Chapter 215: Long drought brings locusts
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Dean Xu assigned tasks to other researchers and went to the alliance office.
Chief Alliance Officer Li had been waiting for him in the office. As soon as he entered the office, Chief Alliance Officer Li handed him a cup of tea.
"Try it. Qiu Man brought it back from his business trip. It tastes good."
"You know I don't drink this!"
"If you didn't drink before, you can drink later. Once you've finished, get down to business."
Seeing that Chief Alliance Officer Li looked serious, President Xu picked up the teacup, blew away the hot steam, and then took a sip.
After President Xu finished drinking, Chief Alliance Officer Li asked, "Not bad, right?"
Dean Xu really didn't understand this, but he nodded to show his respect, "Yeah, that's good!"
"Yeah, I think so too. Qiu Man still has a lot, go and ask him to give you some."
Dean Xu really wanted to say that he didn't want it, but he looked at Chief Alliance Officer Li's half-smile and opened his mouth again and again but couldn't say it.
Chief Alliance Officer Li saw that President Xu was still in a daze and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have already made arrangements with him."
Well, Dean Xu now completely understood that Chief Alliance Officer Li said so much just to get him to find Qiu Man, and the reason was to ask for tea.
Dean Xu nodded and went to Qiu Man's office.
As soon as he entered the room and hadn't spoken yet, Qiu Man smiled and asked Dean Xu to sit next to his desk. "I heard from the boss that you like to drink tea. I brought some for you when I went to Huai City this time."
Dean Xu didn't say anything. Qiu Man took out a paper box from the drawer and pushed it in front of him. "It's not much. Drink it first. Come back to me when you're done. I have more."
Dean Xu stared at the paper box in front of him, hesitated for a moment before taking it, and glanced at Qiu Man before opening it.
Qiu Man nodded, and Dean Xu opened the door a little.
This... this is not tea...
Dean Xu suddenly understood something, accepted it calmly and put it in his briefcase, then chatted with Qiu Man for a while before returning to the institute.
When they arrived at the research institute, Director Xu opened the box without being seen by others. Inside was a box of seeds and a few green grass leaves, with a note at the bottom of the box.
Dean Xu took out the note and read it carefully. Then he couldn't hide his shock. He quickly took out his lighter and burned the note.
Afterwards, Dean Xu took the box into the laboratory and did not come out for three days and three nights.
After President Xu left, Chief Alliance Officer Li asked his secretary to notify everyone to start a meeting. When he arrived at the meeting room, he found the big guys whispering there.
Chief Alliance Officer Li thought everyone was discussing the latest developments of the HZ virus, but when he got closer, he heard everyone asking, "How was the coffee this morning?"
Chief Alliance Officer Li was sweating profusely on his forehead. Do you guys usually get fed or drunk at a disadvantage?
"Boss, we were out investigating this morning. Can you let us taste your high-quality coffee beans?" After a certain boss knew that Li Heng and his men were able to save their lives, he was in the mood to joke with Chief Alliance Officer Li.
"That's right, we can't have them all and not us, right?"
"Yes, yes, I want some too. The main reason is that the drink they are drinking is made by the chief alliance officer himself, and we haven't had it yet!"
Chief Alliance Officer Li sat down and found that everyone was in a good mood today. It might be the good news from the research institute that relieved a lot of pressure on everyone.
"Let's have a meeting first. Maybe you won't be in the mood to drink coffee after the meeting!" Chief Alliance Officer Li directly stated the topic of today, which was bad news!
"No way, boss, is something big happening again?" The big guys put away their playful expressions, sat up straight and got into work mode.
Chief Alliance Officer Li whispered a few words to the secretary, and the secretary left the meeting room.
"Qiu Man went out for an investigation and found some not-so-good things." After General Alliance Officer Li finished speaking, he asked Qiu Man to tell everyone about the locusts.
Qiu Man not only told everyone about the locusts he saw in Shen's field, but also told everyone the information he found after returning.
“Although there has been no locust plague in Qinghua country yet, there are more and more locusts in the fields. If we allow them to continue to develop, it may affect the summer grain production.
Moreover, a long drought will inevitably bring about locusts. During a locust plague, locusts can fly tens of thousands of miles. Once a locust plague occurs in other countries, our Qinghua country will not be able to stay out of it. "
Qiu Man did bring bad news to everyone, and after hearing it, the bosses were indeed in no mood to drink coffee anymore.
During this period of time, they have been paying attention to the HZ virus and people, but they have forgotten that the things in the fields are the foundation of their livelihood.
The bosses all shook their heads and sighed, and they once again felt helpless.
They are all quite old to have reached this position, and most of them still remember the locust plague in Qinghua Country thirty years ago, when there was no green anywhere.
"We have no way to deal with the locust plague, and now we don't even know the real situation in other countries!" A certain big shot directly put forward the key issue.
"Yes. First, we don't know whether locust plagues have occurred in other countries. Second, we don't know the direction and speed of locust movement in countries where locust plagues have occurred."
"If our reporters were still outside, they could report back the true situation, but now..."
“Should we send our foreign correspondents out again after the epidemic is over?”
Chief Alliance Officer Li shook his head and said, "If we send them out, they may never come back, which goes against our original intention of bringing them back.
As for the situation abroad, let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiate with other countries, or directly develop a few local residents abroad to pass on information to us on a regular basis."
"A spy?"
Chief Alliance Officer Li asked with a smile, "Have you ever seen an ordinary person who has not been trained as a spy? It's just to let the other party inform us about the weather conditions and people's livelihood abroad. We don't ask about their internal affairs."
"Okay, I'll go ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs later."
Chief Alliance Officer Li nodded, then turned to ask a certain big shot: "How does the agricultural department generally deal with locust plagues?"
The boss sighed, "Spraying pesticides, catching insects, and using natural enemies are basically the three methods, and they only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. If you want to cure it completely, you have to start with the environment."
"Tell me about it in detail?"
Not only Chief Alliance Officer Li, but other big guys also set their sights on this big guy.
The boss thought to himself, locust plague is not so easy to cure. If it were that easy, why are there so many countries in the world that are powerless in the face of locust plague.
But he still said: "To prevent locust plagues fundamentally, we have to increase vegetation coverage. Without bare land, locusts cannot reproduce, but now we can't sharpen our knives before the battle.
If a locust plague really occurs, we can use airplanes to spray pesticides. This method has a high insect killing rate and a wide range, but it is costly.
Another method is to let the public kill the locusts directly outside, or to release chickens, ducks, frogs and other animals to areas where locusts are rampant, so that they can prey on them directly.”
The boss sighed, "These are the only solutions, but they are not that effective."
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