Chen Yunfeng also began to lean towards Bai Liyan's previous judgment that if the locust plague came rapidly and was more terrifying than any historical record, it would not be a small probability event that the locust plague would occur again in the next two years. Chen Yunfeng suggested that this year's exemption of autumn grain and autumn and winter taxes is to stabilize the people's sentiment for next year.

This year's summer grain harvest will most likely be eaten by the common people until next summer, and if the autumn grain is not levied, it will be eaten until the turn of autumn and summer of the following year.

At that time, the locust plague will occur or not, and Guangxin City can postpone the disaster relief for two years, and at the same time have enough time to prepare grain and grass. Even two years later, the locust plague in the Central Plains will occur again, which will inevitably lead to civil revolts and political turmoil in various places.

Jiang Min thought for a moment and said:

"What Yunfeng said is very true, if you look at this matter alone, then you will be exempted from all autumn grain and taxes this year to support the people."

"The wisdom of the lord is indeed the blessing of the people."

At this time, Baili Yan said:

"My lord, although the momentum of the locust plague is declining at the moment, it is still necessary to prevent a comeback. It is recommended that the autumn grain be harvested as soon as possible to dry, and then the straw should be spread on the rice field and burned with fire to eliminate insect holes. ”

"Mr. Wei can send people on his own in this matter, and there is no need to ask Lone."

"Thank you for your trust."

Locusts prefer to lay their eggs under one to three centimeters of soil, and especially prefer the land of fish and rice, which is crisscrossed by water webs. Burning straw can burn the insect pests and insect eggs on the surface of the land, and secondly, the straw ash can form alkaline water when exposed to water, which can destroy the surface protein of insect eggs and kill insect eggs after being poured into the ground.

It is not possible to freeze the eggs in the North Sea because the temperature in the North Sea is too high in winter. In addition, the straw can be used to supplement the fertility of the land and create conditions for a good harvest.

Soon after the meeting ended, Bai Liyan was walking on the way out of the house, and Jiang Rong blocked the verandah in front of him at some point, blocking his way:

"Mr. Wei!"

Jiang Rong said with a smile, her smile is always inscrutable, and her smile is extremely weird.

"I don't know what the county lord commands."

"Mr. Wei won't forget, in the future, five stones of cold ice will be provided for free every day, in addition to twenty bath soaps per month."

"That's why I'll send ice and soap tomorrow."

"That's pretty much it." Looking at Baili Yan, Jiang Rong curled the corners of her mouth slightly and said: "Last time Xiaoyuan was diagnosed, thanks to Mr. Wei's good prescription, this is a reward given to Mr. Wei by the lord of this county, take it." ”

Saying that, Jiang Rong took out a string of jade beads, the jade beads were pink all over, round like pearls, and they were rare pink jade. Of course, Bailiyan knows the goods and knows that it is a good thing, but just received the beautiful jade of Guangxin Gong and then the jade beads of Jiang Rong, it is inevitable that there is some suspicion of gaining an inch, so he excused himself and said:

Wei Xian didn't dare. I have just received a reward from the lord, how can I be rewarded by the lord of the county again, please take it back. If there is nothing important, I will take my leave. ”

When the words fell, Bailiyan bowed and took two steps back, and slowly turned around and left.

Jiang Rong was angry and annoyed, regardless of her appearance, stomped her foot and said:

"Come back, come back to the lord of this county!"

Jiang Rong was angry and hung the jade bead back to her neck, and the jade bead hung down between her breasts along her snow-white chest, faintly revealing a body fragrance.

In the following days, the momentum of locusts decreased sharply, and the number of locusts in the fields decreased by half, and the locusts piled up everywhere.

The locusts suffered a devastating blow in Guangxin, and the news that came one after another also confirmed this. Dongyuan County to the east of Beihai County and Beidi of Xianxi County to the west of Beihai County were slightly better than Beihai County, which shows that the effect of Guangxin's elimination of locusts is immediate.

A few days later, at night, the back house of the Qin Mansion

"Master Qin, Wei Xian is really powerful, Huo Xing, Niu Gui, Wu Shan and others are really not wronged when they are planted in his hands." Gao Heng said, with a sense of jealousy in his words.

Qin Han paced back a few steps later, looked up at the sky and said with some melancholy emotion:

"Yes, if it weren't for the instability, I would have eliminated him."

"Then what does Qin Ye mean, keep it for the time being?"

"Guo Peng is dead, although he died of exhaustion, it is estimated that most of it was done by Wei Xian. He is Langzhong, with the help of royal guests, it is not difficult to poison someone who does not know what the gods and ghosts do. In this way, this son must not have been able to find out that I was secretly working behind my back. ”

"What Qin Ye said is extremely true, so what should we do next?"

Qin Han was silent for a moment, and said coldly:

"This locust plague is very powerful, and it will definitely make a comeback next year, and the Central Plains will be in chaos at that time. You and I should prepare as soon as possible, as soon as next summer, and after autumn at the latest, there will be a civil uprising in Xianguo.

At that time, the Xianmin rebellion will spread to the entire Central Plains, and millions, or even tens of millions of hungry people, will rise up and sweep across the Central Plains, and the whole world will become a prairie fire, and no one can stop it. ”

Qin Han's bold words are full of ambition and pride to compete with the people when the troubled times come, when everyone is running to quell the popular uprising, Qin Han gloating and instigating the brewing "world chaos", as if he can't wait to overthrow this corrupt rule and create a new world order.

……

The news of the locust plague sweeping the Beihai reached Chenling, and it was originally supposed to be a policy of "leading locusts to fight the fire and eating locusts to satisfy hunger", but after deliberate processing and rendering by public opinion, it finally became Bailiyan's "demon fire array" to make the locust souls not possess their bodies, and they competed to throw themselves into the fire and die.

The news soon spread to the mansion of Sun Yue, the prince of Xiangguo, and Zhang Jun, the Marquis of Dingyang, came uninvited.

"Xiangguo, Benhou Fengyi has suffered heavy losses this time, but he Jiang Min Fengyi only lost forty percent of the autumn grain, among which it must be the demon doctor Wei Xian who used demon magic to make the locusts go crazy and deliberately destroy Benhou's food." The wicked man of Ding Yang Hou sued first, pretending to be sad.

Gongsun Yue was also doubting the authenticity of the news at this time, and comforted him:

"This matter still needs to be clarified, if Wei Xianzhen uses the demon fire array to kill the locusts, it is not undesirable. But if you use witchcraft to cause trouble, this person is very troublesome. It is rumored that there is still cold ice in the summer in Beihai, which is also done by this son, thinking about it, even if the witchcraft is not very real, there must be three or four points. ”

Gongsun Yue's words were extremely positive, and he also began to wonder if Baili Yan had used some kind of magic to kill the locusts, otherwise how could billions of locusts be scattered in Guangxin, while other places were still devastated.

At this time, Ding Yang Hou said again:

"Zhao Xunding is inseparable from this matter, but people can ask Zhao Xun."

"Zhao Xun also knows sorcery?" Gongsun Yue was skeptical.

"Wei Xian was Zhao Xun's military commander in his early years, and Zhao Xun reused this son, and he must have been confused by his witchcraft."

"And what? No, I can't. Zhao Xun took refuge in Guangxin Gong, could it be that Guangxin Gong was also confused by this sub-demon art? ”

Ding Yanghou didn't think about it at all, but nodded in agreement:

"What Xiangguo said is reasonable, and Guangxin Gongding is also confused by Wei Xian's demon arts, so he obeys the plan."

Gongsun Yue couldn't help but glance sideways at Ding Yanghou, and secretly said in his heart: Isn't this just right, if Jiang Min is really confused by demonism, it will be easy to deal with.

There was silence for a moment, and Gongsun Yue changed his words and said:

"The loss of autumn grain this year is huge, and many ministers in the court have suggested that the king completely reduce the autumn grain and taxes, and the court will definitely have a public discussion tomorrow morning.

"For the sake of the Dawang Society, Benhou should be people-oriented." Ding Yanghou said shamelessly.

"In addition, next year's spring ploughing should step up preparations, Hou Ye can propose this tomorrow, after the king's holy judgment, the Ordnance Department will allocate some additional iron farm tools to Hou Ye, Hou Ye will see, can you compensate for the loss of food."

"Enough, enough." Ding Yang Hou was overjoyed and hurriedly grateful.

The Ordnance Department is in charge of the manufacture of weapons and ordnance throughout the country, and has set up one or two ordnance superintendents in each county to supervise the manufacture of ordnance and also produce agricultural implements. Although the farm tools are allocated by the Great Simong, the production is all in the Great Sima and the Prime Minister, and how much is allocated, and only the Prime Minister and the Great Sima know the secret account.

At this time, in the prince's mansion, Xihuan was also taken aback when he learned that Baili Yan used the demon fire array to kill the locusts.

"Really?" Xihuan looked shocked.

The attendant steward Gu Chen nodded:

"According to the report, this is indeed the case. However, it is said that locusts love fire and will put out fire when they see it. The subordinates also tried, and the locusts did fight the fire at night, so the subordinates thought that the demon fire array was really an exaggeration. ”

Xihuan breathed a sigh of relief, sat back on the seat and continued:

"There must be a reason for everything, although the locusts were killed with a fire array, but Wei Xian is really difficult to know the details. A person is to be placed next to him as soon as possible to closely monitor his movements. ”

"I wonder if His Highness has any arrangements?"

"Qiguo is now trapped by my Jin Kingdom, if you want to make him tempted, it is not a matter of effort, you don't have to worry about this matter, this princess has her own arrangements. At present, most of the four counties of Qiunan, Xianxi, Beihai, and Dujun have not harvested, and next year's spring ploughing is extremely important, but it is difficult to guarantee that the locust plague will not come back. ”

Xihuan is worried that the locust plague will rise again next year, which is very likely to trigger a popular uprising, and even if a large number of materials are imported from the Jin Kingdom, it will be difficult to stop the soaring prices. If the grain is transferred into the Xian country, how can the millions of hungry people in the Jin country afford to feed it.

In late October, the autumn grain of Guangxin City was cut out, and the autumn grain was dried and put into storage. Bailiyan's market trough transfer made the 200 men and horses under his command recruit full troops, and they went to Guangxin to patrol business routes from time to time.

After Huo Xing, Niu Gui, and Wushan Fufa, Beihai County was a lot quieter, at least through Guangxin and Dingyang Trade Roads, I never heard of a business trip encountering robbers, and Bailiyan spent more time in the deserted village to organize production and reclamation.

There are many benefits from the two things of suppressing bandits and exterminating locusts, and there are many copper, iron, cloth, and other things, which are hoarded in their hands and not used, and they can neither be converted into income nor interest. In addition to giving Zhao Xun 100 inches of silver, 5,000 copper coins, cotton, linen and silk cloth, the rest of the purchase and purchase of cattle, pigs, chickens and ducks, etc.

More than 200 households were moved into Ding one after another, a granary was built, and more than 2,000 stone of rice, more than 500 stone of polished rice, and other miscellaneous grains were purchased and pledged to prevent the famine next year and the next two years.

With the help of craftsmen, the kilns of Liuzao and Liu Chuan father and son began to see scale, and pulleys and wheels were also used to make it more convenient to lift some heavy objects.

Bai Liyan has personally seen the samples of looms and oil presses, and he doesn't know much about looms, so he can only make do now. The juicer has been instructed to make major improvements in many places to increase the efficiency of juicing and reduce the labor intensity of people.

In order to facilitate the writing of the book, the deserted village raised a paper mill to produce paper.

Nowadays, the papermaking process is monopolized by major bookstores, printing houses and state institutions, and the popularity rate is not high, and the price is extremely expensive. The production of paper can greatly improve the design ability of craftsmen, improve the efficiency of work, and the emergence of charcoal has brought good news to today's craftsmen to a large extent.