"What did you say?"

Yang Feng, whose body was shocked, suddenly turned around, and two hot eyes suddenly stared at Song Ye's face, as if they were about to shoot his face through two holes.

In Song Ye's opinion, his eyes were almost stabbed, Rao is he usually boasted of his bravery, and at this moment he was so frightened that he stammered: "The country ...... Grandpa Guo, villain...... The villain is saying...... Although those rogues still have to work in the cold winter months, at least they still have something to eat, and when they are sick, they are treated by doctors, which is simply a day and a world compared to their original days. Grandpa Guo...... Villain...... Could it be that the villain is wrong? ”

"No...... You're not wrong, you're so right! ”

Yang Feng's face suddenly turned a little red, and his heart was spinning rapidly.

In fact, the reason why the Ming Dynasty produced so many rogues was mainly due to the role played by the landlord class.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the entire Ming Dynasty was only about 50 million, after nearly 300 years of recuperation, the population of the Ming Dynasty grew rapidly, and in the year of the Apocalypse, the official population of the Ming Dynasty was about 100 million, but Yang Feng believed that this number was still seriously reduced.

Due to the backwardness of information and production technology, and the situation of landlords and gentry accumulating slaves is also relatively serious, Yang Feng believes that the population of the Ming Dynasty today is by no means only 100 million as officially announced by the imperial court, and it is reasonable to add at least 40 to 50 million.

So the question is, can today's Ming Dynasty afford to raise 150 million people?

To be honest, I really can't afford it.

As the saying goes, productivity determines the number of people.

Not to mention this low productivity, even in the 21st century, nearly one-ninth of the world, that is, about 800 million people, still have enough to eat.

Even if Yang Feng brought so many high-yield seeds from modern times to Daming, the shortage of grain in Daming was not fundamentally solved, and the land problem was still a rope around Daming's neck.

In order to solve this problem, the landlords and gentry of the Ming Dynasty adopted the method of driving out those peasants who had lost their land and letting them starve to death and freeze to death, which also led to the outbreak of large-scale displacement in the late Ming Dynasty, and finally buried the entire Ming Dynasty.

However, in Yang Feng's opinion, the practices of these landlords and gentry are too stupid, population has always been the most valuable wealth of a country, how can it be so bad.

"Since those landlords and gentry regard the peasants who have lost their land as a burden, then what we have to do is to send these people out, whether it is Taiwan or Nanyang, and in the future, if there is a chance, they can even be sent to Australia or even the Americas, not to mention tens of millions, even if it is hundreds of millions of people, it is not too many."

Yang Feng quickly made a decision in his heart, and he quickly called out to Gou Xingma.

"Lao Gou, let me ask you, how many prisoners do we still have in our hands, and how many of them are the old man and the young man?"

Gou Xingma said without thinking: "Grandpa Qiyu, we have a total of more than 167,400 prisoners, of which most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are only about 50,000 young and strong. ”

"Fifty thousand."

Yang Feng thought for a while, "I know, you prepare, in two days, you and Yan Di will each lead their headquarters to take these captives to Jinling, and I will order the Fujian Navy Division to send ships to take all these captives to Fujian." ”

"Grandpa, do you want all of these people to be sent overseas?"

Gou Xingma can be said to know the meaning of the song after hearing the strings, and immediately understood Yang Feng's intentions.

"Yes." Yang Feng nodded: "Those gentry and old men regard these homeless people as a burden, but my father doesn't see it that way. In my father's opinion, these people are very useful. Now that overseas development is imminent, people are needed everywhere, and the Taiwan prefect and the Ming garrison in Luzon are shouting every day that there is a shortage of people, and now they don't know how much they thank us for sending these people over. It's just that there are still too few of these people, not enough...... It's still not enough! ”

Speaking of this, Yang Feng's brows furrowed, "No, my father must go back to the capital and report something to His Majesty." ”

"What, back to Beijing?"

Gou Xingma was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: "Grandpa Guo, now we are under order to exterminate the thieves, and you will return to Beijing in less than three months, what are you going to do?" ”

Yang Feng was in no mood to pay attention to the slander in his subordinate's heart, at this moment he had a bold idea in his heart, if this idea was realized, then the stubborn illness that had plagued Da Ming for many years would be greatly alleviated. However, this idea needs Zhu Youxiao's strong support, otherwise he will not be able to realize it alone.

Anyway, now most of the main forces of the rogue led by Gao Yingxiang have been annihilated, and the remaining ones have also fled in all directions, and there is no climate for the time being. Those rogues who stayed in Shanxi and Shaanxi had Lu Xiangsheng and his new army to exterminate them, and it was not much use for them to stay here, so they simply went to the capital to tell the emperor about their ideas, as long as they could get his support, Yang Feng thought that at least six or seven percent of them could succeed.

Just do it when you think of it, after Yang Feng dealt with these things, he took his five hundred personal soldiers and headed straight towards the Beijing Division......

Just when the spies of the Jiangning Army were searching for Li Zicheng's whereabouts, this guy, who was known as the immortal Xiaoqiang in history, actually did not go far, but secretly fled to the vicinity of Kaifeng Mansion in Henan with his nephew Li Guo and hundreds of subordinates.

Li Zicheng is worthy of being a famous escape expert in the late Ming Dynasty, after he led his troops across the river, he did not flee north to Shaanxi or Shanxi as others expected, but secretly ran to Kaifeng Mansion, which was not too far from Luoyang.

I have to say that Li Zicheng's courage is big, Kaifeng Mansion as an ancient capital that can be as famous as Luoyang, its prosperity is naturally undoubted, and today's Kaifeng Mansion has at least six or seven thousand Ming troops, if it is discovered, it is estimated that Li Zicheng's hundreds of people will not be able to run if they want to.

However, it must be said that anyone who can leave traces in history is either courageous or lucky, and Li Zicheng belongs to both.

Today's Kaifeng is prosperous, but after all, it has not developed to the point that there are people everywhere in later generations, and there are still many barren mountains and mountains around Kaifeng today.

Li Zicheng fled with Li Guo and hundreds of remnants all the way to Qi County in Kaifeng Prefecture.

At this time, Qixian was only a small county town, after the city wall, there were wilderness and mountains everywhere, and now Li Zicheng settled on a pheasant mountain less than 30 miles away from Qixian.

Early this morning, Li Zicheng quietly flowed into the county seat of Qixian County with Li Guo and two thieves from the old camp.