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The so-called drought and locusts mean that the drought of Yan zhòng is often accompanied by the locust plague of Yan zhòng. (Please search for the fastest novel website!) This is because locusts are warm, dry insects, and an arid environment has many benefits for their reproduction, growth, and survival.

Locust plagues are not the same as droughts. The drought is solved as long as it rains and when the rain falls. But the locust plague is different, it has a habit of living in groups and has a strong fecundity. It is polyphagous and can eat many kinds of plants. It has a strong ability to fly and is difficult to control. The eggs are hidden deep underground, making them more difficult to destroy. Once the locusts are rampant, I am afraid that the whole of Henan will fall into a famine for several years that cannot be cured.

The locust plague is one of the more troublesome disasters for future generations, and it is even more tricky for the current Ming Dynasty.

However, when Zhu Houzhao asked Jiang Xia now why he knew that there would be a locust plague in Henan in the future, Jiang Xia was sluggish.

How should this question be answered? Could it be that in a dry year, when the water level drops, the soil becomes more solid, the water content decreases, and the ground vegetation is sparse, the number of eggs laid by locusts will increase greatly, sometimes up to four or five thousand eggs per square meter of soil, and each egg mass has nearly eighty or so eggs, that is, about 400,000 eggs per square meter?

With such a professional answer, I'm afraid that Zhu Houzhao will listen to it like listening to a book from heaven. Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao added: "Brother, can you pinch it to be regarded as a living immortal?"

This sentence came out of Zhu Houzhao's mouth not a joke, but a real question, and Jiang Xia also felt that there was a trace of excitement mixed in Zhu Houzhao's questioning tone. Obviously, Zhu Houzhao is a very superstitious person.

And it is true that Zhu Houzhao has been fond of religious supernaturals all his life, and is proficient in Buddhist scriptures and Sanskrit. He even once called himself "Daqing Dharma King Xijue Dao Yuanming Freedom Dading Abundant Buddha", which is enough to prove that Zhu Houzhao has no doubt about ghosts.

Jiang Xia looked at Zhu Houzhao, it was indeed too troublesome to explain the locust plague, so he nodded and said casually: "I really don't hide it from the second child, I passed on the art to strange people when my brother was young, and I know a little bit of divination and divination." Last night, I watched the sky at night, and now the comet fell to the land of Henan, and I had a realization in my heart. This time, you have to believe me no matter what, remind your uncle, and let him go to court to tell the emperor today, so that he can prepare in advance. ”

Zhu Houzhao saw that Jiang Xia was serious, and he immediately nodded. Immediately, Zhu Houzhao asked Jiang Xia a little nervously: "Big brother, are you very good at divination and hexagrams, can you deduce a person's past and future?"

Jiang Xia glanced at Zhu Houzhao and thought to himself that this guy was so superstitious, he didn't mean that he wanted me to tell him fortunes, right? Jiang Xia immediately shook his head and said: "It's really divination and hexagrams, which is a kind of chance, and the so-called heavenly secret cannot be revealed. It is difficult to get a heavenly opportunity, and if it is leaked out after obtaining a heavenly opportunity, it will be even more difficult. If you have been exposed to the number of arts, I believe you will not have heard of 'five disadvantages and three deficiencies, heaven and man and five decays', right?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, his face immediately nodded solemnly, and his eyes when he looked at Jiang Xia instantly became admiring. But at the same time, he was also secretly relieved in his heart, if Jiang Xia's divination technique was really so powerful, then I was afraid that his identity would be known to him sooner or later.

Before this breath was relieved, Zhu Houzhao remembered another important event, and his face was suddenly full of doubts again.

Locusts. In Zhu Houzhao's memory, when he was still young, there was a locust plague in Hebei. At that time, almost no particles of the land of Hebei remained, and all of them were devoured by locusts. The imperial court emptied the treasury for disaster relief but failed to see results, and finally Hebei exploded "The sun and moon are gone, and the Zhu family is about to die." "A stone tablet with 3,000 heads. To be specific, this matter is actually very simple, nothing more than the disaster in Hebei is severe, and the imperial court is unable to save the treasury.

The last Xiucai, who was a little talented, moved his mind, he dug a pit and buried a stone tablet, on which was written "The sun and the moon are dark, and the Zhu family will die". Then he asked a Taoist priest to point out the feng shui treasure land in order to dig a new well.

The Taoist priest had already received Xiucai's silver, so he ordered the place where the stone tablet was buried according to Xiucai's request. When the stele was dug up, everyone was stunned. The meaning of the stele is very simple and easy to understand, the sun and the moon together are the word "Ming", the sun and the moon have no light means that the Ming Dynasty has no future, as for the back four Zhu family will die, it is a person who can read and write to understand what it means.

So everyone said that Emperor Hongzhi was incompetent and should obey the will of heaven to overthrow the Zhu dynasty. In this way, a rebellion broke out in Hebei. After Zhu Youzhu learned of this, he immediately sent a large army to encircle and suppress it, and finally caught the culprit of spreading rumors, and implicated many people to punish his nine clans. In this case, a total of more than 3,000 people were killed, which prevented a large-scale rebellion in Hebei.

Zhu Houzhao can't remember the beginning and end of this incident very clearly, but he still remembers the scene when the locust plague made his father unable to sleep and eat for several months. Zhu Houzhao saluted Jiang Xia with his fists and said, "Big brother, I will definitely tell my uncle about this." If there is a locust plague afterwards, and we can successfully prevent it, then I thank you on behalf of the people of Henan. ”

"Smack!" Jiang Xia patted Zhu Houzhao's head.

This shot almost didn't scare Zhang Yong and Liu Jin to death, and subconsciously both of them clenched their fists, ready to subdue Jiang Xia when Zhu Houzhao showed anger.

Who knew that Zhu Houzhao didn't show any signs of anger, he just covered his head and said with an aggrieved face: "Big brother, why are you beating people?"

Jiang Xia glanced at Zhu Houzhao and said, "Who are you beating?" I first helped your uncle solve the problem of disaster relief money, and now I have reminded him about the locust plague. If these two things are done well, how can you say that it will be a great achievement? You will be ready to forget it if you say thank you? No matter how you say it, you will have to take a few tens of thousands of taels of silver to thank you, right?"

"Ah, didn't you say that we were blessed and shared with hardships when we bowed?" Why do you want to repay me for helping me?" Zhu Houzhao said while still covering his head.

Jiang Xia rolled his eyes up and threw a pair of white eyes to Zhu Houzhao: "Haven't you heard that your brother is settling accounts? Haven't you heard that the eldest brother is like a father and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother? Don't you know what it means to put filial piety first? As your eldest brother, I am just like your father, so you have to give some silver to be filial." Besides, you don't know, your father and I, I'm wrong, your eldest brother and I haven't even married a daughter-in-law yet, so I can't save a little wife for myself?

"Stop!" Zhu Houzhao immediately stopped Jiang Xia from continuing, he raised his hands and said, "I'll give, I'll give, I'll give as much silver as I want." ”

"That's pretty much it. Jiang Xia spread his hand in front of Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Pay the deposit upfront. ”

In the past, Zhu Houzhao dispersed and liked to go to the leopard room in the early dynasty, but now that he has dispersed, the first place he came to was Xiaoyao Villa. In the past, Zhu Houzhao would inevitably stay in Xiaoyao Villa until the afternoon, and sometimes he even stayed in Xiaoyao Villa directly, and found two girls to wait by the way.

And today is different, just after noon, Zhu Houzhao left. When he left, he shook his head and said to himself: "You can't bring silver here in the future, and I didn't leave a penny of more than 10,000 taels of silver." A carved dragon jade jade pendant was also taken away by him, as well as the east pearl Alas"

In the backyard of Xiaoyao Villa, in Cui Niannu's room. Since Cui Rushuang needs to live in Xiaoyao Villa recently, she and Cui Niannu are separated, and each of them lives in a house. Jiang Xia, who had just knocked out a huge sum of money from Zhu Houzhao, sat in Cui Niannu's room and counted the treasure money in his hand, and Cui Niannu stood behind Jiang Xia and pressed his shoulders for him.

Jiang Xia Shenguang counted the thick stack of treasure money, and after counting, he directly divided half of it and handed it to Cui Niannu: "Niannu, these are yours." ”

Nian Nu was stunned for a moment and then shook his head: "Brother Jiang, I don't want it." ”

"Why?" Jiang Xia was puzzled, he had also given silver to Cui Niannu before, and Cui Niannu had followed.

Cui Niannu said: "My father's body has improved a lot after some days of recuperation, and he has found a private school to be a teacher, so now I am not short of silver flowers." ”

"Take it if you don't lack it, be prepared. Or if you like gold and silver jewelry, you can buy it yourself. ”

"Anyway, I just don't. Cui Niannu said stubbornly.

Jiang Xia thought about it and nodded slightly, "Okay, then I won't force you." Jiang Xia put the treasure money in his arms, smelling the virgin fragrance emanating from Cui Niannu's body in his nostrils, he couldn't help but move in his heart and took Cui Niannu's hand and asked her to turn to him.

Jiang Xia suddenly held Cui Niannu in his arms, his eyes staring at her face tightly.

Cui Niannu's beautiful face was full of shame, she didn't dare to look at Jiang Xia, but she didn't object to Jiang Xia doing anything to her.

This flower has been by his side for a long time, and he was almost interrupted by someone to pick it several times before, Jiang Xia felt that he couldn't wait any longer, and he had to fold this delicate flower and put it in his pocket today.

Jiang Xia bowed his head

"Niannu, today is your birthday, how do you want to celebrate?"

A pleasant voice came from outside the door, and this sound was like a spell to Jiang Xia. Jiang Xia had the urge to cry, and he muttered to himself, "Cui Rushuang, you are so bad." ”

Hearing Cui Rushuang's voice, Cui Niannu hurriedly broke free from Jiang Xia's arms. She glanced at Jiang Xia apologetically, then leaned over and said in Jiang Xia's ear, "Brother Jiang, don't worry, Nian Nu will come to you by himself tonight." ”

Jiang Xia's frustrated expression suddenly perked up, and after he coughed dryly twice, he forced himself to defend himself: "Nian Nu, you think too much, your Brother Jiang is actually a very pure person. ”

Cui Niannu smiled: "I know, Brother Jiang is very pure. ”

When he said the three words very pure, Cui Niannu glanced at the "small tent" under Jiang Xia's body, intentionally or unintentionally.

Jiang Xia suddenly felt like she was going to blush, and muttered in her heart: "This girl has learned badly." ”

ps: I'm sorry everyone, yesterday Tiger's company held a sports meeting, and Tiger was the host, so I haven't been able to pull out. Update Tiger will be added, I'm sorry everyone.