Datang Longya

Chapter 289 The Locust Plague

Yan Liben, who had studied drawing, immediately looked for a pen and paper to draw the structural diagram. Leng Feng hadn't figured out how to get the pencil, he could only draw with a thin brush. If he made a mistake, the whole drawing would be useless.

Therefore, Yan Liben was very careful in drawing pictures, even Li Tai, who likes to play the most, would not bother him at this time.

Following Leng Feng out of the room, Li Tai said to Leng Feng triumphantly: "Master, do you think that if the School of Arts sets up a classified subject of carpentry, am I qualified enough to be a teacher now?"

Li Tai is like this, always likes to be proud, and Li Ke, who is not much older than him, is more mature and stable than him.

For Li Tai, Leng Feng has always been generous with praise: "Qualified, so, after half a year, the first batch of students have completed the basic knowledge of literacy and numeracy, and I can tell Mr. Han Chongwen to open a new subject, and it's up to you and Yan Liben as teachers."

"Hey~" Li Tai smiled, and decided to go back to the palace today to visit his mother, and tell her the good news by the way.

After walking out of Yan Liben's hut, Leng Feng put back on his mask. Even though the academy is full of his own people, he has to be careful.

The Academy of Arts has now completed the construction of two teaching buildings, two dormitory buildings, a playground, and a conference hall... It basically has the prototype of a future school.

The so-called industrial revolution cannot be driven by one or two people. Leng Feng doesn't ask for anything else, but only hopes that he can ride a steam train and run all over the Tang Dynasty in his lifetime.

The land of the Central Plains has gone through several wars, and many places of interest have been destroyed. It is good to take a national tour in Datang.

On the way home, a few grasshoppers jumped out of the grass from time to time, that is, locusts, jumping very high and far. These guys will soon be flooded!

The news that the locust plague is about to start has been released, but not many people really pay attention to it. The emperor, the prime minister and other cronies, as well as the military generals, are holding their own lists of grain, waiting, waiting for the locust plague to rise, so the next Earn reputation for a while.

Some governors and county magistrates in the five surnames and seven prominent families looked at the tall or short crops in the fields under their rule, and they were also waiting, waiting for the locust plague to rise, so that they could see the jokes of the duke and the emperor at the first time!It was just a plague of locusts, but the stupid emperor ordered a stop farming.Plague of locusts!Duke Xi dared to blatantly kill locusts, I really don't know what it means...

While many people were waiting, the locusts jumping around in the grass finally grew wings, and their huge size was unexpectedly good. Ordinary weeds could no longer satisfy their appetite.

So~ as long as it is green, eat it!
Eat out of this place, eat at the next place!
Li Shimin had caught a locust himself and kept it in a glass bottle more than ten days ago, probably because the food was good, but the locust he raised had grown wings early, which made Li Shimin quite tormented.

Finally, he didn't have to wait any longer!
Rush!

Rush! !
Rush! ! !

Countless rushes scrambled into Chang'an. From the rushes, we learned that the state capital in Guanzhong had a disaster almost at the same time, and locusts swarmed from small rivers, reed beaches, etc. No matter what it was, as long as it was green Yes, they just eat. After eating all the green things in one place, they form a flock of themselves, spread their newly grown wings, and fly to the next place.

Tongguan was the first to report, followed by urgent reports from other prefectures and counties. For a while, this thing was everywhere in Guanzhong!
The immediate officials with five surnames and seven Wangs are desperate!
This locust plague is too fierce!They worshiped all the gods, set up countless locust gods, and worshiped countless times, but the locusts still rushed into the farmland!
The crops that were planted later were just emerging, and the locusts almost just passed by, leaving bare farmland, and even the impatient locusts even bit the roots of the crops.The crops that were first cultivated in disregard of the imperial court’s notice had already grown to their waists. However, even crops that were waist-high could not provide locusts with a “meal time” for even a stick of incense.

Therefore, the most desperate people are not the officials, but the common people!

This time, they are doomed to fail!

No harvest!

It was only at this time that they remembered the late plowing order and the plowing stop order issued by the court. After all, they planted the land, and the loss was self-inflicted.

I regret that I should have listened to the words of the county master!

Countless peasants gathered in the county government office to ask the county lord for an explanation. This was outraged by the people. The timid ones had already packed up their blankets and fled the government office. Copying weapons into the farmland to fight locusts, claiming that thousands of sins are on him!
As for the courageous ones, such as Zhouzhi County Magistrate, Qingguang County Magistrate, etc., in order to prevent the locust plague from spreading to other counties, they actually issued an order to burn the fields and sprinkle fire oil on the crop fields, so that the crops and locusts in the whole county would perish together. Then he threw himself into the fire and set himself on fire to make atonement!
The world is shocked!

The hungry locusts are flying around, looking for a new "dining table", such as... Chang'an!The square Chang'an is really like a dining table!

At this time, Leng Feng was still "healing his wounds", staying at home, enjoying his wife's service and eating fruit, but he heard the sound of the door and window being blown like a storm outside the window!
There was a knock on the door, and Leng Feng shouted "Come in", and Lao Li came in wearing a big cloak. Along with him, there were more than a dozen locusts.

Old Li didn't have time to speak when he came in, so he could only catch those damned locusts that got into the master's bedroom in a hurry!

Leng Feng also got off the couch and helped Lao Li catch him.

"Oh, it's really big!" Leng Feng couldn't help admiring it until he grabbed it in his hand.

This locust is huge, as long as a middle finger!

Lao Li smiled wryly and said: "Just now, this old servant was enjoying the shade in the porter's room. I didn't expect these things to fly over. It's just the trend of the Milky Way! Fortunately, this old slave didn't have the shed torn down, and all the flowers in the garden were moved to the house." inside.

Didn't you see that the big tree where the old slave was enjoying the shade, the locusts pounced on it and ate up all the leaves in a short while, and even gnawed a lot of the bark!
Now, those who doubt you should also know how prescient you are! "

Leng Feng smiled helplessly: "Actually, I hope that there will be no locust plagues and get a bad reputation for bragging. How about it, the chickens and ducks from the farm have been transported to Chang'an."

Lao Li nodded: "It was shipped yesterday, and it was dispersed to a reliable merchant for safekeeping. According to your instructions, they have not been fed for the past two days."

"Well, that's good, you go and prepare the sedan chair, I'm going to take my wife to Chang'an to watch a big show."

(End of this chapter)