In order to popularize the strategy of raising ducks to control locusts on a large scale, Guo Peng personally wrote a manual on using ducks to control locusts, copied a large number of them, and then handed them over to special technicians.

Each person has a booklet, organizes intensive learning, and tells them the main points.

For example, you can't let the duck eat to the end in one go, the duck is addicted to locusts, and it doesn't know how to take the initiative to stop, and if you don't let it stop, it will eat until it dies.

Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the timing of the ducks into the field, half an hour to an hour is enough, and the same group of ducks must be driven away to eat.

The timing of the ducks should also be grasped well, and the farmers should be assisted to put the ducks in the right month, so as not to trample and destroy the farmland, so as to affect the grain harvest.

Ducks can be scattered to various families to raise, but when they are used, they must be gathered together, handed over to the village chief for unified command, and when the ducks grow up, they will be sold to the army in a unified manner, and the army will give money.

Guo Peng used military funds to buy these delicious ducks to supplement the army's meat, so that they could have meat to eat and broth to drink, so this policy was very popular with the army.

After a period of practice and exploration, a set of effective locust prevention policies were summed up, and Guo Peng ordered Xun Yu to take full responsibility for this matter, and to promote the policy experience of raising ducks to control locusts to the whole Qingzhou, and then to Yanzhou.

It is not only about raising ducks to cure locusts, but also about locust plagues after the so-called great drought, and there is also a connection between drought and locust plagues.

In order to better prevent and control locust plagues, it is very important to build water conservancy.

Among the task indicators issued by Guo Peng to the county orders for the counties and counties is to build water conservancy, but if the water conservancy is not prosperous, there are many drawbacks, and if the water conservancy in any county is not well repaired, Guo Peng must directly hold the county commander himself accountable.

Along the Yellow River Valley, although the damage of locusts was not as great as that of the later Ming and Qing dynasties, the damage of locusts was not small.

With the gradual drying up of the environment and the gradual destruction of vegetation, the living conditions of the Yellow River Basin can no longer be compared with the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

When the warlords were fighting, locust plagues occurred from time to time, resulting in repeated records of cannibalism, which could not be contained, such as when Lü Bu and Cao Cao fought for Yanzhou, locust plagues occurred, resulting in cannibalism.

The warlords themselves can't take care of it, so who cares about the people and the harvest?

When the battle is over and there is no food to eat, okay, what should I do?

Cannibalism.

It is in this desperate situation that the population is depleted.

This era is really terrible.

Guo Someone doesn't want to be such a warlord, Guo Someone wants to be a warlord for sustainable development, and only those who can develop to the end can become emperors, and the others are cannon fodder.

Many warlords are heading for cannon fodder, and Guo is the most different one.

What he attaches the most importance to is production, and it has always been production, so Guo can afford to raise a full-time professional army, and he can afford to raise an army with strong combat effectiveness, while other warlords cannot.

This will also become Guo's greatest confidence and a magic weapon to sweep the world.

In addition, in order to protect the environment and ensure production, Guo has also implemented many laws and regulations.

He forced some very effective agricultural production experience in the pre-Qin period, copied them on bamboo slips, organized officials to study collectively, and then went to the countryside collectively.

The township chiefs and village chiefs of each village are strictly ordered to memorize the melons until they are ripe, and then even if they use the method of cramming, they must fill in these guidelines into the minds of the peasant households.

One by one, one by one, if the peasant households are not made known, it is a dereliction of duty on the part of the township and village head, and they will be held accountable.

For example, in spring and February, it is not allowed to cut timber in the mountains and forests, it is not allowed to block waterways, and it is not allowed to burn grass as fertilizer until summer, and it is not allowed to pick plants that have just sprouted, or to catch young animals and eggs, it is not allowed to poison fish and turtles, and it is not allowed to set traps to catch birds and beasts, and so on.

The ban was not lifted until July, and only those who needed to cut down wood to make coffins due to death were exempt from the season, and even then they had to be reported to the village or township and kept in the county for records.

These laws and decrees were written in law in the Qin Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, but they were only passed down, and their popularization was not done well, and they failed to form a unified and effective restraint on farmers and protection of the environment.

There is a direct link between the protection of the environment and the yield of agricultural production.

In this way, it is a good thing for the present and future generations to promote the implementation of the policy of night schools to make peasant households literate and to standardize agricultural production and make it scientific.

Therefore, even if it is cramming, even if it is coercion, inducement, and coercion, Guo Peng must let every farmer know these rules, keep them firmly in mind, pass them on from generation to generation, and dare not forget them.

The grassroots level in Qingzhou has been fully mobilized, and the village chiefs and township chiefs at the grassroots level have hardly been able to live in peace, and they have a lot of things to do every day, for fear that if they do not do well, they will be found out, and they will lose their heads.

The same policy has also been extended to Yanzhou, where the newly established rural organizations have concentrated on learning and preaching, calling on farmers to cultivate their fields in a more scientific way and cultivate intensively, in order to obtain higher grain yields and better ability to cope with natural disasters.

Guo Peng was also cautious in preparing for production and promoting policies, for fear that something would go wrong, so that the grain harvest would be affected, causing displacement and starvation.

The productivity is low, the grain output is low, but there are not a lot of things to eat, and the grain of a million stones seems to be a lot, but when it is evenly distributed to people, it becomes not so much.

Without a good harvest in a few years, there is no confidence to dare to launch a foreign war, and if you fight for a little longer, you will starve to death, and you will die of starvation in the front, and you will starve to death in the rear, and you don't know how many people will die in a battle.

Again, it's a headache.

After making such efforts at the grassroots level, formulating policies to implement and maintain, after doing all this, Guo can breathe a sigh of relief and carefully look around to see if there are any advantages and benefits to take advantage of.

As a result, before Guo found a bargain to take advantage of, a big news came.

The sect member died.

Died suddenly.

The reason for this is that his marriage with Yuan Shao was harmful.

Guo Peng learned that Yuan Shao used marriage in order to deal with Gongsun Zhan, which made the sect members excited, so he stood on Yuan Shao's side, intending to restrict Gongsun Chan and prevent Gongsun Chan from conflicting with Yuan Shao.

Gongsun Zhan hated the sect members for helping Yuan Shao and not helping him, and in anger, he directly sent troops to intercept and kill the marriage team of Yuan Shao and the sect members.

He plundered a large number of gifts, killed all the envoys, and intended to sabotage the marriage between the two parties, but he did not act carefully, and was soon known by Yuan Shao and the sect members.

Yuan Shao used this to exert pressure on the sect members, and the sect members were extremely annoyed, reprimanded Gongsun Chan for not being a minister, and then mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Zhan didn't expect the sect member's anger to be so big, he was frightened, he hurriedly responded to the battle, and the army collapsed in three or two strokes, and the sect member personally led the troops to pursue, but chased after him, and was actually shot in the chest by a cold arrow, and died of serious injuries.

The Zongyuan army was in turmoil, Gongsun Zhan counterattacked, defeated the Zongyuan's army, and then regained his momentum, marched to Jixian in one fell swoop, took Jixian County, and destroyed the rule of Zongyuan, calling himself Youzhou Mu and Jihou.