Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 87 Pesticides
I don't know what medicine Li Er sells in the gourd, but Zhang Yi clearly remembers that Li Er finally ended the locust plague that swept the world by issuing an edict of guilt and eating locusts raw.

When you come, you ride your horse like flying, but when you go, you are silent.

Sun Simiao leaned against the carriage with a sluggish face and widened his old eyes, which seemed even deeper in the blurred night.Zhang Yi kept thinking about the possibility of carpet-style chickens and ducks, and finally felt that Li Er might be able to gather some chickens and ducks, but he could only guarantee some important grain production areas. powerless.

Both of them were silent, and during the silence, the shaft of the carriage hit the ground and made a 'bang! ' The sound is also particularly obvious, and even the spring breeze from the car windows on the road becomes more piercing.

"How sure is the county magistrate, Your Majesty?" Sun Simiao suddenly broke the silence.

After being able to ask this sentence, Zhang Yi felt that this old man who usually looks stupid is not as stupid as he imagined. He can continue to think about things after receiving a confident and affirmative answer from an emperor. A reasonable person is definitely not a character who can be fooled casually.

Even if he was dizzy from being fooled by himself in the past, now it seems that maybe it's just that he didn't point it out.

Zhang Yi sighed, and asked back: "Then how sure is the Taoist priest, Your Majesty?"

Looking at Sun Simiao, who was also looking lonely but unable to speak, Zhang Yi had no choice but to say: "Tens of thousands or even 10,000+ chickens and ducks, I believe it is not difficult for Your Majesty. But how much land is there in the Guanzhong area? I’m afraid you’ve already figured it out in your long journeys? Since we can’t guarantee that all the land will be free from locust plagues, this junior thinks that His Majesty is likely to try to protect the places with the highest grain production.”

"What about other places?" Sun Simiao blurted out.

Maybe he also found it ridiculous after he finished speaking, isn't the answer obvious?Naturally, other places are not the places to protect this locust plague. They should, may, maybe. Will be selectively forgotten by Li Er and even the princes in the court.

This was a very cruel answer, at least Sun Simiao couldn't accept it. After continuing to be silent for a long time, he asked Zhang Yi: "Are you just watching other places being ruined by locusts?"

Being able to say the word waste, Zhang Yi immediately respected Sun Simiao.It is said that the ancients compared locusts to gods, or they were the messengers of the gods in the world. Being able to speak like this at least proved that Sun Simiao did not have any affection for locusts, or even loathed them.From this point of view, as a Taoist, it is not possible for ordinary people to completely deny the locust.

Zhang Yi twitched, and asked: "Then what should we do from the perspective of the Taoist chief? Let alone the two of us, even His Majesty can only abandon the army to protect the commander. Without pesticides, even if we want to break our heads, we can't do it." Maybe save the people from the fire and water? According to me, what we have to do now is to return to Zhuangzi as soon as possible, collect more chickens and ducks as soon as possible, and save our medicine field first, and God knows what it will be like after the catastrophe!"

A major disaster is followed by a major epidemic, which is a common practice.

The so-called group of people who are least resistant to disasters often encounters natural or man-made disasters, saying that their wives and children are scattered and their families are destroyed. How many people, the so-called tragedy of changing children and eating happens almost every day.

But then what?
There are piles of dead people, dead bones, and even many villages have become deserted.The living left, the dead were not buried, and the corpses smelled and rotted. Then the water source was polluted, and then there was a more tragic infection.

It is hard to imagine the scene after the locust plague. When facing the coming disaster, Zhang Yi felt that it would be better for him to be a quiet nobleman. As long as Zhangjiazhuang is fine, as for the rest, he should wait for the great and wise His Majesty Li Er to solve it.As long as Zhangjiazhuang is fine, even if there is a small reduction in production, as long as there are medicine fields, then he will be the winner of this locust plague, and he can raise a huge amount of medicinal materials for the Tang Dynasty. Based on this, he is a qualified patriotic nobleman. And it is the kind that stands closely with the Tang Dynasty.

But Sun Simiao fell into deep thought, and then asked, "What kind of pesticide are you talking about? Can it cure locusts?"

After understanding his situation, Zhang Yi's mood immediately improved, and he explained to Sun Simiao: "This pesticide is actually a medicine, just like your old man curing diseases. For example, woodworms, I believe you have the last say on this." Many people need to take a small amount of arsenic every few years to kill and excrete these parasites that grow in the human body through the medicinal power of arsenic, so as to achieve the purpose of human health.

The same is true of pesticides, which use drugs to kill pests in the field without destroying the growth of plants to ensure the normal growth of crops.But our Tang Dynasty doesn’t seem to have such a thing, and I’m just thinking about it. It’s not a little or two troublesome to really figure out this thing! "

"Very troublesome?" Sun Simiao continued to ask.

"Of course it's very troublesome! Let me tell you, first of all, we need to know what medicine to use to poison the locusts. This requires a lot of experiments on medicines, and the things involved are simply not something that one or two people can complete." Zhang Yi After thinking about it, he continued: "Take medicinal materials as an example. There are as many as a thousand kinds of well-known medicines alone, and they must be compatible. Even if you know the medicines well and can eliminate a lot of unsuitable medicines, the remaining I'm afraid there are many, right?
Even after you've been working tirelessly to find the right combination, you'll need to test the dosage afterwards.You need to test how strong the drug can guarantee the death of those locusts, and you must also test whether these drugs are harmful to people and how harmful they are. Do you think you can complete so many experiments by yourself?
Besides, even if you have finished all the previous steps, where do you go to find so many medicinal materials and people to make this pesticide for you?In order to be easy to carry and use, it has to be made into a finished medicine and concentrated. Can you tell me this is simple? "

Saying something that others don't know is very fulfilling, especially when he is in a daze when he says it in front of a famous person like Sun Simiao, it feels as comfortable as sleeping on a cloud.

Seeing Sun Simiao nodding his head and adoring him, Zhang Yi felt like he was in high spirits. This kind of spiritual achievement undoubtedly accounted for the fact that he was about to face the locust plague.

(Haha, yesterday a reader mentioned many possibilities to target locusts in the group, did you think of the trick of using pesticides to change faces???)
　PS: It's busy during the Chinese New Year, so don't mind if it's a bit late!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)