Chapter 292: The Locust Plague Begins
Yan Liben, who had studied cartography, immediately looked for a pen and paper to draw a construction drawing, but Leng Feng hadn't figured out how to get a pencil, he could only draw with a slender brush, and once he drew it wrong, the whole picture would be wasted.
Therefore, Yan Liben was very careful in his drawing, even Li Tai, who liked to play the most, would not disturb him at this time.
Following Leng Feng out of the house, Li Tai said to Leng Feng triumphantly: "Master, do you think that if the Academy of Literature sets up a carpentry classification discipline, will I be qualified to be a teacher now?" ”
Li Tai is like this, he always likes to be proud, and Li Ke, who is not much older than him, is more mature and stable than him.
For Li Tai, Leng Feng has always been hesitant to praise: "Qualified, so, after half a year, the first batch of students have completed the basic knowledge of literacy and arithmetic, and I can tell Mr. Han Chongwen to open a new subject, and you and Yan Liben will be the teachers." ”
"Hehe~" Li Tai smiled and decided to go back to the palace today to see his queen mother, and tell her the good news by the way.
Walking out of Yan Liben's hut, Leng Feng put back his mask, although the academy was full of his own people, he had to be careful.
At present, the Academy has built two teaching buildings, two dormitory buildings, a playground, and a conference hall......... It has basically already had the prototype of a later school.
The so-called industrial revolution is not something that can be driven by one person or two people, Leng Feng does not ask for anything else, he just hopes that he can take the steam train in his lifetime and run around the Tang Dynasty.
The Central Plains has been warbed several times, many victorious monuments have been destroyed, and a national tour in Datang is good.
On the way home, a few grasshoppers, that is, locusts, jumped out of the grass from time to time, jumping very high and far, these guys will soon be flooded!
The news of the imminent locust plague has been released, but not many people really pay attention to it, the emperor and the prime minister and other cronies, as well as the generals of the military, all hold their own food lists, waiting, waiting for the locust plague to rise, so as to earn prestige as soon as possible.
Some of the thorn histories and county orders in the five surnamed Qiwang clans looked at the tall or short crops in the fields under their rule, and they were also waiting, waiting for the locust plague to rise, so that they could see the jokes of the Duke of Xi and the emperor for the first time! The locust plague was just a plague, and it even made the stupid emperor issue an order to stop farming. Plague of locusts! I really don't know what to say about how to kill locusts when Gong Xi dared to blatantly kill locusts.........
In the midst of many waiting, the locusts that were jumping around in the grass finally grew wings, and their huge size was unexpectedly good when their appetite was unexpectedly good, and ordinary weeds could no longer satisfy their appetite.
So ~ as long as it's green, just, eat!
This place is finished, eat the next place!
Li Shimin caught a locust by himself and raised it in a glass bottle more than ten days ago, probably because the food was good, and the locust he raised grew wings early, which made Li Shimin quite tormented.
Finally, he didn't have to wait any longer!
Hurry up!
Rush to play!!
Rush !!
Countless hurriers rushed into Chang'an, and learned from the hurries that the state capital of Guanzhong was plagued almost at the same time, and locusts swarmed from the small river, reed beach and other places, no matter what it was, as long as it was green, they ate it, and after eating up all the green things in a place, they actually formed into a flock, spread their newly grown wings, and flew to the next place.
The first to be reported was Tongguan, and then the emergency reports from other states and counties also followed, and for a while, the entire Guanzhong was full of this thing!
The direct officials with the surname of five and seven wang are desperate!
This locust plague is too ferocious! They worshipped the gods, set up countless locust gods, and worshiped countless times, but the locusts still pounced on the farmland!
Later, the crops were only just emerging, and the locusts almost swept by, leaving the bare farmland, and even the impatient locusts ate the roots of the crops. The crops that were first cultivated in disregard of the imperial court announcement had grown to the waist, but even the crops that reached waist height could not provide even a pillar of incense for locusts to "eat time".
Therefore, the most desperate are not the officials, but the people!
This time, they are doomed to nothing!
There is no harvest of grains!
It was only at this time that they remembered the earliest late plowing orders and suspension orders issued by the imperial court, and in the final analysis, they planted the land, and the losses were also self-inflicted.
I regret that I shouldn't have listened to the words of the county master!
Countless peasants gathered at the county government to ask the county lord for an explanation, this is the anger of the people, the cowardly, long rolled up the bed and fled from the office, the bold even led his subordinates to ignore the ancient rules, copied weapons into the farmland to fight locusts, claiming that thousands of sins are attributed to him!
As for those who are fat, such as Zhou Zhi County Order, Qingguang County Order and others, in order to prevent the locust plague from spreading to other states and counties, they actually issued an order to burn fields, sprinkled fire oil into the crops, so that the crops and locusts in the county died together, and then they threw themselves into the fire to atone for their sins!
The world is shocked!
Hungry locusts fly around looking for new "tables", such as ......... Changan! The boxy Chang'an is really like a dining table!
Leng Feng was still "recuperating from his injuries" at this time, huddled at home, he was enjoying his wife's service and eating fruits, but he heard the sound of scraping doors and windows like a storm outside the window!
There was a knock on the door, Leng Feng shouted "Come in", and Lao Li came in with a big cloak, and with him came in, there were more than a dozen locusts.
Lao Li didn't have time to speak when he came in, so he could only scramble to catch the damn locusts that got into the master's bedroom!
Leng Feng also got down from the recliner and helped Lao Li catch it.
"Oh, that's big!" It wasn't until he grabbed it in his hand that Leng Feng couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
This locust is huge, the length of a middle finger!
Lao Li smiled bitterly: "Just now the old slave was in the gatehouse, but I didn't expect these things to fly over, it's simply the trend of Tianhe pouring in!" Fortunately, the old slave didn't let people remove the greenhouse, and the flowers in the garden were moved to the house.
Don't you see, the old slave took advantage of the big tree, and the locusts pounced on it and ate all the leaves in a short time, and even gnawed a lot of bark!
Now, those who doubt you should know how prescient you were! ”
Leng Feng smiled helplessly: "Actually, I hope that there will be no locust plague and a bad reputation of bragging, how about it, the chickens and ducks from the farm have been transported to Chang'an." ”
Lao Li nodded: "It was shipped over yesterday and dispersed to a reliable merchant for safekeeping, according to your instructions, I haven't fed them anything for the past two days." ”
"Well, that's fine, you go and prepare a sedan chair, and I'm going to take my wife to Chang'an to watch the big show."
(End of chapter)