Yao Jiuye has never experienced locusts, so he really doesn't care about this matter.
"This...should you ask a professional? If no one knows, then you need to do experiments to verify it." Yao Jiuye said, "After all, practice is the truth to solve problems. If you don't even try, who can
Do you know what the result will be?"
The twenty-second prince Li Zheng frowned: "The locust plague doesn't just happen. How can we try this? It will be a disaster as soon as it happens."
"This... we'd better write it in the newspaper and brainstorm ideas to see if anyone has paid attention to this issue. If so, maybe it can give us some ideas."
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But before that, Yao Jiuye felt that they needed to gather their own people to discuss and sort out a general idea.
Then they knew how to ask the question.
It happened that Gu Qingling was free, and Yao Jiuye invited her over without saying a word to have a meeting together.
After all, in Yao Jiuye's heart, no one has more "knowledge" than his mother.
Before the meeting, Yao Jiuye first asked everyone to collect information about locusts, and then the discussion would have content.
As a result, the princes, including the royal family members, encountered a wave of "asking for advice".
"You have finished the map before, so why do you want to cause a locust plague again? Can you solve the locust plague? No one has solved it for hundreds or thousands of years. If you could solve it, we adults would have solved it long ago."
"Dad, you can't say that. Our children's perspectives are different from your adults'. Maybe we can come up with something surprising? For example, although the map we made is not finished yet, it is only a semi-finished product, but anyone who has seen it,
There is no one who doesn't praise us." The eldest emperor's grandson Li An felt that the eldest prince Li Jian was wrong. If they were really useless, why did the emperor's grandma Gu Qing let them do this?
Since you let them do it, it must be useful.
It's just that he is young now and can't imagine it being that deep.
The eldest prince Li Jian laughed: "Yes, yes, you are very powerful, otherwise the great emperor would not praise you so much."
The Great Emperor's grandson Li An showed a smile: "It's true, Dad, stop talking and help me find books. As long as they are related to locusts, I want them."
"Okay, I'll look for it for you." The eldest prince Li Jian looked for his son himself, and even called his master to come over and help him look for it.
I actually found a few pages about locusts in the study. I handed the book to the great emperor Li An and asked him to keep it carefully.
When you're done, remember to return it to him.
"Dad, don't worry, I'm not a child, I won't damage your books."
Grand Emperor Sun Li An waved his hand very casually.
It can also be seen from this that as the eldest son of the eldest prince Li Jian, Li An is very powerful, otherwise he would not be so "relaxed" in front of the eldest prince Li Jian.
The eldest prince Li Jian is not without temper, he just loves his only legitimate son very much.
Everyone is looking for books, and most of the books they can find are relatively abundant on the market.
Like the ones in Yao Jiuye's hands, many of them have never been seen before.
There is no way, who told those books to be edited by Gu Qingling?
Since it came from his own bookstore and was edited by himself, Gu Qingling had so many editors at his disposal. As soon as the subject matter was changed, most of them were edited by people.
It's good to have power. If you tell someone, someone will do the work.
Therefore, no one is more familiar with the introduction and understanding of locusts than Yao Jiuye.
Based on the previous version of the map, he also asked someone to find a board, cover it with a large piece of white paper, and record it in different categories on it.
There were only a few of them and their hands were slow, so they specially brought a few "quick reporters" to help record the events.
This meeting was hosted by Yao Jiuye, and Gu Qingling was in charge of observing and giving some guidance to everyone.
For example, Gu Qingling asked: "Have you ever thought about starting from the diet of locusts? We want to solve a pest. In addition to looking for their natural enemies, we can also solve it from their food and living environment."
When Gu Qingling asked, everyone present immediately started a discussion.
"Yes, this is indeed an idea. What do locusts eat?"
"It says corn, wheat, sorghum, rice, millet..."
"We poison what we eat?"
"That won't work. These grains are meant for the common people to eat. If we poison them, what if the poison doesn't poison the locusts but poisons the common people instead?"
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Gu Qingling listened quietly and found that they had been discussing for a long time, but no good result came out.
Just as he was about to speak out, he saw a companion raised his hand and whispered: "Then can we starve them to death? If poison is not enough, we can starve them to death, right? If they want to eat these things, then we won't plant them...
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"How can that be done? The common people still need to eat." The twenty-second prince Li Zheng immediately objected.
Are you kidding? Locusts can't eat this food. They can eat other things. But how can people live without food?
Are you going to starve to death too?
This is outrageous.
An idea flashed in Yao Jiuye's head and he said: "Wait a minute, locusts don't grow up in a day. Before they really grow up, they can't run that far. So as long as we don't plant these grains near them,
Just plant something they can’t eat.”
Everyone was shocked.
Isn't it right? Isn't it enough to "starve" them to death before they grow up?
But where to find locusts?
Is it possible that we really want to dig up the ground?
"Compared to locusts growing up and causing a disaster, it's worth just spending some effort to plow the tidal flats." Liu Yi, the older companion, thought for a while and said, "Although the Ming Dynasty is very big, how many tidal flats are there in the Ming Dynasty?
Where? Moreover, the places where locust plagues set out over the years have been recorded. As long as we search based on these records, we can easily find their nest."
Seeing their discussion reach this point, Gu Qingling's face showed a smile, and she was very happy for their intelligence.
"Since you are thinking of starving the locusts to death, can you add a process before starving them to death, for example..." Gu Qingling said, "preventing them from hatching."
Everyone looked over with doubts on their faces.
"If you want to starve the locusts to death, it should be when they hatch from their eggs and turn into larvae, or into adults that can fly. So isn't starting when they are still eggs also a way?" Gu Qingling continued to remind,
"Think about it, since you have found their lair, why don't you do one more process and provide one more safeguard?"
"But... if it is still an egg, it is too small." The twenty-second prince Li Zheng frowned and said, "You can't just pick them out one by one and crush them to death, right?"
"Why do we need to crush them to death? Can't we burn them to death, or destroy their incubation environment, and let the locust eggs die directly?" Gu Qingling said, "What conditions are needed for locust eggs to hatch? Just like a hen hatching an egg, there is nothing that can be done.
Even without any conditions, it can be hatched, right?"
"I know!" Yao Jiuye's eyes lit up and he said, "I have done egg hatching experiments before. When a hen hatches an egg, it needs temperature. So when the hen hatches the egg, he will not leave the nest and will not eat or drink.
, it takes almost twenty days to hatch.”
"But..." the twenty-second prince Li Zheng said, "locusts bury their eggs in the ground less than ten centimeters, and they don't hatch their eggs."
