Back to Daqin to be Emperor

Chapter 221
Seeing Li Zuoche leaving with his horse, Fusu felt lost.

From being enemies back then to now drinking wine together, Fusu and Li Zuoche have only met each other a few times, but they regard each other as bosom friends in their hearts.

Fusu admired Li Zuoche's keen eyesight and insight into current affairs.

Fusu turned around and saw that the young master who was beside Li Zuoche before was still looking at Li Zuoche's back, and said, "Brother Qitong, let's go back together?"

"What did you call me?" The young man suddenly lost his voice.

Suspicion appeared in Fusu's eyes, and he said, "Your voice seemed clear just now."

The young man came back to his senses and said with a smile, "Who do you want to ask me?"

"Haha--!" A smile appeared on Fusu's face, and he said, "Meeting each other is enough!"

"If I wasn't the son of Daqin, I would rather travel the world with my husband and see everything in the world. It would be a pleasure."

At this time, Fusu was a little envious of Li Zuoche. It might be a relief to let go of the burden on him, but he couldn't help Su. Since he came to this world, he was doomed to advance and never retreat. Just like ordinary people.

Even if Fusu now finds that Daqin's mess is difficult to clean up, he still has to do it.

"Everyone in the world thinks that Young Master Da Qin is supremely glorious and prosperous, but they don't think that Young Master treats him like this."

"Most people in the world live in poverty, so they seek fame and wealth, but I was born rich, so I don't care about these things that I already have."

Laughing at himself, Fusu said: "How did my younger brother meet Mr.?"

"I am the chess boy of Zui Taoju. Mr. has broken ten games in a row in my Zuitaoju. I know him. Don't you allow me?"

Hearing this, Fusu smiled slightly and said nothing more.

"Little chess boy, you are so brave, not vulgar!"

But Qi Tong said: "I came to see you off today, but there is no Mr. Daqin, only friends. If you are friends, why should you be frightened?"

"Little brother is right!" At this moment, Fusu felt quite happy.

After coming to Jiujiang, this was a rare moment for him to relax. Naturally, he didn't want to be contaminated with intrigues and intrigues in the officialdom.

Patted Qitong's thin body a few times, seeing Qitong curled up slightly, Fusu looked at the weather and said, "Is it cold, little brother?"

As he spoke, he took off his cloak, put it on the chess boy, and said: "Although it is already April, but before and after the cold food, the weather turns cold, little brother still needs to pay more attention."

At the same time, Fusu took off a piece of jade hanging from his waist, and said: "Little brother, if you have any doubts in the future, you can come to the county guard's mansion to find me. If I'm not here, you can go to Xianyang to find me. If I do what I can, I will definitely not refuse." .”

After saying this, Fu Su got on his horse, cupped his hands and said, "Farewell, see you later."

Watching Fusu leave on horseback, Qitong's eyes flashed with a different look.

For the next half month, Fusu was completely idle, Wu Rui handled the government affairs of Jiujiang County, almost no need for Fusu to intervene.

Under the leadership of Sima Xin, all the farm tools were rolled out in Jiujiang County one after another. According to Fusu's instructions, for those farmers who were temporarily unable to buy them, a policy of borrowing money was implemented, and they only needed to repay them when they harvested in autumn.

Under the leadership of Mi Xi, the work of repairing the canal was quite effective. With the support of Mr. Mi and Han Bai, everything went smoothly.

Among them, in order to reduce the resistance to building the canal again, Mr. Mi suggested that Fusu invite the priests from those temples and perform another sacrifice. Under Fusu's prestige, these gods naturally agreed.

And the construction of canals is quite popular among the common people. The spring drought in Jiujiang saw the seedlings in the field dying of drought, but there was nothing they could do.

But now, the government is presiding over the land distribution, and this kindness is given to Fusu by the people. For the construction of the canal, the people of Jiujiang County have shown unprecedented enthusiasm. They also know that after the canal is completed, there will be no future No need to worry about drought and flood disasters.

With all the things going smoothly, Fusu naturally took the scroll of bamboo slips sent by Li Zuoche, and began to study "Lao Tzu" carefully while supervising the progress of various things in Jiujiang County.

Walking in the fields, Fusu felt quite at ease.

Slowly squatting down, looking at the pleasing growth of the seedlings in the field, Fusu knew that although the spring drought had some impact on the farming, but after all, a lot of losses were saved to a large extent because of the coming of the rain.

At least, from Fusu's point of view, the people of Jiujiang County this year, even if it is not a bumper harvest, can at least maintain a year's rations.

Suddenly, Fusu saw the corpse of a bug on the soil. Looking at the shape of the bug, Fusu recognized that it was an unformed locust.

Fusu picked up a few pieces of soil casually, broke the soil apart, and looked at the locust eggs in it, Fusu's face instantly became a little ugly.

Fu Su frowned tightly. Logically speaking, Fu Su should have thought of this matter long ago, but he didn't realize it until he saw these insect eggs.

Throughout history, one will be surprised to find that if a drought occurs in a place, it will be followed by locust plagues, then famine, and finally plague, until the population of this place is extinct.

This point was particularly prominent in the late Ming Dynasty.

The fundamental reason is that after the drought, the land is dry and the soil loses moisture, which is especially suitable for locusts to reproduce. If you don't realize it in time, what you see will be the locusts covering the sky and eating the crops in the field.

And the loss of food will lead to famine. If it cannot be curbed in time, once the number of people starved to death increases, a plague will form, and the living will inevitably migrate to other places in order to survive, and the plague will be brought to other places. , making the scale of the plague further increase.

Although Jiujiang County has experienced a baptism of sweet rain, it is still not enough after all, and it still cannot drown the locusts in the soil.

If Fusu didn't find out about it this time, then the next thing is that Fusu just left Jiujiang County, and soon there will be news of a locust plague in Jiujiang County.

What's even more frightening is that the people in the Chu region are mostly ignorant because they have been enslaved by aristocratic families for a long time. They dare not kill locusts at all, and instead regard locusts as gods.

And those magical witches are naturally happy to see the results, only in this way, will there be places to ask them, and they will be profitable.Even, these people will secretly contribute to the flames.

And Fusu also understood that he had to pinch out the locusts, and he was determined not to let the locusts flood, otherwise, all he did in Jiujiang County would be ruined by the locust plague.

(End of this chapter)