Peng Chengguo, Minister Wang Lang was very busy, because Peng Chengguo had thousands of acres of fertile land destroyed by locust plagues.

"After the locust plague, there is no harvest."

Wang Lang got out of the carriage and came to the locust-infested village, where there was almost no grass, which was shocking.

Wang Lang's discovery of the locust plague was relatively timely, and if it weren't for this, more farmland would have been destroyed in the Pengcheng Congress, and the locust plague would have quickly spread to various prefectures and counties in Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou.

Mi Fang and Yin Lier will follow Wang Lang to come, and when they see the horror of the locust plague, they can't help but feel numb.

The plague of locusts is worse than drought and flood.

A small official reported: "There are rumors among the villagers of Pengcheng that this is the state pastor who has offended the heavens, so the locust plague is a punishment for Pengchengguo." ”

Mi Fang lifted the little official with one hand and scolded: "Bullshit, how can the state pastor be wise and powerful, and his prestige is far and wide!" ”

"My lord, this—This is not what the villain said......"

Mi Fang put down the little official: "Arrest all the rumor-mongers and beat them with at least thirty boards." ”

In Mi Fang's mind, Chu Tian was completely his brother and idol. If it weren't for Chutian, Mi Fang would not be an official now.

In just one year, Mi Fang went from a lieutenant to a lieutenant, and then to a lieutenant general, and may become a formal general in the future. He was naturally grateful to Chutian and tried his best to maintain it. It's like someone insulting their idol, how can they stand idly by.

"This is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster. The most urgent task at the moment is to extinguish the locust plague as soon as possible and open up warehouses to provide relief to the people. ”

Wang Lang is not a nerd and knows very well that the locust plague has nothing to do with ghosts and gods.

Pengcheng, because of the locust plague, the people are panicked.

For the civilian population, the locust plague is a disaster from heaven. To Inhuman players, most players are insignificant, as they don't know how much damage the locust plague will do to agriculture.

If Xuzhou suffers a major locust plague, the price of grain will rise several times, or even dozens of times, and it will take many years for Xuzhou to recover.

As the most important material in troubled times, food is more important than gold.

In order to deal with the natural disasters that might affect the whole of Xuzhou, Chutian led Langya Xiang Xia Liang, Xiapi Xiang Li Kui and others to Pengcheng to try to eliminate the locust plague.

"Remove its moths and its thieves, and do not harm my Tianzhi. Tian Zu has a god, and he is in flames. ”

In the summer, Liang recited a poem lightly, which made Chutian look sideways.

"Where did it come from?"

"The Book of Songs. The ancestors had countermeasures, and the insects were mostly attacked by fire. ”

"How does that work?"

Li Kui replied on the side: "Locusts are similar to moths, and they fight fires at night. You can set a fire in the middle of the night, dig a pit while the fire is burning, and bury it at the same time. Although it may not be possible to completely eradicate the locust plague, it can also prevent a great starvation. ”

Li Kui has a lot of experience in agriculture and has experience in controlling locust plagues.

"Arrange for all counties in Pengcheng to immediately extinguish the locust plague and use fire. Those who have more locusts can receive more relief food from the government. ”

On the basis of the fire attack, Chutian implemented the system of "work for relief".

The more locusts are killed in the affected villages, the more food is distributed by the government for disaster relief, so that no one will get something for nothing.

Disaster relief is a must, otherwise there will be a peasant uprising in the Pengcheng Congress, giving the surrounding strong enemies a chance to attack Xuzhou.

Because of the locust plague, almost all the grain stored in the granary of Pengcheng State will be taken out for disaster relief, and this year's grain harvest will also be affected.

"I am afraid that the destruction caused by a locust plague will be greater than the damage caused by the last battle......"

It was the first time that Chu Tian had encountered a large-scale natural disaster, and he couldn't help but be troubled.

Xia Liang added: "Although I caught one locust, I gave birth to a hundred locusts in the blink of an eye." Villagers should be ordered to find places where locusts lay their eggs and pour herb juice to kill them. It can also encourage each village to raise a large number of chickens, ducks, birds and other biological insects, one chicken, can eat hundreds of locusts per day. ”

"Exactly."

Chu Tian arranged them one by one to deal with the locust plague, mainly by hunting and killing locusts and eradicating insect eggs.

Natural disasters are not uncommon in "Lords", such as locust plagues, droughts, floods and even earthquakes.

The locust plague that affected a county was the first time that Chu Tian had encountered it.

"Langya has a large number of special buildings and special talents, which can increase the blessing value of the territory, I used to think that the blessing value has no effect, but now it seems that I underestimate the role of the blessing value."

Chu Tian didn't pay much attention to this hidden trait. In fact, because the blessing value of Langya is very high, there has been no huge disaster.

In contrast, the lords of Pengchengguo have an average construction of Pengchengguo, and there is a probability of locust plagues.

"The governors of each county can appropriately build some buildings that do not seem to be necessary, such as the City God Temple and other buildings."

Chu Tian weighed the cost of special buildings and the losses caused by the locust plague, and decided to build a number of buildings in each county to increase the blessing value and reduce the probability of natural disasters.

The damage caused by this locust plague to Peng Chengguo can be used to build hundreds of city god temples.

Wang Lang, Mi Fang, Yin Li and others returned from the village and reported to Chutian the damage to the village.

Wang Lang also mentioned to Chutian what Hou Jing did in Pengchengguo: "Pengchengguo organized villagers to dig up insect eggs and kill them over the years, but Hou Jing of Shouchun City destroyed many villages and towns before leaving Pengchengguo, resulting in the waste of land, which may also be one of the causes of this locust plague. ”

"Hou Jing, I will kill him."

Prior to this, Chu Tian had already learned that Hou Jing's soldiers had burned, killed and looted in the area of Pengchengguo, and the number of civilians affected reached 200,000.

If Hou Jing's rebellion indirectly caused the locust plague, then the damage he caused to Chutian's forces would be even greater.

"Order the army to move south to Pengcheng to participate in the hunting of locusts, and at the same time guard against the surrounding princes to prevent them from attacking Pengcheng during the locust outbreak."

Chu Tian was not only worried about the locust plague, but also the princes who were peeking at him around him.

"The outbreak of locust plague in Xuzhou is really a mixed blessing."

When Cao Cao learned of the outbreak of locust plague in Pengchengguo, he did not dare to act rashly for a while.

If the locust plague in Pengchengguo could not be controlled due to war, once it spread to Yanzhou, Cao Cao would not be happy.

The best-case scenario is that the locust plague only affects Xuzhou. But the locust plague is uncontrollable.

Xun Yu was in charge of internal affairs, fearing that the locust plague would spread to Yanzhou, so he discouraged Cao Cao from risking an attack on Pengchengguo. Otherwise, it will not only be tens of thousands of people killed in battle, but hundreds of thousands of people will starve to death.

Cao Cao weighed the pros and cons and finally gave up attacking Xuzhou.

"There is a locust plague in Pengchengguo, and the main force of Xuzhou goes to Pengchengguo to relieve the disaster, which is a good time for us to sneak attack Guangling County!"

In Shouchun City, Hou Jing heard that Pengcheng had a locust plague in the country, and wanted to take advantage of the fire to loot and attack Guangling County.

Guo Jia deliberately dissuaded: "If you don't want to die, don't provoke Chu Zimou easily." ”

"Guangling only has 30,000 ordinary defenders, and they can't help but be weak. Besides, I'm just going to plunder and get the benefit and leave, so I don't have to worry. Come, bring the military advisor. If the military advisor is not with me, I am always uneasy. ”

Hou Jing was worried that Guo Jia would try to escape when he left Shouchun, so he took Guo Jia with him.

More than 20,000 soldiers in Shouchun City, led by Hou Jing, invaded Guangling County in Xuzhou.

He needed to loot a sum of gold and silver to satisfy the desires of his soldiers.

A large number of troops were sent to Pengcheng by Chutian and went to various villages to extinguish the locust plague.

The legions, which had been fighting in all directions, were now tasked with hunting down locusts......

At night, in the farmland on the outskirts of Pengcheng, a detachment of dismounted cavalry dug traps, piled up straw and burned them, attracted locusts, burned them to death, and then buried them.

The fierce general Zhao Yun was armed and played a limited role in the face of the locust plague, and he held a shovel to cover the locust's corpse.

Tens of thousands of locusts have been exterminated, and one can imagine how terrible the locusts' ability to reproduce is.

Joan of Arc also carried a shovel, and she struggled to dig the trap, sweating like rain.

In order to extinguish the locust plague in Pengchengguo as soon as possible, everyone went into battle in person.

After Chu Tian's strength increased, it was effortless to use a shovel.

"Locusts are the number one pest in farmland, they not only eat all the crops and plants, but they also kill each other after they have eaten everything they can eat......

When the summer cool mentioned that locusts were killing each other, he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted and pale.

"What's wrong with you?"

Chu Tian was on a shovel, and his face was not very good when he saw that it was cold in summer.

"It's okay, maybe I'm a little tired."

"Xiuning, you take Miss Xia to rest."

Chutian was worried that something would happen to the summer cold, so he asked Li Xiuning to take the summer cold down to rest.

The rest of the people, etc., still hunted locusts in the fields.

"In the future, strict locust control measures should be set up in various counties and counties to reduce the frequency of locust plagues."

It is almost unrealistic to want to completely prevent locust plagues, and even industrial civilization cannot completely avoid them, but can only reduce the scale and frequency of locust plagues.

Otherwise, there will be a locust plague every three or five days, and the bigger Chutian's territory, the more uncomfortable it will be.

Li Kui wiped his sweat with a dry towel: "Peng Chengxiang discovered and controlled the locust plague earlier, and it is expected that the scope of the locust plague will not leave Pengcheng Country. The disaster in Pengcheng State, and the relief of seven other counties, will not cause a famine. ”

"This may be the benefit of centralization, where it is difficult for one side to support it."

Chu Tian has served as a lord for many years, and gradually understands a lot of truths.

The area of the Eastern Han Dynasty is too large, and there are all kinds of disasters, the common natural disasters are floods in the south and drought in the north, and there are locust plagues, snow plagues, earthquakes, and typhoons from time to time...... Therefore, the centralized system became more and more powerful in the Eastern Han Dynasty to reduce the instability of the small peasant economy.

"Pengcheng Prime Minister Wang Lang performed positively in this locust plague, and recorded his merits, which will be used to evaluate his political achievements when he is promoted in the future."

Chu Tian saw that Wang Lang's handling was timely, so he rewarded him.

Wang Lang was deeply ashamed to learn that Chu Tian had rewarded him. When there was a locust plague in Pengchengguo, which he governed, he still felt guilty. Although we know that locust plagues do not cause the wrath of heaven because of someone's bad character, after all, locust plagues occur in the land under one's control.

"It's tiring."

Wu Anguo sat directly on the ground, and even skewered the locusts, roasted them on the fire, and feasted on them.

Wu Anguo's fierceness made many civilian officials look sideways.

"Can locusts eat?"

Mi Fang sat next to Wu Anguo, and couldn't help but be curious when she saw Wu Anguo chewing and treating locusts as food.

"Why can't you eat it. Who are you? ”

Wu Anguo met Mi Fang and looked at each other very pleasantly.

Mi Fang raised his head and held his chest high: "In Xiaxuzhou, the unequaled general, Zhonglang will Mi Fang, the word is square." ”

Wu Anguo didn't expect Mi Fang to have such a big background, so he said: "I am Beihai Iron Hammer Wu Anguo, I have no words, and now I am the fifth school of the Northern Army as a captain." ”

Mi Fang said: "You can enter the fifth school of the Northern Army, which means that you also have a little brute force." When the locust plague is over, we will learn martial arts when we have time, although my martial arts are among the best in Xuzhou, but I will let you. ”

Wu Anguo heard that Mi Fang's martial arts were among the best in Xuzhou, and he was immediately afraid: "Your martial arts are strong, maybe you will be better than Lu Bu in the Tiger Prison Pass, I won't be bored." ”

Mi Fang and Wu Anguo, one dares to speak, the other dares to believe.

The congregation will set fire to the locusts at night, and when they are tired, they will rest during the day.

Chutian was stationed in Pengchengguo for ten days and made every effort to suppress the locust plague.

During this period, it was reported that Hou Jing had invaded Guangling County, and Chu Tian ordered Guangling to guard Chen Deng to defend Guangling and move the residents of the countryside to the city, and then he didn't pay much attention to it.

Chutian believed that Chen Deng could hold Guangling, and it was almost impossible for Hou Jing's forces to capture Guangling. Fang Xuanling judged that Hou Jing just wanted to take the opportunity to go to Guangling to loot the village and grain.

When Chen Qingzhi heard that Hou Jing was attacking Guangling, he asked Chutian to go to Guangling and join forces with Chen Deng to attack Hou Jing.

After taking the test for a while, Chu Tian agreed to Chen Qingzhi's request.

Pengcheng and Guangling are both Zhishuo-level cities, and through the teleportation array, Guangling can be reached immediately. Chen Deng had two or three thousand cavalry under his command, which could be used by Chen Qingzhi.

After vigorous suppression, the destructive power of the locust plague gradually decreased, and there was no news of the locust plague from the surrounding counties, so the people of Xuzhou were a little relieved.

In order to prevent their family's farmland from being destroyed by locusts, the families of Xuzhou actively supported Chutian to suppress the locust plague.

Relief grain from various counties and counties was successively transported to Pengcheng and distributed to the victims of the locust trap, and the disaster situation was alleviated.

In the cold summer, he only appeared in the farmland for a period of time during the ten days, and because he felt sick when he was tired or saw locusts, he retired early with Li Xiuning.

Chu Tian thought that she didn't have enough physical strength to do these heavy jobs, so he didn't have any problem with her early departure. After all, everyone has their own strengths.

Until the eleventh day, Li Lan, a physician who had been following Xia Cun since the beginning of the village, found Chu Tian: "Does the lord know why Miss Xia has been a little weak recently?" ”

"Why?"