The autumn offensive that Qi Meng secretly cooperated with had not yet been finished at this time, but the Qi army, which had sent fewer troops, immediately began to shrink after learning that the Mongolian army had collapsed.

The cavalry units of the Qi army, which had attacked from Gaizhou on the southern front, passed through the scorched earth area and returned to Gaizhou after burning most of the Tartar villages between Haizhou and Anshan into a white field.

The Qi army on the Eastern Front made important progress, they successively captured Lianshan Pass and Xiuyan City, and stuck these two important strongholds.

Just as Gaizhou is the gate of the hills of southern Liaoning, these two places are also the gates of the primeval mountain forest areas of eastern Liaodong to the Liaozhong Plain.

However, the Qi army on the eastern front did not continue to expand the results of the battle, and Feng Sanhu, who was in charge of this strategic direction, was worried that after entering the Liaozhong Plain, he would be ambushed by the Jin army, which had just received a certain rest, so after achieving phased results, he turned to defense on the spot.

After the Jin army repelled the Mughu, they also began to enter a state of digesting the results of the battle, and they did not rush to launch a counteroffensive against the Qi army.

Wanyan Zongbi believed that a large number of firearms must be prepared for the siege, but now all the wooden guns and cannons prepared by the Jin army have been scrapped, and the number of metal cannons made of copper and iron is insufficient, and it is impossible to fire siege shells.

The Jin army planned to prepare more firearms for next year's battle, so the Jin army did not attempt to recover Xiuyan and Lianshan Pass, and the two sides ended the four-year war in Longdao "peacefully".

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At the beginning of October, Xu Shiyang, who was far away in Dengzhou, learned of the results of this autumn offensive:

The Qi army itself went quite smoothly, but the Mughurs made a solid way for the Jurchens to be the captain of a transport brigade.

It is estimated that the Jurchens made a lot of money after subtracting the losses from the loot this time.

This is really frustrating, originally Xu Shiyang thought that he would be able to completely eliminate the Jurchen Tartars in about seven years after weakening the Jurchen Tartars in this way.

In this way, it seems that the Jurchens can still get replenishment from the direction of the grassland, and unless Xu Shiyang makes more efforts, the war in the direction of Liaodong still has to be fought.

Of course, this is not too bad, after all, the Mughurs are also enemies sooner or later, and they are seriously weakened in advance, and it will be easier for the Qi army to attack the steppe in the future.

Everything ultimately depends on the infrastructure of Qi State.

Time is favorable to Xu Shiyang, because the national strength of Qi is growing faster than anyone else.

In the four years of Longdao, Qi developed a large amount of land in southern Liaoning and Hebei provinces as planned, and even a lot of land in Qi Province was developed.

The target of 45 million mu of taxable cultivated land planned at the beginning of the year has actually been achieved by the end of October, and when the food security problem has been basically solved, Qi agriculture can already start trying to grow some cash crops.

In particular, Xu Shiyang Nianzi's cotton in Zizi is very important to the development of Liaodong in Qi country, so as many as 3 million acres of newly developed land are cotton fields.

In fact, if there were more people, Qi would be able to reclaim more land – according to the previous records of the Great Zhou Yellow Book, there were 80 million mu of land in Qi Province alone, and the amount of arable land in Ji Province was about the same.

Southern Liaoning has not entered the control of the Great Zhou, and there is no specific number, but according to the statistics of the previous dynasty, if there is a sufficient population, there is no big problem in cultivating 20 million mu.

There should have been 180 million mu of land, but only 45 million were actually reclaimed, which is enough to show how big the manpower gap in Qi is really big.

However, it is a pity that although Qi has encouraged fertility through various means, the natural population growth ratio still cannot meet Xu Shiyang's expectations - in Qi, a large number of newborns are born, and the mortality rate has always been chilling.

In fact, the proportion of women in Qi who have safe births is only eighty to eighty percent of five!

The neonatal mortality rate actually reached 15 to 20 percent, which was left in the era when Xu Shiyang came, and the hospital in charge of delivering the wives was enough to be called the king of murder.

However, in this day and age, the rate of such infant mortality is actually very low – probably the lowest in the world.

It's just that Xu Shiyang couldn't accept this result at all, and he demanded that the rate of newborn deaths in Qi be reduced by at least one percent every year!

In order to achieve this, Xu Shiyang ordered Wen Yue, who is in charge of women's work, to form an investigation team to conduct a census of pregnant women within the country.

Under Xu Shiyang's covert control (he couldn't personally go to someone else's pregnant wife to investigate), the working group spent a lot of time and labor costs, and finally found out several main reasons for the high neonatal mortality rate:

The first reason: In this era, women's childbearing age is very early, Wenyue sampling survey found that within the Qi country, the average age of women when they give birth to their first child is not higher than 15 years old, and the poorer the place, the younger the age, the lowest is even 12 years old.

Women at this age are even children themselves, and their bodies have not grown at all, so it is naturally extremely dangerous to give birth to children, and even one corpse and two lives are common.

Moreover, after going through the life and death line, under the weight of life, most women have to return to work within a month or so after giving birth, and there are countless women who have lost their fertility or are left with serious diseases.

This is simply exchanging the life of the mother for the life of the child!

Xu Shiyang thinks this is too much to lose.

The way to solve this problem is to use the rural propaganda team in charge of Gu Hengbo to go to the countryside on a large scale to publicize the benefits of "late childbearing", Xu Shiyang also intends to use administrative orders to interfere with folk customs - taking advantage of the fact that the Qi country is now on the rise and has relatively tight control over the grassroots.

The Criminal Department of Qi promulgated the world's first "Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests" in early November of the fourth year of Longdao, although this law only protects women above the civilian class in Qi State, but it is still a huge step forward for this cold era.

The Women's Law stipulates that women above the age of 16 are not allowed to marry, and if they have a relationship with a civilian woman under the age of 16, regardless of whether the woman is willing or not, they will be punished as a felony in the name of a bad person - this crime is hanged in Qi State, and the circumstances are serious.

If the woman is really willing, then the man will be relegated to commoners and exiled to the periphery.

Conversely, women of legal age who are pregnant will receive more financial subsidies to prevent them from having to engage in heavy physical labour during the weak period.

In the past, women above the commoner level of Qi could receive one egg a day during the reproductive period, which has been praised by the people as incredible good governance.

Since the enactment of the Women's Law, this subsidy has been increased substantially: one egg is kept, and then three catties of food stamps per person per day are issued, starting from pregnancy until three months after the birth of the child.

However, during the last month of pregnancy and within two months of the birth of the child, a woman is not allowed to participate in any outside work, otherwise the government will impose financial penalties on her husband's family.

If the husband's family is in financial difficulty, he can apply for a child support loan.