People are in the Tang Dynasty, creating a mythical dynasty

Three months have passed.

During these three months, Li Ming was completely immersed in hatching chickens and ducklings, and raising earthworms.

After three months, the small courtyard of Prince Wei's Mansion has turned into a chicken and duck yard.

A large number of chickens and ducklings filled it.

The number was as high as several hundred.

Among them, the number of chickens has exceeded 200, and the number of ducks has more than [-].

If it weren't for the expansion of the current Prince Wei's Mansion, which is no longer the former Prince Cao's Mansion, and Li Ming's unified management, making cages one by one, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to fill them up.

And in this way, for the servants of Prince Wei's Mansion, it will undoubtedly be painful and happy.

The pain lies in getting up early in the morning and having to feed these chickens and ducks.Chicken and duck manure must then be disposed of.

Especially the disposal of feces is simply killing them.

Happiness lies in the fact that they can get more rewards. At the same time, Li Ming promised to give ten chickens and ten ducks to each of their families in the future.

That alone was enough to get them excited.

Even this complicated work seems to be nothing.

This is not the prosperous Tang Dynasty of later generations. In the early Tang Dynasty when supplies were extremely scarce, the value of ten chickens and ten ducks was beyond doubt.

Not to mention more rewards than in the past.

But for Li Ming.

Three months have passed.

The results are undoubtedly remarkable, more than 500 chickens and more than 200 ducks are enough to serve as a start-up.

And the first batch of chickens and ducks have already started laying eggs.

Every day, he can already harvest dozens of eggs and more than [-] duck eggs. As time goes by, this amount will further increase.

It can be said that he has completely realized the freedom of eggs next, and even if he wants to, he will soon be able to become a supplier of eggs and duck eggs in Chang'an City.

It's just that he doesn't have that interest.

He didn't even eat these eggs and duck eggs, but chose to continue hatching.

As long as time continues to pass, the speed of his chickens and ducks will continue to increase geometrically.

The number will increase.

It may not be enough to provide the entire Datang chicken and duck for food, but it can provide the entire Chang'an. Li Ming believes that it will be enough to complete it in less than a year.

And just as he was thinking.

A servant girl hurried over.

"Your Highness, Shaofu, tell me, this is your maximum amount this month, and you can no longer withdraw it."

The servant girl spoke helplessly, gesturing with her right hand to the grain cart behind her.

But looking at those bags of food and listening to the other party's words, Li Ming immediately understood what was going on.

During this period of time, he has consumed a lot of food, even if he is King Wei, the Shaofu doesn't intend to continue to give him face.

"Your Highness, I'm afraid that these grains can only support these chickens and ducks for one month's rations. Adding the previous ones, it's only two months. What should I do?"

The servant girl in front of her spoke with some anxiety.

Chapter No.17 begins to deal with the locust plague

One and a half months.

This is undoubtedly not a long time. After all, it took almost two months from the incubation to the present.

But Li Ming is not in a hurry.

Because in another month, it will be the season for earthworms to breed. When the first batch of earthworms start to breed, it also means that the earthworms can be used.

Based on the scale of the large number of earthworm cultivation rooms he has built in the past three months, let alone the hundreds of chickens and ducks, even if it is doubled, it is enough.

Of course, his personal scale is limited, and Li Ming feels that it is difficult for the scale of his palace to exceed [-].

However, this is enough, his goal is not really to become a big farmer.

His goal is to make the people of the entire Tang Dynasty eat meat.

In this way, he is destined to be just a leading existence.

Three thousand is enough.

Even if it wasn't enough, he had sent someone to choose a place outside the city.

When the time comes to migrate there, it will be enough to expand the scale.

"Do not worry!"

"I have arrangements for the follow-up!"

"Continue to hatch!"

"In addition, according to this king's method, remodel the other two rooms and set them up as well!"

After speaking, Li Ming gave instructions to the servant in front of him.

"Yes!"

The slaves responded, and then quickly went down to get busy.

Now the entire King Wei's Mansion can be said to be in order.

More than two months.

Accompanied by Li Mingzhen's hatching of chickens, as well as the skyrocketing rewards, and the promise of each chicken and duck, it can be said that there is no servant of the palace that has the loyalty and enthusiasm of the Wei Palace.

And with this loyalty and positivity.

It is undoubtedly much more efficient to work.

"Here, here!"

"Yes, yes, it's here!"

"Remember, keep above 27 degrees here!"

"Remember to shade and feed. Earth dragons like to grow in dark and humid environments and are afraid of direct sunlight."

"By the way, these chicken manures must be decomposed before they can be used. Livestock and poultry manure that has not been fully decomposed will cause great harm to earthworms. If it is not done well, it will cause a large number of earthworms. There is death."

"As for decomposing, what I taught you before must be carried out according to my method!"

In the training room, Li Ming told these maids over and over again.

I'm afraid that these guys will accidentally make a mistake for him.

Especially earthworms, the current grain really can't support it.

Now that the drought has begun to appear, it is no accident that his cheap daddy has to start tightening up the food supply.

He wanted to get a lot of food to feed the chickens and ducks, basically he wanted to fart.

But the manor outside the city has not been found yet.

Earthworms will soon be needed on top.

If something went wrong before this, it would be a big joke.

Times are extremely tense these days.

He had to be careful.

As for Li Ming's repeated exhortations, all the servants listened carefully, not daring to neglect in the slightest.

And until the order is over.

Li Mingcai left here slowly.

Go towards the small courtyard.

After checking the situation of the chickens and ducks.

He has finally completed today's task.

But it's just a task.

After arranging these things, Li Ming started to prepare another thing.

For him today, or for Datang today, the most important thing is not to eat meat, but the plague of locusts.

The locust disaster is a worldwide catastrophe, and it has a long history. It is mentioned in the "Book of Songs" that "get rid of the locusts (that is, locusts) and their thieves, and they will not harm my Tianzhi. Tianzu has a god, and he is holding fire."

It is one of the four major disasters.

And if his memory is good,

In the first year of Zhenguan, shortly after Li Shimin ascended the throne, a plague of locusts occurred in Chang'an.At that time, Chang'an was an important place in Gyeonggi, and the locust plague not only occurred in the second year of Li Shimin's accession to the throne, but also in Chang'an, which made Li Shimin very embarrassed.Some people even discussed in private that Li Shimin was condemned by the "locust god" because of his improper position.In other words, this is not just a natural disaster, but also a court crisis.

Whether it was for the national strength of the Tang Dynasty or for the embarrassing situation of his cheap father, he had to solve it.

And this is the main reason why he chooses chicken and duck.

It is now November.

This year's winter is not too cold, and it is almost expected that next year's pests will increase exponentially.

And the drought began to spread throughout the territory of Datang.

The locust eggs may have spread throughout the surrounding fields.

If these eggs are not dealt with during the winter, once the temperature warms up in the next spring, the eggs will break out of the ground and form locusts, or even a plague of locusts.

The locust plague is no joke.

Don't look at the ridicule of countless people in the previous life, there is nothing that the big Chinese foodie can't solve.

But there is really no way to solve the locust plague.

Ordinary locusts are not poisonous, and the protein content of locusts is as high as 74%. Most types of locusts contain more than ten kinds of amino acids, and the ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids is even higher than that of most animal fats. The oil quality is higher than that of rapeseed oil and similar to that of peanut oil.

In a nutshell, locusts have complete nutritional components, rich protein content, reasonable amino acid composition, and low fat content. It is a natural health food with high protein, low fat, low energy and rich in minerals.

But this is an ordinary locust. When the locust becomes a plague of locusts, the nature changes completely.

Social locusts release a large amount of the volatile compound phenylacetonitrile, while scattered locusts hardly synthesize phenylacetonitrile, and social locusts immediately convert phenylacetonitrile into the highly toxic compound hydrocyanic acid when attacked.When locusts gather in great numbers [ ] swarm 9:8,0!2:0, not only animals but also people cannot eat.

In other words, if he wanted to get rid of the locusts, he had to do it before the spring blossoms in the coming year.

And this undoubtedly took a lot of time.

There is only less than three months left.

Three months is not a long time.

Or rather short.

It is basically impossible to solve the locust plague in the entire Tang Dynasty.

However, he never thought about solving the locust plague in Datang.

At least not this year.

After all, time is too short.

All he wants to do is solve the locust plague near Chang'an.

In this way, the loss of Datang's national strength can also be reduced.

And reducing losses does not mean increasing.

Follow-up, when the second year begins, this is the time to thoroughly deal with and even solve the locust plague.

This is his idea and his plan.

It is just how to proceed, which undoubtedly requires further consideration.

During this period of time, he can be said to have been thinking about this issue.

After a few days, he has gradually formed an idea, and what he needs now is to perfect this idea.