Through Pei Yuxing's answer, Zhong Shuyu quickly understood several methods of controlling locusts in this era.

One is the simplest capture and fluttering, which is to use insect trapping nets to catch locusts, but this kind of manual capture can only kill a small number of locusts, and cannot eliminate locusts on a large scale.

So digging ditches and burying them, burning locusts, driving away locusts by color and sound, and even digging up insect eggs in winter.

But despite all these methods, it is good to encounter a small locust plague, but once faced with a huge number of large locust plagues, it is still like a mantis arm as a car, and it is impossible to stop the locust army from wreaking havoc.

Unable to stop the army of locusts, the result was naturally that the crops and grain in many places were wiped out. wap❃.fengs✥hug✭❋f✭o

And without food, there will be a large number of displaced people because of famine.

The first month or two was fine, after all, there was grain in stock, plus the ancient people also ate locusts, yes, the ancient people also ate locusts, not that they didn't know how to eat locusts.

And this method was not proposed by the emperor of the previous dynasty.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong personally ate locusts because of the locust plague.

With the emperor's personal example, he regarded locusts as locust gods and did not dare to hunt and kill the people, so he naturally began to hunt and eat them in large quantities, after all, eating locusts is better than tree bark.

Eating this method, together with other methods of controlling locusts, is indeed extremely effective for small locust plagues.

But how much can you eat in a plague of locusts?

At the same time, when the locust plague is over, where do you still have locusts to fill your belly?

At this time, there were no locusts to eat, there was no grain to store, and it was impossible to grow grain and produce grain in winter, so famine naturally came.

It can be said that the great locust plague, since ancient times, no Son of Heaven wants to see, after all, there are displaced refugees means that riots and uprisings may break out, so Emperor Yongsheng understood that the locust plague was so huge this time, and directly sent a few princes out to deal with locusts and provide disaster relief.

After Zhong Shuyu understood this, he frowned and thought for a while.

She doesn't know about modern locust control methods, but no matter how she thinks about it, pesticides are indispensable to kill insects, which is definitely more effective than catching them.

Most of these pesticides are chemical reagents that contain a lot of toxic substances.

If she was given time to experiment slowly, she might be able to figure it out to be effective in killing locusts.

But the locust plague had already occurred, and with such a tight time crunch, she could not guarantee that she would be able to produce insecticidal pesticides.

And things that cannot be guaranteed, Zhong Shuyu will not easily boast about Haikou.

Therefore, she just made three possible plans to Pei Yu.

The first is the concept of killing locusts with poison or poisonous substances.

The second is to mobilize people in the direction of the locusts' advance and harvest all the crops, so that once there is no food, the large locust army will not be able to travel long distances.

The third is to use poultry or birds to help eat the locusts.

Of course, the third Zhong Shuyu didn't have much of an idea, just said so.

Because there is no such thing as a specialized breeding industry, and instead of a large number of poultry, it will not play a role in the face of the army of locusts.

As soon as these three plans were said, Pei Yuxing's eyes lit up.

Because as soon as he heard it, he knew it was possible.

After that, the two discussed the disaster relief method for a while.

Zhong Shuyu is very concerned about this matter, and basically said everything he can think of that can be saved, no matter what, it is good to let the people lose a little less and a few fewer homeless people.

Because all along, all she thought about was the country getting stronger.

So naturally I don't want to see countless people displaced because of the locust plague.