"What is the situation of the locust plague now?" Ji Xun asked Sun County Order.

Before Sun Xianling could speak, Ding Tingshi hurriedly followed after repairing Liu Huwei, and when he heard Ji Xun's question, he hurriedly answered later.

"The situation is very bad, and 25 of the 30 towns in the six counties of Lingzhou have all been affected."

Ding Tingshi spoke, but his eyes stared at Ji Xun's back and secretly guessed his identity, it must not be simple to have the identity of Princess Leyang in his hand, and he heard Sun County's order that Zhang Neng next to King Xuan was extremely respectful to him, it must be a certain prince in the palace, so he couldn't be disrespectful.

Sun Guling also answered: "This batch of locusts is even larger than the number of locusts in the eighth year of Qi Heng, and they can sweep through a village in less than three days, and they are reproducing rapidly and are moving north with an expanding trend."

Shen Yuyu said strangely: "Then are these locusts from Daqi?" So Daqi also suffered?" Since she is the princess of Daqi, she naturally has an inexplicable emotion towards Daqi in her heart.

"Daqi doesn't." Ding Tingshi answered, "Locusts like dryness, and the northern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty is dry, so the locusts go all the way north. '

Shen Yu nodded silently, Daqi is located in the south, and there is a lot of rain in the south, no wonder the locusts are coming to the side of Dazhou.

Ji Xun's eyes were worried: "Three days swept a village, at this speed, it won't be long before it will sweep the entire Great Zhou Kingdom."

"yes." Sun County's order was also full of sadness, "Such a huge team of locusts can't be stopped, and the only thing that can be done now is to maintain order in all states and counties, and call on farmers and merchants with surplus grain to sell or donate surplus grain, so that the grain can last as long as possible and survive this year." ’

Ding Tingshi heard this and hurriedly said: "Wantian County had a bumper harvest last year, and there must be a lot of surplus grain in the farmers' homes, so Sun County ordered, you first collect 1,000 stone of grain and send it to Lingzhou in case of emergency."

He had come to ask for food, and in a year like this, food is better than silver.

Sun Xianling was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and explained: "Even if the peasant families have surplus grain, they can only maintain their own rations for one year, how can they collect it?" As for the farm merchants, let's first count whether anyone is willing to sell or donate. “

Because Ji Xun was here, Ding Tingshi didn't dare to say anything, so he could only nod, he originally planned to come and pull a thousand stones of grain back to Lingzhou City, but it seemed that this plan was going to fail.

After talking about it in the Gu Ling Mansion, Ding Tingshi took his leave on the grounds of inspecting the disaster and went to other Gu to ask for food.

Sun Guling was also quite speechless, and after Ding Tingshi left, he said to Ji Xun and Shen Yuyu: "Ji Gongzi Shen, the locust plague is ruthless, I will order the county to ban all eating, drinking and waste today, your restaurant is afraid ~~"

Ji Xun said: "Needless to say, Sun County's order naturally has to be closed." In the current catastrophe, who still has the heart to go to a restaurant to consume? Needless to say, it will definitely go out of business.

After a pause, Ji Xun said again: "Take care of the people in your county first, and then consider the food problem in the state if there is a surplus, so that there will be no chaos."

"Yes." Sun Xianling guessed that Ji Xun's identity was not simple early on, and he also agreed with his words very much, and respectfully agreed.

Coming out of the county office, Shen Yuyu and Ji Xun drove the carriage back to Fengming Restaurant.

Along the way, I only saw locusts flying everywhere, and the sky was also dark, and the streets were in chaos, and everyone rushed to buy rice and grain.

"The locust plague in the eighth year of Qi Heng, even though the treasury was emptied, hundreds of thousands of people still starved to death." Ji Xun's voice was full of worry, "This time it seems to be even more serious than that time, the most important thing is that the years ago were in turmoil every year, the treasury was empty, and it was already foreseeable how tragic this disaster would be." ”

Shen Yuyu didn't know what to say, and the two returned to Fengming Restaurant with a heavy heart.

As soon as I came to Tai'an Street, I met Shen Caixuan and other three sisters-in-law who closed the shop and walked out.

"Yu Yu Ah Xun." The three of them ran towards them, "There is a locust plague, fortunately there is food at home, otherwise it will be troublesome." "As a restaurant, I naturally bought a lot of stored grain, and with the bumper harvest in the countryside last year, the surplus grain is also enough.

"It's good to have surplus food, otherwise where can I buy food at this time?" Shen Yuyan replied, and the people on the street were in a hurry, and they became a pot of porridge.

As soon as she said two words, Bai Yixue led Ji Feng back.

"Childe, Sister Yu." Bai Yixue covered her face with a face towel and held Ji Feng's hand, "The academy is temporarily recuperating, and the children are going home from school." ”

Shen Yuyu was very happy to see Bai Yixue coming back, and when he saw the locusts flying around, he said, "Let's go back to the restaurant first."

The group returned to the restaurant.

Keep all the doors and windows shut so that the locusts will not come in.

There was no one in the restaurant, everyone sat solemnly in the lobby, and after discussing the disaster with a mood, it was noon, and several brothers and sisters-in-law went into the stove room to cook.

Shen Yuyu asked Bai Yixue about her current situation, and it turned out that Bai Yixue went to Daqi again after placing her two younger sisters properly, so she came back late.

After talking for a while, Bai Yixue took Ji Feng to play, and Shen Yuyu and Ji Xun came to the reception room on the second floor.

"Yu Yu, I have to go back to the capital." Ji Xundao.

"Ah Xun returned to the capital, but there is a good way to solve the locust plague?" Shen Yuyu asked.

"Nope." Ji Xun shook his head and took Shen Yuyu into his arms, "But I have to go back, the disaster in the Great Zhou Kingdom has broken out, and other countries are bound to look at me, so I must go back to Beijing to help my father." "In the end, he used to be the god of war of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and with him, at least other countries should also think about it before making rash moves.

Shen Yuyan suddenly turned around and looked up at Ji Xun: "Ah Xun, can you trust me?"

"Faith." Ji Xun answered in the affirmative.

"I can solve this locust plague."

"How? Can you tell me about it? Ji Xun really believes, every word his woman says, he will believe unconditionally.

"I know a crop, and it's just right to plant it now." Shen Yu said.

Ji Xun sighed, "It's only the beginning of May, and it's indeed too late to sow seeds, but locusts will sweep repeatedly, and this was the case with the locust plague in Qi Heng's eighth year." ”

Shen Yuyu explained: "The kind of crop I know, locusts don't eat it." Shen Yuyu took a few beans from the space a few days ago and planted them in the ground, and used oxytocin, which grew lush in a few days, and everything was eaten up when the locust swarm came, except for those potatoes that were safe and sound, as if they couldn't see, and there was not a single locust on them.

At that time, Shen Yuyu didn't know Ji Xun's identity, but just wanted to plant it for the villagers of Shenjia Village when the time came, but now that she knows that Ji Xun is the Night King of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and knows that he is worried about the country and the people because of this matter, she naturally will not sit idly by.

"Really? Wouldn't the Great Zhou Kingdom be saved!" Ji Xun's face became relaxed when he heard Shen Yuyu's words, "If there is really a crop that locusts don't eat, then the people of the world will be saved." ’

"As long as all farmers grow these potatoes, they will be able to survive this food crisis." Shen Yuyu affirmed, "Otherwise, I will go back to Shenjia Village and take a look, I planted some in the peach forest in the backyard." “

"Okay, let's go." Ji Xun couldn't wait to get up, in order to hurry up and ride back to Shenjia Village.

Tie the horse to the peach forest in the backyard, the leaves of the whole peach forest have been eaten by locusts, but there is a green value growing there in the forest, and it has not been plagued by locusts at all.

"What's it called?" Ji Xun looked at the lush crop and was overjoyed.

"It's called a potato." Shen Yu said, saying that he took out one, because of the use of protocin, it was already mature at this time, and several were bigger than fists.

"How to eat?" Ji Xun asked.

"There are many ways to eat it, but it can be used as a staple food." Shen Yuyu said, and the two said and walked home, "You can eat it after steaming directly." ”

Shen Yu lit a fire in the stove room, and soon steamed the potatoes, yellow and exuding a unique fragrance, Ji Xun peeled one and took a bite, and thought it was particularly delicious.

"This ~~ is really a very good staple food." Ji Xun said with a little excitement, "The people of the Great Zhou Kingdom have been saved, Yu Yu, thank you." As he spoke, he pulled Shen Yuyu into his arms, and let go after a long time, his eyes were red.

"Ah Xun, you are a good prince who is sympathetic to all the people in the world and has great love, ten thousand times stronger than the crown prince." Shen Yuyu's nose was also sour when she said this, Ah Xun was picked off by a strange poison in her body and broke her tendons, she faintly felt that it was related to the prince, and since ancient times, she has tried all kinds of conspiracy methods for the throne, so Ah Xun will be cold, hide in Shenjia Village and refuse to return to Beijing.

But his heart has never let go of the people of the Great Zhou, and his heart is about the world of the Great Zhou, if Ah Xun can become the emperor of the Great Zhou, it will be the blessing of all the people!

After Ji Xun was excited for a while, he remembered a question again, and said worriedly: "It's just that where can I buy seeds for this crop?" How to farm?" As a prince, he didn't know much about this kind of coarse grain, and thought that it was originally available in the countryside.

Shen Yuyu said vaguely: "Maybe it's from the Western Regions, I also bought it at the dock of Dahe Town before, as for farming~~"

Shen Yuyu said and took a potato out and pointed to the pit on it: "Ah Xun, look, every pit here can sprout, this potato has five pits, so you can cut it into five pieces and plant five."

"Yes, that would save a lot of seeds." Ji Xun nodded, "Then tomorrow we will go to the dock of Dahe Town to have a look, and see if we can let them transport all these potatoes to Dahe Town." ”

"Hmm." Shen Yuyu nodded vigorously.

In the next two days, after Shen Yuyu arranged it, a big ship loaded a boatload of shidou docked in Dahe Town, and Ji Xun immediately asked Sun County to buy the boatload of potatoes and start trial planting in Wantian County.

Later, Ji Xun sent a letter to King Xuan, telling King Xuan that the potatoes that the locusts would not eat, telling him that Wantian County had tried to plant a large number of potatoes, and asked him to tell the emperor about this matter and send someone to Wantian County to pull seeds.

In Shenjia Village, every household planted potatoes, and the rice fields that had been destroyed by locusts were burned with fire, and the slopes of the mountains that had been reclaimed before to be planted with peach forests were all dug up and planted with potatoes.

The busiest is Shen Yuyu, all the potatoes planted in the space are potatoes, but fortunately, a potato can be cut into three or four pieces to plant, and the production in her space can still be supplied.

After a month of busy work, the number of boats coming from all over the Great Zhou Kingdom to pull potatoes gradually decreased, and Wantian County, which was the first to try planting, has been covered with a layer of green all over the mountains, changing the gray scene after the locusts cross the border.

Of course, the locusts struck back a few more times, and a dark cloud swept over them, landing on the green crops, but strangely enough, they crawled over them and flew away again, not gnawing at all.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and there was finally a way to get through this disaster.

And the county has finally regained some vitality, the shops that had been closed for a month have reopened, Wanhua Street has begun to sing and dance again, Fengming Restaurant has also reopened, and business is not bad, a large number of merchants from the Western Regions and Daqi merchants patronize.

Qinglin Academy also resumed classes soon, and during this time, Shen Yuyu and Ji Xun were busy, and Bai Yixue took care of Ji Feng.

Bai Yixue pulled Ji Feng to practice kung fu every day, and both of them improved their kung fu by leaps and bounds.