Dressed as a big boss Bai Yueguang, God does not allow salted fish to lie down

Nangong Li is now counting the days every day, wondering when the emperor will issue an order to banish him!

He went to the eldest princess to lobby for this matter. The eldest princess usually went to the empress dowager, and the empress dowager would make a few suggestions, and the emperor would probably listen.

Little did she know that the empress dowager was thinking more. After all, the Fourth Prince was not her own, and he was anxious to go out. The emperor was not in good health, and at this critical juncture, she felt it would be more reassuring to keep him by her side.

He needs to find an opportunity to seize the throne, but now what he wants is to be with Su Yuejian as soon as possible. He is really worried about her being alone with Zhongli.

After all, there is no regular military force there. Even if a person has high martial arts skills, he can still be easily attacked as long as there are enough people.

In addition, if he could stay away from the capital and away from surveillance, it would be easier for him to vigorously develop his military power.

Without sufficient power, seizing the throne would be a joke.

When he has made all the arrangements, he can fake his mother's death and then sneak her out without any risk.

In the past few months, Nangong Li has calculated his own property and exchanged half of it for food, cotton cloth and cotton. He also secretly purchased a lot of weapons from foreign countries.

In order to build up military force, he needs to be able to provide food and weapons, so he needs to prepare a lot of things.

These things were being arranged in full swing, and the warehouses of the Lanyue Towers in various places were piled high with them. However, as they were not in the capital, they did not arouse suspicion.

It is said that when Shen Nanxing returned to Renxin Hall in the capital, he took people to make allicin. According to Su Yuejian's method, he took the medical staff who had studied in Zhongli to do it step by step, and it turned out to be a perfect replica.

Zhongli County

Jun Moli ran over breathlessly, "Princess, it's bad, the blackened locusts are coming!"

Jun Moli took a breath and continued, "Master Gu has already taken people to deal with it according to the plan we discussed before! It looks like there are a lot of bugs!"

For a moment, people from all over the county could no longer sit still. In addition to the previously arranged division of labor, everyone else picked up their tools and ran to help.

Su Yuejian brought the homemade pesticide water that she had prepared over the past two days, and ordered all the craftsmen in Yuejianfang, "Put down your work and go support the locust control!"

Thousands of locusts travel in swarms, and their violent feeding ability can eat up entire tracts of crops in a short period of time.

When the people saw the locust swarm coming, they were frightened.

"Why are the locusts still coming?!"

"Oh my god, it blocked out the sun!"

"You beasts, I'm going to fight you!"

Gu Bingxiu stood on a high place and shouted loudly, "Don't be afraid. The number of locusts this time is less than one-third of last year. If we work together, we will definitely be able to preserve our food supply! Everyone below, listen to the unified allocation of our temporary locust control team, do your own thing, and make sure everyone's food supply is preserved!"

The pesticide water was connected to the spray pipe and began to be sprayed. Each copper tube emitted dense and medicinal water mist vertically upwards, and the locusts were washed away to pieces!

Many blackened locusts were washed down from the sky, and the children put the half-dead locusts into their pockets and took them away. The locusts that had been sprayed with pesticides would not die immediately, but would slowly die.

But the locusts were like dark clouds, densely packed, and there were still some after we killed them!

The people in the workshop did not dare to slack off, and some of them put nets over the crops.

On the one hand, it reduces biting, and on the other hand, it sets up nets to catch locusts that are hit by pesticides.

Another part of the idle labor force is spraying pesticides with spray bottles.

Today's locusts have never seen pesticides and have no resistance, so the effect is very good.

Group one sprays pesticides, group two kills with nets, group three digs holes to place baits and covers them with soil, group four uses branches used to make homemade pesticides for fumigation, group five kills with fire, and group six goes to the spawning grounds to fumigate to stop them from laying eggs.

The children were also busy, quickly cleaning up the killed locusts.

Everyone has work to do, no one will stand idly by, and everyone has to fight to survive!

Locusts are mild and non-toxic when they are green. The reason they are green is that they can hide from humans and use the color of the grass to protect themselves.

The scattered locusts are jumping around in the grass. There is nothing to be afraid of. If you want to eat them, you can catch a few.

Once they live in groups, they will undergo a melanistic transformation.

Yes, it has indeed turned evil, changing from its originally mild temperament to being fierce and brutal. At the same time, toxic substances are secreted in its body, and it can no longer be eaten at this point.

Su Yuejian remembered having seen a documentary about locust plagues, which refreshed her original understanding.

I originally thought that locust plagues only occurred because of the backward productivity today, but after watching the documentary I realized that locust plagues are a very troublesome natural disaster even in a very developed era.

Humans have never completely eradicated them. Even if they use drones to spray pesticides on a large scale, it will only hurt themselves while hurting the enemy. Although the locusts can be eliminated, the food chain will be broken and great harm will be caused to the ecosystem.

Even in this technologically advanced era, with the help of technology and constantly updated pesticides, small-scale locust plagues still exist.

A locust swarm in an area of ​​one kilometer can contain 3.5 million adult locusts. These locusts have an amazing appetite and can eat tons of food every day, which is equivalent to the food ration for people.

This is the first of the three major natural disasters in ancient times!

Locusts fly along the way, replenishing food crops containing water, and then look for suitable egg-laying sites to lay eggs.

Su Yuejian directed a team of people to go to the dry riverbed and wasteland that had been burned before, light pesticide branches and continue to fumigate, in order to prevent the locusts from laying eggs there this year.

It was pitch black during the day, with patches of darkness blocking out the sun. People with trypophobia can't bear to watch this, it's really enough to make their scalps explode.

At night, everyone dug a hole and held a torch. Insects were attracted to light and flew towards the torches. Those that were burned to death were buried on the spot.

After a busy day and night, at dawn the next day, there were not many locusts left, with only a few still dying and jumping around in the fields.

Su Yuejian also had a smoky look on her face, and she felt sad when she saw the losses in the fields!

Gu Bingxiu stood by tiredly. "Last year's locust plague lasted for three days, but this year it was gone in one day. Now that so many locusts have been killed, although the food has been damaged, at least 50% to 60% of the food rations have been saved. If it weren't for your previous methods, the damage would be more than the current level."

Next, Gu Bingxiu organized everyone to gather the locusts that were not completely dead and burn them on a wasteland!

Chaoyang Palace in the capital.

A minister reported that a large locust plague has recently occurred in Sanhu, Xiacai, Dayi, Shangcai, Taihang, Maling and Huai'an, and all the food has been eaten up. We sincerely request Your Majesty to pardon the taxes in these areas.

The locust plague occurred in the world because the emperor did something wrong, so God sent locusts to punish the world.

An official from the Ministry of Rites submitted a memorial to the Emperor, asking him to offer sacrifices and then reflect on himself.

Wang Guoxiang suggested that the locust plague was a warning from heaven to the emperor, caused by the imbalance of yin and yang in the world and the dominance of treacherous officials. If the emperor could admit his mistakes and correct them in time, the locust plague would soon pass.

Please ask the emperor to issue an edict of repentance.

Then the ministers knelt down one after another, shouting for the emperor to repent for his sins.