Last year's locusts were like rushing to the field, gnawing one place and then flying to another, from south to north, giving the north a chance to breathe.

But this year's locusts, regardless of the difference between north and south, bloom everywhere.

The local locusts can take it, but all the green leaves will give you a fine light.

When the little locusts grow wings, they can continue to lay eggs and hatch the next generation, and the time it takes is only half a month.

In Mengxia, the temperature has risen suddenly, but the hearts of the farmers are like falling into an ice hole, and they are out of production.

Zhang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have already hatched thousands of chicks with a clay kang, and the chicks that are more than half a month old have been put into the wheat field of the daughter's house.

But this is more than 2,000 acres of crop land, and thousands of chickens and ducks are put in it, and there is not a single splash.

The palace was even more worried, and the court meeting discussed it several times, and there was nothing new at all.

Xia Hongdi called Heiwa from the construction site into the palace, in the past, this Zhiduoxing had the most ideas, but this time he didn't have a good idea.

In the room, the atmosphere was very stagnant, Heiwa thought for a long time, and said:

"Your Majesty, I don't know how much grain will be harvested this autumn.

But this winter, we can't let these locust eggs go any longer, the land has to be dug deep, and these locust eggs have to be turned out, either freezing to death, or feeding chickens and ducks!

Right now, you can save as much as you can, or let the doctors think of any potions that can kill these locusts?"

Xia Hongdi said angrily: "I have thought about this for a long time, but all the doctors can give are poisonous prescriptions, and the cost of killing locusts is not low, and besides, this crop is also poisonous, who dares to eat the grain that grows?"

Heiwa lowered his head, he is a person with a junior high school education, he can't get those chemical pesticides, and he hates less when the book is used!

"Hey, if only we had a few more, a big island like Yazhou Mansion, can these locusts still float across the sea?"

"Right now, the Yazhou Mansion hasn't reported it!" Xia Hongdi also sighed, there is a locust plague all over the country.

Heiwa desperately recalled that when he built a cement mill in Lingnan, it seemed that most of the farmland was only planted for one season, but the ancient double-cropping rice seemed to have a history of many years.

But this empty dynasty, it seems, as if, there is no relevant record!

After thinking about it, he put forward an idea: "Your Majesty, Lingnan and Yazhou Mansions have a hot climate, and I don't know if we can grow two crops of rice!"

Xia Hongdi is a young and strong emperor, his memory is quite good, he also tried to think for a while, there is indeed no relevant record, Lingnan and Yazhou have been prisoners of exile for more than a hundred years.

Although there is a lot of land, but the population is small, it is okay to cultivate in rotation, so how can farmers go to the trouble of planting a second crop.

"This? Not before! Can it be done in two seasons?" Xia Hongdi didn't have an idea about farming, and he wasn't sure if it was feasible.

"Your Majesty, then try it, at most you will lose some seeds, but if you can plant two seasons, you can also give more relief to the people!"

"That's right, I've called the Great Si Nong to discuss, and when this locust has passed, I'll plant another crop in these places!"

Heiwa agreed, this matter really has to be done by Si Nong, and the professional matter is handed over to the professional people.

"The old minister Wu Siweng has seen Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live!" Wu Siweng, an old man over sixty years old, knelt down to Xia Hongdi meticulously.

"Dasi Nong, please get up!" Xia Hongdi is quite kind to the old ministers, and he usually treats them harshly no matter how impatient he is.

"I came to you today for the sake of this locust plague, and I think there is no hope for this autumn harvest, but Zhong Qinbo has a good idea, I want to wait for the locust plague to be over and plant the second crop of rice in Lingnan and Yazhou Mansion, I want you to supervise this matter!"

Wu Siweng's eyes widened, and his voice was a little higher:

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, farming has been governed by nothing more than the law of the right time and the right time!

The foundation of all cultivation lies in the fun time, and the soil, the manure, the early hoeing, and the early harvest.

Spring thaw, the earth and air began to pass, and the soil was reconciled.

On the summer solstice, the weather begins to heat down, the yin qi begins to flourish, and the soil is restored.

Ninety days after the summer solstice, day and night, heaven and earth are harmonious.

Ploughing the field at this time, one and five, the name is called the anointment, and all of them have the merit!

On the contrary, if the spring is not passed, the soil is not suitable for the future, and it is not suitable for crops all year round...... Autumn without rain and ploughing, no soil, the soil is strong, the name is Latian, and the midwinter ploughing, the yin is discharged, the soil is dry, and the name is called the preserved field.

Both the preserved fields and the wax fields hurt the fields!"

Heiwa was confused when he heard it, although he didn't understand these words of dropping the book bag very well, and he was very upbeat, but it was not difficult to hear that this bad old man felt that it was out of place and was not happy to plant it.

"Dasinon, in your opinion, even if it is in accordance with the right time and place, there are locusts! All your efforts may come to nothing, and what can you do to solve the dilemma in front of you?"

"This, this, the time cannot be violated!"

"Dasi Nong, according to the weather, the farmers have nothing to harvest due to the insect plague, and the times have changed, and we are just doing an experiment in the limited land.

It's done, Si Nong, you have added a guarantee to the people's rice bowls, if not, it will only lose some rice seeds and spend some agricultural time."

"But, since ancient times, no one has done this, hurting the farmland but not coming out, who is it?"

Heiwa was about to be so angry with this old man that he was autistic, and he was not polite:

"If you want to say that, then it's better to change someone else to be Dasi Nong, anyway, you don't need to be responsible for it!

You don't want to take any responsibility? As the saying goes, in his position, seek his position, do his best, and take his responsibility!

If everyone finds good people to take care of everything before doing things, then what should the people who do it do? Will he be allowed to receive the salary, or will he be allowed to sit in the official position?"

"You, you, rude!" Wu Siweng has been a big farmer for so many years, and no one in the three generations of emperors has ever been so unkind to him, and now an uncle who has no real difference can point at him and scold him, and for a while, he almost lost his anger.

"I think Uncle Zhong Qinbo is reasonable, Da Si Nong, since you don't want to, then I will do it again!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the old minister has no such intention, no such intention!"

Wu Siweng hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, in order to keep the position of the great farmer, he could be regarded as conscientious for half his life. Can't just because he argued a few words with Zhong Qinbo, he gave off the official, his fifth concubine, and the son he gave birth to is not yet three years old!

Xia Hongdi didn't want to see this old man who was eating vegetarian food, so he let people pull him out, out of sight and out of mind.

Heiwa scratched her head: "Your Majesty, I didn't expect that this matter seems to be quite difficult!"

"Hmph, if he doesn't want to do it, I just change the person who is willing to do it, and if he doesn't even want to try, I don't expect him to do things well, you don't have to worry about it!"

After Heiwa left the palace, he went back to the house directly, Cuihua saw that he was in a bad mood, and personally cooked a few dishes that he loved to eat, and served them a meal with delicious and delicious drinks.

Before going to bed, Heiwa pulled Cuihua into the space and told Cuihua what happened today, and Cuihua was also anxious.

"Double cropping rice will definitely work, how many generations have we experimented with planting flowers!"

"Right now, the emperor asked the newly appointed Si Nong to supervise the planting, which should be able to alleviate the famine that may be caused by the present, daughter-in-law, I am watching that in our space, the grain warehouse is full, and there is no shortage of coarse grain, and my heart is panicked!"

Cuihua expressed her understanding, don't look at her The man doesn't read much, he was still an angry young man when he was young, and he is not used to seeing it on weekdays, and he is not used to it.

But when they traveled in Thailand that year, they met several Wanwan tourists who slandered the mainland in various ways. Her man sprayed it on the spot, and scolded those bays and wanwans to a disgraced face, something really happened, maybe the people who planted flowers have deep feelings for their family and country in their bones.

"But, can we take out these coarse grains for nothing?" Cuihua is also in a dilemma.

"This is where I am troubled, daughter-in-law, we can't leak this space, we are guilty, we are not two people now, such a big family."

"yes, it's just a matter of moving here

Implicate the Nine Clans!"

The couple sat on the field of the space and worried, this grain stubble by stubble, can be eaten by them is very limited! The warehouse is full again, so that the husband and wife are not very motivated to farm now.

Xia Hongdi is not the one who procrastinates, and the next day he let Wu Dasinong retire early, and quickly promoted a Si Nong official who was over forty years old, and gave him an order to supervise the planting of double-cropping rice.

Tu Shou, the newly appointed chief Si Nong, before leaving Beijing, also made a special trip to Zhongqinbo's mansion and consulted Zhongqinbo for a whole day on the issue of planting double-cropping rice.

Of course, Heiwa has turned over a lot of books, and she knows everything and says everything, Tu Sinong has taken more than a dozen pages of notes, and she and Zhongqinbo really see each other late!

In the two months of Mengxia and Midsummer, the Great Xia Dynasty was ambushed by locusts on all sides, gnawing a dark world, except for Yazhou Mansion, the rest of the prefects were guilty of guilt.

Of course, if you are guilty, you have to ask the court for relief, the grain in the official warehouse is not easy to put away, and even if the official warehouse is opened, it will not be able to withstand it for a few months.

The wheat, broad beans, chili peppers and konjac in Cuihua Zhuangzi were all rescued to no avail, and the entire army was officially declared annihilated.

The only harvest is that there are more than 5,000 chickens, ducks and geese that add up, all of which are like eating bulking agents, and they have been fattened to more than three catties at once.

The weather was hot, and Zhang's hatching kang was not easy to use, so it was temporarily stopped.

The two fathers sighed at the bare fertile land, if they didn't know that their family was not short of money and food, and changed to a pure landlord, this would have to fall directly.

Isn't it down, Sister Niu can't cry anymore, her more than 20 acres of rice fields, gnawed so much that only the piles below the water surface are left.

"Aunt, aunt, you can eat a little!" Niu Xi'er held the rice bowl and looked at her aunt who had been lying down for several days, she was so scared that she couldn't do it, their brother and sister really couldn't afford this family, and her aunt couldn't fall down.

"Aunt, don't worry, this locust plague is not only our family, the whole county has suffered, and the court will not ignore us."

Sister Niu looked at the roof in a daze: What if she is still in the Hu family? The sister-in-law's Zhuangzi is so big, it is impossible to ignore her mother's family, she doesn't have to speak, she will definitely be able to arrange it properly, but, the Hu family, she can't go back

She was right, Cuihua would be comforting the two old men:

"Dad, don't worry, we have enough food left in Zhuangzi every year, even if there is no harvest in five years, we can't starve our two families, you are all worried like this, so that the people in the village are still alive?"

Father Hu nodded: "That's right, I just thought that your village is big, and you have suffered heavy losses, although I know that there must be grain in stock, but your house has a lot of population, wow, this hard-earned planting, say no, it's gone!"

Old Yuan nodded: "We croppers, we are most afraid of this natural and man-made disaster, hey, if we are still in our hometown, maybe many people will flee the famine!"

Cuihua comforted: "Our Qingxian County is much better now, the tile workshop pays wages on time every month, the second brother can say, dozens of people in the upstream and downstream villages work in the tile workshop!"

The two old men breathed a sigh of relief, people, if there is a way to live, they will not leave their hometowns, and people will leave their hometowns!