Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1865 Insect Pests
The weather is hot, but in such hot weather, it is difficult for many farmers to enjoy the cool and rest at home.

Many people got up and went to work in the fields as soon as it was dawn.

At this time, cotton and soybeans have grown, and many of them are waist-high.

However, these bookmakers are no better than wheat.

After the wheat is planted, weeding and fertilization are almost the same, and other things are waiting for the harvest. Basically, there are not many busy farming seasons.

But these two crops are relatively more troublesome.

In addition to weeding and fertilizing, pest control is also required.

There are insects in cotton, and there are insects in soybeans, and the matter of insect removal is almost uninterrupted from beginning to end.

If anyone's crops are not dewormed, then this year's harvest will be mediocre, and the leaves of cotton and soybeans will be eaten by insects. If the insects in these crops are not contained, they will be as crazy as The locust plague, of course, their destruction speed is slower than the locust plague, but it is still not a big problem to destroy all the crops.

Lao Wang is just a very ordinary farmer outside Chang'an City. In the past few years, life was hard, and his family didn't have much land, so he has always been a tenant and helped some people grow crops.

In the past two years, the imperial court has treated their people a lot better, and allocated a lot of land to these ordinary people. In this case, Lao Wang’s family also has more than ten acres of land. Have eaten it for a year.

And when the farming is busy, he will also go out to help other landlords and dignitaries clean up the fields, so that he can get a little money, which makes life much easier.

This morning, Lao Wang hurriedly came to his field to inspect it. This is Lao Wang's habit. Normally, he would come from his home field to inspect twice a day, once in the morning and once at dusk.

And he mainly looked at the growth of the crops, whether there were insects, whether there was a drought, and of course, whether he was slapped by others.

Normally, none of this happens.

But this morning, as soon as he arrived at the field, he found a few caterpillars crawling on his cotton. A few caterpillars were nothing, so he strangled them to death.

However, when he checked inside, he found that there were also many caterpillars inside. Almost every cotton plant had caterpillars. These caterpillars were not very big, and it was difficult to find them hidden in the leaves.

However, you can basically find them if you see insect-bitten leaves.

At the beginning, Lao Wang didn't panic and just caught the worms in his own field. But when he caught the worms like this, the sun came out and the whole field was very hot. Wang was sweating profusely from the heat, he looked up at the sun, and almost collapsed.

However, there are still many bugs that have not been removed.

Old Wang wiped his sweat, feeling a little puzzled.

"Why are there so many bugs today? It's really strange. I've been working for a long time, and I caught quite a few, but why do I feel that there are still many?"

He hesitated, tangled up, in this situation, should he continue to arrest, or go home first?

It was too hot, and Lao Wang made a decision after wiping off his sweat again.

Come back home.

In the fields, there are some people who can't stand the scorching heat at this time, and they go home one after another. They basically know each other. When they go home, they naturally have to chat.

"Hey, I don't know what's going on in my field today. There are a lot of bugs. I've been busy for a long time and killed a lot of them, but it's obviously useless. It's really weird."

"There are also a lot of insects in your field. What a coincidence, mine is the same. I don't know why."

"Hey, I have to catch bugs in the afternoon, otherwise they will eat all the crops, and there will be no good harvest this year."

"Who says no, I have to come in the afternoon, this bug, damn it..."

A group of people chatted like this. Although they felt that there were a lot of pests and they were a little hateful, but at this time they didn't feel how serious the matter was.

It's just that when they came in the afternoon, they found that there were more bugs, and there were bugs in the place they had just scratched in the morning. It seemed that the bugs could not be caught, and they collapsed a little.

There are so many bugs, endless, how to kill them all?

These people don't have much crops, only about ten acres of land. It's okay to say how much. After all, the whole family can kill a lot of bugs by mobilizing and killing. This can ensure their crops can be harvested more or less.

But for those wealthy businessmen and dignitaries, the situation is a bit more serious.

Wealthy businessmen and dignitaries own a lot of land, all of which are thousands of acres. If there are worms in such a lot of land, how easy is it to catch them?
How many people do they need to send to catch it?

And with so many people entering the field at once, will the crops be destroyed?

If these pests are allowed to continue to grow, the loss to them will be immeasurable.

For a while, people in Chang'an City were in panic.

And this matter quickly spread to the court.

Today's Tang Dynasty emphasizes agriculture, so if there is anything about the peasants, it will soon be passed on to the imperial court.

This morning, an official stood up and told about this matter. After the official said this, other officials in the court also started talking about it.

There is no way for them, whose family does not have thousands of acres of fertile land, and now that pests are rampant, they are also troubled by them. They send people to the fields to catch insects almost every day, but there are more insects than people, so kill them Endless, it is a headache.

"Your Majesty, agriculture is related to the stability of our Great Tang. Now that pests are raging, we must find a way to get rid of these pests as soon as possible, otherwise it will become a disaster for our Great Tang."

"That's right, that's right, the pests are raging, if you don't get rid of me, Datang will suffer heavy losses."

"........."

This matter is related to the interests of them, and they don't have a particularly good solution, so they can only hope that the court can come up with some good solutions.

Seeing this situation, Li Shimin was also a little worried. He felt that what these officials said was reasonable. If the pests were not eliminated, the crops would not grow, and if the crops did not grow, they would have no harvest.

If the people have no harvest, the Tang Dynasty may become unstable.

He nodded, and said: "The worries of all my loves are very important. I don't know, my loves, who has a way to get rid of these pests, so that I can do my part for the people of Tang Dynasty?"

After asking this question, the officials looked at each other, but no one stood up and said a word.

They pinned their hopes on the court because they had nothing to do. Now the court has nothing to do. Can they have it?
(End of this chapter)