Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1227 Jing Locust Division

In Luoyang city.

Since the moment health-preserving powder appeared, it has been sought after by the whole people.

Up to the royal family, then to the public officials, down to the traffickers and pawns, it seems that whoever does not talk about this or drink it will be left behind. This craze initiated by the sage and the king of medicine quickly swept the entire Luoyang, and even spread to the surrounding area at an extremely fast speed. Spread the word.

If you are visiting relatives and friends, you will be ashamed to come to your door if you don’t mention a pack or two of health-preserving powder.

Actually, like Wei Zheng and other prime ministers, there are some people who know that this health-preserving powder is not as powerful as they boasted, but no one jumped out to accuse it of being fake, because everyone knows about health-preserving powder, especially the ones bought by ordinary people. powder, and the rest is made of locust eggs and miscellaneous grains. This stuff is not only harmless, but also has health benefits, not to mention that it has something to do with locust control behind it.

The sales of health-preserving drugs are increasing day by day, and the supply is completely in short supply.

The Ministry of the Interior cooperated with the Shangshi Bureau of Dianzhong Province to set up a health care workshop, and the products made were sold in Huimin drugstores in various places. In places where no Huimin drugstores were established, another health care workshop was built for sale.

The more than 60 stone locust eggs dug up for the first time in various provinces were originally intended to be fed to chickens and ducks, but now most of them are sent to various health workshops for production and processing, and the supply is still in short supply.

Afterwards, millions of stones were dug up, all of which were taken away by the health workshop.

"Your Majesty, jumping beetles have already appeared in this place."

The Huangcheng Division closely monitored the locust plagues in various places. The imperial court, led by the Huangcheng Division, set up a temporary yamen for locust control and disaster relief, the Jinglocust Division.

Elite and capable officials were dispatched from various yamen, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Sinong Temple, Jinyiwei, Huangcheng Division, etc. All information about locusts will be collected here as soon as possible, and then checked and processed here as soon as possible.

The time has come to the end of February, and it will be March soon.

Although good results were achieved in the first stage of digging locust eggs and in the second stage of plowing locust eggs, it is impossible to dig up all the locust eggs.

It’s just that a lot of locust eggs have been dug in places where the eggs are most dense, such as river beaches, lake beaches, etc., and some grasslands have been burned and plowed, and many people have died.

But under the long drought, there are locust eggs everywhere, especially in the past winter when there was no snow in many places, which caused a large number of locust eggs that would freeze to death every year to be fine.

As the weather got hotter, the locust eggs finally hatched.

Now the emperor doesn't even pay attention to the imperial examinations in Luoyang City. He is all focused on the locusts. Hearing that locusts have begun to hatch in many places, he can't help but have a solemn expression.

"The time has come to really test us. The battle against locusts has entered a new stage. Governments in all regions should pay close attention to the local locust situation. Counties, counties, townships, and villages must be in place at all levels. All county soldiers and militias will go to the countryside to inspect. We must quickly mobilize the people to exterminate them.”

The newly hatched hoppers have not yet become adults and cannot fly at this time. They need to go through five times of shedding, and then they will eventually become migratory locusts.

Before Luo Cheng organized the Jinglocust Division, he had started to collect many ancient records about locust plagues and locust control, and looked for ways to control locusts from them.

Some more effective methods have been summed up, bound into a guidebook for locust control, and distributed to all counties and counties, so that local officials can learn collectively.

"The shape and living habits of jumping gnats are similar to adults, but they are smaller, have legs and no wings, can jump but can't fly, and can't reproduce and lay eggs. This is also the best stage for us to kill locusts."

These jumping gnats also like to cluster. There is a part on their hind legs. If they are touched by the same kind, they will start to like to cluster. Locust swarms one after another.

"One catty of jumping beetle and two catties of millet! Exchange as much as you can!"

"Saint, jumping gnats are much bigger than locust eggs. Isn't it a bit much to exchange one catty for two catties, or how about two catties of jumping gnats for one catty of millet?" Feng Lishi advised the emperor.

Luo Cheng shook his head and said, "Because locusts are much bigger than eggs, I adjusted the exchange ratio, but if it drops too much, the people will be unhappy. Besides, one catty of locusts is exchanged for two catties of millet. I won’t suffer too much. Nowadays, the sales volume of health-preserving powder is booming. I can eat as many jumping locusts and migratory locusts. When I mix it with rice bran, wheat bran and taro powder, it can be sold for the price of rice. It’s impossible to lose.”

Health-preserving powder is essentially a kind of coarse grains, and its ingredients are very cheap coarse grains, such as rice bran, wheat bran and taro flour, etc., which are leftovers after grain processing and are for livestock, but now they are packaged and added After understanding the concept of health care, everyone has taken it as a panacea. It cures diseases, and maintains health when there is no disease. You can also add tea to make a tea drink, and if you drink it dry, you can also drink it as porridge.

The Jinglocust Division immediately issued an edict and passed it on to various channels.

One catty of jumping beetles is exchanged for two catties of millet.

As soon as this order came out, the people stopped digging locust eggs, and looked for jumping locusts everywhere. The places where the locust eggs were densely packed were dug up, and the rest were less dense and not so easy to dig. Can't dig much.

Now that this jump has come out, everyone's enthusiasm has risen again.

In Yanshi County, Li Gang, the county magistrate, once again appeared in the countryside. During this period, under his leadership, Yanshi County performed the best in digging locust eggs, ranking first in the number of counties in Henan Province.

He is also very active in catching jumping beetles now.

After all, tens of thousands of rock locust eggs were dug out last time in their county alone, and the royal family would bring truckloads of grain over every few days to exchange the truckload of locust eggs. Thinking that these locust eggs could have produced Li Gang felt a great sense of accomplishment after producing hundreds of millions of migratory locusts.

Now he doesn't have the time to think about what heaven and man are interested in, cultivating virtue and good governance. He has now agreed with what the emperor said, curing locusts to prevent locust plagues and famines is the greatest kindness and benevolence.

"It is necessary to publicize to the people that these jumping gnats cannot be buried with soil. They can come out to cause harm after burying them. Dig ditches more. During the day, beating gongs and drums to drive the locusts into the ditch, and then catch the locusts into the bucket. drowning."

"Xian Cheng, who would be willing to bury it? One catty of jumping gnats can be exchanged for two catties of millet. Although the jumping hoppers are not as big as migratory locusts, they are much bigger than locust eggs. If you catch more, you can exchange for more grain."

Dingjiatai Village.

The whole family of Ding Laosan started to mobilize again. Last time, the whole family dug locust eggs for more than a month, dug more than 100 catties, and replaced more than 500 catties of millet. The family was very happy.

This is equivalent to increasing the harvest of five or six mu of land in vain.

Now the jumping cockroach has come out, and the whole family is dispatched again.

"Bring all the sheets, and more buckets and nets." Ding Laosan confessed.

(End of this chapter)