"Your Majesty, the slave and maid have ordered people to be ready, and they can set off at any time."

As soon as the hour of this day arrived, Zhu Youxiao left the imperial city early, and just came to the noon gate, Xiao Xuanzi trotted over, and reported respectfully.

He received a very grim news three days ago, although he had already issued an order three days ago, ordering all departments to immediately strictly implement and promote it, but he was still not at ease, and he had to check around the city near the capital.

What is it that can make Zhu Youxiao fight today, as if he is facing a great enemy?

Three days ago, he received a secret report from officials in various places: Because of the two consecutive years of drought and lack of snow, there are signs of locust plague outbreaks in many places!

This real earth-shattering news made Zhu Youxiao immediately anxious, and he couldn't stay in the carpenter workshop anymore!

He thought about it for a long time, and then came up with several effective methods.

That is to use the phototaxis of various insects, including locusts, to kill insects at night by using lights.

Not only locusts, but also other insects must be killed together, so as not to affect the planting and harvesting of crops.

When he was a child in his previous life, he often saw countless flying insects on and off the street lamps.

And these flying insects, flying up and down around the light, will soon fall to the ground under the light, what if it is not the ground but a pond?

Obviously, it is easy to see that nine out of ten of these massive flying insects will be drowned and become food for fish and shrimp.

Three days ago, Zhu Youxiao issued an urgent edict:

Within three days, a large lighthouse must be set up in every large farm of 10,000 mu and at least a large pond of several hundred acres, and the lights must be kept unextinguished at night in the future.

In addition, on a large 100-acre square in the center of each large farm, it is important to prepare sufficient dry firewood and haystacks.

Every night on the occasion of the locust plague, several bonfires were immediately lit overnight to burn and kill the incoming locusts.

He also ordered the workshops in all parts of the imperial court to immediately rush to make a large number of large nets with a radius of at least five feet, and distribute them to all the large farms, and be sure to ensure one for each person.

When the locust plague came, they immediately went out and used large nets to hunt and kill the locusts.

In addition, when the locust plague came, the chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry in the big farms were not allowed to return to the pen during the day and night, and they were all released to hunt the locusts.

Zhu Youxiao believed that under his series of combination punches, the locust plague that was about to break out would definitely not cause much damage to all the big farms of the Ming Empire.

Although the summer harvest is about to take place, there will definitely be small losses in various places, but a large number of dried locusts can be harvested, which is enough to make up for the loss of food.

Locust meat is an extremely delicious food in its own right, and it has miraculous properties to treat some diseases.

If the locusts are dried and ground into powder and added to the military rations, it is both delicious and nourishing, and even has some effects on the treatment of night blindness and cough and asthma.

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"Well, let's leave immediately, this important matter must not be delayed, I must go to the surroundings of the capital to check it out for myself, so that I can rest assured."

Zhu Youxiao knew about the extermination disaster of the locust plague, if he gave his death order, after three days, there were still people who did not implement it, and he would definitely kill him.

Those civil and military officials who derelict their duties, even if they do not raid their homes and exterminate their clans, must at least be killed.

The court officials who do not care about the survival of the people, no matter who he is or how high his status is, Zhu Youxiao will not show mercy to his subordinates.

In the past three days, with the intelligence sent back by a large number of intelligence personnel, the signs of locust plague in various places have become more and more obvious, and the Ming Empire has carried out a general mobilization of the whole people, and the whole country is like a great enemy.

Some officials, such as Yan Yingyuan and Hong Chengchou, have not had a good night's sleep for several days.

Almost all civil and military officials know that His Majesty the Emperor is really serious this time.

In the past few days, every order issued by the emperor has been extremely harsh, and if it is not violated and implemented effectively, it will easily be a death order to raid the family and exterminate the clan.

A few days later, it is the season when various crops begin to be harvested, and now in the Ming Empire, there are more than 100,000 new ecological farms of 10,000 acres.

All kinds of crops, everywhere is a bumper harvest, if it is plagued by locusts, the loss will be unprecedented, at least in 100 million catties!

At that time, it will bring an incomparably heavy blow to the Ming Empire, which is much more serious than the consequences of the total annihilation of a million troops!

The current Ming Empire will definitely not be able to withstand that kind of devastating loss.

Therefore, even the more than 2 million officers and men of the various army and navy, including the various garrison corps, all the officers and men must take action immediately.

In addition to Li Dingguo, Hao Shaoqi's subordinates, the Third Army of the Yongwei Army, and the Gluttonous Army of the Guards Army, they are still fighting the enemy.

All the rest of the soldiers were divided into teams of ten people one by one, and they settled in all the big farms in the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Empire.

Everyone had to make a military order to supervise and enforce several grand plans issued by Emperor Zhu Youxiao to deal with the locust plague. ninth

His Majesty the Emperor has issued an order to die, but anyone who dares to stop or oppose it will be killed, and the accomplices will be arrested, and after the locust plague is over, they will be sent to various mines to be reformed to death!

Because he was anxious, seeing that Xiao Xuanzi and Xiao Guizi, each leading a team of intelligence bureau personnel with one person and three horses, were ready, Zhu Youxiao didn't say more, and immediately flew and jumped to the back of Xiaobai, the snow-stepping horse.

"Drive!"

He shouted, and the snow horse suddenly rushed towards the avenue ahead, and ran towards the end of East Chang'an Avenue in the lead.

Xiao Xuanzi and Xiao Guizi glanced at each other, did not dare to slack off, and each took a thousand-person team of soldiers from the Intelligence Bureau, and hurriedly chased after the emperor's back.

In the current capital, the figures are very loose.

This is Yan Yingyuan's order, and the people in the capital who have nothing urgent to do will all go out of the city to help eliminate the insect plague this time, and harvest all kinds of crops.

Mainly, some of the crops have reached the time when they can be harvested, and before the locust plague arrives, there is as much as can be harvested.

According to the news from all sides, this insect plague was initially broken out in the Great Northeast and Yongping Mansion, Shandong, Huai'an Mansion, and Shaanxi, and both its scale and scope were unprecedented since the founding of the Ming Empire.

Therefore, it is impossible to pay too much attention to it.

According to conservative estimates, if we ignore this locust plague as we have done in the past, a catastrophe that will almost sweep across the north and south of the river is inevitable!

Such a large-scale locust plague is extremely rare even in history, and it is very different from the history of the late Ming Dynasty known to Zhu Youxiao.

However, history has always been untrustworthy, coupled with the inertia of history and the constant counterattack against itself, it is not surprising that this year's super-scale locust plague broke out.

The speed of the brigade was extremely fast, and in less than a quarter of an hour, they went out of the Guangqu Gate and came to the Daguan Road outside the city.

Not far ahead, on both sides of the endless, 30-zhang wide official road, there are several huge ecological farms.

Zhu Youxiao led the talent to the door of the nearest large farm, and heard a bustling crowd inside.

Obviously, this is the people in the big farm, led by one or two officials and a ten-man soldier, who are harvesting some ripe crops.

In addition, preparations are being made for the elimination of locusts.

Zhu Youxiao quickly led people into a nearby large farm, and what caught his eye was an extremely busy scene.

He immediately stopped the first official and a dozen or so soldiers from coming to pay homage, and signaled them not to come, just do their best to complete their work.

At present, there are more than 1,000 people working in almost every large farm in all the large farms directly under the jurisdiction of the empire, because almost all the soldiers and the people of various construction teams are stationed.

And those 100,000 acres of super farms, at least 10,000 people and soldiers have settled in.

Everyone worked together to survive this super natural disaster unharmed.

Everywhere you look, you can see people and soldiers who are doing all kinds of work, and it is very lively.

However, with the repeated strict orders and special commands of the Ming court, it seems to be in order now, and there is no chaos.

"Well, that's good."

The first thing Zhu Youxiao saw was that in the large pond of hundreds of acres in size of this big farm, a large lighthouse with a height of four or five zhang has been completed.

This kind of big lighthouse is not specially prepared for this locust plague.

It was established to eliminate all kinds of flying insects in the future, and its fundamental purpose is to eliminate most of the pests and diseases in the large farms as much as possible.

Zhu Youxiao knows how powerful and outrageous this kind of lighthouse set up in the middle of a large pond is to eliminate all kinds of flying insects!

It is conservatively estimated that just every night, this big lighthouse lures and kills all kinds of flying insects, which can feed all kinds of omnivorous fish in dozens of acres of ponds.

This is really not a joke, every night when he was a child in his previous life, he had seen countless street lamps full of all kinds of flying insects.

At night, around the street lamps, there are dense flying insects, and even people dare not walk over.

It was only later that with the massive use of various pesticides and insecticides, after he grew up and became an adult, all kinds of flying insects slowly decreased.

In the end, street lamps have become real street lights, and they no longer become a source of light that attracts all kinds of flying insects.

However, with the massive use of various pesticides and insecticides, food safety has become the biggest social and livelihood issue, and nine out of ten people have suffered greatly.

Before Zhu Youxiao crossed over and was reborn, he wouldn't be able to see real safe green food anyway, and as for whether others could see it, it was not up to Zhu Youxiao to know.

Therefore, for the issue of food safety, Zhu Youxiao in this life attaches great importance to it, and will never let that situation appear in his Ming Empire!

The degree of control he now has over all the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Empire is unprecedented.

He has enough self-confidence to be able to lead his Ming Empire and stride towards the ideal country in his heart.