The farming season began, and the fields in April were filled with hard-working peasants, and the wet fields were in full swing.

In Guanzhong, everything sprouts, and the vibrant places are not only farmland, but also many places.

Like the Nanshan Academy where the scholars studied, like the paper mill and cement factory behind the Zhongnan Mountain, as well as the prosperous East and West City of Chang'an, etc., a Tang Dynasty full of vigor and vitality has been built.

But now the hottest place is not in Chang'an City, but Taicang Wharf.

The spices shipped back by three ships have been snapped up, whether they are eaten or peddled for themselves, spices have always been very sought-after commodities, one or two cardamom, nine taels of silver, and there is no counteroffer, and it will be sold out as soon as it is put on the table in Chang'an City.

I heard that there were border merchants who went to the Western Regions to buy more than 1,000 taels of spices at a time, and planned to sell them to the blue-eyed Europeans along the Silk Road.

Because of these spices, the family in Chang'an basically can't sit still, either sending the juniors of the family to the coast to exercise and boil up their qualifications, or letting the old people in the clan go to Xujiazhuang to pull the relationship and explore the style.

The villagers of Xujiazhuang Zhuangzi have now become veritable Diao Min, and there is no way, who makes them rich, and they always have money and silver every month, which is like a ruined behavior in Datang, but this ghost valley owner was stunned to persuade everyone to persevere.

Now go to Xujiazhuang, if you see a person wearing a brocade jade robe, carrying a dung basket on his shoulder, it must be Xujiazhuang's people did not run, if you go up to stop and ask questions at will, that guy's head can be lifted to the sky, if you are arrogant, then you please, walk 500 meters to the south is the village gate, go out and turn left two miles is Caijiazhuang.

If you want to ask why people are so arrogant, this guy can give you a big push.

The owner of the ghost valley is one, His Majesty is one, a while ago the queen mother came in person, just a few, the world can only find our Xujiazhuang, the first village in the world, is our village, you can not be arrogant.

That's really the case.

In fact, the most important thing is that the people in the village are rich, as the saying goes, the money is more confident.

The confidence of the people of Xujiazhuang all comes from their thick money bags, now every family lives in a two-story building, many young people no longer follow their grandfathers to farm at home, but joined Youzhou Liujia Co., Ltd., became a glorious factory worker, ten dollars per month, so that their parents can enjoy Qingfu comfortably at home, the family is rich, three meals a day, there is meat at once, and the eyes of the people around several villages are envious.

Most of the young people who work in Xujiazhuang go to Taicang Wharf to work as shipyard workers, because the wharf is now strictly short of people, and it is expanding too quickly.

If Xu Yang could see the current Taicang, he must also be surprised, the junction of the Wei River and the Yellow River has now become a miniature city, which is now the Taicang Wharf.

The fleet that spanned the entire Yellow River was ready to go, the shipyard had not stopped building since they left Xuyang, and another navy comparable to the ocean-going fleet was built.

Of course, this was instructed by Li Er, in line with the principle of army balance, the royal fleet of the current fleet named 'Inner Ocean Fleet' was used to defend the Beijing Division, and only Li Er knew what the specific role was, of course, the highest commander of this fleet was Li Er himself.

The inland fleet has twenty-four large warships, as well as dozens of small ships, of course, the number of inland fleets is not as good as the ocean-going fleet, the main reason for this is because Li Er's wallet is empty, after all, he is raising horses and cavalry and making ships and oceans, Li Er has no credit card to overdraft at will, and without Alipay remuneration, the workers in the shipyard do not have much motivation.

Therefore, Li Er just gave a simple explanation, while no longer continuing to produce large naval warships, he sent the inland fleet to the spice island immediately, bringing back some pocket money to spend, and the landlord's family had no surplus grain, not to mention the emperor who was not rich in the treasury.

The Inland Ocean Fleet set off in such a majestic manner

This year's spring is a little different from previous years, because as soon as spring enters this year, there are many small black spots coming out of the mud cracks one after another, and those black insects have just been unearthed, but they have already revealed some sharp mouthparts, they are locusts.

Facing the birth sun, one by one the little locusts broke through the ground full of energy, accumulated the strength of a whole winter, hibernated, so that they have the potential to burst out of great destruction.

Their weak wings hardened in the air, and in a few hours they became free to soar and eat the heavens and the earth.

Just as he was expecting the scent of grass and wheat seedlings, a huge shadow appeared above the head of the little locust.

As soon as its eyes went black, the little locust said goodbye to the world forever, accumulated the energy of the whole winter, and finally turned into a pile of dung and returned to this land.

"Cluck, cluck."

"Queen Mother, look at that colorful rooster, it has pecked more than 30 to death, it's really a good chicken." A maid served by a palace maid pointed to a big rooster in the field that kept bowing her head and chattering something.

"Hmm." I saw a woman, dressed in a colorful phoenix robe, sitting on a step, looking at the scene of the farmland with a smile.

This is a field of new wheat, and the young shoots of the wheat are reflected in the verdant green, and it looks full of greenery, but between the fields, thirty or forty peasant women, dressed in sackcloth shirts, are scurrying around the fields with their chickens.

"Cluck, cluck." I saw hundreds of plump, fat roosters happily pecking in the fields, and if you look closely, they are actually eating young locusts one by one.

"These chickens can peck at more locusts and produce more food." Empress Changsun said with a relieved face, today I specially asked His Majesty to leave the palace and come to the fields of Lantian County to see how the locusts are eliminated on the ground, and now I am here to see the rooster eating insects.

Fortunately, the construction of the Guigu Valley was adopted, and more than 200,000 loose chickens were raised in Guanzhong, and now that the locust plague has begun, these chickens have obviously played a great role, and the first wave of locust plague in Guanzhong has been wiped out invisibly without a large-scale outbreak, and it is difficult to imagine that if there was no hint of the Guigu at the beginning, what kind of disaster would Datang encounter.

"Hum~" There was a shrill sound in the distance, and I saw a small piece of black sky in the distant sky, connecting the sky to the ground, black and heavy like a dark cloud before a storm, pressing from the sky.

"The locusts are coming!" I saw a sergeant wearing treasure armor yelling, "Protect Niangniang!" When dozens of sergeants heard this, they immediately surrounded Empress Changsun's step, and Empress Changsun took the opportunity to hide under the step.

I saw that the face of the eldest grandson queen at this time was a little pale, and the locust plague finally broke out as expected by the ghost valley, but I don't know, can the preparations made by the Tang Dynasty deal with this overwhelming locust?

After a while, the swarm of locusts obscured the sun, and the light became dimmer than the clouds obscuring the sun. For a time, the swarm of locusts fell, and the bees were denser than the bees when it was snowing and the snowflakes were under heavy snow, as if the whole world was full of flying locusts. In an instant, the locusts fell to cover the ground, and the trees, walls, and mounds were covered with locusts, as if the houses and the whole village were made of locusts.

Fortunately, these locusts are still newborn, darker in color, and their wings are not hard enough to fly far.

The officer who protected Niangniang obviously had the demeanor of a general, and when he saw that he was in danger, he shouted: "There is a big fire!" ”

Then a dozen sergeants hurriedly brought firewood and straw, piled them up, and lit a fire on the ground.

The locusts were on fire, and at once they dispersed a large area, and those who did not have time to fly away were instantly scorched by the fire, and the air was filled with the smell of meat.

The swarm of locusts was small and disturbed by the fire, many of which died in the fire, and some of those who pecked at the malt in the fields were all eaten by the roosters, and soon the fields were calm.

Looking at the small swarm of locusts flying towards the east, Empress Eldest Sun pondered for a long time, and then said with a stern expression: "Hurry up and drive back to the palace!" ”R1152