Xu Shiyang originally wanted to wait until the end of the year in Liaoning and launch another attack as much as possible before this.

The reason why he is rushing to return to Qi Province is that he has received news that he is coming to Quancheng, which may lead to a locust plague this year!

In the era when Xu Shiyang came, locust plague was simply a concept that only existed in history books. Even locusts had become a special delicacy that had to be cultivated in some places.

But in this era where agriculture is the main focus, the term locust plague can be a major disaster that is ranked alongside floods, droughts, and military disasters. These small insects can really shake the foundation of the country!

In the eyes of many people, locusts can even be said to be as cruel as the Tartars, so that the shadow of the locust plague even covers up Xu Shiyang's military victory in southern Liaoning.

After Xu Shiyang returned to Quancheng without stopping, the Grand Governor immediately convened an emergency meeting.

There is only one topic of the meeting, that is, how to deal with possible locust plagues!

"Starting in February this year, the number of refugees coming to Qi Province suddenly increased."

This is good news, but the Grand Governor Xu Muhe always had a gloomy face when he talked about this:

"In April, I thought the situation was wrong, so I sent someone to ask what happened in the Central Plains and why so many people suddenly came to Qisheng."

"This is how it is..."

A few years ago, the Tartars entered the pass and robbed them too much, and the entire Central Plains except Qi Province suffered heavy losses.

The Central Plains water conservancy system was originally extremely abandoned, and it lost more people and did not have a unified command. Naturally, the construction of river water conservancy in various places became increasingly weak.

Twelve years after Jianxing, the Yellow River and several other rivers in the north began to flood year by year. In the fifteenth year of Jianxing, there was finally no flooding, but droughts followed one after another!

Last year, I stood up here because the Governor's Office organized manpower to build water conservancy, so I was not deeply moved. However, once I crossed the Yellow River, the entire Central Plains area to the west had a severe drought for two consecutive years.

Droughts and locust plagues are often closely linked. The old saying goes: Locusts will be the extreme drought! In fact, since last year, some areas of the Central Plains have already started to cause locust plagues, but the locust plagues did not seem particularly serious at that time.

However, this year is different. According to the new refugees, in some areas of Henan Province, when they are hoeed, all the locust eggs are drawn!

The locust plague is different from other things. This insect is a living creature with wings. Once it flies, it is like a dark cloud pressing on the top. It can cover the sky. It can pass through the state and pass through the palace and eat as you fly. It will never stop if you don’t eat it barren ground for thousands of miles!

Hundreds of hectares of land will be eaten into white in an instant, and it cannot be avoided.

The Ministry of Revenue has sent people to consult experienced old farmers. Combined with the information provided by refugees, provinces such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Hebei will be subject to major locust plague this year.

The Qi Province east of the Yellow River should not be enough because it has a good irrigation system. However, locust plagues are everywhere. If the locusts eat up all the local area, they will inevitably launch an attack on the Qi Province.

This is a war!

If you ignore it, the great situation that the Governor's Office has saved up after working hard for several years may be filled into the locust's stomach in one year!

"The scale of the locust plague this year will inevitably be very large."

The Grand Governor Xu Muhe said to all the main officials under the Governor's Office in a deep tone:

"If we do not do well, it is possible that all the land particles west of Qingzhou will not be harvested!"

"You should also know that the situation in the Governor's Office is that you attend the New Year's Meeting. We do have some food storage here. In theory, even if there is no grain harvest this year, people in the province can survive it even if they are half hungry and half full."

"But the locust plague will never be only one year. What should I do if I have another locust plague next year? What should I do if I have another locust plague? If the locust plague lasts for five consecutive years, what should we eat? Should we give up the family business that we have worked hard to work hard and become refugees?"

Qisheng has been very comfortable in the past few years.

Don’t worry about the robbery of the Tartars. The bandits have been wiped out by the new army and militia. The Governor’s Office organized manpower to build river embankments and water conservancy, which can also allow everyone to have water to water crops during drought.

The taxes are very light, and although the labor service is heavy, the Governor's Office provides generous rewards for labor service, so many people have now worked as a means of income generation.

There is also a factory that sends her wife to a textile factory for a few days every month, and she will get the money for needles and threads. If she works for more than twenty days, the salary of a female worker is not even lower than that of farming. If she works for a month, it is possible for a female worker to support the whole family.

Then the money and grain earned by men who work in farming can be saved, and those who have loans can be used to repay the loan; those who don’t have loans can also deposit them in the bank to eat some of them, although they have Weibo, but they have a stable interest rate.

Not only ordinary people, but even the officials of the Governor's Office who were mainly from the fortress owners, felt that their current life was much more comfortable than being a little slave owner who was afraid of this and that a few years ago.

So no one is willing to go back to the past, and no one is willing to be refugees.

"Go to him nn!"

An official from the Ministry of Revenue who usually looks gentle and gentle jumped up first, shouting and cursing in the middle of the conference room with a ferocious expression:

"I dare to kill Tartars so that I won't be driven to be a refugee by a little bug!"

Most of the officials in the Governor's Office have participated in the defense of the Yellow River defense line as militia commanders and have fought with the Tartars.

Therefore, although this guy is a civil servant of the Ministry of Revenue and has been studying for a few days, he still is as rude as a martial artist when he encounters such a thing.

"The Grand Governor doesn't need to say much, just tell me what to do!"

"Yes, yes! The Tartars are defeated by us. I don't believe that locusts can be more powerful than Tartars!"

Someone took the lead, and the entire conference hall was in an instant.

Officials from the six ministries shouted:

"Governor-General has ordered! Let's go and fight locusts!"

"Fight locusts!"

"Go and fight locusts!!!"

The roar rang out into the sky and the morale was very high.

"good!"

Xu Muhe suddenly stood up from the chair:

"I have agreed first that this war is no less important than the Tartars' attack! Therefore, it is comparable to the wartime period, both men, women, young and old in the province need to work hard!"

In the huge conference room of the Governor's Office, everyone was excited, but Xu Shiyang sat on the chair and watched all this quietly.

He was not excited, not because he was dissatisfied with everyone's enthusiasm for managing locust plagues, but because Xu Shiyang thought of something else:

Locust plagues are different from floods and droughts. Due to the undulating terrain and the degree of perfection of water conservancy construction, there are always people who are lucky enough to survive in floods. Droughts are similar. People who are close to rivers or have water wells all have the opportunity to protect themselves.

Only this locust plague must be: it must rely on the country's merits, must be coordinated by the whole city, and must be united by millions of people, and must be one of them, without the principle of working hard to avoid them.

Therefore, controlling locust plagues is a major test for the construction of grassroots organizations in a regime.

In another time and space, at the most critical moment of the nation, the gap in the execution ability of the two parties can actually be seen from the performance of the two parties in locust control.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang felt that this locust plague was a disaster, but perhaps it was also an opportunity.

A good opportunity to strengthen grassroots construction and directly delegate the tentacles of the Governor's Office to the bottom.

A good opportunity to improve people's ability to collaborate and collective honor.

If we can survive this locust plague safely, the Governor's Office may officially grow into a completely different regime than before.

She will become invincible!bdshare();
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