Chapter 1048: Worm Hives Everywhere
After Shen Feng returned to Yuzhou, two months passed, and it was time for the autumn harvest, although the spring ploughing in Yuzhou suffered a blow, and countless locusts ate the seedlings, but later it was better to kill the locusts and replant the seedlings.
Today's Shen Feng sits on Sichuan Province and Yuzhou, which is naturally powerful, originally the Sichuan-Chongqing region was not separated, before the 97 years of the last century, the Sichuan-Chongqing region has always been a province, and later in order to prevent someone from separating the territory was forcibly separated, and now it is back to one place, which can be regarded as changing back to the original appearance.
In the past, Sichuan Province included Hanzhong and Yuzhou, so Liu Bei could only divide one side after entering Sichuan, but this also led to the fact that each successive generation of rulers would continue to cut out the area of Sichuan Province, and later included part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which was also a disguised weakening.
The land in Sichuan Province is more suitable for farming, after all, there are many plains, and compared to Yuzhou, this is a real land of abundance.
However, Shen Feng also set a rule, that is, goods such as grain were not allowed to flow out, unless they had the consent of the City Lord's Mansion.
One of the better results was that the warehouses in Yuzhou had been filled with grain, and there was no shortage of food for the time being, but the bad result was that the affected provinces in the north could not receive food support, and a large number of refugees began to flee to the south.
Whether it is Guanzhong, Hanzhong, or even Qinghai and other places, refugees are going south, if there is no food to eat, they will starve to death, the refugees know that there is food in the south, so they have rushed to the south.
In the north, many forces have contacted Shen Feng, begging grandpa to tell grandma that they want to buy food, no matter what the price is, they must get the support of food, but the result is very miserable, Shen Feng listened to the master's teachings, built a high wall, and accumulated grain. Therefore, he will never sell food, but he is very concerned about the various victims who go south, arranging them to various regions, and at the same time selecting henchmen for management.
In fact, this suggestion was provided to Shen Feng by Yu Zhijing for reference, and was immediately adopted by Shen Feng, as one of Shen Feng's three major strategists, although Yu Zhijing was very young, he was better than having a flexible mind, and he had obtained the true inheritance of a half-immortal, and the suggestions put forward were often very implementable.
Yu Zhijing's suggestion is very simple: "The most important thing in the end is food and resources, and with food and resources, you can have more people, since Yuzhou is not short of food now, then you should use the food in your hand to attract more people, if you sell it, it seems that you can get a better reputation in a short time, and people around the country will praise each other, but this will weaken the power of Yuzhou. Kindness is food!"
After Shen Feng heard Yu Zhijing's words, he immediately came to his senses, instead of conquering cities everywhere, it was better to manage his own one-third of an acre, as long as he had enough food on his side, then there would definitely be many disaster victims coming, and the increase in population represented the increase in strength.
So Shen Feng resolutely did not sell food, and the reason was very simple, that is, he would stick to Professor Chu's nine-character mantra.
Compared with Shen Feng's stinginess, He Qiu'an and Gong Changfa in the Northeast are generous, the two of them already occupy the fertile Songnen Plain in the Northeast, where there is black soil, and the annual grain production is extremely gratifying, plus they have opened up oil and gas pipelines, they can obtain a steady stream of energy, and mechanized operations have been completed, there will be no shortage of food at all, what they lack is reputation.
So, He Qiu'an and Gong Changfa began to peddle food, and if there was really no money elsewhere to pay, they could still owe money.
For a time, the reputation of He Shengren also spread throughout the north, He Qiuan was called Yanjing Sage, and Gong Changfa also earned the title of Northeast Asian Sage.
He Qiu'an and Gong Changfa couldn't help but laugh after hearing this title, the two of them were actually planning to introduce population from other places, after all, under their jurisdiction, population was a hard injury, and as a result, in the process of improving their reputation, they were instead awarded the title of saints.
The word "saint" is not something that ordinary people can obtain, but it really counts as "saint."
These two words are a notch higher than the words "god" or "immortal", and the reason is very simple, there are only 10 saints in the history of China, Confucius is the last saint, even Mencius has a lot of writings, but in the end he only got the title of a sub-saint.
On the contrary, there are such gods and immortals in various places among the people, even if they are some monsters, they can get the title of immortals, such as fox fairy Liu Xian, these words are of a low grade.
After Gong Changfa knew that he had the title of saint, he couldn't help but smile and said to He Qiu'an, "Now that the titles of the two of us have suppressed Shen Feng, who told him not to sell grain?"
He Qiu'an just smiled and said, "He got the benefits he wanted, we got face, there is not much difference between the two, as for the entire north, I just hope that there will be no disaster, otherwise we will run out of food no matter how much food we have."
It's a pity that he is afraid of something, He Qiu'an hopes that the north can be stable for a few years, but after autumn, there are insect nests all over the place, and the nests of these insects are the nests of locusts, but I didn't expect that the locusts that have always been migrating have learned to build nests.
There is a saying circulating all over China, especially in the north, this sentence is more widely spread, called: grasshoppers after autumn have not jumped in a few days.
But in late autumn, not only did the locusts not die, but instead learned to build nests, dig the land in various places, accumulate food, and even want to hide from the cold winter underground.
The source of locusts is actually very complicated, in the land of China is generally East Asian locusts, the most common of which is grasshoppers, after autumn, these insects will die day by day, simply not live an autumn, but now the times have changed, and insects have learned to survive the winter.
Countless locusts collect fallen leaves from the ground in the autumn and bring them to the hives to store them as winter food, like ants.
"If we can't freeze these insects to death in winter, won't we say that these locusts will continue to break out in the spring and summer of the following year?" When the people found out about this situation, they all despaired, and they all felt that the real despair had arrived.
After Xu Xing came back from the north, he specially found Shen Feng to explain the situation: "City Lord, the north has completely become hell, and it is completely impossible to grow food in the north, but not to mention the frequent occurrence of droughts and floods, just say that as long as these locusts pass through the farmland, then the crops in the farmland will be eaten up, City Lord, you save them!"
"It's simple! It's not something I can save if I want to, the climate in the north is arid, suitable for locust breeding, not as humid as the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, earlier this year, the locusts even went south to our territory, I have no other way but to rain, how can I save so many people?" Shen Feng immediately retorted.
"Then how about you find a way to go north and rain a few times and drown all these locusts?" Xu Xing continued to make suggestions.
"You think too much, if I want to rain, I have to wait until the time when the typhoon is active, now it's late autumn, and the activity of typhoons at sea has decreased, and basically no typhoon will be formed, even if I barely form a typhoon, it will definitely dissipate if it can't reach the north, do you think the continental high pressure is very easy? Even though I'm the god of wind, I also have to follow climate change, do you understand that?" Shen Feng then explained seriously.
Xu Xing sat in Shen Feng's office in distress, and whispered to Shen Feng: "This year, I heard that there are too many robbers in the north, so I went to the north to save these people, but after I arrived in the north, I found that the people in the north are really miserable, they want to farm, just planting will have to face floods and droughts, and finally endure the flood and drought, and then the locusts are flying, I saw an old man crying while catching locusts to eat, they are really miserable!"
Shen Feng could only shake his head and said, "Murderer, the way of the world is also!"
Xu Xing thought about it carefully, and suddenly said to Shen Feng: "City Lord, I don't want to kill robbers, many robbers are poor people, chaos in the world will lead to robbers, I want to change the world, is it okay?"
"I'm glad you've finally come to your senses, of course you can
To change the world, I heard that you also like to read Buddhist scriptures, go to Leshan another day, there are people who embezzle food, you go to cut down the people over there, by the way, take a look at the Leshan Giant Buddha, scatter your heart. Then I'll see where you're suited to go and manage, don't refuse." Shen Feng saw Xu Xing's intentions, and also knew that she couldn't be calm when she saw the tragic situation in the north, so he asked Xu Xing to take a look at the Big Buddha, so that she could feel comfortable.
Xu Xing became serious after hearing Shen Feng say this, and said, "For example, there is no self, no one, no beings, and no longevity. Therefore, the Buddha is formless, and the Buddha is just what people think of as a Buddha, but in fact it is just a stone, and it will not increase virtue when you look at it, so it is better to practice carefully."
"Really? I'm going to think about something that can change the way of the world, and I'm going to let you do it!" Shen Feng also understood after hearing Xu Xing's explanation, Xu Xing had really read a lot of Buddhist scriptures and had his own experience, and now it was not easy to fool him.
So, after thinking carefully, Shen Feng really found something that needed to be done urgently, and then said to Xu Xing: "Since you want to change the world, I have an important task for you now, you go to North America, find a piece of information and come back, you do this task covertly, don't be discovered by others, understand?" I'll tell you about this task alone, and no one else will know about it."
As soon as Xu Xing heard this, she immediately became interested, and then said seriously, "Is it a mission that can change the world? Then I'm going to do it, City Lord, what the hell is the mission?"
"Go to Salt Lake City in North America, find information about aliens, and bring them back!" Shen Feng said solemnly.