My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 315 is different from what he expected

Scenes similar to Zhounanzhuang appear in every corner of Lingnan.However, what is different from Zhou Nanzhuang is that the person encouraging everyone has been changed from Su to someone else.

As for how to deal with the caught locusts, various places have also come up with many different methods.

Some people suggested burning grass piles directly in the wild, and putting the backpacks and bamboo baskets containing locusts directly on top to smoke them.

The locusts are coming faster than people think.

People across Lingnan discovered young locusts appearing in the fields and reported them immediately.

Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan received the news and immediately made arrangements.

The ducks raised at the Bay Experimental Ground, as well as the chickens, ducks and geese from farms in various places, have all been involved in the battle against locusts.

Even the pheasants raised in Jiangtang's space have joined the army of locust exterminators.

The chickens, ducks and geese that were originally short of food due to drought became visibly fatter because they ate a lot of locusts. The hens, ducks and geese also began to lay eggs desperately.

This made all the workers who herded chickens, ducks and geese smile from ear to ear.

Although these eggs do not belong to them, some rewards will be given to them.

It's just that the locusts rise too quickly, and these chickens and ducks can't completely eliminate them. At this time, artificial fishing becomes the main force to eliminate the locusts.

The method of killing locusts on the spot in the wild was eventually adopted by various places and became the main method of killing locusts.

The villagers in Nanzhuang, Zhou thought of scalding the locusts to death with sea water and then putting them in an oven to dry them.

Because it was troublesome to get water, and locusts scalded with hot water were more difficult to dry, the villagers quickly abandoned it and used the more convenient method of killing them by smoking on the spot.

Of course, this method of scalding dead locusts with boiling seawater and then roasting them is not completely useless.

Some villagers who are close to the sea and have easy access to water will also use this method when backpacks and other tools are not enough.

When locusts are hunting, not only are the backpacks and other tools used to hold the locusts insufficient, but also the nets prepared previously for catching locusts are not enough.

At this time, the network Jiang Tangtang asked the refugees to compile earlier played a big role.While the government is distributing nets to the people, it is also announcing the purchase price of locusts.

A pound of locusts can be sold for fifteen cents.

By this time, the villagers had already tasted the benefits of catching locusts.The locusts roasted in the oven are particularly fragrant, which makes the villagers who have been tightening their belts since the drought couldn't help but rejoice.

They all tried their best to catch the locusts, and then added a meal
There are too many locusts to eat all at once, and that’s okay.It can be ground into powder and mixed with whole grains to eat.

Whole grains added with locust powder are more hungry than whole grains alone.Every villager regards locusts as a treasure, and they do their best to catch locusts without any need for incentives from the government.

Even because there are not enough nets to catch locusts, some villagers are anxious to take down their mosquito nets to catch locusts.

Of course, there were many conflicts and fights over grabbing locusts.

After the patrol caught a few villagers fighting over the locusts as role models, the villagers behind them immediately became honest.

As for the seawater rice that was a key protection target, Lu Shiyan directly dispatched soldiers from the army to first form a smoke protection line made of seawater-soaked haystacks around the seawater rice.

If the locusts are not smoked away by the smoke and break through the protective line, the locusts rushing towards the rice fields will be caught by a fishing team composed of soldiers. In addition, farmers at the sea rice base will serve as the third line of protection and continue to catch fish that slip through the net.

We must make every effort to protect this hard-earned sea rice.Under such multiple protections, although sea rice suffered some losses, the losses were not significant.

Similarly, the major families that own sea rice have also devoted themselves to the battle to exterminate locusts and protect rice.

There was a drought last year, and there is another drought this year. We don’t know when this drought will end.

Even wealthy families are worried.

The government's sea rice is guarded by officers and soldiers, but they are not.In addition to paying high prices to hire people to catch locusts, Pei Yang and other children from aristocratic families also went to the countryside to fight against the locust plague in person.

Witnessing with one's own eyes that the Lingnan government led the people to turn a locust plague that might have driven countless people into desperation into a grain-grabbing movement that was beneficial to people, once again made the major families marvel.

At the same time, Dazhou, Xirong, Rouran and other countries were all troubled by locust plagues.

Nowadays, large areas of fertile farmland in Dazhou are deserted, and no one cares about them at all, let alone like Lingnan, where officials personally take the lead in inspecting the fields. After discovering locusts, they immediately send a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, asking people to bring chickens, ducks and geese to eat the locusts. .

Undisturbed, the locusts grew wildly like weeds and soon became a climate change.By the time the officials of Dazhou discovered the locusts that were covering the sky and the sun, they were already out of control.

Facing the locusts that were blocking out the sky and the sun, the Emperor of Zhou had no choice but to lose his temper.

More refugees are coming towards Lingnan.

The locust plague in Xirong is equally serious. Xirong is mostly nomadic and has little cultivated land.Locusts are like a storm passing through, eating up all the green grass that has finally grown this spring, causing heavy losses to herders who have not yet recovered from the drought.

Many herdsmen lost their cattle, sheep and horses and became refugees.

Drought and war dragged this ambitious country into the abyss. The Xirong royal family could not provide much food for disaster relief, and finally encouraged the people below to flee to Lingnan.

The number of refugees outside Cangwu City is increasing every day.

Qi Hongshen, who personally pushed Lingnan to such a situation, is paying close attention to Lingnan's situation every day.

After Guo Shaoan received the news from Xizuo once, he was very puzzled and asked: "Young Master, why hasn't Lingnan been in chaos yet?"

They deliberately introduced plague-stricken refugees into Lingnan. Mixing so many plague-stricken refugees together would be a disaster for any country.

However, their people had been guarding Cangwu for many days, and Cangwu actually did not break into chaos.According to the news from their people, everything in the city was as usual except that the passage from Cangwu to Lingnan was closed.

Even ordinary people in the countryside went to catch locusts as if nothing had happened.

To be honest, this was beyond Qi Hongshen's expectations.He pondered for a moment and said, "Still haven't you seen Mr. Jiang and Doctor Xue leaving the city?"

Guo Shaoan shook his head, "No."

Qi Hongshen said: "Arrange people to incite the refugees and make them riot."

"Young Master, I'm afraid it's hard to encourage. Although Jiang didn't take doctors out of the city gate to treat the refugees suffering from the epidemic, he sent people to deliver medicine every day."

Guo Shaoan shrank his neck in fear and said in a lower voice, "Now not only the refugees in Dazhou regard her as their savior, but also the refugees in our country respect her as a Bodhisattva."

The refugees cursed the Xirong royal family and praised Jiang Tangtang, but he did not dare to tell him.

(End of this chapter)