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    By August, news came from the Lianghu area that the locust plague that had been raging in the Lianghu area for 20 days had finally completely disappeared.

    The loss this time was larger than expected, but also smaller than expected.

    The losses were greater than expected. I did not expect that the locusts could actually rage for more than a month. From the east to the central part, four or five provinces were still the same, and most of them were major grain-producing provinces. It is absolutely certain that these provinces will have a bad harvest this year.  Something happened.

    But this locust plague is better than the worst-case scenario.

    Because of Liu Mingqi¡¯s strategy of ¡°concentrated use and superior force to annihilate locusts¡±, the government concentrated tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of chickens and ducks in some of the most important grain-producing areas to let them eat locusts and eggs.

    In this way, the food supply in these areas can be maintained at 50% at most and 30% at least. At least, the entire province will not be in the tragic situation of having no harvest.

    And the chickens and ducks that have eaten locusts and insect eggs appear more delicious, which also makes many gluttons happy.

    No matter what, now everyone realizes the additional functions of chickens and ducks, and the government has already called on everyone to raise more chickens and ducks, especially ducks, starting from next year when there is surplus food.

    There were descendants of the Mohist family in the Dakang Dynasty.

    They concluded through observation that chickens can eat about one hundred locusts a day, and ducks can eat about two hundred locusts a day.

    If there are millions of ducks in one place, there is basically no need to worry about locust disasters.

    But this is easier said than done.

    Even the richest city, Imperial Capital, can only gather around 100,000 ducks. People in other provinces can only feed three to five ducks for sale. There is no possibility of large-scale breeding.

    But as long as we are prepared and know some solutions, we will not be so desperate. At least locusts have natural enemies.

    Every place has been severely damaged, and naturally more food is needed for rescue.

    Although the prince made an mistake before, the disaster relief in the Lianghu area still followed the previous plan, using a three-to-one ratio to make bran porridge for the victims.

    Emperor Jinghe's order of "making chopsticks float on people's heads" was also strictly implemented.

    Because the prince in the Lianghu area killed Ge Chi, a group of officials were so frightened that they did not dare to move their hands or feet for fear that the knife would fall on their heads.

    In the alluvial plain area at the junction of Shandong and several provinces, the imperial court had early dispatched a large number of censors and spies from the Xiuyi Guard, and used force to kill dozens of corrupt officials, large and small, which could be regarded as stabilizing the situation.  .

    ¡°Besides, these officials are very smart. After they learned about the court¡¯s disaster relief plan for the two lakes area, they rushed for 800 miles to ask if they could also use three-to-one bran porridge to provide disaster relief?

    Considering the disaster situation in Shandong and their own arduous tasks, the court agreed.

    After all, below Shandong is Jiangnan. The Jiangnan area is originally a land of plenty. There are too many things like bran. If you buy more, you can exchange them at four to one or five to one, so you can save a lot of food for use as food.  Unprepared for the unexpected.

    As for the Gyeonggi area, let alone it.

    Xiong Wenqing, the governor of Gyeonggi Province, always did things in an orderly manner. He arranged the hundreds of thousands of victims who poured in properly without any trouble.

    There was also Miao Yan, the governor of the Imperial Palace. Faced with the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing famine who were crowded ten miles outside the capital city wall, he personally took care of all kinds of comfort matters. Because of his great reputation, none of the patrolmen, government officials and sergeants dared to mess around.

    Of course, the Gyeonggi Province and the Imperial Palace have natural advantages.

    Food from the south of the Yangtze River was continuously transported to the capital through the Grand Canal, which reduced the amount of food in the capital's warehouses to a very reasonable range.

    Liu Renhuai is indeed the Qiancheng of the country that everyone is looking forward to.

    The imperial court gave him 8 million taels of silver and ordered him to receive 7 million shi of grain. At this time, the price of food in Jiangnan was also rising sharply. The price had already risen from eight or nine coins to ten coins.  , twelve Wen, thirteen Wen per liter.

    As a result, Liu Renhuai used various means to purchase a full 10 million shi of grain from various places, which was almost as low as the low price of seven coppers per liter in March and April this year.

    Even if one-third of it is the food stored in the previous year, quantity is everything now. The food from the previous year can still be eaten, so what¡¯s wrong?

    With the official purchase of grain that was three million shi more than expected, there were also officials including the largest salt merchant Jia Zimingsp; Xiao Suqin smiled on her face, but sighed in her heart.

    She was a bit testing Liu Mingqi.

    ¡°It¡¯s not about acting, it¡¯s definitely impossible.

    Boss Su wanted to see how Liu Mingqi felt about him.

    Since she watched "Butterfly Lovers" and co-starred in "Butterfly Lovers" with Liu Mingqi, her whole heart has sunk in.

    In her heart, Liu Mingqi is Liang Shanbo and she is Zhu Yingtai. The two should be inseparable for life and death.

    Just like the song "Butterfly Lovers" with the same name, it is distant and long-lasting, poignant and moving.

    Even though Xiao Suqin is now twenty-three years old, nearly seven years older than Liu Mingqi, she feels that it is more than enough for her to be Liu Mingqi's concubine.

    "It's a pity that looking at Liu Mingqi's appearance now, it seems that she is not enlightened and has no feeling at all about the relationship between men and women.

    I remembered what I heard when I came back. Liu Mingqi¡¯s performance in the Burial Flower Tower and the Zhuque Tower was that he was not fascinated by a group of beauties, but was very free and easy, coming and going freely.

    So Xiao Suqin was a little relieved. Since this little man hasn't enlightened yet, let's wait for him to enlighten him!

    There is still plenty of time.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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