Wednesday, June 8, 1622.

Senator Hai Huifen's worries at the beginning of the year were finally verified, after a light rain during spring sowing in mid-March, the entire lower Song River area has not been raining for more than two months, and large and small droughts have appeared in various farm areas.

Fortunately, there are abundant groundwater and inland shallow lakes and streams, and the water conservancy and irrigation infrastructure in the farm area, which began to be laid out three months in advance, is basically in place, and the use of streams, ditches and irrigation wells to support it, so that this year's drought will not lead to the consequences of zhì strict, but judging from the growth of some crops, a certain reduction in yield is unavoidable.

But these circumstances, in the eyes of most people, may not be a big deal, after all, this small country counts Indian hired laborers, with a population of only a few thousand, and imports 100 tons of grain, which can feed almost everyone for a month. The trading fleet returning yesterday brought back 200 tons of wheat from France, the largest grain deal ever made with a French businessman.

Last year, a rare drought and no flooding in southwestern France allowed Ren Changle's COSCO International Trading Company to obtain a "cheap" purchase price of US$380 per tonne, equivalent to about 40 cents per kilogram.

What does this mean? We can convert it into the renminbi of later generations, which is equivalent to more than 60,000 yuan per ton, which is equivalent to 60 yuan per kilogram...... This was the devastating price of wheat in Europe in the early 17th century in a global Xiaoice climate. In the average European civilian household, most of the staple food is black bread made of buckwheat, oats, bran and other grains that are almost the same as livestock feed, and even pasture.

I have to say. New crops from the New World saved 17th-century Europe, especially potatoes and corn. For example, in the Kingdom of Spain, from the 17th to the 18th century, in order to solve the food crisis caused by population and famine, the area under corn cultivation even reached 90% of the country's cereal cultivation area!

In today's United States of America, the market price of staple food commodities such as wheat flour is still surplus in the case of a certain degree of self-sufficiency in local agriculture. The price of each kilogram has also reached 40 cents. If the average monthly income of a European family does not exceed $40, it may not be possible to guarantee that every meal will be filled with white bread, potatoes, corn, vegetables and fruits, aquatic products, and meat. It's also very moist.

All the way back quietly, although this time in the Azores still did not grab any better imported raw materials, but only these 200 tons of French wheat. The grain company under the state-owned Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Group offered a purchase price of $395 per tonne. Since grain imports are duty-free policies, Ren Changle obtained a net profit of 3,000 US dollars on it, plus the import and export income of other goods this round-trip, deducting various expenses, and finally achieved the goal of obtaining a net profit of 30,000 US dollars for a round trip.

From the news revealed by Su Zining, Ren Changle has long sniffed out that this year and next year may be due to the large-scale Ming Dynasty immigration import, the food security problem of the guide zhì is gradually aggravating, and even the famine in various parts of Europe is still intensifying, Ren Changle is more determined to establish a large-scale private farm in the future, although the conditions such as human capital and other aspects are not yet available. But at least the money in this is not to be underestimated.

This time, he returned to the mainland with Yang Wenwen, who planned to order another batch of garment and leather processing equipment in the country, preparing to continue to expand the scale of the Azorean garment factory. When he was on the ship, Ren Changle continued to give Yang Wenwen investment publicity and education, but the effect was obvious. Sister Yang Wenwen, who is much more budgetary and wealthy than Ren Changle, obviously scoffs at the plan to open a large-scale private farm.

Ren Changle's first phase of the farm plan is 10,000 mu, even if the current land is too much to be worthless, the unit price of one mu of land is 1 US dollar, and it will cost 10,000 US dollars to buy land from the state...... How to calculate. The first phase of investment will not be less than $200,000! But as long as it takes one year, according to the export price of the European market, even if the tax revenue of grain exports is as high as 50%, the output of 10,000 mu can not only return to the cost, but also earn back more than 100,000 US dollars! …,

In the case of state-owned agricultural, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry groups, this is a small investment, but for anyone who intends to get involved in private, large-scale agriculture, it is an astronomical investment.

There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of people with hearts! Just resting at home for a day, Ren Changle walked towards the Capital National Hospital in high spirits. There are a lot of people in the hospital who have spare money in their pockets, and they can fool the 20 or so "simple and kind" doctors and nurses, plus their own funds, and they can get the preliminary work started.

As soon as he walked into the hospital hall, he found several acquaintances: Li Xiang, the Minister of Immigration, and his wife, as well as Huo Qian and his fiancée, Li Lin, the Minister of Women and Children, and four other people.

Standing opposite a few friends, it was Wang Sumei, the president's wife and president of the Capital National Hospital!

"Yo! Huo Qian, bring Li Lin to the hospital? When did I get married and conceive a child, how did I not know? I didn't even drink alcohol this time! Thinking that he missed his friend's wedding on his last voyage to the Azores, Ren Changle deliberately made an unhappy look.

“…… That's the way it is, I think the Ministry of Immigration and the Ministry of Women and Children should take care of these things, I also told my family Lao Chen about this yesterday, we all feel that the government can't always look at the surface things to do! These young people, ......."

They didn't seem to care about Ren Changle, and several young people quietly listened to the words of the old man Wang Suhong, an obstetrics and gynecology expert, especially when they heard that even the country's highest mascot, President Chen Yuanyuan, knew it privately, and the expression on the face of the Minister of Immigration Li Xiang was very complicated at this time.

"Hey...... What the hell is going on? When I'm air? Ren Chang was happy to see that he seemed to be ignored, so he raised his voice.

"Ren Changle, let's talk about it inside!" Li Xiang pulled down the arm of his little wife Na Da, muttered softly to a few friends, and walked towards the dean's office.

"Let's talk. I'm going to continue to go to the obstetrics department to have a look, hey......" Dean Wang Suhong shook his head slightly, and walked away with a few nurses.

At this time, in the operating room of the hospital, an emaciated Delaware girl was struggling with heart-rending moans of pain, and dystocia seemed inevitable. In the corridor outside the operating room, another Indian girl dressed in Chinese clothes was waiting anxiously with a pale face.

And in the obstetrics and gynecology ward at the end of the corridor. In several hospital beds lay a mother and baby, with mothers of European descent and Delaware women.

It's deserted. None of them were accompanied by family members except for one nurse on the ward, including a European mother and baby who had been hospitalized for the longest time. Due to the frailty of both mother and son, they have been living here for almost a month.

More than ten minutes later, in the office of the director of the Capital National Hospital, Ren Changle's exaggerated voice suddenly sounded, and several European female nurses passing by in the corridor turned their heads sideways.

"Damn! Sure enough, something happened? Ren Chang was happy to see his friends looking at him, so he sat down embarrassedly, "It's good, I don't even know who the child's father is, I know that these things will happen one day!" ”

"Who else can't escape our circle anyway...... I watched the kids. Distinctly Chinese-mixed. Li Xiang exhaled deeply, grabbed his hair with both hands, and thought hard.

"I also talked to the old man at the Phantom Bar before I went out, and he said that the two dancers had stopped working for various reasons a few months ago. Later, some new dancers were added, and he didn't pay much attention to it. Huo Qian glanced at his girlfriend and told him what he knew one by one, "As for those Delaware Indian women, they don't know the situation. ”

The long-standing imbalance between men and women has finally come to the fore in another way. From the beginning of May this year. Two European dancers and three Draare Indian girls have come to the National Hospital of the Capital to give birth to their babies alone with big bellies. …,

The doctors and nurses who delivered the babies were shocked by the fact that they were not married women registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Especially among the mothers, there are also bar dancers who everyone knows about, which makes people frown.

Some of the men in the energetic Walker have apparently done a lot of things outside of their normal working lives in a year. But unfortunately, apart from the silent attitude of the Delaware women who do not speak the language, the two European bar dancers have no idea who the father of the child should be.

"Husband, why don't they get married? A child can't do without a father! Na replied, who was holding her son, saw that everyone was silent, so she asked cautiously on the side, and gently pulled her son's face by the way.

Several Chinese youths looked at the simple Na answer quietly, speechless.

"It's too much! I really thought that when I got here, I could just mess around?! You men are really animals that think in the lower half of your body, it's just so dirty! What will happen to these orphans and widows in the future? ”

Suddenly, Huo Qian's fiancée stood up and scolded several innocent men in front of Na A.

"What about these kids? Are they all thrown into orphanages and welfare homes? What will they think of the country when they grow up?! I don't know how many more such children will be born in the future! ”

The Minister of Women and Children, who had always been gentle and quiet, was so angry that he could not control himself. As she spoke, Li Lin shed tears, which caused Li Xiang's son to follow suit. The older and the younger both cried, and the latter cried even louder, so frightened that Nada hurriedly walked out of the office with her son in her arms.

"Linlin, don't worry, don't worry! Aren't we figuring it out? Huo Qian hurriedly grabbed his fiancée's hand, completely at a loss.

"...... We are busy with our heads outside, and these guys who know how to move their mouths are quite free......" Ren Changle couldn't help but scold again, since he knew that Su Zining had been attacked once by some people standing on the moral high ground in the Congress, Ren Changle's temper became worse and worse as soon as he heard something similar.

"Su Zining went to the Caribbean again, when will he come back?" Li Xiang suddenly raised his head and asked Ren Changle.

"I guess it's going to be the end of the year, he just said that he would pick up Yan Xiaosong in person." Ren Changle was stunned for a moment, cracked the corners of his mouth, and still answered this question.

It seems that there is now quite a wave of young people in the local area, all led by Su Zining, and even some people with more extreme ideas have to privately admit Su Zining's personal ability to do things.

"If it were replaced by Su Zining, what would he do, Ren Changle?" Li Xiang and Huo Qian both looked at Su Zining's most iron-clad friend.

"How do I know? I guess he will absentmindedly submit a cabinet legislative application to give benefits to guys with family children......" Ren Changle, who already thought he was familiar with Su Zining's style of doing things, said a sentence almost without thinking about it, and then stood up suddenly, laughing, "Haha, I'm really smart!" Yes, Li Xiang, you and Li Lin can join hands to apply for legislation in the cabinet, so that Congress can pass a law, so that these native-born second-generation mixed-race children can have citizenship at birth, and families with children can enjoy additional economic subsidies and even tax exemptions! ”

"Legislation? It's so easy to say, now we all know that there are Ming Dynasty immigrants who are coming, and how beautiful each three wives and four concubines think is, who will be gossiped about to recognize their own mixed-race illegitimate children, and some people will even think that they are not their own species at all. In fact, there are really few of us who can see it. Huo Qian subconsciously said a word, and then suddenly remembered that Li Xiang was there, and quickly closed his mouth again. …,

"It's too early to say this, we have limited capabilities, so let's do our best to improve the relevant social welfare support mechanism. Perhaps, these are among the inevitable products and troubles that we have brought to this country and to the new history. Li Xiang stood up, took a long breath, and expressed his helplessness about this question.

Seeing that the immigration minister, who has long fought for the legitimate rights and interests of Indian spouses, has such an attitude, Ren Changle and others can only sigh.

In the hallway, Nata's son was hugged by a European nurse on the side, while she was hugged and cried with another Indian girl.

Dama, who accompanied the female companion who had been playing since she was a child, secretly came to the hospital to give birth, and her eyes were red from crying at this time, because just a few minutes ago, the obstetrician and gynecologist who walked out of the operating room gave her a bad news, and her good friend did not save the mother and child because of difficult childbirth.

The snow-white sheets covered my friend's cold body, and the stretcher faded away in the empty corridor. Dharma collapsed on the ground and cried bitterly.

She also didn't know when her friend had a relationship with a young Chinese man whose name she didn't even know, and that young man didn't show up after her friend became pregnant.

Thinking of Zhou Kemin, a shy and handsome Chinese naval officer with a silly smile at any time, Dama felt a little indescribable fear in his heart for the first time.

The people around, including Li Xiang, silently lowered their heads.

"Dog's day, lift your pants and don't admit it......" Ren Changle had already forgotten the purpose of his coming to the hospital, walked out of the hospital alone, stood on the steps and looked at the sky, and scolded softly. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )