Almighty Nongmen Phoenix

Chapter 238;

Wen Songtao understood Emperor Hongwen's thoughts very well, so he didn't talk too much about this topic.

The two monarchs and ministers chatted again about the drought and the Jinyang Mansion.

Although the food has been solved, the drought is not over yet.

This year's disaster is very serious. In the future, the local government needs to continue to support the people and recover quickly.

While the monarch and his ministers were having a lively chat, a small servant outside hurriedly trotted in.

Emperor Hongwen frowned slightly, very displeased.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Dai, Secretary of the Central Committee, has urgent matters to see."

Hearing that there was something urgent, Emperor Hongwen took back what he wanted to reprimand and asked the little servant to pass it on.

Soon Master Dai came in from the outside.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong, locusts. The plague of locusts is coming."

"what!"

Both Emperor Hongwen and Wen Songtao stood up in shock.

"You just said the plague of locusts? Where did the plague of locusts come from?"

Lord Dai quickly presented the memorial with both hands, without bringing his servants to forward it, Emperor Hongwen himself quickly stepped forward to grab the memorial and unfold it.

Seeing this, his complexion instantly darkened, and his temples were throbbing with pain.

I thought to myself, what the hell is this shit trying to do?

The drought has not been resolved, and now there is another locust plague, and the memorial also said that this locust plague is fierce and the scope is not small. A county has already been affected, and the overwhelming locusts are approaching as fast as the capital.

"how so."

Emperor Hongwen staggered back two steps.

After ten years of hard work, he managed to get a good situation. He was about to show his strength, but disasters happened one after another.

The previous drought has already consumed more than half of his accumulation in the past ten years, and now it is the plague of locusts, and the achievements of the past ten years may be wiped out in an instant.

How can he stand it?

"Quickly pass, Dong Qingyang and the Minister of the Ministry of Households and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry have entered the palace."

Not to mention how Emperor Hongwen and a group of ministers discussed how to deal with the locust plague in the imperial study.

Outside the capital, Lu Yaoyao in the village also received the news immediately.

During the recent period, she has been arranging people to go around to keep an eye on the situation.

She just got the news here, and she immediately asked Lao Kang to give orders, and everyone inside and outside the village immediately put down the work at hand.

To prepare for protection.

Worried about the coming locust plague, Lu Yaoyao not only hoarded wheat, chickens, ducks and geese, but also prepared a lot of firewood in many places around Zhuangzi.

At this time, her first order was to have people guard several places around Zhuangzi. Once locust swarms were found, firewood would be lit immediately, and a farmer would come out of the isolation belt. go somewhere else.

The tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese were also released from the cages, allowing them to move freely in the fence around the farmland.

In addition to the above, she asked Qiushuang to inform everyone to prepare tools to catch locusts, and she bought them for every penny and catty.

As soon as the order was issued, everyone inside and outside the farm took action immediately.

Although the locusts haven't come yet, but the thing can fly, who knows when it will overwhelm the sky.

About half an hour later, Lao Kang came back and reported that everything had gone according to the instructions he had given.

"Old Kang, find me another twenty strong laborers, and ask them to bring digging tools and go to the small depression west of the village."

Lao Kang responded, and just turned around and walked out, when Lu Yaoyao said again; "Wait, call a little more, let them move all the lime from the warehouse in front."

She then took Qiu Yu to the west of the village, where there was a small depression.

Not long after the master and servant arrived, Lao Kang brought a group of people over.

"Miss."

"Don't be too polite, hurry up and dig a hole here, dig a little bigger and deeper."

She personally pointed out the location and area, and the people in the village started to work without talking nonsense.

In the afternoon, a black cloud suddenly appeared in the northern sky.

"Quick, the locust plague is coming."

I don't know who yelled, but the whole village jumped into action immediately, lighting the fire, fucking fuck.

Miss Zhuangzhu said, catching locusts costs a penny and a catty, how much is this densely packed?
And this guy doesn't take too much effort, even the elderly and children can do it.

There are many old and weak women and children outside the village, and they don't have any assistants on weekdays. Now that they have such an opportunity, it would be a great thing to earn more money.

At the same time, all the high officials and dignitaries in the capital, down to the traffickers, were in panic.

We all know that the locust plague passes through the border, and the spring grass does not grow. Looking at this overwhelming army of locusts, just looking at it makes one's scalp tingle.

"Miss, you'd better go back first, the servants here will just watch over."

Qiu Yu vigorously waved the branch in her hand to drive away the locusts around her, and she didn't forget to turn her head to let Lu Yaoyao go back first.

These densely packed locusts are all aggressive.

"Then be careful."

Lu Yaoyao was not hypocritical, it was the locusts that made her scalp tingle and goosebumps all over her body.

This time, the locust plague was fierce and numerous, and they stayed in the capital for nearly two days.

Almost all the farms on the outskirts of the capital were affected, with varying degrees of damage.

Some of them have been reduced a lot due to the drought, and now they are ravaged by the locust plague again, and there is almost nothing left.

Lu Yaoyao's farm also suffered some losses, but fortunately, she had made sufficient preparations in advance, and she also had a lot of people on her side.

According to statistics, the loss of her village due to the locust plague was only about [-]%.

You must know that during the drought, her village was not affected, and now the locust plague only lost [-]%, and kept [-]%.

That's right, the whole capital is thriving around.

As soon as the locust plague was over, the old man of the Lu family rushed to the farm with his people to inquire about the situation.

The first two days were densely packed with locusts, and it was inconvenient to go out.

"what!"

As soon as Mr. Lu's carriage entered the range of the farm, something was wrong.

"What's the matter, Dad?"

"Look outside, the Yaoyao farm doesn't seem to have suffered any damage."

Hearing what the old man said, Lu Xiu was the first to shake his head and said, "How is it possible, the scale of the locust plague is so large this time, the least of the other farms have lost [-]% to [-]%, and the remaining ones are less than [-]%. "

But Lu Kang didn't speak, but lifted the curtain of the car.

As soon as he lifted it, Lu Xiu also turned his head to look at it, and at this look, several people in the carriage were stunned.

"How could this be?"

Didn't those locusts come over?
Such a sentence came to Lu Xiu's mind immediately.

It wasn't until they entered the village and saw Lu Yaoyao that they realized that she had made plans early on.

That's why the situation on her Zhuangzi's side is so good.

Seeing that she was fine and that Zhuangzi was safe, everyone in the Lu family felt relieved and returned to the capital after having lunch at Zhuangzi.

And at the same time they left, word spread in the capital that the farm where the Lord Wanfu was located did not suffer much loss.

Many people came here to investigate the situation.

(End of this chapter)