Chapter 71:

When troubled times come, the first to be abandoned is the elderly-they have lost their mobility, their bodies are overwhelmed by the long-distance migration, and then the children-as long as the husband and wife are there, the children can be reborn. Generally speaking , The mother will find ways to save her child, but in most cases, she is not able to save the child, and it is the woman in the end.
However, the ratio of women is very low. Poor families cannot support so many children, so once they give birth to a daughter, some of them will be discarded directly. If the family is too poor and only willing to raise sons, drowning girls is even more serious. It's common.
So when Lin Yuan saw the statistics of the male to female ratio, he wanted to go out for a few laps.
There are still too few women.
Now only one of the 160 people is a woman, which also includes the elderly and children under the age of twelve.
This is not a good situation.
There are too many men and society will be unstable. Lin Yuan himself is a man, and of course he knows what men think.
In fact, men’s thinking is well understood. In society, they need to find their own position. Most men position themselves as "protectors".
They will stabilize only when there are objects of protection, which include parents, wives and children.
Most of these men now have no parents.
So if you can't find a woman, without a wife, they will be aggressive.
In short, nothing is pleasing to the eye, and even the smallest things will be fought.
Although there are not many street fights, there are never few private incidents.
Even if Lin Yuan tried his best to cultivate their sense of community, let them be together in everything.
But Lin Yuan also knew that this was just a stopgap measure, like a timed bomb, not knowing when it will explode.
"A lot of people have defected to you now, and there must be women among them." Chen Baisong persuaded him.
Lin Yuan shook his head: "No, it's still too little."
Most of the people who rushed here died on the road. Think about it, many men in the middle of life died on the road. What's more, women with worse physical fitness, especially a poor family, would basically give the best food at home to strong laborers. When they eat, women have not had enough food since childhood and are undernourished. Lin Yuan does not think that their chances of survival are higher than that of men.
When people encounter beasts on the road, women will be left behind. In this way, there are very few women who can safely reach Lin Yuan's jurisdiction. Come one, she is the darling of fate.
"Buy it." Lin Yuan stood up, his brows frowned. Originally, he wanted to crack down on human trafficking, but now it seems that this is the only effective and efficient way now.
The merchants quickly received this decree. Many merchants originally did not accept this kind of business. After all, there was a tooth store before. Besides, the business of merchants was not considered a huge profit, so it was better to sell salt and wine. Even gold and silver jewelry can be sold for a hundred people.
But when the Nan Bodhisattva has spoken, they must also be active.
However, these Xie Zi often steal the limelight from Zhou Fu. One of them is the chairman of the chamber of commerce and the other is the vice chairman. It seems that the relationship between the superior and the subordinate is actually the relationship between the competitors. The businessmen will meet When it's dangerous, they form gangs and are closer than their brothers, but once peace is over, they start fighting each other again, trying to kill each other.
It is best to sell people in winter. Now many poor families in other places want their children to sell their daughters for a living.
Girls cannot sell for a price, only sons can sell them more expensive, so businessmen can buy girls at low prices.
The little girl who is like a flower is like a flower that blooms in the morning, and she can take it away with a handful of grain.
People don't recognize money anymore, they don't recognize copper coins, only food.
Currency can only circulate when it is stable, so Lin Yuan has not yet unified currency.

Sanhua followed the adult obediently, holding her younger sister in her hands. The two of them are skinny like skeletons. No one knows where they will go. Her eldest sister, second sister, and elder brother, They have all been sold. Now there are only parents and the youngest brother left in the family. The younger brother has not been weaned yet. After he is weaned, he may also be sold.
They were rushed together. In addition to her and sister, there were many girls. They brought nothing and there was nothing for them at home. The parents sold them and told them that they could live a good life. .
But they don't know what a good life is.
They want to stay with their parents, even if they can't eat enough to live a so-called good life.
They stayed in place for three days, and some girls were brought in one after another, and then they went on the road. Sanhua hadn't walked such a long way, but despite the long journey, they could eat their stomachs, and they could have four pie a day! Although it is bean dregs cake, but the sauce is smeared on it, they didn't even have to eat bean dregs cake when they were at home.
But they still want to go home.
Although they don't have enough food to go home and have to do a lot of work, they still miss home at night. The girls from the same place gather together, crying and talking about what is in their hometown.
But they quickly didn't want to think about it because they were too tired. Although they had warm clothes, they could eat their stomachs, but the journey was too far away and they could only walk over on their own legs.
When they were brought into the city by the adults, they opened their mouths and looked at everything in front of them in disbelief—they were all from the small village. The people they saw the most were the people in the town. The magnificent building is the brick house of the village chief's house. They have only heard of such a city in stories.
That's a place they won't go to in their entire lives. Maybe they will tell their children stories they've heard when they grow up, get married, and have children.
Sanhua took her sister's hand and poked her head out of the crowd. She didn't know where to look her eyes. Her sister was asking her, "Sister, where are we going?"
Sanhua: "I don't know. Where the adults take us, we will go."
She knew she couldn't go home, it was too far, and she didn't remember going back.
They were led to a big house-very big. She had never seen such a big house in her life. Ten of them slept in a room. They had never seen the bed inside. It was a bunk bed, no one. If they dare to sleep on it, they always feel that they will fall.
So the girls sleep together in two, and the upper bed is empty.
Sanhua and her sister slept together. Fortunately, they were both skinny. Not only could a single bed be squeezed, but there was plenty of surplus. Three people could sleep.
The next day, they were called out, and those under ten years old stood aside, those ten to fifteen years old stood aside, and those over fifteen years old stood aside.
Sanhua looked at her younger sister who was under ten years old being taken away. She cried and begged the adults not to separate her from her younger sister. Her younger sister was too young to work. She was capable. She did the job of two people. Just beg the adults not to separate them.
The adult smiled and said to her: "You are still sleeping in the same place at night, and you have different things during the day."
Sanhua didn't believe it, her parents used to coax her like this, and then the eldest sister disappeared, and then the second elder sister disappeared.
She knelt down and wanted to kowtow to the adult. She innocently thought that as long as the head broke, the adult would return her sister to her.
However, she was pulled up by one hand.
Sanhua looked up and saw a pretty face. Sanhua had never read a book and didn't know a few words, but she heard the elder brother who read in the village said that she only remembered one word. .
Although she doesn't know whether the word describes a man or a woman, she is willing to use the most beautiful vocabulary she knows to describe the person in front of her.
He is very white, his skin is like jade, he is also tall, like a straight tree, where he stands, where is the center of the world, when he raised his eyes, he unconsciously held his breath, even afraid to go straight Depending on his face, it was an aura that could not be described in words, and it was daunting.
Sanhua didn't dare to cry anymore, she opened her mouth and couldn't make a sound.
Then she heard this good-looking person say to her: "Your sister is still young and is going to study. Don't worry, you can see her every night."
Sanhua looked at her stupidly. She didn't believe it just now, but she believed it. She nodded and said very obediently: "Then what am I going to do?"
The man smiled at her: "You can grow up obediently, maybe you will do something, are you afraid of hard work?"
Sanhua quickly said: "No, I'm not afraid, I can do everything! I can farm the land, take care of my brother and sister, feed chickens, and dig wild vegetables. I can do anything!"
The man was still smiling at her: "You are great."
Sanhua blushed, is she good? No one had praised her before, no matter how much she did, no one had praised her.
"Good girl, go and stand there." The man reminded her gently.
San Hua blushed and walked over, but her gaze followed him closely.
When Lin Yuan arrived, he saw a skinny little girl about to kowtow to a steward. He pulled a hand, said a few words, and then asked the steward: "Have you counted? How many people have come? ?"
The steward replied: "A total of three thousand eight hundred people."
This is the first batch.
Lin Yuan's brows finally stretched slightly.
People will want to get married when they stabilize. Now, in the two most affluent places in Gaoyou, Taizhou, the relationship between men and women is the most harmonious. People get married almost every day.
He doesn't worry about people choosing to be single.
In modern times, if there are fewer people getting married and fewer people giving birth, perhaps the above will be a headache, because newborns represent new forces, and the reduction of new lives means that society will age in decades, and then it will start to decline. However, for a country, it is almost fatal.
But now, starting a family and starting a career is something deeply in people's minds.
Once they have money and a foothold, they will want to start a family, regardless of gender.
A country is made up of small families, and these small families have established social stability.
Between men and women, love entwines.
This is not something Lin Yuan can control.
Lin Yuan just tried his best to provide them with the soil to produce love.
He hoped that people would unite because of love and give birth to love.
Lin Yuan smiled in charge.
The manager was taken aback, what did Nan Bodhisattva think of him? South Bodhisattva seems to like male style?
But he is a lot of age, and he has two sons. How can he veiledly reject the Nan Bodhisattva without offending him?
Hey, the manager sighed in his heart, it is really troublesome to be so good.
※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※
Thanks to Ju Ziyi, Da°Cabbage, Beer Duck, and the mine
Thanks to Linglongye’s rocket launcher