The Summoning World of the Great Qin Empire

Chapter 1189 "Borrowed" Locust Control Methods

Fusu glanced at Zhou Shi, Zhou Shi immediately bowed his head and said, "I made a slip of the tongue."

"It's okay." Fusu looked away, looked at Bi Benshu and said, "Don't worry, I and many soldiers have eaten grasshoppers just now, and there is nothing wrong with it, that is to say, this thing can be eaten directly. It tastes better after deep-frying, do you understand?"

Bi Benshu hurriedly said: "Your officer, remember this!"

Only then did Fusu look back and said: "Lead the way ahead, the county magistrate of Shiyi Township must be waiting ahead."

"I obey your orders!" Bi Benshu jumped onto his group of mules and led the way; after a while, he saw the county magistrate of Shiyi Township.

The county magistrate was an old man who, after paying tribute to the emperor and ministers, led the emperor into the village. He was surprised to hear that Fusu said that grasshoppers were edible.

Fusu looked at the county magistrate a little surprised, turned back to look at Zhou Shi, Zhou Shi understood what he wanted, went to a pot, looked at the county magistrate and said: "Old county magistrate, take care of yourself."

The pot was hot... and then a little sesame oil was poured in. When the sesame oil was boiling hot, Zhou Shi tore off the wings of the grasshoppers he had caught earlier, and threw them into the pot one by one. In just a moment, the aroma was already wafting.

"This……"

In less time for a cup of tea, Zhou Shi brought a bowl of fried grasshoppers to the emperor.

Fusu took some chili powder and sprinkled it on the grasshopper, and sprinkled some salt. When he took the chopsticks and was about to put it in his mouth, the county magistrate shivered.

"No, Your Majesty! No one has eaten these locusts before!"

Fusu smiled, picked up a deep-fried golden grasshopper, threw it into his mouth and chewed it, the delicious taste spread out, Fusu reached out and touched the jug at his waist, and drank it. a small bit.

"It tastes good, County Magistrate Bi, why don't you try it?" Fusu looked at the sweaty magistrate and felt that his trip was a long way to go.

When the county magistrate heard the emperor calling him, he could only kneel on the ground, took the chopsticks with both hands, and handed a grasshopper from the bowl to his mouth. His eyes changed completely!
"Shh-"

The county magistrate was caught off guard by being spicy, and then chewed, the luster in his eyes completely changed.

Fusu got up and pointed to the steaming oil pan and said with a smile: "Shiyi Township is considered to be on the verge of a locust plague this time. I found out the method of using these locusts from the ancient books. As a parent and official, you can see it in your eyes at this moment, how to teach the people such methods, do you know?"

The county magistrate wondered: "The emperor doesn't know something. Even if the local people are wealthy, very few people eat fried food with fat."

Fusu thought for a while, and said, "Locusts can be eaten raw, or even roasted by the fire. You can pass on these things, understand?"

The county magistrate cupped his hands and said, "Your officer, remember this!"

"In the surrounding counties, you should send people over to explain the fact that grasshoppers can be eaten. I already have a way to deal with locusts on the way here."

As soon as the emperor's words fell, Zhou Shi took out a notebook from his sleeve and handed it to the county magistrate.

The county magistrate immediately thanked him, opened the small book and read it seriously, only to see that it wrote: "The method of catching locusts is like marching. Ten people form a team, and two people hold shovels to dig a long trench, three or four feet long. Deep, floating soil piled on the opposite side, four people behind, two people by the side, all blasted into the ditch with long brooms. The two people followed the six people, and used long-handled leather palms to kill those who were not clean.

"A pavilion leader, leading 200 people, as a team of [-], can get dozens of loads every day. When the locusts enter the ditch, they will pile up the floating soil, throw it into the ground and beat it. Why not die? Those who are in the midst of the marriage, the wife It’s up to the people to blow it out, or sell it, or change it for wheat. If it’s hidden in the rocks near the river, it’s usually boiled with lime water. If it’s out of reach on the cliff, use a spray gun to blow it up.”

"A land with locusts is like a non-sand slab field. After the jumpers are thrown away, cattle are hired to plow the plow, and the seeds are picked out. The locusts are the same as peanuts, and there are hundreds of them at a time. Pick up all the locusts, and then use a stone roll to remove them. The land was flattened and then dug out with iron palladium, all of which were eroded. The previous methods, all referring to the flat land, did not discuss the mountains. The flat land was plowed by cattle and trampled by hundreds of sheep, and it was like mud in an instant. , tried and tested."

Fusu looked at the county magistrate's face gradually showing joy, so he didn't care if he was the method of controlling locusts summarized in Zhang Jixin's "The Ups and Downs of the Daoxian Officials" intact, and directly recruited and used it.

"This small army is behind, and all the states and counties that pass through have been distributed. Now that the locust plague in Mechuna is like a fire, you can promote the method that the locusts can be eaten. Although this thing looks like a reptile, it is actually a nourishing thing. "

The county magistrate kept the emperor's words in mind one by one. The warriors in the army handed over the grasshoppers to the fire-headed army, made a deep-fried grasshopper and ate it, and then rested in the county town for one night. Just thinking about McCue!

Before arriving at Maiqiu Fusu, I already felt what a locust plague is; the overwhelming locusts covered the sky and the sun, like a well-trained old fairy traveling in the deep mountains and old forests, making frightening howling sounds in mid-air.

"Your majesty, why don't we wait?" Zhou Shi looked ahead and glanced at the emperor with some fear.

Fusu frowned, and then came the cold voice of knocking on the lower armor: "Do locusts eat people?"

"Don't eat!" Zhou Shi shook his body.

"If you don't eat people, then press them up. I have never changed my face against a hundred thousand troops alone."

"mighty!"

"mighty!"

After the emperor's words fell, thousands of warriors shouted loudly, put on their visors, and rushed towards the sky full of locusts.

On Maiqiu City, the county magistrate looked at the locusts covering the sky and the sun outside the city, and remembered that they were like ants on a hot pot.

"How is it good?"

"How should this be done! The locust god has already worshiped, is it true that as Sun Tianshi said, the disaster can be eliminated only by using living sacrifices?"

The county lieutenant smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, since the emperor ruled the country, he has not talked about ghosts and gods. We are going to use living sacrifices here. I'm afraid the superiors will blame them!"

"But this kind of natural disaster... what should we do?"

"Huh—look, my lord, there seem to be people there... and there are a lot of them!" The county lieutenant squinted his eyes, and suddenly saw a torrent of steel rumbling under the locust army that covered the sky and the sun.

"It's someone from the imperial court!" The county magistrate said happily, "If it wasn't me, the Great Qin Xiongshi, how could he have such courage?"

The county lieutenant's complexion suddenly changed: "The leader is wearing a golden armor, my God, it must be the emperor who has arrived! I'll go down and greet him soon!"

When the county magistrate heard this, he squinted his eyes and took a serious look, then scrambled to the bottom of the tower and led a group of people to kneel down.

(End of this chapter)