Sure enough, the three people who were asked frowned, thought for a long time, and shook their heads.

"Alas!" Lu Su sighed and said frankly: "Lord, please forgive the incompetence of his subordinates, natural disasters, in this case, we can only let the soldiers and the people work together to exterminate the locusts to reduce losses." At present, we can only hope that Jin Jue's prediction is false, or even if there is a locust plague next year, its scope will not be as wide as in the first year of Xingping. ”

Xuzhou was originally also the land of fish and rice, under the governance of Tao Qian and Chen Deng, the five grains were abundant, and the warehouses were full. However, under the double blow of Cao Cao's attack and the locust plague in the first year of Xingping, it also became a little stretched.

Although Tao Qian handed over the huge Xuzhou to Liu Bei, in fact, it was a mess inside, not to mention the lack of soldiers and major generals, and there was a shortage of food. Of course, this is not to say that the whole of Xuzhou is short of food.

There is still a lot of grain in Xuzhou, but the land in the southern counties of Xuzhou is all controlled by the local clans and local tyrants and gentry, and naturally they also have grain in their hands.

In this case, if Cao Cao, a big hooligan, controls Xuzhou, it will not be as difficult as Liu Bei is now, those large and medium-sized landlords who have no backing want to survive, they have to obediently offer the food at home, but Liu Bei is Tao Qian gave way to him, in fact, he was also elected by the people of Xuzhou to take over, not by his own ability, therefore, he can't offend the entire Xuzhou Dazhong landlord class as unscrupulously as Cao Cao.

These large and medium-sized landlords in Xuzhou each have their own ideas, so except for Mi Zhu and a few large and medium-sized landlords, others may not give their own grain to Liu Bei.

Not only did his three right-hand men shake their heads, but even Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, and Sun Qian.

"Boy, didn't your son-in-law mention any effective way to exterminate locusts?" At this time, Zhang Fei stood up suddenly and yelled at Liu An.

In fact, this is Zhang Fei's voice when he speaks on weekdays, and he didn't deliberately shout at anyone, Liu Bei's subordinates have long been used to it, but Liu An didn't know Zhang Fei's habit when he first arrived. Not only that, but even before, he was misunderstood, but Zhang Fei stared at the person but Chen Dao, not him, a small person.

Liu An was taken aback by Zhang Fei's roar, he tried to think about it for a while, and then replied tremblingly and very uncertainly: "Liu Yuanjun, everyone, my son-in-law has mentioned two methods, but I don't know if they are reliable or not. ”

"Oh! Liu An, don't be afraid, General Zhang usually speaks with such a loud voice, he didn't mean to target you. What method did Jin Jue mention, but you said it was okay! Neither you nor we will blame you for this. Seeing Liu An's appearance, Lu Su hurriedly explained.

Liu An breathed a sigh of relief, no wonder he had heard of Jin Jue's comments on Zhang Fei, thick and fine, seemingly reckless, but in fact bold and careful, but his disadvantage is that he treats his soldiers very poorly. It seems that Childe's comment really didn't miss it.

As long as it's not directed at him, though.

"Liu Yuanjun, when my lord was asked, in addition to shooting soldiers and cooperating with the people to kill locusts when the locust plague rose, there were two kinds of preparations in advance.

The first is to send people to dig up the land around the river bank without any vegetation with shovels and rakes before winter, and pay special attention to the land outside the river bank not to dig the river embankment, so as to kill the locust eggs that may be bred in the land in advance.

The second is to collect chickens and ducks, especially ducks, in the vicinity in advance and gather these birds. The best warriors against locusts are chickens and ducks. Of course, as a monarch, he also had to give orders, orders, to prohibit his subordinates and his hunters from killing any birds and frogs.

Birds and frogs not only kill locusts, but also all kinds of pests that harm crops. My son-in-law gave such an order to His Excellency in Luoyang County and Wudu County. Liu An told everything he had heard from Luoyang County.

At that time, when Jin Jue's words were circulated in the county, everyone listened to the story, and no one paid much attention to it.

In Luoyang County, there are almost all Yellow Turban troops from various counties in the north of the Han Dynasty, these people are all ordinary tenants, and they have seen a lot of locust plagues, but no one has ever heard of the three methods mentioned by Jin Jue.

The ban on the killing of birds and frogs was also seen as a way to do it.

"Ridiculous!" As soon as Liu An's words were finished, Zhang Fei and Wang Xiu reprimanded at the same time.

Zhang Fei took it for granted that Jin Jue's method was nonsense at all, while Wang Xiu believed that if he acted according to Jin Jue's method, it would not only cost a lot of manpower and material resources, but it might not have much effect. In particular, the trick of making people turn over the land on both sides of the river is purely a blind delay.

Because, as everyone knows, locusts can fly.

"My lord, I suggest that the latter two methods be implemented in Xuzhou immediately." Lu Su suggested.

For the three methods mentioned by Liu An, Lu Su did not agree with all of them, nor did he deny them all, he also thought that the first method was not too reliable, and the last two methods could be tried.

"Brother Zijing, Mr. Shuzhi, you have all made mistakes in experience this time. Jin Jue's method sounds ridiculous, but no one has ever done it before, that is to say, the three methods he mentioned have never been verified by anyone, how can you conclude that the first one will not have any effect? Xu Shu did not agree with Lu Su's suggestion,

He first refuted a few words, and then suggested: "My lord, please ask for orders, and I will personally lead people to implement the first method in Donghai County and Xiapi Kingdom. ”

The importance of food is well known to those present. And especially at this stage, no matter which way the princes can avoid the impact of this locust plague and get enough grain harvest, it means that the princes along the way can gain a certain advantage.

"Lord, Xu Junshi still wants to stay by your side, and leave it to me if you go down to Pi Kingdom!" Jian Yong was the first to stand up and ask for his life.

He knew that he was far inferior to the others here in terms of making suggestions, but he could do it without letting Xu Shu take action at all for such a small matter, not to mention, Xiapi Country and Picheng were the seat of state governance, and he, a foreigner, had the lord behind him, so he had the confidence to do it.

Then, Sun Qian and Mi Zhu also hurriedly stood up and accepted the tasks of Peng Chengguo and Donghai County respectively.