King Jing completely trusts Li Yu, but controlling the locust plague is no trivial matter. King Jing paused and held Li Yu's hand, his eyes worried, as if asking him, are you sure
Li Yu smiled and said, "Yes, yes. But the means may not be very decent."
King Jing doesn't care about being decent. He is more worried about Li Yu's safety than whether he can stop the locust plague. Generally, people use fire to control locusts. Although a lot of worms can be killed at a time, there is also a danger of burns near the fire. Fish are carp essence, so they are afraid of fire, right
Li Yu saw his concerns and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, I won't go into battle in person."
In other words, it's not him who is going to fight, hey, don't think of him as a powerful goblin who can call the wind and the rain, he is just a system fish, and he is also very afraid of bugs!
King Jing Xu Xu stared at Li Yu, and seeing that he was really not joking, he nodded and allowed him to try.
Li Yu asked for a pen and paper, and wrote a few in one go. It was also a coincidence. Before Li Yu went through the book, it happened that some countries in the original world were suffering from locust plagues. His country gave some help. Li Yu was curious. Next, I roughly studied how to manage the locust plague. Although I don't remember all of them, I found it very interesting, and some of them are still fresh in my memory.
They are deep ploughing, grain selection, and duck army.
King Jing:
Li Yu tried his best to explain for him in a way that the ancients could probably understand: "Deep ploughing means that locust eggs originally grow in the soil. down, will… be killed by the sun.”
"Choosing food means that not all crops are eaten by locusts. If there are many kinds of food that locusts do not eat, then there will be fewer locusts to eat, and naturally they will not be able to make trouble."
King Jing is smart, and it's easy to understand. Both of these are really interesting.
King Jing's eyes fell on the third item again, what is the duck army, is it the one he thought... Duck
"His Royal Highness is right." Li Yu blinked, "The so-called one thing controls one thing, ducks can eat locusts. The first two, it should be too late for the locust plague, Your Highness can get more now. Duck, solve the urgent need, this is called... the duck army."
King Jing: "..."
King Jing frowned, what Xiaoyu said, especially the Duck Army, was unheard of.
But Xiaoyu's words sounded very reasonable, at least not with fire, nor life-threatening, King Jing nodded slowly.
There are some people in Luofeng Town who have raised ducks, but there are not many ducks. They used to sell them for money and eat them.
King Jing ordered Wang Xi to buy a few. If ducks can eat locusts, let’s try them out.
Wang Xi personally took over the job, and went out in the morning before dawn, and ran back in less than an hour, and said excitedly: "Your Highness, it's really useful! The old slave saw it with his own eyes, a few ducks died as soon as they landed. After eating a lot of locusts, the old slave has been eating from the time he left to the time he came back, without stopping!"
Wang Xi was in a hurry to come back to report the letter, and happily ran away one of his shoes.
According to Wang Xi's words, one duck ate a hundred or so in one go. King Jing made a rough estimate, and he was also a little uncontrollably excited.
At this time, if the emperor should be returned first, and the Ministry of Household will allocate funds to buy ducks, and go back and forth, I am afraid that the locust plague will be more serious.
King Jing needed this opportunity, so Wang Xi let go of his hands and feet, and with the money of King Jing’s mansion, he first bought all the live ducks in the Western Frontier.
Li Yu came up with another idea: "Don't just buy big ones, Your Highness, buy some ducklings and come back to raise them, so that you can set up a place to raise ducks. The ducks grow very fast and can catch up with the locust plague!"
King Jing's mind moved, this was also a solution, and Wang Xi obeyed.
A duck is not expensive. King Jing has money. The people of Luofeng Town are grateful for King King for repelling the bandits, and they learn that King King wants to buy ducks. However, if there are ducks in the family, they rush to send them over, and many people pay no money. No charge. Nearby the county heard that King Jing bought ducks to treat locusts.
King Jing ordered the guards to respond along the way to ensure the safety of the people who came and went. He was also afraid that the bandits would take advantage of the fire. However, when the bandits heard that King Jing wanted to treat locusts, they waited to see the excitement of King Jing.
Wang Xi quickly gathered 5,000 live ducks and nearly 1,000 ducklings.
The duck cubs still need to be fed, so the live ducks formed a duck army and rushed to the hardest-hit town.
King Jing also went there in person, and after one day, there was a gratifying victory. The duck army could really eat, and a small group of ducks could eat almost the same amount of locusts on an acre of land in just half a day.
What was a headache for the people in the past was that the locusts did not live long. Even if they were to burn a wave, they would grow back quickly, and it might cause a fire. Now, there is no need to worry about it. The ducks can eat for several days without stopping. Other risks, and the damage is extremely low, when the locusts in a town are almost eaten up, the duck army will only lose less than 10%.
Ducks are really amazing soldiers, King Jing smiled and compared his thumbs to Li Yu, and continued to ask Wang Xi to go around to buy ducks.
However, there were some surprises in the second acquisition. Wang Xi found that some businesses knew that they needed ducks. They stocked a lot of ducks from farmers at low prices in advance, and then resold them to Wang Xi at high prices.
Wang Xi was so angry that he reported to King Jing, but Li Yu himself did not expect such a problem. The palace spends money to buy ducks to cure the plague of locusts for the common people, but some people make such unscrupulous money without their conscience. If the locusts eat up all the food, where will they go to eat
Really, if you give three times the profit, you dare not even take your life.
King Jing had already thought about it, so he glanced at Wang Xi lightly, and asked Wang Xi to write down who they were, and let them stay and ignore them.
Wang Xi didn't buy many ducks this time, and was very worried that he had missed the business, but King Jing was confident.
Should I be able to buy chicken? King Jing looked at Li Yu.
"Chicken is fine! But chicken can't be eaten by duck..."
Li Yu nodded quickly, His Highness even knew this!
As long as King Jing can eat locusts, he ordered Wang Xi to buy some chickens. On the other hand, King Jing also ran the duck farm that Li Yu asked to set up. He hired a few daring duck farmers. Using locusts as a ingredient, the duck cubs grew very fast. Just when the duck army in front was about to turn green and yellow, the duck cubs grew up, and the duck army laid a lot of duck eggs.
Li Yu said happily: "Fortunately, His Highness bought a lot for the first time, so I can continue it now!"
Wang Xitangtang, a servant in charge of the palace, has been buying chickens, ducks and hatching eggs these days. King Jing smiled confidently and took over all matters related to the latter. His Royal Highness King Jing also understands egg hatching.
As for those who stock live ducks, they couldn't wait for the high price of the Wangfu to buy them, and gradually they couldn't keep up.
Ducks are living creatures, no more than grain, they just need to be piled up in the warehouse. They have to be fed and looked after. If they are not careful, they will starve to death, and many of them escape.
Seeing that King Jing's mansion no longer buys ducks, the ducks are dumbfounded. What should I do with so many ducks? But besides King Jing's mansion, who else in the west could afford so many ducks in one go
These people were afraid of losing money, so they made a special trip to Wang Xi to apologize. Wang Xi was reminded by King Jing that his waist was straight, and he just pressed the price again and again, blowing out the bones and scum of these people, and finally it was lower than the market price. It took a lot of time to get these ducks.
Both the duck army and the duck farm are operating normally. Li Yu went to see the duck farm run by King King, looked around everywhere, and raised a lot of opinions with the eyes of modern people. He thought the ducklings in the duck farm were cute, so he asked two Huang Chengcheng on a whim. The little ducks were also raised in the yard where they lived.
When the fish cubs saw fresh ducks they had never seen before, they were all as excited as the fish father, and the crystal bottle was almost unable to contain them. Not only the big treasure, but even the little confused, the four treasures, were eager to try it.
Li Yu was afraid that the ducklings would eat the small fish, so he resolutely did not allow the cubs to approach, and only allowed them to take a look from a distance.
Sibao likes beautiful ducklings very much. Once, while Li Yu was taking a nap, he secretly jumped out of the crystal bottle and went to find ducklings to play with.
Speaking of naps, it is actually a habit that Li Yu developed after giving birth to cubs. It is said that people sleep more and develop well when they are young. Li Yu thinks that cubs can also sleep more, and will accompany a few cubs every day. The cubs take a nap together.
The fish cubs are all lively and active. When Li Yu woke up, they all obediently burrowed into the aquatic quilt with Li Yu. When Li Yu fell asleep, the cubs got out of the quilt and played with each other.
Four treasures and one fish jumped out of the crystal bottle like this. Thanks to King Jing's foresight, he spread a thick blanket on the ground just in case, and the Four Treasures fell to the ground without being hurt.
But the Four Treasures were just a small fish the size of a slap. He completely forgot to leave the crystal bottle and the fish tank.
Dabao, Erbao, and Sanbao all swam to the edge of the crystal bottle, anxiously watching the Four Treasures fluttering.
Brother is in danger!
Dabao jumped out desperately, followed by Erbao and Sanbao, who all wanted to help the Four Treasures.
As a result, there was only one cub of Sibao fluttering on the ground, and then all four cubs were flapping their tails.
Li Yu only took a short nap, and would wake up from time to time to take a look at the cubs. After a while, the cubs jumped out of the crystal bottle one after another. Li Yu was frightened to death, and quickly brought the cubs back.
Four Treasures was frightened and clinged to Li Yu tightly.
Li Yu was both angry and distressed, so he couldn't blame the careless and confused cub. He fed the Four Treasures some fish food and wanted to divert the Four Treasures' attention.
Unexpectedly, the Four Treasures were still clinging to him while nibbling on the fish food.
Li Yu: "..."
Li Yu wanted to know what happened to the Four Treasures, and teased the Four Treasures to talk, and the Four Treasures said inarticulately: "Daddy, I want ducks and ducks!"
Li Yu guessed that the Four Treasures wanted to see the ducks, but fell to the ground.
Why do Sibao like ducks so much
Li Yu thought about it for a while, and took Si Bao to see the grown-up duck with a smirk. Si Bao saw with his own eyes that his mouth had grown a lot more than when he was a child, and his neck had become curved and long. Duck, think about the cute fluffy duckling and cry.
After Li Yu bullied the Four Treasures, he went to bully Da Bao again.
Dabao failed to save his younger brother, but made himself and the other two younger brothers fall to the ground. Dabao realized that he was doing something wrong, and when Li Yu came to him, he took the initiative to say to Li Yu: "Dad, I know I was wrong. "
In fact, Li Yu, who also likes to walk, said: "Oh, where did Dabao go wrong, tell Dad?"
"Yes... I was too weak to bring my brother back."
Dabao is a little aggrieved and a little embarrassed.
Li Yu: ? ?
Wake up, son, it's not your fault that you are too weak!
Dabao didn't know the fish father's complaints at all, and said very seriously: "I want to be the strongest fish, to protect my brother and father!"
Li Yu: "..."
Li Yu seemed to see the great pride behind Dabao. Really, it was obviously a small fish hatched from the same wave of fish eggs. Sibao could not speak well, but Dabao could clearly express a long list of wishes!
"Dabao is a good boy." Li Yu rubbed him comfortably with his fins, and then said, "But remember to do what you can."
Dabao:
Do what you can, what does that mean!
Li Yu taught him: "It is only when Dabao grows up that he can protect his father and younger brother."
Dabao nodded with a vague understanding: "Then Dabao will grow up quickly."
Li Yu: "..."
Emma, although I think it's a bit exaggerated, but inexplicably being warmed by Dabao, what is going on!
Thanks to the efforts of the Duck Army, the momentum of the locust plague in the Western Frontier has been brought under control. Although there are still repeated episodes in some areas, according to the current combat strength of the Duck Army, it is believed that it will not be long before the locusts will be completely eliminated.
However, after the locusts were eliminated this year, we cannot easily relax our vigilance in the future. The locust disaster will mainly recur, but now there is a wonderful way to control locusts. A few ducks.
I heard that ducks are a good thing. They can not only sell money, but also eat meat and kill locusts!
How to deal with the last pile of ducks that eat locusts and eat fat is also quite a headache.
Li Yu's eyes lit up when he saw so many ducks, he took a saliva when he remembered something, and said to King Jing, "Your Highness, why don't we come and eat roast duck!"
King Jing: "..."
King Jing is a man who eats the cucumbers that Li Yu personally patted, and still can't change his face and heart, so what's the point of eating a mediocre roast duck
King Jing nodded, and the Western Border Quan Jude had a prototype.