Luoyang City.

Since the moment the health powder appeared, it began to be sought after by the whole people.

From the royal family, to the minister, down to the peddlers and pawns, it seems that whoever doesn't talk about this and doesn't drink this will fall behind, this craze initiated by the saint and the king of medicine quickly swept the whole Luoyang, and even spread to the surrounding area at a very fast speed.

If you are visiting relatives and friends, you are really embarrassed to come to the door without mentioning one or two packets of health powder.

In fact, such as Wei Zheng and other prime ministers, there are also more clear that this health powder is not as powerful as they boast, but none of them jumped out to accuse this thing of being false, because everyone knows health powder, especially those health powders bought by ordinary people, and the rest are made of locust eggs and miscellaneous grains, which is not only harmless, but also does have health benefits, not to mention that it has something to do with locust removal behind it.

The sales of health care drugs are increasing day by day, and there is a shortage of supply.

In cooperation with the Shangshi Bureau of Dianzhong Province, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has set up a health workshop, and the products made are sold in Huimin pharmacies in various places, and in places where Huimin pharmacies have not been established, another health workshop is built for sale.

The more than 600,000 stone locust eggs dug up for the first time in each province were originally intended to be fed to chickens and ducks, but now most of them are sent to various health workshops and factories for production and processing, and they are still in short supply.

Later, millions of stones were dug up, and all of them were taken away by the health workshop.

"Your Majesty, there are already hoppers in this place."

The Imperial City Department closely monitored the locust plague in various places, and the imperial court, led by the Imperial City Division, set up a temporary yamen for locust disaster relief, the Jing Locust Division.

Elite and capable officials from various yamen, such as the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Sinong Temple, Jinyiwei, Imperial City Division, etc., all the information about locusts will be gathered here as soon as possible, and then checked and processed here as soon as possible.

It's the end of February, and it's almost March.

Although the first phase of the locust egg digging operation and the second stage of the locust egg ploughing operation achieved very good results, it was not possible to dig up all the locust eggs.

Just digging a lot in the places where locust eggs are most concentrated, such as river beaches and lake beaches, and burning grass and plowing some barren grasslands, also killed a lot.

But under the long-term drought, locust eggs are everywhere, especially in the last winter, when there was no snow in many places, and the locust eggs that would have frozen to death every year were still good.

The weather is getting hotter, and the locust eggs are finally hatching.

The emperor didn't even pay much attention to the imperial examination in Luoyang City now, and he was staring at the locusts with all his thoughts, and when he heard that locusts had begun to hatch in many places, he couldn't help but have a solemn expression.

"The time has come to really test us, and the war against locusts has also entered a new stage, so that local governments should pay close attention to the local locust situation, counties, townships, and villages should be put in place at all levels, and all the county soldiers and militia should go to the countryside to inspect, and once they find a place with a dense number of locusts, they must quickly mobilize the people to exterminate them."

Freshly hatched hoppers are not yet adults, they cannot fly at this time, they need to go through five shedding skins, and then eventually they will become locusts.

Previously, Luo Cheng organized the Jing Locust Division, and had already begun to collect many ancient records about locust plague and locust control, and looked for ways to cure locusts.

Some of the more effective methods have been summed up and bound into a guide book for locust extermination, which has been distributed to all counties and counties for local officials to study collectively.

"The shape and living habits of the hopper are similar to those of the adult, but the body is smaller, has legs and no wings, can jump but not fly, and cannot reproduce and lay eggs, which is also the best stage for us to exterminate locusts."

These hoppers also like to swarm, and there is a part of their hind legs that if they are touched by their own kind, they will begin to like to move in groups, and it is this characteristic that after birth, the hoppers will begin to gather rapidly, and then form one locust swarm after another.

"One pound of jumping flies and two pounds of millet! Redeem as much as you want! ”

"Sage, jumping flies are much bigger than locust eggs, isn't it a bit too much for two catties, how about two catties of jumping bugs for one catty?" Feng Lishi advised the emperor.

Luo Cheng shook his head and said, "It is precisely because locusts are much larger than eggs that I have adjusted the exchange ratio, but if it drops too much, the people will be unhappy, and besides, I will not suffer much loss if I exchange one pound of locusts for two pounds of millet." Nowadays, health powder is selling well, how many hoppers and locusts can be eaten, and when the time comes, it will be matched with grain bran, wheat bran and taro flour, etc., but it can be sold at the price of rice, and it is impossible to lose. ”

Health powder is essentially a kind of coarse grain, and its ingredients are some very cheap coarse grains, such as rice bran, wheat bran and taro powder, which were originally left after grain processing, and were eaten by livestock, but now a package, after adding the concept of health care, everyone has taken him as a panacea in eating, there is a disease treatment, no disease health, the price is not expensive, and the price is about the same as the price of rice.

The Jing Locust Division immediately issued an edict and passed on the edict to all provinces.

One pound of hoppers for two pounds of millet.

As soon as this order was issued, the people stopped digging locust eggs, they were looking for hoppers everywhere, and the places where the locust eggs were dense were all dug up, and the rest were not so dense and not so easy to dig land, and there was not much to dig in a day.

Now that the hopper has come out, everyone's enthusiasm is high again.

During this time, under his leadership, Yanshi County performed the most outstanding in digging locust eggs, ranking first in the number of counties in Henan Province.

Now he wants to catch the hopper, and he is also very active.

After all, last time in their county alone, tens of thousands of stone locust eggs were dug up, and every few days the royal family would bring a cartload of grain over to exchange this cart of locust eggs, and Li Gang felt a sense of accomplishment when he thought that these locust eggs could have produced hundreds of millions of flying locusts.

He now has no mind to think about what heaven and man are interested in, cultivating virtue and good governance, and he has now agreed with what the emperor said, curing locusts and preventing locust plague and famine is the greatest good governance and benevolence.

"It is necessary to spread more propaganda to the people that this jumping bug cannot be buried in the soil, and if it is buried, it will be able to drill out the scourge again, dig more ditches, beat gongs and drums during the day to drive the locusts into the ditch, and then catch the locusts in buckets and drown."

"County Cheng, who is willing to bury it, one pound of jumping flies can be exchanged for two pounds of millet, although this jumping fly is not as big as the flying locust, it is much bigger than the locust eggs, and if you catch a little more, you can exchange for more food."

Dingjiatai Village.

Ding Laosan's family began to mobilize again, and last time the whole family dug locust eggs for more than a month, dug more than 100 catties, and exchanged more than 500 catties of millet, and the family was very happy.

This is equivalent to an increase in the harvest of five or six acres of land for nothing.

Now the hoppers are out, and the whole family is out again.

"Bring all the sheets, more buckets and nets." Ding Laosan confessed.

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