Wang Lin said: "Yes, I don't want to give birth." One is the instability of food and clothing, and the other is the constant war, which causes people to be reluctant to give birth, combined with some folk birth control measures. And there is also a very important situation, which is the serious imbalance between men and women. ”

Liu Xie asked: "There is a serious imbalance in the ratio of men and women?" What do you mean by that? ”

Wang Lin said: "Poor families cannot afford to marry daughters-in-law, but rich families can marry more than one, which has caused a serious imbalance in the ratio of men and women. There is also an important vice. Poor families are reluctant to have girls, and in some poor areas, they abandon or drown their children after giving birth to them. ”

Hearing him say this, Liu Xie wanted to explode and curse again, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Drowning? This is murder! ”

When he was born, Empress He was about to drown him, but it was Empress Dong who arrived in time to save him. So Liu Xie is very disgusted with the word drowning.

The bad habit that Wang Lin mentioned has also been inherited for many years, and the imperial court has intervened many times with little effect. The idea of patriarchy has been ingrained in people's minds for thousands of years.

Liu Xie stood up and walked around in front of the dragon chair, thinking, and the ministers were all looking at him.

Liu Xie asked, "Is there any good way to stop this vice?" You can all talk about it. ”

Wang Lin said: "Your Majesty, there is no effective way, because this kind of bad habit has formed a trend, if these families are arrested, it will cause adverse consequences, such as causing excess expenses to the imperial court, wasting productivity, and the other children of the family have no one to take care of, etc." ”

Liu Xie also felt that what Wang Lin said was very reasonable, there were ordinary strategists above the court, and he couldn't think of a way. Liu Xie understands very well that this problem must be solved, and both boys and girls are wanted, so how will the population develop in the future?

He had to have enough population to develop production and meet the war.

"Master......" Suddenly, the small dictionary whispered in Liu Xie's head.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" Liu Xie asked, he once told the little dictionary that he couldn't show up unless he was called, so the little dictionary never dared to take the initiative to speak, but this time somehow, he actually took the initiative to speak, and he spoke timidly and quietly.

Liu Xie thought it was funny when he thought about it, but he was embarrassed by this little dictionary.

The small dictionary says: "I have a record here, during the Southern Song Dynasty, there were also many bad habits of drowning female babies, and the imperial court could not stop it, so it took measures to reward all families who gave birth to female babies, and they were rewarded with one stone of rice." ”

Reward? Hearing the little dictionary say this, Liu Xie suddenly felt enlightened.

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Xie said: "After promulgating the decree, anyone who has a girl in the family can go to the local government to apply for a subsidy of five taels of silver, of which one tael of silver will be distributed on the spot, and the remaining four taels will be distributed when the girl is seven years old." ”

Wang Yun said: "Your Majesty, this may be a considerable expense." ”

Liu Xie asked: "Liangzhou, Chang'an, and Luoyang, how many newborns are there in a year?" ”

Wang Linjuan, Minister of Population and Resources, said: "According to incomplete statistics, there are about 500,000 newborns every year, and according to half estimates, there are 250,000 girls. ”

Liu Xie said: "Two hundred and fifty thousand, five taels of silver per person, that is, 1.25 million, this is still distributed in installments." Can't the treasury even take out a million taels of silver? ”

Wang Yun said: "Silver is needed in all aspects. ”

Liu Xie said: "The country is people-oriented, and everything must make way for this." Even if you pick it out from between your teeth, you have to pull out the 1,250,000 taels of silver for me. ”

If it is converted to the price of the 21st century, this more than one million taels of silver is more than 200 million RMB, and one or two hundred million is not a matter for a country at all.

But now it is the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are still constant wars, and the actual control of the land by the imperial court is only equivalent to three provinces. Therefore, this million taels of silver is still quite a huge amount of money for the Han family.

"This money can't be less!" Liu Xie repeated it again to strengthen its importance, thought about it and said: "All marriages and births must be registered, and in addition to rewarding births, eugenics and childbearing must also be implemented. The so-called eugenics means that close relatives are not allowed to intermarry, and cousins are absolutely forbidden to intermarry. ”

At one point, there was a commotion in the hall, and Liu Xie waited for everyone to say almost it, so he asked, "What's wrong?" Questions? If you have a problem, just say it. ”

A minister came out and said: "Cousins intermarry, cousins change marriage, this has been a custom for thousands of years, if it is forbidden to intermarry, many adult men will not be able to find wives." ”

Liu Xie said angrily: "Don't be able to abandon it because it is left by our ancestors, of course we must inherit good things, but bad habits must be eliminated." Do you know the dangers of consanguineous marriage? It seems that you don't know, let me tell you that the proportion of children born of consanguineous marriage, fools, and handicapped is particularly large, and we are now surrounded by enemies, and this will be a long battle, how can we fight them without a good population? In short, no matter what difficulties there are, you must overcome them, close relatives are not allowed to intermarry, you have to give me a good publicity of this harm! ”

Seeing that the emperor was angry, the ministers also did not dare to raise objections in fear, and could only say yes.

Later, some ministers reported some bad news, including public security, food, life and other issues, and one of the most important problems was the capture of Yuan Shao's spies in Luoyang City.

A minister in charge of defense said: "It was these spies who exposed the residence of King Hongnong before, and revealed the information, which caused Yuan Shao to send thugs to rob King Hongnong, but due to hurry, Concubine Tang and his young son were left behind." ”

"How unreasonable!" Liu Xie said angrily, "Concubine Tang and her young son have been fostered in Beigong, I believe it should be safe." Has the investigation been done? If I don't have an internal response in the DPRK, it will be impossible for the spies to get information. ”

The minister replied, "Yes, Chen has a list here, please look at it." ”

Xiao Luozi's list of results was handed to Liu Xie.

Liu Xie glanced at it and snorted coldly: "I can't imagine that there are many people!" ”

With that, he looked around at the ministers with cold eyes.

Wang Yun suddenly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, since the list of traitors has been found out, according to the minister's opinion, it is better to arrest all of them, torture them, and confiscate all their families and children!" ”

Liu Xiexin said, although this old man is loyal, his heart is too ruthless. Previously, because Liu Wei was angry and wrote a complaining poem, Wang Yun proposed to kill him, and this time he wanted to kill more people.

There are many people recorded on this list in Liu Xie's hands.

Liu Xie paced back and forth in front of the dragon chair, and after Wang Yun finished speaking, several ministers also came out to express their support for Wang Yun and demanded that these so-called traitors be killed.

The ministers were expecting the little emperor to make a decision, but Liu Xie tore up the list in front of all the ministers.