A locust plague is a catastrophe caused by locusts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the event of a locust plague, a large number of locusts will devour the fields, completely destroying agricultural products, causing severe economic losses and famine due to food shortages.

Locust plagues often go hand in hand with severe droughts, and they move in groups from arid areas to low-lying and flood-prone areas.

The so-called "locusts are at the end of the drought" and "locusts will be there after a long drought". That's what it means!

In the "Book of Songs", it is mentioned that "to remove its moth (beetle is locust), and its thief, it is harmless to my field." Tian Zu has a god, and he is a fire."

Locust plagues have occurred in China's history, and the affected areas are mostly concentrated in Hebei, Henan, and Shandong provinces, as well as Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and other provinces, and may spread throughout the Loess Plateau in severe cases.

In ancient China, there was not much understanding of locusts, so there was a saying of "locust god", and there was also a saying of "locust (shrimp) mutualization", such as: Lu Dian's "Pi Ya" in the Song Dynasty: "Or locusts are transformed by fish eggs".

Therefore, most ordinary people, when faced with locust plagues, not only do not know how to prevent them. When it happened, they didn't dare to exterminate the locusts.

At this moment!

"I tell you to eat green seedlings, and I tell you to eat the crops of Shandong. Destroy them all for me! I saw Zhu Zilong waving a broom in his left hand, killing locusts one by one. Pick up the sprayer in your right hand and keep spraying the potion to kill the locusts.

As the leader of Shandong, Zhu Zilong went to the front line every day, set an example, and took the lead in killing locusts.

Not only that, but he also had soldiers along the river probe the eggs of locusts and dig them up to kill them. Tens of thousands of officers and men were all dispatched to guard to the death.

Such behavior has greatly boosted the morale of the military and people in Shandong. After a month of hard work, the locust plague was finally brought under control, and although several counties still suffered heavy losses, Zhu Zilong had relief food, and his fathers and brothers in Shandong would not starve to death.

Yes, as Zhu Zilong said, he exchanged miscellaneous noodles for a large number of dried locusts.

He did what he said, and in the past month or so, the people who came to deliver the dead locusts have received a full amount of miscellaneous noodles.

Truckloads of dried locusts were loaded onto trucks and transported to Dengzhou, where they were ground into powder with water conservancy in a black-hearted workshop. This is Zhu Zilong's plan!

Locusts are high in protein. These high proteins are added to flour, corn flour, potato flour, and sweet potato flour to make mixed noodles.

As long as you don't say it to the outside world, on the other hand, under this locust plague, Zhu Zilong's food is not only not less, but it has doubled.

This is really technology and knowledge, changing fate!

At the same time, Zhu Zilong also sent a large number of sweet potatoes, corn, and potato seeds. While giving relief to the people, we also hurried to let them grab a batch of crops.

The Qing Dynasty in later generations, the so-called prosperous era, was called out without many deaths under the support of sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes.

Now, Zhu Zilong brought them to the Ming Dynasty in advance, or is it a high-end variety in the modern 21st century, and I am afraid that I will not be able to play a prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty?

And so it is!

In the original unchanged history, the so-called "Kangqian Prosperous Era" began in the 20th year of Kangxi (1681) to quell the rebellion of the three feudatories, and ended in the first year of Jiaqing (1796) when the Sichuan, Shaanxi, Chu and White Lotus Rebellion broke out, lasting as long as 115 years.

Some brick families in later generations called the "prosperous era of Kangqian" brilliant. It is because they feel that it has pushed traditional Chinese society to a new peak in many aspects such as politics, economy, and culture, and has increased China's population several times.

But what are the facts?

If we compare the "prosperous Kangqian era" with other periods of prosperity in the past three dynasties, we will find that it is far inferior to its predecessors in terms of both the quality and quantity of prosperity, and has a trend of comprehensive decadence and collapse that is rare in history.

Kangxi had a short period of incomplete reunification, but it was soon split, and Yongzheng, who followed it, did not pay attention to the signs of separatism in Xinjiang. It was only in the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong (1759 AD) that the unification? Xinjiang is a symbol that has reluctantly restored the territory of previous generations, and the so-called "prosperous Kangqian era" is nothing more than that.

It is said that the political, economic, cultural and other aspects have pushed the traditional Chinese society to a new peak.

Hehe, during the Qing Dynasty. The Manchu Qing Dynasty defended the people more than the Sichuan, and created hundreds of literary prisons, (even the four words "Qingfeng Mingyue" can lead to a literary prison, and the imagination is very rich, but unfortunately it is not used for the development of science and technology)!

And the increase in population is also all because of the good luck of foreign high-yield grain seeds, which entered the Ming Dynasty and matured at this point in time in the Qing Dynasty.

Otherwise, people from these primitive societies in the Qing Dynasty would have nothing to speak of.

Soon!

The situation in Shandong has completely stabilized.

In this matter, Zhu Zilong minimized the consequences of the disaster. Then, that's it!

Talking about locust plagues has nothing to do with the sky, but is a force of nature. Did the army and civilians of Shandong soon work together to defeat the locust plague? It is also said that it is all about the emperor and the like!

This is not Zhu Zilong's body slapping his doppelganger's ass, but there is a reason for it.

From the day when there was an emperor in China, "under the command of heaven, both longevity and eternal prosperity", the propaganda that the emperor was the son of heaven was popular.

These routines have been played over and over again by rulers in history, with one purpose, to consolidate political power. The imperial power is bestowed, others don't think about it, and be obedient to the people with peace of mind.

However, the people couldn't control the emperor anymore, but there were still some people who were unwilling, so they came out to speak with God.

Didn't you say that you were the Son of Heaven, Emperor? God warns you and says that you are doing something wrong, this is always okay, right?

So what should we do when natural disasters such as droughts, floods, and earthquakes come? You have to have an explanation, they all said that the sky is on your side. However, these are obviously disasters from heaven!

As a result, the emperors of all dynasties knew that they could not defeat natural disasters. And to consolidate the statement that he is the Son of Heaven, then how to do it?

The emperors wanted to contradict themselves, but they found that they couldn't justify themselves at all, so they could only admit in front of the celestial phenomena.

As the saying goes, success is also destiny, and defeat is destiny. Anyway, at this time, everyone believes this, you say that it has nothing to do with the emperor, and the emperor Lao Tzu will not agree to it first. Who told you to say that you are the Son of Heaven?

Now, when Zhu Zilong wrote a memo to the emperor, he emphasized that the locust plague was a force of nature. Not providential!

It's to help your emperor clone relieve pressure!

The subtext is, if the locust plague is providential, how have we done it? Now that we have defeated the locust plague, it shows that these natural plagues are not providential. It has nothing to do with whether the emperor's Son of Heaven offended the heavens.

It's only less, and it's not directly related!

This is called political correctness, so Zhu Zilong has to do it.

Now, half of the Ming Dynasty is in a drought, and there are locust plagues in Henan and Shandong, if there is no statement about God, it will really endanger the imperial power.

After doing this, Zhu Zilong soon received the news about the thieves sorted out by Jin Yiwei and Lin Shuang'er.

At this time, many giants were wandering back and forth in the four places of Huguang, Shaanxi, Henan, and Jiangbei. The officers and soldiers are tired of coping!

The encirclement formed by Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, as well as other generals, is effective, but if you want to completely eliminate them, it is still very early!

On the other side of the coast, Xiong Wencan was trying his best to appease Zheng Zhilong.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong was planning to fight with the Dutch, no matter from that aspect, Zhu Zilong felt that he should go with the flow and wait to watch the show.

- (To be continued.) )