The two brothers-in-law are also very thin, originally in their 20s, but they look like they are in their 30s. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At dinner in the evening, Feng Youcai quietly took a look at their five-dimensional attributes, and the force value exceeded 20, and none of the others exceeded 20, and they had been soldiers for many years, and their bodies were still stronger than ordinary people. Let Meimei increase their force value by 5 points, don't dare to add more, if you feel it, it's over, if you leak the news, you will be hunted down by people all over the world.

They also feel embarrassed, their wives and children are really suffering with them, Feng Youcai let them go to Lingsha Castle for the New Year, firstly, they can let the children eat and dress well, and on the other hand, they can save some food for their family.

When I left in the evening, I asked the second sister to bring back the cotton and pork, and if I wanted to send the cloth, rice and white flour, I would let Feng Di and them send it tomorrow.

In the past few days, I have been eating mutton at the eldest sister's house, which can make a few little guys very happy.

On the afternoon of the third day of junior high school, the tailor shop made all the cotton clothes and sent them to the eldest sister's house, and put on new cotton clothes for the little ones, which looked much more comfortable, and the children were also very happy, any child likes to wear new clothes, and the eldest sister and the second sister also began to make cotton shoes for the children.

On the morning of the fourth day of the new year, after breakfast, everyone began to set off back to Lingsha Castle, the eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law specially asked for leave to see them off, Feng Youcai asked Meimei to add 3 points of force value to them, so that their force value can reach 30 points, in their small flag or general flag The force value should be considered high, if something really happens, it is still possible to escape.

Feng Youcai asked Feng Yi and Feng Er to give their coats to their two brothers-in-law, they were on duty outside, it was very cold, and they must be uncomfortable without cotton coats. Feng Di gave Feng Youcai his coat to wear.

On the way, I stopped to eat some dry food, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I went to the house of Lingsha Castle, and my mother saw that I brought the eldest sister, the second sister and the children, and praised Feng Youcai for being sensible and growing up, and the children were also very affectionate when they saw their grandmother.

After lunch, Feng Youcai left 50 taels of silver for his mother, so that his mother could take good care of his sister and nephew; In addition, he gave Niuniu 10 taels of silver as pocket money, 3 nephews and nieces are here, when Niuniu takes them out to play, if she has no money to buy something, then she will be an aunt and uncle.

In the afternoon of the same day, Feng Youcai and Feng Di returned to Zhenguanbao.

Out of the fort, Feng Youcai took out 4 cotton coats from the system warehouse and gave them to Feng Di and the four people to wear.

Back at Zhenguanbao, Feng Youcai met with Zheng Hao and Zhang Yang, and talked about the situation at home in the past few days, and there was nothing to do.

Feng Youcai also shared with them what he had seen and heard in the past few days, the current life of the people in the Ming Dynasty is really hard, they can't eat enough and don't have warm clothes.

Zhang Yang said: "The reason for not being warm is that there is not enough food to eat now, so there is still land to grow cotton, although cotton has been spread to China for a long time, but there is not so much land to grow it, there is not enough cotton, so people are frozen in winter." ”

Zheng Hao said: "For not having enough to eat, it is also because it has become colder and colder in recent years, resulting in many crops freezing to death before they are ripe, that is, the yield of not freezing to death has also decreased a lot, and there are major droughts in many places, and floods or locust plagues occur in some places, and there are too many Chinese, it is estimated that the population of the Ming Dynasty should be more than 200 million now, which is too much more than the population in the early Ming Dynasty, and the overall land has not increased much, and the land area has decreased a lot, plus the land is highly concentrated, and the royal family has increased too much, also occupies a large amount of land; In addition, the government does not pay attention to the role of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and if they were actively promoted, many people would probably starve to death. ”

Zhang Yang said to Zheng Hao: "How else you who are engaged in politics know how to shirk responsibility, what you say is only the appearance, not the fundamental." ”

Feng Youcai is also very curious about this, what is the fundamental problem? Zheng Hao's words are often mentioned in forums in later generations, so Feng Youcai also feels that what Zheng Hao said makes sense, and he is also preparing to promote potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and cotton next year.

Zhang Yang saw that Feng Youcai and Zheng Hao were waiting for him to say, so he took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then said: "I said that you only look at the surface, not to hit you, at this time, 99.9% of the people think so, especially the later rulers must have written this about the inaction of the Ming court." But the fundamental reason is not here, the focus is on what Deputy Baihu Zheng said, the Ming Dynasty has a population of more than 200 million, this is the point, the population has reached the limit of what the land can carry, and no one can solve it. ”

"No, is there really no way to solve it?" Feng Youcai asked, in his previous life, he fed more than a billion people on the same land.

"There are two solutions, but the current imperial court either has no ability to solve it, or it doesn't dare to solve it." Zhang Yang said unhurriedly.

"What the hell is the solution? Say it! ”

Zhang Yang saw that the young master was about to get angry, and hurriedly said: "The first is to expand externally, occupy other people's wealth, occupy other people's land, and if the land and wealth increase, this problem will be solved; The second is that the Ming court has drastically reduced the number of its people, and the population is small, and this problem has been solved. ”

Feng Youcai was closing his eyes and thinking, how did he solve this problem in his previous life?

To have a sharp decline in the population, either the slaughter of the living population or the reduction of births of the population; It is impossible to massacre the living population now, no one in the court dares to say this, let alone do this, and it is impossible to reduce the number of births of the population. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and seized power, it adopted a massacre policy, what Sichuan massacre, killing all the people in a province, and then taking Huguang to fill Sichuan, as well as Yangzhou Ten Days, Jiading Three Massacres, etc., that is, when the Qing Dynasty had not yet entered the customs, it often came to Daming to burn and kill and loot, resulting in a large number of population reduction; For the Mongols at that time, the Qing Dynasty did not adopt a policy of massacre, but adopted a policy of reducing the number of Mongols, which also led to the reduction of the Mongols in later generations from a few million to only a few hundred thousand.

For outward expansion, this Feng Youcai knows that at this time, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and other countries occupied a large number of colonies in the world, and all the idle people in the country moved out, like South America in later generations, all of them were descendants of Spain, Portugal and British legal persons, and the local natives were basically gone; The same is true of the North American continent, where only a few hundred thousand of tens of millions of Indians remain, as does Oceania.

It seems that if you want to solve the current contradictions of the Ming court, you can only expand outward, but where does the current court still have the strength to expand externally?

A large population is indeed wealth, but when the number of people increases to a certain extent, it is a burden. How to define whether it is a wealth or a burden depends on the ability and courage of the ruler.