Three Kingdoms: Gou Shen I was overheard by Cao Cao

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Hearing this, Cao Cao's face suddenly changed, and his heart started beating loudly.

He wouldn't believe what others said about the locust plague, but what Xia Houzhe said was different!

The gold content is extremely high!The reliability is also very great!

"My dear brother, is this... is it true or not? You...don't be kidding me!"

Cao Cao trembled a little when he spoke.

Xia Houzhe looked up at the sky and began to think deeply.

"Really! I don't remember if it's this year or next year. There will be a huge locust plague here in Yanzhou, resulting in no harvest!"

"What is certain is that the famine in the first year of Xingping (194) did exist! So what Liang Xi said is not impossible!"

According to the original development, Cao Cao was fighting Lu Bu in 194, and the two stopped fighting for a year or two because of a famine.

Countless people died of starvation back then!

Boom!

As soon as these words came out like a bolt from the blue, the faces of Cao Cao and the others changed dramatically!

Facing the plague of locusts, even Cao Cao panicked.

"Xian... good brother! This... this... why did God punish me Cao Cao? Is there something wrong with me?"

"I ask myself, among the princes in the world, I treat the people very well, and I have done a lot of good deeds. Why is there still a plague of locusts? Is this Yanzhou destined to be doomed?"

Cao Cao looked sad, and the handsome boy in front of him became his life-saving straw.

Let him reach out and grab each other!

"Don't panic! The locust plague is not a punishment from heaven, it is caused by the drought!"

"There must be locusts in a long drought! Do you know the truth about locusts in extreme drought? It has not rained for more than a month now, which has created an environment for locusts to multiply! It is normal to have locust plagues."

"And the season when locust plagues generally occur is between June and August!"

"Don't be so superstitious, even if God wants to punish you, with me here... it won't dare!"

The corners of Xia Houzhe's mouth curled up slightly, and there was confidence in his eyes.

In this way, the hearts of all the people watching suddenly felt a lot more stable, as if they had a backbone.

Cao Cao found the direction at once.

"Huh... That's right, why should I panic when you're here!"

"That's right! It's hard to say whether this is a locust plague, let's go! Let's go with Liang Xi to see, I have to go to the field to investigate before I can make a decision!"

"If it is a plague of locusts, it must be contained immediately! The eggs of that thing hatch very quickly, and now it has been delayed for so many days. If you go late, you will be late!"

Xia Houzhe smiled, and immediately got up and threw the Harmony out.

Then he took a group of women, Cao Cao and others into the car

A group of people roared and galloped towards Xiao Huang!

After an hour or so, they came to Xiao Huang.

Liang Xi immediately organized the soldiers of the county government to follow Cao Cao and others to protect safety and wait for orders.

Under the leadership of Xia Houzhe, they found a place where locusts had appeared a few days ago, and began to patrol.

After some inspection, not a single locust was seen!

Cao Cao couldn't help feeling suspicious.

"Brother! No! Could it be that the locusts ran away when they heard you coming?"

"You fart! I don't have that much face, and I'm not their father, so I can't command them!"

Xia Houzhe cursed with a smile.

Surrounded by so many beauties, and with so many soldiers, he attracted many people to watch.

The common people knew Cao Cao and Xia Houzhe well, and they all greeted each other.

Several people nodded in response.

"By the way, old man, do you have any land that has been reclaimed but not planted?"

Xia Houzhe asked suspiciously.

The old man replied respectfully: "Yes! My lord! Yes! There is a lot of land reclaimed by Wang Mazi next door, but he seems to have found the clan some time ago and ran to Yizhou!"

"So the crops in that field are not taken care of, all withered, and it becomes a wasteland!"

Hearing this, Xia Houzhe's mind flashed, and he made a decision!

After nodding his head, he immediately waved his hand.

"I have to trouble the old man to take us there, this is related to everyone's harvest!"

Chapter 468 Can Cao Chun Solve the Locust Plague?

"You're being polite! Mr. Cao and Mr. Cao have fed us enough to save us from starvation! It's the old man's good fortune to be able to do things for you! Don't say trouble is not trouble!"

The old man saluted in a flattered manner.

Cao Cao and Xia Houzhe have a high prestige in Yanzhou, almost everyone respects them, except of course...except for the aristocratic family!

The colored glaze and fine wine of these two goods made them miserable!

Now that sweet potatoes and rice are produced, the common people have food to eat, and their aristocratic family can no longer control the common people.

And...the Gold Selling Cave really made them sell a lot of gold...

Led by the old man, they came to Wang Mazi's wasteland.

The other party is a small landlord here, and the land is quite wide!

But there were no crops in the field, not even weeds, all of which had been scorched to death by the sun.

The ground is even more dry and hard, with many cracks on it.

"Brother, what are you doing? Locusts won't be in this wasteland, right? There isn't even a single hair!"

"That's right, my husband, what's the point of you looking for this kind of wasteland?"

The women of Cao Cao and Xia Houzhe didn't quite understand why they did this.

Xia Houzhe smiled, pulled out his backhand, and brought out a hoe.

"If you want to see if there is a real locust plague, you have to look for wasteland! Because there is land for crops, it is not easy to have locusts!"

"Locusts usually lay their eggs in a slightly humid place near the water source! Look at this piece of land, close to the ditch! The surrounding soil should be moist before, which is good for locusts to lay their eggs."

"But because no one took care of it, it became dry. It happened that the eggs of locusts hatched and needed a dry environment! So this place provides favorable conditions for the growth and reproduction of locusts!"

Everyone suddenly realized!

They really don't understand these things. They only know that after the locust plague, everyone took things to cull them!

"So that's it! Does it mean that if you turn over the soil, you will know if there are any insect eggs?"

Cao Cao pointed to the ground.

Xia Houzhe handed him the hoe: "That's right! It's locust eggs! Here you go, you dig it yourself! Turn over more ground for you to exercise, so that you don't have anything to do when you're full, and keep running to my house!"

"If you discover the locust plague and prevent it in advance, you will definitely gain another wave of popular support!"

Hearing the popular support, Cao Cao's eyes lit up!

He took the hoe, spit out two mouthfuls of saliva, rubbed it in his hands, took off his suit and started digging.

This kind of hard soil is extremely difficult to dig, so Xia Houzhe didn't want to work hard.

For a salted fish, if you can't do it, you don't do it.

After Cao Cao dug a few times with a hoe, he dug out a large piece of mud and turned it over.

When everyone saw what was sticking to the soil, their pupils shrank suddenly, and their expressions became more dignified and panicked.

The excavated soil was covered with dense yellow insect eggs, which made Cao Cao's scalp tingle.

Immediately jumped up, and crushed hard, until all the eggs were crushed, he stopped panting heavily.

"My dear brother, this... these are locust eggs, right?"

"Made! Seeing such dense things, my scalp feels itchy!"

Xia Houzhe looked at him in surprise.

"You not only have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but also intensive phobia?"

"You're right, these are locust eggs! Try turning over a few more fields! Dig everywhere, don't dig here all the time."

Xia Houzhe pointed to the nearby field, and Cao Cao immediately walked over with a hoe.

Everyone watching this scene looked at each other in blank dismay.

Guo Jia: Gou He, do you think Yuan Yi looks like a boss?There are also beauties by my side.Does the lord look like a worker?What a bitter feeling!

Xun Yu nodded: No resemblance!My lord, he is a part-time worker!Just look at those industries!

Cao Chun: Looking at it this way... Yuan Yi seems to have become our boss?The thighs must be hugged!

After Cao Cao selected seven or eight places to dig one after another, he found that there were dense insect eggs in the soil.

At this moment, he realized the seriousness of the matter!

"My dear brother... there are so many! What should I do? If all the worms hatch, there will definitely be a plague of locusts!"

"At that time, my Yanzhou will definitely be swept away by the locust plague!"

They all know the reproductive ability of locusts. A small piece of locusts can reproduce a sky full of insects in a month.

Each locust lays 50-100 eggs, and small bugs emerge within 21 days. The terrible fecundity is an important factor that causes locust plagues.

Xia Houzhe's eyes gradually became serious.

"According to Liang Xi, there have been small-scale locusts here before, which proves that some have hatched! Controlling the locust plague is imminent!"

"If they are all hatched, it will be extremely difficult to deal with! Let me think about how to solve the current situation!"

Looking left and right, Cao Chun patted his chest and stood up proudly when he saw that several people had made trouble, with a confident expression on his face.

"Hey! Everyone, don't panic! With me, Cao Zihe, I can deal with the locusts! I have a good solution!"

Everyone looked at Cao Chun suspiciously, and sneered again and again, quite disdainful.

"You? Pull it down! What else can you do besides eating?"

Cao Chun was immediately unhappy!

"What's wrong with being able to eat? This is also a skill! And my idea this time is to rely on eating!"

Speaking of this, the corners of Cao Chun's mouth gradually turned up, and he let out a mouthful of saliva, as if he was relishing something delicious.

"To be honest, when I was young, my father was very strict with me. I didn't have any snacks to eat, so I went to the fields to catch locusts! I fried them at home, and they tasted crunchy! It's delicious!"

"Well... that feeling... wonderful! If locusts come, let's organize people to catch them and eat them! You can still have a full meal!"

Hearing this, everyone panicked!

They took a few steps back one after another, away from Cao Chun.

"Stay away from us! You...you are such a beast! You even eat bugs! Your perverted habits have been around since you were a child!"

"Exactly! It's so disgusting! I thought you only like to eat stinky things, but I didn't expect that you would never let the bugs go! What a good appetite!"

Being ridiculed by them for a while, Cao Chun was so angry that he was half dead!

How dare you doubt his vision?

"You know what a fart! The locusts have a great effect after eating!"

Cao Chun stubbornly raised his head to protect his face.

But everyone didn't give him face very much and looked at him playfully.

"Oh? Effect? ​​Come on, come on, talk about it!"

"I... locusts can... it... is very good! Yes! Good!"