Rencheng County is small in area, but it has a large population, almost 150,000 people, and is located in the eastern part of the northern part of Weishan Lake.

There are few mountainous areas in the territory, many plains, fertile land, high grain production, and many fruit trees.

Every household has pear trees, jujube trees, persimmon trees, and so on.

The people of this place are used to raising pigs, cattle, and cattle. The lake is home to geese, ducks, and so on.

"Zike, I see that the people of your city like to plant trees."

"We have few mountainous areas, and people need wood to build houses, so they like to plant poplars and willows from both sides of the river. All kinds of fruit trees are planted in front of the house and behind the house, and all kinds of fruit trees are also planted in the fields. In the mountainous areas, fruit trees are planted more than grain, and many mountain people grow fruits for a living. ”

"What Zi Ke said makes sense, Qingzhou is full of waste, and it is necessary to plant trees and afforestation and a variety of fruit trees. There are few locust plagues in Rencheng, I'm afraid there is a reason, do you have any good solutions? ”

Lu Qian smiled: "This is really not, because the water area here is large, locusts lay eggs in the drought, and the people raise more ducks, and ducks eat locusts more than chickens." The second is to prevent locusts for a long time, not to cramm. Let the people develop the habit of catching locusts, and they are usually not busy catching locusts. At the beginning of spring, when you see small locusts, you start to catch them during the day and burn them at night, so there will naturally be fewer locusts in a few years. When there are chickens and ducks at home, and these poultry eat locusts, the people will be free from fear, and once they are not afraid, it will be easy to do. ”

Lu Qian asked people to sort out some experience in controlling locusts over the years and handed them to Lu Bu, so that they could refer to the methods of controlling locusts, so that Lu Bu could better control locusts.

Lu Bu read in detail and found that the local people were still very experienced, and they would dig locust eggs in the sand during the locust laying season, and dig up one locust egg, which is equivalent to killing hundreds of locusts.

Lu Bu did not delay, did not even go to Weishan Lake to visit Gao Shun, and early the next morning, he left a large group of men and horses, and only led hundreds of cavalry to Jinan County.

There are more than 100 miles away from Jinan City, the team is stationed at the post station, the people and horses are tired, Lu Bu came to the field, and saw that the local people were fighting locusts with nets, the old people, children and women went into battle together, and there were not many locusts in the farmland.

When the people saw Lu Bu coming, they knew at a glance that this was the Qingzhou Thorn History: "General Lu, why are you here." ”

"Back to Jinan City, passing through here. How's the locust gone? ”

"A few days ago, the chickens from Taishan grazing past, and they were basically wiped out, and now these are coming from the field. Fight every day during the day, and burn a fire at night to lure, the number is already very small, and it will be almost enough to hold on for a few more days. ”

Lu Bu nodded: "Okay, keep up the good work, your current efforts are to protect your own food, once the locusts are flooded, it is the people who suffer." ”

Lu Bu walked around the wheat field and found that, as the old farmer said, he could occasionally see some locusts flying around in the wheat field, and because the wheat was relatively high, it was no longer convenient to use a racket.

"Ling Ming, catch a few grasshoppers and try it."

Dian Wei smiled: "This is not difficult for me, I loved to catch this when I was a child." ”

Dian Wei found a branch, just like playing baseball, and he could hit it every time, which was very powerful.

After fighting for a while, Dian Wei hit dozens of them, and there were only a few dozen of them per acre of land, which was already very few, and this scale could no longer form a locust plague.

It is a short-winged, big-bellied locust that eats very well, but has a relatively poor ability to fly.

Along the way, the locusts were initially brought under control, and the number was smaller than before. And every night you can see the bonfires burning in the fields, and it seems that the people are still careful.

When Lu Bu returned to Jinan County, Chen Gong wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Lord, the momentum of the locusts is finally under control, and I can sleep well when you come back." ”

"It's hard to work on the public station, and the public station has handled it properly, so there is no big mess, a false alarm."

Chen Gong burst into tears with excitement: "It is my honor to be trusted by the lord, this locust plague is a drill, and finally the people are no longer afraid of locusts." ”

Lu Bu nodded: "When I came back, I took Dian Wei around the farmland, and there were very few locusts. However, the finishing is still very difficult, and I have to continue to fight insects, and the ignition cannot be stopped at night. ”

"This year's locust plague and drought are inextricably linked, and if there is a heavy rain recently, the locusts will be completely alleviated."

Lu Bu returned to the mansion to rest for a while, and didn't care about going home, so he and Chen Gong came to the poultry farm by the lake, where thousands of hemp ducks floated on the lake.

Jinan has always had a tradition of raising ducks, but there is still only one such farm.

According to Liu Dawu, if you encounter a large group of locusts, Luhua chickens will be cowardly, and they will have limited food. But ducks are different, ducks eat a lot of food, digestion is also fast, and the locusts they eat a day are more than three or four as chickens. However, ducks generally do not like to hatch their own eggs, but it doesn't matter, you can borrow hens to hatch. If the duck seedlings are sold, there will be more ducks the next year. ”

"It's a good way, the government raises chickens and ducks for the army at most, and supplies the government for its own use. A large number of chickens and ducks are eaten and drunk in the market restaurant, and they still have to rely on the people to raise them. There is no ondol incubation technology in the people, so the traditional self-incubation method is adopted, which is still very good. Stability, so that the people feel the care of the government, not oppression. ”

Chen Gong thought for a while: "My lord said this, I remembered, some time ago, because some people opposed the culling of locusts, I was locked in a cell, and now the locusts are almost cleaned up, should I let these people go." ”

"You can do the affairs of internal affairs in accordance with the law, if you just talk about the verbal opposition, you should let it go. During this trip to Luoyang, I learned a lot of things, Cao Cao's territory was plagued by locusts last year, and in some places it has reached the point of cannibalism, although the locusts are small, but the harm is huge. It's just that this time it was in vain, and Luoyang is afraid that Cao Cao will be cheaper. ”

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask, how was the battle situation on this trip to Luoyang?"

"Zilong beheaded Guo Yan, and Xu Ji, the deputy general of the Fan Chou Division, led 15,000 people from the Fan Chou Department to take refuge with us. I have been fighting under Luoyang City, and I am preparing to storm Luoyang City, at this time your letter has arrived, and I hurriedly returned to the army. Li Dao is about to move the capital to Chang'an, but poor Emperor Xian is still a child, and he will also suffer. ”

Chen Gong pondered for a moment and made an accurate judgment: "I estimate that Cao Cao will definitely not do it now, he will occupy Luoyang first, and then go to Chang'an to rescue Emperor Xian." ”

"Why is that?"

"Do you think, this time the lord led only 20,000 troops, passing by Cao Cao's territory, if he has the ability to send troops, why would he not send troops?"

"Understood, what do you mean is that Cao Cao has been in big trouble recently and has no ability to send troops at all. Maybe it's also locusts, and the Central Plains is full of locusts every year. Rencheng Lu Qian has saved a lot of food this year, and his development is really good. ”

Chen Gong also sighed for a while: "As soon as there is a bumper harvest of summer and autumn grain this year, there will be grain in the official warehouse, and there will be a bumper harvest next year and the year after next, and the people will have surplus grain at home, and the entire Qingzhou will have surplus grain like Rencheng." During this time, Liu Mu and I thought of a way to promote horses, but we didn't know if it was feasible or not. ”

"Let's talk about it."

"Now that there are military horse farms in all counties, there will be no problem with an annual output of 10,000 military horses in the future, plus horses purchased from other places, which can ensure the supply of our horses. If the military horse farm is expanded, the construction investment of the government-run horse farm will be large and the efficiency will be low. The breeding mares do nothing but eat grass, which is very different from our farm horses. Liu Mu meant to set up a government-run large livestock trading house to sell horses and donkeys. ”

"It's good, it's good, but judging from the current situation in Qingzhou, there are not many farmers who can afford horses."

"When dealing with ordinary farmers, the commercial banks mainly sell on credit. For example, Zhang San has 20 acres of land in Jinan County, and on his terms, he can adopt a mother, which belongs to a commercial house, and Zhang San can ride a horse and pull a cart. But they are responsible for raising horses, and horses give birth to two foals, or mule foals, in three years. Zhang San can choose to return the mare and a foal, and the remaining foal is his own. He can also continue to keep mares, as long as he hands over three foals, and the mare is completely his. ”

After hearing this, Lu Bu praised again and again, this is simply the originator of cutting leeks, which is more ruthless than taking out a loan to buy a house. It seems that you are given a horse for free, but the real payment is much higher than buying a horse.

Chen Gong also saw Lu Bu's doubts, and then said: "The family has a lot of money, and the hairy ones don't count." Horses are bred and veterinarian by a commercial firm. Theft, robbery, disease, and various unexpected risks, and dozens of catties of salt are provided every year, and it seems that three foals are recovered, but in fact, the risk is still very high. ”

"This Liu Muzhen is a talent, I didn't mistake him, not bad. Breed more mules, which are better at carrying things and pulling carts than horses. ”

The plan proposed by Chen Gong was approved by Lu Bu.

Two days later, more than 30,000 troops successfully returned to Jinan County, and they immediately threw themselves into the battle to catch locusts without resting.

After all, it is a well-organized team, well-trained, and can clear tens of thousands of acres of wheat in a day.

Watering watering, irrigation and irrigation, the Juntun, Mintun and the farmland of the people in Jinan County are no problem.

Lu Bu led the army to gallop and galloped to Beihai County.

The locusts in the Beihai Lao Gong are relatively serious, but Chen Gong's death order is beneficial to the people, and the people are still very concerned about exterminating the locusts.

The reduction in grain production is a foregone conclusion, but most of it has been saved.

Lu Bu entered the city, and Kong Rong was drinking and writing poems in the living room.

"Why is Lord Thorn Shi here, I don't give notice in advance, and the next official is going to greet him."

"Kong Taishou doesn't need to be polite, he will inspect the control of locusts in the North Sea in the future."