When the country is in good weather, national defense is naturally the top priority, and it is not a big problem, but once there is a disaster in the country and there is a big problem in national defense, it is a big problem.

Wu Qiong also doesn't know what the current financial situation of the Great Zhou is, but in the case of the Turks, the Xiongnu, the Tibetans, and the three bread clips, I am afraid it is not optimistic.

So much so that this year, disaster relief and national defense, the question of which priority should be raised, are arguing.

Wu Qiong didn't know about the situation in Da Zhou, and it was impossible for Wu Zhi to make up his mind about this kind of thing related to the fate of the country, so let them stop arguing and leave it tomorrow to give them an answer, which is also the thing that Wu Qiong thinks is the right thing to do at present.

Then it is within Wu Qiong's own ability, and it is also necessary to do something, to understand and arrange the control of the locust plague.

First of all, it is necessary to understand, and the method is also very simple, and it is enough to let these ministers come up with their own methods to cure the locust plague.

There is no disagreement among the ministers about the management of the locust plague, but anyone who does not have a problem with their brains knows that the locust plague must be cured.

But knowing that the locust plague is coming, but not to deal with it, I'm afraid it's not a traitor from the Turkic Huns?

Listening to what these ministers said, Wu Qiong also had a general understanding of what stage the current level of locust control in Da Zhou was.

It's about the same, it's equivalent to the level of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty.

The method of their speech is similar to what Wu Zhi wrote in the letter, and the first and most important thing is to sacrifice, according to the meaning of the officials.

The Son of Heaven can do anything, the sacrifice must be done, and it must be grand and grand, so that the people of the whole world will know about this sacrifice and stabilize people's hearts.

It seems that the ministers also know in their hearts that the sacrifice of the Son of Heaven is useless against the locust plague, and it is useful to make the Son of Heaven gather people's hearts.

The second is a few simple methods of manual culling.

Kill directly with your hands, with nets and with all the tools you can use; At night, burn a fire in a place where there are many locust larvae, and the locusts are photogenic, and then they are culled; Dig a ditch and the locust larvae will come and kill them when they have gathered.

To put it bluntly, it's still four words - manpower culling.

Although in Wu Qiong's view, there is not much use for eggs, but the people of this era, they have no scientific thoughts, and it is impossible to study why locusts have such a problem, and all they can think of is to sacrifice to the gods and kill them by manpower.

Of course, Wu Qiong would not blame them for this, and after listening to them talk excitedly one by one, Wu Qiong also understood that there was no effective advice on their side.

After thinking about it, he said:

"I have a perfect plan to deal with these locust plagues, but I need some time, to sort it out, it's not too early, all of you Aiqing should go back early."

Wu Qiong stood up and waved his hand to everyone in the hall, Cai Yafu saw that Wu Qiong was leaving, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked:

"Your Majesty, is the matter of sacrificing to the gods of heaven to be deliberated by the Qin Heavenly Supervisor?"

Wu Qiong was reminded by Cai Yafu that she remembered that she had not arranged the sacrifice at all, so she asked:

"Under normal circumstances, when is this sacrifice to the gods for the locust plague?"

Cai Yafu quickly replied:

"Naturally, the sooner the better, and at this time, it is most appropriate to worship the gods and calm the hearts of the people. Of course, you can wait until June or July, and if there is a locust plague, it is not too late to perform sacrifices. ”

Wu Qiong's brows furrowed, wait until June and July? Forget it, all of them are adults, the daylilies are cold, and if you do this sacrifice, it is really a face-saving job to stabilize people's hearts.

Although it is said that the face project of stabilizing people's hearts is very important, Wu Qiong is from modern times, and he does not have any good feelings about this kind of labor and money, except for the way to increase the cohesion of the people, for the sake of the emperor's sacrifice, and to fight hunger for a few days.

But the heavens still have to be sacrificed, after all, now the rumors about the locust plague have risen, and a wave of sacrifices to the heavens can still win people's hearts.

But when the locust plague really rises, when it comes to calming people's hearts, the effect is actually very limited, and the people are really hungry.

So Wu Qiong has her own other considerations and plans, to put it bluntly, she grasps it with both hands.

It is possible to have peace of mind, but it is also necessary to eradicate locusts scientifically.

He thought for a moment and ordered Cai Yafu:

"The matter of the sacrifice, there is no hurry about this, I will reply to you tomorrow."

Wu Qiong originally thought that before the locusts became a plague, he would carry out a ceremony to worship the sky, and then at the ceremony of worshipping the sky, he deliberately ate the larvae of the locusts in anger, so that the people could sweep away their fear of locusts and let them dare to catch the larvae to eat.

But if you think about it, this method is a bit stupid, and there are a lot of troublesome things in the future, so I vetoed it when I thought about it directly.

As for why the people are not encouraged to eat adult worms, because swarms of locusts are poisonous, and when they gather together, they will start to collectively produce toxic substances because of pheromones, and natural enemies will not dare to eat them.

Naturally, people can't eat swarms of locusts, and as for individual locusts, they have not become a disaster, so it is naturally not much of a problem to catch some supplemental protein.

Because of this, the ancient people felt that locusts were gods and could not be eaten.

It's not that none of them have tried to eat it, and when the locust plague rises, they don't eat the bark of the tree, and they don't eat such a big bug?

But when the locusts plagued, the people who ate the locusts were sick, and over time, everyone did not dare to eat them, and they feared the locusts, thinking that they were gods, and even the government had to hire people to do it.

Li Shimin in history once ate locusts angrily when he sacrificed to the sky, it was not because Li Shimin wanted to encourage the people to eat locusts to deal with the locust plague, but because Li Shimin was in order to shape the image of the people like a son, and he would rather poison himself than eliminate harm for the people.

Moreover, before the locust plague started, he was angry and ate locusts, but in June and July, when the locust plague in autumn was everywhere, the people saw the locust plague, and then thought of the emperor before sacrificing to the sky and eating locusts.

The two are related, but I think that it is the Son of Heaven who provokes the locust god and causes the locust plague to be angry, so he has done something wrong and brought trouble to Wu Zhi and Da Zhou.

Wu Qiong thought a lot, and finally vetoed the method of learning from Li Shimin to eat locusts and encouraging the people to eat locusts too, after all, such a stupid method has been proven by history to be useless.

There was no locust plague after the Tang Dynasty? Because of Li Shimin, the people began to eat locusts?

Therefore, reading history makes people wise, after Wu Qiong vetoed this method, the remaining methods that can be thought of such as driving ducks into the field to eat larvae, turning over some arid soil, destroying unhatched insect eggs, etc., will naturally be rectified.

However, after sorting out the detailed methods yourself, you can promote them.

In order to eliminate the hidden danger of the locust plague, the common people will definitely do it, and they will be stricter in their own orders, and those who do not follow will be punished according to the crime, I believe that it can still be of some use.

But this is not Wu Qiong's main killer feature, he also has other means.

And this method kills multiple birds with one stone, and if it is really implemented, it may be a great thing.

Wu Qiong left the Qiankun Palace, it was still dark outside, and the Shangguan female official on the side followed closely, thinking that the Son of Heaven was going to rest.

But I didn't expect the Son of Heaven to wave his hand directly and said:

"Let's go, take me to the Imperial Doctor's Office."

The female official Shangguan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said:

"It's so late, Your Majesty, are you uncomfortable? The maidservant girl go and call the imperial doctor. ”

"No need to shout, I'll go myself."

A group of people said "no", and the team marched towards the Imperial Doctor's Department.

The Son of Heaven doesn't sleep, a group of people have to accompany him, and don't sleep with the Imperial Doctor.

Get up hi.

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