"Xiao Xuanzi, come here quickly. I can't even fit my big net bag!"

With Zhu Youxiao's absolutely powerful eyesight and hand speed, the efficiency of catching locusts is unimaginable.

Looking at the "buzzing" locusts inside his net bag, Zhu Youxiao shouted to Xiao Xuanzi not far behind him.

"Your Majesty, I am here!"

Xiao Xuanzi hurriedly ran over with a large net bag in one hand and a large cloth bag in the other.

"Xiao Xuanzi, you can get a big cloth bag yourself. I can just collect it while I am in the net."

Zhu Youxiao simply held a big net bag in one hand and a big cloth bag in the other, said to Xiao Xuanzi, and took action alone.

This kind of large net bag is specially made in various workshops in the imperial court, and is quite sturdy.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao’s this was specially made by himself.

His strength is too strong and his strength is too high. It is obviously inappropriate to use a large net bag that is only five square meters in diameter.

The soldiers and all adults and women sent one of those standard large net bags, and at least ten kilograms were found in one net, and the efficiency of catching locusts is quite high.

Although there are countless locusts, there are also many people in the large farmland.

Almost half of the locusts were swooping towards the large number of bright and burning bonfires, and they were thrown into the trap, like moths flying into the flames, not afraid or fearful, one after another.

The remaining half of the locusts had just rushed down and had not had time to swallow the crops, and more than 70% of them were arrested by everyone.

The remaining locusts also entered the belly of chickens, ducks and geese running everywhere.

After tasting unprecedented delicious food, these poultry became more and more excited and fluttered around and became even more cheerful.

For everyone in the farm, this is an unprecedented battle between people and insects. When the battle lasts, it will never end until the two sides decide the outcome.

After dawn, the people of the big farm finally won and came to an end.

Zhu Youxiao did not dare to be careless at all, so he simply divided the people in the village into two batches, one group went back to rest, and the other group continued to capture the locusts that had missed the net, quietly waiting for the next wave of locusts to arrive.

You know, when the locust plague arrived, there were waves and uninterrupted. The just-concluded round of attacks was just a vanguard army of locusts.

The scale of this locust plague covers such a wide and huge area that the subsequent main army of locusts will come continuously.

The duration of the locust plague cannot be over in one or two days. This is an extremely difficult and protracted war.

Before waiting for the next batch of locusts to arrive, Zhu Youxiao took Xiao Xuanzi, Xiao Guizi and others to come to a bonfire that had been extinguished after dawn.

He looked at a large pile of charred locusts, couldn't help but move his index fingers. He picked up a few charred locusts, peeled off the charred shell in three or two, and threw the white and fragrant insect meat inside into his big mouth.

"Come on! Everyone comes to try it. This kind of thing is very delicious, fragrant, crisp and nutritious. You still want to eat it after you have eaten it."

A rich fragrance suddenly filled the heart. Zhu Youxiao immediately blew his eyes intoxicated and immediately greeted everyone.

Xiao Xuanzi and Xiao Guizi knew how good the taste of His Majesty the Emperor was. The average delicacy would not be seen by Zhu Youxiao at all.

Xiao Guizi, a foodie, had never eaten locust meat before. When he saw the emperor's expression, he couldn't bear it first.

He squatted beside the bonfire with big strides, imitating the emperor's appearance, and began to eat it. After a while, he stuffed his mouth full of locust meat.

The next moment, his eyes immediately widened, his hands began to be busy, and he opened his bows left and right, and he tore open the roasted locusts and had a lot of fun eating.

When everyone saw this situation, they immediately started to move one by one, and couldn't care about so many things and immediately surrounded them.

Everyone squatted beside the extinguished bonfire, picked up charred locusts, immediately peeled off the shell, took out the fragrant white and tender insect meat, and ate it.

After a while, there was a "tsk tsk" sound on the scene, which attracted the attention of a large number of children not far away. They surrounded them with great interest, and soon they joined the ranks of eating wildly.

Soon, next to several large fires above the big square, there were crowds of people, holding roasted locusts and eating them all.

People didn’t dare to eat locusts before, but they didn’t expect that they would be so delicious after roasting them?

"It's so delicious. After the locust is roasted, it's so delicious. His Majesty is the best at eating it."

Xiao Xuanzi and Xiao Guizi were having a lot of fun eating, with a gray face and kept praising the emperor.

"Hehe! You don't understand it now. When you have lunch and dinner today, ask someone to wash them and dry them, then fry them in a pan, then drink a sip of good wine and a bite of locust meat. That is the life of a god."

Zhu Youxiao said proudly.

He knew that this fried locust was a rare delicacy of wine.

Especially in this era, there were no chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This locust is a real, pure natural and pollution-free delicacy. Where can I eat it in my previous life?

"Wow! We now have dozens of large cloth bags worth hundreds of pounds full, that's not..."

Xiao Guizi has always been a foodie. He opened his eyes immediately after hearing this and said happily. Question 7

The other people next to them performed similarly, all of whom were imagining the fried locusts at noon and at night, and eating and drinking with wine.

This is just the first harvest of a large farm. With so many large farms in the Ming Empire today, how many dry locusts will be harvested after this locust plague?

For a long time in the future, this pure natural delicacy will be available for wine. Just thinking about it will make you feel happy.

Just as everyone was looking at the pile of locusts, waves of sounds of gongs rang out in the farmyard again, and the sky was filled with darkness.

Everyone shouted with excitement, and each of them held a large net bag or a large cloth bag and started the battle again.

This unprecedented human-worm war lasted for more than ten days.

It was not until the locust plague swept across and most of the green plants along the way were almost eaten up by a large number of locusts that the locust plague was about to end.

Most of the swarms that have no food source have not passed by or missed the locusts from various large farms.

They were confused and lost most of the tribes, and the remaining small insect swarm flew towards the distance one after another, leaving a mess everywhere.

The wilderness land separated from this big farm is already clean and as long as the plants that can be bitten by insects are basically gone.

Even on many mountains, as long as the branches and leaves are eaten by locusts, some trees of big and small have no leaves.

In the area directly under the Ming Dynasty, there are currently about 100,000-acre large farms with sufficient preparations and manpower, and have made several effective solutions to deal with locusts in advance, but the losses are not large.

The crops on the fields of various large farms only lost about half of the crops, but they harvested more dried locusts than the lost food.

These locusts are good things. They are dried and used to feed poultry, which are rising rapidly at a visible speed.

It was the poultry that had eaten and drunk enough in the past ten days and grew up in size.

All kinds of female poultry lay eggs and are extremely diligent. All poultry have bright fur and become particularly energetic.

Some women in those big farms, when they catch locusts every day, roast and store the spoils they captured on that day.

The locust plague has just passed, and the work of roasting locusts in various large farms has been completed in one day.

According to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, in the next few months, locusts and coarse grain derivatives will be used to feed these poultry.

Within these few months, there will inevitably be an outbreak of breeding.

As soon as the locust plague passed, various large farms began to harvest various crops.

Because of everyone's careful care and the rational ecological combination of planting and not affected by drought, the crop yields grown in various large farms far exceeded the imagination of all farmers.

According to the final statistics, it is estimated that nearly half of the annual harvest of the Ming Empire before will be more than the best annual harvest.

Among all the directly governed areas of the Ming Empire, regardless of military and civilians, everyone was smiling happily for a while.

The sweet potatoes and potatoes that have just been promoted are still growing well. I think after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it will surprise all the people of the empire.

These sweet potatoes and potatoes were the seeds collected from all over the south by Zhu Youxiao, and they were forced to plant them.

For these two crops with huge yields, Zhu Youxiao certainly needs to plant a large amount of crops so that they can store a large amount of emergency food.

In the second half of this year, in the areas south of the Yellow River, a large number of refugees fled from the puppet dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty, causing themselves to be at a loss.

During this period, although these two high-yield crops were not vigorously promoted by the imperial court, many people have grown them among the people since the Spanish and Portuguese brought them into the Ming Empire decades ago.

After conquering parts of North and South America nearly sixty years ago, the Spaniards introduced these two high-yield crops into China, and later gradually promoted them to various parts of the world.

In recent years, all the large and small grain stores in the Ming Empire have to be sold.

However, these two high-yield crops were not valued by the governments and people of the Ming Empire, and no one regarded them as life-saving staple food.

The vigorous locust plague passed, and a more vigorous summer harvest began.

After a few days, when the summer harvest ended, it had already reached the eighth year of the Apocalypse, and the end of early July.

Taking advantage of this good weather during this period, almost all the imperial people worked busy for six or seven days to dry all the grain into the warehouse.

Immediately afterwards, I began to re-fertilize the fields, and deep-turn all the harvested fields, and prepared to start sowing autumn grains.

With so many massive people, the cultivation of autumn grain is no problem at all. This is a general mobilization of the whole nation.

It can be said that in just a few days, all the fields in the large farmlands can be planted in a race against time.

With the countless massive amounts of grain entering the warehouse, Zhu Youxiao and his ministers all felt relieved.

If you have food in your hands, you are not panicked.

This sentence is truth, absolutely unquestionable.

The massive amount of food harvested this time is the greatest foundation of the Ming Empire and the real foundation for calming the hearts of the people.
Chapter completed!