"Well, okay, it's good to settle down, the fallen leaves return to the roots, our old Li family is always floating outside, I will express my attitude on behalf of the clan and fully support your affairs, if there is any trouble, the clan can help and will not shirk, you say yes?"

Li Jinli looked at the other clan elders, and the other clan elders all nodded at this time, and Li Chaosheng hurriedly bowed his hand respectfully: "Thank you, elders." ”

Li Jinli nodded: "First of all, I should solve the problem for you." ”

"Third child, do you have a spare room in your house?"

Li Jinli looked at an old man with a gray beard, and the old man heard this and said: "Yes, there is, but the house has not been inhabited for four or five years, it is all deserted, and the weeds in the yard are all one person high." ”

"It's deserted, it doesn't matter, just repair, it's better to have a place to settle down first, and in the future, Chaosheng feels that it can't be built new."

Hearing this, the third child said: "That's okay, the patriarch has said, then the house will be given to Chaosheng." ”

"Well, okay, dragon, in the afternoon, you take the people of the clan to help Chaosheng repair the house."

"Yes, Dad."

Li Chaolong nodded in agreement.

……

In the afternoon, Li Chaosheng saw the house assigned to him by the clan, a small mud house made of yellow mud, the straw on the roof was scraped, the windows were all broken, the doors were standing, and the other was lost.

The yard was overgrown with weeds, and it looked so barren that Li Chaosheng swore that he had never seen such a dilapidated house in his life, and Li Chaosheng once suspected that the house could fall down with a push of his fingers.

Li Chaolong asked seven or eight brothers of the same clan to help, and the old Li family in Tanggou Town had nothing else, that is, there were many people, and the population in this era was the labor force, so every family was desperately trying to have children.

Because the children born can go to the ground in the future and become a new labor force, and having a labor force represents prosperity.

Unlike today's society, where machines are gradually replacing humans, the population no longer represents labor, but a burden, because now raising a child needs to consider learning, medical care, bride price, and marriage room.

These mountains are so overwhelming that people don't even want to have children.

As the saying goes, industrialization is the best contraceptive.

Speaking of contraceptive pills, contraceptive measures are not in place in this era, which is also one of the reasons why there are many children, and the entertainment and cultural life in rural areas is extremely scarce.

You can only make children~~

For various reasons, in the era of farming, they were all big families, and each family had a lot of children, so Li Chaolong casually called a group of people to help.

These people are good at work, and when they enter the yard, they first re-reinforce the beams, and then start to re-lay the straw on the roof, a layer of straw and a layer of mud, which can help the straw to be reinforced.

Then there were people repairing the doors, repairing the window frames, and two people weeding in the yard with sickles, and after half a day's work, the house that was about to collapse had a new look, at least it felt like it could be rescued.

Li Chaolong repaired the door at this time, chatting with Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng told Li Chaolong about the outside world, such as what Siam is like, and the acceptance of overseas people in this era is still quite large, after all, when Zheng He went to the West, he also passed back overseas place names, and everyone also knew that there were Siam, Java, Sumatra, and Adan......

As for the specific content, it all depends on Li Chaosheng's compilation, what Siam has elephants, there are all kinds of fruits, such as a kind of shell is very hard, broken can drink the juice inside, such as a kind of golden yellow with thorns all over the body, but it tastes soft and glutinous and sweet......

Hearing Li Chaolong's surprise again and again, and Li Chaolong also told Li Chaosheng about the local customs, mainly saying that the harvest in recent years has been getting worse and worse, natural disasters continue, the winter is extremely cold, there are people who freeze to death in the clan every year, and the summer is either a big drought and no rain, or it is too waterlogged and flooded, and the crop harvest is not as good as a year.

However, the taxes paid by the imperial court increased year by year, and the rents of the landlords became higher and higher. The common people are dying of hunger, and the wild vegetables on this mountain have been dug up, and I don't know how many more people we will starve to death here this year.

Li Chaolong sighed, Li Chaosheng also understood, the weather is capricious, at this time, because this era is in the Xiaoice period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, grain production is normal.

As for the taxes of the imperial court, the landlord's rent, this is a man-made disaster, the increase in taxes of the imperial court has a major relationship with Liaodong, the Liaodong Tartars are becoming more and more rampant, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, that is, last year, the Tartar commander Nurhachi died of illness, and Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne and became more radical.

And the blood-sucking giant beast of Jiangmen in Liaodong also began to frantically eat the blood of the people of the Ming Dynasty, becoming a big burden that the Ming Dynasty could never shake off.

It can be said that the destruction of the Ming Dynasty and the Liaodong generals contributed a lot, and this group of vampires who were well versed in raising Kou's self-respect sucked the Ming Dynasty dry little by little, leading to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchen was a clown who jumped off the beam, which was not worth mentioning, but this caused the Liaodong generals to become dispensable and could be removed at will, which made the early Liaodong generals, such as Ma Gui and Li Chengliang, very unhappy, so they played the trick of raising their own respect, the most representative of which was Li Chengliang.

You must know that Nurhachi was Li Chengliang's godson at the beginning, and for a period of time he was quite a father and son, and in the later period, he also cooperated with each other to cheat the court of money and status.

When the generals of Liaodong are short of money, they will let the Tartars go south to make a disaster, and the court will order a counterattack if it is not good.

As for how much to give, Liaodong Jiangmen wants to give as much as he wants, and as the Tartars become stronger and stronger, Liaodong Jiangmen is getting fatter and fatter, and it is becoming more and more difficult to shake, gradually forming a situation where today's tail is too big to fall.

Of course, in the early stage, the Daimyo Imperial Court still had control over the Liaodong Generals, but the Imperial Court Gonggong Zhugong, one by one, was full of brains, and Liaodong Jiangmen collected money, giving them a lot of benefits, and they were also happy to help the Liaodong Jiangmen pit the emperor.

Anyway, the world belongs to the Zhu family, and this real benefit is their own, so Liaodong Jiangmen played with self-respect, and the princes of the imperial court turned a blind eye to their behavior because of various interests, and even intentionally connived, which finally led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

To tell the truth, the Ming Dynasty let the ministers do nothing, and the princes of the Manchu Dynasty are all unrighteous villains who only know that they have a family and do not know that they have a country.

This Ming Dynasty has rotted, and the next world is destined to be stormy, and it is to pity the innocent people in this world.

But now he can't manage so much, now he just wants to develop his own power, work hard to become bigger and stronger, and let himself live a good life first.

Li Chaosheng thought about it, and then suddenly thought of a question, looked at Li Chaolong and said: "By the way, cousin, I heard that my uncle has a total of three sons, why did I see you and Ah Porpoise, his cousin?" ”