As Shen Lie knocked on the door of Tian Hong and others' room, and woke up the sleepy Jin Yiwei, the lights in Shenjiazhuang soon became bright.
In the hustle and bustle.
Shen Lie gathered everyone together and walked slowly in the yard, pondering: "What time is it now?"
Victor rubbed his sleepy eyes, took out his pocket watch, looked at it, and said hurriedly: "It's time."
Shen Lie was thinking about it in his mind, and expressed his thoughts excitedly: "Ask the people to prepare the horses. Let's set off now. We can return to the capital before dawn. Tomorrow I will go to the palace early in the morning to meet the emperor and ask the emperor to issue an imperial edict... "
Talking and talking.
Shen Lie's eyes became gloomy. If the emperor issued a decree and ordered that all the poultry near Gyeonggi be gathered together, the number would have to be at least several hundred thousand.
It will definitely not be less than this number. Anyway, no matter what kind of poultry, as long as it is the natural enemy of locusts, chickens, ducks and geese will be included.
Then let Jin Yiwei and the people from Dongchang drive this army of poultry, wait on the path that the locust swarm must pass, and pounce on the locust swarm as soon as they see it.
Saying...
Shen Lie then made a tiger-like movement and said firmly: "I think the disaster can be greatly alleviated."
When Shen Lie finished speaking, Tian Hong and others were stunned. The spectacular sight of an army of thousands of chickens, ducks and fish, screaming and happily jumping towards the locust swarms, appeared in their minds.
a long time.
Tian Hongcai slapped his leg fiercely and said suddenly: "This is a good method!"
Zhang Jingxiu's anxious eyes also lit up. He looked at his sweetheart in surprise and began to think about it in his heart.
Everyone knows that poultry eats locusts, but why has no one ever thought of gathering poultry in large numbers to prevent locust plagues?
Maybe some people have thought about it this way, but they don't have the ability to do it.
If you think about it carefully, this is really feasible.
Shen Lie came slowly again: "The most terrifying thing about locust swarms is their strong reproductive ability. As long as the poultry army eats them quickly and the swarms are overwhelmed before they can reproduce, the effect must be excellent.
Zhang Jingxiu thought about it for a moment, and then he became excited and said excitedly: "Even if the locust plague cannot be eliminated, at least some crops can be preserved."
There was a lot of discussion.
Everyone seemed to see a ray of light in a desperate situation.
Shen Lie waved his hand and said carelessly: "Let's go back to Beijing!"
Everyone hurriedly got busy, hurriedly pulling the horses out of the stables, and finding some torches...
It was a bit dangerous to travel at night. In order to ensure safety, Shen Lie ordered everyone to put on a set of thick clothes, put on bamboo hats, and wrap their faces tightly.
Shen Lie wrapped himself into rice dumplings, looked at Zhang Jingxiu who was also tightly wrapped, and discussed: "How about you... wait until dawn before leaving?"
After all, riding a horse at night is taboo.
Shen Lie wanted to persuade her, but Zhang Jingxiu curled his lips and climbed onto the horse's back skillfully in the stirrups without anyone's help, and straightened his slender waist on the horse's back.
That arrogant look seemed to be saying...
Who are you looking down on? Your riding skills are not as good as mine.
Shen Lie was speechless.
"Okay... let's go!"
So a group of more than ten riders got on their horses, lit torches to illuminate the road ahead, and galloped towards the capital.
Not long after.
More than a dozen riders held torches high, waving their torches to drive away locusts flying in the air like headless flies, while galloping out of Shenjiazhuang.
On the sixty-mile-long official road.
The galloping knights and the rumble of horse hooves broke the midnight silence, until a small flag officer of the Imperial Guard at the front reined in the horse and issued a warning signal.
"Uu."
As everyone rushed forward one after another.
Tian Hong shouted: "What's the matter?"
The flag officer then pointed towards the village on the left side of the road. Everyone looked around, but they could only see what they could see.
The village was brightly lit, a bonfire was lit at the entrance of the village, and the sound of drums was faintly heard. Under the blazing firelight, one could vaguely see people dancing as if they were possessed by evil spirits.
And there were devout villagers kneeling all around.
This scene is so weird.
In deathly silence.
Shen Lie stepped forward on his horse and whispered, "What are you doing?"
Tian Hong bowed on his horse and said gloomily: "Worship the Locust God."
Shen Lie felt awe-struck in his heart and nodded. It turned out that he was dancing to the Great God. He squinted his eyes and looked at this strange scene, feeling that his hairs were about to stand up.
After taking a closer look, Shen Lie discovered that there was a shabby temple at the entrance of the village, which should be the legendary Locust Temple.
The temple worships the locust god Liu Meng.
Legend has it that Liu Meng was originally the locust god in the sky, but later he was reincarnated into the human world. So people who were afraid of locust plagues built temples for Liu Meng and worshiped him with incense.
Whenever there is a locust plague, the incense in this Locust Temple will naturally become more prosperous.
Shen Lie frowned as he looked at the devout villagers. These people didn't want to think about disaster relief, but they came to kneel down and worship the gods, praying for God's mercy.
What is this thing called?
At this time, Zhang Jingxiu also rode forward. Looking at the magic sticks who were performing the dance, he couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "These people who deceive the public with their monstrous words really deserve death!"
Upon hearing this, Tian Hong was startled on the spot and hurriedly tried to dissuade him: "Don't dare to talk nonsense... It will be bad if the old man, the Locust God, blames him."
Even Tian Hong said this, and Zhang Jingxiu became so angry that he stopped talking.
Although Shen Lie frowned, he shouted in a low voice: "No need to worry, let's go!"
So the group of people quickened their horses and continued to gallop towards the capital. Passing by the Locust Temple at the entrance of the village, Shen Lie took a closer look at it on horseback.
I saw that the demon who danced with the Great God became more and more aggressive. Some young and middle-aged men guarding the entrance of the village were holding knives and forks and looked over with vigilance.
"drive!"
A low drink.
Shen Lie clapped his horse and left, sighing softly in his heart. In this turbid and dirty world, there are all kinds of chaos.
It's really hard to describe.
The sky is gradually getting brighter.
Xiyuan.
At dawn, the emperor's bedroom was deathly silent, while the maids and eunuchs were waiting outside the door with their waists bent and their heads lowered, not even daring to breathe a word.
In the bedroom.
Zhu Yijun, who had not slept a wink all night, sat on the dragon chair, like a wooden man without a soul, staring blankly at the locusts crawling on the window lattice.
Feng Baohe's eunuchs were standing aside with their heads bowed, looking at their noses and hearts, with worries written all over their faces.
It was bright and bright.
Zhu Yijun seemed to wake up from a deep nightmare. He rubbed his sore forehead and said in a low voice: "What did the Grand Master say?"
Feng Bao hurriedly responded: "The grand master also stayed up all night. At dawn, the cabinet issued an emergency decree, ordering officials from all regions to immediately organize manpower to extinguish the locust plague. Anyone who failed to act and caused the locust plague to spread would be punished... The various officials did not supervise , those who inspect the killings will also be punished."
Zhu Yijun nodded. The response from the grand master and the cabinet was quite good, which relieved the depression in his heart and lifted his sluggish spirit.