The rest of the family is the Army. The title is the 1st Brigade of the Army. At the same time, the logistics department was formed. All the logistics of the army will be handed over to the logistics department.

All three departments are subordinate to the General Staff. The General Staff is responsible for drawing up operational plans and mobilizing troops. But it did not have the right to command troops. All the right to command the troops rests in the hands of the generals of the army. But on the other hand, without the order of the General Staff, the generals could not mobilize a single soldier.

At the same time, both the newspaper bureau and the supervision bureau have placed a large number of personnel in various government departments and in the army. Those in the government department are called inspectors. In the army is the commissar. At the beginning of the company, each company must ensure that there is at least one political commissar. In addition to ensuring the stability of the army, they also have to assist the commander-in-chief in his regular work and let the commander-in-chief concentrate on the battle.

This kind of structure has formed a structure with the Grand Marshal's Office as the core, issuing orders, and the Political Affairs Bureau and the army carrying out orders. At the same time, they also sat on the separation of military and political affairs, and did not interfere with each other. It can also restrain the Marshal's Mansion to a certain extent. It is a relatively stable situation.

After a few days of meetings, the matter of institutional restructuring was completely decided. One document after another was put down with Liu Pei's signature. Both the military and political departments moved quickly. The people at the bottom don't seem to feel much, but the upper level has changed a lot. This made Liu pair use the power in his hands more handy.

During this period, Liu Pei received a news that made him very unhappy, that is, on April 28, 1625, Nurhachi moved the capital to Shenyang and changed his name to Shengjing.

After I was done with these things, it was already mid-May. It took nearly half a year to complete a war, and there was no aftermath, which made Liu Pei feel very good. The next thing he had to do was to deal with one big thing, and that was the great locust plague in the historical record.

In June of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Yan'an was snowy in March. Jinan flying locusts cover the sky, and the autumn harvest is exhausted. It was a year of great hunger that caused cannibalism. Such a simple sentence in the history books represents the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people! Cannibalism, what a terrible word, how hungry do people have to be? Anyway, as a person who can eat, I can't understand it, but I can understand the sadness!

Liu Pei doesn't know if this locust plague will come? So he decided to take a look for himself. Liu Pei set off with the guards, and before he approached Jinan Mansion, he had already noticed that something was wrong.

First, the few small rivers they passed through were badly dry. Locusts prefer to lay their eggs on this dry river flat. Because the temperature and humidity are suitable, it is conducive to the hatching of locust eggs. So Liu Pei ordered the guards to dig on the river beach to see if there were any locust eggs.

After a while, a group of guards ran back with pale faces. Each of them had a large handful of yellowish egg sheaths in their hands. One of the guards said in a panic: "Dashuai, I'm afraid."

We're going to have a plague of locusts! ”

Liu Pei was also chilled when he heard this! He took an egg sheath and looked at it in his hand, and asked, "Are there many of them?" ”

Several guards said in unison: "How much! It's all over the river! ”

Liu Pei couldn't help but close his eyes. He knew that the catastrophe seemed inevitable. In the face of this catastrophe, Liu Pei could not remind the officials. But once he reminds the officials, the civil servants who are lazy in political affairs will laugh at him as a fool! It's good to be ridiculed, but if it's a vicious civil official, I'm afraid that a big hat of gossip will immediately throw it over.

If the locust plague does not come, Liu Pei will be ridiculed and hit, and he will not be worried about his life. If the locust plague comes, when the locust plague passes, the civil officials who have lost face will not be grateful for Liu Pei's reminder, but will only blame him as Yuan Shao blamed Tian Feng. When the time comes, Liu Pei will not be able to save people, but will plant himself in it.

Moreover, looking at the appearance of these egg sheaths, as long as there are a few more days, these locusts will be able to hatch, and Liu Pei will be too late to find a way! So Liu Bei shook his horse's head and said to the guards, "Go." Let's go back. A group of people returned to Jiaozhou.

But some time ago, Liu Pei was not idle. He asked Fang Degang and Hua Shufeng to secretly collect a large amount of food through many channels, just to deal with this catastrophe. If Liu Pei deals with this locust plague well, it will become Liu Pei's help and help him improve his strength. So it's worth spending some money too.

At first, Fang Degang and Hua Shufeng both objected to Liu Pei's massive hoarding of food, thinking that it was a waste of money. Liu Pei was unable to do so, so he had to tell the two of them about the upcoming locust plague. But the two of them asked Liu Pei how he knew? Liu Pei could only fool them and say that the drought has been severe in recent years, so there have been more and more locusts in recent years. If you don't do it well this year, it will break out in a concentrated manner. So the two of them half-believed it.

In the end, under Liu Pei's strong order, they began to hoard food. The reason why the two of them agreed to hoard food was because Liu Pei's subordinates had a large number of people, even if there was no locust plague, the food could be digested by keeping it and eating it slowly, and it would not cause waste. But what they didn't know was that Liu Pei was still collecting a large amount of grain in the Ryukyus and hoarding it for the homeless people to eat.

What did Liu Pei look like if he hadn't seen a locust plague before? I also specially found a video to watch. After reading it, Liu Pei got goosebumps! That thing is really invincible! In modern times, people have the means to spray pesticides on a large scale, and it is possible to eliminate locust plagues. But with the means of the Ming Dynasty at this time, it was impossible to exterminate the locusts!

Where a large number of locusts passed, it can be said that the sky is covered! There are no plants left! The green color of the seedlings and leaves is gone, and all of them are eaten. Even the pickaxe handle is on the place where human hands often rub, because it is stained with oil on the skin

, will be gnawed off by the locusts, revealing white stubble! You can see the ferocity of these locusts!

Xu Guangqi, an agronomist of the Ming Dynasty, discussed in his "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration": "There are three causes of hunger: water, drought, and locusts. There are many disasters such as floods and droughts, and there are still many places that have been spared; For the drought and locusts, thousands of miles of grass and trees are exhausted, or cattle and horses, flags are exhausted, its harm is particularly miserable, too water and drought. ”

To put it simply, it is the place where the locusts pass, what they can digest, what they can get, they will eat it all, and then fly to the next place to continue eating! Eat until you die!

Most locusts take only about 30 days from egg birth to adult locust breeding, while a mature female locust can lay an average of 2,001,000 eggs in her lifetime. Small locusts can eat about 100 grams of plants in their lifetime, while large locusts can eat hundreds of grams of plants. Between 30 million and 50 million locusts can cover 150 kilometers and eat 200 tons of crops in a day.

The scary thing is that it's not just them that can eat it. but the body of the locust is wonderful. In times of scarcity, locusts can store food in their bodies and slowly digest it over the course of a week. In areas where food is abundant, locusts can digest all the food in their bodies within an hour and then continue to eat.

And the most terrible thing is the migration of locusts. These guys can fly. And fly far. The locusts also have a small membrane on their legs, and the vibrations make a sound to gather their companions. So, once the locusts multiply, they will move closer to each other and follow each other. Eventually, swarms were formed into a plague of locusts.

When the density of locusts reaches a critical value, the locusts will become manic, anxious, aggressive, and will have the phenomenon of cannibalism.

As for some people saying that ducks are used to exterminate locusts, it is even more nonsense! In 2000, when there was a huge locust plague in northern Xinjiang, 30,000 "duck soldiers and duck generals" were airlifted from Zhejiang and sent to the grasslands to participate in the extermination of locusts, and they won victory in July of that year.

In order to commend the "duck army" for its outstanding military exploits, the Xinjiang Command Office for Locust Control and Rodent Eradication at that time issued a special "commendation letter": "Ducks have strong ability to catch locusts, a large amount of predation, and strict military discipline. ”

But in reality, this victory was the duck that ate the locust larvae, so that the locusts did not grow! Because locusts lay eggs in the soil and then hatch into larvae, and it is these weak larvae that the ducks eat, and the locust plague is strangled in the cradle first.

What's more, the adult locusts are still poisonous! Adult locusts that live in groups will release a high concentration of the volatile organic compound phenylacetonitrile - this thing can synthesize the highly toxic substance cyanide, and it is no problem for ducks to eat a few, but ducks will die if they eat too much! And they even eat the hair of cows and horses, not to mention the hair of chickens and ducks!