After returning from the White Horse Temple, Li Mu devoted himself to the response to the locust plague.

Although there is hope in terms of food, disasters are disasters, and in the face of catastrophes, there can be less losses, or less losses. Li Mu asked Li Tai to consult the methods of the ancients to deal with the locust plague, and the records of each dynasty are different, but they all have similarities, and in summary, there are roughly three methods.

The first, completely stupid way, is to catch the locusts with your hands and then trample them to death. This method can be figured out by everyone, even if there is no way to do it, it still works when the locust plague is relatively light, and when the locust plague is slightly more serious, it is basically useless at all, and the manpower and material resources consumed are not proportional.

The second, slightly more evolved. It can be called the 'fluttering method', which involves villagers holding up an eight-foot-long white cloth with bamboo poles, chasing them on three sides in a downwind direction, driving the locusts to one place, and then concentrating on the fighting. This method has a long history, and it has been recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it can be regarded as the 'mainstream method' for farmers to face the locust plague. The old farmer 'consultants' convened by Li Mu also recommended this method.

Although the fighting method is simple, after all, the manpower and physical consumption are too large, and there is a premise, that is, there must be a 'cloth', for some people, there is not so much 'cloth' at home, only branches can be used, and the effect will be greatly reduced. So in the Han Dynasty, another step was evolved, according to the convenience of the terrain, there was no need to chase and intercept the 'cloth', but to dig a large number of large pits with a depth of two feet in the area where the locusts would pass, and then after the locusts arrived, the locusts were introduced into the pit with green cabbage and green leaves, and then concentrated on landfilling. If this method of 'luring the enemy' is smooth, it is also excellent to "annihilate the enemy", and usually bury a large area. However, it is also difficult to operate, and once the soil is too shallow, locusts can also come out. Moreover, in the process of 'luring the enemy', it is easy to have problems, and if the old people dig the pit with great effort, the locust swarm will not come, and it will be in vain.

After consulting countless ancient books and asking many old farmers, the methods that I finally came up with did not seem to be so effective. But at the moment of the catastrophe, when a suitable method was come up, the locusts had already eaten all the food, and for the sake of today's plan, they had to take out the cloth and sew it in one place, and the locusts were surrounded and intercepted, and where there were no conditions, the young and strong were organized to dig pits and prepare to fill the locusts. Women, children and children can't be idle, a few can be caught, and it is not in vain to catch them, Li Mu issued a proclamation, the dead locusts are weighed, and they can be exchanged for food one to one, but this is also a cliché measure, and there is nothing new.

Three days have passed like this, and there is still no news from Ma Zhou's side. According to the news yesterday evening, Ma Zhou had arrived at the boundary of Taiyuan, and he went to Taiyuan for 900 miles, in other words, within 900 miles, he did not receive a grain of grain. Li Mu remembered Mrs. Lu's words yesterday, the power of Jihetang in the local area was really terrifying!

There was only enough food for six days, and the attitude of the people in the city became worse and worse. In the morning, several rice stalls in front of the Hou Mansion have robbed rice, fortunately, there are Jinyi Wei suppressed, so there is no chaos, there are also people who go out of the city to join relatives, although the village is flooded with locusts, but there are still many people who have stored grain, it is better than staying in the city and starving to death after six days.

For these people, Li Mu did not stop them, the locusts outside the city were overflowing, these people escaped, and they could still help kill the locusts, and they did not eat in vain, but stayed in the city, even if they spent their own money to buy food, the food in the city was also consumed, and it was useless for disaster relief.

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After tossing outside for a day, when Li Mu returned to the Hou Mansion, it was already the tip of the moon. Bai Qiaoqiao is about to give birth, and no one can take care of him. In order to relieve the disaster, Li Mu went out before dawn and returned after dark, Zhang Tianai also took care of Jinyiwei's affairs and maintained law and order in the city, which was later than Li Mu's return. The responsibility of taking care of Bai Qiaoqiao fell on Jin Chen. The rest of the things inside and outside have to be maintained by Wei Yingluo, the huge Hou Mansion, there are sixty or seventy people who have dinner every day, and the affairs are complicated, and there is no less than the affairs of the Fengchen Bureau, but at this time, no one can find time to share, she can only learn a little bit, and if she is not sure, she discussed with Bai Qiaoqiao, and after a few days, she actually managed it.

Li Muzi was happy to see Wei Yingluo's growth, and thought in his heart that when this disaster passed, if Wei Yingluo had the heart to take charge of herself, he would arrange a position for her, and she could not lose her talent.

"Husband, do you want to take a bath?" Jin Chen brought Li Mu a cup of hot tea, put a pair of Rouyi on his shoulder, and asked softly. Li Mu held her hand, shook his head slightly, and said, "Don't be so troublesome, just make a basin of water to soak your feet, it's too tired after a busy day," Li Mu smiled bitterly and said, "Now I can fall asleep when I fall on the bed——"

"Husband has worked hard."

"It's nothing hard, I just can't think of a way," Li Mu sighed and said: "In the past, I always felt that nothing could be difficult for me, and I could come up with a way to deal with anything." But this time, I really felt like I couldn't do anything about it. Those locusts, slaughtering one wave, and giving birth to another, more and more every day, as if they would not stop until they ate all the green leaves—"

"Husband, there has been no good way to plague locusts for thousands of years, you have done a good job, Your Majesty will definitely not blame you."

"Heh," Li Mu chuckled lightly and said, "Are you afraid that Your Majesty will blame me?" Li Mu looked at him with tears in his eyes and said, "What I'm afraid of is the eyes of the people, you haven't seen with your own eyes how pitiful those people are." It was a year's worth of hard work for them, and they were defending the city. The ears of the seedlings have already been filled with grain, and they will be harvested in half a month, but now, in order to stop the spread of the locust plague, they have to cut them all, what is the difference between this and cutting the flesh with a knife? ”

"Husband-" It was the first time Jin Chen had seen Li Mu like this, and he didn't know how to comfort him for a while.

Li Mu took a deep breath, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "What are you talking about here, if you are tired, you can help me make a basin of water, soak my feet, and go to bed early." ”

"Hmm." Jin Chen turned around and went out to fetch water, helped Li Mu take off his shoes and socks, and wanted to help him wash his feet, but was stopped by Li Mu and asked her to accompany Bai Qiaoqiao. Due to the early days and late returns, Li Mu did not sleep in the same room with Bai Qiaoqiao, and Jin Chen was by her side.

Jin Chen knew that the person Li Mu was most worried about was Bai Qiaoqiao, so he obediently went over and told Li Mu to finish soaking her feet, don't worry about the footbasin, she will clean it up tomorrow. Regarding Li Mu's matter, the women in the family reached a tacit agreement not to let the maid handle it, specifically why, Li Mu can also guess a little, the women in the family are estimated to have reached an agreement in this regard, there are a lot of people in this family, and they don't want to add a mouthful of people inexplicably.

The water was very hot, and Li Mu tried several times before putting his feet in the water. The heat rose, and the blood circulation seemed to have accelerated a little, Li Mu slowly collapsed on the recliner and breathed a sigh of relief.

When you soak your feet every day, it is a rare time to relax, and Li Mu will take advantage of this time to sort out the things he has done today, and by the way, he will give priority to what he will do tomorrow. Maybe he was too tired, Li Mu pondered for a while, took a nap, and fell asleep in a daze.

When Li Mu sleeps, it can be roughly divided into three conditions. There are no dreams, there are dreams, and consciousness remains in the system to 'browse'. In all three ways, the body can be rested, and the embodiment in the system is the recovery of 'physical strength'. The difference lies in the degree of mental recovery, the dreamless state, the mental recovery is the best, when there is a dream, depending on what the dream is, the degree of mental recovery varies, and when the consciousness remains in the system, it is basically equivalent to 'not sleeping', and the next day it will appear less energetic.

Under normal circumstances, if Li Mu hadn't consciously entered the system, his sleep would still be no different from that of a normal person.

But today, I don't know if it's a subconscious thought. After Li Mu closed his eyes, he actually entered the system. These days are busy with disaster relief, Li Mu has not entered the system for many days, and today he 'mistakenly' entered the system, which is an accident. Just when Li Mu wanted to quit and get a good night's sleep, a system prompt appeared.

"Players have accumulated millions of proficiency in each skill to unlock the system retrieval function."

What the heck?

Li Mu took a closer look and understood what it meant. The general meaning is that their various sub-class skills have accumulated together, such as forging, leather making, pharmaceuticals, etc., and all the proficiency levels add up to more than one million, and the system gives away a small function.

What the hell is the search function?

Li Mu doesn't remember that he added this kind of thing when he was doing this deputy job system. He reached out and 'clicked' on the prompt screen to understand what this feature was.

This is a 'search' function, similar to a search engine, that searches for keywords. In "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty", this function does not need to be unlocked at all, and the interface is default. I didn't expect that in my body, this basic function had to be unlocked.

What's the use of unlocking dispensable things? Can I increase my skill level? Or is it the situation in front of you, can it help?

Li Mu was stunned for a while, planning to quit and go to sleep. Suddenly, on a whim, I wondered if I should give it a try? Maybe there are props in the system that can help, after all, he was only responsible for data balance, and tens of thousands of recipes, scrolls, and interesting props in the system were all planned and added by different groups, and he didn't know every one.

"It doesn't take anything to try, right?" Li Mu muttered, typing 'locust' in the search box, clicking to search, and several props immediately appeared in front of him.

[Formula: Insecticide.] A drug that kills pests, such as beetles, flies, grubs, noseworms, jumping worms and nearly 10,000 other pests, requires pharmaceutical intermediate grade. 】.

This thing is somewhat useful, but the problem is that the sky is full of locusts, and how many insecticides are needed. Looking at the materials of this formula, the price is not cheap, and the materials cannot be made up so many copies in a short time, so it cannot be implemented at all.

The following recipes, including insect traps, insect traps, etc., are similar, all of which look beautiful, but are unrealistic to implement.

Just when Li Mu wanted to give up, suddenly a formula came into view. [Recipe: Insect attractant. There is a special locust mark on the recipe scroll, which means that this is an exclusive item that is only useful against special bosses, and is mostly used to solve wild bosses.

Li Mu carefully looked at the description of the recipe, and it was the same as he thought. This is an exclusive item for the 'Locust Valley' map, after it is made, you can lure out the level 30 silver boss Locust King, the Locust Valley is the level 20 leveling map of "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty",

[Formula: Insecticide.] A drug that kills pests, such as beetles, flies, grubs, noseworms, jumping worms and nearly 10,000 other pests, requires pharmaceutical intermediate grade. 】.

This thing is somewhat useful, but the problem is that the sky is full of locusts, and how many insecticides are needed. Looking at the materials of this formula, the price is not cheap, and the materials cannot be made up so many copies in a short time, so it cannot be implemented at all.

The following recipes, including insect traps, insect traps, etc., are similar, all of which look beautiful, but are unrealistic to implement.

Just when Li Mu wanted to give up, suddenly a formula came into view. [Recipe: Insect attractant. There is a special locust mark on the recipe scroll, which means that this is an exclusive item that is only useful against special bosses, and is mostly used to solve wild bosses.

Li Mu carefully looked at the description of the recipe, and it was the same as he thought. This is an exclusive item for the 'Locust Valley' map, after it is made, you can lure out the level 30 silver boss Locust King, the Locust Valley is the level 20 leveling map of "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty",

[Formula: Insecticide.] A drug that kills pests, such as beetles, flies, grubs, noseworms, jumping worms and nearly 10,000 other pests, requires pharmaceutical intermediate grade. 】.

This thing is somewhat useful, but the problem is that the sky is full of locusts, and how many insecticides are needed. Looking at the materials of this formula, the price is not cheap, and the materials cannot be made up so many copies in a short time, so it cannot be implemented at all.

The following recipes, including insect traps, insect traps, etc., are similar, all of which look beautiful, but are unrealistic to implement.

Just when Li Mu wanted to give up, suddenly a formula came into view. [Recipe: Insect attractant. There is a special locust mark on the recipe scroll, which means that this is an exclusive item that is only useful against special bosses, and is mostly used to solve wild bosses.

Li Mu carefully looked at the description of the recipe, and it was the same as he thought. This is an exclusive item for the 'Locust Valley' map, after it is made, you can lure out the level 30 silver boss Locust King, the Locust Valley is the level 20 leveling map of "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty",