Jiao Ming turned over the pieces of paper that recorded the situation after going to the nameless village, and after lunch, he found Xia Feng and the part-time tax collector's guard. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This man is tall and thin, with triangular eyes and a goatee, and he is indeed a little fierce when his face is straightened, but he is very pleasing when he laughs. The name is Ssk, the leaves of a native tree that resembles a birch tree.

Jiao Ming's first impression of this person was not very good, not that Jiao Ming's eyes became vicious, and he could see the true nature of this person, but this person was very similar to a classmate who bullied Jiao Ming in elementary school. Under Binglian's reminder, the reason why Jiao Ming still took this person with him was that he entered the village this time to find out the situation, and pulling up the tiger skin might improve some efficiency.

Under the leadership of Ssk, Jiao Ming came to a small village near Agen Village, the village chief here was a little surprised, stepped forward to speak, Jiao Ming heard clearly on the side, the village chief was embarrassed to say that the tax grain had not been prepared, Ssk replied that he did not come to collect taxes today, and then introduced Jiao Ming to the villagers.

How can the villagers' land be compared to the castle manor, which has already been harvested at this time, and the ears of grain are drying in their yards, and the family sits together to scrape the ears of grain and thresh them with stone chips. Jiao Ming began to ask the villagers questions as planned, and the content was nothing more than basic information about how many relatives in the family, age, medical care, and so on.

The situation of the crocodile collar bottom farmers is also gradually taking shape in Jiao Ming's mind. First of all, there is the problem of land, the land here is vast and sparsely populated, there is no competition for land at all, and due to the backwardness of tools, adult strong laborers can not cultivate too much land, and after three or five years of cultivating sorghum, the yield will decline and the disease will be high, so the villagers will automatically migrate to the nearby open space to form a new settlement, anyway, it is not difficult to build an adobe shack, so that the villagers will gather and scatter every three or five years, and several villages will be mixed into several other villages.

The second is the population problem, due to the lack of medical security, the survival rate of babies is not high, some villagers have said that they have five or six brothers and sisters, and only three or four can live to the age of 16 to get married.

Third, there is no clan power at all. In the history of the old Zhong Kingdom, the biggest role of the clan power was to fight for land and water while fighting against the government, and the crocodile leader naturally did not form the basis of the clan power.

Under the deterrence of Ssk, the villagers were quite cooperative, and they would answer all questions, but Jiao Ming was still powerless alone, this village had about 30 households and more than 100 people, and Jiao Ming only felt dizzy after an afternoon of investigation.

After the investigation was completed, when he returned to the castle, he was going to pass by the nameless village of Agen, Jiao Ming naturally wanted to go to see the situation of raising chickens, and went to the brick house to talk to the two mothers-in-law and met Liu Ba again. found that the village chief of Agen was very opposed to the chicken farmers in the village led by Liu Ba, and he was eager to drive these families away, but because of Jiao Ming's face, there was no out-of-the-ordinary behavior.

By the time we got back to the castle, dinner was already halfway over.

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The next day, Jiao Ming wanted to ask for two people with Binglian, but he didn't want to be arrested instead: the lingua franca and mathematics of the little ones were reopened, and due to the reduction of farm work, several family members who wanted to audit mathematics were also approved by the master mother.

After finishing the math class, it was already lunchtime, and in the afternoon, Binglian took twenty little guys to join Jiao Ming's investigation team, and Jiao Ming looked at the messy little guys: "You took them out for an autumn outing, right?"

"Why, of course I'm here to help you investigate. Binglian smiled and blinked.

Jiao Ming was noncommittal, and just let Ssk lead the way. And contrary to Jiao Ming's expectations, the little ones really helped a lot, and after Binglian and Jiao Ming explained the task clearly, they rushed into the village with the little ones in twos and threes, and soon brought back a paper full of information. In this afternoon, I visited four villages.

On the way back to the castle, Jiao Ming inquired about several other villages in the vicinity of Ssk, and learned that there were at most six more, and that one of them had most likely migrated to distant places.

"Work hard tomorrow and you'll be done. Jiao Ming said excitedly to the Ice Lotus.

"Think beautifully. Tomorrow you'll have to do your own work. "Ice lotus is a basin of cold water.

"Huh?"

"I'm taking the little ones out on vacation today, just to help you by the way. ”

Jiao Ming was speechless for a while.

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The next day, there were more adults who came to audit mathematics, but they didn't know if they really liked mathematics or just being lazy, Jiao Ming looked at the classroom full of people pondering a way, and finally notified tomorrow's placement test when class was about to end.

In the afternoon, Jiao Ming mobilized two other people to join the work, and the three of them barely walked through two villages, and Jiao Ming soon discovered several more problems.

The first question: age, there are more than 1,000 people in seven or eight nearby villages, and only the village chief of Agen said that he has passed the sixth round (48 years old).

A movie of "XX Festival Examination" emerged from Jiao Ming's mind, but he changed from seventy years old to fifty years old, and he only felt cold sweat on his back for a while, but he could only bury this guess in his heart for the time being.

The second problem is that the living conditions of the villagers are very poor, and the poorest mountainous areas of Xinzhongguo are a hundred times stronger than here, but the strange thing is that the villagers seem to be participating in a race that is poorer than the poor. Jiao Ming asked bluntly, but the villagers didn't say anything, but Ssk sneered: Pretend to be poor and pay less food. Judging from the reaction of the villagers, this is a fact, but Jiao Ming doesn't like this statement very much, and he doesn't like Ssk anymore.

The third issue is medical and hygiene, when asked what to do if you are sick, the villagers said several herbs corresponding to the symptoms, but there are all kinds of different theories, and the seven or eight neighboring villages have different opinions, as for the efficacy of the medicine, Jiao Ming has no hope.

Jiao Ming went to ask Xia Feng, who was accompanying him, what to do if the lords were sick.

"After resisting for a while, I recovered. ”

Jiao Ming was speechless for a while, this answer was really in line with the style of these magic warriors, and asked strangely: "Xia Feng, why are you weird these days?" This is the question that Jiao Ming discovered with a man's intuition.

Xia Feng was a little embarrassed, looked in the direction of the castle and said, "It's not customary to leave Miss's side. "It's okay for us to go back every night!" Jiao Ming smiled, not believing this excuse, but he didn't delve into it anymore.

After returning to the castle, dinner didn't catch up, Xia Feng didn't talk much and brought food from the kitchen, although Ssk flattered and flattered, but he already had some complaints.

By the light of the fire and eating the cold mess, Jiao Ming calculated that he had already visited seven villages, plus Agen's village, and there were more than 1,000 people in eight villages, which could also explain some problems as a sample, so he told Sk that today was the last day.

The next day, Jiao Ming first came up with a set of math problems, and then began to work on data statistics, and by the way, he talked about the situation with Binglian, who was also in the study, and after careful consideration, he still asked the age of the villagers, and also said his guess.

"You think too much, they died of hunger. ”

"You mean the starvation plague?" this is a term I heard when I was chatting with Sharp Bone the other day, and it seems to have broken out in the territory of the Xuqin people a few years ago. In the local dialect of the crocodile collar, the hunger plague is the plural form of hunger disease, so Jiao Ming connected the two.

"This is it. ”

"Disease in the name of hunger?" Jiao Ming felt a chill run down his spine.

"Yes. ”

"Please tell me more about it. Jiao Ming had a serious expression and said solemnly. Although Binglian didn't care about Jiao Ming's fuss, she still put down the accounting work at hand and explained in detail.

The so-called starvation disease is that people will lose weight greatly after starvation, that is, they will lose weight, and if they do not eat enough for ten consecutive days, they will starve to death. Hunger disease usually occurs around the age of 40, and once it spreads into a hunger epidemic, even people in their 20s will have such symptoms.

Binglian finally added, "It is only in the last hundred years that the disease of hunger has been defined by magicians as a disease, not a natural phenomenon of human beings. Isn't there such a disease in your hometown?"

"Of course not!" Jiao Ming then asked, "You used to think of this as a natural phenomenon?"

To this day, there are many people who think so. Binglian replied lightly.

"And what's the latest research on this starvation disease?"

Bing Lian shook her head, as if she was helpless at Jiao Ming's naivety: "Since it's okay as long as you have a full meal, do you think those hungry magicians will have the leisure to study this thing." ”

The corners of Jiao Ming's mouth twitched, and after a period of silence, he sighed: "Understood." Looking at the blue sky outside the window, Jiao Ming tried to adjust his depressed mood, but ultimately failed: "I don't like this." ”

"Me too. ”

"I'm not as good as you. Jiao Ming said sincerely.

"Oh?"

"Nothing. Although Jiao Ming has a talent for magic, he is still an ordinary person psychologically, and he subconsciously stands on the position of a victim of the starvation epidemic. But Binglian's position is different, but she can still think about ordinary people, this is where Jiao Ming sighs to himself, when he was on earth, Jiao Ming never paid attention to the lives of those people at the lower level.

As for concealing it, it is naturally because Jiao Ming has no need to show his indifferent side to Binglian.