"I don't know if you've noticed that when we went up the hill to see the terraces, a lot of the adult men were wearing children's clothes. I saw a few old men with gray hair, and their hair was still the same as that of children. I also saw many women in their thirties and forties walking barefoot, and many men in their thirties who had not yet worn turbans.

This situation is clearly to reduce the tax burden borne by oneself and one's family. Even at this point, some of the officials and servants of the yamen who went to the countryside with us to investigate did not tell the truth. Do you know what he says? He said that those men and women dressed as children were filial to their parents, and they were cute to make the elderly happy. This was simply an insult to my intelligence, and I later asked Wenquan to deduct their money for three months, and let them think about it at home behind closed doors for three months.

What excites me even more is the tragedy that I learned about when I entered the homes of the poor."

"What, did you see an old man eating tree bark and gnawing grass roots?" Li Fei asked.

"What is that, in the face of drowning, all tragedies are comedy! I threw up right then. There are still shadows until now. Whenever I think of asking the man why he drowned his son, I feel like a fool. I knew why I drowned the baby girl, and I went to ask him why he drowned the baby boy, and I rubbed salt on his wound to ruin my image. If anyone knows that I am so unresponsive, I will stop at nothing to stop at it. ”

Li Fei remembered the tragedies he had seen in the past: "Just like in novels, tears are sometimes a luxury for the poor. Tragedies are repeated, and all we can do is speed up immigration and try to end them by liberating these productive forces as soon as possible. Do you know what is more terrible than infanticide? It is to kill one's own flesh and bones and then cook and eat it, and famine will cause the poor to lose their surname. Even more terrifying than cooking flesh and bones is the choice of this method to escape the environment and tradition of starvation. Customers and poor people who have no way to survive only have the opportunity to go to sea to survive, which is the only chance of survival. ”

Lee Ki asked, "Do you think this environment is the main reason for the success of our immigration work?" Do you mean that we should intensify this oppression in order to have a smoother migration? ”

Li Fei shook the information in his hand: "The environment is always the external cause, and the driving force that determines the development of things is always the internal cause!" What are the internal causes? It is the despair and avoidance of life in the hearts of those poor people, who think that infanticide can avoid getting poorer, and that being poor to suicide will not solve the problem. As long as we give them a way out and give them a glimmer of hope, they will be able to shake off despair and evasion, and do everything they can to register at the immigration docks and camps. Anyway, they are no longer on the copyright, and the government will not care about them, at least Wenquan and others are there, and they will not take the initiative to care about these behaviors in the corners of the outer wall. ”

"When did the upper echelons of the Great Song Empire treat these poor people as corners, in the eyes of the officials, they don't exist at all, and they don't see it if they see it. We don't call it digging up the wall, but it should be called a legal, reasonable, reasonable, and moral transfer of the burden and excess labor of the Great Song Empire. We paid for the Great Song Empire's valid contract purchases, and the vast majority of those settling-in fees and loans, as well as large sums of money for the purchase of immigrant materials, were not spent on the territory of the Great Song Empire? The increase in tax revenue caused by the increase in the turnover of related industries is the fee paid to the Zhao and Song courts! Li Ji confidently said that he did not treat Song Ting badly.

"We can't change the situation of surplus labor in the entire Great Song Dynasty for the time being, but at least it is no problem to open up a few more ways for the poor to eat, and the development of the division of labor is the strongest tool to smash this cannibalistic system. As long as the division of labor develops fast enough, I can absorb enough people to drive the whole project. Li Ki plans to go to the wood and cloth processing plant upstream of the shipyard to see if there is room to expand production capacity.

"The 5,000-square-meter canvas workshop can accommodate hundreds of male and female workers, and their wages are enough to support their families several times that of their own, and I can at least ensure that the children they can give birth to will not be drowned. A factory for the production and processing of marine timber can accommodate 1,000 workers, transportation, loading and unloading, cutting, shaping, drying, gluing, punching, processing surfaces, etc., each process requires a lot of skilled workers, and I estimate that the full production capacity can reach 500 tons of boards. I promise that as long as they leave the land, they will have enough skills and opportunities to live and expand their family population by more than fifteen times in a hundred years. Li Ji clapped his chest confidently.

"Wait, you say fifteen times? I calculate, isn't that a population growth rate of 2.75% per year? Is this the growth rate of feudal society? Impossible? Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the growth rate in the past 60 years was only an average of 1.1 percent per year. Are you crazy? Do you think the population is GDP, can it appear out of thin air? ”

"You don't believe it? Let's take a look at twenty years. Look at how much the population can reach in 20 years after the completion of our Dongyi Island migration! ”

"Women are not assembly lines, they can give birth to children non-stop, Soviet-style heroic mothers have no status in China!"

"You are conservative again, Chinese women are fertility machines, as long as there are no other burdens, full-time women who concentrate on taking care of children at home, at least one can give birth to seven or eight. The number can reach fifteen or sixteen, otherwise how would Huang Feihong's thirteenth aunt come? ”

"Do you mean to establish a system opposite to the Great Song Empire on Dongyi Island, turning the cannibalistic caste into an assembly-line production system?"

"The basis of prosperity is the dividends brought by a high-quality population, I want these people to have an egg, how much can pure farmers who can't work contribute to the economy? I also want to promote compulsory education and higher education, and the contribution of an engineer to the economy is worth tens of thousands of hard laborers. Li Ji looked at the planning drawings of the Ocean College that was about to be unveiled in Quanzhou and said.