Chapter 608: Rat eradication plan
Li Mengxi braved the snow to return to the city lord's palace from outside. As soon as he entered the main hall, he saw Guan Yu and Liu Bei. Guan Yu was holding a stick in his hand and Liu Bei was holding a broom, rummaging through boxes and cabinets.
"What are you two doing?" Li Mengxi was extremely surprised.
Liu Bei turned his head and glanced at Li Mengxi. There was still a spider web wrapped around Liu Bei's head. "There are mice and they have eaten the fish." Liu Bei said.
When Li Mengxi heard that rats were eating fish, he became angry. He also found a stick and joined in catching rats.
In the end, the three of them worked hard for a long time but failed to catch any mice. They found several mouse holes in the corner.
Julu City is someone else's city, and the city lord's mansion is also someone else's. It's very strange inside and out. It's not surprising that a mouse jumped out, but the mouse stole the fish and couldn't stand it.
After checking the evidence, Li Mengxi saw several fish that had been eaten. The rats had eaten the fish until only the fish bones and bits of fish meat were left.
There are only so many fish that can be seen, and I don’t know how many unseen ones were dragged into the mouse holes. It is estimated that dozens of kilograms of fish were lost in one night.
Li Mengxi's teeth were itching with hatred, "We have to think of a way to kill the mouse!" he said bitterly.
Liu Bei smiled and said, "If you have time, look for a cat to keep against rats."
"Yeah." Li Mengxi nodded, "It's okay to raise cats, but is it okay to poison rats with poison?"
"It works." Liu Bei nodded.
"What about making a mousetrap to catch mice?"
Mousetrap, seeing how serious the name is, Liu Bei knew that his military advisor had thought of some wonderful device again. Liu Bei smiled and said, "It would be better to have a mousetrap."
"I also know a way to kill rats," Li Mengxi said as he took out the white silk from his arms and prepared to write something down. "I heard that when some people are treating rats, after catching live rats, instead of killing them, they take soybeans from the rat's butt.
Stuff it in the back and release the mouse.
guess what?
After the mouse was put back, the soybeans soaked in the mouse's butt and became bigger and bigger, making it impossible to pull it out. Then, the mouse went crazy from holding it in, and when it went crazy, it bit all the mice in the nest to death."
Li Mengxi just casually told a little story he had heard from hearsay. After Liu Bei and Guan Yu looked at each other, their expressions became extremely exciting, "Hahahaha!" Liu Bei and Guan Yu couldn't help but burst out laughing, laughing so hard that they couldn't stop laughing.
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Li Mengxi raised his head and looked at the two people who were laughing strangely. Is it that funny?
The abominable rat that disturbed Tai Sui's head stole someone Li's fish. Li Mengxi became serious. He seriously thought of ways to kill the rat and recorded it carefully. He wanted to kill the rat's whole family.
After preliminary sorting out, Li Mengxi believed that there are roughly four types of methods for killing rats.
"[First, raise cats to prevent rats. This category falls under biological control.
In addition to cats, you can also raise hedgehogs, foxes, and many other rat-eating animals to eliminate rats.
Second, hold sticks, crossbows, arrows, swords and spears, guard and kill rats, and strike them when you see them. This is the method of hunting rats.
Third, when you see a rat hole, fill it with soil to eliminate its path, or use a shovel to dig out the soil and destroy its nest. This is the method of eliminating the hole.
Fourth, mix the poison with miscellaneous grains to induce food. If the rats eat it, they will die. You can also pour the poison into the rat burrows. This is the method of poisoning rats.
Fifth, lay traps to kill rats.
Sixth, make a mousetrap to catch mice.
Seventh, catch a live rat, plug its buttocks with beans, and let it go. Within a few days, it will go crazy and bite all of them, killing them in every hole. This is the method of using rats to attack rats in the Trojan Horse Art of War.]
Liu Bei and Guan Yu had been laughing for a while. When the two of them took the method of killing rats recorded by Li Mengxi, they looked at it again and saw the last point. They couldn't help laughing again.
Li Mengxi's "Trojan Horse Art of War", Liu Bei and Guan Yu all know it in detail. The core essence of "Trojan Horse Art of War" is to use things to make enemies.
There is nothing wrong with the art of war, but the target is just a rat. Li Mengxi still uses the rat to attack the rat and still uses the serious art of war. The sense of violation is extremely strong and it makes people laugh.
The method of exterminating rats has been sorted out for the time being. Li Mengxi thought for a while. This method of exterminating rats is related to rats and animals. Is it appropriate to record it in the "Animal Warfare Art"?
If you think about it again, rats are related to food security, building safety, and the safety of important fortifications such as dam gates. Therefore, rodent control is a very important matter. If the effect of rodent control is not good, the military grain warehouse will lose tens of thousands of kilograms of food every year. Logistics
How important it is, how important food is, how meaningful it is to eliminate rats.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Li Mengxi felt that it was necessary to record the method of exterminating rats in the volume "Animal Warfare".
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Whether it is poisoning rats, setting traps, or making mousetraps, a lot of preparations are required.
What Li Mengxi thought of was to brainstorm. He must ask the military doctors for the poison. The whole army can collect ideas for mouse traps. I believe the common people have many ingenious ideas for catching mice. As for mousetraps, this thing is Li Mengxi’s favorite.
Like it.
Although the mousetrap is small, it has endless whims and wonders. When he was a child, Li Mengxi once watched an invention program. The exquisite and fun mousetraps in the program are still impressive. Therefore, carpenters still need to participate and inventions are needed.
Creative carpenters came to design and produce thousands of mouse traps.
The war against rats is bound to be a long-term one. Therefore, Li Mengxi decided to long-term development of rodenticides, long-term collection of rodent eradication methods, and long-term research and development of mousetraps. No matter how strong his mouse's reproductive ability is, its reproductive ability is always limited.
, and there is no upper limit to mouse-catching technology, and the advantage must lie with people.
A lot of fish had been stolen by rats, and it was not too late to make amends. Li Mengxi and the other three began to think of ways to make amends.
The three of them came up with the same idea. Since the mice won't be exterminated for a while, they should put the fish in a place where the mice can't reach. They can find a high place to hang the fish.
The three of them looked up at the same time. When they saw it, they stared at each other.
The City Lord's Mansion is not an ordinary low-rise private house, it is very tall, and the roof is too high to be hung up.
Li Mengxi got up and was about to go out to find a place. As soon as he got up and walked two steps, he turned back again.
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Julu City is full of dilapidation, with few good houses left.
At this time, Liu Bei's soldiers brought meals for several people, and Liu Bei said to eat first and then get busy.
Then, the three of them had a hasty meal, and as usual, everyone got busy again immediately after the meal.
The first stop was to go to the top of the South Gate City to take a look at the overall overview of the camp.
When they climbed to the top of the city together and saw the battlements, a flash of inspiration occurred. In an instant, Li Mengxi turned his head and looked at Liu Bei.
Liu Bei also looked over.
"Xuan Degong, look, these battlements..." Li Mengxi pointed at the battlements and smiled happily.
The smile on Liu Bei's face also rippled, and he followed closely, "These battlements are not suitable for hanging fish! Hahahaha!"
There was a connection in his mind. The moment he saw the battlements, Li Mengxi immediately felt that he was looking for a house and a beam, and one or two houses were not enough. In the future, the fish would accumulate more and more, and he was considering whether to build some.
The wooden piles were specially designed to hang fish. When we arrived at the top of the city, we suddenly realized that the battlements were not suitable for hanging fish?!
When it comes to heights, the city wall is high enough. When it comes to space and jokes, what kind of building is the city wall? Not to mention hanging a thousand catties of fish, Julu City has a large city wall with more than a thousand tons of fish hanging on it.
All can be hung.
Moreover, the city wall also has advantages that other beams cannot match. First of all, the city wall is high enough, so high that it is almost impossible to have rats.
If the food is hung on the beams, there may be some cunning rats crawling along the beams and ropes into the baskets. Rats are very thieving.
This is the first point. The city wall is an excellent place to store fish.
Second, instead of hanging the fish inside the house, the fish meat was hung outside the city wall where the cold wind was extremely biting. After a long time, the fish was dried, which was convenient for storage.
The city walls in winter are simply natural food warehouses.
Li Mengxi immediately asked people to bring the fish up. After baskets of fish were brought up, he took a rope and threaded the fish through the gills. After threading a string, he hung it on the battlement. When more than a thousand kilograms of fish were hung, if from
Looking up from the city wall, you can see fish hanging in rows, which looks very heroic.
Li Mengxi thought for a moment, if there were so many fish that they could hang all around the city wall, that would be great and spectacular. In addition to fish, prey can also be hung on the city wall, so he hung it on the city wall deliberately for the people to see and for everyone to see.
People passing by can see fish and meat all over the city if they look up.
In today's troubled times, what could be more impressive than a wall of fish and meat?
Chapter completed!