It would be impossible not to give this thing. What the Han Dynasty is doing now is no longer the so-called helping people to the end, but more realistic. If you don’t help the other party, you will definitely be dragged into the water.

After all, locust plague occurred in East Africa. According to the historical locust plague route, half of the locust plagues have rushed to Africa, and half of them have gone through the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and to South Asia.

Even though the number of locusts arriving in South Asia is only about half of the time when they set off due to distance and the reason for getting lost during migration, it is at least tens of billions and nearly tens of billions of dollars.

This is also why when locust plague occurred in East Africa a few years ago, India and Pakistan each reduced their production by more than 30 yuan.

Locusts are a very strange creature. Before the number comes, the combat power of locusts is very low, the flight altitude is difficult to exceed 100 meters, the flight speed is not very fast, and it is not poisonous. After frying, it tastes good. The various rations consumed in a day are not too much.

But when locusts gather and reach a certain level of number, and are disturbed by pheromone, the combat effectiveness of locusts will soar significantly, the color will change, the toxicity will increase greatly, the flight altitude will easily exceed 300 meters, and some outrageous locusts can soar to a height of 3,000 meters, and their flight speed will also increase greatly, and their intake will also increase from the original normal creature to the food that can be eaten as much as their own weight every day, or even exceed their own weight.

This is also the reason why East African locusts cannot fly to the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean. But after becoming a locust plague, East African locusts can rush to South Asia even if they take off from Africa. They fly nearly 200 kilometers a day. What kind of elite troops are they? How can they not know what kind of elite troops are?

What Chen Xi is most worried about now is that due to the alienation of the essence of heaven and earth, the body size and flight speed of locusts have further increased. In the real world, the army of locusts eat and fly, and when they eat and eat, they can fly 150 kilometers a day, and even this speed can reach South Asia. If the flight speed doubles, Chen Xi feels that it is not impossible for this thing to rush along New South Wales to Chang'an.

However, no one can determine the migration speed of the locust army. After all, this super-large-scale locust plague in East Africa, or locally appeared, but non-local empires have not paid attention to it, so when it is deadly, the Han Empire is also in a mess.

Under this premise, it is a matter that Rome had to do first to hit the thunder.

If you want to get the Roman thunder, you can't let Rome finish playing. At least give the Roman Empire some hope and let the Roman Empire and the locusts fight to the death first.

Now the first round of locust plague has taken shape. Although East African statisticians say that there are about one billion locusts to the north, it does not reach the outrageous data that Chen Xi estimated. The problem is that Chen Xi doesn’t know how the locusts fly. He is only counting in one direction now. He is not lucky. The locusts flying north are the smallest detachment. Maybe the overall scale of the locust plague in East Africa has exceeded 5 billion.

According to the locusts laying 80 to 120 eggs at a time, if there are no natural enemies when the locust plague breaks out, and if there is a possible rainfall to provide enough food, the second round can reach a scale of over 100 billion.

So now we must let Rome take out its original foundation. Even if we can't break the locust plague, we must at least reduce the scale of the locust plague. Locust plague composed of trillions of locusts has not appeared in history. So a army of locusts that have spread thousands of kilometers. To be honest, when the locust plague breaks out, there is no other way except waiting for the locusts to die of exhaustion.

Even if it is a nuclear bomb, the range of a nuclear bomb with a range of thousands of kilometers is nonsense.

So what the Han Dynasty can do now is to give Rome a small scientific data, so that Rome feels that it is fighting to eliminate the scale of locust plagues, and it should also reduce the size of the second and third rounds of locust plagues.

As for the last wave of 200 billion, this is really a conservative estimate. The use of the seraphic ring last year had a serious impact on the entire planet's climate. The alternation of the dry and rainy seasons in East Africa perfectly conforms to the development of locusts. Moreover, the three empires discovered it too late, and the locust plague has taken shape. Before it was formed, hundreds of thousands of people were organized to dig all the places where the locust eggs gathered, and then they could hold it down.

But now that it is formed, I can only bear it.

"The rice that can mature in 102 days." The senators in the Senate looked at each other. Although these people did not farm much, they still knew how long the rice would mature.

"Yes, it can mature in 102 days, and it is the entire fertility cycle. If it is only considered as the growth stage, it will definitely be harvested within three months." Gan Jing said expressionlessly.

This thing is a very precious treasure even in the Han Dynasty. The major families said how could my buddies get to this point, but after the cookies made this thing out, each family brought some and planted a few crops as seed grain to prevent possible famines.

For the major families today, they can’t eat bad food, but they can’t be left alone. This is not a life-saving thing now. When I came to Central Asia, these people found a place to plant dry rice. On the one hand, they conducted tests, and on the other hand, they also cultivated the divided seed grains to ensure that they could quickly sow when they really needed.

But as of now, the situation is still not good. It was already July when the third wave of locusts passed through Central Asia. Unless the small-scale locust left in the local area had not yet been eliminated, major families began to plant this thing, otherwise, there would be some time to worry.

On the contrary, this problem did not exist in Rome. The Roman Empire was large enough. There were indeed many places where locusts were raging, but there were also many places where they were not hammered by locusts. In northern Italy, the Franks, the Black Sea, and even Eastern Europe along the Don River. In short, if the Roman Empire did not consider time, it could be sown now. Planting two crops this year. Even if it is limited by scale and limited yield, it is a great supplement. No matter how unpalatable this thing is, it is also rice, which is better than bark and grass roots.

"The kind of rice that Master Qu cultivated." Annaus said, then nodded to Pompianus, indicating that this thing is real.

"Can the breeding time of rice be reduced to such a short time? This has been reduced by nearly half." Pompianus looked at Annaus in surprise. After all, only Annaus is a real agronomist. If others really want to say it, it is all waste.

"No problem, this is the rice that Master Qu has been studying for a long time." Annaus nodded. When he was in the Central Plains, Annaus and Cookies had been learning for a long time, mastered a lot of agricultural technologies, and worked hard to popularize them in Rome, achieving a comprehensive increase in yield to a certain extent.

"Let me ask." Annaus suggested, and the others did not stop him from seeing this. After all, it is more reasonable for agronomists to ask about such things.

"It's like this. There are some problems with the agricultural level in Rome. If we follow the seed method in the Han Dynasty, we may only need a small amount of seed grain. But in Rome, the seed grain you need to provide at least five times the seed grain under the same scale in the Han Dynasty." Annaus explained to Gan Jing.

This is not nonsense. The agricultural technology level of the Roman Empire is actually quite bad. It is entirely supported by the Mediterranean climate. If you really want to talk about the grain-growing ratio, it is very scary data. After Annaus returned from the Han Dynasty, he worked hard to carry out agricultural transformation, which increased the grain-growing ratio to a certain extent. However, Annaus was just a person after all, and could not fully optimize the grain cultivation in this country.

Even though there is no one to pull the blame because of Annaus's identity, Roman citizens do not have the idea of ​​actively improving their farming methods when there is no food crisis. Just plant them blindly. Anyway, as long as they plant, they will gain something in the Mediterranean climate, so why bother so carefully?

So overall, the current crop cultivation ratio of the Roman Empire is still a big problem. In other words, the seeds prepared by Gan Jing are not enough to cause trouble for Roman disasters.

"Five times?" Gan Jing looked at Annaus in disbelief.

Due to climate issues, the grain output of one acre of land in Rome is actually not much different from that of one acre of land in the Han Dynasty before, but the seeds sowed by one acre of land in Rome are several times more than those in the Han Dynasty. Assuming that a pound of land in the Han Dynasty would sprinkle one acre of land in Rome, eight pounds or even more were needed in Rome.

Gan Jing was not very clear about this matter, but Annaus could not say nonsense about such things. This was a bit outrageous. The Han Dynasty prepared 10 million kilograms of seeds. In Gan Jing's opinion, it should be enough. As a result, Annaus meant that 50 million kilograms were needed? Are you funny?

"It's not a joke. The Roman Empire did not conduct in-depth research on agricultural technology due to climate problems. Most of the time, it just sows a piece of farmland at will." Annaus said helplessly. After he came back to Rome, the first thing he did was to optimize agricultural technology. Not to mention anything else, the Roman citizens' practice of sowing twenty or thirty kilograms of seeds into the ground did not feel any problem before going to the Han Dynasty. After going to the Han Dynasty, he just felt that it was too outrageous.

Annaus's previous idea was to cure this problem first, reduce the seeds sown by one acre of land by 80%, and the farming area of ​​the Roman Empire alone would be enough to raise millions of people.

As a result, it was very difficult to promote. At present, this was achieved only in the newly reclaimed farms in western Rome and the Don River. Overall, although the scale of sowing seeds has decreased because Annaus kept running, the overall scale is still far more than that of the Han Dynasty.

"There are too many, and it is too difficult to transport, and I'm not sure if there are so many seed grains for this kind of rice in the Han Dynasty." Gan Jing frowned. He had thought about various situations, but he had never considered the situation of not enough seed grains for his own family. All of them were like this. You don't know how to optimize the farming method. Logically speaking, 10 million kilograms are enough no matter what.

In Gan Jing's impression, after Chen Xi received the seed grain from the cookies, he asked the Yangzhou farm to plant a few crops, and it seemed that he didn't hear about it. After all, it would be meaningless if you plant too much of this thing.

"You go and communicate with the Han Dynasty first. If this thing is possible, we can buy 100 million kilograms of seed grain." Annaus said to Gan Jing.

With the situation in which Rome is now facing, and the fact that Annaus's right to speak has increased greatly, forcibly optimized the Roman agricultural farming method and implemented intensive farming, which means a 10 million mu of farming, which is a life-saving scale. In addition, the huge impact of such a wave should also make Roman citizens abandon the brainless extensive farming.

"I can only say to do my best." Gan Jing said helplessly. He really didn't understand this.

"Then, are there any other edible vegetables and crops in the Han Dynasty that can produce high yields and have a short growth period?" Annaus asked, looking at Gan Jing.

"I don't know this. I'm not engaged in agriculture, I'm engaged in climate and astronomy. Although it has an intersection with agriculture, most of them are notifying the climate this year and to prepare for farming. As for what is high-yield and has a short growth period, I don't know much about it." Gan Jing said sincerely. He really didn't know. Moreover, when Chen Xi came, he brought this rice, without mentioning anything else, so even if he knew, Gan Jing would not say anything randomly, let alone not knowing it.

"That's it." Annaus expressed his understanding.

After the Roman Empire sent Gan Jing to the embassy, ​​the Senate started a closed-door meeting. The situation is very bad now, but it is not so bad that Rome and the world bid farewell. It is still able to survive, but it is just a bit uncomfortable, so no one has ever said that using the seraphic ring to blow up East Africa.

"Annaus, aren't you also engaged in agricultural research? Are there any high-yield grain crops, just like the 102 early rice?" Urbian asked with some temptation.

With Urbian's inquiry, everyone else looked at Annaus. There was no way. Rome did not pay much attention to agriculture before, and they could make a living in this place, so they didn't pay much attention. As a result, after being beaten this time, Rome realized the importance of agriculture.

"There are some, but they are different from the serious rice like Master Qu." Annaus said with some respect, "At present, the most reliable ones in my hands are Agaricus bisporus and radish. The former takes roughly 60 days, and then you can harvest one by one, while the latter only takes one month. The problem is that the former is not full, and the latter can only be used as complementary food."

"Some of them are good to eat, so they can plant these two things in a group." Pompianus said angrily. The locust plague rushed over immediately, and there were also many smart people in the Roman Senate. How could they not know what it means to take out old capital to stabilize Rome?

Isn't this just because of the fear that Rome will be mad and then everyone will be doomed? So the Roman elders who knew it were grateful to the Han Dynasty, and were also glad that their own strength was strong enough. If the strength was slightly problematic and could not threaten the world's security, the Han Dynasty would not behave like this.

"Well, the strains of Agaricus bisporus are not a problem. Although they are a little small, they are barely enough. The seeds of radish are the problem. The latter was just cultivated." Annaus said a little embarrassedly.

"The fungus is given to the Han Dynasty, and the radish seeds are also the same." Sergio said, "In addition to the reason for repaying the peaches, the Han Dynasty can also be planted locally. Their agricultural technology is much stronger than ours, and the planting speed is much faster than ours. Moreover, these supplementary foods can be harvested in a short time. After a few batches of Han Dynasty, the seed scale will increase, and we will borrow some more."

To be honest, although Sergio is the acting patriarch who compromised with each other when the Claudius family has not yet been integrated, he has the ability to sit in this position, and even if he really wants to say it, it is very good. At least he has a strong overall perspective and discernment ability.

"It's not good to owe others things. Although it's the old man who owe too much is the master, it depends on his own ability. No matter what the Han Dynasty is thinking, it really hurts us. We can hold on to the barbarians who die millions of barbarians, but if there are more barbarians who fall into famine, we, Rome, will also fall into chaos." Sergio's expression calmly swept over the elders present.

"I have returned the favors that I can pay back earlier. Although Agaricus bisporus and radish are not as good as the seeds of early rice given by the Han Dynasty, it is very valuable to mature in such a short time. Also, how does it taste?" Sergio asked with some confusion.

"It tastes very good." Annaus replied quickly. It tastes very good. Whether it is Agaricus bisporus or radish, the ones grown by Annaus are delicious.

"Send one to the Han Dynasty, and don't say it's a favor, but you just want them to help cultivate the seeds." Sergio said calmly, "If you do some things, others will admit your goodness, after all, they are not blind."

"Claudius's private banking allocated 500,000 gold coins to Annaus for agricultural improvement and high-yield crop research. Do others have any opinions?" Sergio looked at the veterans present and said. Compared to asking the treasury to approve money, just passing the process and taking the card is enough, it is still enough to smuggle the warehouse. Claudius' private banking, with the order, the money will be reached by Annaus that day.

The elders looked at each other and nodded. Anyway, it was Claudiuspen's family who paid the money and cared for him. And after being beaten this time, they really realized that there were major problems in Roman agriculture. The arrangement of grain production areas needs to be carefully considered. We can no longer consider only the Upper Egypt, the eastern border counties, the Mesopotamia and other grain production areas, and also need to develop the northern Mediterranean.

"Then there is the problem of land reclamation. At present, the locust plague in East Africa has taken shape. Upper Egypt, the eastern provinces, and the original grain-producing land in the Mesopotamia will fall into famine. Where are we going to choose to reclamate land if we have not fallen into famine and there is farming?" Sergio crossed his hands and said with a little caution. Every order now is stained with human blood. A mistake may be hundreds of bones, so Sergio cannot be careless.

"The rice is planted directly along the Eastern European coast where the Don River is located, so plant it now!" Annaus gave the answer directly.

I really can't get up in the morning, miserable
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