Chapter 392

"Master, you are back?"

A village woman walked over, took the hoe from the farmer's hand, and said with a smile: "How is it? How is the harvest in the field?"

"Good! Very good! Since we have the curved-shaft plow, plowing the land is much easier than before, and we can even plow two more mu of land. Today is also favorable weather, and in a few days, I estimate we can have a bumper harvest."

It's a bumper harvest."

The farmer wiped his sweat and said with a beaming smile.

In this day and age.

Isn't the meaning of living just for a bite to eat?

"Thank heaven and earth, we can finally have a full year."

The village woman put her hands together and kept muttering.

Just at this moment.

A rustling sound suddenly came from the door.

"Master, did you hear any sound?"

"What sound?"

"Outside the window! Didn't you hear it?"

The village woman was a little curious and couldn't help but open a crack in the window.

Suddenly!

A black dot jumped in quickly, startling the village woman.

Looking closely.

It was actually a locust!

"This..."

The farmer grabbed the locust, frowned, and suddenly had a bad premonition.

Subsequently!

Another locust jumped in from outside the window.

The second, the third...

"Not good!"

The farmer seemed to feel something and suddenly opened the window.

But the scene before him almost scared him out of his wits.

In the moonlight.

The locusts covering the sky were like crucian carp crossing the stream.

Dense and covering the sky!

The "buzzing" sound of them flapping their wings collectively made people's eardrums unbearable. The farmer's face was pale, he sat on the ground, and kept muttering.

"It's over! It's over! Locust plague! It's a locust plague!!!"

Overnight.

Disaster spread all over Great Tang.

The crops that should have been harvested were eaten clean by the damned locusts in just a few days.

The people cried and grabbed for food desperately.

But their speed of harvesting was far behind the speed of locust destruction.

The number of locusts was like a snowball, already too many to imagine.

Whether it was a county or a village in the countryside, the density of locusts made people's scalps numb.

Even the official road outside the suburbs was covered with a layer of dense locusts, like a newly paved yellow road!

A bumper harvest year was finally here, but it was destroyed clean by locusts.

The people completely collapsed.

They worked hard for a whole year, shed so much blood and sweat, and finally got a little food.

And the result?

Gone!

All gone!

Some people even couldn't think straight and jumped into the well to commit suicide.

With the spread of the disaster, there were more and more refugees in various parts of Great Tang.

Memorials from various places fell on the imperial desk of the Ganlu Hall like snowflakes.

Inside the Taiji Hall.

Civil and military officials gathered.

Everyone lowered their heads, not daring to say a word.

Li Er paced back and forth in front of the dragon chair, his face extremely ugly.

A few days ago.

Various parts of Great Tang began to report to the imperial court, saying that various counties had suffered a serious locust plague, requesting the imperial court to allocate funds for disaster relief.

Li Er read those memorials and instantly realized the seriousness of the problem.

This locust plague was more serious than any previous one.

And it was much more serious!

The disaster situation and the number of refugees in various places had completely become a bottomless pit, no matter how much money and food were used, it was impossible to fill this black hole.

What made people feel even more desperate was that this black hole was still expanding.

Thinking of this, Li Er felt as if tens of millions of jin of shackles were hitting his heart, making people unable to breathe.

"Now that the disaster has appeared in various parts of Great Tang, all of you, work together, let us work together to overcome this difficulty. Tell me, what are your thoughts?"

Li Er stopped his steps and looked at the civil and military officials in the hall.

Everyone looked at each other, their expressions were all dim.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this disaster is not like the past, the severity is rare in a century. We must come up with a practical policy to save the victims." Fang Xuanling stood out first. ===== CHAPTER 394 =====