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Chapter 308 Xiao Chong Worships the Locust God? !

Historically, locusts liked drought and loathed water, but in the south there were many mountains and rivers and rice, so there were basically no locust plagues.

It was not until the introduction of crops such as corn and sweet potatoes from the Americas that the mountainous areas of the south of the Yangtze River increased the development of dry land in the mountains, which provided the living soil for locusts to lay eggs, hatch, and break out.

The mountainous land of Linjiazhuang did not grow crops at all, because Lin Wanwan brought potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn. This year, the tribe went into the mountains and opened up a lot of wasteland in the mountains, which provided an agricultural basis for the breeding of locusts.

And Xiao Chong used the power of the court to vigorously promote sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, which also accelerated this process.

Xiao Chong accidentally found locust eggs in the field, and his good mood has disappeared, but his face is still calm, and others can't see the clue.

"Patriarch Lin, the locusts are even pests, before they become a climate, let the clan wipe out the locusts as soon as possible."

With his hands behind his back, Xiao Chong calmly told Patriarch Lin how to control locusts: "There are a lot of poultry in the certain clan. Chickens, ducks, geese, and birds can kill locusts. They are natural enemies of locusts. Patriarch Lin asked the clan to raise them in the fields in the future." poultry.

In addition, if you organize the clansmen to arrest them personally, if you do both, there will be no catastrophe.As Li Zheng, I must inform every household of this matter, and must pay attention to it. "

Patriarch Lin made a bow and said, "Here, the old man takes orders."

Because of the discovery of many locusts, the joy brought by Qu Yuanli was somewhat diluted.

The setting sun completely sank to the bottom of the sea, Xiao Chong picked up a jug of wine that Lin Wanwan said was "produced by herself", rode on a bay red horse, and took his attendant Shuqi and scribe Wang Lang back to Xiaoxi Town.

Lin Wanwan knew that once he left, he would face another tough battle. The locust plague was really not that easy to deal with in ancient times.

Looking at the Quyuanli that Xiao Chong left in the lobby, Lin Wanwan sighed, being a county magistrate really has to worry too much.

That night, Patriarch Lin called Lin Mengbo to go door-to-door in the dark to inform them that they were going to start catching insects.

Many people in Dafengzhuang escaped famine after the drought and locust plague hit their hometown in the north.At this time, I heard that there were locusts in the fields in Shan County, and I panicked.

But the development of the matter was different from what Lin Wanwan thought. Instead of catching and exterminating the insects day and night, those farmers who got the news started to engage in feudal superstition, worshiping the locust god, and begging it to let them off.

Except for Linjiazhuang because of the absolute authority of Patriarch Lin and Lin Wanwan to exterminate the locusts, other places are actually resigned to their fate!

Lin Wanwan was shocked!

She went back to modern times to investigate the actions of eradicating locusts in history, and found that the emperors before Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, since the Han Dynasty, whenever they encountered locust plagues, they thought it was a sin from God. God's stupidity!

The emperors after Li Shimin also worshiped the locust god. For example, Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji of Tang Dynasty, shortly after he succeeded to the throne, before the prosperity of Kaiyuan appeared, locust plagues occurred in various parts of Shandong.

The locusts are raging, covering the sky and the sun, and the common people can't go out unless they light torches to repel the insects. Not to mention the crops, even the bark of the trees has been eaten up!

Li Longji defeated Wu Zetian, and during Wu Zetian's reign, there were basically no major locust plagues, but after Jiangshan came into his hands, he encountered locust plagues.

It is false to say that unbelief is the punishment of God. Li Longji ordered the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the worship. However, the result of the two worships to the locust god was that the plague of locusts became more and more serious.

The Prime Minister Yao Chong brought the Shandong urgent report into the palace and asked for orders to go to Shandong to exterminate the locusts, but Li Longji said: "Don't go if you love me. After I worship the locust god again, the disaster will go away."

Yao Chong said angrily: "There is no locust god at all. The only way to overcome the difficulties is to lead the people to kill locusts and exterminate locusts together. If worshiping the gods works, we won't be starving and dying everywhere now! Worshiping the gods is useless, why not worship me!"

A fierce quarrel erupted between the DPRK and China over this matter. The God Worshipers and God Extermination factions each had their own arguments and refused to budge.

Fortunately, Prime Minister Yao Chongtong prevailed in the end, and finally under his leadership, the local people burned the locusts together.

In addition to the fire, Yao Chong's emergency allocation of food from the Ministry of Household Affairs also played a huge role. The people of Huaxia would not rebel if they still had a bite to eat.

Lin Wanwan used to see these materials as just materials, but now, they are vividly displayed in front of her eyes.

People can really be so ignorant that when they see locusts start to eat crops, they not only do not destroy them, but worship them.

This is still under the rule of Li Shimin!
Li Shimin is a great emperor who dares to swallow locusts alive. He has all top men under his command. Who would be afraid of the illusory locust god?

But here is Shan County, the emperor is high in the sky and the road is far away, only the "Locust God" is close at hand.

Li Shimin said that locusts dared to eat the food of his people, so he ate locusts. The common people thought that the locust god was suppressed by the emperor, so they would not dare to make trouble again, but the county is far away from the emperor!What should I do if I am annoyed by the locust god's annual disasters?
You must know that the ten miles and eight townships adjacent to Linjiazhuang have all received sweet potato seedlings, corn seedlings, and potato seedlings that Lin Wanwan gave them on credit.

The mountains here are the most developed. Once the locusts grow into flying adults, even if Lin Jiazhuang wipes out all the locusts on his side, it will not help, they will fly over!
Lin Wanwan couldn't sit still anymore, she took Hua Nong and Kunlun straight to Xiaoxi Town, and went to Xiao Chong to find a solution.

This year, Xiao Chongke promoted sweet potatoes and potatoes around Xiaoxi Town!Especially in his own job field, it is basically regarded as a new crop experiment field.

As a result, as soon as she arrived in Xiaoxi Town, she was stunned by the crowded crowd on the street. What is this for?

Today is not a big festival, why is everyone in Xiaoxi town singing and dancing to celebrate!

If you don’t know, you still think today is the Lantern Festival!

The plague of locusts is just around the corner, and the people in the city are still singing and dancing? !
Lin Wanwan signaled Hua Nong to stop a passerby to ask about the situation: "My lord, what happened here? Why did everyone rush into the street?"

"Hey, don't you know? You are from other places? Auspicious! There is auspiciousness! Xiao Ming's mansion is going to sacrifice to heaven on its mountain platform."

"Sacrificing to the heavens? Xiao Chong?" Lin Wanwan was startled, and secretly said, "What the hell is Xiao Chong doing, offering sacrifices to the heavens at this time? Could it be that he is also afraid of some locust god? That's why he worships? It's out of line!"

This is too far from Xiao Chong's usual resourceful appearance!
Is this something done by a county magistrate who can design mountains and weirs, open up salt fields, solve cases like a god, and eat all the old foxes in Hu County to death?

Lin Wanwan couldn't help but staggered, and the images of Li Longji and Bai Juyi flashed in her mind.

These two are also bigwigs, smart people who have been passed down through the ages, but they also think that locusts are transformed by evil spirits, and they don't advocate extermination of locusts, so Xiao Chong thinks so...

Do not!He is different from them!His thinking is broad, not like the ancients at all, he should not have the limitations of the times.

(End of this chapter)