Chapter 1916 Three strategies of heaven and earth, destroying locusts in Guanzhong
Locusts are considered a symbol of disaster and destruction in different cultures due to their great destructiveness. For example, in the Bible, God strikes Egypt with a plague of locusts, and in the Book of Revelation, locusts are also used as metaphors for the devil. This description is actually similar to that of the Han Dynasty.
The theory of "Induction between Heaven and Man" is very similar. It is God, or gods, who are dissatisfied with some of human actions, and then send disasters.
The emperor did something wrong, there was a natural disaster, the three princes stepped down, and the people were unlucky.
Pharaoh did something wrong, and locusts came. There is no specific record in the Bible, so I don't know if any of his men were removed from office, but his people were still unlucky.
What about the so-called emperors and pharaohs who did wrong things? Did they experience the same pain as the common people?
It is very interesting that such a process is clearly stated in the Bible.
The plague of water turned to blood, Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not take it seriously. The plague of frogs, lice, flies, and animal plagues, Pharaoh hardened his heart again, but his heart was stubborn. The plague of boils, hail, locusts, and the plague of darkness
As a result of the disaster, Pharaoh sinned more and more, and he and his servants hardened their hearts.
In the final disaster of killing the eldest son, every family was killed, including Pharaoh's family. When Pharaoh's family died, Pharaoh was convinced and could not stand any longer. He immediately expressed his sincerity, uh, obeyed God, and let those people leave.
Of course, according to later generations of scientists, the so-called Ten Plagues of Egypt were actually caused by global warming and volcanic eruptions at that time, and had nothing to do with the so-called miracles. It was even possible that some people at the time took advantage of these disasters and then caused them to
Pharaoh exerted pressure, and then Pharaoh finally figured it out, and then there was another pursuit in the Red Sea...
However, such a record also shows very clearly that only when the Pharaoh was threatened at close range would he feel the seriousness of the matter.
People, everything that happens to others is called a story.
So the "celestial induction" created by Dong Zhongshu is really something that does more harm than good...
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty originally wanted to use "celestial induction" to cause trouble, but what he didn't expect was that he ended up doing it himself, and it caused trouble for thousands of years. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, some smart people took advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble.
Things are like that of a group of smart people trying to escape Egypt.
When Li Shimin ate locusts, they really tasted like chicken, and they were crispy? It was obviously a forced and helpless move. It was just like the Xuanwumen incident that Li Shimin launched. He was set up by his group of guys, and he had to do it even if he didn't do it.
Do it, otherwise you will die, just like Lu Henggong before, do it or die. Of course, Li Shimin is also a ruthless person, and he will do it if he has a bad heart.
Fei Qian consciously couldn't compete with Li Shimin in cruelty, so he couldn't do anything like eating locusts on the spot. Moreover, when he saw the locusts all over the sky and the ground, he felt a little disgusted in his heart. There was nothing he could do, there were really too many.
Already.
Locusts are larger than ordinary grasshoppers, and when they fly in swarms, they don't avoid people at all. If it weren't for the armor and masks, they might even hit their faces.
This is just the first batch. A large number of locusts are still ahead, but there is not much point in rushing forward. One is that locusts can fly, and the other is that most of the edible vegetation in front of them has been eaten by locusts, so it is better to
This interception.
Fei Qian resisted the urge to pull away the locusts crawling on his head with his hands. He turned his head and looked at the "women's army" huddled in a circle behind, hugging each other and shivering. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what a miscalculation...
Because the rumors pointed to these women, Fei Qian wanted to use the names of these women to exterminate the locusts. Just like when the locusts were infested in the Tang Dynasty, he pointed the finger at Li Shimin, and then Li Shimin swallowed them up. The result was, "It's the year, locusts."
But what Fei Qian didn't think carefully about was that the interests of these women's soldiers were not consistent with Fei Qian's. Most of the women among them were looking at Zhiyin Supervisor for fun, or they felt that they were interested in having an official position.
In order to save face, I don’t have a high understanding of women’s ability to obtain positions or rights. I even think that it’s not a big deal to go home and have children when I’m not an official...
So now it's normal to act like a "little girl is scared".
Fei Qian felt a little headache.
The current choice of these women to make such a move is actually an instinct written in their genes, because when their ancestors who do not know how many generations have discovered that when they make such a "weak" behavior, they often have a reaction.
Some stupid men will "voluntarily" stand up and solve some problems for them, so over time this behavior will be mapped into genes and passed down, and women will naturally develop it.
When something happens, show "softness" and then see if anyone will stand up and do the work for them...
Only when they are alone, or when they cannot find a "voluntary" scapegoat, will they show their tough side, repairing the room, the children, the husband, and the earth.
So now...
"Wang's concubine! Come out! Someone's coming! Get your armor ready!" Fei Qian couldn't help but start to call her names.
You Mo girl, why are you pretending to be pitiful? Just look at the calluses on your hands and the marks left on the tiger's mouth, even if you say you are a veteran on the battlefield, why are you cowering behind and shaking?
Wang Shu raised his eyebrows, then looked at Fei Qian, feeling that Fei Qian must be serious, so he slowly put down the hand holding him, pushed away the other two women who were approaching, and moved forward proudly,
He opened his hands and let the maids on the side put the armor on his body. Then he reached out and took the bag, weighed it up and down twice, then patted a locust off the bag and put it on his head.
Go up and tie the silk ribbon.
It's boring, not fun. Wang Shu walked up and stood beside Cai Yan.
Wang Shu is really not afraid of these locusts. When he was wandering with his father, he didn't eat anything. Not to mention insects, his hands were even stained with human blood. What else is there to be afraid of?
Fei Qian glanced at Wang Shu, who looked heroic after wearing a helmet, and then looked around among the other "women's troops". "Who else is willing to join me in exterminating locusts?" Fei Qian said in a deep voice, "The merit of this move is
Let’s leave our name in history for thousands of years!”
Although Cai Yan and Wang Shu took the lead, most of the female officers in Zhiyin Prison still looked at me and I held you. There was no movement. Just when Fei Qian was about to give up, a woman walked out, "
Someone is willing to go!』
Fei Qian took a closer look and recognized Chunyu Ying, whom he thought was a young man at first glance.
Chunyu Ying doesn't have much fear of these locusts, and even has some indescribable disgust. After all, he has lived in Xize, Lishan Mountain for a while, and the most annoying thing every day is the mosquitoes and flies at night...
"Prepare armor with him!" Fei Qian nodded.
Three people are enough, let’s just represent them. As for the rest, since they just want to “shake” from behind, then just do it from behind…
Locusts do not eat and fly all day long, but they fly in sections and eat in sections, and most of them fly during the day and stop at night, so they are given the opportunity to eliminate the locusts.
Fei Qian turned around, walked up to the high platform, and then said in a deep voice: "If you want to get rid of locusts, you must know the basics! In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, there were also locust plagues, and the record was written one hundred and ten times.
It is cooked, so it can cause great harm! Locusts will be born at the end of the big swamp, where it suddenly fills up and suddenly dries up. This is the so-called dry swamp. Therefore, locusts are not things that fall from heaven, but are harmful to the earth! Spring and Autumn Records
, Most of them are like this. If a place is hit by a disaster, there will be people who are affected by it, and it will come again year after year. If you don't avoid it and look for it, you can avoid the harm!"
Fei Qian paused for a moment, giving everyone some time to think and buffer, and then continued: "There is a poem that says, "The feathers of the katydids are flying, and the descendants of Yier are shaking." It is not to respect the katydids, but to
Pretending to beg your descendants, you can sneeze at ropes, bow down, and sting! Locusts give birth to children in large numbers. They come in swarms and cover the sky and the sun, which is how they show their current power! However, the ancients also said, "Get rid of the locusts.
They are harmless to me, Tian Zhi. Tian Ancestor has a god, who is responsible for the fire. "That's right!"
Fei Qian spoke loudly, looked around, and then said, "Therefore, the ancient sages have told everyone that if they want to get rid of the locusts, the three methods of "heaven, earth, and man" have been spread! Now I am also using the ancient method to destroy them!"
"Three laws of heaven, earth and man?"
"Katypus are not a natural disaster, but a growth of the earth?"
Suddenly there were whispers among the crowd.
Feida went online, and his words were fiery and well-founded. He quoted scriptures and seemed to have a coherent story. The soldiers and civilians around him were stunned for a moment, and they suddenly became a little more confident in exterminating the locusts.
After all, is it possible that future generations are still afraid of things that our ancestors have done?
Even Cai Yan was pondering on the sidelines. Is this so-called "Three Laws of Heaven, Earth, and Man" really there? If so, why haven't I seen it in my memory? Or is there some other book by Fei Qian that I haven't read?
Fei Qian waved his hand and ordered three red lacquer plates to be served. On them were the three scrolls of "Heaven, Earth and Man".
There is no way, people in ancient times just did this.
Fei Qian can now be regarded as treating others with their own medicine. Since he is making rumors about "Heaven and Human Sensation", then he will bring out a set of things that are earlier than "Heaven and Human Sensation" to deal with it.
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As for whether the "three laws of heaven, earth and man" are true or false, it can only destroy locusts, even if it is not true, it is true. Of course, if the locusts cannot be wiped out, no matter how true it is, it will become false.
"Supervisor Zhiyin, Supervisor Cai, stepped forward to receive the "Heaven's Strategy" to destroy the locusts!" Fei Qian picked up a scroll and looked at Cai Yan.
Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was doing, and climbed onto the wooden platform, received the scroll, and then stood aside.
"The King of History, Supervisor Zhiyin, came forward to receive the "Earth Policy"! Chunyu, the supervisor of Zhiyin, came forward to receive the "Man's Policy"!" Fei Qian also simply handed out the other two scrolls, and then
He waved his hands and said, "The three of you will lead the army and the people to carry out the three strategies of "heaven, earth and man" to eliminate the locusts!"
It's just a show, so of course I have to do a complete set.
The sense of ritual is very important.
Sure enough, as a result, almost everyone focused their attention on the scroll in the hands of Cai Yan and the others. It seemed to contain the majestic power of heaven, earth and man, and then when it was unfolded, there were thousands of brilliance and locusts flying all over the sky.
It will be like ashes...
Cai Yan hesitated, and even felt the heavy weight of the scroll in his hand.
Well, of course.
Can a scroll handle made of fine sandalwood not sink?
There are naturally good things in the General Office warehouse, but as for the rotten and soft pine wood, you can't even find it...
Fei Qian nodded slightly.
Cai Yan mustered up his courage and unfolded the scroll, and suddenly...
There is no brilliance, just a large black text.
"The locusts are thieves among insects when they go against the will of the sky and destroy the thick soil, harming the people! However, thieves have short-sightedness, are greedy for words and forget morality, drive away small profits and destroy themselves, so they can be in the dark and cloudy weather.
At the moment when the Qi is rising, if you gather Yangming's fire in the wild, it will be like wealth exposed in the market, where insects and thieves will gather together and lure them into the fire to be burned!" Cai Yan read aloud and felt that there was some truth in it.
, "This is a strategy to get rid of the weeds at the right time! The measures are as follows..."
This is not Fei Qian’s own creation, because the method of burning locusts with fire already existed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the Book of Songs that Fei Qian quoted before, there are sentences about burning locusts with fire, but because of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the method of burning locusts with fire already existed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
This method was not formally inherited and matured until the Tang Dynasty.
If you want to "burn the locusts", you must light a bonfire when it gets dark. In addition to the bonfire, you must also set up lights on the roads according to the flight routes of the locusts. Use lights and fire to attract large numbers of locusts along the routes. Then.
The locusts that are burned by the fire will naturally be removed, while those whose wings are burned by the flames will also lose their ability to fly and naturally cannot continue to fly forward, so they can take the opportunity to hunt and kill the killed locusts.
Buried together in trenches.
During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, faced with the great locust plague sweeping across the Central Plains, the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Yao Chong eliminated the interference of the so-called "disaster from heaven" and used bonfires to kill the locusts, thereby eliminating the locust plague. In the Song Dynasty, when agricultural technology was more developed
, large-scale locust extermination and burning are often used. Burning out locust breeding grounds and plowing them not only eliminates potential disasters, but also obtains a certain amount of fertilizer to replenish the field capacity. It can be said that it kills multiple birds with one stone.
As for the "land strategy", it is actually recorded in the book "Lunheng" written by Wang Chong in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. This method is to use locusts to fly and stop in the area where the locusts will pass.
It is the habit of digging a large number of large pits two feet deep and wide, and then after the locusts arrive, they are introduced into the pits by swatting and other methods, and then they concentrate their efforts on filling them. This method can catch a lot of locusts, compared to
It is naturally more efficient than manual swatting, but the disadvantage is that if the pit is too shallow, the locusts will easily get out and eat crops and seedlings again if they are not suffocated to death.
So Fei Qian simply changed the standard to three feet, and then required that the landfill should be compacted with rocks...
The final "people's strategy" is even simpler: settling the scores and eradicating the roots.
Locusts fly, eat, mate and lay eggs all the way. Therefore, all areas where locusts stay and pass must be burned in winter and then plowed. Naturally, a large part of the locust eggs can be removed, that is,
This reduces the risk of subsequent disasters in the coming year.
Therefore, although the three strategies of "Heaven, Earth and Man" are talked about on the surface, it is actually a relatively complete strategy to eliminate locusts. It just borrows the so-called concept of favorable time, place and people to make it look a bit lofty.
What?
Chickens and ducks get rid of locusts? Or do people eat locusts directly?
Later, the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered that locusts have a defense mechanism against natural enemies. That is, most of the scattered locusts are fine to catch and eat. However, once the locusts gather together, they are easily attacked by natural enemies such as birds because the group target is too large.
, so locusts will secrete phenylacetonitrile to release an unpleasant smell to make natural enemies retreat. If these predators do not retreat, the locust community will turn phenylacetonitrile into HCN through a series of reactions, which is harmful to
, which is hydrocyanic acid...
As for hydrocyanic acid...
Haha, I can only say that Li Shimin has a long life, or is it a locust? The dose is still too small. If he takes more, um, I don’t know what will happen to Li Shimin...
Even if chickens and ducks can resist the toxicity of locusts and can eat locusts, how many chickens and ducks are needed to extinguish the locust plague? How can we achieve this in a short time, let alone the human and material resources to collect chickens and ducks, even if we collect chickens from all over the country?
The ducks were all caught in one place, but after hundreds of chickens and ducks were gathered together, the risk of chicken plague, duck plague, and avian influenza increased sharply. This was a huge problem that would not be avoided by modern and constantly spraying farms in later generations. Then if in
The ancient times burst out, so sour and refreshing...
So those who want to use chickens and ducks to kill locusts should go to bed first.
After Fei Qian's packaging, the seemingly ordinary method of killing locusts became mysterious and classic. As orders were issued one after another, Ma Yan, Mayue, and Cai Yan were responsible for the specific deployment of soldiers and civilians. Cai Yan, Wang Chun, and Yuying acted as mascots.
, the vigorous locust extermination campaign in Guanzhong began.
In fact, if you put aside the inexplicable fear of locusts, this thing is actually vegetarian, does not hurt people at all, and is more docile than rabbits. After all, rabbits bite people when they are anxious, and locusts slap them down without even a little resistance.
None, so after the soldiers and civilians in Guanzhong put aside the fear in their hearts, and with the support of the Han hussar general Fei Qian's "Heaven, Earth and Man" three strategies, it seemed that they were becoming more and more powerful in dealing with the locusts.
After all, isn't it just to show some strength? The soldiers and civilians in this area, especially the people who plant crops in the area, even if they are extremely tired, sit down to eat and drink, take a short rest, and then return to the battle against the locusts.
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How could the crops in our own fields, which we had only worked so hard for a year, be eaten by insects in vain?
Many people did not dare to be cruel to the gods, nor did they dare to challenge Fei Qian and others, but these people were cruel to themselves. They did not need any repeated orders at all, and almost risked their lives to cull the locusts. They dug holes and swarmed them manually during the day.
Killing, setting fire to attract locusts at night, working day and night, immediately strangled the locusts from invading Guanzhong...
