The foursome in Chengdu were planning to forge ahead in Hanzhong, but at the same time in Jingzhou, Zhang Xi was worried.

Last year's winter was a warm winter, and from December last year to January this year, it rained intermittently, and it stopped at the end of the first month.

Then throughout February, there was not a single rain.

Ma Liang was in a hurry at that time.

This is soon spring ploughing, and it is a fatal thing if it doesn't rain.

Even though the land of Jingxiang guards the various branches of the Yangtze River, there is no shortage of water resources, but whether it is growing corn or breeding rice seeds, a large amount of water is needed.

Therefore, Ma Liang hurriedly found Zhang Xi to explain the situation, and then Zhang Xi ordered Li Qiu, the county commander of Nanjun, to start inspecting the counties with his officials from Pengshi, the main purpose was to check whether the water conservancy facilities could operate normally and whether the spring plowing preparations in each county were ready.

Then, something went wrong.

In the final analysis, it was Li Qiu, a native of Yizhou, who dragged his feet.

Li Qiu, a county man, is from Yizhou, and the Pengshi officials under him are all from Jingzhou. It's impossible to do it, but these people can really do it.

After Li Qiu discovered this phenomenon, he first reprimanded and rectified it internally, but it was still ineffective, forcing Li Qiu to plan to kill people.

It's okay to look down on yourself, but you can't delay spring ploughing, if spring ploughing is delayed, the harvest of a year will be affected, and you can't treat the survival of the people as a child's play.

But. Useless.

These history-level officials, which one is not a family member, how much do you expect them to care about the life and death of the people, it is really blind.

After Zhang Xi learned about this, he quickly called back Li Qiu first, and then asked Deng Ai to take over Li Qiu's work and strengthen supervision.

can't kill people, these family members are all broken bones and tendons, although Zhang Xi also hates it, but he can only depose one or two officials who provoke the head to vent his anger, and he must not use a knife.

The current Jingzhou is seeking stability, and it is a time of obscene development, so you have to endure it first.

Li Qiu was very aggrieved, and Zhang Xi could only comfort him, but then, Ma Liang brought another, more troublesome matter.

Ma Liang is a very responsible person, these days to inspect water conservancy facilities, he has been wandering around the counties, not only Nanjun, Wuling and Lingling He took the time to go there, and then found a big problem.

Because last year was a warm winter, most of the eggs in the land did not freeze to death, especially in Jingnan County, this situation is quite obvious.

Ma Liang is worried that in April and May, there will be insect plagues.

It's terrifying.

Once the locusts are scattered, this year's harvest may be ruined, not only the people will not have a way to live, but the government will also be anxious.

Zhang Xi hurriedly ordered all the Peng Shi who were inspecting the counties and counties to be stationed on the spot and not to return to Jiangling in a hurry.

First, to guide the local people in spring ploughing, it is necessary to try to do deep ploughing as much as possible to minimize the survival rate of locust eggs.

Second, Peng Shi personally sat in the local area and organized the people to cull locust larvae or larvae without affecting spring ploughing.

These two are practical methods that can be used in this era.

As for whether this will prevent the emergence of large-scale insect infestations. It may be possible to reduce the intensity of the locust plague, but there is a high probability that the locust plague will not be avoided.

At this time, the locust larvae are basically in the soil, and even if they are ploughed, many people will not take it seriously.

And now is a troubled time, the credibility of the government is just like that, even if it is a centralized government, the people should not listen to you, they will not listen to you, they always feel that they have their own way of survival.

Feudal official?! In addition to desperately collecting taxes, the government knows how to do it!!

So the plague of locusts that should have appeared will still appear.

Therefore, Zhang Xi is ready to let these Peng Shi stay in the place for a long time to deal with the locust infestation.

This kind of catastrophe and epidemic will not be mobilized before the situation is clear, otherwise the plague will not appear before the epidemic appears, and people's hearts will be confused first, which is even more unfavorable to prevention and control.

Therefore, Zhang Xi asked the Peng historians to station in various places under the banner of urging local spring ploughing, and they had to be stationed until April and May to see if there would really be a locust plague.

If not, of course it is the best, but if there is a locust plague. That Zhang Xi is really going to have a headache.

Some of the predecessors who crossed the locust plague were not nervous at all, raising chickens, ducks, and geese while waiting for the locust plague together, where is this locust plague, it is simply a good opportunity to brush up on prestige.

Zhang Xi also wants to learn, but I'm sorry, this is the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms.

One thing to say, chickens and ducks to control locusts is a practical and feasible means of controlling locusts, and it can indeed effectively suppress locust plagues.

But just one point - a few thousand chickens, ducks and geese are not enough, and without tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of chickens and ducks, don't try to suppress the so-called locust plague.

If the number is too small, by the time your chickens and ducks have eaten all the locusts, the locusts will have eaten all the crops.

In any period in ancient China, the first thing the emperor thought of when he saw the people who could take out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of ducks at once was definitely not to applaud you and thank you for quelling the locust plague, but to ponder whether your family should be rebelled, and then the nine tribes should be connected.

It's so rich.

Not to mention that it's a troubled time now, and people can't eat enough, where can they raise chickens and ducks?!

Even if the four major families in Jingzhou combined, I am afraid they will not be able to raise hundreds of thousands of chickens and ducks.

Therefore, in these years, the control of locusts can only rely on manpower.

When it comes to this manpower, it's a troublesome thing.

Let's just say that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty carefully selected a Dong Zhongshu in order to centralize power, trying to use Confucian theory to endorse his centralized power.

Dong Zhongshu knew the ideas of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty very well, so he proposed the "Three Platforms and Five Constants" to help Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to endorse the centralized power, and he was therefore reused by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and with the help of the platform of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism became the prominent scholar of this era.

But probably Dong Zhongshu also felt that this was a bit too much sycophancy, for fear that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would be a pit man who was overjoyed, so he put forward the so-called theory of heaven and man induction, thinking that the disasters in the world were all warnings given by God, or that the emperor had done something wrong, so God punished him.

What kind of person is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, I can hear the sound of this product at once-this guy intends to limit the imperial power.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty turned his face in an instant, threw the goods aside, and sat on a cold bench.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't fall for this, but he couldn't stand his descendants from falling for it. Until now, as long as there is any disaster, it must be that the emperor has done something wrong, and the ministers are not thinking about disaster relief, but playing the Son of Heaven, letting the Son of Heaven reflect, sacrificing to heaven and earth, and asking God to withdraw punishment or warning.

Originally, there were some small disasters and small difficulties, and the impact of dealing with them in time would not be too great, but these officials and the emperor pulled back and forth, and the small disasters turned into big disasters.

What's even funnier is that the common people are accustomed to this kind of thing, and even they feel that if there is a locust plague, it must be the emperor who has done something immoral, or God has condemned him, and he would rather kowtow in the field and beg God to take back the punishment than go down to the field to kill locusts.

Therefore, the locust plague has become more and more severe in recent years, half of which is natural disasters and half of which is man-made disasters.

Even if Zhang Xi has made a series of preparations to deal with the disaster, if the people do not cooperate, it will be in vain.

Really, when I was an official these years, I really didn't sit in the government and drink tea, and go to the backyard to tease my wife and concubine after work. It's annoying.

In addition, the local Peng Shi has been stationed in the locality, so that the middle-level officials at the county level, who are already overstretched, have a large vacancy, and at this time, Zhang Xi and Deng Ai have to provoke the workload of more than a dozen people, and they are reviewing documents every day until late and late.

By the way, there is also Li Qiu.

Li Qiu was excluded before, returned to Jiangling, complained a lot to Zhang Xi, and finally proposed to Zhang Xi to resign from his position as a county commander in Nanjun, hoping to lead troops in the army.

This upright Yizhou man really didn't want to play a game of intrigue with a group of subordinates, and felt that the military camp was more suitable for him.

People in the military are relatively straightforward.

As long as you can fight and get everyone to eat on time, then most people will be very obedient.

If you can still lead everyone to win the battle, or if you can bring everyone back alive, everyone will admire you very much.

And if you can still bring everyone to accept the reward and get the reward of the acres of money and grain, then everyone will support you very much.

This is not as simple as talking to the children of the family and guessing ten sentences in one sentence.

is also a native of Yizhou, Zhang Wei, the county Sima, is very good in the military camp, and Li Qiu also plans to find his own way out in the army.

Everyone said so, what can Zhang Xi say.

It just so happened that Xu Shu in Wuling County encountered a little trouble.

Last winter, it was not too cold, so the barbarians could still come out to move, and the prepared winter food was not enough, so the barbarians on the periphery of Wuling County invaded the county seat of Wuling County, burned and looted, and retreated to the mountains.

Xu Shu pondered, he had to take revenge and come back, and he happened to be short of generals at hand, so he asked Zhang Xi if there was a suitable candidate to recommend. Zhang Xi recommended Li Qiu to Wuling County to lead the troops.

As a result, Zhang Xi has even fewer people on hand.

After working overtime until late at night for several days, the master and apprentice could clearly feel that the circles on each other's faces were getting heavier and heavier.

It's not going to go on like this. Zhang Xi pondered, he had to dig up talents for himself.

On the one hand, it can be regarded as expanding its own power, and on the other hand, it is also to find some helpers for the sake of not needing such a tiring job.

That's it. Zhang Xi carefully took a look at the ten years he had traversed, and it seemed that he really hadn't met any super bulls.

After all, in this era, a little more decent talent has been carved up by the major forces, especially Cao Cao in the north, who is simply a frenzied hoarder of talents, and even talents like Cui Zhouping are not reused.

If this is changed to Jingzhou, Zhang Xi will have to give him the position of this Nanjun County, and when the time is right in a few years, it will be the local county guard.

(End of chapter)