Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

Heishui Town sent a total of three teams to exterminate the locusts in three directions.

Although the efficiency of locust extermination is very high, there are too many locusts, and this thing reproduces very fast. A large swarm will be born in a few days, and it is difficult to catch.

The locust forward is still slowly advancing towards Heishui Town, and can advance four or five miles a day. At this speed, it will take at most ten days to reach Heishui Town.

The three groups of people kept reporting the situation of the locusts to Zhang He, and the old man Zhang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

If the locusts do this again, his Black Water Town will be ruined. How can he collect rent this year!

Losing several million grains a year, how many daughters-in-law can this bring back to the son?

Since he became a landlord for several years, Mr. Zhang’s obsession with inheriting the family has remained the same, and his ideas in other aspects have subtly changed. When encountering a locust plague, the first thing he thinks of is his own renter.

Zhang He has stopped practicing for the past two days, and he is personally in command.

After getting the news from the front, I probably already have some confidence in my heart.

Although the chickens and ducks he prepared in advance worked well, the quantity was too small, only nearly ten thousand in total.

The number of chickens and ducks that can be eaten every day is limited, and it is far from being able to kill locusts quickly by manpower.

Now all the other subordinates have been sent out, and only Gong Fugui and Wen Sheng are left around.

Fugui is in charge of training the militia and is very familiar with every village.

Wen Sheng, a fortune teller, was previously in charge of running the Xianyuan pastry shop in Dehua City, and his ability was very good. Later, Zhang He also opened several small shops in Zhaoling City, all of which were left to Wen Sheng to take care of.

"Fugui, you send people to notify all the villages, and ask Heishui Town, regardless of men, women, or children, to gather in the northwest direction to exterminate the locusts together.

All tenant farmers who participated in locust extermination can reduce or exempt part of their land rent as appropriate after the disaster. "

"Yes!"

Fugui took the order and left in a hurry. He had a group of key personnel in his hands, who were usually stationed in various villages. Now he only needed to notify these key personnel.

"Wen Sheng, you organize a group of people to buy the locusts from the tenants.

For every catty of sun-dried locusts,

It can be exchanged for a pound of corn. "

"Young master, do locusts need to be so expensive?"

Wen Sheng was a little puzzled. He didn't dislike eating locusts. When he was poor, he even ate earthworms, spiders, and centipedes.

However, these bugs are regarded as unclean things, and only when there is no other way, they will eat these things in order to survive.

In everyone's mind, locusts cannot be compared with serious food.

Not to mention exchanging a catty of corn, there are many people who are willing to exchange even half a catty.

"The purpose of doing this is naturally to increase the enthusiasm of the tenant farmers to eliminate locusts, and try to save as much food as possible for Heishui Town.

With this round of drought and locust plague this year, every grain of food will be precious.

As for locusts, their value is definitely far more than ordinary food. "

Locusts are rich in nutrients such as protein, amino acids, calcium and phosphorus, and their nutritional value is much higher than that of ordinary meat.

In this materially poor world, it is definitely an excellent source of nutrition.

However, some locusts in the locust plague will mutate and produce some toxins in order to protect themselves and guard against natural enemies.

In fact, in order not to be eaten, many species will mutate some toxins, or thorns, especially some young shoots, which have a higher probability of containing toxins.

Zhang He still remembered that he had read a scientific article in his previous life, that this mutated locust would produce phenylacetonitrile and hydrocyanic acid in its body.

Phenylacetonitrile is poisonous and has a pungent smell, but hydrocyanic acid is highly toxic and can poison people to death.

However, the boiling point of hydrocyanic acid is very low, only about 20 degrees, and it is easy to volatilize.

Phenylacetonitrile can also volatilize at more than two hundred degrees.

Now that the principle is known, it only needs to be fried to volatilize the toxin and become non-toxic. For this alone, ordinary tenants may not be able to handle it well.

In fact, soaking in wine can also dissolve the toxins, but the cost is too high, it is better to use deep frying.

Of course, mutated locusts only account for a part of them, not all locusts are poisonous, and the amount of toxin contained in each locust is not particularly large.

Under the temptation of double interests, almost all the tenants in Heishui Town mobilized, brought their own dry food, and rushed to the direction of the locusts with their own tools to enjoy the gluttonous feast brought by the locust plague.

There are more than 20,000 permanent residents in Heishui Town plus factory workers. After all of them participated in the extermination of locusts, the advance speed of the locust swarm was obviously slowed down.

Now the locust swarm can only travel one or two miles a day. If this speed is followed, Heishui Town can almost delay until the autumn harvest season.

But a few days later, Fu Gui came to Zhang He again.

"Young Master, in the past few days, all the tenants have caught locusts, and the crops in the fields have not been taken care of. Now many people want to go back and take care of their one-acre three-point land."

Zhang He thought for a while, this is indeed a problem.

It is still in a drought period. If the crops in the field are not watered in time, they will not last for a few days.

If you go home to water the land, and you can't keep the locusts out, you won't be able to keep the crops.

In fact, not only the tenants, there are thousands of acres of sweet potatoes in Qifeng Mountain, which is Zhang He's main source of grain income.

Now it is in a period of rapid growth, if the leaves are eaten by locusts, at least half of the yield will be reduced.

Under the current situation, with the staff of Blackwater Town, it seems difficult to balance both ends.

"How about this, let each tenant farmer leave at least one-third of the people to continue to kill the locusts, and the rest can return to the village to fight the drought.

I will ask Wen Sheng to recruit tenants from other villages and towns to help exterminate the locusts. "

After Fugui took the order to leave, Zhang He asked Wen Sheng to send a group of people to recruit tenants in the villages and towns that had been plagued by locusts.

Under the double devastation of drought and locust plague, these tenants have already been exhausted physically and mentally, and even lost hope of living.

Now the people sent by Wen Sheng only shouted in every village on horseback, and immediately the whole village rushed to Heishui Town.

Wen Sheng’s offer was also very simple. Each person received a cornbread of miscellaneous grains per day, and the captured locusts were dried and handed in. One catty of locusts was exchanged for six Wen, which was equivalent to a catty of corn today.

There are many people and strength, and under the temptation of huge profits, after ten days, the locust swarm not only failed to approach Heishui Town, but there were signs of forcing the locusts to divert to other places.

At the same time, Wen Sheng also took back the locusts in a large warehouse.

Everything is going in a good direction, and Heishui Town is about to survive this round of drought and locust plague.

But Zhang He suddenly got the news that a group of special locusts suddenly appeared in Qifeng Mountain by some unknown method, and some locusts even flew into his small courtyard.

That's okay, Qifeng Mountain is his foundation, if it is harmed by locusts, he will suffer a lot.

Immediately, he rushed to Qifeng Mountain at full speed.

Because of the special situation of Qifeng Mountain, the villagers here did not send out to exterminate the locusts, so after the locusts came, they were hunted and killed by the villagers.

Only some of them flew into his small courtyard, and everyone dared not enter without Zhang He's consent.

When Zhang He returned to the small courtyard on the top of the mountain, a group of locusts were eating happily in his half-acre spiritual field.

He found that the size of this group of locusts was several times larger than ordinary locusts, and the smallest one was the size of a thumb.

What surprised him even more was that among them, more than a dozen locusts were bigger, faster, and had aura fluctuations on their bodies.

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