shock!She can travel through time

Chapter 307
Coming out of the third uncle's house with the final version of Quyuanli, the group of people, including Patriarch Lin who came from behind, went straight to the back mountain.

When Hongyan passed the side door of the house, he quickly turned into the house, called Ranxiang and led a cow out.

When he arrived at a flat wasteland in the mountains, Xiao Chong put a curved plow on the ox and went directly to the field to test the effect of the new farm tools.

Using the intensive farming methods centered on plowing, harrowing, and plowing one by one, even a nobleman like Xiao Chong who does not plow on a daily basis, with the help of high-efficiency farm tools, can plow the land in a decent way.

Patriarch Lin was very excited to see it. As a commoner in the countryside, he understood what the appearance of this farm tool meant, so he couldn't help rushing forward to try it.

After plowing a small piece of wasteland, Patriarch Lin looked at Xiao Chong with tears in his eyes: "Xiao Ming's mansion cares about the common people in the world, it's really a god descending to earth! We are so lucky!"

Xiao Chong said modestly: "Patriarch Lin's over-reputation is not due to Xiao alone, he dare not be greedy for fame."

Lin Wanwan smiled and said: "Don't think it's just a small step from Qu to Qu, I know that there is great wisdom in it, and ordinary people may not be able to take this step in a lifetime. Cousin is amazing if he can think of it, my little sister admires it!"

This sentence is not purely flattering, if Lin Wanwan's butterfly wings hadn't saved Xiao Chong, then the appearance of Qu Yuanli would have been one or two hundred years later (unless Lin Wanwan herself was greedy for this skill and moved it directly from modern times).

There is a news in the modern United States that a motor in Ford's workshop unexpectedly failed, causing the entire workshop to shut down.

So Ford invited countless repairmen and experts to find the problem, but they still couldn't find a solution, and they didn't understand the problem at all.

This made Ford's leaders very anxious and angry. Every minute of shutdown is a huge loss!

Later, someone proposed to ask the motor expert Steinmenz for help, and the latter lived up to expectations. After checking the motor, he drew a line on the motor casing with chalk, and said lightly: "Reduce the coil by 16 turns at the mark."

The maintenance worker did so, and sure enough, the motor returned to normal!

For this little line, Ford paid $[-].

Some unconvinced people murmured: "Didn't you just draw a line? Such a simple thing is effortless, and it costs [-] US dollars."

Steinmenz turned around and wrote a statement to Ford: draw a line for $1, know where to draw the line for $9999.

Some things seem simple, but are actually very difficult. The progress of human society often happens in a flash of inspiration.

Xiao Chong received Lin Wanwan's not-so-sincere words of admiration, and said with a faint smile, "My cousin and Wang Shuli have made great contributions to this step. Well, let's have a few drinks to celebrate in the evening. What does my cousin think?"

The delicious food and wine at Lin Wanwan's house always fascinates Xiao Chong's soul, and whenever he has a chance, he would come to eat and drink.

"Okay, it's just that the wine is good, cousin, don't be greedy, my little sister doesn't want to learn today!"

"Cousin is too worried." Xiao Chong rubbed his nose, which pot is not open and which pot to lift!

When walking back, the crowd passed through the sweet potato and corn fields on the hillside. Xiao Chong was talking with a happy face, but he suppressed his smile after seeing a small thing out of the corner of his eye.

He stopped immediately, caught a locust larva on the corn stalk, and his face suddenly became serious.

Look carefully, there is more than one locust here!
"What's the matter, what are you pinching in your hand? A praying mantis?" Lin Wanwan saw the green worm pinched by Xiao Chong's fingertips. She was not afraid of these, and turned her head to find one on another corn stalk. .

"This thing is gnawing on the leaves. We need to catch insects in the field." Lin Wanwan said casually. Recently, the tribe's thoughts are actually on cotton, and they haven't taken care of the sweet potato and corn fields carefully.

And these locusts reproduce quickly, as if they emerged overnight.

Seeing this, Wang Lang's expression suddenly changed and he said, "It's locusts!"

"Ah! Is this a locust?" Both Lin Wanwan and Patriarch Lin were shocked.

And Wang Lang was even more uncomfortable!
He used to live in the north, so he understands what locusts mean!Their family lost their loved ones because of the locust plague!
People can die however they want, they shouldn't die of starvation!Starving to death, what a cruel thing!This was the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.

The locust plague that followed the severe drought did not give ordinary people any way out.

Locusts cross the border, no harvest!
According to historical records, in June of the second year of Zhenguan, a severe drought broke out in Chang'an, followed by a plague of locusts, and a large number of crops were devoured by locusts.

It is said among the people that it was Li Shimin who killed his brother and imprisoned his father, and the catastrophe would be caused by the punishment of God. In order to appease the people, the new emperor Li Shimin directly caught a locust in the field and swallowed it alive!

There are records in various historical materials about this matter. After Li Shimin took the lead in eating locusts to show his determination, the locusts did not cause a major disaster that year.

But will the plague of locusts only come for one year?

no!
In the 289th year of Tang Guozuo, the entire period was in a warm period. There were as many as 40 recorded large locust plagues, which occurred once every 7.25 years on average, and they were basically concentrated in the early and late Tang.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, because Li Shimin's measures to exterminate locusts were appropriate, and the subordinates implemented them in place, neither of them caused a catastrophe.

In the late Tang Dynasty, people were already terrified of the frequent attacks of locusts, and they thought that killing too many locusts would harm the peace of heaven, which would cause frequent locust plagues.

The imperial court did not act, and the scholars did not pay attention to it, so that it caused a catastrophe.

In the first year of Yongchun, there were two locust plagues. The first time in March, a locust plague occurred in the Chang'an area of ​​Gyeonggi Province, eating up all the surrounding wheat seedlings.

The second time, in June, another plague of locusts occurred in Yong, Qi, Long and other prefectures. According to the history of this disaster, "big locusts, people eat each other."

Just five words describe the crimes of the imperial court.

At that time, Emperor Gaozong was seriously ill and died in the second year. Wu Zetian was busy with political struggles, and the ministers of the court and China were busy with their positions, so they couldn't care about the lives of ordinary people.

It is also the luck of the common people. During Wu Zetian's reign, a plague of locusts occurred.

Later, in the late Tang Dynasty, court eunuchs came to power, vassals and towns were separated, and local officials were corrupt.

The common people are ignorant, they only know how to set up sacrifices and worship, dare not hunt and kill, and let the locusts chew on the crops.

Even literati who have read poetry and books are very resistant to killing locusts, saying that locusts are a curse from heaven, and subjects need to cultivate their moral character, so that disasters will go away.

The imperial court does not act, the people have no way to survive, and the phenomenon of cannibalism is not uncommon.In the short history books, there are three words "people eat each other", but it is the bloody tragedy of the common people.

A grain of sand in history is a mountain for the people.

Lin Wanwan thought of the materials she had read about the locust plague, and her heart became much heavier.

It is now the fourth year of Zhenguan, and there are indeed locust plagues in historical records, but they are obviously not in the south of the Yangtze River. Why are there locusts in Shan County now?

Lin Wanwan didn't know that this was also the butterfly effect caused by her, and everything had two sides.

(End of this chapter)