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

With the passage of time, this light sound became more and more intensive, and at the same time, a strange feeling began to appear on Chen Deng's hands.

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"It's strange, where does the water vapor come from, why is it so wet all over, it's so uncomfortable..."

"No... not right!"

Suddenly looking up at the sky in astonishment, Chen Deng was a little surprised to find that the bright moon that was originally in the sky was shrouded by clusters of dark clouds at some point.

At the same time, exclamations came into his ears from the direction of the people in front.

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"No... not good!"

"Magistrate Chen, it seems to be raining heavily here, and the bonfire that was used for lighting before will probably be extinguished!"

"Now the night is very deep, and there is no bright color in the sky... What do you think we will do next, should we continue to hunt and kill these migratory locusts?"

……

It was a strong middle-aged man who spoke. He quickly walked two steps in Chen Deng's direction, then cupped his hands and reported to Chen Denghui.

"Hehe...no need."

In front of him, Chen Deng supported the ground with one hand, and raised his hand high in the air, feeling the touch of raindrops falling on his hand.

After a while, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

……

"It's raining...it's raining!"

"It's raining well, it's really raining well!"

……

The previous sorrowful look on his face was swept away, Chen Deng looked at the torrential rain falling from the sky, and suddenly fell into a burst of unspeakable ecstasy.

Ren He never thought that what he said unintentionally before would actually come true, and it came true so quickly!

As he said just now, after the locusts are infested, unless something like fire, fire and thunder occurs, there is almost no possibility of affecting the development of the locust group.

And not a moment after these words fell, God actually cooperated so much that it really sent down a heavy rain!

What are locusts most afraid of?In addition to the burning fire, I am afraid there is only water.

As a member of the backward arthropods, locusts have two main breathing methods, one is direct oxygen exchange through the limbal skin of the arthropod system, and the other is inhalation through the stomata of the chest, sucking air into the trachea , and then exchange oxygen.

Facing heavy rain with this breathing method is like walking on a rainy day with the nostrils up. Once there is no suitable shelter, they will be quickly drowned by the rain, and there is no possibility of survival.

In the feudal period of ancient China, no one knew the anatomy of these insects, but even so, there was still a lot of knowledge about "locust plagues will disappear automatically when it rains" handed down.

What Chen Deng expected before was to have such a heavy rain.Even if you don't take away the whole family of locusts, old and young, but just kill the adults, that is a very valuable thing for Lujiang and Qianshan.

Looking at the current picture of dark clouds and closed moon, Chen Deng only felt that the rain would definitely fall, and it would definitely rain heavily and for a long time.

If the rain can fall until tomorrow in one breath, it is estimated that when they go out again, they can collect the corpses of these damned locusts!

……

"This is really my great fortune in Lujiang, it is really my great fortune in China!"

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"Since this is the case, then we don't have to work anymore! Pass my order to bring the dead locusts back to the county, and then wait for God to save face and help us drown these guys in a flood!"

"Oh, by the way, choose one of you, and when the heavy rain is over, hurry up and go to Wancheng to report the matter to the prefect!"

"The rest of you, let's hurry back to the city before it rains!"

A Gulu got up from the ground, and Chen Deng's face was filled with excitement at the moment.

Chapter No.17 subsided

No one expected that such a massive locust plague in Lujiang would end so hastily.

In just one week, millions of people in the four counties and six countries in the upper and lower Lujiang rivers prepared food for winter, but it was eaten up by countless locusts.

For the people in Lujiang, this disaster undoubtedly made them feel the malice of nature.They were very unfortunate to encounter a violent locust plague that could be ranked among the top three since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This made everyone's path in the second half of this year full of unknowns:

That is to say, it is an ingenious state of uncertainty between being starved to death and not being starved to death.

But from Zhang Yan's point of view, Lujiang was not that unfortunate character in this locust plague.

On the contrary, Lujiang County can be said to have had great luck, which allowed a severe locust plague that could completely destroy the grain reserves of the entire Jiangdong area to be pressed to death silently in Lujiang, the gate of Jiangdong.

Afterwards, according to statistics, the total number of locusts killed and killed by officers and soldiers in Lujiang River is about several million. At present, the corpses of those locusts have been dried and burned, and the ashes after burning have been spread on the farmland. It's a different kind of fertilization.

And these millions of locusts actually accounted for less than one-tenth of the dead locusts in normal locust plagues.

Most of the locusts were killed by a heavy rain on the first night after arriving in Lujiang.

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As we all know, locusts are extremely afraid of water.Whether the accumulated rainwater is poured into the air holes of the chest in rainy days, or the rainwater wets its wings, this will cause the locusts to lose their viability in a short period of time, or even be directly suffocated to death by the rainwater.

After a heavy rain that lasted all night, when the people of Qian County went out the next day, they saw the densely packed insect corpses all over the city, and they were shocked by those corpses.

At the beginning, several county officials from various places in Lujiang asked Zhang Yan that they wanted to collect the corpses of these bugs and use them to feed chickens and ducks in the future.

It's just that after Zhang Yan received the news, he naturally rejected them immediately.

Unlike those water-soluble gas toxins, both phenethylcyanide and hydrocyanic acid in locusts need to be volatilized or decomposed at high temperatures.

Although a heavy rain killed these locusts, their bodies still contained a lot of toxins.Once it is eaten by raised livestock and poultry, the consequences can be said to be unimaginable.

Zhang Yan actually understood what these people thought.

Since there may be a shortage of food in the second half of this year, how about finding a way to make up for it elsewhere?

As Zhang Yan knew, near Qianxian County near the river, Chen Deng had already started to organize the people to fish on a large scale, and dried the fish in the sun.

Everyone knows the principle of relying on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. Xiang'an, Shuxian and other places are not surrounded by rivers, so naturally they can only find ways to grab food from the mountains and those beasts.

Simply put, not to mention some wild fruits and seeds, almost all small and medium-sized animals have entered the hunting targets of the Lujiang people.

Those with more meat and fat, such as guinea pigs and rabbits, and those with less meat, such as squirrels, were brought to the table by the people.

what?

You said that the prey has been hunted by the people, so what about the large predators in the mountains?

Of course it is salad.

Due to the prey being hunted and killed, large creatures that could not find anything to eat, such as tigers, leopards, wild boars and other animals, were so hungry that they walked out of the mountains and forests and began to try to attack those tribes that were not protected by city walls.

Immediately afterwards, he was shot to death with traps and random arrows by the people who had been waiting there for a long time, and put them on the dining table of the bipedal upright ape together with his previous food.

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There is an old saying that food is the most important thing for the people, which fully shows that for the people at the bottom, food is the first element of their daily attention.

After the food grown at home was "looted", the enthusiasm of the people in various parts of Lujiang to collect some alternative food far exceeded Zhang Yan's imagination and became a completely spontaneous state.

In addition to hunting and gathering, the ancestors who knew that farming is better than hunting have not forgotten to toss their own one-third of an acre of land.

Didn't the food that was planted before not be received?Then grow some vegetables, melons and fruits, as much as possible.

Not to mention the importance of radish, a vegetable that just entered China a hundred years ago, to the people of the country, cabbage, the uncrowned king of all vegetables, can meet the food needs of countless people.

Those who can grow radishes should grow radishes.

If you can't grow radishes, grow cabbage.

In places where cabbage cannot even be grown, the people will instead try to grow something like sweet potatoes——

Although sweet potatoes are not eaten by pigs when they are rich, but in times of famine, they can somewhat bring a sense of security to the people who have no stock.

All in all, for Zhang Yan, he did little to collect food after the locust plague, and the people continued spontaneously.

Perhaps as the prefect of a county, all he can do is to spread more coins in the surrounding counties that have not had time to be hit by the disaster, and try to find a way to buy more grain from the rich landlords.

As for the aristocratic families and merchants who sell grain, how will the winter in their area survive this year...that is not something Zhang Yan needs to consider.

The ancestors have said long ago that if you are rich, you will benefit the world, and if you are poor, you will be good for yourself.

When he is rich, Zhang Yan will naturally find ways to help more needy people.

But now the people in his own family in Lujiang are almost out of food, so Zhang Yan naturally can only choose to die as a fellow daoist rather than a poor daoist.

Regardless of whether you will starve to death or not, at least I will not be starved to death. This is the naked reality.

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Lujiang, Wancheng, the interior of Wan Guohou's Mansion.

At this time, Zhang Yan was correcting the official documents and regulations.

What he had in his hands at the moment was an application for increasing the purchase of grain from Lujiang this year, and Zhang Yan didn't say much, and after a few words of instructions, he stamped his prefect's seal, which was regarded as agreeing to the other party's request.

Putting the official document aside, Zhang Yan took another report and continued to process it.

Now it has been a week since the locust plague happened, the locust plague has passed, and Zhang Yan has returned to his busy work.

Thanks to the assistance of Kuai Qi and others, and because of the climate, the locust plague ended very quickly. Therefore, Zhang Yan's reputation within the Lujiang area was not affected, but was also ruined by his decisive anti-disaster measures. There has been a slight improvement.

For things like the reproduction of grain and the restoration of industries in Lujiang, Zhang Yan is actually quite at ease.

Whether it is the spontaneous behavior of the people, or the violent fluctuations in food prices that quickly returned to stability, it all shows that this time, this large-scale disaster did not completely affect the development of Lujiang River, but instead gave Zhang Yan a chance to unite the hearts of the people. Opportunity.

When it comes to other aspects, there is only one point...

In other words, there is only one place that Zhang Yan cares more about.

That was the heavy rain that followed the army of locusts on the day when the locust plague just happened.

You know, what time is it?

This is August in China, and it will soon be the end of summer among the 24 solar terms!

Regardless of whether it is based on the seasonal laws of solar terms or the weather trend of Lujiang River in recent days, the heavy rain a few days ago seemed extremely strange, which made Zhang Yan a little confused.

Under normal circumstances, the end of heat is the end of summer in a year, and it is also the last time when the temperature can remain relatively high.

During this period of time, not to mention the kind of heavy rain that pours down directly, even thunderstorms in summer rarely appear on the land of Huaxia.