When Hai Rui heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Your three tricks are not ordinary difficult."

"This is to save the nation and survive, and to rebel against the will of heaven, how can it be not difficult?" Zhao Hao smiled and said, "The first thing is that Zhongcheng doesn't have to worry about. I set up Jiangnan Agricultural College and do this. I believe that in five to ten years, I can complete the preparations before the promotion of seed selection, seedling cultivation, disaster research and other promotions."

"Is that?" Hai Rui couldn't help but say: "It's the one you said before, corn and sweet potato?"

"There are potatoes." Zhao Hao smiled and nodded, "There was only corn in the Agricultural College before. Before, I went to Japan and got potatoes from the Florian boat. As for sweet potatoes, I have arranged for someone to visit Nanyang, and I will definitely find them in a few years at most."

"Okay, when the seed is out, you must notify me as soon as possible." Hai Rui patted Zhao Hao's shoulder and said, "If these things can be so amazing to tell you, then you will have great merits and will not be afraid of any trouble!"

"Not that exaggerated." Zhao Hao was not so optimistic, shook his head and said lightly: "These coarse grains can only make the people unable to starve to death, and the premise is that the court should not exploit them too heavily. Otherwise, they will have no way to survive... Sweet potatoes and corn cannot be paid. So the key is to stop the boiling!"

"You mean immigrating to the south?" Hai Rui asked in a deep voice.

"Yes." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "But as Zhongcheng was worried, not only is the limited population that Jiangnan can carry, it is even more impossible to immigrate overseas overnight, and it requires a lot of hard preliminary work. Under the ideal state of eliminating all resistance, it is the limit to be able to move out 5 million people within thirty years."

"Five million is an exaggeration..." Hai Rui gasped and said: "There are more than 100,000 people in a year. Such a large population loss is impossible for the government to ignore."

"Hmph, they still have the face! The people really can't survive, who will leave their hometown?" Li Shizhen couldn't help but say angrily: "The total number of refugees in Susong has exceeded one million, and no government official shouted to capture people!"

"The land has been annexed by the royal family. Will they be taken back and farmed for the vassal kings?" Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"Everything has a degree. Needless to say, the government is actually happy to see that a small number of people who cannot survive will reduce the burden on the government and ease the conflicts a little." Hai Rui said in a deep voice:

"After all, the conflict cannot be resolved, and it is also a way to let the conflict disappear. But with more people fleeing, who will farm to support those royal families? Those royal families like blood-sucking leeches are going to cause trouble! At that time, the government will have to stop the refugees from fleeing, and even put pressure on Jiangnan to repatriate refugees."

"What kind of relatives of the vassal kings, like pigs!" Li Shizhen spat and said hatefully: "You can also give birth to children!"

From the standpoint of the people of the Ming Dynasty, there is no one who does not hate the royal family and vassal kings. No wonder Li Shizhen is so angry:

"Just because they have the blood of the Zhu family, they can enjoy the support of the court from generation to generation, and rely on the status of royal relatives to occupy land and plunder the people. Now their number can double in about twenty years. In a few decades, it would be strange if the Ming Dynasty did not destroy its country!"

As he said that, Li Shizhen couldn't help but question: "This is a truth that ordinary people understand. Why can't the court see it?"

"How can the court not see it? My predecessor Lin Zhongcheng made it clear in the memorial of the 41st year of Jiajing. The world supplies 4 million stones of grain from the capital and the nine borders every year, but the grain from the royal palaces is eight million stones per year. The biggest expense of the imperial court is to support these royal families. Specifically, Shanxi reserves 1.9 million stones of tax grain every year, but the grain consumed by the local royal palaces is more than three million stones. Henan Province stores 940,000 stones of grain, and local vassal kings consume more than one million meters..."

"In other words, the four provinces of Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi are far from enough to support the royal family. How can there be money to promote water conservancy and save people's livelihood? If there is a little natural disaster, it will be a disaster." Hai Rui sighed:

"As such an obvious thing, it's like an elephant breaking into the house. Can the dynasty's court not see it? They also saw it and were anxious. The "Regulations on the Religious Religion" promulgated in the 44th year of Jiajing was the result of the unremitting efforts of Lin Zhongcheng and other officials. The regulations have 67 articles in total, and the core points are two. One is to strictly limit the number of wives and concubines of the vassal kings. Even if they take concubines, they must be approved by the Ministry of Personnel. All children who are not wives and concubines will not be awarded titles. The second is to reduce the salary of the vassal kings and reduce the expenses of the royal palace."

"This reform is extremely strong, and it has indeed reduced the pressure from various provinces, but the burden on the people has not decreased, but has intensified." Speaking of this, Hai Rui's face, which was always full of fighting spirit, rarely showed a frustrated expression.

"Why?" Li Shizhen asked in confusion.

"The vassals and the vassal kings were dissatisfied with their own reparations from the people. They used their royal family members to invade the land of the people with various means and accept the landlords' contributions. They were lawless and merged in large numbers, which forced the people to go into exile."

Hai Rui said depressedly: "And this time, the court and the local government are not willing to wade into this muddy water anymore. Anyway, the people are suffering in the end."

"Yes, the disaster of the vassal kings did not improve, but became more and more serious." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "If they do not resolve them, there will be no solution to this crisis."

"What are you good at?" Hai Rui glanced at Zhao Hao.

"I really don't." Zhao Hao spread his hands and said, "If you look at the world, only Hai Gong can solve this kind of thing. Every child is worthy of you to shake the flag and shout."

In the room, the old lady's cough suddenly sounded, obviously she didn't want her son to wade into the muddy water.

"Grandma, don't worry, we're just gossiping." Zhao Hao hurriedly said, "If you are not in his position, you will not do your own affairs. There are no vassal kings in the jurisdiction of Haizhongcheng. He can't even control him."

"Haha, good boy, don't think grandma talks too much." Xie smiled embarrassedly and said to Zhao Hao: "Grandma tells you that the older generation has a saying that outsiders should not get involved in housework. The old woman wants the royal family's surname Zhu, and the emperor's family, and the distance is close and close. Whether you are Ruxian, you are an outsider after all, and you can't get a good one."

"Hey, grandma, I remember." Zhao Hao nodded with a hurried smile and said, "Let's not care."

He is here to see the joy today, not to make things worse. Now Hai Rui doesn’t care about the affairs of the vassal state, he just starts a topic and will talk about it later if he has the chance.

The three of them skipped this unsettling topic, and Li Shizhen asked Zhao Hao what he could do for the upcoming Little Binghe.

"There are too many things that can be done, no less than Mr. Meng He." Zhao Hao smiled and said in a deep voice: "There will be a major epidemic after the disaster, and there will be no less plague in the future. For each success of the projects studied by Jiangnan Medical College, dozens or millions of people will be saved in the future."

"When it comes to this, you must go to Jiangnan Hospital when you look back. We have a lot of things that you want to hear your comments." Li Shizhen emphasized again.

"It must be." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "I have invited me one after another, and it seems that I have made a great new discovery."

"You will know then." Li Shizhen kept her insincere.

After having dinner at Hai Rui's house and chatting until noon, Zhao Hao and Li Shizhen said goodbye with red eggs.

Although Hai Rui still wants to discuss the issue of Xiao Binghe, he will return to Suzhou next year to continue to supervise the work. Of course, Zhao Hao cannot let the women of the Hai family hold a grudge and have to return Hai Rui to them.

On the way to send Li Shizhen back to the Duke of Wei’s Mansion, Zhao Hao suddenly asked: “Listen to what you said just now, Duke of Wei is almost out of the way?”

"It's only been these few days." Li Shizhen said lightly: "It's all up to the precious medicinal materials to keep your life alive. The mansion doesn't want him to leave in the first month of the year, which is unlucky."

"..." Zhao Hao was stunned for a while, and nodded and smiled bitterly: "Yes, I can't celebrate the New Year in the future. Then I'll stay in Jinling for a while, so as not to come back."

"That's the best, let's go back together at that time." Li Shizhen would not miss any opportunity to discuss medical science with Zhao Hao.

After sending Lao Li back, Zhao Hao specially asked Gao Wu to drive to the Bell and Drum Tower, Caijia Lane, these places where he had fought, and he was delayed until it was almost dark before returning to Xiaocang Mountain.

As soon as the carriage entered the yard of Liuyunshanju, five golden flowers were wearing very thin dresses waiting for him to come back in the cold wind.

"What are you doing? Go in and talk." But Zhao Hao felt so distressed. "Where is learning from Lianpo? It's not like it." They are all shirtless and whip-carrying.

He persuaded all of his words and persuaded the five girls into the warm villa. Seeing them all blushing with cold faces, crouching on the sofa, it was like a child who had made a mistake and was about to be spanked. No matter how big Mr. Zhao had his opinions, he was gone, not to mention that he didn't have much opinion.

"Okay, okay, don't be sad, hurry up and drink some ginger tea, don't catch a cold." Zhao Hao asked Xiao Yun'er and the other one to pour tea for them.

"Brother, are you really angry?" Li Mingyue said with swollen eyes.

"We opened a company just for fun, but I didn't expect to make you so angry." Jiang Xueying wiped her tears and said.

"I thought you were not back." Xiao Zhuzi held her heart and felt sad.

"We were wrong..." Secretary Ma and Qiaoqiao admitted their mistakes sincerely. Their identities are different from the three girls, and they are already Zhao Hao's people.

"Oh..." The girl was soft-hearted when she cried, not to mention that the five were crying together. Zhao Hao sighed helplessly: "I'm not angry, this is a good thing."

This is a good thing. First of all, it means that the five wives can't escape. Besides, it's not beautiful enough to be able to marry five wives? How many nails can he make? Can his wife bear it?

Keep your current state and can rest for a big week in the future. If there are more, you will have to stay all year round. Who can bear it?

The good mentality of the old Zhao family allows him to always look at problems positively...
Chapter completed!