Li Wu only reacted when he heard Hu Ao say this, Zhao Jingnong's seventh son, Zhao Yan, was from the Military Academy.

This expedition included a huge scope, which also led to the extreme lack of talents in Daming, so high-end talents like Zhao Yan, who should continue their studies, were also directly pulled to the battlefield.

And Zhao Jingnong has a total of nine sons, four of whom died in the war against the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the early years of Hongwu, and now the most promising old seven in his family is on the battlefield, how can he not worry.

After drinking the cup of tea in front of him, Zhao Jingnong, who was told the central matter, was silent.

This Ming Dynasty changed too quickly, and it became extremely unfamiliar to him, a farmer who had been dealing with the yellow earth for the first half of his life.

The new houses built by the imperial court for free, the spacious roads on the streets, the bullet train that can go from Nanjing to Beijing with a fart, the electric lights that can bring light, the iron pipes that can produce water by themselves, and the TV that can appear portraits and other high-tech technologies have made Zhao Jingnong study for several years, but he has not been able to understand it thoroughly, let alone get used to it.

Now he has lived in Nanjing for several years, but until now, he will wake up from his dreams from time to time, and then subconsciously dress and look for a hoe just like he used to hear the sound of chickens crowing.

And when he really came back to his senses, he would realize that all this was not a dream, and his life was completely different from before.

This kind of life makes Zhao Jingnong a little unfamiliar, a little empty, and a little uncomfortable.

But if you don't adapt, you don't adapt, you have to say now that Lao Zhao will return to his previous life, then Lao Zhao, an honest man who has planted all his life, will be designated to fight with you with a hoe.

And this is not because of any extravagance and frugality, but more because the current Ming Dynasty is making these mud legs slowly live like a real person.

He has a promising son, so he moved directly to Nanjing, which is considered to be among the middle class in Daming, so the situation is relatively special and may not have any reference.

But his old friends in his hometown are still in the village, although Zhao Jingnong has a bit of a strong temper, but his personality is very simple, which is also one of the reasons why he has a good relationship with Li Tong.

Therefore, Zhao Jingnong did not forget his relatives and friends in his hometown because he was developed, on the contrary, he would go back every once in a while, so he knew very well what the life of ordinary people in Daming was now.

Because of the development of means of transportation, compared with the previous sporadic distribution of the countryside, the current countryside is more concentrated, after the previous countryside was demolished, now most of the people are concentrated in the newly built cities of the imperial court, in the words of the imperial court, there will be no villages in the Ming Dynasty in the future, only new cities.

Because of the concentration of the population, the farmland has also been reorganized, and now the farmland is neatly organized, and when you look at the sky, it looks like a grid drawn by lines.

The progress of the times has not abandoned these ordinary people, the agricultural science and technology of the Ming Dynasty, the first to use these farmers, today's farming, seeds are issued by the imperial court, and high-tech agricultural tools are leased by the imperial court.

Nowadays, the people who farm the land basically don't have to do anything, from farming to harvesting, they can solve it with just their mouths, which is something that these people never dreamed of before.

In addition to these, what Zhao Jingnong cares about the most is that they don't need to pay taxes when they farm now!

Only in the first three years, because the imperial court needed to reserve grain, it was forced to buy thirty percent of their grain at market prices, and after that, the imperial court did not collect taxes on even one grain of grain from them.

Moreover, in the first three years, the prices given to them by the imperial court did not have a trace of discount, they were all based on the market price, and it was the highest price in the market.

To tell the truth, the people, who are accustomed to being unofficial and not greedy, are quite unsteady after getting the thirty percent of the harvested money.

Because they don't understand technology, but they know how to be an official, in their opinion, no matter how far technology develops, officials will definitely be corrupt.

And now that there is no tax on grain, the imperial court also took the initiative to buy their grain, and these officials did not loot them, which made them very uneasy, and even because they were worried that they had taken too much, many people took the initiative to send the money to those who were officials.

However, after a few days, the uneasiness in their hearts completely dissipated.

Because some officials ignore the warnings of the imperial court when collecting grain, and still retain the old habits of the past, they don't talk about the big bucket in and out of the small bucket, and even some more excessively directly say that buying grain and secretly changing it is to pay grain, and they are not willing to give a penny.

So they all died, and all those who were involved in this grain harvest, as long as the circumstances were serious, regardless of their identity, were beheaded and displayed to the public for three days in a row on the television news.

The heads of people rolling all over the ground instantly made all the people understand that these officials were not greedy, but because the court was staring at them, so they didn't dare to be greedy.

After this incident, the court not only collected enough food, but also used the heads of those people to show the people the fairness of the law, and for a time the owners suddenly began to be people with their tails between their legs, and those persecuted people also began to have the courage to try to sue those high-ranking officials and nobles, and the justice of the law of the Ming Dynasty reached an unprecedented level for a while.

It is precisely the occurrence of these kinds of things that makes the people finally understand that the beggar emperor who rose from the end of the world, even after ascending to the Ninth Five-Year Honor, still has not forgotten them, the poor people.

It's not about technology, it's about people's hearts, and the heart hasn't changed, and he's making them more human-like step by step.

So for the current life, although Zhao Jingnong is a little uncomfortable, but he cherishes it incomparably, in order to keep his current life, for the emperor, he can fight hard with anyone, even if he is broken, he will not take half a step back.

It's just that there is no conflict between being willing to die and worrying about my son.

After all, Lao Qi is the most outstanding child in his family, he is not only his own son, but also the glory of his family, so after learning that Lao Qi is also going to the battlefield, he has always been a little worried in his heart.

He didn't know how far away the Westerners' territory was, and he didn't know how strong those Westerners were, but he had already broken four sons on the battlefield, and he was worried that a fifth would happen to him.

It's just that for his worries, Hu Ao, who was ridiculing Li Wu, obviously didn't take it to heart, he sneered, and then said: "I said Lao Zhao, can you not look like a worrying person." ”

"This time the war is not as good as before, I promise you, your son will definitely be fine."