I learned skills in a different world

The system immediately deducted the energy value and said: "The south was first drought and then flooded. Some areas have been invaded by locusts, and there is no harvest. A bigger locust plague is brewing. Wait until the locusts finish eating everything in the south. It will take off and move north, and there will be a large number of refugees.】

Shen Fang suddenly felt excited and asked anxiously: "How long will it take for the locust plague to reach Yuchengguan?"

["There's about half a month left."]

Shen Fangshi frowned. The best time to harvest wheat is at the end of its wax-ripening stage, when the wheat yield is highest. Harvesting too early or too late will lead to lower yields. Millet is generally harvested before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and millet is harvested from September to October. They are still in the fruiting period, so it is impossible to harvest now.

Seeing Shen Fangshi's face looking a little bad, Lin Xiaotao asked worriedly: "What's wrong with Brother Xiaogu? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Shen Fangshi came back to his senses and saw everyone else looking at him with concern, and said softly: "Oh, it's okay, it's almost time today, let's go back first."

Now he is not in the mood to admire the wheat fields or teach his apprentices anymore. What matters now is to go back quickly and think of a good strategy to save the food in Yucheng Pass.

You must know that locusts have a wide range of food. When locusts are raging, sweet potatoes are fine growing in the ground, but the stems and leaves on the ground may suffer. But other crops, not only wheat and millet will disappear, but also the grassland will be barren. Cause devastating disasters to farmers and pastures.

"System, I wonder if we can contain the locust plague in advance before it becomes serious?" We must know that once the locust plague breaks out, the consequences of losses will be immeasurable.

There are many ways to prevent locusts in advance, such as building water conservancy projects, reclaiming land for planting, changing the locust habitat, using medicines or using natural enemies, and raising chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry for control.

Then he thought about the low chance of success. Not to mention that it was too far away from the capital or the south. When the news was passed, it was estimated that the locusts had already become a plague and the day lilies were cold. Even if the time could come, the court officials would have to believe it.

It seems that the only way to protect Yuchengguan is to do a good job.

But regardless of whether it was useful or not, Shen Fangshi decided to ask Chu Kui to find a way to spread the news of the locust plague to the capital and the south. Whether they believed it or not, and whether they chose to solve it, had nothing to do with Shen Fangshi. He had done what he could, more There was nothing he could do.

As soon as he returned to his residence, Shen Fangshi wrote a letter and asked a trusted soldier to send it to Wei Xie. In the letter, he did not mention how he learned about the locust plague, and only asked Chu Kui to spread the news.

Because many things cannot be explained at all, it may be said that he discovered signs of the locust plague from the surroundings, but there was nothing unusual about Yuchengguan, and on the contrary, it was still prosperous.

It is said that he learned the news about the locust plague in the south in advance. The locust plague had not spread. Chu Kui and the others had not received the news yet. How could he, a small craftsman, be so well-informed.

Shen Fangshi simply refused to explain. He somehow felt that Chu Kui would believe him.

After explaining the matter of delivering the letter, Shen Fangshi began to draw the drawings of the harvester. With his current level of tool manufacturing, he could already design and manufacture some simple tools by himself.

It’s not yet time to harvest wheat in the farmland, so we can only start from other aspects, such as shortening the harvest time. The harvester painted by Shen Fangshi is like this, which can harvest the wheat quickly.

As for the millet that is far from mature, Shen Fangshi can only use chemical control and biological control to stop the locusts outside the Yucheng Pass in advance.

Shen Fangshi knew several drugs to kill locusts, and he could make them into sprays or powders.

However, the use of pesticides will also bring many problems. After all, they are pesticides and inevitably contain harmful ingredients, so they can easily cause damage to the environment and cause land pollution. They are not suitable for large-scale use.

At the same time, Shen Fangshi is also planning to buy tens of thousands of pink starlings that feed on locusts from the system mall. Adults of this kind of bird can capture 3,400 locusts per day, and one bird can capture between 120 and 120 locusts per day. About one hundred and eighty locusts. They can reduce the number of locusts to a very small level in a very short time, preventing locust plagues from causing losses to crops.

Originally, Shen Fangshi was planning to find some poultry from the real world, but most people in Yuchengguan raised cattle and sheep, and not many people raised poultry. Only a few people raised chickens and ducks. Shen Fangshi was worried that he would not be able to buy them from the south, so he had to transport tens of thousands of poultry from the south. It is very difficult to have only poultry, and if there are fewer poultry in the south, the locusts will be more serious, wouldn't it be a sin for him.

It is better to buy some birds from the system, wait until they have eaten the locusts, and then release them. Others will just think of them as a group of wild birds and won't care. At that time, birds can also be attracted to build nests, attracting flocks of birds to stay, and it can also help the people of Yuchengguan to eliminate locusts if another locust plague occurs in the future.

"System, can I put these birds in the south where there are locusts?" Maybe the locusts won't reach Yuchengguan and will be eaten clean.

"Host, you can't do that."

"Why?"

"The purchased items will appear next to the host, and half a month is not enough time for pink starlings to migrate south."

"Okay." Shen Fangshi was silent.

Shen Fangshi opened the system mall and found the pink starling. This bird costs fifty energy points.

After Shen Fangshi handed over the drawings of the harvester to the craftsmen in the migrant workshop, he walked to the nearby mountains and forests alone and clicked to buy 200,000 harvesters, spending a total of 10 million energy points.

In an instant, overwhelming flocks of pink starlings appeared.

Shen Fangshi stretched out his hand, and a pink starling landed on his hand. He took a closer look and found that the bird's belly and back were pink, while the legs were light orange, and its head was very bright. Bright black, looks very pretty and cute.

Shen Fangshi gave them instructions to guard the outside of Yucheng Pass and try not to let locusts enter the pass.

The bird in Shen Fangshi's hand seemed to understand, shook his head, called out, and then flew into the flock of birds. After a while, the pink starlings flew away from the forest in groups.

Shen Fangshi did not leave immediately. After waiting for a while, he suddenly said: "Come out."

Sure enough, the bushes not far away moved. Mo Yuting emerged from it and spoke cautiously: "Lin, Mr. Lin, I didn't see anything..."

Shen Fangshi was a little helpless. Normally no one would come to such a remote mountain forest. It was such a coincidence that he could have sensed movement through plants, but there were too many pink starlings just now, which interfered with his perception.

Mo Yuting stared blankly at Shen Fangshi, only to see him standing against the light. In Mo Yuting's eyes, every corner of Shen Fangshi's clothes was sacred and inviolable, but the beauty of this noble god was so breathtaking that he forgot everything. .