Shen Feng is also worried about the locust plague now. The crops have just been planted not long ago and the seedlings have just grown. However, the locusts came later and the crops have been eaten up. There is still a chance to replant crops, but The locusts have not left since they entered Sichuan Province.
Locusts are flying around while gnawing at crops, and they are constantly laying eggs. After ten or twenty days, new locusts will emerge from the soil.
In recent times, Shen Feng has been discussing with the people in Yuzhou how to completely solve the harm caused by locusts.
Even during the meeting, Shen Feng had a piece of white cloth tied on his head. Generally speaking, funerals have been simplified a lot. In ancient times, it took three years to observe filial piety, but later, modern times appeared Three years of mourning was too long to change customs, so the time was shortened. Generally speaking, it lasted three to seven days. Even if it was longer, half a month would be enough to handle it. But Shen However, Feng decided to observe filial piety for at least half a year.
Chang Jianyi couldn't stop this thing, because she could understand Shen Feng's current grief. A loved one suddenly left this world, which is difficult for every grateful person to accept, and Shen Feng only wears mourning clothes every day, which will not affect Yuzhou's future plans.
At the meeting, many people had smiles on their faces, because they had recently received good news, that is, many cities in Sichuan Province had sent requests to Yuzhou for affiliation, because the grain reserves in these cities had basically reached 100,000 yuan. There is nothing left. If we can no longer get food, famine will break out in these cities, and then the fate of these people will be even worse.
Everyone originally thought that it would not be easy for Yuzhou to take over Sichuan Province, but now, the sudden appearance of locusts has brought benefits to Yuzhou, because Yuzhou has basically not been affected by disasters in these years. , so there is a lot of grain in stock. Although Sichuan Province has a very large area and has many more plains than Yuzhou, Sichuan Province also has a large population and needs to frequently sell grain to the outside world, so the grain in Sichuan Province is just now. There is enough to eat, but it is far from the level of food storage. Now that the crops are eaten by locusts, Sichuan Province will be unable to bear it first.
Shen Feng leaned on his seat and said calmly: "Although we can gain the territory of Sichuan Province without a single blow, please don't forget that we in Yuzhou don't have much food. If we mobilize the food to go to Sichuan Province, what will happen to Yuzhou?" manage?"
Yang Chang seemed very optimistic at this time and said: "Although we have missed the best time to sow at this time, we can still replant food. Maybe the harvest will be reduced a lot, but we will not lose everything. Bar?"
"It's easy to replant food, but what about the locusts? The locusts are still emerging from the ground. When the time comes, the locusts will kill them all, and then what? The crops will be gone again." Cao Fulie on the side couldn't help but said, now the locusts are still there. There is no solution. When it comes to farming, it is still too simple.
"Wouldn't it be great to go all out to produce pesticides and kill all these locusts?" Yang Chang said matter-of-factly.
Modern agriculture has a very simple way to deal with locusts, which is to spray pesticides directly. No matter what kind of insect it is, it can be killed directly. After spraying pesticides, the locust crisis can be relieved.
But at this time, Li Keyi said calmly: "I'm afraid it won't work. The effect of insecticides on locusts has weakened. First of all, the size of the East Asian migratory locusts has more than doubled this time, and their resistance to poison has increased.
Secondly, locusts have mutated and evolved resistance to pesticides, so the previous dosage had to be increased five to six times. This dosage of pesticides is enough to cause harm to humans."
When Li Keyi said this now, everyone couldn't help but frown. After the locusts mutated, their resistance to pesticides has actually increased. In this case, it is not easy to deal with locusts. At least use insecticides.
Agents are ineffective against locusts.
"Since the use of pesticides has been limited, we might as well simply mobilize the people below to go out and use manpower to kill the locusts. It will definitely be effective if everyone does it together." At this time, Qi Lingshan couldn't help but say.
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"Your suggestion is even more unreliable. If manpower could fight the locusts, the locusts would have been eaten to extinction by humans." Li Keyi immediately expressed his opposition when he heard this.
Tu Xuhuai was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked at Shen Feng and said: "For professional matters, you should ask more professionals. City Lord, it is useless for us to keep discussing here. It is better to go to the research institute to find scientists and let the scientists
Let’s work together to find a solution. Even if we can’t provide a practical solution, we can still give us some appropriate suggestions.”
Shen Feng nodded and said to Li Keyi: "Yiyi, hurry up and contact the research institute and ask some entomologists to come here and ask them for help."
Li Keyi then left the conference room, and Shen Feng was not idle now. He said to the rest of the people: "Taking advantage of several opportunities, we need to quickly take over other cities in Sichuan Province, and then we need to discuss a candidate.
I am stationed in Chengdu. During normal times, I am still in Yuzhou. I cannot be in Chengdu all the time. So, who do you think is more suitable to station in Chengdu?"
After hearing what Shen Feng said, everyone became excited. If you go to guard Rongcheng at this time, you will be treated like a feudal official. Especially at this time, Yuzhou is in urgent need of manpower, let alone these children in the orphanage.
Well, even the young people that Yuzhou is constantly recruiting are basically not enough. Therefore, if you go to Chengdu and develop your own team, it's not bad.
Everyone hurriedly discussed at this time and finally decided to let Guo Pinming lead the army to Chengdu. On the civilian side, Zhou Xiaoxiao was responsible for handling the matter. The most important thing was to ensure the smooth flow of the railway between Chengdu and Yuzhou.
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Shen Feng is also very relieved about Guo Pinming, because Guo Pinming is the least greedy person. After he goes to Rongcheng, he can be sure that he will not have any other thoughts. Moreover, except for Guo Pinming in Rongcheng,
Jin Zijue also has more than a dozen superpowers at his disposal, and they have now chosen to stay in Chengdu. Jin Zijue has become the next captain of the Superpower Management Bureau.
After Shen Feng discussed the matter with everyone, Li Keyi happened to appear in the conference room with an entomologist and an agriculturist, and everyone continued to discuss the locust matter.
Professor Zhang sat down slowly and then said to Shen Feng: "City Lord, in fact, the mutation of insects is limited by oxygen. As long as the oxygen concentration on the earth drops, the size of locusts will continue to shrink, and the rest of the insects will basically shrink."
It is impossible to continue to mutate, this can solve the mutated bugs once and for all.”
"Professor, at this moment we just want to know how to deal with the locusts in the territory. If the locusts in the territory have not been dealt with yet, it is unfounded to worry about other mutated bugs in other places at this time, because in a few months, we will be here There is also going to be a famine." Shen Feng said quickly.
When Shen Feng said this, Professor Zhang also realized that what he was thinking about now was not the mutation of insects, but how to solve the crisis caused by the locusts in a short period of time.
Therefore, Professor Zhang said after pondering for a moment: "First of all, it is not easy to completely curb the locust plague, because it took decades to completely eliminate the locust plague in China, and it took several generations of hard work to complete it. This matter has gone through several stages. The first is manual killing, which is the stupidest method. Whether it is digging up locust eggs or catching locusts and frying them, the efficiency is actually very low. Then there is drug and machine control, which is simple The best way to kill locusts is to spray pesticides, which is the best way to kill locusts, but it can’t be used now.”
Everyone in the conference room was listening quietly. Many people in the conference room have never experienced a locust plague, because everyone here is too young, and there are many people under the age of thirty. These things The older generation can still have an impression, but for these young people, they don't know much about how to control locusts.
"The final way to completely control locusts in China is to control the source. In fact, to put it bluntly, it means transforming the locusts' habitat. Even though locusts are everywhere, these locusts also have their source. As long as the habitat of these locusts is transformed, Next, locusts will not be able to spread and cause disasters." Professor Zhang said slowly.
"Where is the source of the locusts?" Someone started asking directly at this time, wanting to know how to successfully control locusts.
Professor Zhang said: "Basically, they are in the north, North China, Guanzhong, and the lower reaches of the Yellow River. These are the birthplaces of locust plagues in history. Reservoirs and artificial digging of water conservancy facilities have changed the habitat of locusts, so locusts cannot It has formed a large scale, but ten years have passed since the end, and these water conservancy facilities have been abandoned, so the locusts have returned."
"Come on, there is nothing we can do now. The locust habitats are all in the north. It is impossible to transform them." Lu Kaiyang immediately spread his hands when he heard this. If the locust habitats in the north were transformed in peacetime, it might still be possible. It is possible, but at this time, the north has become an inaccessible place, and it is impossible to transform the locust habitat on a large scale.
Professor Zhang said quickly: "I don't say these words in vain. In fact, locusts have laid eggs in various places in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou. These places where eggs are laid can also be regarded as the habitats of locusts. As long as Sichuan Province and Yuzhou are transformed into places unsuitable for locusts to live, the locusts can disappear naturally."
Shen Feng then asked: "How to transform it?"
"There is no need to modify it! Because logically speaking, locusts are suitable for flooding in the south, unless there is a drought in the south. Now, as long as we wait for rain in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou, this is enough. Once the rain arrives, the locusts will naturally disappear. Without a trace." Professor Zhang gave this answer.
Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but shake their heads after hearing this suggestion, because they all felt that they heard a loneliness at this time, because according to Professor Zhang, they should do nothing next and just concentrate on waiting.
It's good if it rains, because as soon as it rains, the locusts will disappear naturally.
"If you really say this, we don't have to do anything from now on. We just have to wait for God to rain. Doesn't it all depend on God's mood?" Chu Chaoyan couldn't help but wait for God to rain.
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"But this is the best suggestion. I'm not talking nonsense. This matter is of great importance. I must have thought it through before saying it. First of all, locusts are grasshoppers. After they form a swarm, they are called locusts. Among them, there are several types of locusts.
There are also many, many locusts, and these locusts only breed in large numbers and flood in years of severe drought, because locusts do not like humid environments, and there happens to be more precipitation in the south than in the north. As long as Sichuan Province and Yuzhou
When it rains, locusts cannot adapt to the humid environment and will naturally die." Professor Zhang said seriously.
Everyone feels that what Professor Zhang said is of no use at all. I came to you to ask you to give suggestions. But now it’s a good time. You guy actually asked us to wait for rain. What’s the use of you?
Shen Feng was awakened by this sentence. He knew a way to make it rain. As long as a typhoon formed and the typhoon could penetrate deep into the interior, it would rain successfully in Sichuan Province and Yuzhou.
"I understand, this is a very important suggestion. If it doesn't rain, I will have no choice but to take action." Shen Feng then said. This chapter has been completed!
