"That's right." Li Wenchong said, "Brother Can and the others are just kids after all, and they haven't thought it through very carefully. I still need the emperor's help to figure out how to do it."
Emperor Mingguang glared at him.
Li Wenchong didn't take it seriously and continued: "When it comes to raising chickens and ducks, I suddenly remembered that Qing Ling once mentioned to me that hens are not necessarily needed to hatch eggs. As long as the temperature is appropriate, artificial hatching can also be done.
But it's much easier to hatch than a hen, and you can hatch a lot in one room..."
Balabala, let’s start with the introduction.
Li Wenchong is not very clear on how to operate it specifically.
But who asked him to go to Gu Qingling's farms?
Therefore, he still knows the basics of how to use a fire pit to hatch chicks.
Hearing what Li Wenchong said, Emperor Mingguang was very surprised: "Can chicks be hatched in this way? Have you seen it with your own eyes?"
Li Wenchong nodded: "I just saw it, that's why I said this. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have dared to tell Brother Huang that it wasn't the case? If Brother Huang doesn't believe it, I'll go back and talk to Qing Ling and ask her to borrow some professionals.
Give it to Brother Huang, Brother Huang, and you will know after trying it. It only takes about twenty days to hatch the chicks, and the test results can be obtained in less than a month. No matter how full the words are, nothing is more convincing than practice."
"You..." Ever since I married that woman, my speech has become more and more consistent.
Emperor Mingguang laughed.
However, what Li Wenchong said really caught the attention of Emperor Mingguang.
If Gu Qingling's method can really solve the problem of egg hatching, and chickens are the nemesis of locusts, maybe it can really solve the problem to some extent.
Although Emperor Mingguang did not believe that raising chickens could solve the locust plague, he was satisfied that it had played a certain role to some extent.
After returning home, Li Wenchong told Gu Qingling about the matter and sent him to the palace.
On the other side, a new issue of "Natural History" was released and appeared in the hands of thousands of households.
When they saw the locust control methods mentioned in the newspaper, they were shocked.
"Isn't it?! This way we can get rid of the locusts?! If it were really that easy, the locust problem would have been solved long ago. Will it be their turn?"
"This is too ridiculous!"
"Sigh...it's normal for a bunch of kids to have some whimsical ideas."
"Oh...it would be great if it were true. If it were true, people wouldn't have to suffer like this."
…
Not many people believed what was in the newspaper.
Think about it, it was a locust plague. For thousands of years, no one could solve the locust plague, but the prince and grandson could solve it with just a few words?
impossible.
Of course, some people don’t believe it, and some people seriously think about the questions raised above.
Assuming that the above plan is feasible, using the backward method, if they want to eliminate the locusts, they only need to...
First, look for the location where locusts hatch - the tidal flat.
This is easy to solve. Just go to an area prone to locust plagues, find a suitable location, and open it to have a look.
If it is true, then this can be considered.
Secondly, destroy the food chain of locusts.
What do locusts eat?
It must be crops, otherwise the locusts would not turn into a locust plague.
So when it is young, replace all the edible plants around it with food that it cannot eat. If it doesn't have enough to eat and doesn't have warm clothes, won't it be able to grow up?
Again, start with the nemesis of locusts.
…
After reading it one by one, Xing Yuanjia felt it made more sense.
Xing Yuanjia hated locusts to death.
He has grown up hearing stories about the locust plague since he was a child. He heard his grandparents tell how many people died when the locust plague occurred.
If it weren't for the locust plague, his grandmother wouldn't have become an orphan.
If his grandmother hadn't met his grandfather, she would have starved to death.
Although there are no relatively large locust plagues in the area where they live, locusts flood from time to time and damage crops in the fields.
They didn't starve to death. They relied entirely on tree bark and wild vegetables, eating whatever they could, plus the little food left, to survive.
Coming every once in a while can make them miserable.
Xing Yuanjia has long wanted to solve the problem of locusts and has been doing a lot of research. Therefore, when he saw the locust eradication plan mentioned in the "Natural History Journal", his eyes immediately lit up.
Before dawn, he would go out with the newspaper and the tools to dig up the ground.
"Boy, where are you?"
Xing's father, who also got up early, saw it and looked puzzled.
"It's okay, I'll go out for a while."
Xing's father thought his son had gone to work in the fields, and wanted his son to wait for him and go out together.
As a result, Xing Yuanjia said that he had other things to do and was not going to the fields.
Xing's father was confused. He had other things to do. What was he doing with the hoe that was digging the ground?
At noon, Xing's father met Uncle Liu at the head of the village.
Uncle Liu said: "I saw your son running on the river beach outside the village so early in the morning...Why was he going there? You don't need to bring a hoe to catch fish, right?"
When Xing's father heard this, he became even more confused.
As soon as he returned home, Xing's father saw Xing Yuanjia running back covered in mud.
"Dad, let me show you something."
"What?" Xing's father lowered his head and saw the mud in his son's arms, "Why are you digging so much mud?"
"Dad, have you seen these white things? What do you think they are?" Xing Yuanjia's eyes were shining.
"What is it?"
"They are locust eggs." Xing Yuanjia said, "The newspaper said that locust eggs are laid in the mud on the tidal flats. I didn't believe it, so I ran to dig them out. I didn't expect it to be true... Dad, you
Look, there is a female locust here, and I accidentally killed it when I was digging in the mud."
Lucky father: "..."
He really didn't know that locusts actually laid their eggs in the mud.
Wait, aren’t locusts pests on the ground?
Shouldn't it lay its eggs in the grass?
"Dad, the newspaper said that locusts lay eggs and hatch in the same way as hens hatch eggs. We need to maintain the temperature and so on. If we plow the land while the locusts are still small, or change the tidal flats into ponds to raise fish or something like that
, the incubation environment of locust eggs is destroyed, and it will not hatch..."
Xing's father didn't quite understand the truth, but he understood one thing - if you keep disturbing the hen when it is hatching an egg, it will not hatch, and the good egg will turn into a bad egg.
So, what his son means is...
Do you want Madam to turn good locust eggs into bad locust eggs before they hatch?
But how did his son know that by plowing the ground or building a fish pond, he would be able to destroy it?
"I don't know, but I have to try. Dad, think about it, if you keep disturbing the hen when it hatches its eggs, it won't hatch. The locust eggs have been laid in the mud, and they can't escape. Then
We overturned the nest where the hen was hatching eggs, do you think the hen can still hatch eggs?"
This...Xing's father couldn't explain it.
If it can really be destroyed, it might actually be useful.
But the question is, how do they know that they can destroy it by plowing the land or building fish ponds?
Xing Yuanjia couldn't explain it, but that's what it was written in the newspaper anyway.
The newspaper also said, why is it said to be turned into a fish pond?
Because fish also eat locust eggs.
There are also certain birds, chickens, ducks and geese.
Xing Yuanjia didn't know if it was true, but he could bring the mud back and try it on his family's chickens.
