First waterlogging and then drought?" grabbed a handful of soil, crushed it, and looked at it carefully, Su Ziji sighed secretly.

As expected, it was only May, the sun was so scorching, and it had never rained in the territory of Shun'an Province along the way, so the weather continued, and I am afraid that it would usher in a major drought again.

He stared at the ground again, and saw that there was a farm tool next to him, and he took it in his hand, so he turned over the soil in the field, and found that there were countless small holes in the ground like a beehive.

This feeling of layering and dense is really instinctively disgusting, but in order to look more carefully, he had to endure this uncomfortable feeling and continue to turn over the ground.

"This is all the stuff in this field!" There were so many locust eggs hidden under the land, which really surprised Su Ziji, who had been mentally prepared.

"Nonsense!" At this moment, a man's scolding sounded not far behind him, and Su Ziji came back to his senses, but he didn't immediately look at who it was, but just listened.

"Do you know what this is? You don't even know this, how did you become an official, and who did you become an official? Staying in the yamen every day, only knowing how to drink tea and read books, what do you call it?

"If you can get by like this, you don't have to stay in the yamen, you have to pretend to be tired, are you tired?

Listening to the voice, it seemed to be a middle-aged man, and he was still an official, Su Ziji got up and turned around to look, and saw that he was not far away, and it should have been when he was looking at the soil just now, and a group of people came after him.

The surrounding circle is obviously full of local officials, all wearing official uniforms, looking at the style, they should all look like six, seven or eight grades.

But whether it is the sixth grade or the eighth grade, these grades are all trained by one person at this moment to be unable to raise their heads, and they are the same disgraced.

Until someone moved, the figure of the speaker who had been blocked before was revealed, and Su Ziji saw it from a distance of more than ten meters.

I have to say that as soon as this person appeared, Su Ziji was surprised again.

But unlike the horror when you see that the ground seems to be full of locust eggs, when you see this person, there are some mixed tastes.

His gaze fell on his obviously dark and thin face, which was obviously sunburned, which was really in stark contrast to the officials.

Not to mention, the man who was surrounded in the middle, about fifty years old, his robe was pinned up to his belt, and his trouser legs were pulled high, matching his complexion, looking more like an elderly farmer than an official.

Then this man broke a piece of soil with his hand, pointed it, and showed it to the people around him: "These are locust eggs! You have all seen it, there are countless locust eggs all over the ground!"

"It doesn't matter now, it won't be long before they hatch again and eat all the crops they have replanted!"

"What? What are you doing in a daze? Now that you know what this is, why don't you send someone to put it out quickly?"

He glared angrily at one of the officials: "Once there is a locust plague in this Wu'an County, it will be a dereliction of duty on your part as a county commander!"

The county magistrate of Wu'an County is in his thirties, slightly chubby, and because he looks white enough, he is considered a white fat man, and he is angry in public by this black and thin boss at the moment, and he has something to say in his heart.

He replied aggrievedly: "My lord, it's not that the lower officials are not dedicated, it's really no one in the county!"

"The manpower that can be mobilized has been organized to repair the water conservancy, and Wu'an County is next to the river, and when it was flooded before, it suffered a lot of losses......

probably knows that if you don't tell the bitterness, this adult will finish spraying the county order of Wu'an County, and it will be someone else's turn.

Another official also acclaimed: "What Lord Liu said is true, my lord, almost all parts of Shun'an Mansion have been affected by disasters before, and water conservancy is being repaired everywhere, and the manpower is really unavailable!"

"Besides, the school is leaking rain, and it is also being repaired......"

"Then remove the people from the school first!" The thin black man didn't wait for the official to finish speaking, and immediately frowned: "All the people will be arranged in the farmland of each county first, and the locust eggs will be removed first!"

The previous official smiled bitterly: "My lord, aren't you embarrassed for me to wait? Even if all the people in the government are withdrawn, it is only a few hundred, looking at a lot, what can you do when you spread it out to one house?"

"Besides, if you want to organize migrant workers to work, you have to delay the farming, and now that March and April have passed, because of the waterlogging, the replanting of replanting, the preparation of preparation, and then transferring people to do something else, where can they be willing?"

"Yes, my lord, it is time to start farming, and you must not plant crops. The official echoed the words.

Another official stepped forward and said sincerely: "Moreover, even if you requisition and distribute manpower, you must have money and food to get things done, that is, you will not be paid, and you will always be given two bowls ......of rice every day, right?"

The latter words, the official did not continue, but the officials around him, including the thin black man who was still wrinkling his eyebrows before, knew what it was.

It's true that a penny is hard to beat a hero.

At present, Shun'an Mansion not only has no money, but also has a deficit of 700,000 taels of silver.

If such a large deficit is not solved, the money will be collected, and it will basically be smashed into the black hole, and the slightest sound will not be heard.

The black and thin middle-aged man swallowed helplessly, and was silent for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "I will ask the province for help, you don't have to worry about it." ”

"What you have to do is to exterminate the locusts as soon as possible, this is not a trivial matter, once the momentum rises, it will be terrible. ”

But the extermination of locusts is not only a problem of manpower, but also a problem caused by the fear of locusts themselves since ancient times.

Not to mention ordinary people, even officials who are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics and have passed the imperial examination, there are also some people who look embarrassed.

One of them hesitated even more, and asked directly: "My lord, but this locust is not an ordinary insect, if there are too many locusts, will it ......?"

Under the staring eye of the thin black man, he said the following words hard: "Will it hurt the sum of heaven and earth?"

The black and thin man was obviously furious, Su Ziji was more than ten meters away, and he could see the man's forehead with green tendons.

But in the end, when everyone else showed their approval, he finally suppressed his anger and only said coldly: "If you are guilty, the old man will bear it alone! The order is from me, and it has nothing to do with you and others!"

After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and left directly, not wanting to talk to these people anymore.

Striding over the meteor, he saw a young man looking at him from the side, although he was angry, just glanced at it, and secretly praised in his heart: "What a beautiful boy!"

Don't look at him himself because he ran around and got a tan, but it's still the same sentence, most civil officials from the imperial examination have requirements for temperament and appearance, but the degree is different.

Even this is the law of the imperial court, there is a special requirement that "the official body should be dignified", Su Ziji's appearance is excellent, especially at the moment when he is not dressed extravagantly and high-profile, and he has looked at the land before, as a scholar, he can do this kind of thing, so he won the favor first, and when he approached at this moment, he naturally became more eye-catching.

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