Chapter 128: A Strategy to Suppress Locusts
It is the nature of locusts to eat green plants, even if they are infected with the plague, but as long as they are not dead, they will not stop talking, therefore, even if there is a locust plague, it is impossible to completely curb the emergence of the locust plague, at most to a certain extent, to eliminate the plague of locusts.
Looking at the peanuts missing several bites on the sprouts, Jia Yi was distressed, this is all money, if the locusts eat a bite, there will be one less bite, if the peanut production is reduced in a large area, there will be many Sifang inns in the new year without stir-fry to sell.
Last year, Jia Yi planted peanuts in the summer, and this year, the reason why he planted them in advance was to allow the peanuts to produce as many full peanuts as possible under the right temperature.
It's just that Jia Yi didn't expect that the locusts would be so powerful, even though they are only small larvae, they have already caused a lot of damage to the peanut field, if they are writing about the big locusts, I believe that the peanut field will not produce much more.
Even if Jia Yi has historical knowledge from later generations and can know in advance what will happen in what period, even if he knows what will happen, he can't avoid all dangers and disasters in advance.
It was not too late to make amends, and in order to allow the peanut field to continue to grow normally, Jia began to carefully observe the locust larvae.
The locust larvae in the peanut field were almost all infected by the plague and fell to the ground and died, but every moment the locusts came again, just as the locusts that had no food to feed in one place began to fly elsewhere.
Finding that the locusts were flying from somewhere else, Jia Yi hurriedly ordered a water dragon cart to be sprayed with locust plague within a radius of two miles from the peanut field, perhaps only in this way could the locust attack be prevented.
In order to see the effect, Jia Yi sat on the edge of the peanut field for half a day, during this half a day, not a single locust cub appeared in his line of sight, at least he didn't see it, got up and checked the locust field in the two miles, and found that the outermost place had died locusts.
As soon as he nodded with satisfaction, he felt a huge force coming from the back of his head, and his body couldn't help but stumble forward, covering his head and turning his head to see that it was Qin Qiong.
Looking at Qin Qiong's angry face, Jia Yi lowered his head unconsciously, although he didn't know what he had done wrong.
"You stinky boy, such a precious plague of locusts, you use it indiscriminately."
One sentence made Jia Yi suddenly realize that daring to love is for this, but even if Jia Yi has a hundred reasons, he doesn't dare to open his mouth, after all, he said that the ultimate goal of a thousand ways and ten thousand is to ensure that his interests are not infringed upon, which has nothing to do with serving the country and the people.
"Have you ever tried the effective range of this plague of locusts?" Qin Qiong saw that Jia Yi lowered his head and didn't speak, so he nodded with satisfaction, if he dared to quibble loudly after doing something wrong, Qin Qiong felt that he would discount Jia Yi's legs.
is worthy of being the prince of the country, and let Jia Yi know where to explain to himself in one sentence, after all, these plagues are all registered with the emperor, if they are used privately and cause a large number of locust plagues, even if Jia Yi is meritorious in medicine, he will be offset by the crime of misappropriating good medicine without permission and causing the loss of national funds.
"Hehe, Uncle Qin, according to the test of the little nephew, the farthest distance from the locust being infected with the plague to falling to death is only one mile, and now it is only a small locust, for the sake of insurance, it is best to change this distance to two miles."
"Well, you have the plague now?"
"The little nephew still has five cylinders of diluted plague here, and there are nine cylinders of original liquid in the house, which are blended at the ratio of one cylinder to ten cylinders, and there are still ninety-five cylinders of plague left."
Qin Qiong nodded, seemingly very satisfied with this number.
"How far do you see the locust plague covering?"
"According to the visit of the little nephew, the locust plague will break out in the entire Gyeonggi Province and several counties near Gyeonggi Province in the Inner Province, and our plague seems to be a little less."
This is the truth, Jia Yi has the ability to create more plagues, but even if he can create enough plagues to destroy this locust plague, in the end, there will still be many people displaced, as mentioned before, locusts will eat up all the plants they see before they die, and they will not have any restrain because they are infected with the plague.
"Load me with all the plague stock solution." Qin Qiong's fluttering words pulled all the plagues away from Jia Yi, although Jia Yi was sure that his peanut field would not suffer from any locust plague, but after all, this was something he configured, and there was no reward for being pulled away like this, and there was a little pimple in his heart.
Qin Qiong had already walked a long way, and suddenly as if he had thought of something, he turned his head to look at Jia Yi and shouted lightly: "Jia Yi, counting this plague, your credit is enough." ”
After speaking, he beat the horse and went away, but Jia Yi was a little far away, and he didn't know what he was talking about at all, but he vaguely heard what was enough, which made him confused.
The peanut field was saved, standing in the plague isolation area, watching the locusts outside re-plague the plague area without hesitation, and then fell to the ground and died before they rushed out for five hundred meters, Jia Yi couldn't help but sigh, the plague is really the only natural disaster that can quickly reduce the number of organisms.
As time passed, the size of the locusts began to grow larger and larger, and when countless adult locusts swarmed to gnaw on a green plant, they spread their wings and began to leap towards the new green space, like a snowball, when the locusts on a piece of the ground gnawed all the green plants, the locusts that flew over and the locusts that were the origin of this place, began to fly towards another green space together.
In just a few days, the locust plague began to appear.
The locust plague was pulled away, and Jia Yi felt that there was nothing wrong with him, so he simply stayed at home, accompanied Lin Ruyu, managed the Lin Mansion during the day, and kept the two phases warm at night.
I don't know when, the rice and vegetables on the market have begun to rise slowly, the locust plague has been formed, this is the inevitable result, with the invasion of locusts, the already high price of rice is believed to have a more huge increase, but during the locust plague, it is good to be able to stutter, can you still expect the price of rice to remain the same?
Jia Yi began to hoard food from the beginning with surplus money in hand, although it was in the imperial period, he had enough rice, anyway, the locust plague lasted for three months at most, to the extent that there was nothing to eat, the locusts would starve to death in large numbers, and the locust plague would not be extinguished.
The really terrible thing is not the locust plague itself, anyway, the locusts are vegetarians, and they have never heard of locusts eating meat, so the locust plague crosses the border, and no grass grows, which is the really terrible place of the locust plague.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the people's families were already considered rich if they could eat food for a period of time, and most of them were people who had eaten the last meal but did not have the next meal, and the farmers had a little bit of stored grain, but when they were enough to eat the new grain output, there was no more.
The appearance of the locust plague made the farmers all anxious, looking at the countless locusts lying on the seedlings that had not yet grown, they were already anxious, these seedlings were where their capital to settle down and live, if all of them were eaten by the locusts, they could only end up hungry.
People who are in a hurry began to take all kinds of farm tools to beat locusts, a broom down, hundreds of locusts were slapped into cakes, seeing the dead locusts that can no longer die, the farmer's face showed a smile, locusts are not invincible, on the contrary, they are also very fragile, any little strength, can make their fragile body into a puddle of mud, but when the farmer raised his head, he found that more locusts appeared in his line of sight, no matter how he swatted, he could not kill the locusts, It's more and more fighting.
Throwing away the broom in his hand, looking at the locusts that couldn't stop moving, and listening to the bursts of salsa made by the locusts eating the seedlings, the farmer suddenly rose from his heart, two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, looked up at the sky, and exclaimed: "God save me." "It's just that the sky is completely covered by the boundless locusts, and even the true face of the sky can't really be seen.
Something like this began to happen in various parts of Gyeonggi Province, with the weaker farmers crying bitterly and kneeling down to beg for God's help, while the more ruthless ones set up a fire and burned all the seedlings they had worked so hard to grow: "Lao Tzu's grain will not be swallowed by others, even if it is burned by a fire, and you will be buried with it." This is the truest portrayal of their hearts.
It takes two months for the locust plague to break out, the first month when the larvae of the locusts grow into adults, and the second month when the adults devour all the greenery they can see, until they have nothing to eat, and then fly together towards the place where there are still plants.
When the third month comes, the locusts begin to snowball, and swarms of locusts begin to fly all over the world, and wherever there are plants, they fly towards them, and when they have eaten all the plants, they will move to the new stockyard again.
When the second month just began, Jia Yi was still guarding the family at home, talking about a story or something, and going to the peanut field from time to time to see if his peanuts were still invaded by locusts.
The Sifang Restaurant completely stopped expanding and began to maintain the status quo, which was a direct order given by Jia Yi, although Shen Qingyun did not know that the locust plague was coming, he still chose to believe Jia Yi, and Qingyun Restaurant also stopped expanding at this time.