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Chapter 237 Little Locust Plague, Let's See How I Destroy You!
The locust plague is one of the three major natural disasters!
Every time a locust plague occurs, it is accompanied by a reduction in food production, making the people hungry!
Even now, there is no particularly good way to deal with locust plagues, and the main thing is prevention. If we can't prevent it, we can only spray pesticides on a large scale, but how could there be such conditions in ancient times?
Therefore, when the matter was passed back to the imperial court, it attracted the attention of the imperial court.
Emperor Da Luo had a bitter face: "My dear friends, there is a locust plague in the southeast, reaching a scale once every 50 years! The harm of the locust plague, needless to say, you should know! Now that the autumn harvest is in sight, if the grain is eaten up by locusts Well, then we will be in debt this year! Dear dear friends, what is your best plan?"
After finishing speaking, he looked eagerly at the humerus ministers in the court.
However, all the officials looked at each other in blank dismay, then lowered their heads, unable to come up with an effective solution.
In fact, there is no other way, the locust plague can only be appointed.
"Alas!" Emperor Da Luo sighed, he felt that this emperor's life was too miserable!
Ever since I was selected by Daomen last year, I have been unlucky!
Either a tornado, or an earth dragon turning over, followed by a once-in-a-century flood.
Up to now, I thought it would be better, but I encountered drought and locust plagues again.
God really cared for him so much that almost all natural disasters were sent to his territory.
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If you don't torment him to death, don't give up!
At this moment, Concubine Song Yu came gracefully.
Emperor Da Luo saw it, his eyes lit up, and asked: "Fairy Yufei, our Da Luo has encountered a plague of locusts, and there is nothing we can do! Is there anything you can do?"
"This...Your Majesty, this is a natural disaster, can it be done by man?" Concubine Song Yu smiled wryly.
"There are many masters in your Taoist sect, and there are many capable people, is there really no way?" Emperor Da Luo asked unwillingly.
Concubine Song Yu hesitated for a moment: "It's not impossible, it's just that this method hurts both sides!"
"Fairy, tell me first!" Emperor Yinluo asked.
"In the past, the seniors of our family saw that the people could not eat food after encountering locust plagues. They couldn't bear it, so after painstaking efforts, they finally developed a kind of poison! Spray this poison on the rice seedlings, and the locusts will die after eating it. Kill! They used this medicine to solve a locust plague!"
Emperor Da Luo was overjoyed: "Isn't this a good way?"
"Your Majesty, you don't know something!" Song Yufei smiled wryly: "This poison can not only poison locusts to death, but also poison people! When the poison is attached to the rice seedlings, it will be absorbed by the grain on the rice seedlings. It has become poisonous food! After people eat the poisonous food, those who are better will get seriously ill, and those who are not will die immediately!"
"I see!" Emperor Da Luo sat down disappointed.
If this medicine is used, the food will also be destroyed and cannot be eaten.
He eliminated the locust plague mainly to keep the food, not to destroy it!
"However, no matter how difficult it is, I will use my strength to fight against the sky and solve the locust plague!" Emperor Da Luo rekindled his fighting spirit.
After so many disasters, what is a plague of locusts?
Concubine Song Yu looked at the fighting spirit of the other party, and said with admiration: "This is the Ming Lord we have chosen! Since Your Majesty is so determined, we will do our best to help!"
"Thank you fairy, thank you Daomen!"
Then, they sent a large number of masters and money to solve the locust plague.
The solution is very simple and rude, that is to rely on your own skills to kill the overwhelming locusts.
You punch, I slap, and a space is instantly emptied.
However, the effect is not very obvious, because there are too many locusts, and they cannot be killed no matter how they are killed.
Moreover, his fecundity is amazing, and after a day or two, he returned to his original state.
This worried Emperor Da Luo.
But at this moment, Concubine Song Yu came and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will report this time to my seniors, after some research, I finally found a solution to the locust plague!
Emperor Da Luo was overjoyed: "What is a good strategy?"
Concubine Song Yu held an airtight jar in her hand and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is the poison I told you that can kill locusts! As long as you use it, the plague of locusts will naturally be cured!
"Fairy Yufei, didn't you say that this medicine can poison not only locusts, but also people? So, it's not appropriate, "I can't use this medicine!" Emperor Da Luo shook his head.
"Your Majesty, worry too much!" Song Yufei smiled and said, "After our master's research, spraying this medicine on the rice fields will indeed turn the grain into poisonous food! But if we change the method and put this poison in the grass Burning, the poison floats in the air along with the smoke, which not only kills the locusts, but also reduces the harm to the food!"
After hearing this, Emperor Da Luo was greatly moved: "Fairy, you are right, let's try!"
So Concubine Song Yu took action immediately.
Let people prepare a large amount of hay, then sprinkle poison and burn it.
That will be accompanied by smoke and dust, floating in the air.
Many locusts came across them, and immediately flew away far away, as if avoiding snakes and scorpions.
Although it didn't poison the locusts, the effect was already good!
Emperor Da Luo laughed loudly: "Look, fairy, this medicine is effective! Everyone, set fire to all the dry grass and scatter them all over the fertile fields. I want the locusts to have nowhere to hide!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
In less than an hour, the licorice accompanied by poison was ignited in Ke Liangtian.
The smoke and dust rose slowly and filled the fields.
The locusts dodged one after another, some couldn't dodge, and fell directly from the sky, obviously poisoned.
Seeing this scene, Emperor Da Luo was even happier.
There is a door to help is not the same!
Even if you encounter natural disasters, you can survive safely!
The licorice was burned for two consecutive days, the sky was filled with smoke and dust, and the number of locusts was much less.
The remaining locusts, seeing that they could not eat food, could fly away.
"Your Majesty, the plague of locusts has migrated!"
"Where did you migrate?"
"Report to Your Majesty, migrate to the southeast!
Southeast direction?
Isn't that Great Summer?
Emperor Da Luo felt happy after listening.
Da Xia, Da Xia, you have today too!
You don't have a Taoist sect to help you, let's see how you survive this natural disaster!
Better let the locusts eat up your food!
"Please keep an eye on the situation of the locust plague in Daxia, and report as soon as there is any situation!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
the other side.
Lin Beifan discovered through the imperial sand table that a group of locusts covering the sky and the sun were flying from Daluo.
Lin Beifan has some understanding of the locust plague in Daluo.
In fact, it has nothing to do with him.
At the beginning, when the Great Xia Army invaded Daluo, he drained the groundwater in Daluo through the imperial sand table. Without water, the air was hot and dry, and it was easy to hatch locusts, thus forming a plague of locusts.
Lin Beifan is very calm about the locust plague that makes people talk about it.
"It's just a small plague of locusts, let's see how I can destroy him!"
Immediately, he used the hand of weather, causing a light rain to fall on the side of the White Tiger Mountain Range.
The rainfall is not large, which can be used to irrigate fertile fields without affecting people's lives.
But this rain is deadly to the locusts!
Because once the locusts are contaminated with water, their bodies will become heavier and they will not be able to fly.
Therefore, locusts hate water, especially rain.
So, when they came to the White Tiger Mountain Range, they couldn't fly over for a long time, and stopped outside buzzing and circling.
In the Daluo Palace, a soldier reported.
"Your Majesty, the locusts have already flown over the White Tiger Mountains! However, due to the light rain in Daxia, the locusts did not cross the border, but stayed and circled outside!"
"It rains as soon as the locusts come, what a blessing!" Emperor Da Luo went mad with jealousy.
He found that every time Daxia encounters a natural disaster, he can always turn the calamity into good luck, and the disaster will bring good luck.
But he didn't believe that God would always take care of him.
"Light rain like this shouldn't last long, and it will stop soon. Let me keep watching Daxia!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
As a result, on the second day, the rain still fell, and the locusts still couldn't fly over.
As if there is a dragon's pool and a tiger's den in front of you, you will die if you fly over.
Emperor Da Luo was puzzled, the light rain was too firm, it actually fell for two days in a row.
Such hot weather is not the time for light rain.
If it rains cats and dogs for two days in a row, I'll still applaud you.
"Keep watching!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
On the third day, the rain was still falling, like spring rain, moistening things silently.
Emperor Da Luo continued to be depressed.
On the fourth day, the rain still did not stop, but the locusts gave up and turned around and flew back.
Emperor Da Luo was depressed and went mad: "It rained for four days in a row, forcing the locusts to fly back! Great Xia, you are lucky to have escaped another catastrophe!"
"Your Majesty, the locusts have already approached the southeast grain area, ready to eat the original!"
"Don't panic, what's the matter?" Emperor Da Luo scolded.
If it was in the past, it would be natural to panic when encountering a locust plague, but it is completely different now.
With the poison provided by Daomen, he can solve the locust plague with ease.
"Go down and do it according to our previous method!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Again they gathered hay, sprinkled it with poison, and set it on fire, filling the sky with poisonous smoke.
The returning locusts dare not approach for a long time.
At this time, in the Great Xia Palace.
Lin Beifan laughed when he saw the information coming from the territory of Daluo: "It turned out that the locusts were smoked with poisonous smoke, and the plague of locusts was solved! I won't make it easy for you!"
Consciousness entered the sand table of the empire and used the people of weather.
Suddenly a strong wind was generated in Daxia, and then it blew towards Daluo.
Although the strong wind lost Lin Beifan's control, and its power weakened a lot after it hit Da Luo, it was still no problem to blow away the smoke and dust.
The poisonous smoke pervading the sky over Daluo was blown away by this breeze.
Without the poisonous smoke, the locusts immediately flew down to eat the rice seedlings.
In the Da Luo Palace.
Hubu Shangshu hurried in: "Your Majesty, the big thing is over, the locusts have flown back! The locusts are eating our grain, and many rice seedlings have been destroyed!"
Emperor Da Luo frowned: "Didn't I ask you to light the poisonous smoke to disperse the locusts?"
"Your Majesty, we lit the poisonous smoke, but a gust of wind from the southeast blows away all of our poisonous smoke!"
"What?" Emperor Da Luo turned pale with shock.
Immediately followed Hubu Shangshu to the farmland outside the city.
The poisonous smoke that had just lifted into the sky was blown away by the wind.
Without the threat of poisonous smoke, locusts that covered the sky and the sun fell from the sky, and ate his rice seedlings like they were having fun.
Emperor Da Luo was very anxious: "This damned southeast wind! When will it not come, but at this time! Hurry up and find someone to kill the insects, first respond to emergencies, this wind will pass soon!
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
They immediately mobilized most of the country's soldiers and horses to kill insects in the farmland.
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If they killed for a day and a night, the wind did not weaken much, but they were exhausted and out of breath.
On the second day, they continued to kill insects, and the wind continued to blow.
The ignited poisonous smoke was blown away before it took off.
Seeing his own food dwindle bit by bit, Emperor Da Luo was very heartbroken, and asked the peerless beauty next to him.
"Fairy Yufei, what can you do? If this continues, the food will be eaten up!"
Concubine Song Yu smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, there is really no other way this time, we can only wait for the wind zone!"
"Alas!" Emperor Da Luo let out a sigh of disappointment.
As a result, they waited and waited, waited for one day, waited for two days, waited for three days...
The wind still showed no signs of abating.
No sign of getting stronger either.
Just like this, the spring breeze blows on the face, just blowing away the smoke and dust, but it can't blow away the locusts, resulting in less and less food.
Emperor Da Luo tried everything, even praying to gods and worshiping Buddha, but he didn't see any improvement.
Emperor Da Luo was very frantic: "Go on! Hurry up and go on! Otherwise, all the food will be eaten up! There is no food, what do you eat and drink?"
"But Your Majesty, we are exhausted..." a general said weakly.
They have been fighting continuously for five or six days, killing locusts all night long.
Even if he is a martial arts practitioner and is physically strong, he has been working non-stop for five or six days.
Emperor Da Luo shouted: "No matter how tired you are, you have to do it, or I will take your heads off!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Everyone had no choice but to bite the bullet, support their tired bodies, and continue to kill insects.
Batch after batch of soldiers fell, but the locusts did not decrease, and there were still signs of increasing anyway.
Even in the city, there are many locusts mixed in.
Emperor Da Luo looked at the exhausted soldiers, frantically pumping chicken blood and painting big cakes: "You are all good sons of Da Luo! Don't give up, you must persevere, persistence is victory
Li! Victory will definitely be ours!"
In this way, they persisted for half a month, and the locusts finally flew away.
It wasn't that they defeated the locusts, but the locusts had eaten up everything they could eat, so they had to move their positions.
Emperor Da Luo looked at the unrecognizable rice fields and cried out sadly: "My food is gone!".