Seeing that Lord Zhang had already arranged for people to go to the farmland, he was ready to set up the path for locusts to fly and other measures according to their plan.

The rest of the adults also stepped forward to inspect the area around the farmland.

There are two slightly younger ones, who are not sure about this plan, and they are still uneasy to look at, and the remaining ones who are older are relatively calm.

They thought about it, this plan had been told to them by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the capital.

And after careful calculation, they determined that the path over which the locusts flew was indeed drawn by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

They still intended to trust His Royal Highness the Prince's decision, and one of the young men raised his hand and scratched his cheeks.

Seeing that several adults were about to go to the farmland with Master Zhang's men, the young man took a few steps forward and said.

"Can we really trust His Royal Highness the Prince's decision? Although our speculation is similar to that of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, locusts can fly after all. ”

"If it didn't fly in the same path we had set out at the beginning, but flew somewhere else."

"Then it's useless for us to work so hard to raise so much cloth and fishing nets."

"At this juncture, there is no other way than to believe in His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and our own speculation."

"Let's take one step at a time, everything is difficult at the beginning, if this plan goes well, we will successfully solve this locust plague."

"If the farmers have not lost a penny, then the establishment of this political achievement will also be conducive to the stability of our agricultural department."

Since an adult said this, the young man sighed, and finally nodded in agreement.

Several of the younger officials were new to the Ministry of Agriculture.

They didn't expect that after joining the Ministry of Agriculture, they would really come to the city to control the locust plague.

But having said that, they are also poor students, and they have a better understanding of farm knowledge and understand that it is not easy for farmers to plant.

Because of this, they are able to empathize and put themselves in the shoes of farmers.

Therefore, Chen Mu deliberately set the requirement for poor students to join the Ministry of Agriculture at the beginning.

The plan went very smoothly, but within half a day, locusts flew around the city.

Chen Mu and several university scholars and officials of the Ministry of Agriculture made very appropriate arrangements.

Nor did he speculate on the path of the locusts to cross the border, and when they successfully blocked all those locusts.

Countless farmers stood outside the ridges, watching the locusts be barricaded above the fields by gauze and fishing nets, unable to eat the fields.

Everyone looked at each other with tears in their eyes.

Great, their paddy was saved!

God knows how terrified they were when they heard that another locust was about to cross the border.

It just so happened that this year's harvest was good, and if the locusts had eaten all the grain they had grown when they crossed the border.

Then their hard work this year has been in vain!

When that time comes, there will be another famine and plague, and more troubles will come to the door.

Now that the plague has been stopped, the hearts of the people are more steady.

Seeing that the locusts had been stopped by the nets set up in front of them, several officials looked at each other without delay, and immediately raised their hands and waved.

Countless guards rushed forward and quickly grabbed the gauze and fishing nets set up on both sides of the farmland, and quickly surrounded the locusts.

After all, the locusts are all able to fly, and after being surrounded by gauze and fishing nets, they immediately flutter and try to fly out.

There were a dozen of them flying out, but fortunately, there were already people ready for them.

When they saw the locusts flying out, a few young men who were no more than a teenager rushed up with worm nets, and soon wiped out all the insects that had slipped through the nets.

Chen Mu was in charge of Beijing, and when he saw that the locust plague was successfully taken care of, he also felt that his heart was a little more steady.

Now that the locust plague had been dealt with this time, Chen Mu immediately began to arrange a plan to deal with and prevent the locust plague outbreak.

This plague of locusts is only a small plague of locusts.

It was precisely because of the small scale that he was able to get the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture to speculate on the path of the locust infestation, and to keep the locusts at bay with cloth and fishing nets.

This is the dirt method, and if the scale of the locust plague is a little larger, it will not work.

What Chen Mu has to do now is to prevent another outbreak of locust plagues.

The first thing to do is about the governance of the land.

Locusts need environment to survive.

Chen Mu still remembers that he had seen those experts build water conservancy and plant trees in order to prevent locusts from having more suitable environment for them to live.

If there is not enough wasteland, then there is no place for locusts to lay eggs.

The land that locusts need to lay their eggs is relatively moist, moist soil.

Chen Muzai sent people to investigate carefully, and learned that the cities upwind of the counties where locust plagues often broke out, floods often broke out.

It is precisely because of the siltation and flooding of the river from time to time that the land around the river is soaked by the river from time to time, and it is often very wet.

And those soils became breeding grounds for locusts.

After Chen Mu locked down several cities that needed to be built for water conservancy, he immediately sent several officials from the Ministry of Industry.

Those officials of the Ministry of Industry are all new officials who have just joined the court recently, and they are very loyal to Chen Mu.

After hearing that there was a good time to establish merit, he immediately went to those cities without stopping.

In addition to the urgent need to build water conservancy, there is also the maintenance of the soil where the locusts grow.

Chen Mu asked people to carefully turn over the land, and ploughed all the land, so that the soil could be exposed to the blazing sun.

After sun exposure, the water in the soil evaporates rapidly.

The eggs left in the soil could not withstand the exposure to the sun, and some adults who did not grow into the soil crawled out one after another after being exposed to the sun.

Chen Mu immediately asked the farmer who raised chickens and ducks at home to lead his chickens and ducks to the land where insect eggs grew.

At first, the farmers didn't know what Chen Mu's purpose was.

When chickens and ducks rummaged through the fields for eggs and ungrown larvae, the farmers immediately realized what was happening.

Yes! Duck!

They can raise chickens and ducks to control locusts!

After the chickens and ducks are fattened, they can also be sold in the city, which is a lot of income for them.

Although Chen Mu also had this plan, when he saw the river land where locusts often grew, the villagers of several surrounding villages were moved.

With a wave of his hand, Chen Mu immediately ordered the officials in charge of the villages to start arranging to help local farmers raise chickens and ducks.

Due to frequent outbreaks of locust plagues, local farmers thought that farming was hopeless and were ready to move away.

Some farmers choose to graze in the mountains, but the more they graze, the more they graze, the more the soil is exposed, leaving room for the locust eggs to grow.