"What do you think of Guo Shangqing?" Fusu turned to look at Guo Kai.
This time Ying Zheng left Guo Kai behind during his tour, but took Qi Wang Jian with him.
"Your Highness thinks Tingwei's legislation can prevent future troubles?" Guo Kai asked rhetorically.
Fusu naturally knew that legislation was only the bottom line of morality. People could drown even their children, which proved many things.
Legislation cannot prevent such incidents from happening again, and people will have many ways to avoid the law.
Just like the rebels who hid in the mountains, how could the government know that a woman in a family was pregnant?
If you don’t know that a woman is pregnant, how can you know whether she is drowning her baby?
Furthermore, paying a small amount of money to the midwife who delivers the baby can also lead to the death of the baby girl during the delivery process.
These are things that cannot be determined by law.
"Therefore, there are many ways. As the prince, what His Highness has to do is to order the local governments to pay attention. Only when local officials pay attention can the harm be minimized."
"However, if we want to fundamentally eliminate it, we must first ensure that the people can afford it, or are willing to support it!"
Guo Kai spoke eloquently.
Fusu listened carefully and nodded.
These ministers left to him by Yingzheng were all humerus. At least, while helping him handle government affairs, they would also teach him what angle to look at such problems and let him know what they were like.
"But how to make the people willing to raise them?" Fu Su did not speak, but Feng Quji was the first to speak.
Guo Kai smiled meaningfully.
"It's very simple. Paint a pie for the people!"
"Draw a pie?"
Now not only Feng Quji was a little confused, Fusu and Manchu officials were also stunned.
"Let me ask you, how can a noble ensure that the family is strong and prosperous from generation to generation?" Guo Kai did not answer directly, but looked at all the officials present.
Any one of these people is the head of the clan, even if they are not, they are all the elites of the clan, and they represent a strong family.
Everyone hesitated for a moment. The strength and prosperity of a family from generation to generation involves all aspects and cannot be summarized in a simple sentence or two.
But the most fundamental factor is that each generation must have at least one outstanding person. If there is no outstanding person, then it is necessary to recruit outstanding people into the family. Only in this way can the family's prosperity be ensured.
"For example, how many brothers does Feng Yushi have?" Guo Kai turned to look at Feng Quji.
"I have a brother, Feng Wuze!" Feng Quji didn't hide anything. Everyone in Xianyang knew this.
Of course, he has not just one brother, but many, but there is only one true direct brother, Feng Wuze.
In fact, Feng Wuze was not a biological brother at first, nor was he even a direct descendant of the Feng family, but was born from a concubine. However, after Feng Wuze showed his amazing potential, the mother was more valuable than the son, and he was promoted to
His wife became his biological brother.
This is also a normal operation for nobles.
There are even some direct descendants of nobles who are not of much use, but there are outstanding descendants in the side branches, who will be adopted into the direct line and trained as direct descendants.
"Let's make a hypothesis. Feng Yushi has eight children. His achievements cannot be confirmed in ten or even twenty years, but it is certain that at least one of them will become a great talent and make the family go further. Will Feng Yushi
Will he try his best, even if it means exhausting family relationships and resources, to cultivate these eight children?" Guo Kai continued to ask.
"Go one step further?" Feng Quji thought for a moment and then replied decisively, "Of course it will. Not to mention exhausting family ties, even if I surrender and work as a coward, I will do my best to cultivate them!"
"Where are you gentlemen?" Guo Kai looked at the other courtiers.
"This is natural. Even if I want to be their stepping stone, why not!" All the courtiers expressed their stance.
If you can bring your family further, you will not hesitate to sacrifice yourself.
"So, it's obvious that the people are willing to support so many children!" Guo Kai clapped his hands and said with a smile.
"Our country in the Qin Dynasty does not restrict births. In fact, if you have more children, the court and officials will provide preferential treatment and tax exemptions. The fundamental reason for drowning babies is that you cannot afford to raise them but want to continue the family line."
"But to be honest, do ordinary people's families have a throne to inherit? Must a boy inherit the ancestral inheritance?"
After speaking, Guo Kai looked at Fu Su.
Fusu didn't feel that Guo Kai was offending, but it was very appropriate. There was no throne to inherit, so why insist on a boy inheriting the family business?
"Girls can do it too, like Mrs. Qing (Widow Qing), who dares to say that women are inferior to men? Under the auspices of Mrs. Qing, the Basi Trading Company soon surpassed the Basi Trading Company and became the first trading company in Bashu.
Is it your majesty's personal wife?" Guo Kai continued after seeing that Fusu was not dissatisfied.
"So, it's the same for boys and girls. The more children you have, the greater the chance of them becoming talented. Regardless of whether it's a boy or a girl, as long as one of them becomes talented, it will be a profit for the entire family." Guo Kai continued.
said.
"Yes!" All the ministers suddenly realized.
Before Guo Kai pointed it out, they were actually able to sympathize with these people and felt that only boys could inherit the family business. But after Guo Kai's awakening, they came to their senses.
If you have more children, you may be harder, more tired, and poorer in the early stages.
But within thirty years of Hedong and Hexi, as long as one person becomes a talented person, the family will become more powerful. This is earning, and it is the real family inheritance!
So what if it's a girl?
The Qin Dynasty was not a dynasty that favored boys over girls, and there were not a few women who became heads of families. For example, Bai's Trading Company, which invested in the merchants back then, has now become the world's leading Confucian business family?
Another example is the Ba's Trading Company mentioned by Guo Kai just now. Mrs. Ba Qing is also the head of the family, and it is the same that made the Ba's Trading Company transform from a Bashu trading company into a famous trading company in Daqin!
"So, what we have to do is pass on this concept to the people. Even if all the children are useless, the more people there are, the stronger the family will be. With the help of relatives, it will only be better than before." Guo Kai
continued.
"Even when Tingwei was legislating, they could also jointly govern the Su Neishi Yamen to provide subsidies to families with multiple children. For example, families with three children would be exempted from certain taxes, and the four-year-old government would provide them with certain stable work arrangements.
Both spouses of the five provide job guarantees and so on," Guo Kai continued.
Naturally, people have to taste the sweetness when drawing a big pie. At least it can ensure that these children can be provided with a certain living environment, not whether they can have children or not.
And Da Qin's treasury is not short of money, so these subsidies can be provided. If it weren't for the fact that Da Qin's law stipulates that the government cannot take the initiative to provide relief in disaster years, he would have proposed to provide a full set of living and education subsidies to these families with three or more children.