Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

"Wheat is something that people can't eat until the grouting is complete and the kernels are hardened?"

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Ps:

I'm an idiot, why am I writing this.

Just checked, it seems that things like qingchuxiaomai cannot be written, and it will die if you write it.

I researched and studied how to salvage this thing. Is it because what I wrote is not good or the angle of writing is not good.

Let's release the previous plot first, and I will change it later.

To be honest, I regret it a bit.

Why should I write qingchuxiaomai

It is true that historic areas are prone to death.

Chapter 10 Small Advice

He asked Zhang Yan with a worried face. You must know that if wheat is harvested before it is fully mature, then for the common people, this is not a matter of reducing production, but a real "extinction".

The official is almost sure that when this kind of grain is about to mature, no commoner will be willing to harvest it in advance——

This is not to make them sacrifice part of their income, but to drive these people to a dead end.

Even though Zhang Yan already has some reputation in Lujiang today, but fame belongs to fame. When it really involves his own life, I am afraid that no one is willing to take such a risk.

After all, food is like nothing else.

If ordinary people don't buy new clothes for a year or so, at most they will be a little bit down and haggard, but they won't suffer any actual harm because of it.

But if you don't eat a bite of food for a year or so... Can anyone do this?

This is not a problem that can be solved with patience and hunger.

Before the crop of wheat is fully mature, for ordinary people, this thing is no different from weeds.

Because of your words, you let people cut off the grain that grows well in the field as weeds...

If you are lucky, the common people will scold you.If you are unlucky, I am afraid that tomorrow the censor who patrols various places will start to make small reports, accusing the Lujiang prefect of the "atrocities".

As for Zhang Yan's side, he was not at all unclear about this point.

Nodding to the man, Zhang Yan stretched out his hand and stroked his chin lightly, then he opened his mouth to respond.

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"Oh, I see. You mean the silage thing?"

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As we all know, in the process of wheat growth, its life can be divided into four different periods, and each stage can be divided into three stages: front, middle and back, so that there are twelve different stages in total.

In each of the different stages, the growth of wheat, or the emphasis, is completely different.

Taking the most common spring wheat as an example, the maturity period of this crop can be divided into three stages: milk ripening period, wax ripening period, and yellow ripening period.In the same way as they are named, the milk ripening period is the first period after the wheat grains are filled, then hardens in the wax ripening period, and finally peels off the shell from the inside at the yellow ripening period, and the appearance of the whole plant will also change accordingly. It was golden and gratifying.

Under normal circumstances, farmers will not harvest the wheat until the late wax ripening period, or even after the wheat has entered the yellow ripening period.Only at this time can the things you take back be called "grain" instead of weeds.

In later generations, due to the rapid development of productivity, the demand for food in the Huaxia region decreased day by day. On the contrary, the demand for agricultural and sideline products such as meat increased day by day, which directly led to the surplus of food in the Central Plains. , harvest it, and then sell it to those farmers as extremely high-quality cattle and sheep feed.

This is the very famous "silage wheat" incident.

This kind of behavior appeared in later generations, naturally there is a certain reason... because at that time, people's demand had changed from grain to meat, and even the price of "silage wheat" used as feed had far exceeded its value. food value.

But the era that Zhang Yan lives in now is not a future generation with highly developed productivity... After thinking for a while, he realized what the official was worried about.

It is nothing more than a famine that may be caused by this behavior.

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"Hehe, don't worry, I have naturally considered what you are worried about."

"These wheat left in the ground will be eaten by locusts. Although some of the wheat can be saved if it is harvested in advance, there is still a lot of it that cannot be used as food. No matter what you do, it will cause famine. This is what you are worried about. ?”

Hehe smiled and said to the official, Zhang Yan did not expect that these people are not all the same as those in the TV series of later generations. Ask your own thoughts clearly.

Although limited by their own knowledge, they often don't see some problems clearly, but for Zhang Yan, this is already a very rare improvement.

Seeing the other party nodded towards him, Zhang Yan didn't waste any more time, but explained to him.

"Perhaps you are an expert in farming, and I am not as good as you... But you must know that your cognition is still a bit biased when it comes to overall disaster response planning."

"Now we are facing a plague of locusts. This kind of thing cannot be understood completely in the light of farming, but should be regarded as a battle or even a war. The locusts are the soldiers of the enemy army and the enemy we must defeat."

Group: 8 (V05)

"It's a pity to harvest the wheat that is about to mature... But have you ever thought that if you don't harvest it and leave it in the field, it will become the ration of the locust army?"

"Those adult locusts eat wheat seedlings, and then give birth to new locusts... The new locusts continue to eat, and then grow up, with endless descendants. This is a blatant act of 'benefiting the enemy'!"

"On the contrary, if we can take back these wheat seedlings, at least they can be used to feed the cattle, sheep and horses in Lujiang, and we can save some beans, alfalfa and other things from the feed of those cattle and horses."

"Unlike green wheat, these things can be eaten by people. Although it is very difficult to eat, at least it will not let a person starve to death. Dignity is not important-whether we can survive because of our actions. More The common people are what we need to consider among each other."

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He spoke earnestly to the other party. In fact, because Zhang Yan was afraid of affecting morale, he never told everyone that his personal psychological expectations had already fallen to the bottom of this locust plague.

To put it simply, nine times out of ten it has already been sent, and it is hopeless. If there is no accident, everyone will be completely chilled.

After all, in this era, Zhang Yan has almost no way to prepare a series of biochemical pesticides such as organophosphorus pesticides, and those simple compounds such as copper ion solutions are not effective against locusts...so it can be said that once the locusts When the disaster happened, that Zhang Yan turned the whole thing to pieces, but he couldn't find any special medicine.

If the current locust plague has not completely broken out, then he can take advantage of the fact that most of the locust swarms are in the nymph stage, and look for more creatures such as chickens and ducks to prevent natural enemies...

But if the disaster had already broken out, or even a large-scale swarm of poisonous locusts appeared like now, then he would have nothing to say about Lujiang.

The swarms of locusts are almost difficult to be massacred by the feudal dynasty, and everyone can only silently bear the ravages of each other.

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Of course, then again, no matter what happens, people can't really do nothing, or even just sit and wait because of a difficulty or a so-called condition that doesn't allow it.

This is not Zhang Yan's character, nor is it what a leader should do.

After taking a deep breath, Zhang Yan saw that the other party looked thoughtful, so he didn't continue to say more, but chose to give an example.

A fairly straightforward example.

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"As I said just now, this time when we face the locust plague in Lujiang, it is not much different from the marching army. You can understand our behavior as clearing the field by erecting walls. Although we hurt a thousand enemies and eight ourselves [-], but it is also an act of necessity.”

"We always have to do something as much as possible... Maybe these things are useful, maybe they are not. But no matter what, as long as it can give us a slight chance of winning, it can't be said that the effort is completely in vain."

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He was still talking about something, but at this moment, Zhang Yan's mind had drifted far away.

It wasn't because of anything else, but because he was talking just now, and suddenly realized something—that maybe the locust plague in Lujiang was really related to him.

In a normal year, if it is as rainy and hot as this year, then the wheat will ripen very quickly.

Not to mention that it was fully ripe in July, but now it is almost the end of August, and the wheat in this field should be ready to be harvested.

It's just a pity that because this year's Lujiang River is too busy, libraries, water conservancy projects, and even the industrial zone in the north of the city have been repaired one after another, basically without stopping.

These projects took up a lot of Lujiang's population and labor force, and also made the planting and harvesting time of this year ten days later than in previous years...

It was these ten days, like an impenetrable barrier, that brought the plague of locusts that could have been largely avoided, directly to the public.

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"Well, it couldn't be because of me that the disaster in Lujiang was really caused...? If there is no one in Lujiang, maybe this year's summer grain has already been harvested, so I can just avoid the limelight of this locust plague..."

A little remorse arose in his heart. Zhang Yan had always been confident in his actions and believed that he had sufficient motives, but this time, he suddenly felt that his actions were a little too hasty.

But soon, this feeling of frustration was suppressed by him...

Not because of anything else, but because apart from this incident, he brought many different changes to Lujiang, many better changes than the previous historical records.

Even if it was because of my own reasons that the disaster in Lujiang River was caused...but what does that matter?

Zhang Yan has already realized that even if the main cause of the disaster is himself, that cannot cover up his various contributions to Lujiang over the past year or so.

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"In short...that's how it is in this respect."

"I still say the same thing. The food that can be snatched back must be harvested quickly. If it is really impossible to snatch it back, the young crops must be cut off and brought back, so as not to make the locust swarm even bigger."

"As for the rest... it has little to do with your Agriculture Department."

Turning his head to look at the few people who had been silent all the time, Zhang Yan obviously didn't intend to spend any more time on this matter.

In addition to reducing the impact of disasters, reducing the intensity of disasters through direct or indirect means is naturally an indispensable part of disaster relief.

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"Then, the next step is the Department of Public Security... and the Public Security Departments under each county. The work related to locust hunting and killing will be carried out with you as the main force."

Talking softly to everyone, although Zhang Yan's tone was not very strong, it revealed a kind of undeniable meaning in it.

And those officials who heard the news were naturally not stupid.

I saw the first two members of the Public Security Department in uniforms bowed their hands to Zhang Yan, their voices were firm and extremely resonant.

"I also ask the prefect to give an order, and I will wait for the soldiers to go through fire and water, and I will not hesitate!"

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That's right, in addition to working hard on harvesting such places that individuals will notice, Zhang Yan also inevitably needs to arrange for the hunting and killing of the entire locust swarm.

And such a position does not require people to have a deep understanding of farming, on the contrary, it requires the practitioner to be physically strong and have a very good physique.

After the locusts gather in swarms and switch from scattered to gregarious, both physical strength and aggressiveness are many times stronger than ordinary grasshoppers.

It is very, very physically exhausting to deal with this highly poisonous creature, which was not an easy task for ordinary people in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Fortunately, all those who can serve as magistrates in Lujiang are carefully selected and strong people, even if they are called Lujiang's "second set of violent institutions" besides the army.