For the elders, the first consideration and suspicion in conducting military operations is probably infectious diseases.

Military factors, not to mention their advanced science and technology, even if they have a grasp and understanding of the future political situation of various countries, it is enough for them to reap the benefits of it.

Economic factors are not a problem, how can the land that is willing to let the elders start first is a poor place? Or there is no crushing potential, of course, it is a good place for the most abundant harvest.

As for the population, race, religion, naturally it is all right, in the face of the world's most populous country in this era, time and migration will solve everything.

What they fear most is contagion.

The legendary Ebola virus from the African continent, although HIV is far away, but in places like Southeast Asia, the Japanese devils and American devils hated it on the spot, and the harm of infectious diseases was not a few.

The general reason is that naturally there is also a hot weather, all kinds of things grow easily, and it is natural that crops and cattle and sheep will grow happily, but correspondingly, the virus will also grow happily.

Why did Xu Hao, who went to Europe, be willing to be attacked by some "Shi Lezhi" elders as a traitor, and also go to Europe to sell blood and liver to help Europe and help them build a health system?

In the future, Europe is definitely the focus of the expansion of the elders, and it has been proved that Europe that led the industrial revolution can not only create countless wealth in the future, but also an important military and political force, for the elders, since they do not intend to engage in the ambition of dominating the world, but to go to the plan of integrating the whole world, then the strategy of the Americans in later generations is the most perfect, garrisoning, from time to time to conduct an exercise, maybe can give a certain autonomy, but through currency, culture, words and deeds, occupy the foundation of Europe.

In this regard, the elders are still confident, last year, only in the imperial capital, the imperial capital with a population of one million people gave birth to 20,000 babies, this is still in the imperial capital of a large number of migrant workers, as well as people who have not yet married wives, it is expected that the baby boom will not weaken, in the future as more and more people marry daughters-in-law, this number will soar to a terrible number, at least now, Zhong Jiajia's training of midwives is already at full capacity, are not enough.

That is to say, in terms of population, in the late Ming Dynasty, the population of the Ming Dynasty, accounting for about 30 to 20 percent of the world's total, is difficult to find out naturally because of how many American Indians the Europeans slaughtered.

Under this baby boom, the population of Chinese will increase significantly, in fact, in the past two or three years, with the emergence of penicillin, the mortality rate, especially the infant mortality rate, has begun to decline.

According to one person, with the fertility traditions of the Chinese, the benefits of government subsidies to encourage childbearing, and the existence of those hidden households, China's land is not the same massacre carried out by the Manchus in Jiangnan and Sichuan, and the total population is estimated to be between 50 million and 80 million.

The Ming Dynasty carried out three large-scale population statistics, Hongwu 26 years that is, 1393 the national population of 60 million, Hongzhi 4 years that is, 1491 53 million, Wanli 6 years that is, 1578 60 million.

There is bound to be something wrong with this number.

The first is to evade conscription, that is to say, a village, if the patriarch has a strong surname, it will instantly become a violent group, fighting or something, and fighting against the government is also more indiscriminately shouting grievances, obviously attacking the police can shout at the police to beat people, and then find a big V to wash the floor, which is naturally a huge population black hole.

As a result, forced labor will further squeeze those with small surnames, resulting in inequality between the rich and the poor.

Moreover, there are royal families, nobles, people who serve the palace or the royal family, and nobles, bureaucrats, and military officers who have a large number of slaves in their families, and so on, and these people are not registered in the Yellow Book, and there are millions of active military households stationed in the guard posts and a large number of rural vagrants, which are not included in the statistics.

Hiding one's name and finding a place to work and live is a common feature of this era.

Therefore, according to the elders' predictions, within five years, with the inclusion of the hukou system, a large number of fugitives will automatically begin to enter the system to replenish the various welfare guarantees without counting the hukou.

And once the national rule is completed, after the elders grasp education and health, the expansion of the population must only be a matter of time, and they will not commit the posterity, because the improvement of education leads to the increase of the age of marriage and childbearing, and the general embarrassment of refusing to have children, the group of knowledge and creativity is unwilling to give birth, and the group that refuses to touch scientific knowledge at all has swelled five times after the 90s, and finally swallowed the Republic of Europa with the weapon of the womb.

Under the education map of the elders, the population is divided into several grades, and general education will popularize all children in the country, but only the most hard-working and intelligent elites among them can begin to get in touch with more advanced knowledge, some of them will study cutting-edge science that they do not know much in the 21st century, and others will learn how to manage, how to do business, and how to fight.

That group can grow savagely fourfold in 20 years, relying on the fact that young people do not go to any university, but only read the so-called scriptures and lie down and eat alms, or make trouble and attack under the command of the elders.

Of course, there are also discordant routines that make the elders very dissatisfied.

In a small pavilion, on the stone table in the middle, a red copper hot pot is placed in the middle, the charcoal fire is constantly burning, there are many ingredients boiling in the pot, it is sizzling, the pavilion is located in a vast garden, there is a pool of water in front of it, and there are fish in the activity, just opposite, there are several men and women are playing and singing, playing music.

Singing is a Suzhou dialect southern song that can make people soft, anyway, people who listen to it don't understand, but this tune is very good, but you can also enjoy it.

The pot is not a traditional shabu-shabu hot pot, but a variety of meats such as chicken, squid, pork kidney, goose intestines, shrimp, etc., which are made into a variety of seasonings without dipping sauce, and you can eat them and take a sip of the drink next to them, which seems to be very comfortable.

"Basheng hot pot, it's really good," Li Xiangqian wiped his sweat, burped with satisfaction, and said: "Actually, this Basheng hot pot is very different all over the country, Henan people have Henan versions, Sichuan people have Sichuan versions, but the Suzhou version is really good." ”

At this time, because Chinese hot pot has not yet introduced chili peppers, the main taste is basically fresh, and the taste matching that needs to be considered is very important, which is much more demanding than the technical content of shabu-shabu in later generations.

After executing Cao Juren's family in Jiangyin, Li Xiangqian did not return to the north, nor did he go north along the Yangtze River to Nanjing, but went south for hundreds of miles and went directly to Suzhou.

When I arrived in Suzhou, I didn't bother to find any accommodation, but came directly to a garden.

Humble Administrator's Garden.

Li Xiangqian tasted the aroma and said: "This Humble Administrator's Garden, maybe many people don't know, this is the prototype of the Grand View Garden, but unfortunately, whoever lives is unlucky, in fact, it's not that the place is bad, but that a person who buys this garden must not be a person who wants to make a career, well, this point doesn't have to be asked." ”

Li Xiangjun sighed and said: "Originally, I had only seen this garden from a distance, but I didn't think of today, so I just handed over a note at random, and people hurriedly invited me in." ”

Li Xiangqian said: "Wang Xinyi died the year before last, and no one bought it here for a while, and the Wang family actually couldn't maintain it here for a long time." ”

Compared to the place where the prince could be received in later generations, this place is much more desolate, after all, it is a place that has been abandoned for many years, and it has not undergone such repairs as in later generations.

The Humble Administrator's Garden is indeed very interesting in Chinese history, but it is also a suspicion of obstruction.

The original site of the Humble Administrator's Garden was the Horse Mansion of Zhang Shicheng's son-in-law who failed in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the so-called Wen Zhengming, the four great talents of Jiangnan, initially helped the original owner to supervise and preside over the gardening project, and then the owner's son was not angry, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling lost the family business, and the Humble Administrator's Garden became a place for gambling, and finally the Humble Administrator's Garden was mortgaged to outsiders as gambling funds.

Later, this garden was purchased by Wang Xinyi, an official from Suzhou, after Wang Xinyi died the year before last, there was no time to find a buyer for a while, in the history of the original time and space, Qian Qianyi bought it and lived with Liu Ru, but now, Qian Qianyi lost power, and naturally went back to his hometown to be a landlord.

In the original time and space, the owners of the Humble Administrator's Garden can be said to be all surging big people, and there are rumors that whoever buys it is unlucky.

After Qian Qianyi's death, the Qian clan tried to encroach on the Qian family's property under Liu Rushi's name. Liu Ru committed suicide by hanging a beam.

Chen Zhixuan, who bought the Humble Administrator's Garden, was killed by my Qing Dynasty, and later Chen Zhixuan's son sold the Humble Administrator's Garden to Wu Sangui's son-in-law, and it is also interesting to talk about this son-in-law.

When Wu Sangui was young, he married someone, made a marriage contract, and married his daughter to the son of a colleague, but then the world was in turmoil, and his son-in-law Wang Yongning's family was ruined, and only this marriage book remained, so after finding the door, Wu Sangui looked at this man who had nothing, and finally married his daughter and gave a lot of dowry. You hurriedly ran away to support your father-in-law, or you quickly found a way to run away, or you could just turn yourself in, but you were scared to death like this.

The Humble Administrator's Garden was naturally confiscated, and my respect for property ownership in the Qing Dynasty was basically none, and the next owner became Cao Xueqin's father, who naturally built it on a large scale, and the Humble Administrator's Garden was believed by many people to be the prototype of the Grand View Garden in the Dream of Red Mansions.

Red scholars believe that Cao Xueqin used the Dream of Red Mansions to vaguely reflect the political fate of the Cao family, and some red scholars believe that Cao Xueqin was born and raised in the Humble Administrator's Garden.

Later, the Humble Administrator's Garden was converted in the hands of several not very well-known officials and wealthy businessmen, and it was not too famous, but the master below him was very well-known: Li Xiucheng, the loyal king, led the Taiping Heavenly Army to conquer Suzhou, and lived in the Humble Administrator's Garden.

Of course, our Comrade Li Xiucheng was not lucky, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fell into a strange circle from the very beginning and slowly went to failure.

As Li Hongzhang, who defeated Li Xiucheng, he also lived in the original Zhongwang Mansion, but the fate of this butcher was not very good, and he signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki and did not say anything about his infamy, in fact, all the Westernization movements presided over by this person were almost all money-making movements, and it could not be said that he was unlucky in the end.

After the Xinhai Revolution, the Jiangsu Provincial Council was established in the Humble Administrator's Garden, and during the Anti-Japanese War, it was the traitor of the Jiangsu Provincial Restoration Government.

Until 1949, the Humble Administrator's Garden has actually been divided into three parts, dilapidated, the original owner obediently donated it, changed it into a park, the ticket money is not expensive, this ended the history of the Humble Administrator's Garden who lives in who is unlucky.

In fact, most of the time, the people who buy this place may not live in it, and they will be unlucky, but it is indeed a witness to Chinese history.

"If you like it, you can buy it, but if you want to be able to live here, you need to renovate it."

Li Xiangjun said with a smile: "I have lived in the imperial capital for a long time, and when I return home, I am also a little unaccustomed. ”

"It's nothing more than water and electricity, well, by the way, did you find your brother?"

Li Xiangjun sat there all of a sudden, without speaking, her appetite was naturally not as good as Li Xiangqian, who had just arrived in Suzhou after a long journey, and was sitting here at this time, enjoying the singing in the distance, watching the people on the pillow gobbling up food, but when asked about the purpose of the trip, he bowed his head and was silent.

Li Xiangqian said: "Do they dare to deny you? ”

"I found someone, but I didn't dare to come to the door."

"Why?"

"Looking at it from a distance, my brother's house has a small courtyard, a wife, and children, although it is only a few glances, but I want to live a stable life, I go back, what is it, disturb their lives."

Li Xiangqian said: "I'll help you find an identity, just say that you came back from getting married in Beijing?" ”

Li Xiangjun said: "I am afraid that many people will remember the events of that year, and they will be remembered in vain, but it will add trouble to my brother's family in vain, and it will remind people that he has a little sister, who has been a well-known prostitute in the Jiangnan area all these years." ”

"It's not your fault."

Li Xiangjun shook his head and said, "How can anyone tell the difference." ”

It's not that you can't tell the difference, but it's lazy to tell the difference, and it's a very common thing for people to turn other people's pain into their own joy.

Li Xiangqian knows how ridiculous this is.

"It doesn't matter, we can play in the south for a few more days, because something happened, I plan to go back a few days late, let's go for a walk, this Suzhou, but there are too many good things."

(End of chapter)