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Chapter 8 Natural and Man-made Disasters
"Yeah, okay, it's good to settle down, the fallen leaves return to their roots, our old Li's family is always floating outside, I will express my opinion on behalf of the family, and I will fully support you. If there is any trouble, the family will help you and never refuse. You say yes?"

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

Li Jinli nodded: "First of all, I should solve the housing problem for you."

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

Li Jinli looked at an old man with a gray beard. Hearing this, the old man said: "Yes, there is, but the house has not been lived in for four or five years, and it is deserted. The weeds in the yard are as tall as a person."

"It's deserted, it doesn't matter, just repair it, at least there is a place to stay first, and in the future, I will build a new one if I don't think it will work."

After hearing this, the third child said: "That's fine, the patriarch has already said, so let the house be given to Chaosheng."

"Well, that's fine, Long. In the afternoon, you take the people from the clan to help Chaosheng repair the house."

"Yes, Dad."

Li Chaolong nodded in agreement.

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

The yard was overgrown with weeds, and it looked unbelievably barren. Li Chaosheng swore he had never seen such a dilapidated house in his life. For a while, Li Chaosheng suspected that the house could collapse with just a push of his fingers.

Li Chaolong asked seven or eight brothers from the same clan to help. The old Li family in Tanggou Town had nothing but a large number of people. In this era, the population is the labor force, so every household is desperately giving birth to children.

Because the children born, as long as they are stuttered, they will be able to go to the fields in the future and become a new labor force, and having a labor force means prosperity.

Unlike the current society, where machines are gradually replacing humans, population no longer represents labor, but a burden, because raising a child now requires consideration of study, medical care, bride price, and wedding room.

These mountains are so heavy that people don't even want to have children.

There is a saying that industrialization is the best contraceptive.

Speaking of contraceptives, I would like to say one more thing. The lack of contraceptive measures in this era is also one of the reasons why there are many children. The entertainment and cultural life in rural areas is extremely scarce. After eating, what do you do when you are idle, and you can’t play mobile phones or watch movies.

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

These people are good at work. When they entered the yard, they first re-strengthened the beams, and then began to re-spread straw on the roof, one layer of straw and one layer of mud, which can help strengthen the straw.

Then there were people who repaired the door, repaired the window frame, and two people weeded the yard in the yard with a sickle. After half a day, the house that seemed to be collapsing had a new look, at least it felt that it could be rescued. a bit.

Li Chaolong was repairing the door at this time, chatting with Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng told Li Chaolong about the outside world, such as what Siam is like, and people in this era are still quite accepting of overseas, after all, back then When Zheng He sailed to the West, he also passed back the names of overseas places. Everyone knows that there is Siam, Java, Sumatra, and Adan...

As for the specific content, it’s all up to Li Chaosheng to make up. Why do Siam have elephants and various fruits, such as a kind with a hard shell that can be broken to drink the juice inside, such as a kind with golden thorns all over the body, which can be eaten It tastes soft and sweet...

Hearing Li Chaolong's surprise, Li Chaolong also told Li Chaosheng about the local customs, mainly saying that the harvest in recent years has been getting worse and worse, natural disasters continue, the winter is extremely cold, and people in the clan freeze to death every year. In summer, there is either a severe drought without rain, or it is too waterlogged and floods occur, and the harvest of crops is not as good as every year.

However, the imperial court's taxes are increasing year by year, and the landlord's rent is also getting higher and higher.The common people are starving to death, and the wild vegetables on this mountain have been dug up. I don’t know how many people will starve to death here this year.

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

As for the taxes of the imperial court and the rent of the landlords, these are all man-made disasters. The increase of the imperial court’s taxes is mainly related to Liaodong. The Tartars in Liaodong are becoming more and more rampant. In the sixth year of the apocalypse, last year, Nurhachi, the leader of the Tartars, died of illness. Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne and became more radical.

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

It can be said that the Liaodong generals contributed to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. This group of vampires, who knew how to raise the bandits and respect themselves, drained the Ming Dynasty a little bit, leading to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in the early and middle period of Ming Dynasty, Jianzhou Jurchen was a jumping clown, not worth mentioning, but this made the Liaodong generals dispensable and could be abolished at will, which made the early Liaodong generals, such as Ma Gui and Li Chengliang very close Not happy, so he played the trick of raising the bandits' self-esteem, the most representative of which is Li Chengliang.

You must know that Nurhachi was Li Chengliang's godson at the beginning. For a while, he was quite a loving father and filial son. Later, he also cooperated with each other and cheated the court of money and status.

If the Liaodong generals were short of money, they would let the tartars go south to do harm. If the court saw something bad, they would order a counterattack. As long as you mobilize troops, your court will give you a lot of money.

As for how much to give, the Liaodong generals will give as much as they want, and as the Tartars become stronger, the Liaodong generals will become fatter and more difficult to shake, gradually forming a situation that cannot be lost today.

Of course, the Ming court still had control over the generals of Liaodong in the early stage, but all the princes of the imperial court were full of brains. The generals of Liaodong collected money and gave them a lot of benefits. They were also happy to help the generals of Liaodong pit the emperor.

Anyway, the world belongs to the Zhu family, but the real benefits are their own. In this way, the generals of Liaodong played to raise their own self-esteem, and the court princes turned a blind eye to their actions because of various interests, and even condoned them intentionally, which finally led to the demise of Ming Dynasty .

To be honest, the Ming Dynasty let the ministers do it, and the princes of the Manchu Dynasty were all unrighteous villains who only knew that they had a family but did not know that they had a country.

The Great Ming Dynasty has been rotten, and the world is doomed to be in turmoil, and it is pity for the innocent people in this world.

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

Li Chaosheng was thinking, at this moment he suddenly thought of a question, looked at Li Chaolong and said: "By the way, cousin, I heard that my uncle has three sons, why did I see you and Atun, his cousin? "

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