The atmosphere in the hall immediately became heavy.
"What do you think?" Wu Ling continued.”
Everyone fell silent.
After a while.
Xu Zhaozong muttered," Your Majesty, for now, the most important thing is to open the granary. The Ministry of Revenue should also allocate a large amount of funds to the disaster relief areas. Then, we will consider how to deal with the locust plague."”
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue has already allocated a large sum of money to aid Shandong some time ago. I'm afraid the national treasury doesn't have much money to deal with such a large-scale disaster." Li Deze, the Minister of Revenue, said in a deep voice.”
He also had difficulties that he could not speak of. It was not easy to be the Minister of Revenue.
The Great Zhou had just been established, and money was needed everywhere.
Especially for the military, the cost was huge.
Now, it would not be easy to allocate another huge sum of money.
Wu Ling frowned and said in a deep voice,"Zhen will allocate another sum of money from the private treasury. If the disaster is not dealt with in time, I'm afraid there will be great chaos.”
She was also quite anxious in her heart.
After all, the Great Zhou had just experienced a war. If there was another large-scale locust plague, it would definitely affect all aspects of the Great Zhou.
And Tubo, Turks and other countries like covetous eyes, can be said to be internal and external troubles.
This sudden locust plague gave Wu Ling a headache.
Li Deze smiled bitterly. Even if the emperor took out his private savings, it was still a drop in the bucket when faced with the huge gap.
The ministers had solemn expressions.
Wu Ling rubbed the space between his brows." Although there were locust plagues in the Great Zhou Dynasty, they were all small-scale. The current locust plagues are really rare. I wonder if any of you have any methods to eliminate these locusts?”
Everyone fell into deep thought.
Yang Chen rubbed his chin.
Locust plagues could be said to have appeared many times in ancient times, and each time, they would bring great destruction.
It would not be easy to completely destroy it.
Xu Zhaozong stroked his beard." Your Majesty, before this, when faced with the locust plague, we encouraged the people to raise poultry. Chickens and ducks can eat locusts, and locusts are also quite sufficient nutrients for these poultry.”
Everyone nodded.
This was not the first time a locust plague had appeared.
When the predecessors dealt with the locust plague, they had also pondered over many methods.
Of course, most of the methods were time-consuming and laborious, and the results were minimal.
This method of using poultry to prevent locust plagues was the most widely used.
Wu Ling frowned slightly. These methods could only be used to control locusts and could not do anything to the locust plague that had already caused harm.
She was quite depressed. She did not expect to encounter so many troubles not long after she ascended the throne.
Wu Ling glanced at the crowd in the court and felt a little disappointed.
If they could not deal with these locusts, the imperial court would suffer heavy losses.
Could it be that there was no talented person who could think of a brilliant solution?
Wu Ling's gaze swept across the entire arena.
She inadvertently glanced at Yang Chen and realized that he had his head lowered, thinking about something.
Wu Ling felt a trace of unhappiness in his heart. He was having a headache here, yet this Yang Chen didn't take the initiative to step forward and share her worries?!
Ding! Defiant Minister Points 10!
Yang Chen was speechless.
He was a little confused. Why did the Defiant Minister Point suddenly increase?
Just as Yang Chen was at a loss, the empress's voice suddenly rang out in his ears.
"Yang Qing's house."
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Everyone's gaze fell on Yang Chen.
Yang Chen was stunned. He looked up and met Wu Ling's gaze.
"Does Yang Qing's family have a good plan?" Wu Ling said.
Even though he had an awkward encounter with Yang Chen, the most important thing right now was to resolve the locust plague.
Wu Ling was well aware of Yang Chen's talent.
Right now, she was just trying.
Yang Chen met everyone's gaze and quickly said calmly,""This lowly subject does have some thoughts regarding this locust disaster."
"Oh?" Wu Ling was startled, and her eyes revealed a trace of anticipation," What does Yang Qing's family plan to do?”
The hall fell silent.
Everyone looked at Yang Chen.
Yang Chen muttered," I think that there are two steps to deal with the locust plague. The first is to prevent and control the locusts. As Minister Xu said, we can raise poultry."
Everyone was a little disappointed.
F * ck, I thought I had some fresh ideas. I didn't expect this?
Wu Ling was rather calm. She knew that Yang Chen would not shoot without thinking.
"Other than that, we can also mobilize the people to search for the locust eggs and destroy them. This will be a preventive measure. The locust eggs are in the dry soil and are very easy to find."
Everyone's gaze gradually changed.
Wu Ling nodded slightly.
The corners of Yang Chen's mouth curled up." This is a preventive measure in dealing with locust plagues. It can effectively eradicate the locusts before they become a disaster. Secondly, dealing with the locusts that have already become a disaster can mobilize the people to capture the locusts."
One of them suddenly said," Censor Yang's words are a little unrealistic. The power of the people is limited. Moreover, are you busy catching locusts instead of doing production all day? I'm afraid that as time passes, the people will become tired."
This person was the Minister of Rites, Wu Hongsheng.
Everyone nodded.
Allowing the commoners to raise poultry to eat locusts and eggs had economic benefits.
And Yang Chen's words of letting the commoners catch locusts and put aside other matters clearly could not last long.
Yang Chen smiled." Vice Minister Wu is right. However, I have yet to finish. I have a method that can make the commoners spontaneously and enthusiastically catch locusts. Moreover, it can also form an economic chain and promote economic development…"
here.
Everyone was confused.
Wu Hongsheng's eyes were filled with suspicion.
"What law does Yang Qing's family have?" Wu Ling asked in a deep voice.”
Yang Chen said in a deep voice," Locusts have extremely high medicinal value. They can be used as medicine. If we can let the people know that locusts can be used as medicine and sold to medicine stores for money, do you think these locusts will still be rampant?”
The atmosphere in the hall froze.
The expressions of the officials were extremely interesting.
F * ck, if this could really be exchanged for money, these locusts would probably be killed by the people!
There probably wouldn't be any left.
"Wait, locusts can be used as medicine? Why have I never heard of it?" Wu Hongsheng frowned.
Yang Chen smiled slightly." Of course you can. I have a prescription in my hands that can be used to make medicine with locusts!”
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