A few days later, the locust plague finally came.

Guanzhong, in the fields, suddenly, like mushrooms after a rain, countless small locusts appeared.

The locusts are still very small, just larvae.

But it was dense, pouring out of the mountains, from the fields.

It makes people look at it, and their scalps are numb!

The plague of locusts is coming!

Now the locusts are still small and do not eat many crops in a day.

But this locust sheds its skin once every seven days.

After molting five times, it reaches adulthood.

If you molt your skin once, you will grow it once, and your appetite will increase greatly.

There are so many locusts, as long as they molt once, they will eat all the crops in the field.

Their harvest this year is over again!

At this time, the people in Guanzhong really wanted to cry without tears.

Their lives are so tragic.

Last year, they were hit by a drought that left them with no harvest.

Thanks to the relief of the imperial court, they were spared.

But this year, there was another locust plague.

God, I really won't let them live!

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The occurrence of locust plague is far not only in Guanzhong, but also in Henan Province, Hedong Province.

This time, the commander-in-chief of disaster prevention in Hedong Province and Henan Province, Li Tai, the king of Vietnam.

After learning the news, his face couldn't help but become solemn.

His good sixth brother is really like a god.

The plague of locusts had been expected by him in advance.

What's even more troublesome is that he originally thought that the origin of the locust plague was Guanzhong.

The locust plague will first wreak havoc in Guanzhong.

After the grain in Guanzhong is eaten, it will spread to Hedong Province and Henan Province.

And he, in the border area, prepared the isolation belt.

The Quarantine Island is more than a dozen miles long.

When the time comes, they can use means such as arson to keep the locusts out.

Li Tai was very well prepared, and he believed that with his preparation methods, he would definitely be able to succeed.

However, what he never expected was that the origin of the locust plague was not only Guanzhong.

Even Hadong Province and Henan Province have it.

In fact, Li Tai still made the mistake of inexperience.

Last year's drought in Guanzhong was true.

It is not false that there will be more locusts in Guanzhong.

But this does not mean that there are no locusts in Hedong and Henan provinces.

In fact, Hadong and Nam provinces have also historically been prone to locust infestations.

On average, there is an outbreak of locusts every six or seven years.

Of course, the difference is only in the size of the scale.

Last year's weather and climate were the most suitable for locusts to breed and lay eggs.

Therefore, this year's Hedong Province and Henan Province will also have locust plagues.

The only difference is that the scale may be a little smaller than that of Guanxiao.

In this case, the isolation belt he had prepared in advance would be completely useless.

Fortunately, Li Tai did not prepare this kind of method.

After the outbreak of the locust plague, Li Tai immediately organized men to go to the fields to exterminate the locusts.

Now the locusts are young and have weak jumping and flying abilities.

It doesn't take much effort to exterminate locusts.

However, the point is the number of locusts, which is simply too many.

In the heavens and the earth, the locusts are densely packed, and those who see them are dizzy.

And in the grass of the fields, there are locusts everywhere.

They can wipe out hundreds, thousands, of them in a day.

But in the face of a desperately large swarm of locusts, it is almost useless.

And the growth rate of locusts is very fast.

After the locusts molt once, I am afraid that the crops in the field will not be saved.

Faced with this situation, Li Tai was also very helpless.

He's prepared enough.

Many locust eggs were also cleaned beforehand.

But when it comes to the end, it still doesn't help.

What could he do?

He's desperate too!

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Above the court, after receiving the report of the outbreak of the locust plague, the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were all solemn.

The king of Shu expected that it was indeed correct.

The plague of locusts has indeed broken out!

In fact, locust outbreaks are not uncommon.

It's just that this time the scale is much larger than the previous ones.

Thankfully, this time they were prepared in advance.

Not only did he send the two princes out more than three months in advance.

And the imperial court also mobilized food early, and even the disaster relief was already prepared.

Last year there was a severe drought, and this year there is a possibility of another locust plague.

When the time comes, I am afraid that the food in Datang may not be enough.

The imperial court also purchased a batch of grain from Annam and other places.

As long as the locust plague can be contained to a certain extent, the food purchased will be enough for disaster relief.

Now, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty can only hope that the preparations made by the two princes in advance really worked.

Now, they don't have much to think about other than disaster relief.

After all, in the past, when there was a locust plague, they didn't really have a better way.

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Guanzhong, just when the locust plague is about to rise, and the people in Guanzhong want to cry without tears.

The king of Shu mobilized the officers and soldiers of the various prefectures in the entire Guanzhong, together with the shop men of the Wu family and others, to organize the people and mobilize all the people.

First of all, it is to distribute the ducks from the duck farms in various places according to the distance and distance.

There are also ducks raised by the people's families, all of which were purchased by the Shu Wangfu at a price of ten cents each.

Next, in each place, the people were organized to drive tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of ducks into the ground.

These ducks, after more than a month of feeding, have become half-sized ducks.

Driven by the people, he moved his two little short legs, swayed his fat buttocks, quacked, and ran into the field in a panic.

And then, these ducks, excited.

Because, in the middle of the fields, flying around, there are small locusts everywhere.

It's all over the place, but it's all delicious!

Usually, they want to eat a meal of meat, but it is not easy.

And now, it's all over the ground, and you can eat whatever you want.

When you are tired of eating, you will lie on the ground and eat, and when you are tired, you will stand up and eat.

When you have eaten it, pull it and continue to eat.

These ducks, the speed at which they destroy the locusts, is really too fast.

It can eat more than a hundred locusts in one go.

What's even more rare is that they can barely listen to it.

If you have eaten enough, you can rest for a while, and you can eat again when you get up.

In later generations, there was a locust plague in Xinjiang, and more than 100,000 ducks were airlifted from Zhejiang to form a locust extermination army.

As a result, these more than 100,000 ducks were able to clear more than 200 acres of land of locusts every day.

In the campaign to exterminate locusts, brilliant achievements were made.

You know, which locusts are already approaching adulthood on the basis.

And now, the locust plague has just begun, and the little locusts are still very small, and they are just babies.

And the king of Shu laid out three months in advance, and the ducks raised were far more than 100,000.

Therefore, the speed of locust extermination is also faster.

One or two thousand acres of locusts can be cleared in one or two thousand acres of land.

Fields cleared early on were minimally affected.

It won't cut production much.

In the later stage, although it will be affected somewhat, at least it will not be extinct.