As night fell, after a relatively simple dinner, Cheng Qian and a group of other children were assigned evening homework by Li Chao.
Looking at Li Chao's handwritten test questions, a group of students were a little confused.
"How is today's homework a grasshopper?"
Chai Lingwu has been eating grasshoppers a lot recently, and he is very familiar with grasshoppers, and when he saw the lifelike locust drawn on the paper, he immediately thought of one hundred and eight ways to eat locusts in his head, and he couldn't help but drool.
"The teacher's locust painting seems to be lifelike, just like a living one."
"You still have to take a good look at the teacher's homework, if you can't finish the homework, tomorrow when the teacher checks it, you have to hit the board."
Cheng Qian reminded everyone.
"Oh, look at the title."
As shown in the figure, answer, 1.
What are the three parts of the locust's body?
A group of children gossiped, one saying that it was these three parts, and the other was saying that it was those three parts.
"Let's go catch a few locusts and watch them carefully, and we'll find out."
Cheng Qian was smarter and quickly found a better way.
"I'll get my specimen of locusts."
Lai Heng said.
With a specimen of locusts, then it is relatively simple, everyone is tossing around the dried locust.
On the other side of the yamen.
Li Chao is also studying locusts with Cui Yan and Wang Xuance's protégés.
On the table in front of Li Chao, there were more locust samples, from locust eggs to locust larvae to cost, there were seven or eight stages of locust specimens.
"If we want to fight a hard battle to exterminate locusts, then we must first understand the habits and characteristics of locusts, as long as we grasp the habits and characteristics of locusts and their weaknesses, we can find out ways to control locusts and exterminate locusts in a targeted manner."
"Let's study these locusts and see if there's a better way."
The so-called one person is short, three people are long, and there are three stinkers who are Zhuge Liang.
It is very important to raise food, but we can't blindly wait for the disaster to happen, now the fundraising has achieved certain results, and now in Xiangyang, Li Chao has also begun to prepare for the treatment of locusts.
In modern times, there are many ways to kill locusts, such as airplanes spreading locust medicine, such as using flamethrowers to burn locusts.
But at this time, many technical conditions are insufficient.
"Xiangguo, there is a verse in the Book of Poetry that bingbing fire, I think this refers to the method of trapping locusts with fire to destroy them."
Although Cui Yan is said to be a military general, after all, the children of the Cui family of the Shandong clan have read a lot of books.
Li Chao nodded appreciatively.
The vast majority of insects, especially the ones that can fly, have the habit of turning to the light at night.
It's like a moth fighting a fire, even if it puts out a fire and dies, but these flying insects don't understand this, even if they are burned to death, other insects will follow suit.
If you burn more fires at night, you will be able to lure a large number of flying insects to come, and then you will catch them with a net, and you will be able to catch many locusts.
"That's a good idea, make a note of it."
At this time, it was pointed out that the locust god should be worshipped and prayed to the locust god not to cause a plague.
Regarding this nonsense, Li Chao sneered, pointed directly to the door, and "go out" This is all a locust control meeting, what is this guy talking about worshipping the locust god, what is the use of such a person to keep.
Drove that guy away, and now everyone started to think about how to kill the locusts.
Wang Xuance also spoke out.
"Xiangguo, my subordinates are above the ancient books, and when I saw the Han Dynasty, there was a ditch method to exterminate locusts."
"Oh, let's hear about the ditch method to exterminate locusts."
"The ditch method is to dig a ditch at the head of the ground and by the roadside, and then the people will line up, holding branches and sticks and other things, waving and shouting, driving the locusts into the ground and deep ditches, and then burying them with soil."
As he spoke, Wang Xuance also walked to the table and picked up an adult locust from the table, "Xiangguo, please see, the locust's air hole is in the abdomen, and if it is buried in the soil, it will isolate the air and make it unable to breathe, making it suffocate to death." ” However, Wang Xuance's ditch burial method was opposed by Shangguanyi.
"Xiangguo, the ditch method is flawed.
There are historical records that Liu Cong of the Jin Dynasty caught locusts and buried them in the ditch method, but the locusts did not die, and they came out of the soil to plague the crops again.
So I thought that the ditch method to exterminate locusts would end up burning and burying them.
At night, light a fire next to a dug ditch and lure locusts into the fire to burn to death, then sweep them into the ditch and bury them, or throw the caught locusts into the water and drown."
Li Chao smiled and listened to their suggestions.
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"Your approach is good, but there is one thing that falls short.
How can the locusts you catch be buried and burned?
When the disaster occurred, there was a shortage of food everywhere, and the locusts mixed rice, grain bran, wild vegetables, etc., but they could be made into relief cakes. ” "You can dig a ditch, then burn a fire at night to attract locusts, catch them with a net, and then take them to crush them, take them to dry powder, and then process them into relief cakes."
Li Chao added a few points.
When the locust plague really starts, the locusts that can be caught at that time are estimated to be millions of stones, and if so many locusts are processed into relief cakes, how many people will be saved, how can they be wasted?
However, Li Chao is still not very satisfied with the ditch fire lure.
Because this method of catching locusts is actually to catch locusts when they are fully adults.
At this time, locusts are very good at flying.
Locusts should be exterminated mainly when they are still eggs and larvae.
The locusts are still eggs, so the locusts are not moving, they are dead, go and dig them out, dig a little less, and they will not run away at all.
Secondly, when the locusts are larvae, they can crawl, but they can't fly yet, they can only crawl and jump, so it is more suitable to catch them at this time.
Especially in the morning, locusts have dew on their wings, have a worse ability to jump, and are easier to catch.
"We're going to fight a tunnel war, digging ditches by the river, in the fields, in the fields, in places where there are many locusts, and then we're going to set fire to catch locusts at night."
"Also, now urge the people of the land to go out and dig up locust eggs.
The eggs can be handed over to the government and exchanged for relief cakes. ” "Encourage the people to raise more chickens and ducks, and rush to the fields and rivers to hunt locusts."
Li Chao got up and propped his hands on the table.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a protracted battle, a battle of life and death, and we must use all our means, all our energy."
Digging insect eggs, raising chickens and ducks, catching larvae, and even burning fires to catch locusts, there are a lot of methods, but Li Chao still doesn't dare to be careless.
Locusts have a wide variety of species, a large number base, a high survival rate of reproduction, a wide distribution, and a wide range of feeding habits.
If you miss a random place, you can hatch into hundreds of millions of locusts.
The most terrifying thing is that the locusts will migrate, and everywhere they go, they will merge more locusts to form larger locust swarms, continue to grow locust swarms, and finally form a large locust plague that will sweep away everything and eat everything.
Now Li Chao is not so much trying to find a way to exterminate locusts, but not how to find a way to get more locusts to make food.
Before the locusts eat up all the seedlings in the field, catch more locusts and make food.
Locusts eat crops, and they eat locusts "Build more mills, and then grind all the locusts we catch into dust and dry powder to make relief food."
One stone of grain is mixed with sorghum, grain bran, locust meal, dried fish, wild vegetables, etc., and can be processed into five stones of relief cakes.
During this time, Li Chao bought more than 5 million stone of grain in the 16 prefectures of Shannan and Dongdong, and if there were enough locusts, dried fish, dried meat, dried wild vegetables, and grain bran to process, then Li Chao would be able to have 20 or 30 million stone of disaster relief grain.
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