In order to promote the strategy of raising ducks and treating locusts on a large scale, Guo Peng personally wrote a manual for raising ducks and copied them in large quantities, and then handed them over to a special technician.

Everyone has a book, organize concentrated learning, and tell them the key points.

For example, you cannot let the duck eat it all in one breath. The duck is addicted to eating locusts and does not know how to stop it. If you don’t let it stop, it will eat until it is overwhelmed.

Therefore, you must seize the opportunity to put ducks into the field. Half an hour to one hour is enough. You must drive away the same group of ducks to eat.

You must also grasp the timing of putting ducks into the fields, and ask farmers to help them, put them in in the appropriate month, so that the ducks will not trample on and destroy the farmland, which will affect the grain harvest.

Ducks can be distributed to various households for breeding, but when used, they should be concentrated and handed over to the village chief to command. When the ducks grow up, they will be sold to the army and the army will pay.

Guo Peng used military funds to buy these ducks with delicious meat to supplement the army's meat so that they could eat meat and drink meat soup, so this policy is very popular with the army.

After a period of practical exploration, a set of effective locust prevention policies were summarized. Guo Peng ordered Xun Yu to be fully responsible for this matter and to promote the policy experience of raising ducks and treating locusts to all Qingzhou, and then to Yanzhou.

It is not just about raising ducks to treat locusts, but the so-called locust plague will inevitably occur after a severe drought. Drought plague is also related to locust plagues. Raising ducks to treat locusts is similar to replenishing the sheep, and it is still time to do so.

To better prevent and control locust plagues, it is very important to build water conservancy.

Among the task indicators issued by Guo Peng to the county magistrates of each county, there are water conservancy construction. If water conservancy is not promoted, there are many disadvantages. If any county’s water conservancy construction is not well, Guo Peng will directly hold the county magistrate accountable.

Although the harm of locusts along the Yellow River Basin is not as great as that of the later Ming and Qing dynasties, the harm of locusts is not small.

As the environment gradually dried up and the vegetation was gradually destroyed, the survival status of the Yellow River Basin could no longer be compared with the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The more it was developed, the more severe the damage it was, and locust plagues occurred, until it covered the sky and the sun.

When warlords fought, locust plagues occurred from time to time, and the records of human vegetation were often seen and could not be curbed. For example, when Lu Bu and Cao Cao fought for Yanzhou, locust plagues occurred, causing human vegetation.

The warlords themselves can’t take care of themselves, who will still care about the people and the harvest?

When the war is over and there is no food to eat, what should I do?

People eat each other.

The population is consumed in such a desperate situation.

This era is really bad.

If Mr. Guo does not become such a warlord, Mr. Guo must become a warlord with sustainable development. Only when he can develop to the end can he become an emperor. The rest are cannon fodder.

Many warlords are heading towards the cannon fodder path forever, and Guo is the most different one.

What he attaches most importance to is production, and it has always been production, so Mr. Guo can afford to maintain a professional army with a strong combat effectiveness, while other warlords cannot.

This will also become Mr. Guo’s greatest confidence and a winning weapon to sweep the world.

In addition, in order to protect the environment and ensure production, Mr. Guo also has many laws to implement.

He forced some very effective agricultural production experience in the pre-Qin era, and began to copy it on bamboo slips, organize the collective study of officials, and then go to the countryside to collectively go to the countryside.

Strictly order the village heads of all villages to memorize them all by themselves, and even if they use the cramming method, they must fill these guidelines into the minds of farmers.

If the farmers cannot know about it one by one, it is the township chief who is dereliction of duty and will be questioned.

For example, in February of spring, it is not allowed to cut wood in the mountains and forests, block waterways, and in summer, it is not allowed to burn grass as fertilizer, pick freshly sprouted plants, catch young animals and eggs, poison fish and turtles, set up traps to catch birds and animals, etc.

The ban was lifted until July. Only those who need to log and make coffins due to death were not subject to seasonal restrictions. Even so, they need to report to villages, townships and keep files in the county.

These laws were clearly written in the Qin Dynasty. The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system and were only passed down. The popularization was not good, and it failed to form a unified and effective constraint on farmers and environmental protection.

Environmental protection is directly related to agricultural production output.

In this way, implementing the night school policy that allows farmers to read and standardize and become scientific is a good thing that benefits the present and future generations.

Therefore, even if it is a cramming style, even if it is a coercion, inducement, or coercion, Guo Peng must let every farmer know these rules, keep them in mind, pass them on from generation to generation, and dare not forget them.

The grassroots level in Qingzhou have been fully mobilized, and the village heads at the grassroots level have almost never been safe. They have a lot of things to do every day, for fear that they will be found out if they are not done well, and they will lose their heads.

The same policy has also been promoted to Yanzhou. The newly established rural organizations have concentrated their study and publicity, calling on farmers to cultivate fields in a more scientific way and cultivate them carefully in order to obtain higher grain output and better ability to deal with natural disasters.

Guo Peng also carefully prepared production and promoted policies, for fear of making mistakes, which would affect the grain harvest and cause refugees and starvation.

The productivity is low and the grain output is low, but people don’t have a lot of food to eat. A million stones of grain seems to be a lot, but when it is evenly distributed to people, it becomes less.

There is not a few years of good harvest, and I have no confidence to launch a foreign war. If the war takes a little longer, I will starve to death. People will die from war in front and people will die from behind. After a war, I don’t know how many people will die.

This is another headache.

After making such efforts at the grassroots level, formulating policies and maintaining them, Guo can only breathe a sigh of relief and carefully look around to see if there are any advantages and benefits to take.

As a result, before Mr. Guo found a advantage to take, a big news came.

The clan died.

Death was abrupt.

The reason is that his marriage with Yuan Shao was damaged.

Guo Peng learned that Yuan Shao used marriage to deal with Gongsun Zan, which made the clan's members excited, so he stood on Yuan Shao's side, intending to restrict Gongsun Zan and prevent Gongsun Zan from having a conflict with Yuan Shao.

Gongsun Zan deeply hated the clan's help from Yuan Shao and did not help him. In anger, he directly sent troops to intercept and kill the marriage team of Yuan Shao and the clan's party.

He plundered a large number of gifts and killed all the envoys, intending to destroy the marriage between the two parties, but he was not careful and soon found out by Yuan Shao and his clan.

Yuan Shao put pressure on the clan members. The clan members were extremely annoyed and denounced Gongsun Zan as not a minister, and then mobilized 20,000 troops to attack Gongsun Zan.

Gongsun Zan did not expect that the clan was so angry. He was frightened and rushed to fight. He was defeated in a few seconds. The clan led his troops to pursue him. As a result, he was shot in the chest by a cold arrow and died of serious injuries.
Chapter completed!