The eldest daughter of the emperor, she began to build a city wildly

Chapter 244
In the afternoon, Liu Zhonglin, who was packed tightly, came to look for Su Tang. As soon as Yingyue opened the door to let him in, the locusts that covered the sky and the sun rushed into the house, rampaging everywhere. Yes, the house is full of locusts.

"Your Highness, what should I do!" Liu Zhonglin took off the cloth wrapped around his head, wiped his painful face from being hit by locusts, and asked what to do when he saw Su Tang's first words.

In his eyes, Su Tang is so capable that he can even cure the disease, but this little locust can fly wherever Su Tang wants them to fly.

It's a pity that he was going to be disappointed this time, Su Tang just replied, "I can't help it, when the locusts eat up all they can eat, they will leave naturally."

Even if there is a way, it will be too late now. In just one day, the originally green woods and grasslands have now exposed loess, and they are almost gnawed.

Liu Zhonglin blinked, this was not the answer he imagined, "Aren't we going to do something?"

"Then organize the people to go out and kill locusts." Finding something for them to do is better than hiding in the house and thinking wildly.

"Yes!" Liu Zhonglin wrapped himself up helplessly, and rushed into the rampaging locusts. When the door was opened and closed, locusts swarmed in again, but the panic group was very busy.

There is no need for organization, the people consciously go out to hunt and kill, but unfortunately this is just a drop in the bucket for the densely packed locusts like dark clouds covering the sky, and it does not have much effect.

This situation lasted for five days. These locusts forcibly gnawed out holes in the wooden houses discarded by the people. The people hid in the houses made of cement and lamented that the quality of the houses built by Su Tang was good. Not even a small pit.

Seeing that there was really nothing to eat here, the locusts continued to fly north, and after a few more cities, they would be in the territory of Chenyang Kingdom. As these locusts flew all the way, they grew stronger and they could handle it when they arrived in Chenyang Kingdom.

Originally, there was a drought in the area bordering Leng'an and Xizhao, and Xizhao was not spared. The two countries were troubled by the drought.

After all, the border areas of the two countries have been desolate for thousands of miles. There is no food or drink, so there is no time to fight there. The border troops of the two countries can only take a step back and withdraw from the drought-stricken area.

But Chenyang Kingdom is watching a joke at this time, just waiting for Leng'an Kingdom and Xizhao Kingdom to reduce their strength due to the drought, and the cavalry of Chenyang Kingdom will be able to conquer the two countries, and then the surrounding small countries will not be afraid. , can rule the world.

Now that this batch of locust plagues have caused trouble in the past, let's see if they still have the intention to continue watching jokes.

The climate in Chenyang Country is cold, and a large area of ​​the country is mainly planted with winter wheat. After being eaten by these locusts, they will also fall into a situation of food shortage for half a year. With these locusts holding them back, Leng Anguo and Xi Zhao Guo doesn't need to be on guard every day, but it will be much easier.

The locusts gradually left, and the remaining locusts in twos and threes were wiped out by the people who were gnashing their teeth angrily. In the entire Yanyang County, there was not even a speck of green at a glance, and the land was barren for thousands of miles.

Those victims who had just been resettled seemed to see the scene of everything withered in their hometown due to the drought, and felt extremely uncomfortable for a while.

Even worse than them are the original people of Yanyang City. Five days ago, the fields were still green and lush, but now they are so eaten by locusts that they can't even find a sweet potato stalk.

"It's a crime. I thought I would open up so much wasteland and grow crops. This year I could have a good year and buy some good things. Now there is nothing." The people sat on the ground and looked at the bare fields, their hands aching Beat the ground.

"If we knew this, we should have harvested the crops earlier, and we wouldn't have been eaten by locusts."

"Who in the world would have known earlier that these locusts came and went suddenly, but they ate up our rations."

"This, this, how much money has to be gnawed. I look at the bare land now, and my heart feels like bleeding. I have taken care of these crops for several months, but in the end it was nothing."

The common people sat on the ground talking and discussing, and they stopped talking as they talked. The more they listened, the more uncomfortable they became. They valued the crops in the field more than themselves, and they had mixed feelings in their hearts.

"Go and dig in the ground." Su Tang, who came to check the situation, saw them all bowing their heads, very frustrated, so he said.

Seeing Su Tang approaching, everyone quickly stood up and said respectfully, "Your Highness, those locusts are so powerful that people standing outside would want to eat two bites. The holes they drilled along the poles in this place are probably all killed. Eat clean."

When the locusts crossed the border, they ate everything they could eat. How could they leave crops? You don’t need to look to know that the ground is probably empty.

"Let's dig and see, maybe I can give some left over." Su Tang remembered that locusts don't know how to drill holes, and at most they crawl in along the cracks in the ground. Sweet potatoes are also clean.

After Su Tang spoke, everyone listened, and ran to the ground one by one to start digging. The people who had no hope at first pulled out some pitted fruits with their hands. None are strong.

Digging down again, huge potatoes and sweet potatoes are revealed, intact, piled up in the ground.

"I didn't eat it, I really didn't eat it, gods bless you, the sweet potatoes are all good, the only ones that were gnawed are the ones that exposed the ground on the top." An old lady cried with joy while hugging the sweet potatoes.

They had no hope at first, but found that their crops were still buried in the ground, and they were so excited that they could hardly find things, north and south.

"That's right, the crops His Highness gave are good. The locusts have gnawed away the rest, but these are still good." As he spoke, he was about to bow down to Su Tang.

"Okay, hurry up and tell everyone to harvest the crops!" Su Tang quickly stopped them, and she was relieved in her heart. She was really afraid that these sweet potatoes would not be able to keep them, so she came to see them.

Judging from the scale that the locusts can cover Yanyang County, many cities may still suffer. Leng'an has a shortage of food in the country, and even the rich may not be able to buy it.

In case these sweet potatoes are also eaten, what will the more than [-] people in Yanyang City eat? Can they ask the court for it?The imperial court was still too busy to take care of itself, so he went to the system to buy it, and with the back of his head, he knew that the system would take advantage of her danger to beat her up.

These crops are still there now, which can relieve her a lot of pressure.

Although Yanyang City originally had a small population, fortunately, Su Tang encouraged them to open up wasteland, and there was still a lot of land to plant.

(End of this chapter)