The locust plague is extremely harmful to agriculture, and the situation of the locust plague is recorded in many historical books.

For example, it is recorded in the "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian Long Edition": "There are many locusts in Beijing, and there are several acres of Tianjiasu in the west corner of the city, and they cry when they see the locusts. ”

For example, it is recorded in "Kuo Yizhi": "Xining Jiayin, Yimao years old, the world is full of locusts, and those who eat each other are not as good as real birds and beasts." Sad husband! ”

Another example is recorded in the "Five Elements Chronicles of the Song Dynasty": "In the third year of Emperor Taixing of the Jin and Yuan Dynasty, the locusts in Xuzhou and Yangzhou and Jiangxi counties were scattered, and Wu Min starved to death. ”

There are many such records, which show that the locust plague not only caused extremely serious harm to agriculture, but also caused countless great famines~ famines, resulting in countless deaths.

They are like dark clouds, and everywhere they pass, the crops will "empty the leaves and break the branches".

In fact, not only do they eat crops, but they also eat all the weeds and trees, and they are very fast, and every time they finish eating one place, they immediately fly to the next.

Although the locust plague in front of us is not as large as the recorded locust plague, it is terrifying enough!

At least Ning Bei just glanced at it and stayed where he was.

He had never seen such a grand spectacle.

Although I had seen the record of the locust plague in the video before the crossing, the video was far less shocking than the one in front of me.

Ning Bei never imagined that he would be afraid of some locusts!

But he was a little scared now.

But this fear was only for a moment.

Looking at so many locusts, Liu Cunzheng didn't care about his body, and rushed directly to the ground with a big broom.

The rest of the villagers were also in the fields, waving their brooms back and forth.

They say that they are guarding food, but in fact, they take a big broom and wave it back and forth in the ground to kill or reduce the damage of locust plague.

Although it can really kill some locusts, it is not surprising for the locusts flying in the sky.

More locusts starve to death every day because they don't have enough to eat than the people shoot to death.

And even though some of the locusts died, more locusts came in return!

Although they knew that what they were doing did not help, the villagers were still slaves to drive away the locusts.

In fact, the people of Xiaolianzi Village were also forced to be anxious.

Otherwise, they would not have dared to drive away the locusts like this!

Before the Tang Dynasty, due to superstitious thoughts, the common people could not explain many natural and man-made disasters, so they regarded these as gods and ghosts.

Because of the great harm caused by the locust plague, the locusts are also regarded by them as locust gods.

There are locust temples in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins, and the common people not only worship sincerely, but also because they have reverence for the locust god.

When they saw locusts, they only avoided them, and never hunted them, so as not to anger the locust gods.

For example, in the "Hanshu Five Elements Chronicles", Guanglu doctor Liu Xin and other courtiers believed that "greed and abuse of the people will lead to mitting", and believed that the locust plague was descended by the gods and was caused by "greedy government".

Therefore, at that time, the main control of the locust plague was "the Tao was placed in place, and the princes were ordered to try the scriptures".

During this period, the locusts were deified by the common people.

Therefore, although the locusts have eaten up their crops, they have no other way but to pray to God and worship Buddha.

Even if they starved to death, they thought it was God's punishment for them, so they didn't dare to think about eating locusts.

This is why Liu Cunzheng will shout the locust god.

Although I am afraid of ghosts, compared to hunger, the ghosts and gods should flash aside.

The villagers of Xiaolianzi Village are really hungry and scared!

If it weren't for hunger, how would they dare to risk being killed by a tiger and go to Xiaolianzi Mountain in search of food!

Now they are fearless.

It's just that the effect of repelling locusts is ...... Very little......

The Tang Dynasty and even before the Republic of China were basically helpless against the locust plague.

That's why those emperors talk about locusts!

The damage of locusts is comparable to that of natural disasters!

Seeing that their food was being eaten by locusts, some of the village women lay on the ground, crying loudly.

In the face of the locust plague, there was really nothing they could do.

When they think of today's grain harvest, they can't help but feel hopeless.

There is no food to eat, so it's okay to say.

The fierce beasts on Xiaolianzi Mountain have been eliminated by Ningbei, so they will go up the mountain to dig some wild vegetables to eat.

But the problem is that without food, they can't pay taxes!

That's what worries them the most.

In the Tang Dynasty, both money and grain could be counted as taxes.

Then the problem arises, neither money nor food, they don't have it.

And the people who have not paid taxes for a long time will be forced to suffer from forced labor.

In layman's terms, it is to work for the government for free.

When free labor.

The work they had to do was usually not done by men, and few of the people who were conscripted returned home intact.

Even if I can go home, I am missing arms and legs.

Xiaolianzi Village and the surrounding villages have had several previous experiences of not paying taxes, because the whole county was poor during that time, and there was no money and food to pay taxes.

Therefore, the court exempted them from taxes for those years.

But taxes can't be exempted every year!

The court is also short of money and food!

In the past few years, people have been sent to urge taxes.

If this time, the people of Xiaolianzi Village can't collect the tax again, then what awaits them will also be forced to pay for them.

That's why these village women weep loudly.

They don't want to see their children or husbands taken away and served in the army!

As for the men, although they were also desperate, they also knew that they must not give up now.

Otherwise, unbearable torture awaits them!

But their broom-wielding movements also gradually slowed down.

They haven't eaten enough for so long, and they can't wield brooms!

Although Ningbei killed a tiger, every household got a little tiger meat.

But the villagers are reluctant to eat it!

They also want to marinate the tiger meat and eat it for the Chinese New Year!

There is a locust plague this year, who knows what kind of bad luck it will be......

Just when the village women were desperate and the men were already wielding their brooms, a firm voice suddenly came from a distance.

"Let's find some dead grass or dry trunks, dip some cypress oil, and burn the locusts with fire!"

Looking for the place where the sound came from, hundreds of villagers in Xiaolianzi Village looked in one direction.

It was a man.

A man with a torch in his hand and shining like the sun!

When they saw the man's face clearly, most of the people were visibly stunned, and then joy appeared.

"This is Ningbei, the hero of fighting tigers! He's coming, too! ”

"Tiger fighting heroes can even clean up fierce beasts, and they will definitely help us deal with locusts!"

"Everyone, listen to the words of the tiger hero, and go find some dead branches!"

"Don't look for it, I just cut a lot of branches on the mountain, everyone hurry up and use them!"

“……”

While shouting, Ning Bei kept waving the two torches in his hand.

Everywhere he went, countless locusts touched the fire and were burned.

Moreover, when the locusts first touch the fire, they do not die directly, they will try to pounce upwards twice.

But they also have fire on them, which means that if they come across other locusts, they will also burn.

And there is so much density of locusts here, the burning locusts are like scattered sparks, as long as they touch other locusts, there will be a chain reaction.

For a while, the locusts exploded like fireworks!

It didn't smell good, but it was absolutely spectacular!