said.
Li Hong frowned when he heard this. Is the Ministry of Industry so inactive now? Dredging rivers has always been a top priority, but why have so many bugs appeared this year
Thinking of this, Li Hong couldn't help but forget about his mother. At the request of his mother, Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi were assigned to be idle officials in the Ministry of Works. They didn't know how to dredge the river, so they were handed over by Fang Xianzhong. Have you done these two things
But now he had no evidence to prove that Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi failed to dredge the river in time, and even after thinking about it, he couldn't do anything.
Even if we use artificial rainfall that has been tested several times in Anxi, it is not reliable every time, and even if we use unreliable artificial rainfall, we still need thick black clouds.
But now that I've thought of this, if there are dark clouds but it doesn't rain, wouldn't I give it a try
But this requires firearms from the Shenji camp, and I don’t know if the Chongwen Hall, especially the medicated kitchen room of Kengui, has produced the dry ice. Just using explosives and Kongming lanterns to put them in the sky will not work close to the thick clouds. That thing was so scary that it might have triggered several large lightning bolts like big branches, almost killing a hundred people.
"What are you thinking about, so absorbed in your thoughts?" Wu Mei's feather duster really annoyed Li Hong, and he felt his arm being poked several times.
Li Hong came back to his senses blankly, looked at the questioning looks of Father Long and Mother Long, thought for a moment and said: "Father, did your Shenji Battalion follow you to Luoyang? I have a request, if the Shenji Battalion If you’re not in Luoyang, why don’t you mobilize them first, just in case you need to pray for rain?”
"What do you want them to do? What nonsense." Li Zhi now regards the Shenji Camp as a treasure. Since he handed it over to him, he saw the power of explosives that cracked mountains and cracked rocks in the Qinling Mountains, so he took the Shenji Camp under his sleeve. In the bag.
When Li Hong asked about it at this moment, he was naturally reluctant in his heart. That was the divine machine camp for him, the emperor, alone.
(End of chapter)