Chapter 6527 Their respective plans

Chapter 6527 Their respective plans

Although East Africa is theoretically within the radiation range of Rome and even has two vassal states nearby, the locals did not realize how serious the matter was when they discovered the locusts. After all, the desert locusts in this area are well-known, but most of the time they do not become a disaster. In addition, the locals' main focus is on how to deal with the African beast tide, so that the first people to discover the locust plague were actually the Han Dynasty's aristocratic families in the local area.

"Is this the so-called local locust?" Wang Lang looked at the locusts caught by his men and asked curiously, "Africa is too weird, isn't it? The locusts are twice as big. Isn't it too outrageous?"

Nonsense, how can locusts that are not big enough fly from Africa to the Persian Gulf, then wreak havoc in Central Asia, rush to South Asia to wreak havoc again, and even some gifted ones can directly rush to Xinjiang and Yunnan in China. You have to know that this is a normal world without the alienation of the essence of heaven and earth.

"Are all local locusts so big?" Yuan Xin, who had just crawled back from the inside world, felt that the African locusts were very outrageous. How to say it? The extremely large number of minotaurs in the inside world, whose charge could shake the earth, did not have as much impact on Yuan Xin as these locusts.

"No, there are local locusts that are bigger than this. What you saw are just small locusts." Yang Chen said with a sneer, then picked up a cage and handed it to Yuan Xin, shocking Yuan Xin for a thousand years. Damn, locusts can grow to the size of a palm. What the hell did they eat!

"Is there going to be a locust plague?" Wang Lang asked relatively sensitively.

Because we are in Africa, we don't know much about the climate and environment here. Locusts are just ordinary insects that can be seen everywhere. It's just that there are relatively more of them this time, but it has not reached the level of a locust plague. In addition, when we were in the Central Plains before the locust plague happened, there were families who specialized in managing this thing and they were shouting and giving notices. Even the Gan and Shi families would give preventive notices half a year in advance when there was a warm winter and warm spring rainfall.

However, in Africa, there was no such notification at all. Wang Lang and others did not think about the locust plague. Because after hundreds or thousands of years in the Central Plains, there were signs of locust plagues. Their families should have received the news long ago and should have stockpiled food and guns.

So when the locusts were already flying around in Africa, this group of wealthy families living in the local area still did not realize that the first wave of locust plague had actually formed in East Africa. The locusts here were also affected by pheromones and began to grow wildly. They just thought that there were really a lot of locusts in Africa this year, and they were so big, and they would taste good if fried in a pan.

At the same time, the Gan family and the Shi family directly dispatched responsible personnel to notify the major families in Central Asia, Cao Cao in Kandahar, and the major families in the middle and lower reaches of the Ganges to make possible preparations to prevent the locust plague. Although Chen Xi thought it was too late to notify at this time, he still had to do his best.

Even families like the Guo, Yin, and Liu were on the verge of being wiped out. The families that had finally recovered, after catching their breath, all sent people to follow. Anyway, they could still squeeze out a few people's investment, so they just followed along. As long as they were not left behind, everything would be fine.

Because of the locust plague, if you are unlucky and there is a large-scale rainfall between the first and second rounds, or between the second and third rounds, which allows plants to develop again, the locusts will have enough food in the larval stage, reducing the cruelty of the survival of the fittest. In the end, the size and combat effectiveness of the developed locusts will decrease, but the scale...

In addition, Gan Bao and Shi Tao finally got the possible scale of the locust plague in East Africa from Chen Xi - the scale of the last wave of collective deployment may be greater than 200 billion.

However, since Laklelek had already spoken, the researcher could not directly deny the Eagle Emblem Legion Commander's proposal, so he could only let Laklelek implement it.

"Well, I will send a notice to the Kingdom of Kush and ask them to take precautions. You also send a notice to the Senate and ask them to make a plan." Laclilek said without thinking. This was his duty. Although the locust plague might form south of the Kingdom of Kush and have almost no impact on Rome, the warning still had to be given.

In April of the tenth year of Yuanfeng, the Han Dynasty sent a person with internal energy to leave the body and go directly to the Roman Senate, carrying detailed research data and an estimate of the scale of the locust plague.

There is no other meaning. For these families, it doesn't matter what other families do. We will do the same thing as them. Even if our family's research capability is zero, we can follow suit and copy this family or that family, and finally synthesize one of our own.

Little did he know that this operation not only saved his life, but also saved countless lives.

There are many Han families hanging around in Africa, such as the Zhang, Cui, Xie, Xiao, Han Baishen, etc. For these families, even if they do not covet the African territory and just want to take root in Central Asia, when they see other families going to Africa to cause trouble, they will follow suit.

As for the third round, which is the last round of summer, due to further food problems and the survival of the fittest, the surviving locusts will be the fighters among locusts. Their average size and quality will basically be the largest in the same year, and their toxicity will also be the strongest. However, the multiplier will be reduced again, and it is estimated to be only about 200 billion. Of course, this is actually a conservative estimate.

Chen Zhe, a member of the Chen family who is conducting research in Africa, is excitedly collecting locusts. The local locusts look really good, and it would be a great pleasure to use them to raise geese locally. It's a no-cost business, but it's really fun, and fried locusts are really delicious.

However, among so many families, many of which are close to East Africa, none of them realized that a locust plague was about to come. They all just thought that the locusts this year were so big and so numerous.

No matter what the technology is, we will follow you anyway. It doesn’t matter whether you have the technology or not. What’s important is to follow you. There is not much cost anyway. As long as we can follow you, even if we can’t get to the forefront, at least we won’t be eliminated.

This data is Chen Xi's inference, but the Gan and Shi families have the current estimated number of locusts in eastern Africa. The problem is that this estimated number is already close to the tens of millions of locust outbreaks.

As the data before the outbreak, the first round of outbreak was almost multiplied by 40 times, which means that there were at least tens of billions in the first round. In the second round, due to food problems and the survival of the fittest, the surviving locusts had stronger combat effectiveness, larger bodies, and more abnormal flying abilities, but the outbreak data may be only twenty times that of the first round, which is upwards of billion.

"There should be a locust plague, but it's not a big problem. It's south of the Kush Kingdom and has little to do with us. At most we will be affected." said the climate research specialist sent by the Senate.

The research specialist was silent for a while, and finally did not speak. He actually wanted to suggest to Laclilek not to worry about it, let the locust plague attack the Kush Kingdom and directly blow up the Kush Kingdom, and then the Roman army would descend from the sky and absorb the Kush Kingdom smoothly. In this way, the Red Sea port would be completely under the management of Rome, which was completely different from the previous situation of being separated by one layer.

"Is a locust plague about to happen?" Lakilek, commander of the Thirty Eagle Flag Legion, frowned as he looked at the researchers sent by the Senate and the report they wrote on straw paper.

The Wu family was puzzled by the number of migratory locusts, but did not realize that a locust plague was imminent.

It’s not like locust plagues of trillions of scale have never occurred in human history!
To be honest, when the scale reaches trillions, the combat effectiveness of a single locust is basically meaningless. They just do their job and can even chew on wood.

According to Chen Xi's estimation, if there are 200 billion locusts, the Han Dynasty will at most be destroyed in Central Asia and the Pamirs, with minor disasters in the Ganges and New South Wales regions. If the scale of this last wave reaches one trillion, then Guanlong and Sichuan will also be affected.

However, if it really reaches one trillion, Rome will be the first to be destroyed. The grain-producing land in Upper Egypt will probably not even have grass, which will be even more terrible than the locust plague described in the original text of the Ten Plagues. The grain-producing land in the eastern provinces and the Mesopotamian Basin may also be barren. The Central Asian families may have to walk several miles to find some grass to eat. After that, the Indus-Ganges core area, an important grain-producing area of ​​the Kushan Empire, will at least reduce its production by half.

To be honest, after analyzing the situation, Chen Xi has faced the reality. The locust plague will definitely not be suppressed, and the three major empires will definitely be hit by the locust plague. However, they have the Himalayas to block them, so they will definitely be able to withstand the disaster even if they are hit. The only difference between Rome and Kushan is who will suffer more deaths.

Of course, according to estimates, it should be Rome. The climate of Kushan is there, with three harvests a year. No matter how outrageous the locust plague is, it can only eat up Kushan for one and a half seasons, which is better than the tragedy of Rome.

"What!" Yang Zhong grabbed Shi Min's collar and lifted him up. Although he looked like a gentle old man, Yang Zhong was really furious at this moment.

Shi Min was lifted up by Yang Zhong by the collar, but there was no anger on his face, he even looked a little sad. There was nothing he could do. If possible, he didn't want to do it. But the news was basically confirmed. When the head of the family Shi Tao informed his younger brother and asked him to inform the Central Asian family, Shi Min knew that he would definitely be punished.

Is it possible not to come? No, this is not only a task given by the head of the family, but also the responsibility of the Gan and Shi families for thousands of years - to study the calendar and astrology and prevent disasters and climate.

"It's over." Yang Zhong was only violent for a few seconds, and then his whole body went limp. He sat down on the ground with a plop. Everything went dark before his eyes. Their Yang family had finally built up the fiefdom and drove away the bandits around them. They were finally about to enter a positive cycle, and then you told me that a locust plague was coming.

"Fifty billion locusts? Fifty billion!" Yang Zhong shed tears. The noble families that had experienced the reign of Emperor Ling had at least seen a locust plague. Although they had never seen a situation where fifty billion locusts swarmed together, they had seen a situation where five hundred million swarmed together.

If 500 million locusts were to swarm together in one county, it wouldn't take long for them to eat up all the land. What does 50 billion mean? It means that a small team of 1% of its size would be enough to eat up the fiefdom that the Yang family had worked so hard to build.

"It's all over!" Yang Zhong burst into tears. They had been eating grass for so many years and had spent so much energy. They were about to succeed, but then a locust plague struck. Their Yang family had barely survived the most difficult period, and when they were about to harvest, they ran out of food.

Would the old Yang family dare to cut off the food supply of the people under their rule and only supply the people of the Han Dynasty? Cut off the food supply of the hundreds of thousands of local people who had been successfully naturalized and spontaneously supported the Yang family in the past few years, and only supply the people who followed from the country. Maybe they can survive this year, but then, all the previous efforts will be in vain!
What is being cut off is not the food supply, but the foundation of their Yang family!
Yang Zhong understood everything almost instantly. Their food and grass were not enough anyway. If they supplied everyone, no one would be able to eat enough. Even if the Yang family had the ability to implement a rationing system, they could not let everyone starve through the year. They could eat grass before, but now there was no grass. The fiefdom that they had worked so hard for for so many years was in vain!
"Sorry, I got too excited." After the black vision in front of Yang Zhong ended, he tried to calm down as much as possible. For an old man, this kind of shock was even enough to take his life. But after he calmed down, Yang Zhong still adjusted his mentality as much as possible, let go of Shi Min and said.

Catching Shi Min would not change anything. The other party had done their best to come and notify. After all, the locust plague came from Africa, and it was great that the Gan and Shi families paid attention to it. It was just that the grief in their hearts was really impossible to dispel. Yang Zhong could understand the efforts of the Gan and Shi families, but he couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart.

"The head of the family has persuaded Lord Chen to transport grain to Xinzhou, but we are not sure how much can be transported." Shi Min said with his head down. He was also very disappointed. Their family really tried their best, but some things could not be solved no matter how hard they tried.

"Thank you." Yang Zhong bowed and Shi Min quickly returned the greeting.

After that, Shi Min did not stay in the Yang family for long. After drinking a cup of tea, he rushed to the Cui family with the help of his internal energy. There was no other way. This matter was too big. Without the endorsement of the Gan family and the Shi family, it was inevitable that some families would hold on to their last hope in desperation, such as maybe I am lucky and the locust plague will not pass by our house. Instead of holding such ideas, it is better to directly eliminate such ideas and let them make final preparations early.

After Shi Min left, a heated discussion broke out within the Yang family. There was no other way. Just thinking about it, even if they were lucky, there would be hundreds of millions of locusts rushing over to fight against them. Everyone in the Yang family was numb. Then they thought that if they were unlucky, there might be tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of locusts passing through their family. As for why not just hundreds of billions passing through their family, sorry, the Yang family was too small. The coverage area of ​​the army of hundreds of billions of locusts was smaller than hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

"Send a letter to Huangfu Song and repay all the favors he owes to our Yang family! Damn Odin, stop it. Ask him to customize a talent with a wide attack range. The power does not need to be too great, it just needs to be able to kill locusts, and it must be usable for a long time." Yang Zhong said a little crazily.

"Too many." Yang Xun sighed and said, "Let's think of other ways. Legionary talents can only deal with millions or tens of millions of flying locusts. Hundreds of billions..."

A true locust plague would cover tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of square kilometers with locusts flying directly across. The power of an individual locust is totally insufficient to stop them. The only strategic weapons that the three empires can use to carry out an attack affecting hundreds of thousands of square kilometers are the strategic weapons. The question is, who dares to use them now?
This is also why even in the industrial age, when locusts really become a disaster, various means are difficult to truly curb the occurrence of locust plagues.

The use of groups of planes spraying pesticides and pheromones to induce locusts are all ridiculous for groups of locusts flying collectively and covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers.

"Everything on the ground will be eaten up. Let's plant some cabbage for a short time. At least we can have something to eat." Yang Yi rubbed his face and said with a bit of despair, "Don't count on other methods. Just lie down and let the locusts hammer you."

It would be fine if the number was smaller, but with so many, there is no way to deal with them anyway. It is better to be realistic and harvest everything that can be harvested within the fiefdom, and the rest can be regarded as a tribute to the locust master. Since we can't defeat them anyway, we might as well save some energy and lie down.

A group of people from the Yang family started a heated discussion on this issue. In the end, Yang Yi's plan had an absolute upper hand. There was no other way. They had never heard of a locust plague of this scale. Struggling seemed to have no meaning except wasting physical strength. Lying down could also reduce some energy consumption.

"Before the locust plague comes, let's find a way to transport food, as much as we can, and then issue disaster prevention orders to the people under our jurisdiction, and let all the people start to store up food and fodder by all means. Except for chickens, ducks, geese, and a few livestock for breeding, all the ranches under our jurisdiction will be killed and made into smoked meat." Yang Zhong said with some despair.

Everything in the fiefdom was finally on track, but then a locust plague came and it went back to the time when we first arrived here.

"Then during the locust plague, all researchers of the Yang family will stop all work at hand and study how to kill the locusts. We cannot solve this wave of locust plague, but we can wipe out this species!" Yang Zhong roared angrily.

The noble families in Central Asia all received news of the locust plague within just two days. Soon afterwards, veterans like Bi Laoliu who had fiefs in Central Asia also received the above notice.

However, compared with the major families, veterans like Bi Laoliu did not think of how to farm and store food to prevent locust plagues when they received the news, but instead thought of a simpler and more brutal way of running away.

Take the most core one or two thousand people who are willing to follow and run away directly. The others can disband on the spot and come back after the locust plague has passed. Anyway, Lao Liu has no mental burden and can afford the loss.

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