In the middle of the night, Hua Lang and the others returned to Huainan Mansion.

When they returned to Huainan Mansion again, Bao Zheng had taken care of all the things here, for those officials who should stay, who should go, everything should have been in their hands, and the ships have been borrowed, this is not a difficult thing, when those people heard the name of Bao Zheng and Bao Qingtian, they wished to give up their own ships to these officials to attack the robbers.

In one day, a hundred ships were collected, of which there were more than a dozen large ones, and the rest were small boats, but this was enough, and after some deliberation, it was decided to attack the stream early tomorrow morning.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, the soldiers of the government and the people of the rivers and lakes ordered to gather in the stream, everyone watched the hundred boats drifting in the lake, and couldn't help but feel a little pride in their hearts, everyone boarded the boat, and then began to row to the opposite side of the lake, and in front of the boat, there were several big boats, and there were rows of archers standing on the big boats, which was arranged by Hua Lang, because he knew that the people here had high diving skills, so he thought of using bows and arrows to contain them.

At this time, it is the end of autumn, and there are many reeds growing on both sides of the lake, and the reeds are flying, dressing the whole lake as romantic, but when the cold wind blows, all the romance is swept away.

Everyone stood on the boat and was always vigilant, they were getting closer and closer to the opposite shore, and at this time, the lake not far in front suddenly rippled, Hua Lang smiled coldly, and immediately ordered: "Shoot!" ”

With an order, countless sharp arrows shot into the water, and soon, a stream of blood came out of the lake, the blood was so shocking, and after the blood flowed out, several corpses floated on the lake, and when those corpses floated up, Hua Lang immediately realized that something was wrong, so he hurriedly ordered: "Be careful and vigilant." ”

As soon as he finished shouting, countless sharp arrows suddenly shot from the valley opposite, but they saw only sharp arrows but no one was seen, and those archers must have been hiding, but these people on the lake had no way to dodge, and the sharp arrows came, and many people were killed by arrows and fell into the lake.

Seeing this, Hanarang was immediately furious, and on the one hand, he made people speed up the voyage, and on the other hand, he suppressed the other party with sharp arrows, and in such a fight, more than half of the two sides died, and everyone finally crossed the lake.

After everyone crossed the lake, they immediately flew away, and now that they have landed, will they be afraid of those thieves?

Although some people were sacrificed, but in the end everyone still won the victory, this victory was not easy to come by, this was exchanged for everyone's lives, but the lake trap that Yin Xiong said, but everyone did not encounter it.

And Hanarang believes that Yin Xiong will not talk about it, so the only possibility is that the thieves have a backup move.

After killing all the people in the valley, everyone found the food that was robbed by the bandits, but it was not as much as everyone imagined, and everyone searched the valley, but they did not find Chen Mazi, who was called the leader of these thieves.

Obviously, after learning that Bao Zheng and other Qin sent adults to Huainan, they fled very much, and they fled with a large amount of food, but if you think about it carefully, it is unlikely, now there are so many hungry people on the road, how can Chen Mazi take so much food on the road, it is too conspicuous, since it is impossible to escape with food, then where did they get the food, and that Chen Mazi fled there?

We can't solve these things for a while, so we can only transport the grain back first, and then talk about it, and solve the urgent need first.

After the grain was transported back, Bao Zheng immediately ordered people to open porridge tents all over Huainan Prefecture, three meals a day, and the rice should be able to penetrate the chopsticks without falling, and if the porridge tent there could not be done, the person responsible would be punished.

After opening the porridge tent in such a hurry, the people of Huainan City finally had a full meal after so many days of famine, but what if they had a full meal, how long could they eat a full meal?

The food they found was still too little, only enough to open a porridge tent for ten days, and within these ten days, if they couldn't get more food, these people would continue to starve, and these people did not leave, which showed that they were attached to their homeland, and in addition, because they believed in Bao Zheng and others, and believed that they would be able to feed them.

And in the face of the trust of these people, no matter what method Bao Zheng uses, he will definitely let them eat.

But there is one fundamental problem that they must solve, and that is the plague of locusts.

There is no way for them to do anything about the drought but to wait for God to rain, but they have a way to stop the locust plague, as long as the whole people take action to catch the locusts, no matter how many locust plagues there are, there will be a day when they will be extinguished.

But there is a very serious problem, that is, no one dares to exterminate the locusts, at this time in ancient times, everyone thinks that the locust plague is God's punishment for the people, and it cannot be fought against it, if you want to spend it safely, you can only let it develop, and when the locusts are full, they will naturally leave.

Because of this, whenever there is a plague of locusts, the Son of Heaven will issue an edict against himself, and the people will even worship the locust god, and their behavior looks quite stupid, and Hua Lang is very disdainful of it, he thinks that in order to survive this difficulty, all the locusts must be eliminated, otherwise they will not even be able to plant the next season's crops, and they can only continue to starve in the next year, so the vicious circle will cause the results to be incalculable.

But when Hua Lang proposed to exterminate the locusts, Bao Zheng was the first to stand up against it, and it was not until this time that Hua Lang discovered that even if a person as smart as Bao Zheng was, he also believed that the locust plague was God's punishment for the people, and he would rather persuade the emperor to make an edict against himself, and would rather put down his body to worship the locust god, but he would not follow his own advice to eliminate the locust plague.

According to the change of seasons, locusts will lurk in winter, and this will give Bao Zheng a false impression, thinking that the locusts have left, but if these locusts are not removed, in the next year, these locusts will be more, which will cause a greater locust plague, Hua Lang said all this, but Bao Zheng did not listen, for a while, Hua Lang has never been so helpless as now.

No matter how much he said, it was useless, Bao Zheng didn't believe that he could destroy the locusts with manpower, and he was very afraid of the punishment caused by the elimination of the locusts, Hua Lang didn't have a way to do it, and finally had to sigh, since persuasion was useless, then he had to use other conspiracies.

The use of intrigues and tricks is also a last resort, and even if he uses conspiracy and tricks to get the people to exterminate the locusts, it is not as effective as carrying out such a large-scale activity as exterminating locusts.