"Diverency?" Li Jing and Li Shimin looked at each other. Tang Ping said, and they knew the meaning of each word, but when they were combined, they... they didn't understand it very much.

"Yes, it is because the source of food in Datang is too single now, which has caused the ability to resist disasters too low."

Tang Ping read word by word with his cell phone: "So, we should try our best to make the people of the Tang Dynasty have more food choices."

“More food options?”

"Yes, I think potato cultivation needs to be put on the agenda in advance."

Originally, I planned to let the Tang Dynasty officials see the yield of potatoes before they could promote them nationwide, but the arrival of the locust plague made Tang Ping know that potatoes were grown in advance.

By time, this time he returned to modern times and brought back a large number of potatoes and started planting them on a large scale, when the locust plague occurred, it was almost the time when the potatoes were ripe.

In this way, even if the locusts can chew the potato leaves clean, the potatoes buried underground can become life-saving food.

However, it depends on the courage of the Tang Dynasty government. After all, what is required to grow potatoes on a large scale is a certain amount of farmland and manpower.

This will inevitably affect the cultivation of other grains. The resistance to replacing the original crop with an unknown yield will inevitably be quite large.

Li Shimin nodded: "I will do my best to promote this matter!"

Although he was the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, could the emperor really take care of what crops he planted in everyone's fields?

It can be said that this matter must be full of difficulties, but he also knew that if it was true as Tang Ping said, it would be the greatest chance for the people to survive.

"Is there any?" Li Jing asked. He also knew that although Tang Ping could only say a few words, it was definitely not easy to do.

"There's nothing else for the time being."

"Okay, General Li, let's go back... into the palace immediately!" Li Shimin stood up, thought for a while and bowed, "Thank you Brother Tang!"

"No more polite! If the court is willing to grow potatoes on a large scale, please go to Shanghe Village six days later."

Five days later, he will return to modern times again. This time he will bring as many crops as possible to the locust plague.

As for some ways to prevent and control locusts, such as pulling insect-proof nets, we can only talk about it slowly.

Li Shimin and Li Jing hurried back to the palace. At this time, Fang and Du had called the heads of each tribe over in the Xiande Hall.

From Gao Shilian, the Minister of Rites, to Duan Lun, the Minister of Works, all six ministers were here. In addition, Wei Zheng, the Chief of the Procuratorate, had already been in charge of various officials in the province, and the most powerful people in the entire Tang Dynasty were basically concentrated here.

"Where does this news come from?" asked Dai Zhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue. Fang and Du said the locust plague one by one. He thought about it carefully and felt that it was very possible, but he still wanted to know who said the news.

Fang Du and the others looked at each other and shook their heads. They were also very curious, but if His Majesty didn't say it, how did they know.

Just as everyone was talking, Li Shimin brought Li Jing back.

"Everyone knows about the locust plague, what are your solutions?"

Sitting in his own position, Li Shimin looked at the ministers below.

Dai Zhou was the first to leave the list, and this matter was originally his job: "Please issue an order to let the people in the country hunt more."

This time he became smart and did not say anything about worshiping the locust god or asking His Majesty to sue the heaven and blame himself or herself.

Human hunting is also a commonly used method of locust killing in this era. In particular, there are various methods such as smoke and fire.

However, this method is actually only effective for small-scale locust plagues. Once the scale is too large, the manpower will become insignificant.

"What else?"

Dai Zhou stopped talking at this moment because he only had one way, and as for the others, he could only look down at his toes.

Li Shimin was a little helpless. Not to mention the civil and military affairs of the court, at least the people in charge of the Tang Dynasty were here, but no child had any knowledge.

Well, Tang Ping was directly classified as a child in his place.

"Since you can't think of a solution, I will talk about two ways, and everyone will discuss how to promote it."

Li Shimin didn't ask whether these two methods were feasible, but asked them to directly discuss how to promote them, which was already very telling.

"First, nationwide promotion, raising ducks!"

"Duck?"

“National promotion?”

No one below understood it. Didn’t he talk about locust plague? Why did the emperor suddenly mention raising ducks?

Li Shimin was both funny and angry when he looked at his senior executives below, and told him about the restraint of Tang Ping's ducks on locust larvae and the benefits of raising ducks.

He was not like Tang Ping, and he had to read it on his phone. He could basically repeat what Tang Ping said after listening to it.

"So ducks have such a function?"

"Thinking about it seems that it's really OK! The locusts can't fly when they are young, and they are the food for chickens and ducks."

"Why didn't you think of such a simple thing?"

I have to say that this group of people still has a strong ability to accept, and after they are connected, they quickly accepted this plan.

But their acceptance is useless, and the most difficult thing is to implement it.

Not to mention anything else, if you want to raise ducks, you must have duck shoots? This is not raised one by one, but to be promoted nationwide. Then these duck shoots are astronomical.

This is the biggest problem with this plan.

At this time, the Minister of Rites Dou Lu Kuan stood up: "Your Majesty, when I was on the mission to Dongyue, I saw that there were many breeding chickens and ducks among the people. This time I needed so many ducks, and it is estimated that only Dongyue can have so many."

"But our relationship with Dongyue..." Wei Zheng did not finish his words, but everyone knows that the relationship between Datang and Dongyue was not very good.

Well, to be precise, the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding countries is not very good.

The reason is that everyone was originally a minister of the former Sui Dynasty. The former Sui Dynasty was indecent, and wars were everywhere, and all the rebels of the kings raised the banner of righteousness.

After attacking each other, the country was established one after another.

The Tang Dynasty occupied the Chang'an area in Guanzhong, and it was also the center of the Sui Dynasty, so it often regarded itself as orthodox, and the surrounding countries were naturally not too convinced.

Although I have stopped fighting each other in recent years, it is just because each of them needs to rest and recuperate.

At the beginning of the year, the Turks besieged the city, and Chang'an was short of troops, because the borders of the surrounding countries were under great pressure. Once they were neglected to defend, it was very likely that the opponent would take advantage of the situation.

So it is not too easy to trade a large number of ducks with Dongyue now.

"What is more scarce in Dongyue?" Li Shimin asked frowned. After all, everything cannot be separated from the word "profit".

If the Tang Dynasty could bring out something that made Dong Yue excited, the other party would be willing to trade.

At this time, Dongyue actually occupied the Jiangnan region, which has been a land of fish and rice since ancient times, with rich resources and pleasant climate.

In the single-wheel natural conditions, it is better than that of the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!