Prosperous Tang special forces

Chapter 177 Locust Attack
Seeing everyone kneeling down, Long Feiyu hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Everyone, please, I am not here on a public post, so you don't have to be so formal."

Although Long Feiyu said this, everyone respectfully saluted before getting up.The Patriarch of the Liu family came over to Long Feiyu with a nervous expression on his face and said, "My lord, you can come to our Liu mansion and let the humble mansion flourish. If you don't give up, how about a glass of water and wine in the mansion?" ?”

Long Feiyu chuckled, and said nonchalantly: "No need, I just passed by here and heard someone recruiting a son-in-law to come and see. I won't go into the mansion to beg for mercy."

While talking, he shouted to Xue Li: "Xue Li, come here."

Hearing Long Feiyu's shout, Xue Li hurriedly came over respectfully, saluted Long Feiyu and said: "Craftsman Xue Rengui has met your lord."

He was taken aback when he heard Xue Rengui and Long Feiyu. This name is a household name in later generations.Although he could not conceal the brilliance of those famous generals in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he also had many legends.And because of his daughter-in-law, Fan Lihua, he became a household name.Originally, Long Feiyu didn't pay much attention to him when he said Xue Li, but this time when he heard Xue Rengui, he knew that he had met a celebrity.

After being dazed, he regained consciousness in an instant. Even a famous general like Su Dingfang was influenced by him, let alone Xue Rengui.Thinking of this, Long Feiyu patted Xue Rengui on the shoulder and said: "The Patriarch of the Liu family has been with you for about three years. If you don't have any achievements, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make a deal with him. I'm optimistic about you, but I don't dare to take care of Liu's family affairs." .That’s all right, I see your martial arts, and your achievements in the future will be extraordinary after all, you go to the border to join the army. Isn’t it difficult to stand out from the crowd with your force?”

Xue Rengui clasped his hands to Long Feiyu and said, "Follow your lord's instructions, and the grass-roots people will live up to your expectations."

Long Feiyu nodded, waved his hand and said, "I believe in your ability, pack up your things, and leave soon."

As soon as Long Feiyu finished speaking, Wang Tao, whose nose was bruised and swollen from the beating, interjected, "How can it be such a trouble, if you write a letter to Su Dingfang, his employment problem will be solved, so why bother."

Long Feiyu glared at Wang Tao, and Wang Tao shrank his neck subconsciously.Long Feiyu said angrily: "You have to walk your own way. Why do you need others to plan your life? If your life is planned by others, it is no different from a slave. I firmly believe that Xue Li can achieve success. The only thing I can provide It’s a level playing field. You think that everyone else is just like you, who only follow the wrong path.”

Hearing Long Feiyu's words, Xue Li also cupped his hands and said: "Don't worry, my lord, Xue Li firmly believes that I can get ahead with my own efforts, and I will definitely live up to your expectations."

Wang Tao is the prefect of Hedong. If Xue Li has a great future, he will follow him.Hearing Xue Li say this, he said angrily, "It's not in vain if you have this relationship, why bother yourself."

Listening to Wang Tao's words, Xue Li said with a determined face: "Your Excellency is right, my path should be walked by myself, and I should not rely on others."

Hearing Xue Li's words, Long Feiyu nodded and said, "This is what a man should say."

While everyone was chatting, a fast horse came suddenly, and the messenger immediately jumped down, and said anxiously: "My lord, something is wrong, I have a foreword from the observation post to report that a large number of locusts have arrived at the border of the river river and are about to enter." It's inside."

Hearing the locust attack, Wang Tao was annoyed for a while and said: "Damn the locust god, my term of office will expire soon, and the attack happened at this time. Isn't this killing me?"

When the locusts came, the people around were shocked. If the locusts came to Hedong, there would be no harvest this year.There was a lot of crying and shouting for a while, and everyone dispersed, and ran home to prepare to sacrifice to the locust god, while the locusts entered the territory of Hedong.

Seeing the crowd dissipate, Long Feiyu wondered, "Why did they go?"

"Prepare things to sacrifice to the locust god. Hedong has never suffered from locust plagues in these years, and I'm afraid it will not be spared this time."

Seeing the dignified expression of the optimistic Wang Tao in the past, Long Feiyu wondered: "The locust plague? Why didn't I get any news?"

Wang Tao sighed and said, "It's been a long time since you went to court, not to mention that there are locust plagues every year, it's not surprising."

"Then the imperial court doesn't have a corresponding constitution?"

Everyone shook their heads blankly, and someone said: "When the locusts come, they can cover the sky and the sun, and they can't see things at all. It seems that this kind of natural disaster can't be eradicated by the court."

Hearing what an official said, Long Feiyu waved his hand and said, "Go and have a look."

The locusts struck, and the entire River East was in panic.When Long Feiyu came to the place where the locusts were infested, he was also surprised.The black swarm of insects ahead covered the sky and the sun.As they fell together, the fields became barren.

There were too many people gathered around, and they were crying sadly by the field at this time, and some people were kowtowing to the locusts, hoping that the locust god would be merciful and let their fields go.

Looking at the swarm of locusts flying in his direction, Long Feiyu sighed and said, "Wang Tao, can you tell how many of these locusts there are?"

Wang Tao sighed and said, "It's hard to say, but the current ones are probably 600 to [-] million."

Long Feiyu nodded and said, "That means these locusts can eat all the fields within a radius of five or six miles in one day, right?"

Wang Tao sighed and nodded.Seeing Wang Tao nodding, Long Feiyu went there: "Go, call the nearby villagers, and follow me to kill the locusts."

Hearing that Long Feiyu wanted to exterminate the locusts, some officials immediately objected: "Your Excellency, you will offend the locust god."

Long Feiyu snorted, "That's better than doing nothing. Regardless of whether he gets angry or not, we still lose so much fertile land. Since we will lose so much food whether we pray or not, why do we worship it? Wang Tao Go and order people to find some cloth, sew it into dozens of steps long, eight or nine steps high, and then find some things. Come with me to kill the locusts, and the others take hoes and dig ditches on the path that the locusts must pass. "

After talking, Long Feiyu went to the forefront in person.Seeing someone approaching, some people shouted: "Quickly kneel down and pray for the protection of the locust god, or you will offend it."

Long Feiyu didn't pay attention to the words of the common people, but took a group of people to the front and started digging ditches.Seeing a group of people digging ditches to exterminate locusts under the leadership of the county magistrate, some older people stood up dissatisfied and shouted: "Master, how can you disrespect the locust god? If the locust god blames us, we But it would be bad."

Before the county magistrate could speak, Long Feiyu interjected, "This is a natural disaster, unlike the locust god. If you don't think of a way to eliminate the locusts, you will lose everything in a while."

Seeing that Long Feiyu was young, the old people uttered wild words. Some people were dissatisfied and said, "Young man, we eat more salt than you can walk. You can't disrespect the locust god, or you will suffer a catastrophe." .”

Someone else shouted angrily: "You are ashamed to implicate us by disrespecting the locust god."

When someone opened his mouth, someone seconded his opinion. Seeing everyone, you glanced at me and started pointing at Long Feiyu, the county magistrate hurriedly scolded: "Shut up, this is the Minister Zuo Chenglong Fei Yulong from the imperial court, sir. Now that I can live a life without worrying about food and clothing, it is all thanks to him, how dare I be disrespectful to my lord?"

Hearing that this young man was Long Feiyu, everyone was startled and hurriedly knelt down.Seeing them kneeling down, Long Feiyu smiled and waved his hands and said, "You don't have to be so polite. The locust plague is a natural disaster. We must learn to save ourselves, and we can't let them continue to cause trouble. This locust swarm is getting bigger and bigger. We If you let it go, I'm afraid the whole river east will have no crops. You still pick up your hoes and follow your county magistrate to dig ditches in the fields. I will find a way to get the locusts from the sky after a while. You have to quickly get these Do you know that locusts are buried in ditches?"

Everyone looks at me and I look at you. Although they are helpless, this person is Long Feiyu. In their hearts, this person is at the same level as the Locust God. However, the Locust God is a disaster, but this person is a savior. Who should they trust? Clearly.

As the locusts migrated, the surrounding people heard that Long Feiyu personally commanded the extermination of the locusts. They had reacted indifferently to the imperial court's order to exterminate the locusts, and quickly assembled one by one. Under Long Feiyu's command, A trench three to four meters wide and tens of meters long was dug in the field.

Although they didn't know what Lord Long wanted to do, and it was impossible for the locust to fall into the ditch by itself, but seeing Long Feiyu's serious face, everyone still chose to believe him.

When time ran out, Wang Tao brought the things Long Feiyu needed. Looking at the huge lantern that had been tied up, Wang Tao wondered, "My lord, what do you want these things for? You know, this lantern can't fly."

Long Feiyu didn't have anything extra to say, and directly said to Wang Tao: "Go, take a few wooden stakes and drive them on several points of this ditch, then tie one end of the white cloth with a rope, and sprinkle white wine on the white cloth to prevent it. The locusts gnaw the white cloth."

Although everyone didn't know what Long Feiyu meant, they did so. After saying this, Long Feiyu finished the lantern, poured kerosene on the base of the lantern, tied a white cloth underneath, and lit it a few times. fire.A few hot air balloons were made, and through the principle of rising heat, the white cloth was pulled up by the lantern and placed in front of the locusts.

After doing all this, looking at the fields not far away that had been devastated, Long Feiyu sighed and said, "Hurry up, take what I asked for just now to the wasteland, once the locusts take off, you will immediately Ignite these things, and the smoke will still cause the locusts to fly in the opposite direction. There is this wall made of steps in front. At least 10,000+ locusts will be blocked here. The thing made with poisonous weeds will at least be unconscious for a period of time. The locusts gathered in front of the white cloth will fall into the ditch, and once the ditch is filled, you will immediately fill in the soil and bury the locusts.”

Hearing what Long Feiyu said, Wang Tao asked with some doubts, "Can this work?"

Long Feiyu glared at Wang Tao and said, "Man will conquer the sky. If you don't try, how can you give up lightly. The locusts are about to take off, tell them to light the fire."

"Yes"

As soon as the words fell, suddenly a black mass squeezed over. Such a large group was enough for the white cloth to not be able to bear the back and forth swing.It didn't take long for the poisonous smoke to be brought over by the wind, drifting into the blocked locust swarm, falling one after another, and falling directly into the ditch, filling the ditch in a while, but the locust swarm It was too huge, and most of the locusts escaped for a while, but because of the poisonous smoke, they also fainted in the field for a while.

Looking at the piled up locusts, Wang Tao said with emotion: "My darling, if it doesn't take long in this way, we can wipe out 10,000+ locusts. If these things are useless, they should be buried." Bar."

Hearing what Wang Tao said, some people began to bury it. At this time, Long Feiyu waved his hand and said, "This is a good thing. You can put it in a sack and feed it to chickens and ducks. If you have a wealthy family, try using oil." Fry it, this thing is a good thing, not only delicious, but also nutritious."

Hearing what Long Feiyu said, these people hesitated for a while, but out of their belief in Long Feiyu, some people ran home to get sacks.

(End of this chapter)