Chapter 6530 Give it a go

Chapter 6530 Give it a go
"What is this?" After all, Pompeianus was not a serious expert in astronomy and climatology. Although he had extraordinary abilities, it was difficult for him to understand at a glance what Gan Jing showed him. The most he could feel the amazing scientific nature of this thing.

"World ocean current climate distribution and circulation map." Gan Jing looked at the image displayed in his hand with an extremely complicated expression. This thing answered the problem that their Gan family and Shi family had not been able to solve for more than a thousand years, but this thing had a huge impact on the Gan family and the Shi family.

"World ocean current climate distribution and circulation map." Herodian stared at the rotating earth image and the circulation map with arrows on it. Many things that he had no way to explain before naturally formed his own understanding in Herodian's mind.

There were many mathematicians and astronomers in the Roman Senate. After all, no matter which empire it was, knowledge circulated among the nobles in those days, and the senators of the Roman Senate, as long as they did not just live a life of idleness and waiting for death, basically had a skill.

In addition, most people who study mathematics these days will also study astronomy. After all, mathematics is a tool needed by all subjects and is the jewel in the crown of science. In short, when mathematics experts have nothing to do, they will learn something else for fun.

"How many years did it take you to come up with this thing?" Herodian looked at Gan Jing thoughtfully. Only those who understand climatology and astronomy can understand how outrageous this thing is. How many people would have needed hundreds of years of continuous research to come up with it?
"It seems like thousands of years. Let's not talk about it. We don't actually want to take it out, but we can't convince you if we don't take it out." Gan Jing said helplessly. He has seen a large number of Roman senators using various technologies to continuously record the thing in his hand, but he can't just stop like this. His heart is bleeding!

"Could you explain to us the impact of the last wave of Seraphim Rings attacking that area on the world's climate and ocean currents, so that we can intuitively understand why there was this locust plague?" At this time, Ulpian also sat upright and looked at Gan Jing. Papinian was not there, so he temporarily took over as the Chief Justice.

"It needs to be demonstrated." Gan Jing sighed, and then began to demonstrate on the ocean current and climate cycle map of this world. If it was somewhere else, Chen Xi would not be able to explain it clearly to the Gan and Shi families, but Chen Xi really understood the climate problems caused by the Blazing Sky Ring blowing up South America.

After all, there is a special analysis chart for the circulation of ocean currents and trade winds caused by the El Niño phenomenon, and this analysis chart is actually quite intuitive.

Although it is these strange ocean currents and trade winds, plus the temperature problems caused by underwater volcanic eruptions, that lead to the El Niño phenomenon, the Roman Seraphic Rings are basically putting the cart before the horse, forcibly creating this phenomenon, and the rest can be directly attributed to the atmosphere and ocean currents.

"If we bomb East Africa, can we simulate it on this map and constantly adjust the power and the core area of ​​attack?" Sergio struggled as hard as he could. Without the Blazing Ring, Rome really could not stop this full-fledged locust plague. After this wave, even if Rome controlled it well, I'm afraid that nearly ten million people would die.

"Sorry, it's really not possible. We have already calculated it." Gan Jing said bitterly. If it were possible, the Han Dynasty would definitely pull the Kushans together to bomb East Africa.

"So last year, our Han Dynasty first experienced drought and then snow disaster, the Kushan Empire experienced large-scale rainfall, and the Roman Empire had a sudden increase in rain after the dry season. These were all caused by the influence of the Seraphic Ring. The locust plague would not have been so exaggerated. The ocean current circulation brought drought to East Africa when the locusts needed drought the most, and brought rain when they needed rain the most." Gan Jing had a helpless expression on his face.

"What are the current test results of the closed locusts in the small world?" Pompeianus looked at Gan Jing with the last bit of struggle. After all, the Han Dynasty was a large empire, and it should have been tested by now. All conventional means that could be used had been tested, so he just asked directly what needed to be asked.

There is a joke that says, from the perspective of quantum mechanics, if you keep banging on the table, tunneling will occur approximately once in 10^103 times, and your hand will pass directly through the table.

Zhang Chunhua initially relied on continuous trial and error with countless insects, and finally managed to find a way out of the closed little world.

After all, even if you have great martial virtues and the ability to rob, you still need something to rob.

In short, if the scale is large, it will happen even if the probability is low.

So Chen Xi actually considered using the Blazing Ring to blow up East Africa, but in the end no matter how he calculated it, it was either not powerful enough to be meaningless for a full-blown locust plague, or it was powerful enough, and with the double effect, it would go straight from a mini-ice age to an ice age.

It seems that among the three empires, the Han Dynasty suffered the least losses, but the Central Asian region of the Han Dynasty was basically destroyed. The Han Dynasty had at least tens of millions of people in Central Asia, including the naturalized population. After this wave of super locust plague, even if the major families tried their best, I am afraid that civil strife would inevitably occur in the end due to food problems, and at least millions of people would be lost.

Pompeianus looked unhappy, but as a smart man, he knew that there was nothing wrong with Gan Jing's explanation. The locust plague in East Africa should not have been so exaggerated, but the climate aftermath of the Blazing Sky Ring caused it to become extremely exaggerated now.

In other words, even if you are trapped in a small world, as long as you keep adjusting the direction you go and try hundreds of millions of times, you will definitely be able to find a way out. However, normal people and normal armies cannot try so many times because they do not have so much time.

This is something that is completely impossible for humans to do, but for the universe, it is something that happens every minute and every second.

After all, the previous round of ice age had already led to a year without summer due to the aftermath of the Seraphic Ring. If another wave comes, the dust and haze accumulated in the atmosphere will be enough to push the Earth directly into an ice age. Although the ice age may only last about ten years, more than 80% of the world's population will die in ten years of food shortage.

It’s not very intuitive, but because there are marked arrows, many things can be understood at a glance by the real elites on the Roman side.

"We can't contain it, we can only delay it. And when the number of locusts exceeds 100 million, the delaying effect will be greatly reduced." Gan Jing said with a sigh.

Under the premise that a person is about to starve to death, Chen Xi has always believed that whatever he does is right, and that morality and legal principles are all nonsense when faced with the premise of starving to death.

This is because Chen Xi trusts the capabilities of the three countries in the Persian Gulf. Otherwise, the data would at least double. Moreover, due to the large-scale famine caused by the locust plague, a large-scale war is bound to break out in Central Asia. When people are really starving to death, Chen Xi would never say such words as "Rather than being content to starve to death, follow the example of the mantis."

"Is that so?" Sergio collapsed into his seat, exhausted.

My neighbor hoards food and I hoard guns. The premise that my neighbor is my granary is that the neighbor has food and fodder. If the neighbor himself does not have food and fodder, then you can't rob it even if you want to.

But locusts are different. There are hundreds of millions of locusts. Even if the world wall of Menger sponge model is unfolded, it will take tens of billions of trial and error to find the point to pass through the world wall. For a locust army of this size, it will only take a while.

The world boundary of the Menger sponge model at least follows this logic, that is, as long as the number of trial and error is sufficient, the locust can find the reserved random door.

As long as one locust rushes out from this door, under the influence of pheromones, most of the locusts will follow suit. The remaining locusts that cannot rush out are not because they have not found the way, but because they are lost members when the locust army passes through.

"Just try it out with quantity." Pompianus fell silent.

"So now we can't seal it off, we can't stop it, and we can't blow it up. What should we do in Rome?" Sergio looked at Gan Jing with deep despair and said.

This is why Chen Xi had to inform Roma in advance. Once Roma realizes that he has absolutely no control over the situation and has completely lost confidence, he might really go crazy.

At worst, they would perish together, kill the locust plague, and drag the other two empires down with them. If they were to die, they would die together. There would be no point in the world without the Roman Empire! This kind of madness was absolutely unacceptable in Chen Xi's opinion. After all, Rome really had the ability to finish everyone off together. Even though the Blazing Sky Ring did not have the help of the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Empire, Rome could not use its maximum power. But if Rome really wanted to drag the Kushan Empire and the Han Dynasty to die together, even if it could not kill the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Empire on the spot, it would probably be enough to make the two families half dead afterwards.

"Things haven't gotten this bad yet." Gan Jing had clearly realized why Chen Xi sent people to Rome to inform the other party in advance. In addition to the threat of the Blazing Sky Ring, he was more afraid that the Romans would lose their mentality and directly drag everyone on the road together.

"Although we can't solve the locust plague, we can at least reduce its power." Gan Jing sighed in his heart. He had to stabilize Rome at all costs. If Rome went crazy, everyone would be doomed. "And there are other ways to solve the food problem."

The plan proposed by Chen Xi was extremely outrageous, but under the pressure of death, Rome could achieve it.

The development of locusts does require food consideration, especially when they have not yet developed into adults and can only eat native East African plants. Every green plant is very important to locusts.

This is why if there is rain between the first wave of locusts and the second wave of locusts to allow plants to develop, the number of locusts will increase significantly. Although the average combat effectiveness will decrease, it does not matter, as quantity is the basis of the locusts' combat effectiveness.

The price of increasing individual strength by 30% is that the number of locusts may be reduced by 70%. After all, when locusts have nothing to eat, they will eat their own kind.

"Maintaining high temperatures will greatly increase the difficulty of the locusts becoming adults, right?" Sergio understood instantly. Since the problem cannot be solved, then reducing the difficulty of the problem is acceptable. The locust plague cannot be solved, but reducing the scale of the plague and reducing the losses is also a solution.

"Yes, but the area where the locust plague occurred is relatively large, and it is close to the sea. The sea breeze will carry humid air, so it is impossible to completely solve the problem of vegetation growth." Gan Jing added.

"If East Africa remains cloudless starting from today, how much can the locust plague be reduced?" Sergio looked at Gan Jing and asked.

"It should be able to reduce 50% to 70%." Gan Jing informed Sergio of the calculated data. However, even if it is reduced by 50% to 70%, it will probably still be a scale of hundreds of billions in the end. There is no way. According to the observations of Gan's researchers, the scale of the first round has exceeded billion. The problem is that this is only a rough statistical scale in one direction.

"Herodian, you will lead the team and take charge. From today on, not a single drop of rain can fall in East Africa." Sergio directly took out the momentum of the Claudius family's acting patriarch and ordered Herodian, "The resources of the empire, whatever you need, open them all. If there is nothing in the national treasury, go to the private treasury of your family. Remember, not a single drop of rain can be seen in East Africa until the locust plague ends this year."

"The amount of energy required..." Herodian said half a sentence, and then said nothing more. It didn't matter. At this time, who would care about the energy investment?

"Your Highness Nigel, the Atlantic Fleet has entered the Mediterranean and is to catch as many fish as possible. All fishery workshops are recruiting people to make dried fish. If non-citizens have food purchasing needs this year, only dried fish will be supplied." Sergio looked at Nigel and said.

"That's not a problem." Nigel nodded. As the commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet, although he didn't like fishing very much, at this moment, it didn't matter whether he liked it or not.

"Order the eastern provinces to seize all the food and fodder." Sergio looked at Imaisaus, the representative sent by the eastern provinces and gave the order.

"Yes." Imaisaus bowed respectfully.

"Then, the Mediterranean Utopia will be fully opened to build a core network to protect the grain-producing areas in northern Italy." Sergio looked at Pompianus and said, this must be approved by Pompianus, because the Mediterranean Utopia will burn a huge amount of resources every day. Even if Claudius is willing to pay, it must be approved by the state.

The effect of the Mediterranean Utopia is very strong, and it can even modify the rules of the coverage range to a certain extent, strengthening or weakening the essence of heaven and earth. But no matter how powerful it is, it still has to abide by a basic law. If hundreds of billions of locusts really rush over, the thickness of the clouds and how many rounds the Mediterranean Utopia can last are still a problem. So, most places have to be abandoned and the grain-producing land has to be protected.

"No problem. Don't you want to protect those places in North Africa?" Pompianus asked Sergio. He was still struggling, but Sergio had given up.

"Let's give up North Africa and Egypt, as well as the southeastern provinces and the lower reaches of the two rivers. No matter how powerful the Mediterranean Utopia is, it does not have the ability to confront the clouds formed by hundreds of billions of the same species head-on." Sergio said tiredly.

Because of their route, the locust plague in East Africa rarely goes to the northern Mediterranean. But even if there are relatively few, if there are really hundreds of billions of them in the end, it will not be a problem for a detachment to rush over with billions of them. So, to be realistic, we should directly abandon places where the main locusts pass through, such as North Africa, Egypt, the southeastern provinces, and the lower reaches of the Mesopotamian River, and concentrate the power of the Mediterranean utopia in the northeastern provinces, northern Italy, Spain, and Frankia.

Although these places are not Rome’s core grain-producing areas, they are protected by the Mediterranean utopia and are likely to be preserved.

As for Rome's real grain-producing area, Upper Egypt with the Nile River, just wait for death. Even if Sergio drives the Mediterranean Utopia there and gathers the core forces there, it will be useless. The clouds formed by a wave of hundreds of billions of locusts are probably equivalent to the size of the clouds formed naturally by the accumulation of one or two hundred million humans.

Honestly speaking, this level of technology doesn't require much technical skills. When Sergio organized Claudius' elites to build an utopia around the Mediterranean, he hadn't considered how to deal with the situation when faced with a cloud of 100 or 200 million people. But now this situation has occurred in reality, what a damn reality!
"At least we have saved Sicily and those small grain-producing areas in the north." Seeing Pompianus' despair, Annaus comforted him.

"The food gap is too big." Pompianus sat in his seat and said with a somewhat desperate tone, "After the locust plague, the food we have on hand will not last until the next round of harvest."

These days, the entire growth cycle of a round of crops in Rome is about 180 days, or half a year. After the locusts have eaten this round of crops, even if Rome replants on the spot, it will take half a year to harvest. And with the current round of grain not being harvested, Rome’s food reserves simply cannot last for six months. Let alone six months, it would be a great success if they could last another three months.

After all, being able to hold out for another three months meant that each Roman had to have enough seed grain for two sowings and enough food in stock to last for nine months.

What level of food reserves is this? Let’s put it this way, Chen Xi spent so many years and only achieved this after the first five-year plan. After all, this is per capita data.

The Roman Empire could never do this, but because of the Mediterranean Sea, it could rely on fish catches to sustain itself, use grain as seasoning, and supplement certain nutrients, mainly by eating fish.

"We in the Han Dynasty have a kind of rice with a full growth cycle of 102 days. If it is bred in advance, the growth cycle will be days." Gan Jing sighed, and when he came, Chen Xi had the rice in small bags thrown on the table.

This is the ultimate cookie, with an acceptable yield and a very short growth cycle.

You should know that it takes normal rice three months from seed germination to seedling growth, but this thing only takes 102 days from seed to harvest.

Of course, there is no need to talk about the taste. This thing has been used to save lives during years of famine since the day it was created.

　It's the beginning of the month, please vote a little. Sigh, the author is really miserable.
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