From Kowloon's Inheritance

Chapter 347
Chapter 342 Resisting Locusts by the Whole People (Revised)

On this day, life is still the same, but a catastrophe has appeared.

The originally bright sky soon turned dark.

Outside the door, on the roof, and on the trees, there were crackling and knocking sounds, as if hail was falling.

"Is this the locust coming?"

The people were shocked.

After being shocked, he recalled those bad memories again.

Ten droughts and nine locusts.

In memory, every three to five years, locust disasters will break out.It's just locust plagues, big and small, such a huge locust plague is rare in decades, or even in a hundred years.

The people looked at the black locusts in the sky, and they were stunned immediately.

locust!So many locusts!

The locusts came and covered the sky and the sun, and their bodies turned gray, like dark gray clouds, devouring everything in the world, including crops, tree leaves, and green things.

It used to be lush green trees and grass, but in the blink of an eye, it was eaten up by locusts, leaving it bare.

Only one month away, the dealer is ready to cook.

But now, it's too late.

The battle between humans and locusts has begun.

But there are too many locusts, there are billions, tens of billions, or even more, but there are too few human beings, and they are scattered everywhere, trying to kill the locusts, but it is still too slow to catch up The speed at which locusts eat.

What to do if you encounter locusts!
In addition to waiting to die, or waiting to die!
Many people drove the locusts away, trying in vain, everything was useless, just like a dying person struggling after falling into the water.

It may be more decent not to struggle after falling into the water.

If you struggle after falling into the water, you will only die ugly.

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"Come on, let's eat fried locusts!"

At some gates of Youzhou, some big pots were placed one after another, and baskets of locusts were thrown into them, and then they were blown out. Li Mu took the lead to taste it, and felt that the taste was not very good.

The taste is not very good, but Li Mu still said: "The taste of fried locusts is really not very good, but after all, it tastes much better than Guanyin soil and bark. Come and taste it!"

Ji Xuewei frowned, but she still stepped forward to eat.

Hua Wuying also stepped forward to eat.

The other officials also moved forward one after another, eating.

But the surrounding people still hesitated.

"Here I come!" A middle-aged man in a short shirt came out, stepped forward to grab the locusts and ate them, and said while eating, "If people are starving, they will eat people and eat tree bark. Eating Guanyin soil is really nothing compared to eating locusts... Could eating locusts be poisoned to death!"

"It's bad luck to kill locusts..." a commoner said weakly.

Li Mu smiled, did not answer, and continued to eat locusts.

The people are not afraid of death, why should they be afraid of death?

Now the common people can bear it because they are not hungry.

When you are hungry, the so-called locusts cannot be eaten, it is just a joke.

Another few people came forward to eat the locusts.

Immediately, countless people came forward to eat the locusts, and the taste was really good.

Li Mu was very satisfied, and the few entrustments he asked for were still good acting skills.

With the example of the front, the people behind are also eating locusts, and the people have a herd mentality.

The first step, initial success.

It's like looking at plums to quench thirst.

Can the plague of locusts be eradicated by eating locusts?
Totally impossible!
But at least I have thought about it, and I am not too desperate.

As long as you are not too desperate, everything has hope, and you are afraid of falling into despair.

"This locust is a rare delicacy. Benhou encourages the people to catch locusts. If you catch a hundred catties of locusts, you can exchange them for a catty of grain. Catching locusts is very easy!" Li Mu said intentionally.

Continue to look forward to plums to quench thirst propaganda.

Soon a policeman came forward, holding a huge net bag, and waved it towards the sky.

After a while, there were densely packed locusts in the net pocket.

Li Mu took the net bag and signaled the common people to look at this, it's easy to catch locusts!
This scene happened in various places at the same time, and the whole people fought against the locusts.

Natural disasters are terrible, and what is even more terrible is the panic after the natural disaster.How to eliminate panic, let the people get busy.

In a daze, Li Mu thought of some evil philosophies in ancient Greece in his previous life.

The second step is complete.

With the arrival of locusts, countless people began to go to major grain shops to buy food.However, when the people arrived at the grain shop, they found that all the major grain shops were closed.

Are the people really short of food?

Not necessarily!

In this era, many people generally lack a sense of security, and they all have the habit of storing food at home.

There is surplus food at home.

Except for a few, most of the poor who can't get rid of the pot have surplus food.

The so-called panic buying now is just a sign of panic.

Orders are issued, grain purchases are restricted, collection is based on household registration, and food stamp policies are issued.

Grain purchases are restricted, and you can only go to the vicinity of the official warehouse to buy grain according to your household registration certificate, and the grain is limited to once every three days.

The food stamp policy also restricts the buying and selling of food and cracks down on speculation.

However, it is still not enough, and the grain stores still have to open.

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In the mansion, the bosses of the major food companies were gathered together, and the owners of the food companies showed excited smiles on their faces, and inadvertently showed contempt in their eyes.

Feng Shui takes turns, and it's finally time for the government to beg us.

"Youzhou Zhizhou, Wushuanghou has arrived!"

Following Li Mu's arrival, other officials arrived one after another, and the group of grain merchants who had been talking loudly just now became quiet.

"Everyone, everyone has obviously guessed the purpose of inviting you here today."

said an official.

"The locust plague is imminent, the court is short of food, and the court has no food. I hope that we will unite as one and do a good job in relief work. Here, thank you all."

Li Mu said.

In fact, there is no shortage of food in the imperial court, and there is a lot of food in the official warehouse.

Even if there are deficiencies, they will be transferred from other places soon.

But Li Mu still said that there was a lack of food.

A crybaby has milk to eat.

A child who does not cry has no milk to eat.

Businessmen are a group of pigs.

Pigs are fattened and should be slaughtered. They can be slaughtered now without waiting for the New Year.

When the pig should be killed, it must be killed.

Could it be that pigs are still enshrined as ancestors... This is a different world, it's Tianyuan Star, not America.There is no tradition of worshiping fat pigs as ancestors.

The purpose of raising pigs is to kill them.

But right now, these pigs seem to lack awareness. They really think that they are fat pigs, that is, they have become ancestors and need to be worshiped by the officials.

"Wherever there is, it is my duty to open a warehouse to release grain. It's just that I don't look at the grain in my hand. The grain transported from other places is a lot of loss, and the price will have to be increased!" A boss said, "When the time comes, the price of grain will inevitably increase. Ascension, my lord didn't say I'll wait, just speculate and drive up prices!"

(End of this chapter)