Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

Chen Xi's scalp went numb when he heard this, and then he quickly remembered what happened last year.

Chen Xi had also heard of the East African locusts and knew how powerful this super locust plague was, but Chen Xi really never thought that he would encounter such an outrageous thing in the third century. But after reading the image data handed over by Gan Bao, Chen Xi had a feeling that Zhongya might have to risk his life this year.

"When did you find out?" Chen Xi took a deep breath and said.

"We have information on locust prevention and information on what environment is suitable for the development of locusts. East Africa under Roman rule is itself suitable for locust growth. In addition, the climate in East Africa was abnormal last year. First there was a severe drought, and then it started to go crazy again in December. Rainfall happens to be the time when locusts over there emerge from their eggs. Rain plus environmental issues will cause locusts to grow crazily." Gan Bao said helplessly.

"Can this one reach our Han Dynasty?" Chen Xi said with a serious face. This is no joke. If a locust plague breaks out in East Africa, it will not be just one wave, but several waves in a year. By the time When the biggest wave breaks out in May and June, it may be hundreds of billions in size.

The locust plague in the Han Dynasty usually reached tens of billions, which was considered a super locust plague. As for hundreds of billions, it was something that had never been experienced at all.

"It is possible that because of the current environment in Africa, the newly born locusts are very strong. We have already discovered small-scale locusts flying from Africa in the Persian Gulf. Based on the current reproduction number, we estimate that when the number of locusts exceeds one billion, , will fly across the Red Sea and rush to Central Asia." Gan Bao looked depressed. They had nothing to do when the locust plague took shape. The most they could do was prevent it. The problem was that the locust plague occurred in Africa, and they really had nothing to do.

Chen Xi's face turned greener. Normal locusts can fly across the Red Sea in groups, and then fly all the way, plundering Iran, flying to Pakistan, India, and even entering Xinjiang, China. This is not the enhanced version of Super Invincible. The African migratory locust, in this version, Chen Xi's whole body feels numb.

"We estimate that this locust plague in Africa is very likely to be the largest locust plague in our history. It is estimated that the scale of locusts will exceed 50 billion." Shi Tao looked desperate. He saw it in his historical materials. There had been a large-scale locust crossing the border, but Shi Tao couldn't even imagine what 50 billion locusts would eat everything to.

"Let me ask, do you think the 50 billion are the largest batch, or the number from the beginning to the end of the locust plague?" Chen Xi asked tentatively.

"Of course all the locusts!" Shi Tao said decisively.

"Well, what if there are so many in the biggest wave?" Chen Xi asked cautiously.

"Then you must notify Rome now and let Rome mobilize its army and do everything possible to start the encirclement and suppression, otherwise it will be too late!" Gan Bao said, glaring at Chen Xi.

If these words were spoken by other people, Gan Bao would take action now. Locusts are really too deadly. Fifty billion locusts is the limit that Gan Bao can imagine, and the maximum batch size is five. Tens of billions, that’s really something I haven’t even thought about.

One hundred million locusts would consume enough food in one day to be equivalent to 40,000 people, and 50 billion locusts would be equivalent to 20 million people. This is a terrible disaster that can even bring down a great empire!

Why did the most powerful locust plague in later generations cause 70 million people in Africa to starve and hit the grain-producing areas of Pakistan and India? To put it bluntly, it was because the scale of the last wave of locusts directly reached 400 billion, which were consumed every day. The amount of food is equivalent to the food of 1.6 billion people. What thing can withstand the madness of this thing for two months?

"Do you think it can really be encircled and suppressed?" Chen Xi asked with a sigh. To be honest, it was too late. Even in the industrial age of later generations, there were all kinds of things specially designed to lure locusts and eliminate them. However, after realizing that locusts have become common in East Africa, After the disaster, it was too late, let alone now in the third century.

As long as the scale of any gadget reaches tens of millions or billions, it is not easy to deal with. What's more, in Chen Xi's impression, the largest batch of locusts in East Africa reached 400 billion, directly from East Africa. The tone has reached Pakistan, India and other places.

Now Gan Bao and Shi Tao say that locusts have been discovered in East Africa, and even small-scale locusts flying over in Central Asia have been discovered. The locusts in East Africa should have taken shape, and have even begun their first wave of impact. .

To be honest, from Chen Xi's point of view, it's already too late, and it's basically equivalent to waiting silently for death. This thing is different from other things, and you don't even know how to solve it.

"Can you use the Blazing Sky Ring to burn it?" Shi Tao suddenly suggested. He was not just talking nonsense, but a suggestion made after careful consideration.

There is no way, the locust plague has already taken shape, and based on the understanding of Chen Xi by the Gan and Shi families, this person is a typical person who is targeted. He said that there is only one batch of 50 billion, so the final scale will definitely reach this level. The problem is 50 billion Shi Tao has never seen a locust plague caused by a single locust in his own internal information. Just thinking about it in his head makes him tremble. This is not a joke. This is something that can really bring down a big empire. Son!

I’m not bragging. According to the normal locust plague, there are three batches. The last wave has a scale of 50 billion. If all of them hit Rome, at least several million people will die due to famine in Rome this year. Even if they are unlucky, they will suffer from famine after the locust plague. The outbreak of civil war and the subsequent civil strife caused by the collapse of social organization could not effectively deal with the plague that broke out among the corpses. It was not an accident that tens of millions of people died in Rome.

Even if the Parthian Empire was destroyed with the size of Rome, so many people would not die, but a locust plague would really kill so many people.

In particular, the locust plague broke out in East Africa, which basically doomed Egypt, Rome's largest grain-producing area this year, as well as the eastern grain-producing provinces, the lower reaches of the Mesopotamia and other places to be completely destroyed. The Roman Empire's losses this year may not be greater than those in the years of war with Parthia. The sum is still greater.

Shi Tao, who seems to have a low rank but is actually at the top, generally knows the real situation in Rome. Therefore, after thinking for a long time, he felt that he could discuss it with Rome instead of directly using the Blazing Sky Ring to control the entire East Africa. Forget it.

It would be better to lose this place than to have the whole world take a bite out of it.

If the number of locusts is smaller, Shi Tao still thinks that these little things cannot reach the Han Dynasty, but if the last batch can really reach 50 billion, then it is basically safe to rush to the Han Dynasty. Use this record to study the disaster The climate, the family that controls the agricultural calendar as its core, would be damned if they didn't know the mobility of locusts, they are truly heaven-defying creatures.

Chen Xi was silent for a while. He was also considering whether to let Rome use the Blazing Sky Ring to blow up East Africa. After all, 50 billion locusts was just a conservative idea. If anything, the climate and environment in East Africa were suitable. Under the current situation, it is possible for hundreds of billions of locusts to emerge in the final round. However, given the current environment, if hundreds of billions of locusts really emerge, conventional methods will not be able to solve it.

From a certain perspective, the Blazing Sky Ring is indeed a way to solve the problem, but this way of solving the problem is too extreme.

If we really analyze it from the perspective of ocean currents and climate, the reason for this year's super locust plague is actually that the three major empires joined forces to bomb South America with the Blazing Sky Ring last year, which caused climate abnormalities.

Now if we continue to use the Blazing Sky Ring and blow up East Africa, Chen Xi is worried that it will further affect the climate. The locust plague in East Africa will be resolved, and then the climate in the Han Dynasty will become further abnormal. If we are not lucky, there will be a warm winter and spring water in the northern prairie. , it is not impossible for tens of billions of locusts to rush directly from the north.

After all, the scale of locusts in the Central Plains is not too outrageous, but the tens of billions of locusts rushing down from the northern grasslands really happened. Considering the reality that all the grain-producing areas of the Han Dynasty are in the north, being bombarded like this Chen Xi couldn't withstand the wave. He couldn't blow up the northern grasslands when the time came.

"Chen Hou, what are you still thinking about?" Shi Tao frowned at Chen Xi's thoughtful expression.

In Shi Tao's opinion, this is already the best plan. After all, in this situation, there is actually no good choice anymore, because if we delay it any longer, when the locust army really takes shape, it will be difficult to kill Blazing Sky Ring. It's easy. Unlike the immovable trash like the Lord of All Spirits, the locust army can fly around. It's better to blow it up while the main force of the locusts is still in East Africa.

"What would you think if I said that this year's abnormal climate was caused by the aftermath of the Blazing Sky Ring?" Chen Xi said helplessly.

Gan Bao and Shi Tao took a breath of air-conditioning after hearing this. This year is the year without summer. They have determined before that due to climate problems, global production has dropped by nearly 10%. This is not because of any messy reasons, but simply Light and temperature are real problems that all living things in the world have to face at the same time.

According to the calculations of the Gan family and the Shi family, this wave of climate problems is expected to last for five or six years. However, after this year, the subsequent problems will not be as serious as this year. Taking next year as an example, the impact of light and temperature problems will be It dropped by 50% and then returned to normal levels year by year.

As a result, they heard something now. This thing was actually caused by this group of people using the Blazing Sky Ring last year.

No way, that meeting was quite urgent, and the Gan family and the Shi family ended before they had time to participate. However, after receiving a notice from the Han Dynasty, Chen Xi ordered the Gan family and the Shi family to re-analyze the climate situation in the next three years.

At that time, the Gan family and the Shi family were still a little strange, but it was normal to eat the country's food and do the country's work, so they collected the hydrological data from various places and spent several months to make a new one. The results are quite different from the previous ones.

The Gan family and the Shi family were both stunned. They deliberately re-compared and found that the climate had changed greatly. There would be no summer next year and the temperature dropped overall. They quickly issued a disastrous climate forecast.

After Chen Xi received the report, he quickly distributed it. However, the Gan family and the Shi family did not realize why the climate had changed so much before today. They just thought that there was something unpredictable.

As a result, we now know that the reason why the climate has changed so much before is entirely because the three empires used the planetary weapon Blazing Sky Ring when they were fighting against the Lord of All Spirits, which caused the climate of the entire world to be affected.

Together with the Blazing Sky Ring, this thing is not a world-saving weapon, but a proper world-destroying weapon!

"So don't count on the Blazing Sky Ring. I don't even dare to use it. It's not that I can't blow up East Africa, but I just don't dare to do it. When I used it for the first time, no one thought it would be so powerful." Chen Xiyi He said helplessly to the two of them.

If I had known that the Blazing Sky Ring was so powerful, even though I would still use it given the situation at the time, I would never have used it so unscrupulously. At least I would have made more preparations before doing it...

Oh, it seems like we can’t make too many preparations. The Lord of All Spirits really can’t delay it. After the Blazing Sky Ring is hung in the sky, it’s time to send the Lord of All Spirits on his way. As for the power, it seems that it can’t be too small. Looks like...

Chen Xi's thoughts turned around in his mind, and then he threw this thing out of his mind. It seemed that it had to be like this no matter what. The way the Lord of All Spirits would die was either to die from the world-destroying flames of the Blazing Sky Ring, or to die. Yu Han's gravitational distortion weapon.

The former will inevitably lead to climate problems, and the latter will inevitably lead to plate turbulence at the planetary level, which in turn triggers earthquakes.

Considering the impact, the climate problem is relatively easy to solve.

"Then we can only inform Rome and let Rome think of a solution. We may encounter a super locust plague coming from Africa, but Rome is definitely going to encounter a locust plague." Gan Bao thought for a moment and found no good solution. .

"Actually, it's not just Rome, the aristocratic families in Central Asia..." Shi Tao whispered beside him. Locusts have already landed in the Persian Gulf. When the locust plague in East Africa takes shape, Central Asia will definitely be hit.

"No, there is also Kuishang. Believe me, Kushan will also be severely affected by locusts this year." Chen Xi added on the side.

As Chen Xi, who knew how outrageous the locust plague was in East Africa, after realizing how large-scale the thing that was now taking shape in East Africa would be, he understood that the Kushan area in South Asia must be dealt with severely.

To be honest, if it weren't for the Himalayan Mountains, those swarms of things would definitely be able to rush to the Central Plains. After all, compared to the size of the East Asian locusts, the size of the African Desert Locusts is at least double the size of the things, and their combat effectiveness in all aspects is much higher. The kind worth pulling is a fighter among locusts!

After the three people finished speaking, they all sat quietly on their chairs, not knowing what to say. Then the three people looked at each other, okay, there are only three empires in the world, and all three empires have to be hammered. The world crisis is Bar!

"The Central Asian family must not give up, but if there are tens of billions of locusts, even if a detachment is separated, the Central Asian family will be finished this year. The production has been reduced due to climate change, and if there is a wave of locusts..." Gan Bao looked at Chen Xi, hoping that Chen Xi could make up his mind. The Gan and Shi families couldn't bear this kind of news!

In the past, Gan and Shi would also release some annual climate anomalies, or short-term catastrophic climate forecasts and other climate predictions related to agriculture. They also reported some field surveys after warm winter droughts and issued locust plague warnings. As for How to deal with it depends on the ability of each place. Anyway, I issued the warning, and the rest is none of my business.

We, the Gan family and the Shi family, are enough to prove our worth by just having fun and sending you a notice.

This is why before the previous snow disaster, the Gan family and the Shi family had to risk their lives to inform various places, because as long as they informed in advance, it would have nothing to do with them. They were still noble Taishi orders and had done everything they should do, even if the snow disaster was freezing. No one can blame them. Their mission is to arrange and prevent in advance, and the executive level has nothing to do with them.

But now, the locust plague has appeared, and they have discovered why they are raising you.

The dynasty fell, but the Gan and Shi families did not fall. The Spring and Autumn period changed, and the Warring States period came. The Gan and Shi families should still do what they should do. The Star Book has been written, and the astronomy has also been written. I have raised you from generation to generation, isn't it just for you? When the celestial phenomena change, the weather is abnormal, and the fields cannot be planted, they call a few times in advance to let people prepare in advance.

As a result, now that the locust plague has occurred, we are notified, rnm, refund the money, refund the tribute money that I have paid for more than a thousand years!

If it was a joke to call for a refund before, it is really not a joke this time.

After all, even if it was a mistake in the past and the disaster was not notified until it happened, it was not so serious. This year's situation, if it is true that the last wave of desert locusts that Chen Xi said is more than 50 billion, then the Central Asian family will Must be eaten by locusts!

This is not the previous situation where going late and going early is just a big loss, but a truly fatal situation. The current situation of major aristocratic families is really terrible, and it will be life-threatening.

"Inform the Central Asia family to reserve grain and grass in advance. This is the only way. Then we will start stocking up on grain and grass in the direction of Xinzhou." Chen Xi sighed and said, this kind of food can be adjusted.

Fortunately, since last year, in order to prepare for the war, Chen Xi has already transferred grain and grass from various places and hoarded it in the direction of Chang'an and Hanzhong. Otherwise, if he really had to transfer grain from the five major grain-producing areas to Central Asia as before, the loss alone would be enough. People are desperate.

"At present, this is the most appropriate plan." Shi Tao and Gan Bao looked at each other and said with some dejection. They had never encountered this kind of situation before. Besides, members of their family only monitor local people. The climate and disasters are bad enough, and there simply aren't enough people to monitor the rest of the world.

"Notify all the major families, let them prepare, and then ring the bell for Rome." Chen Xi exhaled and said, "Ask Rome to do more, I don't believe Rome doesn't know what the locust plague means to them now."

Even if it had the Mediterranean Sea at its back and could eat fish, the destruction of most of the food-producing areas would still be enough to cause a thunderstorm in Rome.