The people in the disaster-affected areas were unwilling to help catch the locusts at first, and some even invited a few larger locusts to their homes to raise them. Naturally, many of them were raised to death.
Prime Minister Yao finally persuaded the people above and the courtiers, but progress was not fast in the local area. Several times he ordered the local officials to organize manpower. This has only improved a little. Unfortunately, the locusts have become better after such a long period of cultivation. Too many people worry that it will spread to other prefectures.
In the past few days, the people moved to catch the locusts, but the effect was not great. When Yao Chong was preparing to give a tougher order, the army of Zhangjiazhuangzi came swaying, giving him a lot of peace of mind.
Xiao Hong greeted Cherries and several officials, and could not wait to direct the poultry to rush into the field or the wild. The chickens, ducks and geese rushed all the way, especially in the last half of the day. There was no decent food at all, and she had the lead. The geese rushed directly past one by one.
Especially those chickens. They spread their legs, lowered their necks, flapped their wings, and screamed fast when they ran. All the locusts that appeared in front were one at a time, with their small mouths moving, and their necks stretched out. The locusts are down. If there are those flying locusts, they don't rush to chase them, just eat the ones in front of them.
Local people usually catch locusts at night. When a fire is lit, there will be locusts desperately rushing into the fire. During the day, the only tool is to make a bag in front of a long pole and use this to catch. The speed is faster. As more locusts in your pocket, you have to deal with it, which will naturally delay a lot of time.
These chickens, ducks and geese are different. If they are caught, they will eat directly. If those locusts fly to the front of the poultry team and continue to fly, they will be lucky for the time being. Those flying in the wrong direction will directly fall towards the natural enemies below, without waiting for the ground. Well, these sensitive poultry raised their heads and babbled from the air.
After humans or some animals eat food, they need to rely on stomach acid for digestion, but poultry use crops to grind it. There is sand that is usually eaten in it. The digestion speed is much faster than that, and some even pull it while eating. .
Especially when they rushed all the way, they were always half hungry, and they lost a lot of weight. At this time, they saw so many food supplements. Everyone was eating hard. They were so stocked. Poultry's demand for food has reached an almost abnormal level.
You can eat two-thirds of your body weight or the same amount of food in a day. One can imagine the number of grasshoppers that need to be eaten for a chicken that is so big. There are chickens that are usually powerful and can fly more than two meters on the ground. High, when eating locusts, the body also consumes energy.
In two quarters of an hour, those chickens, ducks and geese became small dots in people’s sight. The fields where they passed by, there weren’t many millet on it, there was nothing at all, and people didn’t eat it. There is a lot of meat in front of this kind of thing.
At the same time, no locust could be found anywhere they swept, and occasionally a few locust wings that were not swallowed were mixed in the chicken feathers and blown together by the wind.
The prime minister, the officials, and the people who came to see the excitement were all taken aback by the scene. So many poultry rushed over and disappeared in an instant. Not only did they eat the locusts, but they also left behind along the way. A lot of feces, the people are happy to see this situation, the next year can save a lot of trouble, do not have to go to the trouble of finding fat.
Cherry saw this scene and thought that it was the confession of the little son, and she "recruited" among these people on the spot. Under the supervision of the people who came to the inner courtyard, some people were recruited to be responsible for picking eggs afterwards. Pick fifty eggs and you can take one home.
This can be accumulated. Picking up to 50 eggs at a time is allowed. It is allowed to change one egg directly. Picking up to 150 eggs in two days is enough. You can change them together in a few days. Find a way to tune in.
Nearly 10,000 poultry, a little male and the rest are females. There are also a lot of roosters on the Zhuangzi, but they are not sent. Usually, they can lay more than 6,000 eggs a day. Because of the good food now, they can break through. Seven thousand, the price paid in one day is less than two hundred.
At first, I was afraid that everyone would not want to do it. After all, we need to lay the poultry to pick the eggs, but she can't imagine the level of people's demand for food here. The drought has become a foregone conclusion. Even if all taxes are adjusted in autumn. There is also exemption, and the locals have a hard time.
They usually don’t have anything to do, and they walk around behind, even if they change one egg in two days, there are fifteen in a month. These eggs are not many in the past, but in the current form, that is a lot. Hearing the price offered by cherries in exchange for other goods, the common people chose to leave eggs. The price offered by cherries is the usual exchange rate, but not the price of food that is urgently needed.
It took a short while for Cherry to find a hundred people. Others later had no chance. If there are too many people, they will not get an egg in a few days. But these hundred people are selected, which family has the best life. If it is difficult, choose which one.
Others who were not selected did not complain when they felt uncomfortable. They came from so far to help, and they were looking for people with the worst lives. They couldn’t scold anyone if they wanted to. They also have their own methods, and the eggs won’t belong to them. The picking was nothing, they all started to catch locusts in other places, even the children in the family wanted to help.
Some plants that were obviously not growing food were cut down by them to make simple chicken coops. They found Cherries and others to discuss with them. They said that at night, let those poultry come here to sleep, and they would provide locusts for supper. .
Xiaohong, Cherry and others were puzzled. They didn’t understand why these people were so enthusiastic. Someone who understood them came to explain in the inner courtyard, saying that these people had the idea of using feces. Because they were destined to fail the harvest this year, some people who raised livestock Had to sell the livestock in order to survive.
People eat less, and the local fertilizer will be much less next year. In order to have a good harvest next year, we must now find a way to save up manure and wait for the fattening.
Hearing these things, even if Xiaohong, Yingtao and others came here to help make money casually, they also felt sorry for the local people. Cherry was the first person to follow Zhang Xiaobao. She was courageous and responsible, so she immediately ordered:
"Let people return to the Zhuangzi with a quick horse, and bring all the poultry from the dealers that lay eggs at the fastest speed. The half-large chickens are also brought in. Tell the dealers that they will be paid every two days after returning. The eggs compensate them."
"Ah? All are shipped? Compensation? Cherry girl, this compensation is a bit too much. They don't need to raise them, and they will save a lot of feed."
A person in the inner courtyard who heard Cherry’s order felt that the master’s family had paid too much, and he knew that he didn’t get the poultry in the first place because he was afraid it would be difficult to calculate the account. There are 196 households raising chickens, ducks and geese, all of which were hatched from cherries. By now, the first two batches are ready to lay eggs.
"Listen to my words. I will take care of everything. The account is not calculated like that. The farmer raises chickens to get eggs, not to save feed. You have to compensate, hire a car, and go fast. There is still a lot of land on the side, and chickens and ducks just can't eat them."
Cherry got it when she came, "authorization", she is the greatest, no matter what decision is made, others must unconditionally obey, even if she says to kill all the poultry, others have to do it, she did something wrong Naturally, the young man will take care of it, but whoever dares not to obey orders will take a while and take it back to the master's house.
Seeing that the people in the inner courtyard could not persuade them, they had no choice but to follow orders, find a few horses, bring another person, and at the same time change to a Mercedes-Benz, hurry back to prepare vehicles, and gather poultry. When the two of them thought of the more than two hundred per household The chickens, ducks and geese feel a headache. How many cars do I have to find
Seeing the swift movements of the two Zhangjiazhuang people when they fly on their horses and the riding skills of riding the dust, Yao Chong glanced at the guard next to him, and the guard immediately said: "Master, those two must be of military background. Look at the movement of the horse just now. It has at least ten years of foundation. If you look at the posture of the horse while walking, you must go through the battlefield."
"Well, I heard from the county magistrate that Zhangjiazhuang found some people from the inner yard. It seems that these two were sought after. This kind of people usually do some chores, but when it is critical, they can charge and get into the battle. Go back and check. After checking, where the people have left their nationality, these two people are still not old, there must be someone who has benefited from it."
Yao Chong seemed to be talking to himself, and when the dust that was thrown up when the two left had settled, he turned his eyes on the poultry that had turned around and ate all the way back from elsewhere.
Said to the document next to him: "Write down this matter. Tonight, I am going to write a book, and show the merits to Zhang Wang's two Zhuangzi in Tuqiao Village, Sanshui County, Yuzhou, and complete the old man of the Zhang family once again. The grain is also for poultry. With such a strong force, the local officials watched it and couldn't hide it."
Yao Chong really couldn’t understand why Zhangjiazhuang had such a high regard for the food towns of hundreds of households. In that case, he also helped himself a lot. Give it some benefits. If the pressure continues, the people’s hearts will be chilled. The 10,000 chickens, ducks and geese are not decorations. The surrounding prefectures and counties all return to know, and send people over to invite them to eat locusts.
"Adults, young ones think that this family Zhuangzi deliberately did this, creating a big momentum, forcing the adults to show merit, it is better to hold off." The clerk also knew the trouble of this matter, Zhang Wang and the two Zhuangzi used righteousness to suppress People, no one will be comfortable with it.
"Hugh is so nonsense, people are the first to move. At that time, the truth is not here yet. Everything depends on how the people who inquired there came back to say." Yao Chong's doubts were even greater.