In the entire Shannan East Road, there is nothing that can be as hot as locusts in the Shannan East Road.
The whole people hunt for locusts Riverside, field, field.
During the day, there were people digging ditches everywhere, just like tunnel warfare, there were ditches all over the place, but fortunately these ditches did not need to be dug very deep, and there were countless people cutting wood, no matter what kind of miscellaneous wood and thatch.
The chopped firewood and grass were pulled to the edge of the river beach at the head of the field, and a large pile was piled up at intervals.
When night fell, everyone set fire to piles of firewood and grass.
When the locusts come to the fire, the people who have been waiting for it for a long time will open their nets one after another, and they will all kinds of nets, big nets, small nets, and even directly hold willow baskets.
The locusts came down in nets, put them directly into cloth bags, put them in baskets to cover them, and threw them into the water to drown.
The locusts are so powerful that if they don't drown, they can even bite through the bag.
At the end of the night, the fire keeps adding firewood, which can burn a large pile of firewood, and the locusts that can be caught are even more amazing.
Although this autumn's locusts have not yet reached the overwhelming appearance of a great locust plague, there are quite a few.
Hundreds or thousands of bags of locusts can be caught by a single fire in one night.
In the morning, at dawn, the locusts no longer put out the fire.
Everyone extinguished the fire and began to load bags and baskets of locusts into trucks, and then pulled them to the mill.
In various prefectures, counties and townships, many large mills have been built recently, and one after another large mills need to be pulled by mules, and some are built directly by the river and driven by water power.
Bags of locusts are thrown directly into the grinding trough, ground into paste, and then steamed, and then dried after steaming.
The disgusting mush, after grinding and steaming, turned into locust powder, and then pulled to the disaster relief cake factories in various places, with all kinds of grain, as well as wheat husk and bran and leaves and grass roots, etc., processed into disaster relief food.
The number of locusts caught is staggering.
In Xiangzhou alone, in just a few days, more than 100,000 locusts were caught.
In the entire sixteen states of Shannan Dongdao, more than one million stones were caught.
"Xiangguo, it's too easy to catch locusts, it's much simpler than fishing and hunting, one night, you can catch countless locusts, every ditch by the fire, it's full, you can't hold a bag or a frame, that scene, it's scary."
"That's a good thing, the locusts eat the crops, we will eat the locusts and see who is more powerful" Li Chao also smiled when he heard that the results of the locust hunting were amazing.
This is also the first victory.
Locusts are insects, but they are not poisonous insects, they can be eaten.
Although the wings and feet are hard and unpalatable, and the contents of the stomach are not delicious if they are not removed, but at this time, what does it matter.
It's like surviving on a desert island, not about taste or appearance, but about simple protein and calories.
"If the people of the past had understood this, so many people would not have died in the famine."
A group of officials sighed with emotion.
"This is the role of the government, the power of the organization.
There is no one to plan and co-ordinate, no one to command the organization, although there are many people, but they cannot reflect the strength.
It's just a bunch of loose sand, and if properly organized, a plate of loose sand can also be condensed into iron.
Natural disasters and famine are not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is the lack of management, after the loss of order, chaos is the most terrible. ” How terrible is the power of the organization Anyway, now the entire sixteen states of Shannan Dongdao are struggling for food.
Everything that can be eaten is being caught and picked, and it is processed and stored.
The wild beasts of the mountains, the birds of the sky, the fish of the waters, the fruits of the trees, the wild herbs of the earth, the vegetables of the fields, and even the leaves, barks, and roots of the trees that can be eaten.
It's all taken down and processed.
Li Chao ordered that now all the grain stores in the sixteen prefectures of Shannan Dongdao have basically been unified by the government.
In the various grain stores, even if they come with grain stamps, they can only receive grain at the rate of nine to one, and nine points of disaster relief food and one point of pure grain.
Restaurants, restaurants, and restaurants are almost closed.
It feels like when it comes to SARS in later generations, if they don't close the door, they can't buy food.
Now they all buy grain on the basis of grain stamps, and the government does not give these catering businesses a business ration, relying on their own rations to do business At present, there are only a few restaurants left in each place, and those who have to obtain special business licenses can only use food stamps to eat in these restaurants.
This is still to take care of those who are out of the house, you must be a foreigner to eat in a restaurant, and you have to pass through the road, you are a local, you are not eligible to go to the restaurant if you have food stamps.
A large number of black households have also surfaced.
In this time when you can get food stamps wherever you go, black households mean that you can't buy food even if you have money, although there is also a black market.
Those landlords and tyrants still have a lot of grain in their hands, but the government prohibits the black grain market.
Once discovered, not only must it be confiscated, but also punished, not money, only grain.
If you dare to sell one stone, the government will dare to fine you ten stones, until you dare not sell it secretly.
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At the beginning of the famine, the harvest in the field was lost, and the family's grain storage could not be received, and the main family did not dare to give them grain at this time, and if they dared to give it, they would be severely punished if they found it.
The black households were forced to take the lead and go to the government to register, and only after registering could they buy grain and receive relief grain.
For these black households, especially those who have no money, Li Chao's way to deal with them is to send them to the frontier.
Prepare some locust cakes for them, and then send them to a batch when they have a batch.
Send some away, and there will be less food shortage.
Instead of bothering to find a way to transport grain from all over the country to the disaster area, it is better to send people directly from the disaster area to the place where there is food.
Although the frontier is remote, there is no shortage of food, even if the arable land is insufficient, it can still graze and hunt, and trade with nomadic tribes.
Even if you go back to the pot, you can exchange several sheep with the herdsmen.
Everything seemed to be going well, but Li Chao didn't dare to be careless, he knew that he was actually walking on thin ice now.
Sometimes, worrying about what is really coming is what comes.
When the harvest of locusts was constantly reported in various places, a fast horse galloped into Xiangyang City.
"Fangzhou urgently reported that the local Haoqiang Sun clan had rebelled, and now it has broken through Shangyong County, and many local big families have responded, and now the rebels have gathered more than 1,000 people."
It's the other way around.
Someone finally reversed.
Li Chao was surprised by this news, but he was not surprised.
Many of Li Chao's policies in Shannan are to grab grain from the rich and powerful, but Li Chao can't do it if he doesn't grab it.
Under his high-pressure policy, many heroes are still enduring it, but in the end, some people can't help it.
The first fire has already been burned, and what Li Chao has to worry about is not the more than 1,000 rebels in Fangzhou Shangyong, what he has to consider is whether this spark will burn the prairie fire t1706231537: