Although the drought was severe, in the fall, everyone planted the seeds with hope.
The hope is good, but the reality is cruel.
By October, almost all the crops in the fields had died, and only a few survived by watering.
Not all the land could be watered, many of the small rivers had dried up, the lakes had dried up, and the watered ground on the edge was full of cracks that could reach for water.
Many wells were dug in the fields, but they were dried up.
Most of the places that can be watered now are in some places that were originally low-level, and there is still some water to be fetched from wells.
No matter how drought-resistant crops are, they cannot do without water.
Watching the crops and seedlings withering little by little, from the emperor to the people, I was very panicked.
This autumn has already been a bad harvest, and next summer will be no harvest, and there will be no harvest for two consecutive seasons Winter has just arrived, but everyone has already felt that this winter is extraordinarily cold, cold to the bone.
Li Shimin held a rain prayer ceremony again, but he tossed for seven days, sat on the rain prayer platform every day, sat all day, and finally did not pray for half a drop of rain.
The people were even more panicked, and all kinds of rumors were circulating everywhere.
Li Shimin lost a lot of weight, and with great helplessness, he issued an edict to the subjects of the world.
The rain has begged, and the sin has been decreed, but these are only for the people of the world to see, and there is still no use, and the sky continues to be dry.
The most terrible thing is that the weather is cold and the locusts are gone.
The locusts are gone, which was good news, but now for the imperial court, this is not good news.
In this autumn, locusts were caught everywhere in the central plains and in the south of the mountain, and some prefectures caught hundreds of thousands of locusts with millions of stones in one autumn, and these locusts were ground into powder and became an important material for relief food.
Locusts accounted for a large part of the tens of millions of stone relief grains that the imperial court had made out this year, and this terrible thing had become a life-saving thing.
But now, the weather is cold, and there are fewer and fewer locusts, and in some places there are no more locusts to catch.
The locusts were eaten Li Shimin specially invited Li Chao, a locust expert, to inquire.
"Where are the locusts?"
Li Shimin asked, who used to be frightened when he heard locusts, but now he, the emperor, is looking for locusts.
"Are the locusts really eaten up?"
Locusts certainly don't get eaten up so easily, but locusts don't live long.
"Your Majesty, the locust has three forms in its life, namely, eggs, nymphs, and adults.
The eggs live in the soil and cannot move.
The nymphs are divided into five instars, which means that they have to shed their skin five times.
Before and after shedding, nymphs generally do not feed or feed very little, and nymphs can walk and jump but cannot fly, nor can they mate and reproduce. ” "After five peels, they're adults."
"It only takes about a month for locusts to mate and reproduce from eggs, and a mature locust can lay more than 200 eggs in its lifetime, and up to 1,000 eggs."
It was the first time Li Shimin had heard such specific information about locusts.
"How much do locusts live?"
"Locusts generally live for about two to three months, with no more than six months at most.
In our Central Plains, locusts generally have two generations a year, but if you are in Lingnan and other places, you can have three generations a year.
In places farther south, Hainan Island and other places, it can even be four generations a year. ” "Therefore locusts are also commonly called whooping insects" Li Shimin calculated the time himself, and it seems that the locust plague in various places this year is indeed almost 100 days.
The locusts are the breeding season in summer and autumn every year, and after mating, the female locusts insert their oviposition tubes into the soil three inches deep.
As long as the climate is suitable, the eggs can hatch in about half a month to 20 days.
After a month, it becomes an adult worm after five molts.
Adults can live for about 100 days.
There can be two generations in a year.
Now that the weather is cold, the locust eggs will not hatch, they will wait until the weather is warmer next year, just like the silkworm eggs.
Autumn has passed, and the autumn locusts have almost died in 100 days.
Even if you don't get caught, you will die at the end of your life.
This is also the reason why the locust has decreased a large number today, and the locust plagues in various places this autumn are all endemic type, and there is no large migration group of locusts that have swept all over the country, which is related to the climate, and secondly, it is also beneficial to the large-scale locust hunting operations carried out by the imperial court in various places this year.
Li Shimin had already adapted to the fact that the locusts had turned into food, but now that the locusts suddenly said that they were gone, he was a little sad.
"Without locusts, our relief food gap will be even greater, Wen Yuan, you say, what can be used to replace the gap after the locusts?"
Locusts are indeed good for food, at least the locusts were caught endlessly before, and they didn't have to raise them themselves, they lit fires in the fields every day, and then they just caught them desperately.
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There is both quantity and nutrition.
Compared to raising pigs, chickens, fishing, and hunting, it is much easier.
There is a drought in various places, and the pigs have no pigweed and no vegetables to eat.
Winter is approaching, and it is much more difficult to raise chickens and ducks.
"Your Majesty, at this time, we can only let the unaffected Jiangnan, Lingnan, Bashu and other places step up the transfer of grain to the disaster areas in the Central Plains, and second, the disaster areas must also strengthen self-reliance."
"How can the self-reliance disaster area now be thousands of miles away, the grass is gone, and the wild vegetables are all dug up.
Now that there are no locusts, how can I be self-reliant?
Li Shimin sighed.
There are too many places affected by the disaster this year, forming a huge disaster area, and there is too much food needed, and it is difficult to collect food in various places, and secondly, it is even more difficult to transport.
The relocation of the people affected by the disaster is also limited, and it is impossible to move all the people from the disaster area.
The most elite area of Datang and the most densely populated area were affected by the disaster.
"Digging wild vegetables, fishing, hunting, collecting everything you can eat."
It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Li Chao does not have much to do.
Seeing that it is winter, this winter will be very difficult, but Li Chao has thought of all the ways he can think of, and what he can propose now is to organize the people to dig wild vegetables, fish and hunt, and then wait for the relief grain from all over the country to be delivered.
"Is it all there is to it?"
"You can also buy a little more from the landlords who have grain, but this has to be cautious, now many powerful landlords are dissatisfied, and then buy grain, may cause greater dissatisfaction, I think we should wait first, at least let the situation be better controlled."
"Now we can only plan for the worse, reduce the ration of relief food, the elderly, women and children, the ration standard is lowered, and those young and strong people who participate in the cash-for-work can maintain the original amount first."
"Has it come to this point" Li Shimin leaned back in his chair helplessly.
"Your Majesty, now that the weather is getting cooler, fishing and hunting are easier to preserve, which is good news."
In the end, the outcome of the discussion can only be like this.
The imperial court held some fund-raising meetings to let the wealthy and powerful families from all over the country donate grain, and the imperial court could posthumously present posthumous gifts to their ancestors, and even award medals to these rich families who donated more grain.
For the time being, it is no longer forced and bought.
As the prime minister, Li Chao expressed his willingness to donate another 10,000 stone grain to the imperial court.
In Hebei, Henan, Huainan and other places near the sea, the government organized more people to go down to the mountains to fish.
The same is true for places near rivers and lakes, where you can catch as many fish as you can.
Rely on water to draft water, and rely on mountains to eat mountains.
In places like Shannan, fishing is done on the edge of the river, and hunting is at the foot of the mountain.
Those women, girls and children also have to get wild vegetables, dig kudzu, etc., in short, try to find a way.
Driving the mountains is also a way of hunting.
This is a relatively simple but effective way, and in the past, the people under the mountain would often organize a mountain drive in the autumn.
Chasing the mountain is actually a kind of large-scale hunting.
It takes a lot of people, a lot of people, with dogs, to surround a mountain, and then keep shouting and beating, driving the prey out, and then surround the hunt.
In this way, most of them are hunting wild boars.
In autumn, wild boars are often abundant and fat, and they often harm crops, so everyone unites to hunt in the mountains.
Not only to remove the scourge, but also to harvest the fatty prey.
Now Li Chao has also asked various localities to hunt and drive the mountains, and the soldiers of the military governments in various places have also been organized to go deep into the mountains to hunt, which is equivalent to changing this year's military training project into a hunting.
You don't miss your training, and you can harvest some prey at the same time.
Li Shimin had a very bad time during this time, and he planned to personally take the forbidden army to hunt for a hunt.
"Go hunting in Wudang Mountain" Royal hunting, in the past, was more of an activity, and even became a kind of recreation.
However, Li Shimin didn't have any intention of playing this time, he really planned to go into battle to get some prey to increase some food and take the lead.
Li Chengqian was very interested in going hunting.
The emperor built an east palace for him on Yuliang Island.
Miyagi was neither big nor luxurious, but it trapped him.
Every day in front of his father, mother, and a group of younger siblings, he played a smart, wise and stable prince, which made him very unhappy. is still on Li Chao's side, life is the easiest, there is no need to wear a mask all the time, and Li Chao will not always stare at his shortcomings.
"Teacher, I used to hear you say that in the south of Lingnan, Annam is a rich place, where there is a fertile estuary plain delta, and the rice in Zhancheng is harvested three times a year.
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Moreover, south of Annam, there is a place the size of the Central Plains, the climate is humid, and the locals can harvest a lot of grain without any need to plough the seeds, and the people there never know what to eat. ” When Li Chengqian said this, there was a light in his eyes.
"Teacher, why should we go hunting in the mountains, let's go directly to Annan with the army, go to Linyi, let's just grab their food, and then transport it back."
Li Chao, who was calibrating the bow, couldn't help but laugh when he heard it.
The prince's idea is quite ingenious, and he even said that this kid dares to think about it.
I actually want to rob others, and I am very enterprising.
"Prince, do you know how far away Annan is from here, do you know how difficult it is to transport a shipload of grain from Annan back, do you know why Lingnan is called Lingnan, although the south is large, but there is little development, the road is far and difficult, and it is not as developed as the north."
"Teacher, go directly to the sea, isn't Annan close to the sea, how flat the sea is?"
"Hmph, the sea is flat, the sea is the most dangerous, to go to the sea, you have to rely on the trade winds, you have to have familiar sailors and good ships, all of them are indispensable, and you have to have good luck."
Now it is the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that Lingnan has not been developed, but Huguang is still quite wild.
Only the area north of the Yangtze River is the vertical and horizontal water and land transportation network, and the south, especially Lingnan, is really a difficult road, and it is not even easier to walk than Shu Road.
As for going to Annan to grab grain, this is not to say whether it will be robbed or not, even if it is robbed, it will be difficult to transport it back.
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