Xu Wei saw Jia Xu's worries and said firmly: "Man can conquer nature. As long as the organization is good, most disasters can be overcome. Hebei has not been peaceful in recent years. Floods, droughts, and locust plagues have broken out one after another. But our cadres are well organized and the people under our rule have survived these disasters safely.
During the Ling Emperor's period, the reason why the Han Dynasty looked like it was doomed was mainly due to man-made disasters, followed by natural disasters. It was not that the Ling Emperor did not want to revitalize the Han Dynasty. In the third year of Zhongping, the Yellow River flooded. That year, the Ling Emperor was unprecedented. He spent 3 billion yuan from his Wanjintang to provide relief to the victims, but as we all know, the relief money did not reach the victims at all. Instead, it was all swallowed up by corrupt officials. The people still cried out, and finally joined us and became The soldiers of the rebel army."
"I'm afraid that the Ling Emperor at that time was also very desperate. It was impossible for the officials of the Han Dynasty to complete the relief work for millions of victims."
When a dynasty reaches its end, the organization is close to collapse. There is no way to solve the various problems encountered by the dynasty. Just like Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. He wanted to collect 3 million Liaoxiang, but his subordinates collected 30 million. , making the common people in the world miserable and revolting one after another.
However, the 3 million liao taels that Chongzhen finally collected were invested in the generals of western Liaoning, but the real use was no more than 300,000 taels. The Ming government only had an efficiency of 1%, and it also produced people who would listen to the instructions but not the propaganda. Warlord group.
Although Boar Skin is a slave society with a population of only a few hundred thousand, all its resources are devoted to war, and the efficiency is 60 to 70%, but this is still dozens of times higher than the 1% of the Ming Dynasty. Times, from this aspect, Chongzhen is not even as good as the resources mobilized by Wild Boar Skin.
So what appeared on the battlefield was that the Ming Dynasty's war armies were defeated repeatedly, and they couldn't even defeat a tribe of savages who had just stepped out of primitive society.
The only thing Emperor Ling was more fortunate than Chongzhen was that the martial arts left over from the Warring States Period had not yet dissipated. This was because the Han Dynasty was still full of martial virtue and had enough military power to suppress all parties.
Therefore, such a strange phenomenon appeared in the late Han Dynasty. The money used by the court to provide disaster relief may not be effective (they were swallowed up by corrupt officials), but the money spent to hack these refugees to death had an immediate effect (corrupt officials could not keep these military expenditures. This can actually be put to practical use, but of course the consequences are endless, as it directly feeds the warlord groups on all sides).
After listening to Xu Wei's words, Jia Xu agreed very much. When Dahan encountered natural disasters, Daqian also encountered it. Even the severity of the disaster exceeded that of Dahan. However, in Daqian, because the organization benefited, the disaster relief finances were able to If it were implemented, there would be no millions of refugees and people dying of hunger everywhere in Daqian.
Compared with the dying Han Dynasty, Daqian is full of vitality. Officials have the courage to solve difficulties when they encounter them. Many problems that were difficult to solve in Dahan have been solved locally. They are not officials of Dahan. Comparable.
Xu Wei looked at the locusts and said: "Let officials in all counties and counties in Hebei begin to purchase locusts. We must not let the locust plague expand again!"
At this time, the locust plague has spread to several states and counties around the Yellow River. It is difficult for poultry in Hebei alone to eat all these locusts, not to mention these. Locusts are poisonous when mature, and many poultry cannot eat them.
Now we can only mobilize people's subjective initiative. If tens of millions of people in Hebei begin to catch locusts, the scale of this locust plague will definitely be controlled.
Jia Xu looked at the locusts in the sky and said: "If the government really buys it at this price, I'm afraid the people in the entire Central Plains will go out to catch locusts! It will cost more than a little bit!"
The entire Central Plains is within the scope of the locust plague. Just looking at the densely packed locusts, no one is sure how many locusts there are in the whole world. If money is really used to purchase locusts, I am afraid it will cost hundreds of millions or even billions. Got money.
But Xu Wei said nonchalantly: "If we spend 1 billion to quell this locust plague, paying this billion will be a big profit for me! Moreover, these dried locusts can also be made into feed. Feed is not good. It can also be made into fertilizer, which really doesn’t cost much!
As long as we take action, there are always more solutions than difficulties, and it is better than watching these locusts continue to expand like now. You must know that if the locusts are not exterminated this year, there may be another locust plague in the Central Plains next year, and our losses will be even greater by then. Now We spend money to buy locusts, which is to eradicate the locusts!"
Jia Xu suddenly remembered that the biggest difference between his ruler and the Han emperor was his unprecedented wealth. Many things that were difficult to solve in the Han Dynasty were nothing to the ruler. They could be solved with a little money! It doesn't matter. Whether it is an individual or a regime, having money can solve most problems!
Moreover, the organizational power of the Daqian court was dozens of times greater than that of the Han Dynasty. It was impossible to do things like purchasing locusts. The officials of the Han Dynasty must have swallowed up their own money and did not care about the locust plague outside, waiting for the locusts to move to other places on their own.
Then Xu Wei continued: "Let the Department of Agriculture send experts to the Central Plains to instruct local people to use fire kang incubation technology to increase the number of chickens, ducks and geese in the Central Plains. Poultry must be used to eliminate these locusts and their eggs. These locusts must not be allowed to Continue to explode in the Central Plains!"
Then Xu Wei secretly cursed himself: "The glass is all out, but I forgot to get a mercury thermometer. If I had gotten it earlier, the number of poultry in Daqian would have increased dozens of times. With these locust nemesis, this locust plague will be better." It’s impossible to expand to what it is now!”
The heated kang incubation technology has a history of several years in Daqian, and even began to be used to deal with locust plagues in Jizhou a few years ago.
However, this technology has not been popularized because there is no qualified thermometer. Only experienced technicians can truly master the technology of hatching poultry on the fire kang. However, ordinary people cannot master the suitable temperature without practicing dozens of times. Be careful, the eggs will be rotten.
In this era, even in Daqian, eggs and duck eggs are precious food. Few people are willing to waste it. The price is too high. This makes it difficult to popularize the technology. That is, only Daqian officials can use such a method regardless of the cost. Train technical personnel, but even now there are only hundreds of qualified technical personnel in the entire Hebei area. Only when qualified thermometers and heated kang incubation technology are made can they be widely popularized!
In Xu Wei's era, locust plagues had only been heard of but not seen, so Xu Wei naturally did not pay much attention to the fire kang incubation technology, but this time Xu Wei finally saw the horror of locust plagues.
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