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"Our ancestors came to this place to escape the war." Li Dayong continued talking to himself.

Jing Shaohuai asked: "Why did you choose this place?"

Li Dayong shook his head and said: "How do I know this? Anyway, this has been passed down from generation to generation. At that time, there were only a few dozen people who came here to escape the disaster of war, with four surnames: Li, Zhang, Zhao and Wang. Later, two families named Chen and Liu came and found that the soil here was fertile, and there were mountains and water, so they lived here for hundreds of years. "

Jing Shaohuai asked: "Then why don't you go out of the mountains and go to the outside world?"

Li Dayong shook his head: "I can't get out."

"Why?" Jing Shaohuai asked in confusion: "Although it is difficult to get out from here, if you want to get out, it's not impossible!"

"We are all cursed people. As long as we leave here, we will die." Li Dayong shook his head and said.

"Curse? What curse?" Jing Shaohuai was surprised. This was not mentioned in the information.

Li Dayong shook his head and refused to say any more.

Jing Shaohuai immediately changed the topic and said, "After so many years, your surnames have intermarried with each other, so there are so many villages, right?"

"Yeah." Li Dayong replied dully.

Jing Shaohuai nodded, feeling a little confused.

This is the charm of population reproduction!

The fertility of working people is spectacular.

Almost every family has seven or eight children, some have ten, some have three or four.

After generations of reproduction like this, wouldn't it have developed to such a large scale in four hundred years?

"We're here." Li Dayong pointed to the cemetery in front and said, "Uncle Zhuzi's grave is the third from the left."

Jing Shaohuai looked over and saw a small grave squatting pitifully among a group of large graves.

It can be seen that other tombs are regularly cleaned, maintained and incense-filled. Only Li Zhuzi's tomb is almost flat due to the wind and rain.

Since you are acting, you have to do the whole thing.

Jing Shaohuai obediently went over to burn incense, cultivate the soil, and make Li Zhuzi's tomb clean and refreshing.

Li Dayong nodded with satisfaction.

"Go back to the village, say hello to the village chief, and you can stay here. From now on, you will be the people of Lijia Village." Li Dayong said.

"Hey, okay, I have to ask Brother Dayong to help lead the way." Jing Shaohuai immediately took out another egg.

This time Li Dayong refused to accept it and said: "You are new here and you don't have much on you, so you should keep it for your own use."

Jing Shaohuai was not polite to him: "Okay, after we finish cleaning up the house, Brother Dayong will definitely come for a drink."

"Okay." Li Dayong agreed immediately.

This is the rule in the village.

Whenever every household has something to do, they invite neighbors over for a drink.

Jing Shaohuai had already done his homework on this point before he came.

When Jing Shaohuai came back, Mi Xiaoying and Yin Yinuo had already worked together to clean up the small shabby house.

The walls that could be repaired were covered with stones, the roof that could be repaired was paved with two eggs in exchange for a pile of straw, and the windows and doors that could not be repaired were left open until we had the chance.

Mi Xiaoying's appearance made her quickly become familiar with the neighbors, and she even borrowed a scoop of whole grains and two wilted green radishes from the cellar.

Yin Yinuo claims to be a young master, so naturally he won't do such hard work.

She just needs to stand there and act sad...

As soon as the three people met, they immediately got together: "Come, come, let's exchange information."

Jing Shaohuai was the first to say: "What I know is that the total population of this place is far more than the more than two thousand people mentioned in the report. I estimate that there should be no less than five thousand people."

"Five thousand people!" Mi Xiaoying and Yin Yinuo took a deep breath: "Why is there such a big gap? How can so many people be transferred out?"

Jing Shaohuai told all the contents of his conversation with Li Dayong. Mi Xiaoying was silent for a moment and said quietly: "The task is difficult! And the cost of resettling these 50 million is really not low. Five thousand people, all placed in Together, it will become a big community. If all the supporting projects are provided, the cost will probably not be less than one billion."

"One billion is a conservative estimate," Yin Yinuo said: "I just inquired about the news, and I found a strange phenomenon. Since people here have isolated themselves here, how can the living standards of people here be maintained? What about? If I remember correctly, even in the Ming Dynasty, the state supplied salt and iron in remote areas. In other words, how did they do it without private smelting technology and salt purification technology. ?”

Mi Xiaoying nodded and said: "I chatted with some neighbor aunts and found out a clue. A family in this village will marry a bride the day after tomorrow. Today, they are sending betrothal gifts to the woman's house. Several aunts are talking about it, The man’s house is very grand, and he was given a rattan kettle. Since there is a hot water kettle, it means that he has the skills to smelt glass. How did they do it?”

The three people looked at each other, always feeling that something was wrong.

Yin Yinuo said: "Since there are so many unreasonable things here, let's go to the town and have a look! Their commercial center and political center are both in the town. Let's go and see it."

"Okay, let's go explore the road first." Mi Xiaoying and Jing Shaohuai nodded together.

After a while, the three of them made an excuse to go shopping in the town, asked for directions to the town, and walked all the way there.

Lijiacun is really not that far from the town.

The three people's tutorials are not slow, and they will be done in a while.

After arriving at the town, the three people saw that the town had a layout of four verticals and four horizontals.

The style of the entire town is indeed the regulation of the late Ming Dynasty.

In order to inquire about the news, the three people found a teahouse and ordered three bowls of tea.

The consumption level here is very low, and the currency in circulation surprised the three of them.

It's not a copper coin made in the Ming Dynasty, but a banknote that is exactly the same as the outside world!

"How is this possible?" Jing Shaohuai looked shocked: "Isn't this place isolated from the outside world? How can RMB be circulated?"

Mi Xiaoying said meaningfully; "It seems that the so-called isolation from the world is just a cover."

Yin Yinuo knocked on the table and said, "I have a guess."

"I also have a guess." Mi Xiaoying said, the two looked at each other in understanding, and then laughed together.

Jing Shaohuai pinched his chin and said, "No wonder Brother Yuhan asked us to come. It seems there are a lot of tricks here."

Mi Xiaoying pointed at the pedestrians in the distance and said: "Isolation from the world is real, but it is limited to most people. And there are such a small number of people who are not isolated, but have frequent contact with the outside world. Otherwise, the tea here will , salt, glass, ironware and other items, how come they appear here? For example, if the three of us were thrown into any dynasty in ancient times, could the three of us create an empire? "

"That's because I have read too many time-travel novels. This is impossible." Jing Shaohuai said immediately: "First of all, the system does not allow us to have private soldiers and weapons. Secondly, we are good at business warfare, but not good at governing the country. Thirdly, what we learned That bit of historical knowledge is just superficial and not enough for practice. In the end, we may even have a problem with survival, so how can we talk about building a country?”

"Yes." Yin Yinuo nodded: "So this is where we can operate. Since there are people here who frequently contact the outside world, this group of people is the breakthrough. Presumably, they want to go to the colorful world outside. No matter how fertile the soil here is and how much food is produced, the resources are bound to be limited, while the resources outside are unlimited.”

Mi Xiaoying said: "I even suspect that this person who has contact with the outside world is not new now, but has been around since the Qing Dynasty. You can see the characteristics of their clothing."

Mi Xiaoying pointed to a woman passing by and said, "The horse-faced skirt made by Ming Dynasty is very fat, but you can see that the waist of her skirt is well designed, which obviously incorporates the design concept of cheongsam. The people here are just like It’s like a small world separated from the Ming Dynasty, sometimes parallel and sometimes intersecting with the outside world.”

Yin Yinuo and Jing Shaohuai nodded in agreement.

At this moment, a sound of wheels turning came from far down the street.

The three people looked up.

Oops!

Someone actually came over on a bicycle!

This is really... eye-opening!

"Oh my, isn't this the third young master of the Zhang family? He's back from outside." Someone in the crowd shouted.

"The Zhang family is really getting richer and richer."

"Isn't that true? I heard that the third young master of the Zhang family is going to inherit the position of mayor."

"The Zhang family is really getting more and more developed."

Mi Xiaoying immediately grabbed a passing aunt, handed over a handful of melon seeds with a smile on her face, and asked: "Where did the third young master of this family go? This car looks really rare!"

"I heard that we are going to the outside world! This car is from outside, can we not be surprised? Hey, little girl, which village are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?" The aunt looked at Mi Xiaoying's tenderness With such a beautiful face, I secretly thought to myself that such a handsome girl is probably only qualified to marry into a wealthy family in the town, right?

"I'm from Lijia Village." Mi Xiaoying replied, "I just came to seek refuge with my aunt. By the way, auntie, didn't we say we can't leave here? How can the third young master of the Zhang family get out?"

"You just came here, right? No wonder you don't know! Most of the people in our town can't go out, but those who have been blessed by the gods can leave." The aunt spoke quickly and babbled: " The Zhang family has been blessed by the gods for many years after their death. Many of our food, clothing and clothing were obtained from outside by the Zhang family! Our town is really thanks to the Zhang family. Otherwise, these days would be miserable. How can you survive?"

The aunt talked a lot of nonsense, but Mi Xiaoying quickly extracted a few key points.