Along the way, the scenery is unique, and what he saw and heard along the way not only allowed the group of natives around Li Tianyang to broaden their horizons, but also gave Li Tianyang the opportunity to get close to the real life of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Yangzhou Thin Horse was not fortunate enough to see, but the high-ranking households, buildings and pavilions located in the periphery of Yangzhou City, even including the stone carvings with pestles at the door and the gilt plaques hanging at the door, all showed off the extravagance of the gentry class to Li Tianyang.

On the other hand, the farther north you go, the more homeless beggars in the city beggars, dressed in tattered clothes and carrying a dirty bamboo pole or stick, support their emaciated bodies, cowering and begging for a bite of food from passers-by.

Even the natives found it inconceivable that there were still people in such a prosperous and extravagant city who could not eat, and that the beggars were good at their own devices, but did not know how to support themselves, but chased after outsiders to beg for food, which surprised the tribal chiefs who never raised idlers in the group.

The Ming Dynasty was heavily taxed and labored, and not all beggars were lazy, but they were sometimes much more comfortable as beggars than they earned from their hard work.

When Li Tianyang explained the reason for this clearly, many natives suddenly realized that at the same time, they also lost a little bit of awe for the Ming Dynasty, it turned out that even in such a large and rich country, there were so many unfairness.

Of course, all kinds of Ming officers and soldiers who could occasionally be encountered along the way, as well as the Ming people who were not counted within the towering city walls, still shocked these tribal patriarchs.

In any of the cities that we passed along the way, the people who lived in them, and the officers and soldiers who were all over the city walls, were probably much larger than the entire population of these tribes combined.

Now it seems that the illusion that he once thought that his tribe was developing well and that he was powerful was so ridiculous after he really saw the outside world. Just like the story that the Bengang people taught them, they natives, like the frog that grew up at the bottom of the well, were too self-righteous.

Seeing that the distance from the capital is getting closer and closer, the changes in the customs and customs of the north and south, and the huge land of the Ming Dynasty, these indigenous people, who have never only focused on their own tribe's one-third of an acre, finally understand how huge and wonderful the outside world is.

Li Tianyang is also sighing, and has been telling how the Ming Dynasty is from other people's mouths, and until now, he can see the true face of the Ming Dynasty with his own eyes.

Fortunately, because of the development of commerce, although the life of the common people is a little hard, as long as they are willing to work hard, they can always maintain their lives.

However, the further north went, the situation became worse and worse, and the number of homeless people and beggars gradually increased, and at most, Li Tianyang even saw hundreds of people gathered in a porridge field outside a small county town, vying for gentry to donate gentry for a living.

The weather is not very good, across several provinces, Li Tianyang they have heard a lot of natural and man-made disasters, the bottom province is flooded, the upper province is in drought, and there are even locust plagues and other insect tides, which is in the era of no pesticides, not to mention the lethality.

Although the land along the route is not barren, many of them have been converted to cash crops such as mulberry cotton, and only a few are grown with grain and vegetables, especially in the south, where commerce and workshops are booming.

Without the supply of the granary in the south of the Yangtze River, the Northeast is now in the hands of the barbarian Jurchens, and it has not been developed, and the prices in the north are rising day by day, and life is more difficult than in the south of the Yangtze River.

There is no bleak scene of the end times, but judging from the vision of the effort and the historical view he brings, it can actually be regarded as a harbinger of the end times.

A labor tax crushed the people at the bottom, and all the land that should have been planted with food was converted to grow profitable cash crops, so who should the huge people of the Ming Empire find to provide for it!

Not to mention the changes in the climate today, even Dayuan Jilong Port, which is deep in the subtropics, is extremely cold this winter, not to mention the cities and people further north. At this time, just after July, the weather in the north has begun to turn cooler, and it looks like late autumn in previous years.

However, along the way, Li Tianyang also saw a lot of business opportunities from it, one of which can almost be said to be a profitable business according to Li Tianyang's intuition, that is, to grow grain and sell it in northern cities.

During the Wanli period, one tael of silver could buy more than two stone of coarse grain, and fine grains such as rice and wheat could be bought at least eight yuan or so. But in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the price of grain in the north, one stone of coarse grain, can almost be sold to the price of fine grain, and fine grain is more expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it at all, unless it is a New Year's holiday, or the home of a dignitary, there are very few people who buy it at other times.

The further north you go, the more serious this situation becomes, and the price of this grain is also rising, seeing that the autumn harvest is imminent, many people really can't open the pot at home, and have to harvest part of the grain that has not yet fully matured to make a living. But in this case, their harvest this year will definitely be affected again, and next year will inevitably be even more difficult, and then they will have to find other ways to make up for the shortfall.

So repeatedly, even if it is an ordinary well-off family, I am afraid that they can't withstand such a toss, if there is a slight natural and man-made disaster, waiting for their results, it is not optimistic, and it is not impossible to become a homeless person in the end.

After a few years of development, in addition to the two strongholds of Bengang and Jilonggang and the surrounding affiliated villages planting grain on a large scale, the Bengang Alliance has also reclaimed a large area of land to grow grain after the domestication of Bengang professionals over the years.

Today's alliance member tribes, in addition to meeting the needs of their own tribes, can also provide a large amount of food to be transported to Bengang to exchange for the materials needed by their tribes, or simply exchange it for silver money and save it in case they need it.

After all, with the humble ability of the indigenous people to build houses, it is still very difficult to build a damp-proof granary. In the past, they were worried that there would be not enough food in the tribe, but now the aborigines are worried about whether the food at home will return to the tide and become moldy, so the surplus food can be exchanged for the materials they need, or the silver money that can buy anything, can alleviate the worries of the aborigines about the disadvantage of storing food.

At the same time, the most important point is that Dayuan Island is very suitable for growing food in all seasons, even in the relatively cold winter, the temperature on Dayuan Island can also grow cold-tolerant plants such as potatoes and wheat.

With the members of the Bengang Agricultural Science Institute continuing to tap the potential of exotic crops, and with the help of various manures that have been specialized in research and preparation, a piece of land is planted in rotation for three seasons, which is not a dream in Dayuan Island.

I didn't expect there to be a recommendation, I didn't know it myself, I should be more this week, everyone help me up!!

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