Lu Chen looked at the statistics of the deputy village chief's office.

The daily tax revenue of Xingluo Village is less than 300, the restaurant, blacksmith shop, tailor shop, and academy are almost 0 tax, the grain shop is 45 tax, the medical hall is 50 copper coin tax, the butcher shop is 200 tax, and the rest of the grocery stores and melon and fruit shops are also completely 0.

The dismal tax record is really unsightly.

If the 150 Guards don't slaughter the monsters, they won't even have the 200 tax from the slaughterhouse.

Tian Zhong analyzed seriously at this time: "Village chief, our village is still closed, if the village chief can open the road to Yangyuan City, the village's tax revenue will definitely be able to rise." ”

"Well, Tian Zhong, you send someone to choose a large shop, hang the signboard of the Dahan Trading Company, select three talents with the talent of the trading house to sit in the formation, and then send an order to Ayu to start cleaning up the bandit forces." Lu Chen's face was very ugly, it was because of the upgrade requirements of the intermediate village, and he was also cleaning up the bandits.

Pathway, pathway, is the route that opens up the village.

I don't know what their requirements are, whether it is also a pathway, maybe it is just a pathway, they can only open a trading house when they go to a high-level village.

"Send a group of masons to reinforce an earthen wall on the outside of the wooden wall."

"Yes, village chief."

The upper limit of soldiers in the intermediate village has been increased to 800, and the militia recruited by Ah Yu followed the previous 200 transferred soldiers to exterminate the bandits, and in less than a day, they have been upgraded to level 10.

The income from exterminating the bandits is very considerable, the first time you brush the level 2 cottage to earn 100,000 copper coins, and the level 3 cottage is 300,000 copper coins, if you don't choose to occupy and destroy, it will reappear the next day, but the copper coin income is not.

On the first day, Ah Yu and others exterminated 20 level 2 cottages and 5 level 3 cottages, with a total income of 3.5 million copper coins.

The second refreshed out, there was no copper coin income, which made Lu Chen unwilling to complain, and then directly ordered Ayu to destroy the cottage.

On the third day, the bandits were exterminated, with an income of 4 million, 600 recruits were successfully transferred, and the 800 soldiers' battalion was officially established.

The seventh day passed.

The captured bandits were returned to the emperor by the county government, but the reward was pitiful, 4000 bandits were only 20 million, according to the requirements of the bandits, the first time they were captured can be recovered at a high price, and they can also be tamed to become residents, and the second refreshed bandits can only be recovered with 20 copper coins per person, which is the same as the price of wild monsters.

Lu Chen decided that in the future, he would not return the charge, and all of them would be tamed into residents, and the population of the village would also increase significantly.

"Village chief, village chief, it's a big deal!" Tian Zhong suddenly broke into the village chief's hall and shouted in a panic that something big was wrong.

Lu Chen spit out all the tea he had drunk.

Tian Zhong's appearance is not a good thing, but now Lu Chen is also wealthy, if he opens the rich list, he can definitely be called the ceiling of the civilian class.

"Village chief, according to the patrol report, the farmland has been invaded by unknown organisms, and there have been several farmlands where seedlings have been gnawed."

"Something happened to the farmland? Quick, take me to see it. ”

As soon as Lu Chen heard that it was farmland, his face panicked, if this Nima had finished his first crop of grain, would his villagers have to starve to death on the streets next season.

The first season is both grain and grain, so don't run out of grain.

The wheat on the farmland is lush and lush, and at a glance it is green, and the spring breeze blows, and the wheat fields emit the laughter of the shuttle.

Following Tian Zhong and other guards, they came to the farmland on the northwest edge, where there were signs of a large area being gnawed, and some of them were still gnawing.

"Locusts! Large swaths of locusts. Lu Chen muttered, and secretly said in his heart, this Nima has really appeared in a locust plague.

Tian Zhong was a little puzzled and asked, "Village Chief, are you sure this is a locust?" ”

The insect body on the wheat seedlings is larger than that of the locusts, and the gnawing speed is not so fast, only half a moment, and a large piece of wheat seedlings are gnawed up at once, fortunately the patrols found it early, otherwise, this loss does not know how big it will spread.

Lu Chen pondered for a while, and immediately ordered: "Tian Zhong, immediately order the farmers to guard the wheat seedlings, the guards to catch locusts in batches, everyone quickly go to prepare firewood, and arrange for the villagers to dig a huge pit in the corner of the spacious ridge." ”

Tian Zhong was a little puzzled and said, "Village chief, this ......"

Lu Chen's brows furrowed slightly, and he was not sure whether his method was feasible, but he still firmly ordered: "Just go and call the villagers to help, Mai Miao can't have an accident." ”

"Ding. A locust plague is coming, so please take precautions. ”

A system notification appears.

Lu Chen said secretly, sure enough, the locust plague in the previous life came as scheduled, and this locust plague had a very great impact on the political structure of the entire Three Kingdoms, and it was also from this locust plague that the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty began to have some famine.

In the last life, the locust plague cleaned up all the wheat fields of the entire Three Kingdoms.

Not a trace left.

In the end, after Lu Chen and others entered the game, 120 copper coins for a load of grain rose to a sky-high price, a load of 2000 copper coins (Dan = stone, about 60 kilograms), each load is enough for one person to eat for four months, and 10,000 people need to consume 10,000 loads of grain every four months, which is equivalent to the consumption of 20 million copper coins, and the consumption of 60 million copper coins a year.

When the locust plague comes, sell a wild goat for 20 copper coins, a whole edible wild sheep meat, the normal price is 1000 copper coins, the meat of the wild monster cannot be used without the hands of the butcher, if you want to buy a load of food, you must kill 100 wild monsters.

In fact, the most terrifying thing is the lord player, which can only be described as miserable.

A large number of people, a large number of people buy a large amount of grain, whether you can afford it or not, in short, you can't buy it, it is impossible to store grain, there are no merchants who sell grain on a large scale, they are all purchased by the Han government.

At the moment when the system notification rings.

The lord players in the game looked as if they had been poured feces into their mouths, their faces were extremely ugly, and they looked at their lush wheat seedlings and rice, and their hearts felt indescribably uncomfortable.

In the era of pesticides, locust plagues were more terrible than floods.

The locust battle officially began, except for Ayu's 800 soldiers' battalion, the rest of the entire Xingluo Village was dispatched, and this appeal was also fully driven by the high-quality village policy and copper coins.

Today, Lu Chen has more than three million income in his hands every day, and I have to say that there are really many bandits in the Songhe Plain.

This can catch up with the Nanban and Shanyue in Yizhou and Jiaozhou, but, it does benefit from the bandits, the bandits are the lord players, and the wild monsters are the adventure players, both are actually similar, the adventure players have many occupations, it is easy to find a backer A wave of wealth, a wave of expensive, the cost of the battle itself is low, the lord has no occupation, the level is limited, the development is slow, and the strength is strong after the rise.

The most painful thing about the spread of locusts is to delay the development of lord players.

Lu Chen was racking his brains to recall the ancient times when he dealt with locusts, but he only remembered the manual capture and smoke drive in front of him.

Less than half an hour.

The villagers have already caught several baskets of locusts, and the rest of the villagers are preparing firewood, lighting grass mustard in the corners of the ridges, and using the smoke to kill the eggs left by the locusts.

This is a temporary cure for locusts, but it does not stop the locusts from flying everywhere.

Seeing the capture of batches of locusts, Lu Chen's face showed bitterness, is this really going to extinguish his own way of making money.

In the era of grain scarcity, those who ate locusts and other things were sick.

In the previous life, many people preached eating locusts, but as a result, they were caught off guard by the endless locusts, and many players were starved to death on the streets.

That's when it happened.

A sturdy old man, holding crutches in his hand, came slowly, looking at the villagers of the village when they were catching locusts, he sighed slightly in his heart, and came to Lu Chen's side with a worried face.

"Young man, to deal with the enemy of Shengke, you naturally have to use his Shengke's things."

When Lu Chen reacted, the sturdy old man slowly left again, ignoring Lu Chen's surprised voice, as if he was just here to pass on an ignorant word.

"Something raw?"

Lu Chen thought for a while, and saw a locust eating green wheat seedlings, only to see that at this moment, a sparrow flew down, and the locust was instantly eaten by the sparrow.

"Predators? Natural enemies. ”

Lu Chen's face was happy, and he muttered two words of natural enemies, and then excitedly beckoned some carpenters, bamboo craftsmen and villagers to go to the village.

"Village chief, village chief, are you going to catch birds?"

"Get out."

I saw Lu Chen rushing forward with a black face, and ordered everyone to continue to prepare things, leaving Tian Zhong with a puzzled face, isn't it catching birds? Just now, he saw Lu Chen staring at the sparrow for a long time, and then he suddenly snickered secretly, he didn't believe it if he wasn't catching a bird.

Three days passed.

There are more and more locusts, Lu Chen led everyone to catch locusts during the day, and light a fire pit at night to attract locusts and burn them to death.

In other parts of the game, locusts come in response to the arrival of locusts, and as long as they have green wheat seedlings, they will come, from a few at the beginning, to a few swarms at the back, and then to a sky of locusts at the back.

Many lord players have given up on struggling.

There are only a handful of lords, and they are still recruiting a large number of players to help catch locusts and die to the death.

The Han court was also in panic and called on the people to exterminate the locusts and provide disaster relief.

But it still can't resist the large-scale erosion of locusts.

Thirty days passed.

The resistance to the locust plague ended in complete failure.

Annihilated.

Except for Starfall Village.

In the wheat fields surrounded by dense bamboo wire nets, piles of field frogs croaked and tadpole eggs everywhere, guarding the wheat seedlings in Xingluo Village.

As soon as the locusts landed under the green wheat seedlings, they were instantly swallowed by the jumping field frogs.

It became a burial ground for locusts.

Tian Zhong looked at the green wheat field, his face was full of appreciation, and at the same time, he was also glad that the wheat field was preserved, otherwise, Tian Zhong didn't dare to imagine what the next nearly 20,000 villagers would eat.

Today, the price of cereals has begun to rise.

They can only use a large number of copper coins in exchange for grain, only hoping to survive until the wheat field is ripe, Lu Chen, who has never considered grain before, has gradually begun to pay attention to the price of grain recently.

Grain has risen to 720 copper coins per quintal.

The locusts are still spreading again, Lu Chen does not dare to take it lightly, depending on the situation, the locusts will have to last for a few more months, the maturity cycle of wheat is four and a half months, and now it has only been 3 months, it seems that it is still too early, if you can resist this locust plague, you can survive it in the early stage.

"Ding. Congratulations to the player Su Xiaochen for destroying the level 4 Canglong Village, harvesting 600,000 copper coins, 1,200 worn-out machetes, 120 worn-out iron bows, 200 worn-out round shields, 623 captured bandits, 1,630 slashed bandits, 3 damages, and 0 deaths. ”