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The officials all left with their missions, knowing full well that Yongkang was completely finished.

But we must also find a way to protect other places, otherwise these officials will be held responsible even if they die.

The displacement of the people of Yongkang is inevitable. The prefect of Yongkang now wants to take advantage of the fact that the people have lost their food supplies and are extremely hostile to locusts to kill as many locusts as possible.

Killing one more means one less, and he felt he would go crazy if he did nothing.

Some of the messengers from Yongkang rode their horses at full speed towards Kyoto, while others ran towards Qingshan Prefecture.

However, these people worked tirelessly, and no matter how many horses died, they could not outrun the locust army.

After all, a horse's four legs can only run, how can it compare to a locust that can fly.

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Wuning County.

Yang Zhijin came to Qingshan Town, followed by Yang Run.

The two walked on the street, looking at the locusts flying around, and Yang Zhijin's heart became heavier and heavier, until it sank to the bottom.

Originally, Li Mengyue went to the county government office to tell him the news of the locust plague.

Although he looked shocked, he gave orders to all the people in Wuning County to bring the rice home in advance, and also had people notify other counties.

But he knew that this was just a formality.

Putting aside whether other county magistrates would believe it or not, even among the people under his rule, he would never harvest the unripe rice and bring it home to put in the cellar without using tough measures.

What's more, if we just wait a dozen days, the rice will grow full and we can harvest a lot more food.

For ordinary people who regard food as their life, harvesting at the risk of reduced production is tantamount to taking their lives.

How is it possible that if the bailiffs just announced that there was a locust plague and asked the villagers to bring the rice home in advance, they would obediently do as they were told?

Although he knew all of this very well, he still agreed to Li Mengyue's request.

But after Li Mengyue left, he was always uneasy, as if something really big had happened.

After finishing his official business, he felt very bored staying in the county government office, so he asked Yang Run to prepare a carriage and went to Qingshan Town.

Before this, he didn't believe that the locust plague would come so soon, but now he saw many locusts flying on the streets.

He knew something was wrong.

"Master, maybe the locust plague is real."

"Nonsense, I can see that."

"Quick, notify all villages and towns again that they must harvest the rice. Those who violate the rules will be fined five taels of silver."

"Yes."

Yang Run left his young master behind and went to carry out the order.

He knew that with the young master's skills, he would not encounter any danger here.

Even if someone is not afraid of death and is looking for trouble, the young master will teach him a lesson. The most important thing right now is food.

If the locust plague is really on the way as Miss Li said, then it would be best for the villagers to harvest the rice and bring it home before it breaks out completely.

Even though Yang Run had never experienced a locust plague, he knew how terrible it was from the descriptions in the books, so he walked faster and faster.

After Yang Run left, Yang Zhijin did not return to the county government office immediately, but walked towards Xinghua Village.

Two months ago, he learned from Li Mengyue that there would be a locust plague this year.

He did not blindly believe it, but conducted serious research and found that the weather conditions in Wuning County were indeed abnormal.

Not to mention the long-term drought, the temperature is also relatively high, which is suitable for the growth and reproduction of locusts.

Since he didn't know much about agriculture, he specially asked people to find experienced farmers and elderly people who had experienced locust plagues.

They all agreed that the possibility of a locust plague was very high.

The reason why he was willing to come to Wuning County to be the county magistrate was, on the one hand, to escape the suffocating environment at home and stay away from the bad people and things; on the other hand, he also wanted to make a career and prove his ability.

When he arrived in Wuning County and saw the real living conditions of the people, he was deeply shocked.

He never knew that for him, it was just the money for a meal, which could keep his family well fed and clothed.

In his eyes, the wild vegetables on the ground and the coarse grains that make his throat ache are not worth mentioning, but they are the food that ordinary people need to survive.

There are also many children of school age who, although they are old enough to go to school, have to imitate adults and do housework clumsily.

Children who are a little older are considered the family's labor force and work in the fields with the adults.

These were within his psychological expectations and not difficult to accept.

But there are still many people who can't even afford to eat coarse grains.

At first he still had doubts. Don’t we all farm? Even if we don’t eat the harvested crops, it should be fine to replace them with coarse grains.

Later he realized how naive his idea was.

It turned out that the per-acre grain yield was very low. When the harvest season came, after a lot of hard work to bring the grain home and pay the tax, there was not much left.

Even if all of it was sold and exchanged for coarse grains, it would still be far from enough for the family to eat.

Although he lost his mother when he was young and was not loved by his father, he was not treated unfairly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. He could not understand how difficult the life of the lower-class people was.

I don't know when his mentality changed drastically.

He wanted the poor people in Wuning County to live a good life, to have enough food and warm clothes every day, and never have to worry about going hungry.

But just as he was working towards this goal, a sudden locust plague slapped him hard in the face, as if mocking his own arrogance.

But he believed that man can conquer nature, so he shamelessly got more than 100,000 ducklings from Li Mengyue.

Although most of them were distributed to other counties, only more than 30,000 were left in Wuning County.

He was very surprised by the role played by more than 30,000 ducklings.

He didn't know the exact number of locusts that could be eaten in a day, but because of this, there were not many locusts in the entire Wuning County. On the contrary, there was not enough food even for the ducks.

Perhaps it was because of the little duck that he had the illusion that the locust plague, which people were so afraid of, was not that serious.

Even when he submitted a memorial to the court stating the possibility of a locust plague, he did not take it seriously as he did not receive a reply.

He never expected that when he stopped worrying about the locust plague and was thinking of ways to increase people's income, Li Mengyue actually came to the county government quietly and told him that a locust plague was coming.

He didn't believe it at first, but when he saw the locusts flying around on the streets of Qingshan Town, he no longer dared to hold on to any hope.

However, when he saw the locusts on the street, they were not so dense that they covered the sky, so he wondered if the area of ​​this locust plague would be relatively small and would not cause much damage.

Yang Zhijin, who was secretly rejoicing, had no idea that these were just the vanguard of the locusts, and that the army was moving from Yongkang Prefecture to Qingshan Prefecture with an unstoppable momentum.

On the way to Xinghua Village, Yang Zhijin was surprised by what Zhoujia Village, Meihua Village, Guihua Village, and Shitou Village did.