Wu Jun and his wife were crying bitterly. When they heard the sound getting farther and farther away, they looked up and saw that the locusts had eaten up all their crops and continued to fly north.
Yongkang Prefecture City.
The prefect of Yongkang stood on the city wall, looking at the locusts crawling all over the wall. He clenched his fists tightly and smashed them hard on the wall.
"Send an urgent message eight hundred miles to the imperial court. Yongkang... Yongkang couldn't hold back the locust swarm and has already fallen."
"Yes, sir!"
The prefect of Yongkang looked at the swarm of locusts sweeping over and truly felt how insignificant humans are in the face of nature. The feelings of powerlessness and fear intertwined together made him extremely depressed.
But there is one thing he is very clear about.
Yongkang is about to be in chaos.
He never dreamed that the rice would be ripe and ready for harvest.
Ordinary people who had relied on wild vegetables to survive since childhood fell into even greater despair when the harvest season came.
Even the last bit of hope was strangled by these hateful insects.
But it is better to live a miserable life than to die, and no one wants to stay in the grave and wait to die.
If you want to get food, you have to rely on abnormal means. If you do this, countless people will lose their lives in vain in this disaster.
The prefect of Yongkang knew that the locust plague was inevitable, and the next thing to do was to find ways to reduce the losses.
Just as the Yongkang prefect was thinking this, an official standing beside him said tremblingly: "Sir, in Yongkang..."
"Say oh, I forgive you."
"No harvest in Yongkang!"
Even though I had guessed the ending long ago, it was still hard to accept when I heard it with my own ears.
The official clearly saw the prefect stagger for a moment, then returned to normal in an instant.
"grown ups!"
"I'm fine, you said, I can still hold on."
"Sir, Xieyang Village was attacked a quarter of an hour ago. The villagers reacted quickly, but even so... the casualties reached over twenty, and not a single leaf of rice was left."
When the Yongkang prefect heard these cold numbers, he knew that they were human lives and food rations for the people.
It's over. It's all over now.
But this situation is just the beginning.
Judging from the direction the locust army was flying, they were moving quickly towards Qingshan Prefecture.
That is to say, within a few days, Qingshan Prefecture will be like Yongkang, watching helplessly as all its labors are destroyed.
The key is that the temperature is very high every day now, and the eggs and worms in the ground will hatch in less than a day.
The newly hatched locusts will become the new main force. If such a large army of locusts finish eating all the green plants, they are likely to attack humans.
Since Yongkang can no longer be defended, what would happen if Qingshan Prefecture also suffered?
"hiss……"
The entire Great Zhou might cease to exist. Even if some places survived, the affected areas would be countless kilometers away and would never recover.
The most important thing is that this locust plague will cause a sharp decline in Yongkang’s population.
Without people, no matter how much land there is, no one will cultivate it. Without food, no one will eat it. For a long time, Yongkang will be in a severe depression.
The Yongkang prefect didn't dare to think any further and quickly ordered: "Hurry and send the letter to the Qingshan prefect, and ask him to find a way to reduce the losses."
"yes!"
After his trusted aides received the order, the Yongkang prefect shouted angrily to the officials standing behind him, "Quickly mobilize the troops and stop these beasts as much as possible at the border between Yongkang and Qingshan. Quick!"
"yes!"
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