Mo Shu didn't expect that Dani would offer to go to Ludi for disaster relief.As soon as Dani saw Mo Shu, she immediately said: "County Lord, I want to drive the poultry from the farm to the locust disaster area to eat locusts, do you think this is okay County Lord" After saying this, Dani involuntarily began to twist the corners of her clothes, looking at Mo Shu a little nervously, waiting for her to answer.Mo Shu looked at Dani in some surprise, and then nodded, "This is a good thing, of course you can."
But it's a long way to go to the disaster area, and you have to drive such a large flock of poultry, it will be very hard and tiring, are you afraid" Dani immediately stood up straight and raised her head firmly: "Don't worry, the county lord is not afraid, I will definitely be able to drive these chickens, ducks and geese over intact, and one by one" Mo Shu couldn't help but smile and said: "There are a lot of them, it's a bit difficult, the most important thing is that people are okay, most of these poultry can come back, even if something happens, the poultry are gone, it's okay, just be fine, remember" Dani nodded vigorously.Mo Shu asked again: "How did you think of driving these poultry over to eat locusts" but saw Dani a little embarrassed to bow her head and whispered: "I heard that because of the locust plague in Northeast Ludi, many people have nothing to eat, and I heard that these locusts are flying over here, if they fly here" Speaking of this, Dani suddenly snorted twice and said: "Definitely not flying here" Mo Shu smiled and said: "In this case, you have to hurry, I asked the steward to arrange a carriage to transport the poultry over, doesn't Fan Yang also have a farm." , and drive all the poultry there, well, and in the nearby farms, they all drive the poultry over. ”As soon as these words came out, Dani immediately said: "The county lord is wise, I will go and prepare, and I must eat all these locusts" Seeing Dani like this, it seemed that she was going to eat it herself, which made Mo Shu cry and laugh.Mo Shu said: "Don't worry, these poultry and birds are the natural enemies of locusts, I once read a record in the book, saying that there was a locust plague before, suddenly a group of white birds flew from somewhere, and in just one night, all the locusts were eaten."
These fowls also like to feed on locusts, and as soon as they reach the affected area, the locusts will die. ”Dani nodded again and again, and then went back to the farm.Subsequently, Mo Shu also wrote a letter, asking people to send it to the prefecture and county near Qilu with a farm to dispatch poultry to exterminate locusts.Therefore, when Dani was still on the way to the disaster area, a large group of nearby poultry had already arrived at the newly affected place in the south of Qilu in the northeast and were happily foraging.In the northern part of the Central Plains, this locust plague is not an uncommon disaster, and there are small-scale locust plagues almost every year or two.In the face of these swarms of flying locusts, from the court to the common people, they were helpless, and could only watch the locusts eat the crops and even all the plants and trees that the people relied on for their livelihood, until the surface of the earth turned into a bare soil without the slightest greenery.But even if we know that the locust plague will eat up the crops that are about to ripen in the field, and force the people to the point of desperation, so that they will starve all over the wilderness, and even the tragic situation of the people changing their children and eating, from the previous dynasty to the current day, from the high Son of Heaven to the bottom of the poor, can only watch the locusts rage, the victims of the disaster because of hunger uprooted, gathered in the Wuthering Mountains and forests, and even cannibalism, without the slightest remedy.In fact, the dynasties did not do nothing in the face of locusts.Not to mention that a long time ago, the imperial court ordered that locust eggs should be dug up and eliminated in various places every year, and at the same time the grass should be cut to reduce the places where locusts lay eggs, but locust plagues still occur every one or two years.After the locust plague occurred, the imperial court would also respond immediately, appointing locust hunting envoys to go to various places to exterminate locusts, and some saints would also issue edicts to go to Taimiao and other places to worship and pray, and even personally take the lead in eating locusts to show their determination to exterminate locusts.At the same time, some emperors would mobilize the people to exterminate the locusts, or the people would also replenish the locusts because they had no food.But even then, it had little effect, and almost no damage caused by the locust plague could be recovered.After all, it is useless to exterminate locusts by manpower, and the locusts still seem to be so numerous that they fall to the ground and even fill the ravines.And no matter how you catch and kill these, they still cover the sky and the sun, and there is an endless stream.This made the people desperate, thinking that these flying locusts were a disaster from heaven, so people could not be enemies with them, and they could not be killed in any case, and even gave it the name of such a worm emperor, and built a shrine for it.Sometimes, after a locust plague, the people think that it is a punishment from heaven and that the destruction of locusts will lead to disaster, and instead of taking any countermeasures, they invite the locusts to their homes to ask for forgiveness from heaven.For hundreds of years or thousands of years, no one would have thought that after the locusts had already appeared in the fields, they could be wiped out, so that the losses could be greatly reduced.No one thought about what good way to get rid of locusts after the locust plague.It was not until the early summer of the 15th year of Jing'an in Daliang that tens of thousands of poultry suddenly appeared in the Qilu locust disaster area.These armies of chickens, ducks, and geese traveled thousands of miles from Fanyang and the nearby prefectures and counties to the disaster area, perhaps because the road was too hurried and hungry, and as soon as they were released from the cage on the car, they immediately pounced on the locusts on the ground.The vast army of poultry soon covered the sky and the sun with locusts in the disaster area, and the fields covered with locusts on the ground were scattered, and it seemed that in an instant, the locusts that had fallen on the ground a few inches thick were eaten cleanly at once.And these poultry should have been really hungry for a long time, eating for half an hour, and not stopping.Many roosters flapped their wings and jumped up to eat the locusts that flew lower.These flying locusts are also strange, seeing that the locusts on the ground have been eaten, they take the initiative to fall down and die.The locust catchers and the local people sent by Liu Kai were all stunned when they saw this situation, and then knelt down with tears in their eyes, shouting that God had opened their eyes.Some people asked the people who drove the poultry over, and when they knew the origin of these poultry, they called Moshu a god who came into the world.Although the locust plague was raging and almost all the crops in the fields were eaten, these poultry almost happened to be heading north in the direction of the locust's southward movement, so it was equivalent to intercepting the locust halfway through, so that the place to the south was protected from the locust plague.And now the poultry are eating the locusts in a place where they are happy, and these locusts have just arrived, although there is no green in the area, but there are still some branches, bark and so on, which have not been eaten.For locusts, these poultry are naturally natural enemies, but for the people in the south who are protected from locust plagues, this is the divine soldiers sent by heaven and the generals so that wherever the poultry go, the people greet each other, and many people also burn incense and pray, and set up an immortal tablet for the owner of these poultry, that is, Mo 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