Chen Xi was a little surprised when he heard this. After constantly burning money, did the Wang family in Kuaiji finally come up with something outrageous?
The electric magnetic field sounds very cool. I hope I can defeat Locust Sky. Anyway, Chen Xi himself is lying flat. Now whoever can defeat Locust Sky will go up. Chen Xi is only providing food and grass support now.????
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"Speaking of which, what's the situation in Rome now?" Chen Xi asked curiously. At most, the Han Dynasty would suffer a bigger loss, and it would not really lead to famine. After all, Chen Xi had not worked in vain for so many years, and he was also prepared.
After the entire army of millions was repaired at the Southwest Passage, they killed Kushan with one hammer, so there was no problem with food reserves.
Besides, Jian Yong has been engaged in logistics over the years. Not only to ensure that materials are efficiently delivered to villages, but at least to counties, it should not be a big problem. Therefore, Chen Xi's attitude towards the locust plague is very clear. If he can't defeat it, he will surrender.
, anyway, by November, no matter how many trillions of locusts there are, they will all be extinct.
"The locust extermination is in full swing. Although we have notified Rome in advance and asked Rome to carry out prevention and control, the situation is not very good." Guo Jia handed the information related to Rome to Chen Xi. Rome has not broadcast anything about locusts recently.
Ding and other things, broadcasting the whole process of fighting locusts.
But how can I put it? In the battle reports of Odin, it is basically win, win, win, all the way to win, and there are very few losses. But in the battle report of Locust Sky, there is basically no word win, it is all lose, lose, lose.
Losing all the way, I feel like I am almost losing to the end.
"This is really miserable." Chen Xi looked at the description of the locust plague in Rome and felt a little sad. When his own family was miserable, he saw that other families were even worse, and his mentality obviously improved a lot.
Because of the evolution of locusts, the Locust Sky that attacked Rome was more outrageous than the situation predicted by the Senate. At least in the early days, Rome believed that the Locust Sky could kill Egypt, North Africa, and the lower reaches of the Mesopotamia, at least to Rome.
The European area can still have a few mouthfuls of food to eat, so that the citizens will not starve to death.
However, the real situation now is this. After the locust plague broke out in East Africa, they took the North African route, marched westward to the Atlantic Ocean, then crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and landed on the Iberian Peninsula.
In other words, because of his better quality, larger size, and stronger combat effectiveness, Locust Sky successfully arrived in Europe, and then showed off vigorously in Spain.
It doesn't matter what Tacito thinks now. The tens of billions of brothers from the Locust Sky Squadron have already eaten up all Spain. Regardless of whether it is the cash crop saffron or the local rice, they have all been shown off. In short, they have suffered heavy losses.
Of course, for Rome, when North Africa, Egypt, and the lower reaches of the Mesopotamia were all destroyed, there was nothing unacceptable that they would destroy Spain, which was not very important. After all, they had already lost so much, and they didn't care if they lost more than one.
Save money.
What's more, Tacito is in charge of the Spanish province, which is very unpopular in itself. Now that he has been eaten up, it can reduce the conflicts in the Senate. Besides, now that the matter has come to this, we can do whatever we have to do.
The problem is that the second round of locust plagues can move west along North Africa, reach the Atlantic Ocean, go north through the Strait of Gibraltar, enter the European region of Rome, and gnaw out the Spanish provinces. Then when the third wave of real super locust plagues breaks out,
Will it directly bite Italy?
Just thinking about this possibility makes the heads of the Roman Senate boil. There is no way, since they killed the Celts, the Romans have not suffered such humiliation! Being beaten to Italy? How is it possible?
Is the majestic Roman Empire like this?
"Ah, we have already reached the European area ruled by Rome. Then it is over. The Roman Empire will definitely be at war this year." Chen Xi said helplessly, "This is really tragic. Is this wave of locusts so outrageous? Speaking of which, I have been
I want to ask one thing, how do locusts break through the boundary within a few months of their life cycle? This is completely unreasonable."
"What's unreasonable?" Fazheng sneered at the words, "Don't you know that the generals who command the army can borrow the power of the army?"
"You mean the same thing happens to locusts?" Chen Xi thought about it and it seemed to make sense.
"Locusts are often counted in billions. The leader draws a little bit of power from other locusts, and when they are integrated, they all have to be piled up until their inner energy is separated from the body or even breaks through the boundary. Locusts don't have as many ideas as humans. They accumulate and grow and that's it.
"Yes." Fazheng said very calmly, "Actually, compared to things like world-breaking locusts, I am more curious about, don't locusts have a collective will?"
"How could it be possible?" Chen Xi curled his lips and said, "Without this thing, how could the locusts move out together and fly thousands of miles across the ocean to attack Kushan and us?"
"That's quite strange. Since there is a collective consciousness, why don't tens of billions of locusts form a collective will? Even if the consciousness of the locusts is very small, tens of billions should be piled up to have the size of the will of the empire."
Guo Jia spoke up about his doubts on behalf of Fazheng. Chen Xi fell into silence upon hearing this, while everyone else in the Political Yuan looked at Guo Jia, "You think the matter is not big enough, right?"
"I'm just asking, it's a bit strange. You see, a large number of locusts would be equivalent to millions of human beings. It's normal to have a collective will. Besides, the locusts themselves are collective enough."
Guo Jia struggled to explain.
"If the locust plague really brings out the will of the locust sky, we will give you a beating first." Chen Xi said very dissatisfied, and then looked at Guo Jia seriously, "I won't discuss other things, just talk about the scale and size of the locusts.
In terms of size, it is actually reasonable to have a collective will."
"If something like this really comes out, it will be even harder to do next. Let's pray that the mentality of the Roman Empire does not collapse." Li You said with a sneer. Others don't know the mentality of the Roman Empire. Li You knows it very well. Let's leave it elsewhere.
In that position, he also had the same mentality. I couldn't survive, so what else did he care about?
"Speaking of which, Xianhe and Zizhong mobilized war supplies from the south to Chang'an. Where are they now?" Chen Xi didn't want to discuss what would happen if such an outrageous thing as Locust Sky appeared. He felt that at this time, we should be down to earth.
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"It has already been shipped to Chang'an by water. It will be shipped here in about half a month. By the way, Zichuan, how did you hoard so much rock sugar?" Zhuge Liang looked at Chen Xi strangely and said, although it was so early in the morning.
We all know that Chen Xi likes to hoard supplies, but this is too much.
"Since Zizhong made white sugar, I asked Zizhong to separate some raw materials to make rock sugar. After all, the shelf life of rock sugar can reach ten years under suitable conditions. Isn't it a matter of course to store it as a war preparation?" Chen Xi curled his lips.
said.
Having said that, the reason why so much rock sugar can be stored is mainly because Chen Xi ordered Mi Zhu to use one-fifth of the annual sugar cane plantation as a strategic reserve. In addition, the transportation problem in the south has not been completely solved. If it is not transported out specially, it will be
It has always been there.
After the innovation of agricultural tools in the past few years, the area of sugarcane plantations has increased significantly, and the stockpile of rock sugar for war preparation has naturally increased significantly. Originally, Chen Xi planned to release part of the reserves in two years to suppress the price of white sugar on the market.
As a result, before this matter could be advanced, there was a locust plague.
Compared to transporting grain to Central Asia, Chen Xi still prefers transporting sugar. In Chen Xi's opinion, there is no problem with the idea of the three Persian Gulf companies. Adding salt to sugar water, making some dry buns, and eating some wild vegetables are no problem.
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What's more important is that the weight and volume of sugar are much smaller than that of grain. Without mentioning the added oil, salt and other things, the calories of 20 grams of sugar can basically reach 100 calories, which is basically equivalent to a bowl of white rice.
To be honest, given the situation in Central Asia this year, even white rice and bran are good to eat, so I might as well go over with some rock sugar and let these people carry it first.
At least, the thousands of tons of rock sugar sent over are equivalent to tens of thousands of tons of grain in terms of human life. And in terms of the difficulty and efficiency of transportation, there is no doubt that thousands of tons of rock sugar are comparable to tens of thousands of tons of grain.
There is too much good luck, so it is self-evident how to deal with it at this time.
"Speaking of which, these rock candies were originally used to open a new factory. Now there is no need to open the new factory. I will save it later to see if I can hold the new factory in before Kuishang is destroyed." Chen Xi said somewhat sadly.
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Chen Xi has his own plan on how to destroy Kuishang, and once it is determined that Kushan will be destroyed and two million troops are committed, it will be impossible to stop. Logistics problems will become the biggest problem in destroying Guishan.
problem, and considering that field operations must be carried out in one go, once the Kushan blockade is broken through, it is impossible to stop and requires continuous advancement.
This will put a lot of pressure on logistics, and to put it bluntly, there is a high probability that logistics support cannot be provided, so Chen Xitun Bingtang is thinking about how to make compressed biscuits.
Cream, rock sugar, grain, salt, and oil are not problems. All that is left is to get this thing out. As long as this thing is out, when two million troops attack Kuishang, even if Kushan fights to get it out
The walls were strong and the country was clear, so the Han Dynasty could rush directly to their hometown in Guishang despite the logistical pressure.
As long as the Kushan lair is blown up, more than two million troops will be enough to complete large-scale military control, and then the generals at all levels will be enfeoffed on the spot in order to maintain the stability of the occupied areas, and the problem will almost be solved.
So from a practical point of view, compressed biscuits are actually quite important to the Han Dynasty. However, the formula that can be stored for a long time has not yet been developed. White sugar, which is an important ingredient, has also been used to save lives. Chen Xi is now more or less
Somewhat helpless.
"But now we can open a small one first and verify it. If I had known that I would encounter this situation, I should have opened a verification factory earlier." Chen Xi said helplessly.
The formula of super compressed biscuits is indeed a problem, but at the expense of a certain taste, Hanshi can actually come up with it. After all, Chen Xi’s family also has a cook with a quasi-psychic talent, who experiments repeatedly with raw materials and makes it.
After the finished product is produced, opening the mold is actually the same as making pastries with Liu Tong every year. It is not difficult.
"I always feel that Zichuan is doing all kinds of strange things, but it's not important. I don't do logistics. As long as the front line is satisfied, that's enough." Fazheng said very nonchalantly.
Chen Xi didn't say anything when he heard this. If he had known that there would be such a serious locust plague, Chen Xi would have probably started to verify it the year before last. It's a pity that money can't buy his knowledge.
"Let's do this for now. If there is any news about Locust Sky, please remember to inform me. I will withdraw first. If there is no big problem, don't ask me." Chen Xi thought for a while and felt that nothing happened, and he didn't want to waste time in the Political Yuan.
, so I slipped away in advance.
After Chen Xi went out, not long after, a Swift Eagle jumped down from the sky toward Chen Xi. Chen Xi was startled. Fortunately, Han Qiong protected him and reached out to catch the Swift Eagle. Then he found that the Swift Eagle's feet were tied.
A bamboo tube, I couldn't help but be stunned.
This is the Swift Eagle that Chen Zhe released at that time. But what can I say? Chen Zhe and his group left the country too early, and the Chen family has never had any major events. This Swift Eagle that Chen Xi sent a few years ago flew directly back to the Central Plains.
I don’t recognize the city of Chang’an anymore.
In addition, the geomagnetism has been slightly shifted due to the Roman Blazing Sky Ring that exploded in South America last year. There is also a gravitational distortion zone created by the first level of the Nine Layers Palace on the Weiyang Palace side, causing the geomagnetic field to deviate here.
It's a bit outrageous, and this Swift Eagle, which has not been back for many years, cannot determine its position by geomagnetism, and the Chang'an City in its memory has disappeared, so it can only fly around this place.
Thanks to the eagle's amazing eyesight and the good luck in seeing Chen Xi today, otherwise the swift eagle would have to fly in this area for at least a few more months.
But the advantage of using the Swift Eagle as a messenger ends here. Even if the Swift Eagle flies for a few more months, the Swift Eagle will not starve to death. After all, this thing is a raptor. The exact location cannot be found, and the geomagnetism and memory indicate
Probably in this area, the Swift Eagle will keep wandering around this area. As for food, for the raptors, food is never a problem.
"I was scared to death. Why did an eagle suddenly target me? What happened?" Chen Xi looked at the eagle that was caught by Han Qiong and did not flutter, and asked a little strangely.
"It's Swift Eagle." Han Qiong untied the bamboo tube and handed it to Chen Xi and said.
"Ah, the Swift Eagle jumped directly at me. Whose Swift Eagle is this? It's so excessive." Chen Xi took the bamboo tube and said dissatisfiedly, but after opening it, he shut up. Oh, my Swift Eagle is even mine.
If you raised them before, then there is no problem, so I won’t say anything else.
"Ah, there are demon crystals in the locusts. What's going on?" Chen Xi looked at Chen Zhe's secret report with a surprised look on his face. What's going on? Also, I haven't seen any aristocratic families in Central Asia mention this matter. It's supposed to be like this.
It is impossible for no one to mention big things. Even if everyone is jealous of money, it is impossible not to tell him.
