Chapter 361 Chicken flavor, crispy Perhaps the world is in chaos and the feudal princes are fighting so hard that God can no longer stand it. The princes are particularly busy this year. After a severe drought, there is a great epidemic, and after the great epidemic there is a locust plague, one after another. Everyone has been very busy this year. It's good to be busy, but if you are busy, you won't have time to grab territory. The common people are still in the farmland, "the weather is full of heat and the sun is burning on their backs. They are exhausted and don't know the heat, but it's a pity that the summer is long." They are trying their best to save the few crops that can survive the severe drought and carefully care for these lifeblood. I just want to mature quickly and get more food. But God likes to joke. Millions of locusts cover the sky and eat up all the crops and vegetation wherever they go. Farmers can only watch helplessly as these adult locusts "steal" the fruits of their own labor. Bare land remains. The social order that had finally been stabilized fell into chaos again, the public security situation deteriorated, and thieves were everywhere, claiming the mountain as king. In order to get a bite to eat, ordinary people who could not survive fled in droves, or chose to attach themselves to the nobles and become tenants in their hands. The people who fled from Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and northern Xuzhou were received by Liu Han from Sili, Jizhou, and Qingzhou. Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Tao Qian did not want to rule the people from fleeing to the Hejian King, but they were unable to stop it and did not dare to Prevent. Letting go of some refugees can lessen one's own burden and put pressure on the River King, but in the long run, it's not worth it.
Liu Han temporarily concentrated the refugees who had escaped, and when the disaster passed, they moved them to Sanfu. There were too few Han people there and the number of Han people had to be supplemented. "Locusts are afraid of rain, snow, cold, the sound of gongs, five-color flags, and birds with black wings and white bellies. The method of treatment is to burn them with fire, or make ducks and frogs eat them." "I am sending an order to govern the five prefectures and go all out to catch locusts! Use all the chickens and ducks we have raised over the years! Locusts are afraid of fire, so use fire! If they eat our food, then we will eat them!" "Lord! No!" "Your Highness! No!" "Your Highness! Think twice!" "Lord!..." The ministers stopped each other. In their opinion, what the lord did was too unbelievable. Beginning with Emperor Wu, Dong Zhongshu regarded the locust plague as a condemnation from God. "The country will be immoral and defeated, but Heaven will send out disasters first to warn them; if they don't know how to reflect on themselves, they will send out strange things to warn them; if they don't know how to change, they will be hurt and defeated." Later, this view was widely spread among the intellectuals and the people. Various social classes even worshiped locusts as divine insects or kings of insects. They believed that locusts could not be defeated by human power and that the emperor should "cultivate virtues to avoid disasters." As for the people, people are unable to eliminate locusts very well. They can only associate them with the power of heaven, worship locusts in a superstitious way, and pray that locust plagues will not occur. In their view, locusts can be described as the "protectors of the real world" because their appearance is often accompanied by droughts, which not only have a great impact on agricultural development, but are also devastating to farmers themselves. For this reason, the status of locusts has been infinitely elevated by farmers. In their view, only by raising locusts high can agriculture be guaranteed to proceed on a normal track. People spontaneously worship locusts to pray for the locust plague to end soon. Under the conditions of "depending on the sky for food" at that time, it was impossible to completely control the locust plague, and we could only wait for the locust plague to disappear on its own. "I don't believe in the locust god or divine punishment! I just believe that man can conquer heaven! Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs. Since heaven and earth don't care about us, then what heaven do we still worship? What gods do we worship?" "Since you are a disciple of Confucianism, you should know that if you are silent, your strange power will confuse your spirit. If you cannot serve people, how can you serve ghosts?" "From ancient times to the present, saints drilled flints to make fire to dissolve the fishy smell, and the people were happy and happy. They were called Suiren clan. The floods came and wreaked havoc on the world. Dayu controlled the floods and failed to enter the house three times. As a result, nine states were opened, nine roads were opened, and nine roads were opened. Ze, crossing nine mountains, turning floods into paradise. Hou Yi shot the sun, Jingwei filled the sea, and Foolish Old Man moved the mountains. I don’t believe that my Han people are sinners, let alone that there is anything they can’t succeed in.” "Our destiny has always been in our own hands. We have our own hands. We are our own masters, the masters of this land, this world, and this future!" "Man! Determined! Victory! God!" Liu Han's words were sonorous and powerful, affecting everyone present, "Send the order, all armies are dispatched to destroy the locusts!" "Here!"
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Liu Han's hundreds of thousands of troops all mobilized to exterminate the locusts. The movement was so great that it caused an inconvenience to the princes. There are indeed a lot of locusts, but once people are united, the locusts will eventually be lowered. The number of poultry in each household is not large, but when gathered together, it is a huge number. Not only were private poultry used, but the chickens and ducks in official poultry farms were also mobilized and released! This is the law of biology, natural selection, the survival of the fittest, and the elimination of the unfit. Locusts eat grass, chickens and ducks eat insects. An adult chicken or duck can eat about 200 locusts a day. Even in the Sili area, the least populated area, there are 2 million chickens and ducks combined, and they can eat 400 million locusts in a day. When the chickens and ducks saw the food on the ground in front of them, they only regretted that their wings were not big enough and they could not fly high enough. eat!
eat!
eat!
The crowd followed the chickens and ducks, further cleaning up each area, burning all the caught locusts, and making sure that they went to hell neatly for eighteen generations. In Jinyang, Liu Han "executed" the captured locusts in front of everyone, put them on the fire rack, added some salt and seasonings, and the fragrance came up in no time!
Gugugu~~~
Some people's stomachs have begun to feel dissatisfied, but they dare not eat. Liu Han was not polite, he pinched off the head, removed the tail, and put it into his mouth. "Lord!" "My lord, no!" Everyone exclaimed, when did their lord, such a cautious person, become so reckless? ! No one has ever eaten this stuff, what if it’s poisonous?
Liu Han chewed it, then swallowed it, and said to them with a smile: "It tastes like chicken, crunchy and crunchy!" The first person to eat a crab is very admirable. Who dares to eat it if he is not a warrior? Some people eat crabs, and some people must also eat spiders, but they are not delicious, so people will not eat them in the future. We should be extremely grateful to people like this. Now, Liu Han tried it himself and told everyone that locusts can be eaten and are not poisonous. This greatly inspired the people below and reduced their fear of locusts!
The locust plague is not invincible. In their eyes, their lord has created a myth! "Why are you so stunned? Let's try it together! Gu Ke rarely cooks!" Everyone laughed when they heard this, especially Guo Yuan. He knew that when his lord was a child, he had his own delicious food in his mind. He not only deceived the teacher, but also deceived him into becoming his subordinate. He has been working there for more than ten years! "Here." (End of this chapter)