Lu Bu has been enlightened by Zhang Ning,

The unhappiness in my heart finally slowly dissipated,

At this time, because there are not too many worries,

The mood is much more relaxed,

A strong feeling of tiredness in the body,

Suddenly it invaded like a tide,

In the company of Zhang Ning,

Lu Bu slowly closed his eyes,

He's a little tired,

It feels like you're going to fall asleep soon.

Suddenly, a hurried voice came from outside:

"Lord, lord, something is wrong! Big things are wrong! ”

Lu Bu, who has just begun to get confused,

Immediately opened his eyes quickly,

Hurriedly got up and sat up,

"It's Zhang Yan's voice, something must have happened!"

Lu Bu grabbed a coat and rushed out,

Pushing open the door, I saw Zhang Yan with an anxious look on her face.

This is the first time Lu Bu has seen Zhang Yan's anxious expression,

He couldn't help but look solemn,

Without waiting for Lu Bu to ask,

Zhang Yan hurriedly spoke:

"Lord, locust plague!"

"What?"

Lu Bu didn't react for a while,

Zhang Yan repeated again,

"Locusts, outside Chang'an City, there are a lot of locusts now, I'm afraid that a locust plague is about to appear."

Lu Bu couldn't help frowning,

Carefully recalled,

Locusts? Did a locust plague appear near Chang'an at this time in history?

Zhang Yan thought that Lu Bu didn't know about the locust plague,

Hurriedly explained:

"A locust plague is a plague caused by locusts. Once there is a locust plague, a large number of locusts will devour the fields, and once there is a locust plague, the farmland will be completely destroyed, and there will definitely be no food harvest, and there will be famine......"

Lu Bu took a basin of water handed over by Zhang Ning,

wiped his face with cold well water,

The mind is finally clearer,

opened his mouth and said to Zhang Yan:

"Let's go over and have a look!"

Zhang Yan hurriedly led the way and walked out quickly.

The locust plague is a worldwide catastrophe,

And it goes back a long way.

As early as in the Book of Songs, it has been mentioned,

"Remove its moths (i.e., locusts) and its thieves, and it will not harm my field. Tian Zu has a god, and he is a fire."

In China's history, locust plagues have been repeated,

Most of the affected areas are concentrated in Hebei, Henan and Shandong provinces.

Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and other provinces are also distributed,

In severe cases, it may spread throughout the Loess Plateau,

According to the statistics of Deng Yunte in the "History of China's Famine Relief",

During the Qin and Han dynasties, an average of once every 8.8 years,

The two Song Dynasty are 3.5 years,

The Yuan Dynasty was 1.6 years,

Both the Ming and Qing dynasties were 2.8 years.

In ancient China, there was not much knowledge of locusts,

Therefore, there is a saying of "locust god",

There is also a saying that "locusts (shrimp) are mutualized",

For example: Lu Dian's "Pi Ya" in the Song Dynasty:

"Or locusts, i.e., fish eggs."

Pan Zimu's "Chronicle of the Deep Sea":

"Locusts turned into fish and shrimp."

Li Fang's "Taiping Yulan" "Shrimp Gate" records:

"Locusts fly into the sea and turn into fish and shrimp."

Historically, the Chang'an region was located in the Guanzhong Plain.

There are not many locust plagues,

However, in the first two years, there were frequent droughts.

Coupled with the disaster of war in Guanzhong for many years,

The land is barren and there is a drought,

A locust plague is not out of the question.

The reason why Zhang Yan thinks that Lu Bu doesn't know,

This is because it rarely occurs in the state area.

When a few were in the city,

Then he found that there were many locusts on the road,

There are also countless locusts flying in the sky,

Although it has not yet reached the point of obscuring the sky,

But there are also quite a few of them.

Lu Bu's face became more and more solemn,

This is clearly the precursor to the plague of locusts.

It seems that this catastrophe is inevitable.

Many of the people of the city,

They went out to check on the street,

The young man looked curiously at everything that was happening in front of him,

There are even many half-grown children,

Cheerfully holding all kinds of things,

Chase and catch these locusts.

But those who are old,

But most of them looked solemn,

These people,

Most of them have seen or heard of the terrible locust plague.

Lu Bu and his party rode war horses,

came to the farmland located outside the city,

The scene here is much more spectacular and terrifying,

On the wheat seedlings that have been drawn and grown gratifyingly,

Everywhere you can see the unusually miserable holes gnawed by locusts,

There are already quite a few wheat seedlings that have even been eaten up completely.

What's more, it's covered with locusts,

Countless peasants,

Rushing madly into the fields,

Fight the locusts,

drove away crowd after crowd,

But for the innumerable swarms of locusts,

It's a drop in the bucket.

There are many more peasants who have collapsed,

Looking at the fields that have become a mess at this moment,

Crying helplessly.

Lu Bu's face was very ugly,

Though he had not experienced the plague of locusts himself,

But whether it is the information that has been viewed in the afterlife,

Or after coming to this era,

Something I've heard from others,

All emphasize the horror of the locust plague,

Although the plague of locusts has not yet reached its most terrible time,

But today's scene,

It's shocking enough.

"Loyalty."

Lu Bu's voice was followed by a hoarseness that he had never even noticed.

"The last general!"

"According to your estimates, can the scale and timing of this locust plague be determined?"

Zhang Yan was slightly stunned when she heard this,

After hesitating for a long time,

Only then did he speak bitterly:

"Lord, this locust plague has never been seen before, even if it is the largest locust plague in Youzhou, compared to this time, it is a small thing, as for the duration ......"

Zhang Yan said this,

The voice grew deeper.

Lu Bu's heart moved,

Immediately remembered,

At this time, it was the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

There is simply no scientific and technological means to eradicate locust plagues in large quantities,

Not even pesticides or insecticides.

Though he has crossed over from the Hereafter,

But he is not a god,

It is impossible to be omniscient and omnipotent,

It's even more impossible to conjure those things out of thin air,

I'm afraid that even the likes of Blood Phoenix and Zuo Ci,

In the face of such natural disasters,

That's just a sigh of hope.

"Common sense!"

Changli led the secret removal of nails in Chang'an City last night,

It's also a sleepless night,

At this moment, with two dark circles under his eyes,

Although the spirit is a little sluggish,

But hearing Lu Bu's greeting,

Hurriedly took half a step forward,

Lang Sheng replied:

"The subordinates are here!"

"Quickly gather information for me, and the entire Guanzhong region ...... No, all nearby states and counties should collect relevant information to see where there is a locust plague in addition to the surroundings of Chang'an City, the specific scale, and find out the source of the locust plague as much as possible in the shortest possible time! ”

"Whoa!"

Changli hugged his fists and left directly.

"Mr. Zhong!"

"The lower official is here."

Zhong Xuan walked over quickly,

He and Zang Hong,

After coming to Chang'an, he was responsible for assisting Zhang Yan,

Zhong Miao focuses on domestic affairs and people's livelihood,

Zang Hong mainly focuses on criminal law and public security,

Although there is a huge difference in age between the two,

But the cooperation is seamless,

Now there is such a major event near Chang'an City,

Naturally, he was coming here.

Lu Bu turned his head,

With a faint melancholy on his face,

Quickly asked:

"Sir, how much grain is stored in Chang'an City now? What is the population? Is there any detailed data? “

Zhong Xuan replied without thinking:

"Back to my lord, there are now 130,000 households in Chang'an City, with a population of 480,000, including more than 80,000 people in villages and towns near Chang'an, and more than 60,000 people from other places poured into Chang'an during this time."

After Lu Bu listened to this data,

I couldn't help but speak:

"There are so many?"

According to the information that Lu Bu has checked in later generations,

Around 192 A.D. in history,

There was once a census,

At that time, the entire Jingzhao area,

The total population is only about 280,000.

Dong Zhuo's troops attacked Li Yu and Guo Yan to break through Chang'an,

"At that time, there were still hundreds of thousands of households in the three auxiliary people, and they let the troops rob and plunder, attacked the cities, the people were hungry, and they ate a little bit in two years."

A prosperous area where hundreds of thousands of households have lived in two years,

There was very little left, and it was desolate.

After the young emperor Liu Xie escaped from Chang'an,

The dwelling place is a portal made of thorns,

The palace maids lacked food and clothing, and many starved to death on the way.

The driving officer went out to collect firewood,

often falls to the side of the road.

It was at that time that

There was a tragedy of cannibalism near Chang'an.

At that time, the great Confucian Kong Rong,

It was also used to create a theoretical basis for cannibalism.

He said to eat people he didn't know,

It's like eating an orangutan and eating a parrot.

This shows how tragic the legacy of the war is.

But in this life,

Due to the appearance of Lu Bu,

Although Dong Zhuo's chaos and Li Guo's rebellion were advanced,

Chang'an still inevitably experienced a period of tragic turmoil,

But the duration of the war and the intensity of the war,

It's undoubtedly much lighter than before.

In addition, after Li Ru defected to Lu Bu,

Responsible for the governance of Chang'an,

vigorously rectify military discipline and develop people's livelihood,

After Zhang Yan came here,

There is also the joint efforts of Zhong Xuan and many wealthy gentry families,

This enabled Chang'an to recover in a short period of time.

Although it is far less than the heyday of the Eastern Han Dynasty,

But in the Central Plains at this time,

It's already the only mega city.

To know the Jinyang City of Bingzhou,

After so many years of development of Ding Yuan and Lu Bu,

Now it's only a population of just over 400,000,

Although it has a remote state,

and the congenital deficiency of the sparse population,

However, due to the advanced measures of Lu Bu and Diao Chan and others,

And now the state is stable and vibrant,

can have this population base,

is also reasonable,

However, today's Chang'an still has a population of 480,000,

even exceeds Jinyang by nearly 100,000 people,

This shows the profound heritage of Chang'an, a thousand-year-old ancient capital.

However, at this time of the locust plague,

With such a large population base,

For Lu Bu at this moment,

But it's not a very beautiful thing,

Because of the large population,

The amount of food needed is also very staggering.

If it's a normal time,

That's okay to say,

After a series of initiatives and resource tilting by Lu Bu,

and the help of the three major families and other business families that were brought in,

Chang'an will only thrive,

This year, not to say that the wind and rain are smooth,

As long as there is no such thing as a natural disaster,

The people were able to live very comfortably.

But this sudden plague of locusts,

But it's tantamount to a slap in the face,

Immediately let these some wonderful prospects,

Almost all of them are about to be reduced to a mirror.

The locust plague is only a prelude,

How long can the locust plague last?

Now I don't know,

But just looking at the situation near Chang'an today,

It is already foreseeable,

At least the autumn harvest of the entire Jingzhao area this year,

It's basically a situation where there is no harvest.

When the people had no food in the autumn,

I'm going to go south to use troops soon,

It also requires a large supply of food,

Those previous plans,

Now it seems that not to mention the supply of the army to the south to conquer Yuan Shu,

I'm afraid it's just to supply the entire Jingzhao region,

It may not be easy for people to survive this year.

After Lu Bu sighed,

His face became more and more solemn,

Zhong Xuan naturally understands that with such a large population,

What it means today,

He forced a smile on his face:

"My lord, now Chang'an has a grain stock of 1.2 million stones. That's enough for these 480,000 people for half a year. However, the southern expedition of the army and the expeditionary force of the Western Regions may be able to catch it. ”

Lu Bu opened his mouth when he heard this,

But he did not speak,

Zhong Xuan: This is already an optimistic statistics.

In this day and age,

Ordinary people can eat a stone of grain for about two months,

Of the forty-eight,

There are many women, children and the elderly,

Therefore this 1,200,000 stone of grain,

can make everyone in Chang'an today,

Supporting the situation for half a year,

It's not an exaggeration.

But among these populations,

But it does not include the more than 30,000 troops stationed near Chang'an at the moment,

the rate at which the troops consume food,

It's more amazing than ordinary people.

And this year, in this case,

The autumn harvest in Chang'an can't be counted on,

Now this 1.2 million stone grain,

Or the surrounding area squeezed out,

Prepare rations for the great army,

It's almost hollowed out the little foundation of the state,

That is, at least for a short period of time,

It is difficult for the surrounding areas to have extra food to help Chang'an.

This is still the assumption that only Chang'an suffers from locust plagues.

Rubbing his cheeks,

Lu Bu only felt a headache,

With a wave of his hand, he ordered everyone to go back and call an emergency meeting.

In the chamber,

Lu Bu sat on the throne,

frowned, with a solemn face,

Below sat Zhang Yan, Zhong Xuan, Zang Hong, Yang Xiu, Lou Gui and others.

All the people are like Lu Bu at this moment,

His face was solemn and silent.

This time the plague of locusts came too suddenly,

caught many people off guard,

The original plan is almost completely nullified at this moment.

Lu Bu turned his head to look at Zang Hong with a tired face,

Yesterday night's uprooting,

Although Zang Hong has not been directly involved,

But the action made such a big noise,

This also makes the Lord grasp the law of punishment and law to keep him safe,

Busy and overwhelmed,

Go around and clean up the mess for the dark,

Today is also close to dawn and just fell asleep,

And it didn't take long for

Then he was dragged out of the bed.

Lu Bu asked in a deep voice:

"Ziyuan, what is the security situation in Chang'an City now?"

Zang Hong hurriedly cheered up and replied:

"My lord, the traces of yesterday's operation have been almost wiped out. Although there is a little commotion among the people in the city today, there has never been any problem so far, mainly because of the peasant households outside the city, the locust plague came too suddenly, and many people could not accept such a situation. ”

Lu Bu rubbed his eyebrows,

Let the tense spirit relax a little,

Whispered:

Such a reaction is also understandable. When Ziyuan maintains law and order, he must grasp the square inch. ”