It was not until this time that the common people deeply understood the reason why the king of Shu raised a large number of ducks and established a duck farm.

And the real meaning of buying ducks at a high price.

It turns out that the King of Shu is not a loser at all.

But the king of Shu had long expected that there would be a locust plague, and had already formulated a plan to use ducks to prevent and control the locust plague.

And in order to realize this plan, the king of Shu paid for it himself, and he didn't know how much money it would cost to raise so many ducks.

The King of Shu spent money, what is the plan?

To put it bluntly, isn't it all for them?

In fact, the work of exterminating locusts in Guanzhong is relatively easy.

The people, all you need to do is drive the ducks to heaven and earth and watch the ducks well.

The ducks are killing locusts, very, very fast.

And there are many clever people who have driven all the chickens into the fields.

Then they found that the chickens also worked.

Although the chicken's diet is much smaller than that of the duck, it can contribute to its strength, right?

However, a few days later, they found out that the role of chickens is really much worse than that of ducks.

No wonder His Highness does not raise chickens but ducks.

Because of such a thing, chickens are anorexic.

When I first drove it into the field, every chicken was as excited as a fighting chicken.

Crazy eating locusts.

And then it eats and eats, and it doesn't like to eat very much.

After three or five days, I simply ignored the locusts.

What's even worse is that it actually started to eat the crops.

These people had to drive all the chickens back in anger.

No wonder His Royal Highness the King of Shu raises a large number of ducks instead of chickens.

Ducks digest just too fast.

And it didn't eat enough.

Eat every day, but you can't eat enough.

The plague of locusts, at a rate visible to the naked eye, is being eliminated.

In just over ten days, the locust plague has gradually been brought under control.

There aren't even so many ducks anymore.

In heaven and earth, ducks even appear to grab food.

Of course, in fact, their disaster relief is only to eliminate the locusts in the sky and earth as much as possible.

On the mountain, on the grass outside, there are still many locusts.

These locusts can still damage crops.

However, Li Yu is no longer ready to use ducks to exterminate these locusts.

Li Su dispatched 100,000 ducks at once, preparing to support Hedong Province and Henan Province.

However, this time it made the people of Guanzhong panic.

How does this work?

Although on the surface, the plague of locusts they encountered was wiped out.

But this is only in the field.

You know, there are a lot of locusts out there!

The ducks were sent away so much at once.

What if there is a counterattack?

When the time comes, won't they still have nothing to gain?

And at this moment, the King of Shu announced a news again.

That is, the Shu Wangfu, a large number of locusts.

At this time, the weather is hot, and the locusts cannot be stored for a long time.

Anyone who caught a locust could scald it to death with boiling water and then dried it.

The purchase price is 20 wen a catty.

In addition, the Shu Wangfu began to sell all kinds of nets to catch locusts.

There is a small net for single use, and the price is only ten cents.

It is also possible not to give money, and when the locusts are caught and sold, they will be deducted directly from the money given to them.

There are also large nets.

The largest network, which requires the cooperation of dozens of people to use.

But because it's long and wide, you can catch a lot of locusts at once.

And the largest net, one will cost 100 yuan.

After this news came out, the people of the entire Guanzhong were completely shocked.

They made a calculation.

The price of a pound of dried locusts is 20 yuan.

Now, in addition to the ground, although the density of locusts in the wild has become a little rarer, there are still many more!

An adult can catch at least one pound of locusts a day.

Now that the locust density is so high, this is already the most conservative estimate.

They can earn twenty dollars a day!

Catch locusts from now on, and you can catch them all the way to the frostfall.

Although in terms of production, there will be less and less.

But for these people, it's definitely a huge amount of money!

In this way, their income from the locust harvest will far exceed their harvest!

And I heard that the imperial court has been prepared for this year.

The imperial court has prepared a lot of grain, so although there is a locust plague this year, the price of grain will not increase much.

In this way, although they suffered from the locust plague, they were not only not lost, but even made more money than in previous years.

Of course, all of this was actually brought by the King of Shu.

This is equivalent to the king of Shu subsidizing them out of his own pocket.

Otherwise, where would there be such a good thing?

In their hearts, they are naturally grateful to the King of Shu.

But this did not delay their enthusiasm for catching locusts in the slightest.

As a result, countless spectators, even children as young as five or six years old, with small homemade nets in their hands, began to go out to catch locusts.

The locusts all over the mountains and fields have become one by one, yellow, orange and orange copper coins in their eyes.

One network and one network, especially hard work.

Although I have to run many places a day, I don't know how many times I have to bend and how many times I have to swing the net.

But in reality, it's easier than farming.

And I don't know how much more money I make.

In the first ten days, they can be said to have gained a lot.

The largest one can even catch ten catties of dried locusts a day.

It can be sold for 200 bucks in a day!

At the end of this day, they can almost match their usual annual income, and even surpass.

Of course, the person who can catch ten catties of dried locusts in a day is just an exception.

The vast majority of households are far from reaching this number.

The average number is about two or three catties.

However, even this number is a great surprise for them.

Two or three catties, at the end of a day, there is an income of forty or fifty yuan.

In the past, this was something they couldn't even think about.

This made them more motivated to catch the locusts.

Many people in Guanzhong can't help but think.

If the King of Shu hadn't gotten so many ducks, it would have been fine.

In the beginning, there were so many ducks, I don't know how many locusts they ate.

These are all copper coins!

As everyone knows, the efficiency of people is absolutely not able to catch up with ducks.

If the duck army had not been used at the beginning, the locust plague would have been rampant.

And once the locusts eat all the local grain and grass people, they will definitely migrate for the sake of things.

Therefore, they will not have a chance to catch so many locusts.

Half a month later, all the ducks in the entire Guanzhong were transported.

Because the locust plague in the entire Guanzhong has basically been controlled.

The remaining fish that slipped through the net are harmless.

Li Su believes that countless enthusiastic people in Guanzhong will definitely be able to catch the remaining locusts.