Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 406 There is no locust god, even ready to make it a pile of shit! !
After Li Mu gave some orders, he asked the officials of the household department under him to urge the people to act according to their own plans.

The control of locusts is divided into three steps. First, the first step is to cull the adult locusts.

Otherwise, these adults will continuously lay eggs, so no matter how you kill them, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of eradicating locusts.

After killing the adult locusts, it is time to deal with the locust larvae lying on the leaves and poles of the crops.

Dealing with these locust larvae is somewhat technical.It is necessary to kill these locust larvae without harming the crops.

Now that the locust plague has been discovered early, the locusts are not serious about gnawing on the crops.If it is properly managed now, the crops in this Niujia Village can only be regarded as a decrease in production, not a complete harvest.

If it is only to reduce production, the government will open warehouses to release some grain, and the people's lives can go on, and it will not cause any major turmoil in the Shandong border.

However, it would be different if the harvest was cut off. Once the harvest was cut off, even if the imperial court dispatched grain, it would cause great turmoil among the people.

To the common people, production reduction and crop failure are two completely different concepts.

There are no such things as pesticides in this era, but there are many Chinese herbal medicines that kill insects. You only need to use common insect repellent herbs such as Lei Gongteng, peach leaves, mulberry leaves, saponin leaves, mugwort leaves, etc., boil them in boiling water, and then dry them Spray it on the crops, so that it can kill the locust larvae lying on the crops.

The last step in controlling locusts is to sprinkle plant ash on the field, which can effectively kill the locust eggs in the field.

In fact, whether it is locust eggs without adults or locust larvae, they are very fragile and easy to deal with.

The biggest reason why locusts can cause disasters is because locusts have too strong reproductive ability.

As long as the adult locusts are not extinct in a short period of time, they can spread in a bacterial style in a very short period of time.

Li Mu wrote on paper the various Chinese herbal medicines needed to eliminate locust larvae. These are some easy-to-obtain and inexpensive Chinese herbal medicines.

"Come here, go prepare the things on the paper, the more the better!" Li Mu called an official from the household department and ordered.

This time the locust extermination was mainly done by Li Mu, and these household officials had to obey Li Mu's orders. Of course, they also wanted to learn from the locust extermination experience.

If we follow the previous experience of the household department in exterminating locusts, it is to sacrifice to heaven every time we go to a place.If you can get a heavy rain by chance, let the rain wash down the larvae on the crops, and then drown the eggs in the ground.

If the rain was particularly heavy, the adult locusts would naturally not be able to hold it back. In this way, the plague of locusts would be resolved.

However, if it did not happen to rain, the officials of the household department would have nothing to do.We can only report the local disaster situation truthfully, and then wait for the court to transfer food and grass to relieve the victims.

All in all, in the past, this household department resisted the locust plague either by resigning itself to fate, or by letting nature take its course.

Now, since Li Mu has come to control the locusts, he will naturally not use this kind of place of ghosts and gods, but use science to control the locusts.

In fact, this locust plague is also largely caused by drought. Once a severe drought occurs, locust plagues will inevitably follow.

Locusts like drought and not water, which is why heavy rain can kill locusts.

"Da da da."

At this time, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and the household officials who had just been sent to the fields to urge the people to dig pits and collect firewood came back.

"General, these people are unwilling to burn the locusts. They say this is the locust god, and they will blame the heavens for burning them." The officials of the household department reported the truth.

After the officials of the household department had to leave just now, they went to the field to share what Li Mu had said with the common people, and asked them to prepare for work.

But it never occurred to them that the heads of these people were shaking like rattles, and they were unwilling to burn the locusts. They said that these were locust gods, and if they were burned, the heavens would punish them even more.

These ignorant people would rather kowtow to the locusts in the fields than start to control the locusts.

"Idiots, really a group of idiots."

"Kowtow, can you still send the locust away?" Li Mu said angrily.

"Go, take me to have a look!" Li Mu ordered.

Li Mu quickly arrived at the field of Niujia Village in three steps at a time. At this time, the officials of the household department were still persuading the people.However, these people are also very stubborn, no matter how you persuade them, they will act as if they don't listen.

"Who said this is the God of Locusts, and if they are burned, they will be punished by heaven?" Li Mu scolded.

"Reporting to the General, everyone knows that these locusts cannot be killed, they cannot be killed! Let the locust gods eat enough, and they will naturally leave!" The people said in unison.

Hearing this, Li Mu was very happy.Let the locusts leave when they are full. If the locusts are full, you will all be hungry.

But the people are ignorant, and it is obviously unreasonable for you to reason with them. If you want to persuade them, you must lead by example.

"Go and prepare a big pot, and then prepare some butter."

"You guys, go and catch some locusts!" Li Mu told the household officials in front of him.

Although they didn't understand what the general was going to do, the officials of the household department still started to prepare according to Li Mu's instructions.

Not long after, the officials of the household department prepared the pot and butter.The household officials who went to catch the locusts also caught the locusts.

Li Mu wants to bring a pot of fried locusts on the field that can make the children next door cry, to prove that these locusts are not locust gods, they can only be a pile of shit.

The locust plagues in Chinese history were actually swarms of grasshoppers.Many people should have eaten roasted grasshoppers when they were young.

A single grasshopper is not poisonous, and it is a pure natural green food.However, swarms of locusts secrete a toxin called hydrocyanic acid to drive away natural enemies such as birds.

However, hydrocyanic acid is only a slightly toxic substance, which does not cause much harm to the human body.Even if a person eats all the locusts, the hydrocyanic acid ingested is nothing more than diarrhea.

Therefore, although swarms of locusts are poisonous, eating locusts will not cause any damage to the human body.

According to Chinese historical records, during the Tang Dynasty, when there was a famine, there were indeed examples of Li Shimin taking the lead in eating locusts.

The purpose of taking the lead in eating locusts is naturally to let the people understand that locusts are not gods, and there is no need to fear them.

(End of this chapter)