Chapter 90: Draw a million duck soldiers, the locust plague is nothing more than this!
The news about the locust plague from Jizhou and other places was sent to the capital at full speed and delivered to the Deyang Palace.

"Report——

"Yuan Shao deliberately spread rumors and slandered, and quoted out of context, forcing the people of Jizhou to eat locusts. Many counties in Jizhou have already shown signs of poisoning from the locusts eaten by the people."

...

"Report——

"The imperial court sent a special envoy to spread the truth, but Yuan Shao's forces obstructed and secretly obstructed their efforts."

...

"Report——

"According to preliminary statistics, tens of thousands of people in Jizhou have died from poisoning due to eating locusts.

"The people were filled with resentment, and under the instigation of Yuan Shao's spies, the common people took the lead in attacking the government."

...

"Report——

"Yuan Shao's spies coerced the people, killed officials appointed by the imperial court, and burned, killed and looted government offices.

"As more and more refugees gathered, rebellion broke out in Jizhou. Led by Yuan Shao's spies, they attacked the government.

"The families who died or were injured because of eating locusts have also joined the rebellion with resentment. Now the rebellion has already impacted Hanoi and Yanzhou."

...

"Report——

"Henei Governor Wang Kuang and Cavalry Captain Wang Fang are busy with the locust eradication operation in Henei. Facing the refugees, do they need to suppress them?
"Yanzhou Governor Liu Dai, Dongjun Governor Cao Cao and other places have received news that rebels have forced their way across the Yellow River, and there is a shadow of Yuan Shao's spies fanning the flames.

"They urgently reported to the court, asking whether to suppress it forcefully?"

...

All these pieces of news were sent to Deyang Palace, making all the officials in the capital city feel overwhelmed.

The locust plague has not been completely quelled yet, it has only been temporarily suppressed.

Yuan Shao's move of diverting the trouble eastwards not only required various places to send troops to suppress the rebellion, but also required them to divert their attention to locust control.

He was trying to do two things at once, and if Yuan Shao took the opportunity to boost morale and send troops, he would be taken advantage of.

After hearing this, Liu Bian also looked solemn!

He looked at his attribute panel. The luck value on it had dropped from 15 million to 11 million!
Luck also represents the hearts of the people. A drop in luck value of more than four million is equivalent to losing the hearts of more than four million people!
It's not hard to guess from this information -

This is the resentment that the people in the Jizhou area have towards Liu Bian after they were poisoned and killed while eating locusts due to Yuan Shao's quoting out of context and spreading rumors and slander!
At this moment, Liu Bian finally understood what it meant to "water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it"!

The luck value can rise or fall!

"If there is a rebellion that enters any state or county, order it to be suppressed in all places."

It was impossible for Liu Bian to watch these rebels take over the world, let alone the rebellion that broke out in Jizhou, which must have been caused by Yuan Shao's spies.

It cannot affect Hanoi, Yanzhou and other places.

"promise!!!"

The decree was immediately passed down.

Liu Bian summoned civil and military officials to discuss and prepare for a rainy day.

Yuan Shao deliberately took advantage of the locust plague to fan the flames and stir up trouble, but it would certainly not stop there. They must prepare in advance.

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Hanoi.

Wang Kuang, governor of Henei, and Wang Fang, commander of the cavalry, had been working to kill the locusts, but as the rebels attacked, they had no choice but to divide their forces to suppress the rebellion.

The locust plague, which had been temporarily suppressed, became more and more severe due to the multiplication of the two minds.

This made Wang Kuang and Wang Fang extremely anxious!
This is not only true in Hanoi, but also in the counties of Yanzhou.

Yuan Shao's forces were secretly hiding among the rebel troops, commanding the rebel troops to attack Henei and Yanzhou.

After Yuan Shao's spies fanned the flames and created unrest, more than 100,000 people were dragged into the situation.

This is Yuan Shao's strategy of killing two birds with one stone!
This would distract Hanoi and Yanzhou from their main positions and make it difficult for them to form a pincer attack. At the same time, they would secretly hide their troops and infiltrate Hanoi and Yanzhou.

Yuan Shao’s target is the “Snowflake Salt Formula” of the Black Mountain Salt Mine!
Just when Wang Kuang and Wang Fang were overwhelmed by the rebels and locust plague, Yuan Shao's troops launched a surprise attack!

This caused Wang Kuang and Wang Fang to retreat step by step!

They had to suppress the locust plague because if they ignored the locust plague in Hanoi, the locusts would swarm towards the capital.

The capital of the Han Dynasty was invaded by locusts. Is this reasonable? !

They had to suppress the locust plague, divide their troops to suppress the rebellion, and secretly face Yuan Shao's troops. They were really unable to focus on one thing while neglecting another!
...

As military intelligence and battle reports were transmitted to the capital, the atmosphere in the entire Luoyang city seemed somewhat depressing and tense!
Yuan Shao took advantage of the locust plague to cause trouble and stir up trouble, causing heavy losses to the court and bringing shame to the Han Emperor!
Liu Bian could no longer tolerate Yuan Shao!

What made Liu Bian most furious was that in this atmosphere, news came from Huainan that Yuan Shu wanted to become emperor.

"Report——

"Your Majesty, Yuan Shu summoned civil and military officials, and even used the locust plague as an excuse to claim the throne and proclaim himself emperor. But in the end, he was persuaded back by his own ministers!"

"Wow—"

After hearing this, the ministers who had entered the palace to report were all shocked.

Even Xun Yu, a gentleman who was always serious, was stunned and couldn't believe it!

What's wrong with Yuan Shu's brain? !
Do you really think that the Yuan family has three officials in four generations and their students and former officials are all over the world, so they have the destiny? !
wrong!

If the Yuan family really thought they could replace the Liu family, they would end up being deserted by their friends and relatives!
As long as Yuan Shu dares to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in defiance of the world's taboo, he will be attacked by everyone!
Short-sighted! A dead body in a grave!
"Ha ha……"

Liu Bian sneered:

"Yuan's intention to usurp the Han Dynasty cannot be concealed!
"When I killed Yuan Wei's entire family, how many ministers died to protest? How many people criticized and opposed me? I don't know how many people secretly complained and blamed me for killing too many people, saying that I was not a wise ruler!
"You don't believe many facts and evidences. Now, what Yuan Shu has done can prove that I am not wrong?!"

...

After hearing this, the civil and military officials present were horrified, lowered their heads and listened in fear, not daring to look the emperor in the face.

The ministers who had pleaded for Yuan Shi in the past were even more terrified and said, "I deserve to die!"

"hehe."

Liu Bian glanced at them, and everyone felt a chill down their spines and their hair stood on end.

In fact, from the loyalty of these people, we can see that they are all loyal to the emperor and patriotic.

When he pleaded for Yuan Wei, there may have been some personal feelings behind it, but it was more because he did not want to cause turmoil in the Han Dynasty.

It was for this reason that Liu Bian did not kill them all.

But the necessary beatings are still necessary.

"Yuan Shu has evil ambitions. Since he wants to become emperor, he must have been secretly planning this for a long time.

"After the locust plague is suppressed, we must mobilize troops to attack Huainan. I don't want the Han Dynasty to have two rulers!
"The Imperial Guards increased their infiltration into Huainan. They ordered Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, to confront and delay Yuan Shu's encroachment on Jiangdong. They ordered Tao Qian of Xuzhou and Liu Biao of Jingzhou to keep a close eye on Yuan Shu.

"Order Chen Wang Liu Chong and officials of Yuzhou to guard the south of Huai River. The Jianghuai region is densely networked with waterways, so we need to prepare naval vessels in advance..."

Liu Bian issued the order to fight in Huainan.

"promise!!!"

In fact, there is another point, which is why he absolutely cannot let Yuan Shu ascend the throne and become emperor - because his system has lottery requirements!

[Liu Bian needs to stay on the throne to get a chance to draw a lottery once a day, and can randomly draw any item. ]

There are two emperors in one country. Can a lottery still be held?!

Liu Bian couldn't afford to gamble, nor was he willing to gamble!

Yuan Shu must die!
Looking at the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, it seems that Yuan Shu was the only one who had no self-awareness to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

After that, only Cao Pi could usurp the Han Dynasty!
In this life, Liu Bian controlled the military power of the capital with absolute strength, and later suppressed the villains, making the loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty even more submissive!

Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others were even more loyal.

Therefore, for Liu Bian, the only person he needed to be careful of was Yuan Shu, a short-sighted and ignorant guy.

Of course, now that Yuan Shao of Jizhou has invaded Henei and the locust plague has had a serious impact, these are also imminent matters.

The Yuan brothers are targets that must be eliminated!

Because of this matter, Liu Bian discussed with his ministers until late at night, and after the ministers dispersed, the familiar voice echoed again.

"Ding dong."

"The host has obtained a chance to draw a lottery."

“Will there be a lottery?”

Liu Bian dismissed Cao Zhengchun and other eunuch attendants, and then started the lottery.

The turntable began to rotate again, and the pointer passed over attribute points, weapons and armor, military supplies and combat readiness, auxiliary talents, soldiers and population, martial arts secrets, etc. It turned around and around, and finally stopped gradually from fast to slow.

Stopped on the military option!

"Congratulations on winning one million duck soldiers!"

"..."

When Liu Bian saw that he had drawn soldiers, he felt excited!
Even though he already controlled the military power of the capital, there were more than 100,000 troops stationed in the capital. In addition, the local loyal officials of the Han Dynasty controlled an army of hundreds of thousands.

The number of troops Liu Bian could mobilize was at least 300,000! To put it in an exaggerated way, it was an army of one million!

however!
The Han Dynasty had thirteen states, covering a vast territory.

There were rebellions by traitors such as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu at home, chaos by foreign tribes at the border, invasions by the Xianbei and Wuhuan outside the Great Wall, unrest in various countries in the Western Regions, and further away there were empires of the same period such as the Kushan and Rome.

Not to mention the distant countries in the world, even the military defense within the Han Dynasty, with millions of soldiers and horses scattered around, actually seems very sparse.

Therefore, saying that quality is more important than quantity is just a small matter. For Liu Bian, the ruler of a country and the leader of the Han Dynasty, the more soldiers and horses he has, the better!
the most important is--

The soldiers drawn by the system are absolutely loyal, which makes Liu Bian trust them even more!
When Liu Bian saw the "one million duck soldiers", he was still thinking about which army in history was called "duck soldiers"? !
There's also a million?!

only!

When the lottery items were transferred to the storage space, Liu Bian was completely stunned when he saw the one million ducks!

This so-called "duck army" is really just a "duck army" as the name suggests? !

A million ducks?!

"..."

Can this be considered a soldier?!
Liu Bian was speechless for a moment, but after seeing the introduction, he remembered it.

Ducks are the natural enemies of locusts!
Moreover, the ducks obtained through the system lottery are the duck kings that are one in a million, and the toxins in the locusts have little effect on them!
...

In fact, this was also what Xun Yu summarized at the beginning - the biological pest control method is to raise the natural enemies of locusts!

Including chickens, ducks, frogs, birds, predatory and parasitic natural enemy insects, microorganisms, etc.

Compared with chickens, ducks have stronger mobility, foraging ability, survival ability and drought resistance, and are better able to adapt to various natural environments.

This is the famous "raising ducks to control locusts" in ancient times!
Ducks are truly experts in killing locusts. A chicken can eat 70 locusts a day, but a duck can kill more than 200 locusts a day!

Moreover, the ducks are completely carpet-bombing, not even letting the insect pupae go!

The method of "raising ducks to control locusts" began to appear in the Ming Dynasty and was still widely used in the Qing Dynasty. Many people also summarized the experience of controlling locusts.

As recorded in the Complete Method of Controlling Locusts written by Gu Yan of the Qing Dynasty: "When the locusts cannot fly, ducks can eat them. If you put hundreds of ducks in the fields, they will be eaten in a short time. This is also a method of catching locusts in the south of the Yangtze River."

Even in modern times, "herding ducks to control locusts" is still being used.

In the year 2000, a locust plague broke out in northern Xinjiang, my country. At that time, 100,000 ducks were airlifted from Zhejiang to join the "locust extermination army."

These ducks go out twice a day on average, going back and forth to "work" in tens of thousands of acres of land. After a few months, the locust plague was basically eliminated.

...

"Go fight, duck!"

Liu Bian immediately decided to airdrop ducks and carry out the "herding ducks to control locusts" operation in the locust-infested areas.

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Hanoi.

After Yan Liang and Wen Chou, two of Yuan Shao's generals, were beheaded, he later transferred the brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang from Bohai to rush to Liyang for support.

Now Yuan Shao’s four great generals gathered in Liyang, namely Chunyu Qiong, Qu Yi, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang.

Taking advantage of the locust plague and the rebels who were carried away by them, they attacked Henei, causing the Henei governor Wang Kuang and the cavalry captain Wang Fang to retreat step by step!

The two armies fought repeatedly.

White Tiger, disguised as Wang Fang, angrily rebuked these rebels:

"Yuan Shao deliberately took his words out of context and fabricated rumors, causing countless deaths and injuries among the people of Jizhou due to eating locusts. Now he is fanning the flames and forcing the people to rebel. Isn't he afraid of extinction of his descendants?"

"Hahaha, Master Yuan has many children and grandchildren, so you don't have to worry about him!"

Chunyu Qiong sneered disdainfully, "Your Majesty set an example by frying locusts, which is why the people suffered an unprovoked disaster!"

Wang Fang rushed directly towards Chunyu Qiong, but several generals of Yuan army immediately surrounded and attacked him, and the large number of soldiers and horses forced Wang Fang to temporarily avoid the attack and retreat.

It’s not that Wang Fang’s skills are inferior to others, but because they divided their troops to suppress the locust plague.

Now he had to do two things at once, suppressing the locust plague, suppressing the rebels, and fighting against Yuan's army.

I can't be bothered with everything and I lose sight of the big picture!
This gave Wang Fang a headache and made Yuan's army win victory after victory!

'Wang Fang' is the Jinyiwei commander Baihu in disguise. He even ordered the Jinyiwei to secretly infiltrate Jizhou in an attempt to assassinate Yuan Shao.

If Yuan Shao died and the decapitation operation was successful, Yuan's army would surely be defeated without a fight, and the imperial court's troops would not be caught off guard.

But right now.

Suddenly, a group of birds swooped down from the sky.

This forced the fighting Wang Fang's troops and Yuan's soldiers to involuntarily stop fighting temporarily and retreat.

Because there are so many birds in the sky, so densely packed.

As the distance got closer, these birds broke through the locust swarm. Their white feathers were particularly conspicuous among the locust swarms that covered the sky.

"Is this a egret?!"

Wang Fang was confused and uncertain, but soon he was stunned, "No! These are a group of ducks? Oh my God! Can ducks fly?!"

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(End of this chapter)