I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 532, Anti-locust method

Xu Wei saw Jia Xu's worry, and said firmly: "Man will conquer nature. As long as the organization is strong, most of the disasters can be overcome. The land of Hebei has not been peaceful these years. Floods, droughts, and locust plagues broke out one after another. But we have a strong organization, and the people under our rule have survived these disasters safely.

In the period of Emperor Ling, the reason why the big man looked like the end of the world was that natural disasters were second, and the main reason was man-made disasters.It wasn't that Emperor Ling didn't want to revitalize the Han Dynasty. In the third year of Zhongping, the Yellow River flooded.That year, Emperor Ling took out 30 billion yuan from his Wanjintang to relieve the victims for the first time, but we all know that the money for disaster relief did not go to the victims at all, but was swallowed up by corrupt officials, and the people were still crying , eventually joined us and became a soldier of the rebel army. "

"I'm afraid that the Ling Emperor at that time was also quite desperate. It is impossible for the officials of the Great Han to complete such a thing as relief for millions of victims."

At the end of a dynasty, the organization is close to collapse, and there is no way to solve the various problems encountered by the dynasty. Just like Chongzhen in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, he wanted to expropriate 300 million Liaoxiang, but the people under him collected 3, 000 million, the common people in the world have no means of living, and they revolted one after another.

However, the 300 million Liaoxiang confiscated by Chongzhen with great difficulty were invested in the generals of Liaoxi. The real use was no more than 30 taels. Warlord group.

Although the wild boar skin is a slave society with a population of only a few hundred thousand, all the resources of the family are piled up on the war, and the efficiency is [-] to [-]%, which is dozens of times higher than the [-]% of the Ming Dynasty. Double, from this aspect, Chongzhen is not even as good as the resources mobilized by other people's wild boar skin.

So what appeared on the battlefield was that the army of the Ming Dynasty was defeated repeatedly, and even a savage tribe that had just stepped out of primitive society could not win.

The only thing Lingdi was luckier than Chongzhen was that the martial spirit left over from the Warring States period had not dissipated. This was because the great Han still had abundant martial virtues, and his military strength was sufficient to suppress all parties.

So there was such a strange phenomenon at the end of the Han Dynasty. The imperial court used money to relieve disasters. It may not be effective (swallowed by corrupt officials). This can be used in practice, of course, the consequences of doing so are endless, directly raising the warlord groups of all parties).

After listening to Xu Wei's words, Jia Xu agreed very much. Dahan encountered natural disasters, and Dagan also encountered them. Even the severity of the disaster surpassed that of Dahan back then. When it comes down to reality, there will be no millions of refugees and starving people everywhere in Dagan.

Compared with the big man who is about to decay, Dagan is full of vitality. Officials are brave enough to solve difficulties when they encounter difficulties. Many problems that are difficult to solve in the big man have been solved locally. comparable.

Xu Wei looked at the locusts and said: "Let the officials of all counties and counties in Hebei start buying locusts, and we must not let the plague of locusts expand again!"

At this time, the plague of locusts had spread to several states and counties around the Yellow River, and the poultry in Hebei alone could hardly eat up the locusts, let alone these, the locusts were poisonous after they matured, and many of them were inedible to poultry.

Now we can only mobilize people's subjective initiative. If tens of millions of people in Hebei start to catch locusts, the scale of this locust plague can definitely be brought under control.

Jia Xu looked at the locusts all over the sky and said, "If the government really wants to buy it at this price, I'm afraid that the people in the entire Central Plains will go to catch the locusts! This is more than a little money!"

The entire Central Plains is within the scope of the locust plague. Just looking at the densely packed locusts, no one is sure how many locusts there are in the whole world. If money is really used to buy locusts, it may cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. money.

Xu Wei said nonchalantly, "If I spend 10 billion yuan to quell this locust plague, it will be a big profit for me to pay this [-] billion yuan! And these dried locusts can also be made into feed. Feed is not good. It can also be made into fertilizer, which really doesn't cost much!

As long as we take action, there are more solutions than difficulties. It is better than watching these locusts continue to expand like this. You must know that if you don’t wipe out the locusts this year, there may be another locust plague in the Central Plains next year. At that time, our losses will be even greater. Now We spend money to buy locusts, which is to eradicate the grasshoppers! "

Jia Xu suddenly remembered that the biggest difference between him in power and the emperor of the Han Dynasty was his unprecedented wealth. Many things that were difficult to solve in the Han Dynasty were nothing to the ruler, and they could be solved with a little money!It can be said that whether it is for an individual or a regime, having money can solve most things!
Moreover, the organizational strength of the Dagan imperial court was dozens of times greater than that of the Dahan. Things like buying locusts were simply impossible.

Then Xu Wei continued: "Let the Department of Agriculture send experts to the Central Plains to instruct the local people to use kang incubation technology to increase the number of chickens, ducks and geese in the Central Plains. To use poultry to destroy these locusts and locust eggs, we must not let these locusts Continue to erupt in the Central Plains!"

Then Xu Wei scolded himself and said: "The glass is all out, but I forgot to get a mercury thermometer. If I got it out earlier, the number of poultry in the big dry could be increased by dozens of times. With these locusts' killers, this locust plague It’s impossible to expand to what it is now!”

The kang incubation technology has been in Dagan for several years, and it was even used in Jizhou to deal with locust plagues a few years ago.

But this technology has not been popularized, because there is no qualified thermometer, only experienced technicians can really master the technology of hatching poultry on the kang, and ordinary people can't master the suitable temperature without practicing dozens of times. Shen eggs are rotten.

In this era, even in Daqian, eggs and duck eggs are precious food, and few people are willing to waste them. Training technicians, but even now there are only hundreds of qualified technicians in the whole of Hebei. Only when qualified thermometers and kang incubation technology are made can they be popularized on a large scale!
In Xu Wei's time, locust plagues were only heard of but never seen, so Xu Wei naturally didn't pay much attention to the kang incubation technology, but this time Xu Wei finally saw the horror of locust plagues.

　Many readers complained that Liu Bei was changed to Liu Xiu, but I really didn’t cheat on Liu Bei. This locust disaster existed in history, and it affected a wide range, including Bingzhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and even Even Yangzhou was affected.Yuan Shu's people even ate locusts to survive the disaster.

　　Yuan Shu's army also survived this locust plague by catching fish from the Yangtze River. It can be said that there were only areas south of the Yangtze River at that time.It was not affected by this locust plague.This locust plague caused the tragic death of millions of people in the Han Dynasty, and many princes survived this catastrophe by relying on rice and meat.

　　
　
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