As night fell, after a relatively simple supper, a group of children such as Chengqian were assigned by Li Chao for evening homework. Looking at the test questions written by Li Chao, a group of students were a little confused.

"Why is today's homework a grasshopper?"

Chai Lingwu has eaten grasshoppers a lot recently and is very familiar with them. When he saw the lifelike locust on the paper, he immediately thought of 108 ways to eat locusts, and he couldn't help but drool.

"The teacher's locusts are drawn like lifelike, just like living things."

"You should take a good look at the teacher's homework. If you can't finish the homework, you will have to make a board when the teacher checks tomorrow." Cheng Qian reminds everyone.

"Oh, see what the topic is."

As shown in the picture, answer, 1. What are the three parts of the body of a locust?

A group of children talked about each other, one said it was these three parts and the other said it was those three parts.

"Let's go and catch a few locusts and take a good look, and you'll know." Cheng Qian was smarter and soon found a better solution.

"I have locust specimens, I'll get them." Lai Heng said.

With the locust specimens, it is easier, and everyone is scrambling around the locust.

On the other side of the yamen.

Li Chao was also working with Cui Yan and Wang Xuance to study locusts. On the table in front of Li Chao, there were more locust samples, ranging from locust eggs to locust larvae to cost, and there were seven or eight stages of locust specimens.

"The so-called "knowing the person with you" will never be defeated in a hundred battles. If we want to fight a arduous battle to eliminate locusts, we must first understand the habits and characteristics of locusts. As long as we master the habits and characteristics of locusts and their weaknesses, we can find a targeted way to cure locusts and eliminate locusts."

"Everyone carefully study these locusts and see if there is any better way."

The so-called "one person has a short plan, three people have a strong plan, and there are three cobblers who are a good plan," said Zhuge Liang.

Raising food is very important, but you cannot just wait for the disaster to happen. Now that the raising has achieved certain results, now that it is in Xiangyang, Li Chao has also begun to prepare for the treatment of locusts.

If it is in modern times, there are many ways to kill locusts, such as using airplanes to scatter locusts, such as burning locusts with flamethrowers, etc. But at this time, many technical conditions are insufficient.

"The prime minister has a poem in the Book of Songs that brings fire to the fire. I think this refers to the method of using fire to trap locusts to eliminate them." Although Cui Yan is a military general, he has read a lot of books by the children of the Cui family, after all, the children of the Shandong clan's major family have read a lot of books.

Li Chao nodded in admiration.

Most bugs, especially those flying insects, have the habit of looking towards the light at night. Just like moths flying into the fire, even if they are killed by the fire, these flying insects don’t understand these things. Even if they are burned to death, other bugs will continue to follow.

Burning more fires at night can lure a large number of flying insects over, and then catching them with nets, which can attract many locusts.

"This is a good idea, write it down."

At this time, someone pointed out that we should worship the Locust God and pray that the Locust God will not cause disaster. At this nonsense, Li Chao sneered and pointed directly at the door, "Go out!"

This is a locust control meeting. This guy is talking about worshiping the locust god, what is the use of keeping such a person?

He drove that guy away, and now everyone began to think about how to kill locusts.

Wang Xuance also spoke.

"The prime minister and subordinates are above ancient books. I saw that there were ditch and trough methods that could destroy locusts during the Han Dynasty."

"Oh, the ditch method to destroy locusts? Let's listen to it in detail."

"The method of ditching is to dig trenches on the ground and by the roadside, then line up, hold branches and wooden sticks and other things in hand, wave and shout, drive the locusts into the ground and deep ditch, and then add soil to bury them."

While saying that, Wang Xuance also walked to the table and picked up an adult locust from the table. "Prime Minister, please see, the pores of the locust are in the abdomen. If buried in the soil, it will isolate the air so that it cannot breathe, and let it suffocate to death."

However, Wang Xuance's method of burying ditches and burying live was opposed by Shangguan Yi.

"The prime minister has defects in the ditch method. According to historical records, Liu Cong, a native of Jin, caught locusts and buried them by the ditch method, but the locusts did not die, and then they drilled out of the soil to harm the crops again. So I thought that the ditch method would destroy locusts, but in the end, they would burn them while burning them. At night, they set fires next to the dug ditch, lure the locusts into the fire and burn them to death, and then sweep them into the ditch to bury them, or throw the caught locusts into the water and drown them!"

Li Chao smiled and listened to their suggestions.

"Your methods are all good, but there is still a place where there is some shortcomings. How can the locusts caught be buried and burned? This is edible. Disasters occur, and food is short of food everywhere. Locusts are mixed with rice, rice, chaff, wild vegetables, etc., but they can be made into disaster relief cakes."

"You can use digging trenches and then burning fire at night to attract locusts, catch them with nets, then use them to grind them into crushes, use them to dry powder, and then process them into disaster relief cakes." Li Chao added a few points.

When the locust plague really strikes, the locusts that can be caught at that time will probably cost millions and tens of millions of stones. If so many locusts are processed into disaster relief cakes, how many people will be saved? How can they be wasted?

However, Li Chao was still not very satisfied with the method of inducing ditch and fire.

Because this method of locust hunting is actually used to catch the locusts when they have completely grown into insects.

Locusts are very good at flying at this time.

To destroy locusts, the main thing is to kill locusts when they are still eggs and larvae. Locusts are still eggs, so the locusts don’t move and die. Go and dig out, and they will be less if they dig a little, and they will not escape or run away at all.

Secondly, locusts can climb when they are larvae, but they can't fly, and can only climb and jump. It is more appropriate to catch them at this time. Especially in the morning, when there is dew on the locust wings, the ability to jump is worse and it is easier to catch them.

"We want to fight a tunnel battle, dig more ditches and hurdles by the river, in the fields, in the fields, and in places with many locusts, and then set fire to catch locusts at night."

"Also, we need to urge local people to go out to dig locust eggs. The digging of insect eggs can be handed over to the government for exchange for disaster relief cakes."

"People are encouraged to raise more chickens and ducks, and to rush to the fields and rivers to prey on locusts."

Li Chao stood up and supported his hands on the table.

"Everyone, this is a protracted war, a battle of life and death. We must put forward all the means and all the energy!"

I came up with many ways to dig insect eggs, raise chickens and ducks, catch larvae, and even burn fire to catch locusts, but Li Chao still dared not be careless.

Locusts are of various types, large number base, high reproduction and survival rate, wide distribution, and wide food. If you miss a place, you can hatch into hundreds of millions of locusts. The most terrifying thing is that locusts migrate. Every time you go, more locusts will gather, forming larger swarms, constantly expanding the swarms, and finally forming a big locust plague that swept everything and eats everything.

Now Li Chao is not only trying to kill locusts, but not how he finds a way to get more locusts for food.

Before the locusts eat all the seedlings in the field, catch more locusts to make food.

Locusts eat crops, and they eat locusts!

"Build more mills, and then crush all the locusts caught into pieces and dry powder to make disaster relief food."

One stone of grain can be processed with sorghum, chaff, locust powder, dried fish, wild vegetables, etc. During this period, Li Chao bought more than 5 million stones of disaster relief cake in the sixteen prefectures in the south of Shandong. If there were enough locusts, dried fish, dried fish, dried vegetables, and chaff to process them, Li Chao could have 20 to 30 million stones of disaster relief food.
Chapter completed!