Chapter 551: Late Marriage and Late Childbearing
With the propaganda of the newspapers, the enthusiasm of the people is very great, not only to give land distribution, but also to become heroic mothers and serve the country.
However, at the same time, the pressure on Zhao Yin is even greater.
In order to smoothly complete what he said yesterday, he deliberately went to find Sun Simiao.
"Doctor Sun, now that the population of the Tang Dynasty is too small, His Majesty has begun to implement an encouraging policy to let the people have more children, but if a woman gives birth too early, it will damage her vitality, how can this be good?"
Although Zhao Yin said it casually yesterday in order to alleviate the embarrassing situation, it is true.
"Well, if a woman gives birth too early, it will indeed lose her life!"
Sun Simiao put down the pen in his hand and nodded worriedly.
Nowadays, women generally marry at the age of thirteen or fourteen, which does them no good at all.
"What's the solution?"
Obviously, no one else believed what he said yesterday, so in desperation, he could only come to this old man.
After all, he is a miracle doctor, as long as he speaks, everyone will naturally believe it.
"I can only postpone the age of marriage, and there is no other way!"
Lao Dao stroked his beard and said lightly.
In this regard, Zhao Yin also deeply understands that the status of women now is very low, and they will have to pass on the family after marriage, if they want to really solve this matter, they can only let them get married later.
"How much?"
"At least after the age of eighteen!"
"Well, that's what I thought!"
In later generations, the legal age of marriage will be two years later than this, but in this era, they must not be able to accept that people are suddenly allowed to marry so many years late.
"Then I'll go and inform Your Majesty now, and let him issue a holy decree to ......!"
With this answer, Zhao Yin was very satisfied, "If the Taoist chief can come up with a specific case and publish it in the newspaper, it will be more convincing!" ”
"I have been practicing medicine for decades, and there are naturally cases!"
Sun Simiao nodded slowly, picked up the pen again, and casually wrote down some cases of women who had a short life due to early pregnancy.
Zhao Yin had this case, and immediately ran to the palace, lest they always urge themselves to have children!
"You kid doesn't increase the population of the Tang Dynasty, why did you come to me?"
Li Er was obviously very dissatisfied.
"My son-in-law came here this time to increase the population......!"
Zhao Yin raised a few pages of paper in his hand and continued: "These are some cases written by Doctor Sun, which can prove that a woman's early pregnancy will cost her life, so the son-in-law can't bear to let Changle and them get pregnant!" ”
"Really?"
There were also eldest grandson Wuji and others sitting around in the imperial study, and after hearing this, their eyes immediately widened.
"That's right, Doctor Sun's cases are all here!"
Zhao Yin handed over a few pages in his hand to Li Er.
Li Er flipped through it quickly, and the more he looked at it, the tighter his brows wrinkled.
"The reason why the queen mother has been weak is because she gave birth too early and lost her vitality, if it weren't for the support of a large number of tonics in the palace, I'm afraid the current situation would be even worse!"
Zhao Yin continued.
"So what should I do?"
Li Er naturally knew how old Empress Eldest Sun was when she married him, and asked worriedly.
"If you want to solve this problem completely, you must publicize the dangers of early pregnancy!"
"Isn't the encouragement plan set before useless?"
Li Er was a little disappointed.
"Not really, just postpone the age of marriage for a few years!"
"How much is that going to be postponed?"
"At least after the age of eighteen, a man can be two years later!"
"Won't the population not increase, but decrease?"
"In the short term, it will not increase, but it will greatly extend the life expectancy of women, so that they have more opportunities to have children, and in the long run, this practice will not only not reduce the population, but will increase the population exploding!"
After Zhao Yin said these words, Li Er fell into silence, as if he was thinking about something.
"Okay, according to your wishes, postpone the age of marriage!"
After thinking about it, Li Er believes that long-term interests are the most important, if you want to solve the population problem, you must not only have more children, but also improve the life expectancy of the people!
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Zhao Yin smiled slyly and successfully completed the matter of having no children after marriage.
"Fortunately, Yujia got married early, otherwise, I don't know if there will be any moths!"
The eldest grandson Wuji on the side breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Is it going well at the Naval Academy?"
Every time Li Er saw Zhao Yin, he would always ask about the navy.
In fact, what he wanted to say in the end was when he would be able to go to sea to pick spices!
"Training has begun!"
Zhao Yin said perfunctorily.
"Good, good!"
With the reply, Li Er nodded with satisfaction.
……
The next morning, Li Er showed the ministers the case brought by Zhao Yin, and then proposed to postpone the legal age for marriage.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
As soon as these words came out, Wei Zheng raised his hands in agreement, and glanced at the ministers, and if anyone objected, he would bombard him.
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
However, the reaction of the ministers was completely unexpected by him, and no one jumped out to oppose it.
So, the matter was so happily decided.
On the second day after the decree was issued, Zhao Yin also published the matter in the Zhenguan Daily, and wrote the harm of early pregnancy on it, so that the people could understand the matter.
But there is a good saying, that there are policies and countermeasures.
The people are accustomed to early marriage and early childbearing, even if Li Er decrees to delay the age of marriage, it may be useless for some people.
They will marry first, and then go to the government to register when they are old.
In order to put an end to this, Zhao Yin published Sun Simiao's case on Zhenguan Daily.
At first, some people didn't believe it, and they went to Sun Simiao to confirm the matter.
After getting the most accurate answer, this is the epiphany.
"No wonder my daughter is always weak and sick after giving birth, it turns out that it is all caused by premature childbirth!"
"I have to let my daughter get married later!"
This kind of sound gradually spread among the people, and they were all very grateful to Sun Simiao, if it weren't for him, they still couldn't figure out the reason.
"In-laws, I guess you have also read the content in the newspaper, will we wait for two more years for the marriage of our two families?"
As a result, many girls' fathers have found their in-laws, hoping to delay the marriage so as not to harm their daughters.
"Look, look, the newspaper said that a man's early marriage is also harmful to his body, so let's let the two children marry in a few years!"
And the man also agrees with this matter.
For a while, late marriage and late childbearing have become fashionable, and if someone has to marry their daughter in a hurry, they will be pointed at, so they can only be forced to retreat.
As for some daughters who have already married, their mothers can only bring gifts, hoping that the man can let his daughter give birth later and let her have a way to live.
Although the population will not grow in the short term, it will certainly increase when the life expectancy of women increases.