Chapter 1306 Extra: The Origin of This Group of People

"Our ancestors came here to escape the war." Li Dayong continued to talk.

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

Li Dayong shook his head and said: "How should I know? Anyway, our generations have been passed down like this. At that time, there were only a few dozen people who came here to escape the war. They were four surnames, Li, Zhang, Zhao, and Wang. Later, two families with the surnames Chen and Liu came. Later, they accidentally discovered that the soil here was fertile, and there were mountains and water, which was suitable for living. Everyone settled here. This has been a place for hundreds of years."

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

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

"Why?" Jing Shaohuai asked puzzledly: "Although it is difficult to get out of here, it is not impossible to get out if you want to!"

"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 anything more.

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

"Yeah." Li Dayong answered sullenly.

Jing Shaohuai nodded, and he was a little relieved.

This is the charm of population reproduction!

The fertility of the working people is very spectacular.

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

After four hundred years of reproduction from generation to generation, wouldn't it have developed to such a large scale?

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

Jing Shaohuai looked over and saw a small mound squatting pitifully in the middle of a group of large graves.

It can be seen that other graves are regularly cleaned, maintained and burned with incense, and only Li Zhuzi's grave is almost flattened under the wind and rain.

Since you are doing a show, you have to do it in full.

Jing Shaohuai obediently went over to burn incense, add soil, and clean Li Zhuzi's grave.

Li Dayong nodded with satisfaction.

"Go back to the village, say hello to the village chief, and you can stay here. You will be a member of Lijia Village in the future." Li Dayong said.

"Well, okay, I have to trouble 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 keep it for yourself."

Jing Shaohuai was not polite to him: "Okay, after we clean up the house, Brother Dayong must come for a drink."

"Okay." Li Dayong agreed immediately.

This is the rule in the village.

Every household invites neighbors to drink when there is something going on.

Jing Shaohuai had already done his homework before he came.

When Jing Shaohuai came back, Mi Xiaoying and Yin Yinuo had almost cleaned up the small broken house together.

The walls that could be repaired were built with stones, the roofs that could be repaired were covered with straw in exchange for two eggs, and the windows and doors that could not be repaired were left open until there was a chance.

Mi Xiaoying's appearance allowed her to quickly get acquainted with the neighbors around her, and she even borrowed a bucket of coarse grains and two wilted green radishes from the cellar.

Yin Yinuo claimed to be a young master, so naturally he would not do these hard labors.

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

When the three met, they immediately gathered together: "Come on, let's exchange information."

Jing Shaohuai took the lead and said: "I know that the total population of this place is far more than the more than 2,000 people mentioned in the report. I estimate that it should be no less than 5,000 people."

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

Jing Shaohuai told the content of his conversation with Li Dayong. Mi Xiaoying was silent for a while, and said faintly: "The task is arduous! And the cost of resettling these 50 million is really not low. If 5,000 people are resettled together, it will be a large community. If all kinds of supporting projects are in place, the cost will probably not be less than 1 billion."

"1 billion is a conservative estimate," Yin Yinuo said : "I just inquired about the news and found a strange phenomenon. Since the people here have closed themselves off here, how do they maintain their living standards? If I remember correctly, even in the Ming Dynasty, the state supplied salt and iron to the most remote areas, which means that private individuals did not have the technology to smelt and purify salt. How did they do it?"

Mi Xiaoying nodded and said, "I chatted with several neighboring aunties and found a clue. A family in this village will marry a daughter-in-law the day after tomorrow. Today, they are sending gifts to the woman's family. Several aunties said that the man's family was very generous and gave a rattan kettle. Since there is a hot water kettle, it means that they have the technology 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 to have a look! Their commercial center and political center are in the town. Don't you know if you go and have a look?"

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

After a while, the three of them used the excuse of going to the town to buy things, asked about the way to the town, and walked all the way there.

Lijia Village is really not far from the town.

The three people's tutorials are not slow, and they arrived in a short time.

After arriving at the town, the three people saw that the town was a four-vertical and four-horizontal layout.

The style of the entire town is indeed the regulations 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 people.

It is not the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty, but the paper money that is exactly the same as the outside world!

"How is this possible?" Jing Shaohuai was 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 have a guess too." Mi Xiaoying said, the two looked at each other tacitly, and then laughed together.

Jing Shaohuai pinched his chin and said, "No wonder Brother Yu Han asked us to come here. It seems that there are many tricks here."

Mi Xiaoying pointed at the pedestrians in the distance and said, "It is true that we are isolated from the world, but it is limited to most people. And there is such a small number of people who are not isolated, but have frequent contact with the outside world. Otherwise, how could the tea, salt, glass, ironware and other items here appear here? Let's make an analogy. 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've read too many time-travel novels. This is simply impossible." Jing Shaohuai said immediately: "First, the system does not allow us to have private soldiers and weapons. Secondly, we are good at business wars, but not good at governing the country. Thirdly, the little historical knowledge we have learned is just the fur, which is not enough for practice. Finally, I am afraid that we may even have problems surviving, let alone 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, then this group of people is the breakthrough. Presumably, they really want to go to the outside world. No matter how fertile the soil here is, no matter how much food is produced, the resources must be limited. And the resources outside are unlimited."

Mi Xiaoying said: "I even suspect that this person who is in contact with the outside world is not just now, but has been since the Qing Dynasty. Look at the characteristics of their clothing."

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

Yin Yinuo and Jing Shaohuai nodded together to express their agreement.

At this time, a sound of wheels turning came from the distance of the street.

The three people looked up.

Wow!

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 getting richer and richer."

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

"The Zhang family is getting more and more prosperous."

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 the Zhang family go? This car looks so rare!"

"I heard that he went to the outside world! This car is from outside, how can it not be rare? Hey, little girl, which village are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?" The aunt looked at Mi Xiaoying's delicate face, thinking secretly in her heart, such a beautiful girl, probably only deserves to marry into a wealthy family in the town?

"I'm from Lijia Village." Mi Xiaoying replied, "I just came to live with my aunt. By the way, Auntie, aren't people here not allowed to leave? How can the third young master of the Zhang family go out?"

"You just arrived? No wonder you don't know! Most people in our town can't go out, but those who are blessed by the gods can leave." The auntie spoke quickly and said, "The Zhang family has been blessed by the gods for many years. Many of the food, clothes and things we use are brought from outside by the Zhang family! Our town is really thanks to the Zhang family, otherwise, how can we live like this?"

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