"Well, okay, it's a good time to settle down. The fallen leaves have returned to their roots. Our Lao Li family is always wandering outside and it's shameful. Regarding your matter, I will express my position on behalf of the clan and give my full support. If there is any trouble, I will never refuse if the clan can help.

You think so?"

Li Jinli looked at the other clan elders. The other clan elders all nodded. Li Chaosheng quickly raised his hands respectfully and said, "Thank you all, elders."

Li Jinli nodded: "First of all, we should solve your housing problem."

"Lao San, do you have a spare room in your house?"

Li Jinli looked at an old man with a gray beard. After hearing this, the old man said: "Yes, there is, but no one has lived in that house for four or five years. It is deserted, and the weeds in the yard are all taller than one person."

"It's deserted. It doesn't matter. Just repair it. At least you have a place to stay. In the future, if you think it's not possible, you can build a new one."

After hearing this, the third child said: "Okay, the clan leader has already said that the house should be given to Chaosheng."

"Well, okay, Long, you can take your clan members to help Chaosheng repair the house this afternoon."

"Yes, Dad."

Li Chaolong nodded in agreement.

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In the afternoon, Li Chaosheng saw the house assigned to him by his clan, a small earthen house made of yellow mud. The straw on the roof was all scraped off, and all the windows were broken. One door was standing and the other was missing.

Gone.

The yard was overgrown with weeds and looked extremely desolate. Li Chaosheng swore that he had never seen such a dilapidated house in his life. Li Chaosheng once suspected that the house could fall down with just a push of his fingers.

Li Chaolong asked seven or eight brothers of the same race to help. Old Li's family in Tanggou Town had nothing but a large population. In this era, the population was the labor force, so every family worked hard to have children.

Because if a child is born with a stutter, he will be able to go to the fields and become a new labor force in the future, and having a labor force means prosperity.

Unlike today's society, where machines are gradually replacing humans, the population no longer represents the labor force, but a burden, because raising a child now requires consideration of study, medical care, betrothal gifts, and a wedding room.

These mountains are so heavy that people no longer even want to have children.

There is a saying that industrialization is the best contraceptive pill.

Speaking of contraceptive pills, I would like to say one more thing. In this era, contraceptive measures are not in place, which is also one of the reasons why there are generally more children. Rural entertainment and cultural life are extremely scarce. After eating, what are you doing in your spare time? You can't play with mobile phones or watch movies.

You can only make children~~

For various reasons, in the farming era, there were big families, and each family had many children, so Li Chaolong casually called a group of people to help.

These people are all good at work. After entering the yard, they first re-strengthened the beams, and then started to re-lay straw on the roof, one layer of straw and one layer of mud, to help strengthen the straw.

Then there were people repairing doors and window frames, and two people were weeding in the yard with sickles. After a long time, the house that looked like it was about to collapse had a new look. At least it felt like it could be saved.

one time.

Li Chaolong was repairing the door of his room at this time and chatting with Li Chaosheng. Li Chaosheng told Li Chaolong about the outside world, such as what Siam was like. In this era, people are quite open to overseas acceptance. After all, back then

When Zheng He went to the West, he also passed back the names of overseas places. Everyone knows that there is Siam, Java, Sumatra, Adang...

As for the specific content, it was all compiled by Li Chaosheng. There are elephants in Siam and various fruits. For example, there is a kind with a hard shell. You can drink the juice inside if you break it. For example, there is a kind with golden thorns all over the body. You can eat it.

It tastes soft and sweet...

Hearing Li Chaolong marvel at it repeatedly, Li Chaolong also told Li Chaosheng about the local customs and customs, mainly saying that the harvests in recent years have become worse and worse, natural disasters continue, winters are extremely cold, and people in the clan freeze to death every year.

In summer, there is either a severe drought with no rain, or too much waterlogging and flooding, and the crop harvest is not as good as the previous year.

However, the taxes of the imperial court are increasing year by year, and the rents of landlords are getting higher and higher. The people are starving to death, and all the wild vegetables in the mountains have been dug up. I don’t know how many more people will starve to death here this year.

People.

Li Chaolong sighed, and Li Chaosheng also understood. The weather was unpredictable. At this time, because this era was in the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was normal for grain production to decrease.

As for the court's taxes and the landlord's rent, these are all man-made disasters. The increase in court taxes is mainly related to Liaodong. The Liaodong Tatars are becoming more and more rampant. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, that is, last year, the Tatar commander Nurhaci died of illness.

Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne and became more radical.

And the blood-sucking beast of Liaodong's generals also began to crazily eat the blood of the people of the Ming Dynasty, becoming a big burden that the Ming Dynasty could never get rid of.

It can be said that the generals of Liaodong were responsible for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. This group of vampires, who were well versed in the self-respect of raising bandits, sucked the Ming Dynasty dry little by little, leading to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in the early and mid-Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens were just clowns and not worth mentioning. However, this made the generals of Liaodong become dispensable and could be eliminated at will. This made the early generals of Liaodong, such as Ma Gui and Li Chengliang, very

Not happy, so they started to play tricks to make the bandits self-respecting. The most representative one was Li Chengliang.

You must know that Nurhachi was Li Chengliang's godson at the beginning. For a period of time, he was quite a father and a son. Later, they also cooperated with each other to defraud the court of money and status.

When the generals of Liaodong were short of money, they let the Tatars go south to cause trouble. If the court saw that it was not good, they would order a counterattack. As long as you use your troops, your court will give you a lot of money.

As for how much to give, the generals of Liaodong will give as much as they want. As the Tatars become stronger and stronger, the generals of Liaodong become fatter and fatter, becoming more and more difficult to shake, gradually forming a situation where today's tail is too big to lose.

Of course, in the early days, the daimyo court still had control over the generals of Liaodong, but the princes in the court were all very fat. The generals of Liaodong took money from them and gave them a lot of benefits. They were also happy to help the generals of Liaodong cheat the emperor.

Anyway, the world belongs to the Zhu family, but this real benefit belongs to them. In this way, the generals of Liaodong played to support the bandits, and the princes in the court turned a blind eye to their behavior because of various interests, and even deliberately condoned their behavior, which ultimately led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

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To be honest, the Ming Dynasty let its ministers do the work, and all the princes in the dynasty were unjust villains who only knew they had a family but did not know a country.

The Ming Dynasty has rotted away, and the world is destined to be in turmoil in the future, and we have to pity the innocent people in the world.

But now he can't control so much. Now he just wants to develop his power, work hard to become bigger and stronger, and let himself live a good life first.

Li Chaosheng was thinking about it, and then he suddenly thought of a question. He looked at Li Chaolong and said, "By the way, cousin, I heard that my uncle has three sons in total. How come I saw you, Ah Dou, and his cousins?
Chapter completed!