Chapter 843 The different Ming Dynasty At this time, the aesthetics of the Ming people are very different from those of later generations, because of the whole Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has a deep hatred for the feminine beauty of the readers.Of course, because Quan Xu clearly stipulates that it is forbidden for women to bind their feet, and the aesthetic view of petite as beauty has also been reversed, both men and women are tall and beautiful.Especially for white beauties, from the perspective of Quan Xu's later generations, these white people, without exception, are all the kind that are extremely ugly, with bucket waists, huge and plump breasts, and it is quite a mountain of meat moving when walking.The reason for this is actually because of the national conditions and policies of the Ming Dynasty, as the people become richer and richer, the cost of marriage is getting higher and higher.The daughter of a serious family is unwilling to be a concubine unless she can't live.Being a concubine, from a traditional point of view, is actually very miserable, but the treatment is slightly stronger than that of slaves and maids, and that's it, and the children do not have the right to inherit property and status.As the saying goes, I'd rather be the wife of Lai Han, not a heroic concubine.Being a concubine is something that all families resist, and in traditional values, it is a very shameful way to deal with it.Of course, with the improvement of the living standards of ordinary people, it is impossible to buy a yellow flower girl with a bag of grain or a few taels of silver.If you want to take a concubine, the cost is much more than getting married, and now that the standard of living is improving, who wants to sell your daughter as someone else's concubine?
The concubine is definitely not as beautiful as in the film and television dramas of later generations, but it is very cruel.In this case, the people of Daming are facing a serious problem, the cost of accepting Han women is very high, and it is very difficult for families who are not wealthy.Another point is that the people of the Ming Dynasty have the cunning of the Ming Dynasty, because the land of the Ming Dynasty is divided according to the head, and the more children there are, the more land there will be, but as long as the land is not cultivated, the government will be fined, and if it is not cultivated for three consecutive years, then the land will be recovered.That is, there is too much land to cultivate, like those landless displaced people in the Zhu Ming period have completely disappeared, and they can no longer hire long-term and short-term workers who want to rely on throwing melons and jujubes.It's like wanting to buy slaves, that's not allowed, neither the powerful nor the common people are allowed to keep slaves in captivity.As a result, smart people discovered a loophole in the law of the Ming Dynasty, that is, to accept a foreign woman as a concubine, this kind of concubine is not for the continuation of children, nor for the enjoyment of beauty.Rather, it simply took advantage of the loopholes of the law.The one who set this record was a man named Bai Anshi from Dengzhou, Shandong, because this person was more kind-hearted, and since the fourth year of Chongzhen, he has been relying on the business of cooking cakes, that is, Wu Dalang's kind of livelihood, although he did not make much money, but adopted twenty or thirty orphans.In the first year of Dingxin, the Daming Dengzhou government rebuilt the household registration, Bai Anshi had thirty-nine adopted sons and twenty-seven daughters, as well as four biological children, according to the law promulgated by the imperial court, his children were not adults, and could not be separated from the household, but these children were very difficult to feed in Dengzhou.Until the imperial court allocated 100,080 mu of land to Bai Anshi in Hanhai Province, including more than 70,000 mu of grassland and more than 30,000 mu of forest land.For Bai Anshi, these lands are both happiness and trouble.If it was not cultivated, then the government would take it away, and if he wanted to sell it, there was no one to sell the land there, and after arriving in Hanhai Province, he bought one hundred and twenty-seven Slavic women for five hundred and fifty taels of silver, all of whom were taken as concubines.I never thought that these Slavic women were very hardworking, more capable than adult men, they got up early and greedy for darkness, they worked hard, and in just over a year, Bai Anshi successively accepted more than 1,600 Slavic women as concubines, these women were nominally Bai Anshi's concubines, and they could make them work for themselves by paying a certain ration.As Bai Anshi's affair was reported in the newspapers, more and more people of the Ming Dynasty began to accept foreign women as concubines, and these women were mainly East Slavic beauties.The first is that their bones will become thick and very strong after the age of twenty.The point is that they do farm work, no worse than the men of the Ming Dynasty, and an adult Slavic beauty will become more and more expensive over time, especially now, a Slavic beauty about twenty years old can be sold for fifty taels of silver.Of course, the thinner and smaller the figure, the more beautiful women who conform to the aesthetic views of later generations, the cheaper the price.When Duke Morales arrived in Tianjin, he was shocked to see many white women on the streets, ruddy and richly dressed.However, he didn't know that these white women were just a big animal and a wealth in Daming.More and more of these white women were sold to Daming by human traffickers or slave traders.And there is no need to worry about mixed blood, after all, an animal is an animal, and a succession is a succession.The aesthetic point of view is not something that can be reversed in a moment.Because there are interests to be made, this human trade is increasing.Duke Morales sighed a little, the Ming people's customs are open, of course, the problem of Kunlun slave is not serious, although this Kunlun slave is obedient, but the gene is strong, and the mixed-race offspring is too obvious.The Ming people are actually not like later generations, they can accept mixed-race children.As long as it is mixed-race, even if it is a mixture of North Korea and Daming, or a mixture of Japanese, even if it is not visible in appearance, once this kind of thing is known, it will be discriminated against.However, there is no law prohibiting discrimination in the Ming Dynasty, and this kind of problem directly causes a very real problem, although there are many white beauties in the Ming Dynasty, or some Kunlun slaves.However, there are not many mixed-race children, and everyone is proud of the pure Ming blood.If there is anything wrong with the city of Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty, it is that white people do not have any advantages and privileges, and in the eyes of the Duke of Morales, he belongs to the way of thinking of most Europeans, that is, white supremacy.After all, in this era of great navigation, the white Europeans were indeed strong, they had occupied most of Africa and the whole of the Americas, they had conquered the Indians with a population of fifty or sixty million with their guns, and they had also defeated hundreds of millions of blacks.However, none of this will work in the Ming Dynasty.It can even be said that the Ming Dynasty is not the supremacy of the Ming Dynasty in the traditional sense, and no one can be above the law.Even a Ming man could not kill another person for no reason.Of course, the "people" included in the laws of the Ming Dynasty refer to those who have Ming nationality or Ming household registration, but do not include those who are black households or other ethnic groups, such as Japanese prisoners of war, or Mongolian and Manchu prisoners of war, which have no human rights.When encountering escaped prisoners of war or slaves on the construction site, then anyone Ming has the right to kill or capture alive, the difference is that if they are captured alive, there is a certain reward for returning them to the government, and there are rewards for wounding or killing, but the number is less.Daming is now a standard peaceful and prosperous era, no matter from which point of view, it is a prosperous era, and people's standards for the prosperous era are actually very low.Yue Fei said that civil officials do not love money, military attaches are not afraid of death, and the world is peaceful.Confucianism says that the monarch is virtuous, pro-virtuous, far from the villain, eloquent and strategic, and Ze Pi is peaceful in the world.In other words, if the more has its country, and the residents have its house, the world is peaceful.This is actually not a high requirement, a gentleman loves money and takes it in the right way, and is loyal to the country and the horse leather shroud, which is originally a matter of course, but I don't know how it has become the standard of the prosperous world.Of course, Daming is not without any hidden dangers.First of all, in Zhu's Daming, which is also the core of the mainland, the two capitals and thirteen provinces, there has been a negative population growth, which has caused concern in the cabinet.Traditionally, the net increase in the number of households has been regarded as one of the core achievements of local officials.Population growth is also the most direct stimulus to the increase in local and central income, and it will also bring about the enhancement of national strength.Now the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty is that compared with the same period in history, the war has been reduced by several decades, and the population has declined sharply because of the long-term war, and the problem is not prominent in the Ming Dynasty.The current population of the Ming Dynasty is about 130 million, but due to the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, the land is relatively sufficient, especially in the provinces with large populations, and a large number of people are needed to fill in the Tianshan, Hanhai, Andong, Zhongnan, and other areas at present and in the future.Therefore, the Government Council also intends to lower the age of marriage and childbearing again to stimulate population growth.In the past, whenever the chaos was brought under control and after the establishment of a new dynasty, a policy of recuperation and recuperation would be carried out, and even young girls would be forced to marry and have children early to increase the fertility rate to stimulate population growth.The pros and cons of everything are relative and have a balance.The strength of a large number of people and the strength of many people are the most intuitive understanding of the benefits of population growth in the world.However, when the production of grain and other materials necessary for survival cannot meet the total needs of the population, a series of vicious disasters such as famine and war will be induced."
I don't agree!"
After returning from the inspection of Hanhai Province, the Government Council submitted a report on the policy of promoting marriage and childbearing, hoping that legislation can be enacted to solve the problem of negative population growth in the form of early marriage and early childbearing.In the current Ming Dynasty, the legal age of marriage is actually much earlier than that of later generations, due to the problem of general basic education, both men and women, only after the age of 16, can legally have children.It's just that this law, with the improvement of people's living standards, has been deliberately slowed down by people to get married.In the past, the production technology was not developed, and the people's families had one more burden to eat, but now the situation is different, due to the development of industry, even girls who have gone to school can find jobs, such as the textile industry, printing and dyeing industry, garment manufacturing, perfume, cosmetics production, sales and other links, a large number of female workers are needed.The girl works in her mother's house for an extra year, which means earning an extra year of money, so the smart people of the Ming Dynasty invariably delayed the age of their daughter's marriage.So naturally, the age of marriage for the common people is also decreasing step by step, after all, Quan Xu is transferring the cost of education to the country, and after being admitted to university, it is the dragon and phoenix among the people, the future is limitless, and men are also deliberately delaying marriage.Quan Xu pressed his hands on the imperial case and was silent for a long time.According to the data learned by Jeon Wook, the average age of marriage for men in South Korea is 33 years old and 31 years old for women, and the average age of marriage for men in Japan is 35 years old and 31 years old for women.China (28.2 years for men and 26.1 years for women in Beijing, 31.1 years for men and 28.4 years for women in Shanghai, 31 years for British men and 29 years for women, 28.5 years for French women and 30.6 years for men......
Through these data, it can be seen that the age of marriage of the people is increasing with the growth of the economy, just like France, 47.7% of French newborns are born to unmarried parents, while in 1964, this proportion was only 6%.It's no wonder that Le Monde said frankly in a report in February this year: "Newborns in unmarried families have become mainstream. ”Of course, the Ming Dynasty in this period was completely different from later generations.Quan Xu did not rely on his own prestige to forcibly reject this proposal of the Government Council, but hoped that Daming could use big data in the future, rather than a person or organization in the Government Council to put forward a ridiculous policy.Quan Xu looked at Shen Mingze and said, "Regarding this matter, have you done an investigation in the Government Affairs Yuan?"
”"Investigation?""
Yes, the real reason for the slow population growth!"
Quan Xu looked at Shen Mingze and said: "Because of the needs of reality, the empire needs a large number of people to migrate from all over the country to the newly occupied places, such as Xinhua Province, North Africa Province, taking our Shuntianfu as an example, the new population last year totaled more than 48,000 people, but this year it is less than 30,000, what is the real reason?"
”"This ......," Shen Mingze groaned.In the Zhu Ming Dynasty, the infant mortality rate is very high, of course, this is not a unique phenomenon of the Ming Dynasty, taking the Qing Dynasty as an example, Emperor Kangxi bred a total of 35 princes and 20 princesses in his life, and only 27 imperial heirs can live to adulthood, and the mortality rate is as high as 51%.Emperor Yongzheng bred a total of 10 princes and 4 princesses in his life, and only 5 emperors could live to adulthood, with a mortality rate of up to 60%.Emperor Qianlong bred a total of 17 princes and 10 princesses in his lifetime, and only 15 imperial heirs could live to adulthood, with a mortality rate of 44%.With the top Tai Hospital and the imperial doctors, even the royal family has more than half of the premature death rate, not to mention the folk, the data of the Ming Dynasty is not counted clearly, taking the Ming Dynasty Tianqi and Chongzhen two emperors as an example, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is the saddest, the three sons and three daughters all died, and no one can live to adulthood.Emperor Chongzhen was better, he had seven sons and three daughters, four of whom were missing, and one of the three daughters was killed, and one died in depression.If political reasons are counted as adults, then he still has three sons and one daughter who died in infancy, and the death rate is 40 percent."
Got it?"
After reading a series of data, Shen Mingze was silent.There is no way to count the problems in the whole country, but with the arrival of Quan Xu in Liaodong, the infant mortality rate in Liaodong at that time has decreased from more than 30 percent to year by year.So far, the infant mortality rate in Liaoyang Province has been reduced to one and a half percent, although there is still a big gap compared with 5.4 per 1,000 in later generations, but it has opened up the gap with the Zhu Ming period.