When the emperor issued the edict, Guanzhong was shaken first, and then the whole world was shaken!
The pillars of Liu's regime, the vast small and medium-sized landlord class, first welcomed the emperor's edict.
Because, obviously, the biggest beneficiaries of this edict are them.
The poor and the lowest class in Guizhou society, let alone four or five children, would be grateful to the gods if they could raise two children.
Only the landlord class has the spare capacity to raise more children.
But the big landowners, aristocrats and bureaucrats did not need the so-called rewards in the emperor's edict.
If a little bit leaks out from between their fingers, the reward will be much greater than that!
Only the vast class of small and medium-sized landowners have the ability to raise a large number of offspring and raise them up.
However, even for the small and medium-sized landlord class, it is very difficult to raise four or more children.
What's more, if you have more children, it will be a big problem when the family is separated in the future.
I don’t know how many well-off families suddenly fell to the level of common people just because of family separation.
Therefore, the Han Dynasty folk had a very extensive tradition of infanticide.
Not only baby girls will drown, but baby boys will also drown if they are born on an unlucky day, if they have enough brothers, and for other reasons.
In this era, there were no contraceptive measures and the birth rate was very high.
As a result, a large number of babies are drowned to death by their fathers and grandparents every year before they even have time to open their eyes to see the world.
Folks refer to this behavior as not doing anything.
Cruel?
Cruel indeed!
However, ignorance, or reason, dominates people's behavior.
Although scholarly public opinion has been lashing out against this ignorant and selfish act of infanticide, it has had little effect.
In this era, there is no concept of human rights, let alone maternal and child protection laws.
A father kills his son. It is a right and a law that cannot be disobeyed!
However, the human heart is made of flesh. If there was a way, who would be willing to kill his own child with his own hands?
Moreover, most families still have the tragic tradition of killing one child a year - the birth rate is too high!
Liu Che's edict undoubtedly gave those families suffering from child murder a way out.
They finally had reason to convince themselves and their tribe to raise those babies instead of abandoning or drowning them.
After all, for small and medium-sized landowners, it is very tempting to be exempted from corvee taxes, give priority to fake land or even move to Guanzhong, and be given a few sticks.
Moreover, as long as a son is raised, he will be a strong laborer - most small and medium-sized landlord families work in the fields themselves - those who sit at home to collect rent are the real local powerful people who have colluded with the government.
Bully.
An obvious example is the later Han Guangwu Liu Xiu.
Before Liu Xiu rebelled, he had studied and traveled, but he had also worked in the fields and picked up a hoe.
The Liu Xiu family is not just any ordinary people. His grandfather at least once had the title of aristocrat and was a genuine descendant of the Liu family.
Two days later, Liu Che made another addition to the edict.
He ordered the prime minister and the imperial censor to add an article to the Han Code. He also placed this law under the item of official performance appraisal.
This law says this: Anyone who has more than four hundred stones and less than three children will be admitted to the palace, and anyone who does not give up will be dismissed!
This is obviously a copy of the one-vote veto system of the parasitic committee of later generations.
However, the Parasite Committee will punish those who have too many babies, get out, and Liu Che will punish those who have too many babies, and those who drown babies will be dismissed from office.
As soon as this law was published, it received rave reviews.
Public opinion thinks it is benevolent government.
Of course, occasionally there are a few discordant voices shouting that this is Qin's method.
But no one cares about them.
Qin Fa?
The entire Han code is a copycat of the Qin code...
In any case, with this combination of punches, Liu Che feels that a baby boom will be formed in at least the next ten to fifty years.
Pushing the entire population of the Han Dynasty to a new high.
At the very least, twenty years later, Liu Che felt that the population of the Han Dynasty should reach about 10 million households, or about 70 million.
The great idea of achieving a population of over 100 million within fifty years!
In this era before the Christian era, as long as the population of a country or a nation exceeded 100 million, it was almost equivalent to the invention of the atomic bomb.
You have to know that if the Han population succeeds in exceeding 100 million in fifty years, then it is very likely that there will not be as many humans living in other areas on the earth, including Antarctica, as many as the Han people!
Such a huge population was enough for Liu Che to complete his future colonization plan.
Of course, if the population really exceeds 100 million, no, it only needs to reach the level of 10 million households, the pressure on the Han Dynasty will become extremely huge.
by that time.
There are probably only two options before Liu Che.
One is to use iron and blood, sword and fire to open up living space for his people who are waiting for food.
Another thing...
In an agricultural society, especially in this era when agricultural technology is quite primitive and even iron tools have not yet become popular, a population of 70 million and the current land conditions of the Han Dynasty are almost a huge bomb.
Just based on the current most common model of one man, five people and one hundred acres, to feed these 70 million mouths, at least 1.2 billion acres of land will be needed. When converted into an area for future generations, it should be about 600 million acres.
In later generations, China had a fully developed land, but its cultivated land area was only 2 billion acres.
Liu Che knew it without much thinking.
If he cannot help his people get enough living space and enough land to support them and their descendants.
So, based on the tradition of Chinese people, they will never be willing to sit at home and wait for death.
Princes, generals, and ministers would rather have the seed, which is a true reflection of the fact that Chinese farmers cannot survive.
If the people are not afraid of death, why should they fear death?
By that time, no matter how many Holy Mothers there are, if they don't want the peasants to kill their whole family, they will have no choice but to follow Liu Che and conquer foreign lands and colonize India.
As long as these new people can be fed, it will be coupled with the Han Dynasty's militia training system. After slight improvements, a mobilization mechanism will be introduced.
by that time……
The Han people can mobilize locally and pull out millions of bayonets to teach Europa how to behave.
Real whip-throwing and cutting off the current!
More importantly, in this era, population is equal to national power, equal to tax revenue, and equal to combat effectiveness.
As long as the people of that order of magnitude can be fed, then the Han Dynasty court will definitely be able to obtain sufficient tax revenue and sufficient manpower and material resources to carry out larger-scale construction and creation.
"This is probably the Western Han Dynasty's version of a population-forced war, right?" Liu Che stood on the attic of the North Tower, overlooking the scenery of Chang'an.
But Liu Che still didn't have much confidence in how far this plan could be completed.
After all, this era is a medical desert, with high birth rates and even higher mortality rates!
Moreover, diseases are rampant, such as the flu, a minor illness in later generations, and the plague, which has been almost eliminated, but in this era, it is a real killer, taking away countless lives every year.
In this era, human beings are quite fragile.
For example, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, war and cold weather combined to create the tragedy of "no roosters crow for a thousand miles, and bones exposed in the wild".
Even the aristocrats and landlords died in droves.
Even now, Liu Che is facing a huge test.
His past life experience told him that more than ten years later, the Han Dynasty would face the biggest natural disaster since the founding of the country!
This is a super combo of earthquake drought plague.
It claimed millions of lives within a year and caused most of China to become completely white.
In the previous life, this super combination forced the Han Dynasty to issue an order prohibiting the feeding of livestock and corn, and even made strict regulations on the clothes of officials. You can imagine what a disaster it was!
Fortunately, Liu Che was reborn through time, so he can avoid this tragedy from happening again.
He clearly remembered where this super disaster started, where it reached, and when it ended.
Therefore, Liu Che has already begun to make plans.
One of the most obvious signals is that Liu Che ordered Shangyong County to be moved south, especially Shangyong County, directly to an area far away from the Longmen Fault Zone.
In a previous life, a major earthquake in Shangyong County lasted for twenty-two days, almost razing the entire Shangyong County to the ground, and tens of thousands of people died. The county seat of Shangyong County was turned into a pile of rubble.
According to Liu Che's estimation, this super earthquake had a magnitude of at least eight.
But it's not all earthquakes.
It is just a small snapshot of the active period of the continental plate.
In addition to Shangyong, the Han Dynasty suffered four other large-scale earthquakes within one year.
Hanzhong County, Hengshan Kingdom and Yunzhong County became the hardest hit areas.
Hedong County, Hexi County and Guanzhong were severely affected.
What is even more frightening is that after the earthquake, or in the gap between the earthquake, drought and plague are rampant. This is the real fatal thing!
Liu Che remembered clearly that in his previous life, the entire Han Dynasty was at a loss when faced with this disaster.
The imperial court had to declare a state of emergency that was almost equivalent to that of later generations, strictly control food, cloth, and salt, and impose mandatory quarantine on the disaster area.
This matter, in the history books of later generations, is nothing more than a record of "for the sake of the new year, the food is forbidden, and the food is forbidden to make the new year."
But as someone who has experienced it, Liu Che knows that in his previous life, this huge disaster was the culprit that defeated his emperor father who could have lasted for a few more years.
The emperor's father passed away the second year after this super disaster.
Now, Liu Che must thank God for giving him another chance to be reborn.
After he ascended the throne, he continued to use various actions to prepare for this super disaster that was about to come in more than ten years.
Migration is just one of them.
Work has also begun to relocate a large number of people from the earthquake-stricken areas to the safety of Northeast China, North Korea, and Wuchu in the south.
Of course, each has different excuses.
Moreover, for the time being, the range of movement is very small.
But there are still more than ten years left, enough for Liu Che to evacuate most of the population in the disaster area before the disaster strikes.
As for the rest, they don’t want to leave.
Liu Che is the emperor, so he naturally has a way to let them go!
"However, in the future, this matter may become a symbol of my deification!" Liu Che thought, rubbing his chin.
This is almost something you don’t need to think about.
This is a miracle!
It is the best proof of the divine power of kings!
I'm afraid that thousands of years after this incident, Liu Che may become a part of myths and legends. (To be continued...)
