Shen Feng is also worried about the locust plague now, the crops have just been planted not long ago, and the seedlings have just grown some, but the locusts came later, the crops have been eaten up, and there is still a chance to replant the crops, but the locusts have not left since they entered the territory of Sichuan Province.

The locusts are eating at the crops as they fly around, and they are laying eggs, and after a day or two, new locusts will emerge from the soil.

Recently, Shen Feng has been discussing with the people of Yuzhou how to completely solve the harm caused by locusts.

Even when he was in a meeting, Shen Feng had a white cloth tied to his head, generally speaking, the funeral has been simplified a lot, in ancient times, it took three years to keep filial piety, and later, in modern times, there was a change of customs, and the time of keeping filial piety for three years was too delayed, so the time was also shortened, generally speaking, it was three to seven days, even if it was long, the time for half a month was about the same, but Shen Feng decided that at least half a year of filial piety should be kept.

It is impossible for Chang Jianyi to stop this matter, because she can understand Shen Feng's current grief, the dearest person has left this world suddenly, which is difficult for every grateful person to accept, and Shen Feng is only wearing filial piety clothes every day, which will not affect Yuzhou's future plans.

At the meeting, many people had smiles on their faces, because they recently got a good news, that is, many cities in Sichuan Province have sent requests to Yuzhou to be attached, because the grain stocks in these cities are basically gone, and if they don't get food anymore, there will be a famine in these cities next, and the fate of these people will be even worse.

Originally, everyone thought that it was not easy for Yuzhou to take over Sichuan Province, but now at this time, locusts suddenly appeared, which brought benefits to Yuzhou, because Yuzhou has basically not been affected in these years, so there is a lot of grain storage, and although the area of Sichuan Province is very huge, and the plains are much more than Yuzhou, but the population of Sichuan Province is also very large, and it is necessary to often sell grain to the outside world, so the grain in Sichuan Province is just enough to eat, far from the extent of grain storage, and now the crops are eaten by locusts, Sichuan Province can't bear it in the first place.

Shen Feng leaned on the seat and said lightly: "Although it is possible to get the territory of Sichuan Province without blood, but, don't forget, we don't have much grain in Yuzhou, if we mobilize grain to Sichuan Province, what will happen to Yuzhou?" ”

Yang Chang looked very optimistic at this time, and said: "Although we have missed the best time to sow seeds at this time, we can still replant grain now, maybe the harvest will be reduced a lot, but we will not lose the harvest, right?" ”

"It's easy to replant food, but what about locusts? The locusts are still breaking through the ground, and when the time comes, the locusts will kill a horse gun, and then what? The crops are gone again. Cao Fulie on the side couldn't help but say, now that the locusts have not been solved, it is still too simple to talk about farming.

"Wouldn't it be nice to produce pesticides with all our might and kill all these locusts?" Yang Chang said as a matter of course.

Modern agriculture has a very simple way to deal with locusts, that is, spray pesticides directly, no matter what kind of insects can be killed directly, sprinkle insecticides, and then the locust crisis can be resolved.

But at this time, Li Keyi said calmly: "I'm afraid it won't work, the effect of insecticides on locusts has weakened, first of all, this time the size of the East Asian locust has more than doubled, and the anti-poison ability has risen, and secondly, the locusts have been mutated and have evolved resistance, so the previous dose has to be increased by five or six times, and this dose of insecticides is enough to cause harm to humans." ”

Li Keyi said this now, everyone couldn't help frowning, the resistance of locusts has risen after mutation, so it is not easy to deal with locusts, at least it is ineffective to use insecticides to deal with locusts.

"Since the use of pesticides has been restricted, then we might as well simply mobilize the people below to go out and kill locusts with manpower, and everyone will work together, it will definitely work." At this time, Qi Lingshan couldn't help but say.

"Your suggestion is even more unreliable, if manpower could fight against locusts, locusts would have been eaten and exterminated by humans by now." As soon as Li Keyi heard this kind of remark now, he immediately expressed his opposition.

Tu Xuhuai was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked at Shen Feng and said: "Professional matters, you should ask more professional people, city lord, it's useless for us to discuss here, it's better to go to the research institute to find scientists and let scientists think of ways together, even if they can't provide a practical solution, they can also give us some suitable suggestions." ”

Shen Feng nodded, and said to Li Keyi: "Yiyi, you hurry up and contact the research institute, find a few entomologists to come here, and ask them to help with the reference." ”

Li Keyi then left the conference room, and Shen Feng was not idle now, he said to the rest of the people: "Take advantage of a few opportunities, we need to quickly take over other cities in Sichuan Province, and then we need to discuss a person to be stationed in Rongcheng, I am still in Yuzhou at normal times, and I can't keep Rongcheng all the time, so who do you think is more suitable to guard in Rongcheng?" ”

After hearing Shen Feng's words, everyone became excited, now at this time, if you go to Rongcheng to be stationed, it will be the general treatment of the feudal officials, especially at this time Yuzhou is in urgent need of manpower, not to mention these children in the orphanage, even the young people who are constantly recruited in Yuzhou are basically not enough, so if you go to Rongcheng next, you can still develop your own team, which is not bad.

Everyone hurriedly discussed at this time, and finally decided to let Guo Pinming take the army to Rongcheng, and on the civilian side, it was Zhou Xiaoxiao who was responsible for handling it, and the most important thing was to ensure that the railway between Rongcheng and Yuzhou was unblocked.

Shen Feng is also very relieved about Guo Pinming, because Guo Pinming is the least greedy for money, after he goes to Rongcheng, he can ensure that he will not have any other thoughts, and in addition to Guo Pinming in Rongcheng, Jin Zijue also has more than a dozen abilities at hand, and they also choose to stay in Rongcheng now, and Jin Zijue has become the next captain of the Ability Management Bureau.

And after Shen Feng discussed this matter with everyone, Li Keyi also happened to appear in the conference room with entomologists and agriculturists, and everyone continued to discuss the matter of locusts.

Professor Zhang sat down slowly, and then said to Shen Feng: "City Lord, in fact, the mutation of insects is limited by oxygen, as long as the oxygen concentration on the earth drops now, the size of the locusts will continue to shrink, and it is basically impossible for the rest of the insects to continue to mutate, which can solve the mutant insects once and for all." ”

"Professor, we only want to know how to solve the locusts in the territory at this time, if the locusts in the territory have not been solved, at this time we are worried about other mutant insects in other places are also unfounded, because in a few months, we will have a famine here." Shen Feng hurriedly said.

When Shen Feng said this, Professor Zhang also reacted, now it is not about the mutation of insects, but how to solve the crisis caused by locusts in a short period of time.

So, after pondering for a moment, Professor Zhang said: "First of all, it is not easy to completely curb the locust plague, because it took decades to completely eliminate the locust plague in China, and it took several generations of hard work to complete this matter, which also went through several stages, the first is human killing, which is the most stupid method, whether it is digging locust eggs or catching locusts and frying, in fact, the efficiency is very low. Then there is the treatment of medicine and equipment, simply put, it is to spray, the effect of this method is also the best, the best way to kill locusts is to spray, but now it is not used. ”

Everyone in the conference room is listening quietly, many people in the conference room have never experienced locust plague, because everyone here is too young, and there are many people under the age of 30, and the older generation can still have an impression of these things, but for these young people, how to deal with locusts, they are not very clear.

"In the end, the method of completely controlling locusts in China is to control the source, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to transform the habitat of locusts, don't look at locusts everywhere, but these locusts also have a source, as long as the habitat of these locusts is transformed, then the locusts will not be able to flood at all." Professor Zhang said slowly.

"And where is the source of the locusts?" At this time, some people immediately began to inquire about how to successfully control locusts.

Professor Zhang said: "Basically, in the north, in North China, in Guanzhong, in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, these are the historical locust plague birthplaces, once built reservoirs, artificial excavation of water conservancy facilities to change the habitat of locusts, so locusts can not form a scale, but ten years after the end of the world, these water conservancy facilities have also been abandoned, so, locusts have made a comeback." ”

"Come on, there's no way to do it now, the habitat of locusts is all in the north, and it's impossible to transform it." When Lu Kaiyang heard this, he immediately spread his hands, if it was possible to transform the locust habitat in the north in peacetime, but now that the north has become an inaccessible place at this time, it is impossible to transform the locust habitat on a large scale.

Professor Zhang hurriedly said: "It's not in vain to say these words, in fact, locusts have also laid eggs in various parts of Sichuan Province and Chongqing, and then these places where eggs are laid can also be regarded as locust habitats, and then as long as Sichuan Province and Chongqing are transformed into places that are not suitable for locusts to survive, this can make locusts disappear naturally." ”

Shen Feng then asked, "How to transform it?" ”

"No need to remodel! Because logically speaking, locusts are suitable for flooding in the south, unless there is also a drought in the south, now, as long as you wait for the rain in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou, this is enough, and when the rain comes, the locusts will naturally disappear without a trace. Professor Zhang gave this answer.

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but shake their heads after hearing this suggestion, because they all felt that they had heard a loneliness at this time, because according to Professor Zhang, don't do anything next, just wait for the rain, because as long as it rains, the locusts will naturally disappear.

"If that's true, then we don't have to do anything, just wait for God to rain, isn't it all up to God's mood?" Chu Chaoyan couldn't help but ask.

"But this is the best advice, I'm not talking nonsense, this matter is very important, I must have thought clearly before I said, first of all, locusts are grasshoppers, after the swarm is called locusts, there are many kinds of locusts, and these locusts are in the years of great drought before a large number of multiplication and flooding, because locusts do not like humid environment, just in the south the amount of precipitation is more than in the north, as long as it rains in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou, locusts can not adapt to the humid environment, they will naturally die." Professor Zhang said seriously.

Everyone thinks that what Professor Zhang said is useless, and I came to you to ask you to make suggestions, but it turned out that this time is good, you guy actually made us wait for the rain, what use do you want from this?

Shen Feng was woken up by this sentence, he knew a way to rain, as long as a typhoon was formed, and the typhoon could penetrate deep into the interior, it could make it rain successfully in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou.

"I see, it's a very important piece of advice, and if it doesn't rain, I'll have to do it." Shen Feng then said.