Daming: In the beginning, he mistakenly regarded Emperor Yongle as his own father

"Master is really a clever planner, I admire you."

Lu Lin smiled.

Looking at where Xu Jingchang left, he looked treacherous.

If Xu Guogong knew that Lu Lin bought the grain in his hands with the salt-making share he gave, and then sold it to him, earning him 1000 taels, I don't know how he would feel.

As soon as Xu Jingchang left, Yang Rong came back.

They also came to sell food.

"Are you selling food on behalf of the imperial court?" Lu Lin looked at him, a little bit unconvinced. He, a small official with a big sesame and mung bean, could still represent the imperial court?

"That's really unfortunate. The grain stored in my mansion has just been bought by Xu Guogong."

"What?" Yang Rong almost didn't jump up: "10,000+ stones, he bought them all by himself?"

Lu Lin nodded.

What's so strange about this is that it's only hundreds of thousands of stones, and it's not that Xu Guogong can't afford it.

Yang Rong pointed at him: "You, you, why did you sell it to him?"

A little exasperated.

Lu Lin didn't know why, so he spread his hands and said, "There is money to be made, why don't I sell it?"

Yang Rong was so angry that his mind was buzzing: "Haven't you ever thought that he can eat so much food with only one Duke's mansion?"

"Hey, I thought it was something. He definitely didn't use it for food. Now that the locust plague has arrived, many states and counties are not harvesting grains. When there is a shortage of food, he must be going to sell it."

Hearing this, Yang Rong said in disbelief, "You know?"

"I know."

Lu Lin is not a fool, can you not know?

"Then you still sell it to him?" Yang Rong said anxiously: "Do you know that this batch of grain is in his hands, and he will definitely raise the price because of the shortage of grain around him."

"I know." Lu Lin thinks it's normal, monopolizing the business, who doesn't raise the price, doesn't he raise it himself?

Yang Rong was not disappointed with him, but angry: "You are confused, once he raises the price, people can't afford it, and they can only starve to death."

Lu Lin was speechless, so is your court just a display?

"Now that most of the people in Nanjing have collected their food, it will be no problem for three to five months. As for those who have confiscated food in the surrounding area, they have their own food reserves and the imperial court provides disaster relief, so it will not be a problem for one or two months."

"Could it be that after one or two months, the imperial court can't wipe out the locusts?"

Yang Rong was taken aback by Lu Lin's rhetorical question.

What does it mean that the locusts cannot be wiped out within a month or two?

Could it be that he has a way to wipe out the locusts within a month or two?

Chapter 63 New method of eradicating locusts

"Can you kill the locusts within a month or two?"

Yang Rong didn't care about the food anymore, he grabbed Lu Lin's cuff tightly and asked.

Lu Lin pulled back his sleeves with a look of disgust, and said what he said, without making any moves.

People saw him and thought he had special hobbies.

"Such a simple matter, do you still need to ask me? Are you Manchu civil and military people fighting for pig food?"

"Easy?" Yang Rong said in a buzzing voice, "Tell me about it."

After finishing speaking, he looked at him nervously. This kid has always been very smart and did not take an unusual path, or he really has a good way.

Lu Lin didn't say it directly, but asked him instead: "How does your court plan to get rid of the locusts?"

Yang Rong didn't hide anything, and directly stated His Majesty's deployment.

"Isn't this a good way? To get rid of locusts, there is no other good way except to catch them and cut off their reproduction path."

Lu Lin said honestly.

After all, even in modern times, there is no better and more effective way to get rid of locusts than this.

Locusts can fly, so spraying and adding herbicides have no obvious effect on them, and they can only be caught manually.

Yang Rong thought he had some shocking way of weeping ghosts and gods, but when he heard about it, he still wanted to arrest him, and was immediately disappointed.

"I don't blame you either. You haven't experienced the locust plague yourself, so you naturally don't know the horror of locusts."

"The number of locusts is too large and they move quickly. The effect of manual capture is not ideal, and they multiply very fast. The speed of capture may not be as fast as their reproduction speed."

Lu Lin frowned.

Simply handsome speechless.

The population of the Ming Dynasty was tens of millions, and the city of Nanjing alone had more than 100 million people. With so many people, how could they not outrun the locusts?

If one person catches one hundred a day, he must catch one or twenty million.

Unless locusts know how to copy and paste, they can survive. Lu Lin cut off his head and gave them a red flag.

Hearing Lu Lin's words, Yang Rong froze, his pupils suddenly dilated.

Surprised and delighted, he grabbed Lu Lin's hand, and his hands trembled uncontrollably: "What did you just say? Common people, common people, catch them?"

"Otherwise?" Lu Lin continued to be speechless: "Is it just relying on the troops of the Ministry of War and Ying Tianfu?"

Catch it next year.

Yang Rong gulped.

It is feasible for the common people to catch them together, this plan is feasible.

but……

"Why are the people willing to catch them together?" Although killing locusts is everyone's wish, it seems a bit difficult to mobilize them all.

After all, catching locusts is not very dangerous, but the locusts that cover the sky and the sun are big and risky.

And if they catch locusts every day, they have to stop everything they are doing.