"The Kangda Post Office envoy came to report yesterday that the south of Langzhou, including Kangda City, has been eaten by locusts. At this rate, the nearshui county should be almost the same now. The small officials and the villagers gathered together to discuss this matter."

"Langzhou is difficult to grow grain and grass, so we Dagui County has worked hard to pay the grain tax last year. In addition, the previous locust plague in the south, most of the stored grains were lent out, and only 600 stones of old rice were left in the county's granary!"

"Now that the Lu River is dry, the food is short of water, so it is difficult to have a good harvest. If the locusts come and waste it, Dagui County will be over!"

"Six hundred stones of rice! Only six hundred stones! There are two thousand households in Dagui County, nearly ten thousand people!

...

In the Dagui County Yamen, the county magistrate Lu Wu looked excited and said the situation in Langzhou and Dagui County with a whisper.

Wu Mian, who disguised as Kong Wenxuan, listened quietly, his brows getting tighter and tighter.

Six hundred stones? Isn’t this just sixty thousand pounds? That’s the only one?

There are not so many side dishes in this world. Most of them eat rice directly to get nutrition, so a person should eat at least one pound a day!

There are 2,000 households in Dagui County, nearly 10,000 people... Just consider it as 10,000, which means that a household with five people will take away the appetite of the elderly and young, and each household will have at least five kilograms per day!

Two thousand households are ten thousand kilograms, and sixty thousand kilograms is just six days of food rations?

What a joke!

After roughly calculating the amount of food, Wu Mian's expression gradually became ugly.

If 600 stones of grain are placed in the warehouse, it can probably fill a warehouse slowly, but if 10,000 people are divided, it will be a problem to eat for six days!

After all, he is calculated based on normal adults, and the daily appetite of tourists or practitioners is at least twice as high as that of ordinary people, or even four or five times!

In this case, it would be fine to eat for six days normally!

"Where is the surplus grain in the people's homes? How much grain does the grain merchant have in his hands?"

"this……"

County magistrate Lu Wu looked at County magistrate Xiao Lufei.

Xiao Lufei stood up and said, "It was a good weather before the New Year. Every family was short of food, so everyone had stored grain at home to eat for half a year. Therefore, the grain merchants couldn't sell much food, so they didn't transport many roads here, and there were only about three hundred stones."

After saying that, he looked at Wu Mian again and said, "Do you want to collect grain? The villain suggests that you wait for a while. A few days ago, when the villain negotiated with a grain, he knew that they saw the locust plague in Langzhou became heavier and he planned to transfer grain from Huzhou to sell it. Now the food collection is probably scared."

Frighten them?

Wu Mian looked around calmly and found that most of the people present had a faint look of joy on their faces, and they couldn't help but smack their lips in their hearts.

He still remembers the self-introductions of these people not long ago... they are all locals from Dagui County!

These people probably wanted to eat the grain merchants' food on excuses!

Although I don’t know if I plan to fill my personal pockets or to provide relief to the disaster, what is certain is that once they do this, few grain merchants will definitely dare to come to Dagui County in the future!

Wu Mian guessed in his heart, but he found that he was not familiar with the situation here at all. Even if he made a guess, he didn't know what to do.

If it is stopped, if grain merchants sell grain at high prices, it will definitely cause panic among the people of Dagui County and robbed grain and led to chaos.

Businessmen are pursuing profits, and this is likely to happen.

If someone didn't stop him, he would be found out that Dagui County forced to collect grain. Who dares to come to Dagui County to sell grain?

Wu Mian still remembers the geography of Langzhou that he read when he was in the North Courtyard.

Langzhou is located in the south of the Song State, but it is not like the south of the motherland of the earth. It has rich mountains and rivers. Langzhou is a large desert to the south! Even half of Langzhou is in the desert, so the grain output is very low.

This place mainly relies on some wheat and grain that can be grown in dry land, and most of them are distributed in northern Langzhou, with less land and less yield. It mainly relies on some specialties for grain in neighboring states such as Huzhou to solve the dietary problem.

If no one comes to Dagui County to sell grain, although Dagui County can hold on, it will collapse once an accident occurs, just like this locust plague.

After thinking about it, he could only say: "Let those grains go to Yuelai Inn to find me tomorrow. I want to talk to them... Langzhou is not only Dagui County."

Dagui County is located on an official road connected to Huzhou and Langzhou. Moreover, when the Lu River had not dried up before, people from Huzhou could still come here through water. If Dagui County's reputation became bad, Huzhou would have a road that directly leads to Langzhou!

From Huzhou to Langzhou, there are only three official roads. Although there are other roads, it is still convenient to transport large-scale materials and safe to take the official road... There are still bandits in this world that block the road!

County Magistrate Lu Wu and the others looked at each other and opened their mouths and were about to speak.

But Wu Mian raised his hand in time to stop him and said lightly: "Mr. Lu, I have something to do and want to talk to you alone. Can you take a step to speak?"

County magistrate Lu Wu was stunned and said, "Sir, please come here."

After Wu Mian nodded, he followed the county magistrate Lu Wu to a secluded place, and Zhuge Qing also followed.

"What are the instructions for the sir?"

Listening to Lu Wu's inquiry, Wu Mian was silent for a moment and said, "Where is the document for the locust plague in Langzhou? I want to see, and there is also a map of Langzhou."

Lu Wu's eyes seemed to stumble, but he still said, "Sir, please come here, the documents and maps are in the study."

When he arrived at the county government study, Lu Wu lit a candle, then found the documents about the locust plague and the map of Langzhou, and placed them on a table.

"Sir, this is a document about locust plague that I have sent recently. Now the southern part of Langzhou is almost invaded. If the locusts are covered with dark clouds, the food and grass planted by the people will be eaten, and there will be no harvest this year. I hope that the court will provide relief, but I am afraid it will take several months."

Speaking of this, he paused, glanced at Wu Mian, and continued:

"A few days ago, the small official and the county magistrate of Tonghe County wrote letters, begging them to send some food and grass, but they refused to agree on the grounds that the food and grass were taken away by the court for tax payment."

"In fact, the little officials knew that they had not reached their place in Tonghe County because Luhe River had not yet reached them. Last year, they had a big harvest. After paying the grain tax, there were more than a few thousand stones. However, they were afraid that the locust plague would affect them, so they just didn't want to borrow food!"

...

While listening to him quietly, Wu Mian opened the documents and the Langzhou map and started reading.

The more he looked, the tighter his brows frowned.

According to the Langzhou map compared with the affected counties in the document, he could see that most of Langzhou has been affected by locust plague, that is, the places close to the north have not been greatly affected yet.

Looking at the time, he found that the locust plague was spreading faster and faster, and worse!

After watching for a while, Wu Mian paused, took a pen on the table and sketched it. In just a moment, many circles on the Langzhou map almost covered the southern part of Langzhou.

There are only a few places that he didn't get up...

"If you don't return to the city, you will be defeated in the county..."
Chapter completed!