Emperor Liu Hong

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the Fuyu Kingdom had been destroyed for several months.

During this period of time, with the support of a large number of slaves from the Fuyu Kingdom, the Dahan's various projects were done very quickly.Especially for road construction and canal digging, which are two major labor-intensive households, the progress is slow because there is sufficient labor.

Listening to the progress of various projects, Liu Hong was quite satisfied.With so many big projects started together, not only the progress is fast, but also it doesn't disturb the people. Liu Hong has no reason to be dissatisfied.

Think about Qin Shihuang and Sui Yangdi, both of whom are very wise and powerful.If it weren't for one of them desperately building the Great Wall and the other digging canals, his country would not have collapsed so easily.But look at Liu Hong again, he is also doing these big projects, but all the people from other tribes are used.

In a blink of an eye, it was June, and reports from various places showed that there were droughts in seven states in Dahan, and where there were droughts, locust plagues had already emerged.

After such a big thing happened, Liu Shu couldn't sit still, so he came directly to Liu Hong with the memorial.

"My day, just after a bumper harvest year, there is another severe drought and locust plague. Why is my life so hard?!" Liu Hong asked with a headache, "Uncle Emperor, there is a severe drought in seven states. , and locust plagues at the same time, what arrangements does your government affairs council have?"

"Your Majesty, as for the drought, we think that where there are rivers, we can ask the local government to set up water trucks and divert water for irrigation. As for places where there are no rivers, we will mobilize the people to dig wells and use well water for irrigation. As for the cost of digging wells , our imperial court can consider providing some subsidies. As for the locust plague, we can only call on the common people to catch it. As for the effect, I dare not think about it."

"Why do you say that?" Liu Hong was very surprised, this is not Liu Shu's character.

"There is a severe drought in the world, and the water levels of rivers and wells will decrease. At this time, diverting river water and digging wells will be effective. It is hard to say. As for locust plagues, it is even more difficult to deal with. Most people dare not catch these things. Watch them eat the crops."

After Liu Hong thought about it, what Liu Shu said made sense.There is a severe drought in the world, and the river water and groundwater will definitely be affected. In many places, there will be no water trucks, and many wells will no longer have water.

To solve this problem, rivers with little water can only branch out and build reservoirs to store water, while wells can only be dug deep.

But in this way, the amount of work is many times larger.The amount of work is so large that it doesn't matter, but the difficult thing is that he has to rush for this matter.Otherwise, even if these things are repaired, this year's crops will also be finished.In this case, if the common people do it themselves, they will definitely not be able to catch up.

"Uncle Huang, let those projects that are not in a hurry stop first, free up manpower, and build water conservancy facilities first. Where the river is shallow, build reservoirs, and where there is no river, dig deep wells."

"Okay." Liu Shu readily agreed to Liu Hong's arrangement.In fact, he himself really wanted to make such an arrangement, but regardless of him being the prime minister, he really had no right to stop the projects under construction. This was only Liu Hong's talking.

As for the locust plague, Liu Hong had dealt with it before he became emperor, so he was no stranger to it.When there is no benefit, the people may not dare to catch it.But as long as there are benefits, the people don't care so much, let alone locusts, even the emperor, they will definitely catch them.

The locust plague has just emerged, so there is no need to rush to deal with it. The most urgent task now is to solve the drought first.

With Liu Hong's order, many projects were suspended first, and a large number of slaves were freed up to build water conservancy facilities.But now time is tight and tasks are heavy, even with a large number of slaves, there is still a huge shortage of labor.

Seeing this situation, Liu Hong became anxious, and ordered Huang Zhong and Huang Gai to exterminate Shan Yueman as soon as possible.

Without Liu Hong's urging, both of them were already in a hurry.After all, the Northeast Army was attacked later than them, and the Fuyu Kingdom had been completely wiped out.And they haven't wiped out Shanyueman completely for so long, they are all blushing a little.

However, the mountainous terrain is incomparable with the terrain of Puyo.One is on the plains, where they have nowhere to hide.And the other one is in the mountainous area, so it's hard to find it, which makes such a big gap.

But now that Liu Hong urged, Huang Zhong and Huang Gai both desperately arrested Shan Yueman all over the mountains, and then sent those captives to the imperial court, and then arranged them to be reformed through labor. To help the people build water conservancy facilities.

Those who built water conservancy facilities were busy all the time, and Liu Hong also began to make arrangements for the locust plague.

With previous experience, things are not difficult.Liu Hong first informed his ecological breeding factories to do their best to buy locusts, whether it was money or food, they must attract the people and go all out to catch the locusts.

Liu Hong is not what he used to be now. At that time, he was just a small ecological farm, and the disturbances he caused were limited.But now it is different.Liu Hong's farms and breeding bases are spread all over Dahan, and they all went all out to buy locusts, and the impact would be too great.

Now the whole big man is making a fuss, discussing whether the locusts can be caught or not.Seeing that the people were discussing it, Liu Hong immediately launched a newspaper and started publicizing it.

In the newspaper, Liu Hong was directly cited as an example.Don’t they all say that locusts cannot be caught? Look at our emperor, when he was very young, he organized the villagers to catch locusts. Not only did he not receive any punishment, he became the emperor instead.Therefore, the common people can safely and boldly catch locusts.

The power of role models is infinite.Originally, it was difficult for the common people to resist the temptation of profit, but now with the example of Liu Hong to persuade themselves, a big operation to catch locusts was officially staged in Dahan.

Water conservancy facilities, once built, are permanent facilities, and they can also function in the event of drought in the future.But the locust plague was different. Once or twice, he opened up to buy locusts. It didn't matter. Even if it was a bit wasteful, it was considered a good deed.But they happened quite frequently, and he couldn't let his farm open to buy locusts as soon as there was a locust plague.

In order to permanently solve this problem, Liu Hong opened the artificial hatching of poultry.Let capable people set up hatcheries and sell poultry seedlings in large numbers, so that the common people will have enough poultry, and they will naturally consume a lot of locusts.

This method alone is not very safe. Liu Hong asked his restaurant to make every effort to develop dishes with locusts as the main ingredient.According to the successful experience of later generations, as long as a species can be served on the dinner table, if the country does not protect it, it will not be far from extinction.

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