Destiny Only Han

Chapter 356 Liu Ying: Yiya Yiya!

Dang County, south of Waihuang County.

Liu Bang's car driving back to the north drove slowly on the Sanchuan Tokai Road leading to Guanzhong.

Although it is obvious to go around in a big circle from here, the road they set out on has become muddy after snowfall.

As for the section of the road from Suiyang to Luoyang, although the places on both sides for the people to walk on are still rammed earth roads, the special passages in the middle for the army and mail vehicles, as well as the emperor's travel, have been paved with cement and become hard. Quality road.

It's just that because of the complicated affairs, Xiao He has not had time to send someone to check and accept, so he still owes Liu Ying a lot of project funds...

In this regard, Liu Ying decided to live in Xiao He's house after returning to Liyang, eat and drink with him, and harass him regularly every day until he pays back the money!
In the motorcade, Liu Ying, who was tired of watching Gong Dou, chose to flirt with Lu Wan.

Seeing this scene, Fan Kui decisively chose to jump off his carriage and come to meet Lu Wan.

Although he is newly married, but now the convoy is full of people, and it is daytime, so naturally he can't do it, so it's better to come to Lu Wan's place to be happy.

Inside the carriage, Liu Ying's face was covered with notes, and she stared at Lu Wan and Fan Kui's every move from the gap. He always felt that the two people on the opposite side were cheating, but he never caught it...

Don't let me catch... Liu Ying closed her eyes and let Lu Wan stick a note on his face again.

In the corner, Yu Ji, who was holding the embroidery frame with her head down, chuckled lightly, moved behind Liu Ying, and began to work as a military adviser.

In the game, with Yu Ji joining in, a certain licking dog naturally no longer had the nerve to play tricks, so the game couldn't go on any longer.

"It's boring... Cowardly!" Fan Kui threw away the cards in his hand, scolded Lu Wan and ran away.

But Lu Wan wasn't angry, she just looked at Yu Ji and smiled silly, and silently cleaned up the mess.

Liu Ying naturally took out a copy of Lu Wan's memorabilia, read it on her own, and then asked with a slight frown, "Huh? Didn't it snow in Yan this winter?"

Lu Wan didn't raise her head and said, "What? Your Prince Han still cares if it snows in my country of Yan?"

Liu Ying leaned in front of Lu Wan and asked seriously, "I'm serious, is it because it hasn't snowed this time or has it never snowed much?"

Lu Wan raised her head and saw that Liu Ying didn't seem to be joking, so she replied, "It hasn't snowed all this time? What's the matter?"

He waved his hand and said, "If it doesn't snow, it won't snow. Anyway, there are few fields in Yan Guo, and the river water is enough to complete the irrigation."

After Lu Wan finished speaking, she looked like I knew what you were going to say.

Concubine Yu covered her mouth with a smile, and after winking at Lu Wan, she slowly moved back to the corner and continued her embroidery.

Liu Taigong's birthday is coming soon, so she wants to make Liu Taigong a robe embroidered with the word "Fushou" as a gift.

People are not grass, and she knows Lu Wan's feelings for Liu Taigong, so she will naturally take corresponding actions in return.

Liu Ying looked at Lu Wan with contempt: "Do you think snow is only used to moisten the land?"

Lu Wan spread her hands: "Otherwise?"

Liu Ying looked directly at him and asked, "Have you heard of locusts?"

Perhaps it was because Liu Ying's eyes were too extreme, or because Yu Ji cast her gaze over, Lu Wan suddenly exploded: "You are itchy again, aren't you? Although I haven't planted much land, I still know locusts!"

Liu Ying nodded her head up and down, and asked again: "Do you know how the locusts came from?"

Lu Wan said without thinking: "The fish has changed, what's wrong?"

For a moment, Liu Ying's eyes widened and her voice rose an octave: "What's the matter? Who, who told you that locusts are transformed from fish?"

Lu Wan stared at Liu Ying and didn't speak, but raised her chin.

Liu Ying was full of doubts, and asked with some uncertainty: "My father?"

Lu Wan shook her head violently, her chin raised even higher.

"Could it be?"

"Don't guess, it's what you think."

This old man really misunderstood his son... Liu Ying bulged her cheeks, wishing she could fly back to Liyang immediately to face Liu Taigong.

Lu Wan said with a smile: "When I was in Pei County, your elder father told me that when fish lay their eggs in the water, they will give birth to small fish. If there is a drought and the eggs come out of the water, they will become locusts." Fly away..."

Yu Ji in the corner gave him a look that you are really amazing, then lowered her head and went about her own business.

Liu Ying took a deep breath, put aside the idea of ​​going to Liu Taigong for a theory, and concentrated on the matter in front of her.

"What my father said is not an exaggeration, it's just that the fish-born locusts mainly eat the wind and drink the dew, and don't eat the crops..."

For the sake of your lord, you still need to save Taigong Liu some face in front of Lu Wan, and Lu Wan treats Taigong Liu as your own father, Liu Ying is easy to be beaten by Lu Wan whenever she is forced to talk...

"I'm talking about the kind of locusts that can form a plague of locusts."

"That kind of locust lays its eggs in the ground. When the next spring is warm and the flowers bloom, the little locusts come out of the ground and live by stealing crops. When they grow up, they lay their eggs in the ground..."

"If there are not a few heavy snowfalls in winter, these small insects hiding in the ground will not be frozen to death, then in spring, there will be a lot of small locusts. If there is a little carelessness, a plague of locusts will form!"

He looked at Lu Wan seriously and said, "Do you understand the plague of locusts? The kind where the dark clouds cover the sun and no grass grows!"

Lu Wan tilted her head: "You mean, there may be a plague of locusts in Yan this year?"

Liu Ying shook her head: "I'm not sure either. After all, there are various causes of locust plagues, and no one can say for sure!"

Yu Ji, who was embroidering, raised her head and smiled, "I didn't expect you to know so much!"

"That's natural!" Liu Ying raised her chin triumphantly.

Lu Wan touched his head and said to Yu Ji with a smile: "When Xianyang City was broken that day, this kid moved all the books in Xianyang City away!"

Concubine Yu smiled narrowly: "Yeah, unlike some people, they ran all the way to Xianyang Palace..."

Embarrassed on Lu Wan's face, she began to blame her: "Hey, I was dragged away by Liu Ji and His Majesty..."

Liu Ying curled her lips, and after cursing shamelessly in a voice she could only hear, she looked up at Lu Wan: "Uncle Lu, you don't want the locust plague in Yan this year, do you?"

Lu Wan smashed her mouth, although she felt that Liu Ying's words were strange, but she couldn't explain the reason, so she turned to look at Liu Ying: "What do you mean by this sentence?"

Liu Ying put her hands on her chin, with a flattering smile on her face: "Uncle Lu, if you sell me a few pieces of land cheaper, I will send the duck and duck locust extermination team over there. Although I can't guarantee that there will be no locust disaster, at least I can Reduce locust damage to farmland!"

"It's been a long circle, so it's waiting for me here?" Lu Wan showed a clear smile on her face: "Since you call me Uncle Lu, then mine is yours! As long as you don't take my The Yanwang Palace is used to raise ducks, and other places... well, how should I put it, by the way, staking the land, staking the land as you like!"

Liu Ying was overjoyed, but still shook her head and said: "Although the words are so, I always feel that it is strange to hold it like this, why don't you slap me twice..."

Concubine Yu was shocked, unable to laugh or cry, while Lu Wan raised her hands nervously: "Really?"

Liu Ying nodded and said, "Of course it's true, but you know what happened to my father after he beat me up last time, Uncle Lu..."

Lu Wan flexed his fingers and gave him a head-scratching blow: "You're a big kid, a fox pretends to be a tiger!"

Liu Ying covered her head, and although she had a smirk on her face, she thought that she would sooner or later turn Yan Palace into a duck farm just by doing this!
He ignored Lu Wan who came to concubine Yu's side to be courteous, and lowered his head to think about how to send the ducks raised in Guanzhong to the country of Yan for stocking.

At this time, Yan State did not have that metropolis with a population of over [-] million, and its water resources were extremely abundant. After all, even if the moat continued to be blood-sucked, Baiyangdian was still vast.

In places with abundant water resources, ducks are better at killing locusts than chickens. After all, ducks can't sing and dance...

Bah, ducks like to live in groups. It is easier to manage than chickens. Their vitality, foraging ability, and cold resistance are stronger than chickens, and they are suitable for survival in the wild.

Liu Ying has also heard that a giegie can only eat 70 locusts a day, and a duck can eat more than 200 locusts. Moreover, ducks eat locusts in a carpet-style "hunting", even the pupae of locusts will not be let go... …

Another advantage of raising ducks is that duck feathers can be collected as fillings for quilts.

Liu Ying doesn't remember anything else. The bad reputation that Lao Liu suffered was no less than the Siege of Baideng in Waterloo, and it is not far away now.

Although it is certain that the historical scene will not be repeated, according to the records, "there will be a severe cold, and the soldiers will drop their fingers." In other words, the weather was so cold that many soldiers' fingers were frozen off!
Therefore, things such as eiderdown quilts, dog fur hats, and sheepskin gloves are particularly important.

He started preparing such things as dog fur hats and sheepskin gloves a long time ago. After all, dogs are one of the six domestic animals. Ordinary people keep dogs, except for keeping two for guarding the door, and the rest are used for meat. Dog skins are naturally not There is no shortage of sheepskins in Guanzhong.

Although Liu Ying has raised a lot of ducks in the past two years, but after all, there is a lack of many modern techniques, and the duck down is not durable, so it is necessary to raise as many ducks as possible.

Well, ducks have a shorter growth cycle than geese, so there is no live plucking.

And Liu Ying raised ducks in Yan State to curb the locust plague before it happened. After all, locusts have wings, and when the crops in one place are destroyed, they will go to another place to continue the disaster.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a record of a locust plague, that is, the locust plague originated in the east of the empire, and then went west all the way, harming Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places one after another, and finally disappeared outside Yumen Pass...

Basically, the most elite agricultural reclamation area of ​​the Han Empire was destroyed, thousands of Han people starved to death due to lack of harvest, and the Xiongnu Chanyu called locusts the real main force against the Han!

So taking precautions before they happen is the most important thing!
(End of this chapter)