Doomsday Catastrophe

Shen Feng is now also worried about the locust plague. The crops have just been planted not long ago, and the seedlings have just grown, but the locusts came later, and the crops have been eaten up. There is still a chance to replant crops, but The locusts have not left since they entered the border of Sichuan Province.

The locusts are gnawing on the crops while flying around, and they are still laying eggs. After ten or twenty days, new locusts will emerge from the soil.

Recently, Shen Feng has been discussing with the people in Yuzhou how to completely solve the harm caused by locusts.

Even during meetings, Shen Feng's head is tied with a white cloth. Generally speaking, funerals have been simplified a lot. In ancient times, it took three years to observe filial piety. Later, modern times appeared For the matter of changing customs, the three-year filial piety is too long, so the time is shortened. Generally speaking, it takes three to seven days. Even if it is long, it takes half a month to make arrangements, but Shen Feng has decided that at least half a year of filial piety should be observed.

It is impossible for Chang Jianyi to stop this matter, because she can understand Shen Feng's grief now. It is very difficult for every grateful person to accept the sudden departure of a loved one from this world. Shen Feng is only wearing filial piety every day, which will not affect Yuzhou's future plans.

At the meeting, many people had smiles on their faces, because they had recently received good news that many cities in Sichuan Province had sent Yuzhou requests for surrender, because the food reserves in these cities had basically If there is no more food, famine will break out in these cities, and the fate of these people will be even worse.

At first, everyone thought that it would not be easy for Yuzhou to take over Sichuan Province, but now, the sudden appearance of locusts has brought benefits to Yuzhou, because Yuzhou has basically not been affected by disasters in these years , so there is a lot of food in stock, and although the area of ​​Sichuan Province is very huge, and the plains are much more than Yuzhou, but the population of Sichuan Province is also large, and it needs to sell food to the outside world frequently, so the food in Sichuan Province is just now. It is enough to eat, but it is far from the level of food storage. Now that the crops are eaten by locusts, Sichuan Province can't bear it first.

Shen Feng leaned on his seat and said lightly: "Although the territory of Sichuan Province can be obtained without bloodshed, don't forget that we don't have much food in Yuzhou. If we mobilize food to go to Sichuan Province, what will happen to Yuzhou?" manage?"

Yang Chang looked very optimistic at this time, and said: "Although we have missed the best time to sow seeds at this time, we can still replant grain now. Maybe the harvest will be much reduced, but we won't have no harvest, yes. Bar?"

"It's easy to replant food, but what about the locusts? The locusts are still breaking out of the ground. When the time comes, the locusts will kill a carbine, and then? The crops will be gone again." Cao Fulie on the side couldn't help but said, now the locusts are still there It has not been resolved. It is too simple to talk about farming.

"Produce pesticides with all our strength and kill all these locusts, wouldn't it be good?" Yang Chang said as a matter of course.

Modern agriculture has a very simple way to deal with locusts, that is, to spray pesticides directly, no matter what kind of insects they are, they can be killed directly. After spraying insecticides, the crisis of locusts will be resolved.

But at this time Li Keyi said calmly: "I'm afraid it won't work. The effect of insecticides on locusts has weakened. First of all, the size of East Asian migratory locusts has more than doubled this time, and their ability to resist poison has increased. Secondly, locusts are mutated and have evolved resistance to pesticides, so the previous dosage has to be increased by five or six times, and this dosage of pesticides is enough to cause harm to humans."

Now that Li Keyi said this, everyone couldn't help frowning. The resistance of locusts has also increased after the mutation. In this way, it is not easy to deal with locusts. At least use insecticides. Poisons are useless against locusts.

"Since the effect of using pesticides has been limited, we might as well mobilize the people below to go out and kill locusts manually. It will definitely be effective if everyone works together." Qi Lingshan couldn't help but said at this time .

"Your suggestion is even more unreliable. If manpower could fight against the locusts, the locusts would have been eaten to extinction by humans." Li Keyi immediately expressed his opposition when he heard such words.

Tu Xuhuai was silent for a while, then suddenly looked at Shen Feng, and said: "For professional matters, you should ask more professional people, City Lord, it is useless for us to discuss here, why not go to the research institute to find scientists, let scientists Let's think of a way together, even if we can't provide a practical solution, we can still give us some suitable suggestions."

Shen Feng nodded, and said to Li Keyi: "Yiyi, hurry up and contact the research institute, find some entomologists here, and ask them to help you refer."

Li Keyi then left the meeting room, and Shen Feng was not idle now, he said to the rest of the people: "Take advantage of this opportunity, we need to take over other cities in Sichuan Province as soon as possible, and then we need to discuss who to station Rongcheng, I'm still in Yuzhou during normal time, so I can't stay in Rongcheng all the time, so, who do you think is more suitable to guard in Rongcheng?"

After hearing Shen Feng's words, everyone became excited. If they go to garrison Rongcheng at this time, they will be treated like a feudal official. Especially at this time, Yuzhou is short of manpower, let alone the children in the orphanage. Well, even the young people constantly recruited by Yuzhou are basically not enough, so if you go to Rongcheng to develop your own team, this is not bad.

Everyone hurriedly discussed at this time, and finally decided to let Guo Pinming lead the army to Rongcheng, and Zhou Xiaoxiao was in charge of the civilian staff. The most important thing was to ensure the smooth flow of the railway between Rongcheng and Yuzhou .

Shen Feng is also very relieved about Guo Pinming, because Guo Pinming is the least greedy person. After he goes to Rongcheng, he can be sure that he will not have any other thoughts. Besides, Guo Pinming is in Rongcheng. Jin Zijue also has more than a dozen supernatural beings by his side, and now they also choose to stay in Rongcheng. Jin Zijue has become the next captain of the supernatural authority.

After Shen Feng discussed the matter with everyone, Li Keyi also happened to bring entomologists and agriculturalists to the conference room, and everyone continued to discuss the matter of locusts.

Professor Zhang sat down slowly, and then said to Shen Feng: "Master, in fact, the mutation of insects is limited by oxygen. As long as the oxygen concentration on the earth drops, the size of locusts will continue to shrink, and the rest of the insects will basically It is impossible to continue to mutate, and this can solve the mutated bug once and for all."

"Professor, we just want to know how to solve the locusts in the territory at this time. If the locusts in the territory have not been solved, we are worrying about other mutated insects in other places at this time. There is going to be a famine." Shen Feng said hastily.

When Shen Feng said this, Professor Zhang also realized that now he is not considering the mutation of insects, but how to solve the crisis brought by locusts in a short time.

So, after pondering for a moment, Professor Zhang said: "First of all, it is not easy to completely contain the locust plague, because it took decades to completely eliminate the locust plague in China, and it took several generations of hard work to complete it. After this matter, it has gone through several stages. The first is human hunting, which is the most stupid way. Whether it is digging locust eggs or catching locusts for frying, the efficiency is actually very low. Then there is medicine and equipment management, which is simple. The best way to kill locusts is to spray medicine, but it can’t be used now.”

Everyone in the conference room was listening quietly. Many people in the conference room had never experienced a locust plague, because everyone here was too young, and there were quite a few people under the age of 30. These things The older generation can still have an impression, but for these young people, they don't quite know how to manage locusts.

"In the end, the way to completely control the locusts in China is still source control. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to transform the habitat of locusts. Although locusts are everywhere, these locusts also have their source. As long as the habitat of these locusts is transformed, In the future, the locusts will not be able to flood at all." Professor Zhang said slowly.

"Where is the source of the locusts?" Someone immediately started asking at this time, wanting to know how to successfully control the locusts.

Professor Zhang said: "Basically in the north, North China, Guanzhong, and the lower reaches of the Yellow River. These are the birthplaces of locust plagues in history. Reservoirs were built and water conservancy facilities were manually excavated to change the habitat of locusts. Therefore, locusts cannot It has formed a scale, but ten years have passed since the end of the day, and these water conservancy facilities have been abandoned, so the locusts have made a comeback."

"Come on, there's nothing we can do now. The habitats of locusts are all in the north, and it's impossible to transform them." Lu Kaiyang immediately threw up his hands when he heard this. If it was a peaceful time to transform the habitats of locusts in the north, it would probably be impossible. It is possible, but at this time the north has become an inaccessible place, and it is impossible to transform the habitat of locusts on a large scale.

Professor Zhang quickly said: "It's not in vain to say these words. In fact, locusts have already laid eggs in various places in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou. Next, these places where eggs are laid can be regarded as the habitat of locusts. As long as Sichuan Province and Yuzhou are transformed into places that are not suitable for locusts to live in, the locusts will disappear naturally."

Shen Feng immediately asked: "How to transform?"

"There is no need to renovate! Because logically speaking, locusts are suitable for flooding in the south, unless there is also a drought in the south. Now, just wait for the rain in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou, which is enough. Once the rain arrives, the locusts will naturally disappear. without a trace." Professor Zhang gave such an answer.

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help shaking their heads immediately after hearing this suggestion, because they all felt that they heard a loneliness at this time, because according to Professor Zhang, they should do nothing next and concentrate on waiting It will be fine if it rains, because as long as it rains, the locusts will naturally disappear.

"If you really say that, then we don't have to do anything. We just need to wait for the rain from now on. Doesn't it all depend on God's mood?" Chu Chaoyan couldn't help it. asked.

"But this is the best suggestion. I'm not talking nonsense. This matter is very important. I must have thought it through before I said it. First of all, locusts are grasshoppers. They are called locusts when they are in groups. Among them There are also many, many, and these locusts reproduce in large numbers and flood in the years of severe drought, because locusts do not like a humid environment. It happens that the precipitation in the south is more than that in the north. As long as Sichuan Province and Yuzhou When it rains, the locusts can't adapt to the humid environment, so they will die naturally." Professor Zhang said seriously.

Everyone thought that what Professor Zhang said was useless. They came here to give you advice, but it turned out to be a good time at this time. You guys actually made us wait for the rain. What's the use of you?

Shen Feng was awakened by this sentence. He knew a way to make it rain. As long as a typhoon forms and the typhoon can go deep into the inland, it can make it rain successfully in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou.

"I understand, this is a very important suggestion, if it doesn't rain, I can only take action." Shen Feng said afterwards.