On this day, the people, as usual, got up at dawn.

It was originally a sunny day, but it became dark in an instant.

Outside the door, the roof crackled and banged.

"Is it raining? Why is it so loud? Is it hail?"

The people said, just looking at the black spots covering the sky and the sun on the top of their heads, and the next moment they were stunned.

The sky was not dark, but obscured by a dense mass of locusts.

Instead of rainfall, I heard the sound of dense locusts hitting the roof of the door panel.

Many, many locusts!

Having farmed for decades, he has never seen such a terrible scene.

The locusts that covered the sky and the sun, their bodies turned from green to gray, like messengers of hell, devouring the world like the end of the world, devouring crops, devouring leaves, devouring green things, and the willow trees at the door were originally green, but in the blink of an eye, they were pitted by the locusts, and only the bare branches were crumbling.

Some of the people, as if mad, ran into their fields and began to drive away the locusts.

In the middle of the field, many people were stupid, only to see that it was barren, and a few wheat stalks fell in front of his eyes, and the dense locusts swarmed up, and the wheat stalks disappeared in the blink of an eye. The endless wasteland was covered with hideous and terrible locusts, gone, nothing.

Yesterday, the dealer was almost ripe, but now there is nothing.

In some places, locusts are gnawing, and the people are waving big brooms to drive away the locusts, and some are lighting fires, burning locusts with fire, and how many crops can be saved.

............

"Come on, eat fried locusts!"

At the gate of Youzhou Cheng, some cauldrons were placed one after another, baskets of locusts were thrown in, and then fried out, Li Mu took the lead in tasting it, feeling that the taste was not very good.

The taste is not very good, but Li Mu still said: "The fried locusts taste really not good, but after all, it tastes much better than Guanyin soil and tree bark, come and taste it!"

Ji Xuewei frowned, but she still stepped forward to eat.

Hua Wuying also stepped forward to eat.

Other officials also moved forward one after another, eating.

But the people around him still hesitated.

"I'm coming!" a middle-aged man in a short shirt walked out, grabbed the locusts and ate them, and said while eating: "It tastes delicious, it tastes delicious, it is delicious." It's better than the fish tofu-flavored road. The villain Li Erhei, nothing is big, but he is bold, the adult just said that it is delicious, it must be delicious, can you still deceive us grass people...... Think too highly of yourself!"

"If a person is hungry, he will eat people, gnaw tree bark, and eat Guanyin soil, which is really nothing compared to eating locusts...... Can't you still poison locusts if you eat locusts?"

"Even if it's poisoned, it's a full ghost, not a starving ghost!"

"But locusts are messengers of the gods of heaven, and it is ominous ......to kill locusts," a common man said weakly.

Li Mu said with a smile: "The emperor is the Son of Heaven, what is the Son of Heaven? The Son of Heaven is the son of the Emperor of Heaven, and the gods are just the courtiers of the Emperor of Heaven, so there is a saying that the Son of Heaven is a god." You say, "Is the Son of Heaven great, or is the God great?"

"The Son of Heaven is great!"

One of the people shouted.

"That's right!" Li Mu said with a smile, "The emperor said that he wants to exterminate locusts...... We will also destroy locusts. Locust God, in front of the Son of Heaven, it's not a fart!"

"Come and eat!"

Immediately, several more people came forward to eat the locusts.

Suddenly, hundreds of people stepped forward to eat locusts, and the taste was really good.

Li Mu is very satisfied, please ask for a few helps, or the acting skills are good.

There is an example in the front, and the people in the back also follow and eat locusts, and the people have a herd mentality.

The first step is initial success.

But in the face of overwhelming locusts, it is not enough to eat alone, even if everyone in Youzhou eats, they can't eat it in a short time. What's more, there are still a few who are willing to eat people.

"This locust is a rare delicacy, and it would be a pity if people don't eat it. Ben Hou encouraged the people to catch locusts, no matter what method you use, if you catch a hundred catties of locusts, you can exchange them for a catty of food from this official. It's easy to catch locusts!" Li Mu said deliberately.

Immediately, a catcher stepped forward, took a huge net, and waved it at the sky.

A moment later, the net pocket was already densely packed with locusts.

Li Mu took the net pocket and motioned to the people to look at this, "You all see, it's so easy, there are at least five catties of locusts in this net pocket." It's easy to catch locusts!"

Suddenly, under the call, the people began to hunt for locusts.

This scene happened at the gates of various prefectures and counties at the same time, and the whole people fought against locusts.

There are locust extermination scenes everywhere, but there are locust gnawing scenes.

The battle between humans and locusts begins.

But there are too many locusts, billions, tens of billions, or even more, but there are too few human beings, and they are scattered everywhere, trying to exterminate locusts, but they are still too slow, but they can't keep up with the speed of locust gnawing.

But it's just a good thing to say.

Relying on the whole people to eat locusts and catch locusts by the whole people is only to reduce the harm, but not to really eliminate the locusts, but only to reduce the losses.

Locusts are terrible, but the harm caused by locusts is also a great fear.

With the arrival of locusts, hundreds of people began to rush to the major grain stores to buy food. However, when the people arrived at the grain store, they found that all the major grain stores were closed.

Are the people really short of food?

Not necessarily!

In this era, many people generally lack a sense of security and have the habit of storing food at home.

There is surplus food in the house.

Except for a few poor people who can't solve the pot, most of them have surplus food.

Now the so-called rush to buy is just a sign of fear.

Li Mu immediately issued an order, the purchase of grain was restricted, and it was received according to the household registration, and the food stamp policy was adopted.

The purchase of grain is restricted, and only grain can be purchased near the official warehouse according to the household registration certificate, and the grain is limited to once every three days.

The grain stamp policy is also to restrict grain buying and selling and crack down on speculation.

However, it is still not enough, and various grain stores still have to open.

............

In the government, the bosses of the major grain banks were gathered, and the owners of the grain banks showed excited smiles on their faces, and their eyes inadvertently showed contempt.

Feng Shui takes turns, and it's finally time to ask us at the government.

"Youzhou Zhizhou, Wushuang Hou has arrived!"

With the arrival of Li Mu, other officials arrived one after another, and Fang Cai, who was still talking about the grain merchants, suddenly became quiet.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of inviting you here today, everyone obviously guessed it. ”

An official said.

"The locust plague is imminent, the court is short of food, and the official food of the court alone is unable to help the people. I hope that everyone will work together with us to do a good job in helping the people. Thank you very much. ”

"Where, where to open a warehouse and release grain, we have an unshirkable responsibility. It's just that we don't have much food in our hands, and there is a lot of loss of grain transported from other places, and the price will also be raised!" said a boss, "When the time comes, the price of grain will inevitably rise, and the adults don't want to say that we will wait, and we will speculate and raise prices!"

PS: The third update has arrived!