Lin Ji and his party continued to the east. Because the weather warmed up, I was worried that the river would crack, so I didn't dare to walk directly from the river, but walked along the river. Fortunately, in the past few years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, more manpower has been vacated because of the planting of high-yield crops, and the roads in many villages and towns along the way have been opened, and it is not difficult for the group to walk.

Along the way, it is indispensable to encounter jackals, tigers, leopards, bears and other fierce beasts in the wild. However, there are ghost eagles in the sky, and there are two snow monsters on the side, and these things were cleaned up by the Xiaobai couple before they rushed to people, and they only gave everyone a meal. It's not a problem for no one to travel.

It's your own territory along the way, and it's hard to see even a wild man, let alone an enemy. Every time they arrive in an area of the town, the town will send warriors to meet and lead the way, which greatly reduces the trouble of people going the wrong way.

In addition to the trouble of dealing with the villages and towns along the way, there is little else to worry about.

On this day, walking out of Corner Town, it is estimated that there are still 300 kilometers away from the mouth of the sea, and the ghost eagle in the sky suddenly took himself to draw a large circle in front of his wife. The people who were hurrying hurriedly slowed down to judge the situation ahead.

Chen Li took Wei Chong out of his holster beside Lin Ji, and the deputy captain of the guard took out a pistol and took a shield to block in front of Lin Ji.

The guards of the forest trail have long been equipped with guns. But it's just for two people. The main thing is the lack of ammunition. Even if they only keep the state of two people with guns, the bullets that give them practice shooting can still make Lin Ji feel distressed.

"Depending on the situation, there are no less than three hundred." Chen Li and the ghost eagle have been together for a long time, and they can already judge more information from the flight attitude of the ghost eagle.

"Less than 200 kilometers to the north of this place is the original Ten Fang tribe. This area is also an uninhabited protected area. Will it ......?" guessed the vice-captain.

"No, it won't. The Shifang tribe is now our Hong'an County. We comb every year in the reserve, and we don't see a single wild man except tigers and bears. "The mayor of Corner who is in charge of the escort said.

The town of Scienthorn is home to a tribe of Crookhorn who used to collect horns and music. The town was established here because of the benefits of defecting to the forest trails earlier. Mayor Mare doesn't want to believe that there is an enemy here.

It's just that he can't tell why there are hundreds of people here in this freezing cold.

Lin Ji squinted at the trajectory of the ghost eagle and said, "Maybe it's the person who greeted you in front." Don't move yet. Let people go and see how the situation is with the spearheads. ”

There were sharp soldiers in front of the team to explore the way, but there was no return at this time, so they had to send someone to take a look.

Chen Li sent five groups of spearhead soldiers, and one group advanced at intervals. Not long after, before the people dispersed, the sharp soldiers who were exploring the way in front of them quickly returned: "Grandpa Zhu Monkey is here to pick up the king!" Grandpa Zhu Monkey is here to pick up the king! ”

Behind the soldiers, a few other horsemen followed closely, and a cheerful laugh was heard from afar: "Haha, king, I'm here to pick you up." ”

Hearing the voice, Lin Ji also laughed and rode out: "Why are you here?" ”

When the two were approaching, they stopped their horses, laughed on the horse's back, and gave each other a big hug, and by the way, they beat each other's shoulders hard.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two have not seen each other for seven or eight years. Although there is a frequent exchange of letters and occasional chats on the radio, how can these connections compare to meeting and hugging?

The red monkey is still thin and sturdy, with a little stubble on his face when he is nearly thirty years old, and he looks quite mature and rough. After years of fighting and scheming, he also looks quite sharp.

Lin Ji looked at him after letting go, and the more he looked at his brother, the more satisfied he became, "You are polite, go out for six hundred miles." ”

Zhu Monkey also looked at Lin Ji and said, "You don't know, I want you to be tight, I don't know how many times I've been talking about it." I annoyed her babbling, so I'll pick you up. "If you really want to think about the forest traces, Zhu Monkey is afraid that he will be jealous. When he said this, he was just saying that he missed it in the name of his words.

Lin Ji thought that Zhu Monkey was still an introvert and would not express his heart directly, but this point still remained unchanged, and he couldn't help laughing.

Zhu Monkey knew that Lin Ji had seen through his thoughts, so he smiled, and then led Lin Ji to look to his side and said, "Look who I brought here?" ”

Next to the vermilion monkey was a dark-skinned and sturdy woman. Lin Ji recognized it as Pi Jiao'er, who followed Hu Yi'er back then.

Pi Jiao'er looked left and right in the entourage of Lin Ji, and asked a little angrily, "Why didn't you bring Yi-'er-?" ”

"She's pregnant, so it's inconvenient to go out."

"You're also multi-hearted, just drive your kind of car and pull her here, what if you're pregnant? When I was pregnant with my fourth child, I still tore a wolf. He also gave me a wolf skin as clothes. ”

Lin Ji knew that Pi Jiao'er had a vulgar personality, and he didn't care about her, so he changed the topic after smiling: "How is Pingli now?" ”

Pi Jiaoer said: "He now drinks one day, fishes two days, and stays in the bow and arrow workshop on the twelfth. The cart you gave him worked well, and he could walk around the city on his own. It's just that the job is not up to scratch, and I'm afraid I won't be able to regenerate. But you can ask for other women yourself, and not ask us for other men......"

Lin Ji and Zhu Monkey glanced at each other and laughed.

Speaking of this, both of them have a great responsibility. Lin Xi dominated the dual marriage system to improve the social status of men, which directly limited the choice of women to whom they could.

Over the years, the forest trails have given killer whales great autonomy, and the vermilion monkey has developed in another way. He kept fighting in all directions, conquered thousands of miles of territory, and now has six counties under his rule. However, the downside of this expansion is that the population is small and the imbalance between men and women is even greater. Therefore, killer whales became popular for polygamy earlier than Asabayashi. In addition to Zhu Hou's words, there are four other women.

Waving his hand to let the team follow, Lin Ji and Pi Jiao'er chatted about her children and other family routines, and finally said, "I'll go back and give you a prescription to see if I can make you pregnant." It's really not good, I'll give you a few pills, and you can give Pingli to eat. It should have some effect. ”

Hearing that there was such a good thing, Pi Jiao'er didn't wait for Lin Ji to wait for the future, and directly asked Lin Ji for it. Lin Ji couldn't be urged, so he stopped his horse and went to the small town to get a few small blue pills for Pi Jiao'er, and instructed them to use them together. Pi Jiaoer got the drug, and she was even more anxious, so she rode her horse and rushed eastward, speeding everyone up a lot.

Zhu Monkey looked at Pi Jiao'er who disappeared in front of him, and complained a little: "You should have come a long time ago." ”

When the forest trail arrives, not to mention that you can get all kinds of practical guidance, you can also get all kinds of good things from the future generations. Chaolin City is prosperous and extravagant, and those of them who are outside can only look at the heat.

Although Zhu Hou, as a duke, can get a lot of materials for the future generations, and he will also use a boat to pull killer whales every quarter, but he can't enjoy these things exclusively, so he has to keep some rewards and distribute them. As a result, there is not much left in his own hands. As for things like the little blue pill that don't be distributed, that's what Lin Ji thought of even more. This can't be compared with the people who live in Chaolin. It is said that Qian Mian Fei used this thing a few years ago.

Lin Ji knew what he wanted to express, and said with a smile: "Didn't you install the electric light?" What else could I want? Fitting you a hardcover villa? Toilet with flush? Or will this little pill be a little bit for you too? ”

"I didn't have to." Zhu Monkey blushed slightly, but he was even more dissatisfied: "The electric light, I thought it wouldn't be on without you, but I didn't expect you to install it on Chaling first and not give it to me." Did I send you fewer people? ”

"It turns out that I talked about this principle, and you didn't listen to it yourself, blame me? Isn't it possible to make a lot of power in front? Now I have installed two 50 kilowatt ones for you, which is enough for your grandfather to use air conditioners in the summer, are you still not satisfied? ”

"That thing basically can't be used in winter."

"Chaolin City is about the same."

Hydropower during the Ice Age was limited to being unusable for a few months. This is also a helpless thing. Although there has been some progress in the research of thermal power generation in the past few years, it still cannot reach the point of getting out of the forest. Because the equipment cobbled together with various things in the small town is really not guaranteed. If the parts are to be produced in-house, it is estimated that it will take more than ten years.

Zhu Monkey also understood these truths, but he didn't dwell on this issue too much: "Forget about the toilet, when you get to the city, you can see what to match us, as for the ......."

The eyes of the red monkey looked at Lin Ji's hand.

In addition to the forest traces, probably no one in this era will have a love for the toilet. Without him, there is nothing to sit on it. Lin Ji sent it to the vermilion monkey before, and after the vermilion monkey tried it, the thing was shelved.

But the little pill that makes people stronger is different. Although it is not to the extent of medication, but men, who would refuse to become stronger? Zhu Monkey saw that there were still a few in Lin Ji's hand that had not been handed out.

Lin Ji handed the few remaining pills in his hand to Zhu Hou. Zhu Monkey happily put it away, and did not forget to tease Lin Ji twice: "I have eleven children, you are only two, you have to hurry." ”

Gossiped all the way, and in the evening of this day, Pi Jiaoer was waiting for everyone on the side of the road because of the weakness of the horses. But he hunted a lot of snow hares.

A group of hundreds of people set up camp and roasted food. By the bonfire, Lin Ji asked about the situation of the stone beak, and the red monkey said, "It's all still floating in the water." ”

"The sea is frozen and they didn't come ashore?"

"You said that you might spend the winter on the sea along the way, so they arranged a winter training at sea for two months, and it is estimated that when we arrive, they should also go ashore."

Stone Beak is well prepared for sailing, and has been simulating life at sea since more than a year ago. It's really hard to still float on the sea in winter.

"What about the casualties?" Lin Ji asked.

"There are some, but in fact they are not as miserable as you think. We're a little frozen here, and we can't go north. They still have no problem going south. Over the past year, we have been to several places near us, like the treasure island close to us, and Luzon, which is free of snow and ice. We also built a town on Luzon to grow those things that you send. Those places are not bitter at all. ”

The sailboats made by the forest trails are almost the most mature ones. Sailing thousands of miles between the straits is not difficult at all, and it doesn't take much.

Tropical islands may be like subtropics at this time, but compared to the Yangtze River basin at this time, those places can be harvested twice a year, and the fruits are everywhere, which is really heavenly. The local aborigines or something, because of the excellent living conditions, let alone the climate, generally there are only twenty or thirty people in a tribe, and they are all thin and small. If it weren't for the fact that there were few killer whales, the red monkeys would have wanted to get more people to go to those places and occupy the entire Luzon Island.

How to improve the fleet of Stone Beak will have to see Stone Beak and then see. Zhu Monkey complained about Lin Ji's population policy: "Now that a woman has to raise five children, this makes us a great burden." ”

If it weren't for this policy, Zhu Hou would have been able to mobilize more manpower and food to occupy the entire island of Luzon. Now that the forest trail is like this, he will not have enough food to support the war.

Lin Ji asked, "How many people do you have now?" ”

Zhu Monkey hesitated and said, "More than sixty thousand." ”

Lin Ji said: "Hulinban County now has a population of 30,000. There are only more than 60,000 of the six counties under your jurisdiction. Do you think there is a problem? ”

These six counties of Zhu Monkey are extremely large, because the area occupied by the killer whales today is almost the area of three or four provinces in later generations, and this is still the extremely rich Jiangnan region.

"I've fought a lot." Zhu Monkey argued.

"I know, so I didn't mean to blame you. But now the area you've laid down is big enough. We can hardly live, we have to give birth to a baby for a few years, and when we have enough people, these places can live, and we can expand outside. Now we are not yet thirty years old. Twenty years, we will only be fifty years old, and if we have two or five million men in our hands, what will it matter if you want three or five thousand men to conquer Luzon? When the time comes, it won't be a big deal to send 30,000 or 50,000 people to live on Luzon Island, right? This is called sharpening the knife and not cutting wood. ”

Afraid that the vermilion monkey would continue to entangle the problem of expansion, Lin Ji took out the terrain globe, turned to the position of East Asia, pointed to the globe and said to the vermilion monkey: "I don't know what our descendants will be capable of, but I think that in my lifetime, I will occupy the east of the mountain range here, including the strait here and the grassland in the north." Now that we have the best land in the area, the rest is fine. Do you know how many people this place can support? ”

Zhu Monkey looked at the globe and shook his head.

Lin Ji spread his hands. Zhu Monkey stared at him and didn't dare to report his guessed figures.

Lin Ji said: "Billion! So, brother, while you are young, have more children. We'll defer the war for two years. If we had so many people, the world would be ours. Our children can fly to the sky. ”

In later generations, there were naturally more than so many people east of the strait. But Lin Ji felt that telling Zhu Monkey this number was enough. In fact, in the forest traces, maybe the whole world has a billion people who can do a lot of things. As long as human beings avoid those unnecessary internal frictions and look at the starry sky, it is not necessary to immigrate to Mars for so long.

Zhu Monkey calculated the gap between 60,000 and 1 billion, and finally found another way other than the conquest, and began to slowly discuss the issue of people's livelihood with Lin Ji.

In the next few days, because of Pi Jiaoer's eagerness, everyone traveled hundreds of miles a day, and arrived at Orca City within a few days. After ten years, Lin Ji is here again.