When troubled times come, the first to be abandoned are the elderly - who have lost their mobility and 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 regenerate, and generally, the mother She will do everything possible to protect her child, but in most cases, she has no ability to protect her child, and it is the woman in the end.
But the ratio of women is very low, and poor families cannot support so many children, so once a daughter is born, some of them will be discarded directly. common.
So when Lin Yuan saw the statistics of the male-to-female ratio, he wanted to go out and run for a few laps.
There are still too few women.
Now only one of the 160 people is a woman, including the elderly and children under the age of twelve.
This is not a good situation.
If there are too many men, society will be unstable. Lin Yuan is a man himself, so 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, including parents, wives and children.
Most of these men now have no parents.
So without women, without wives, they are aggressive.
In short, everything is not pleasing to the eye, and a little thing will be a big fight.
Although there are not many street fights, there are no less private incidents.
Even if Lin Yuan tried his best to cultivate their sense of community and let them do everything together.
But Lin Yuan also knew that this was just an expedient measure, like a ticking time bomb that would explode at some point.
"There are a lot of people defecting to you now, and there must be women among them." Chen Bosong persuaded him.
Lin Yuan shook his head: "No, it's still too little."
Most of the people who came here died on the road. Think about it, there are a lot of middle-aged men who died on the road, not to mention the women with poorer health, especially a poor family, who will basically give the best food at home to the strong laborers. , Women have been underfed and malnourished since childhood, but Lin Yuan would not think that their chances of survival are higher than men.
When people encounter wild beasts on the road, women will also be left behind. In this way, there are very few women who can safely reach the land under Lin Yuan's jurisdiction. If there is one, she is the darling of fate.
"Buy." Lin Yuan stood up, his brows furrowed. He originally wanted to crack down on human trafficking, but now it seems that this is the only effective and efficient way.
The merchants quickly received this decree. Many merchants did not accept such business originally. After all, there was a tooth shop before. Besides, the business of buying and selling people is not considered a huge profit. It is better to sell salt and wine. Even gold and silver jewelry can be sold for a hundred people.
But Nan Bodhisattva has spoken, and they must also be active.
However, these Xie Zichang stole Zhou Fu's limelight. 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 boss and the subordinate is actually the relationship between competitors. Businessmen will encounter In times of danger, they form gangs that are closer than brothers, but once the peace is settled, they start fighting each other again, trying to kill each other.
Winter is the best time to sell people, and now many poor people in other places want to sell their children and daughters to make a living.
Girls can't be sold at a high price, only sons can sell them more expensive, so merchants can buy girls at low prices.
The little girl like flowers and jade is like flowers blooming in the morning, and you only need a handful of food to take away.
People don't recognize money anymore, they don't even recognize copper coins, they only recognize food.
Currency can only be circulated when it is stable, so Lin Yuan has not yet unified currency.
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Sanhua obediently followed behind the adults, holding the younger sister in her hand. The two sisters were as thin as skeletons. No one knew where they would go. They were all sold, and now there are only parents and the youngest brother left in the family. The little brother has not been weaned yet. When he is weaned, he may also be sold.
They were driven together, and besides her and her sister, there were many girls, they brought nothing and nothing at home to give them, the parents sold them and told them that they could have a good life .
But they don't even know what a good day is.
They want to stay with their parents, even if they don't have enough to eat, they can't live a so-called good life.
They stayed in place for three days, and girls were brought in one after another, and then they set off on the road. Sanhua hadn't traveled such a long way, but although the road was long, they could have enough to eat, and they could have four pieces of cake a day! Although it was okara cake, but it was covered with sauce, when they were at home, they didn't even have to eat okara cake.
But they still want to go home.
Although they can't get enough to eat and have to do a lot of work at home, they still miss home at night. Girls from the same place will gather together, crying and talking about what's in their hometown.
But they soon stopped thinking about it, because they were too tired. Although they had clothes to keep out the cold, they could still eat their stomachs, but the distance was too long, so they could only walk on their own legs.
When they were brought into the city by the adults, their mouths were wide open, and they looked at everything in front of them in disbelief—they were all from small villages, and the people they had seen the most were the people in the town, the most magnificent they had ever seen. The building of the village is the brick house of the village chief. They have only heard of such a city in stories.
It was a place they would never go in their entire lives. Maybe when they grew up, married, had children, they would tell their children the stories they had heard.
Sanhua took her sister's hand and stuck her head out in the crowd. She didn't know where to look with her eyes. Her sister was asking him, "Sister, where are we going?"
Sanhua: "I don't know, we will go wherever the adults take us."
She knew she couldn't go home, it was too far, and she didn't remember going back.
They were led into a big house - very big, she had never seen such a big house in her life, ten of them slept in one room, the bed inside they had never seen before, it was a bunk, no one dared When they sleep on it, they always feel that they will fall down.
So the girls slept together two by two and the bed above was empty.
Sanhua and her sister slept together, but fortunately, they were both small and small, so a single bed could not only squeeze in, but also had plenty of room for three people to sleep.
The next day, they were called out, and those under ten stood aside, those between ten and fifteen, and those over fifteen.
Sanhua saw that her younger sister, who was under ten years old, was 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 could do it. She did it for two. Just ask the adults not to separate them.
The grown-up smiled and said to her: "You are still sleeping in the same place at night, and you have your own business during the day."
Sanhua doesn't believe it, her parents used to coax her like this, then the eldest sister disappeared, and then the second sister disappeared.
She knelt down and wanted to kowtow to the adults. She naively thought that as long as she broke her head, the adults would return her sister to her.
But she was pulled up by a hand.
Sanhua looked up and saw a good-looking face. Sanhua had never read a book and didn't know a few words, but she heard the elder brother in the village who was reading say that she only remembered one word, and she was graceful and graceful. .
Although she didn't know whether the word was used to describe men or women, she was willing to use the most beautiful words she knew to describe the person in front of her.
He is very white, his skin is like jade, he is also tall, like a straight and upright tree, where he stands is the center of the world. Looking at his face, it is an imposing manner that cannot be described in words, which is daunting.
Sanhua didn't dare to cry anymore, she opened her mouth and couldn't make any sound.
Then she heard the 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, who didn't believe it just now, actually 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 can do something, are you afraid of hard work?"
Sanhua said quickly, "No, I'm not afraid, I can do anything! I can farm, 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 amazing."
Sanhua's face blushed, is she amazing? No one had ever praised her before, no matter how much she did, no one praised her.
"Good girl, go over there and stand." The man reminded her gently.
Sanhua walked over with a blushing face, but her eyes closely followed him.
When Lin Yuan arrived, he happened to see 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 came? ?"
The steward replied, "There are 3,800 people in total."
This is the first batch.
Lin Yuan's brows finally stretched.
People will want to start a family after they are stable. Now, Gaoyou and Taizhou, the two richest places, have the most harmonious relationship between men and women, and people marry almost every day.
He's not worried about people choosing to be single.
In modern times, if there are fewer people getting married and having fewer children, it may be a headache for those above, because newborns represent a new force, and the reduction of new lives means that society will enter an aging society in decades, and then it will begin to decline. Now, it's almost fatal to a country.
But now, starting a family and starting a business is something deeply embedded in people's minds.
Once they have money and a foothold, they want to start a family, male or female.
A country is made up of small families, and these small families establish the stability of society.
Between men and women, love is entwined.
This is not something Lin Yuan can control.
Lin Yuan just tried his best to provide them with the soil to develop love.
He hoped that people would be united by love and procreate by love.
Lin Yuanchong smiled in charge.
The manager was taken aback, why did Nan Bodhisattva look at him like this? Nan Bodhisattva seems to like male style
But he was already a lot of age, and he had two sons. How could he conceal the rejection of Nan Bodhisattva without offending him
Hey, the person in charge sighed in his heart, he is so good, but it is really troublesome.