"Master, in my memory, there have been three large-scale locust plagues in my hometown, and those who can survive each locust plague pray to the sky not to send another disaster, but unfortunately it is not too young, it is another locust plague, and I have a younger brother and sister who starved to death in the locust plague!" Yamamoto closed his eyes in pain, as if he couldn't look back.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said on the side: "Although this year's summer drought is not big, but the autumn harvest is imminent, locusts appear, and seeing that the locust plague will soon form, this year's famine is doomed?" ”

"Is there any way to prevent it?"

Zhen Qian shook his head, this is not a pesticide to kill locusts in later generations, and it is almost impossible to exterminate locusts in a large area.

Locusts lay eggs in the soil, and they can lay hundreds of thousands of eggs in one square meter, who has the ability to dig up these eggs? This is the same as floods and droughts, small disasters can be prevented and rescued, and there is basically no way to do this.

"It's time to start stockpiling food!"

In fact, Zhen Qian was buying grain when he first arrived in the Japanese country, but this was to reserve the rations of the immigrants from the Wufeng Islands, not that Zhen Qian had any foresight or foresight to predict a locust plague in the autumn.

"There is food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart!"

In ancient times, when productivity was low, it took three years for the people to resist a natural disaster, but Zhen Qian saw that the grain in Akiba Kazuo's house was only 100 stones, and the poor people's homes were already full of hunger, and they were all waiting for this year's autumn grain. There is no food at home, and once the disaster breaks out, it is about to kill people. Hungry people are everywhere, everyone wants to eat their stomachs, so they don't care about any etiquette, killing people and setting fires, and even things like eating can happen...... which makes people shudder to think about it.

Food is the first step in disaster prevention, and as long as you have food, you can survive any disaster safely.

"That's right! We are now starting to hoard food, and the more we hoard, the better it will be for us! ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said: "Master, last year's grain production in Xikaido was not bad, there should be a lot of grain in the market, we sent people to buy grain everywhere in advance, and it shouldn't be a problem to survive this year's famine?" With food, we have a population, as long as we can survive this year, the problem of shortage of people in the Wufeng Islands will be solved! ”

Zhen Qian had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, this is his own crisis, and it is also his own opportunity, the civil war in Xikaido is about to break out, and the locust plague may be the last straw that crushes the camel of Xikaido.

The war will send the men of Saikaido to the battlefield, and the remaining women and children will be the driving force for the rise of the Goho Islands, and this is also the time when the entire Saikaido is the weakest, no one would have thought that there is a monstrous force hidden under the nose of Saikaido, and it may be too late for them to find out.

What a godsend!

"That's right, but buying food from Saikaido is probably a drop in the bucket, and it won't help, so we should buy more food from other places?"

Xikaido is still too small, and the entire Xikaido plus slaves may not exceed two million people, and it is evenly divided into nine Linglu countries, and each Linglu country has a population of two or three hundred thousand, which is quite a high-class county in the Tang Dynasty.

After the big war, Zhen Qian estimated that about 30% of the young and strong labor force would be killed or injured, and so many people would die at once, and the entire Xikaidao would be stagnant for at least ten years. The loss of young and strong labor force is not a simple death of a few people, and at the same time, productivity will also regress, at this time, there is a locust plague ......, Zhen Qian feels that the sky is bluer, the sea is wider, and his mood has become better and better.

"But far water can't quench your thirst!"

"Master, there are few people in Xihaidao, the annual grain output is limited, and there is less grain left, not to mention how much grain can be purchased, once we make a large purchase, it will inevitably cause violent fluctuations in grain prices, and those grain merchants will sell at a price when they see this, and we will not be able to buy much grain!" Toyotomi Hideyoshi said with a worried face.

Yamamoto Fifty-six couldn't help but interject: "Hideyoshi is right, the Wa Kingdom is not as good as the Tang Dynasty, the grain produced that year can almost only be used for the food of the year, and the entire Wa Country does not have much grain in stock, so the master should make more preparations?" ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Yamamoto Fifty-six didn't know Zhen Qian's plan at all, but Zhen Qian was not ready to tell the two of them what he was thinking, so he said: "It's okay, now that Xikaido has suffered a drought and will encounter a locust plague, let's do our best!" ”

Originally, Zhen Qian was still planning to slowly manage the Japanese state, but now it seems that God has given him a great opportunity, if he can grasp it well, the five-year plan of the Wufeng Islands can be shortened to two years, in other words, as long as he can survive this locust plague, the Wufeng Islands will usher in a new opportunity for development.

As for food, it's not much of a problem at all.

The purchase of grain from the Japanese is only a small part of the plan, but the significance is very significant, the less food there is in the Japanese country, the more hungry people will be, even if someone in the Japanese country finds that the problem is wrong, once the war starts, it will not stop, without food, the two sides of the war will become more and more crazy, this is the result that Zhen Qian is very happy to see.

Transporting grain from Datang was already within Zhen Qian's plan, but it was really far away and couldn't quench his thirst, but the Wa Kingdom was very close to Silla, and I heard that the price of grain in Silla was not high, and he still had a large amount of golden sand in his hands, and these dead things were wasted in his hands.

The more Zhen Qian thought about it, the happier he became, and slowly he already had a whole set of plans in his mind, God help me!

I usually like to push the boat with the current, follow the trend, and rarely do the kind of thing that fuels the fire, something out of nothing, not that I don't want to, but it is easy to become the target of the public when it comes to taking the initiative, if it is a frontal fight, the upright Yang Mou is more deterrent, but now I don't want to expose my purpose, naturally the more hidden, the better.

But now...... Soon the waters of the Saikaido are about to be muddy, can I be more high-profile?

The locust plague was followed by a great famine, and the land here in Saikaido was already barren, and when the famine began, the Japanese country itself might transport some grain over, and the disaster would probably be controlled within a small range, which did not seem to be in their own interests.

Thinking of this, Zhen Qian smiled, smiled very happily, now that his reputation in the Japanese country is not obvious, it is no wonder that the Japanese country does not treat him well, what will happen if he has a huge reputation in the Japanese country?

Will the Wa Kingdom despise itself so much?

This is Yangmou! Being able to integrate conspiracy and conspiracy together is the highest state of conspiracy, and suddenly at this moment, Zhen Qian has a lot of .......

(End of chapter)