Time flew by and at the end of 1909, to Ferdinand's surprise, Queen Xenia became pregnant again this winter, and this was already their fifth child.

Although he didn't know if it was a man or a woman, Ferdinand was very excited, his concept has always been to have more children and more blessings, especially since Xenia is not young, maybe this is their last child, Ferdinand showed special attention! (Note: Xie Nia was born in 1875 ~ suddenly in 1960)

Of course, Ferdinand wouldn't admit that he was affected by the environment! In his previous life, he was an otaku, but he didn't have this kind of thought!

In order to increase the population, since Ferdinand succeeded to the throne, Bulgaria began to advocate the concept of "more births, more children, more blessings" in public opinion.

After more than 20 years of bombing, this concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Ferdinand has inevitably been affected!

Even Bulgaria has introduced special laws to encourage childbearing, but because the government was too poor, there were still few substantive rewards, and most of them were spiritual encouragement.

Now Ferdinand is ready to revise this law again, and at the same time, he is also ready to directly introduce a law to prohibit all abortions, which has always been restricted by religious belief and is not enforceable!

Oh, and now the Queen's pregnancy is the best example of publicity! After all, the king and queen have worked so hard to increase the population of Bulgaria, and this is the fifth child, so why shouldn't you try?

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and now Ferdinand is happy all day long.

In order to be able to fully implement family planning, Ferdinand convened a special seminar in the cabinet to try to bring Bulgaria's population growth rate to a new level!

Although the little kid born now can't catch up with the First World War, it doesn't matter, isn't there a next time? This time is just right, thirty years later, it is completely catch-up, and if you are lucky, you may be able to add another generation!

There is no such thing as late marriage and late childbearing in Bulgaria, and many people are fifteen or sixteen-year-old children, and they have reached the age of talking about marriage.

In order to increase the population, the unscrupulous Ferdinand directly ignored all this happening!

Oh, he can't care if he wants to, it's an old tradition, and besides, Europeans developed earlier, physiologically, it's about the same.

Besides, the children of the poor are in charge early, and the average life expectancy in this era is not long, even at the beginning of the 20th century, the average life expectancy in Bulgaria is less than 60 years old, and it is definitely not okay to marry too late!

In fact, the birth rate of the population in this era is still very high, the birth rate of the world has always been above 4%, but in Western Europe and Northern Europe, the birth rate of some countries has begun to decline.

The decline in the birth rate does not mean that people's willingness to have children will be lower. The point is that due to the development of capitalism, many female workers have also entered the factories, and in order to survive, everyone has to work, and there is no time or the capitalists cannot afford to have children!

After all, in this era, there is no such thing as protecting women's rights and interests, as long as you are pregnant, you will either miscarry, or lose your job!

Most of the working class in this era had no savings and lost their jobs, which meant the beginning of disaster for an ordinary family!

Therefore, many people are forced to make ends meet and do not dare to get pregnant at all! In addition, some factories are also very harmful to the human body, and many people have lost the ability to have children after engaging in these jobs for a long time.

These factors are the main reasons for the decline in the population growth rate in Western Europe! This situation has implications for any industrialized country, and the environment in Bulgaria is slightly better at the moment.

After all, it is statism that dominates and uses morality to restrain the behavior of the capitalists, and they dare not go too far!

At least during pregnancy, they will not fire people, of course, there is no salary during the vacation, and a little living allowance will be paid if you do a good job!

Oh, most of this was Ferdinand's own post! No way, who called the big enterprises in Bulgaria now, basically his own vests?

As soon as the royal enterprise on the surface took the lead, of course, everyone had to respond, and as a result, Ferdinand had to spend tens of millions of leva more every year!

As for private enterprises? People are also involved, anyway, there is no standard for this, just give some money, it's okay! And it can also be called a beautiful name, this is the sense of social responsibility of the enterprise!

Several government-controlled newspapers in this area are very keen to report such news. Rather than honoring the good deeds of the capitalists, they are more willing to expose the ugly faces of the unscrupulous capitalists.

Once exposed, you will be blacklisted by the government immediately, and many people will automatically distance themselves from you!

The lethality of this blacklist is very powerful, to put it simply: the railroad is permanently closed to you, no one will sell you many raw materials, and no one will buy the products you produce!

Oh, and you can also find a way to take the road transportation yourself and find a way to sell it. The premise is not to be discovered, after all, cooperating with you will also be condemned by public opinion!

Despite their reluctance, in this environment, the capitalists still have to disguise themselves as much as possible and make a good name for themselves as much as possible!

Once any behavior becomes a habit, everyone will gradually get used to it, and under Ferdinand's education, after more than 20 years, the whole Bulgarian social atmosphere has taken on a new look!

Many people even think that they are really a good person, and many capitalists will inadvertently provide a little help to ordinary workers, although it is more likely that they are making a name for themselves!

But this still makes the proletarian revolutionaries all over the world wonder, as if the Bulgarian capitalists are another species, and there is still a long way to go to spread revolutionary ideas in Bulgaria!

However, Ferdinand knew that this was all there was to it, and there were occasional cases of kindness, and more often it would be done for the sake of fame!

Especially the powerful capitalists, for the sake of fame, do not mind spending a lot of money, which is not essentially different from the later generations of entrepreneurs!

But it doesn't matter, no matter how much you put on a show, it's better than doing nothing! Ferdinand has always only focused on results, and he doesn't care about what they think in their hearts!

Ferdinand knew that fertility should be encouraged, and it would not work to dump all these costs on the enterprises, and many small capitalists simply could not afford it!

Therefore, the government still has to pay for it, but there are many aspects involved, and the Bulgarian government has already met several times to study it.

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Prime Minister Konstantin was embarrassed and said: "Your Majesty, our government has carefully studied the issue of legislation to encourage childbearing, and this issue is not a big one, and it can be raised in Congress at any time."

However, it is a little troublesome to issue birth subsidies, which also involves the issue of coverage, as well as the formulation of specific standards, which is difficult to determine! ”

Ferdinand asked suspiciously: "What is the annual number of new births in Bulgaria now?" How much can it be increased if it is adapted to the subsidy scheme? Has the government done any calculations in this regard? ”

Konstantin thought for a moment and said: "At present, the number of newborn babies in Bulgaria has remained at about one million, which is already considered high among the industrial countries of Europe, and can basically be on par with the Russians.

How much can this figure be increased after the subsidy, because there is no such precedent in the world, and we have no reference, we can only roughly estimate that the normal situation should be increased by 10% to 30%, which may also be related to the amount of the subsidy! ”

Ferdinand thought for a moment and said: "This is indeed a question, we have to consider not only the birth of the population, but also the survival rate of newborn babies, and the economic strength of the people, how much can they afford?" And the question of education in the future!

There's still a lot of homework to be done in this area!

However, I think the government can also set up a nursery school, once a family has an accident and is unable to support it, you can apply for the government to support the adult on your behalf! ”

There is no doubt that the role of this nursery school is not much different from that of an orphanage, but it is more emotionally acceptable to parents!

It is estimated that as soon as the nursery school comes out, the number of people in the orphanage will be greatly reduced, at least many families will be thrown directly to the door of the orphanage because they are poor and cannot afford to raise their children, and they will run away!

Now this is even simpler, if you don't have the ability to support it, you can also hand it over to the state for foster care! Anyway, it's all your child, you can come and see it at any time, and you can take it back when you have the conditions!

This will undoubtedly alleviate the concerns of most people, even if they can't afford it, they can give birth, anyway, the Bulgarian government will pay for it!

By the way, the size of the Scouting can be expanded again, although Bulgaria has to receive military training from primary school, but this is only auxiliary, about a month of military training per year, and some schools may be higher.

But the real Scouts still come from orphanages, they will be screened from an early age, and those who are suitable for joining the army will be trained in strict military training, and when they grow up, some of them will enter military schools for further study, and most of them will go directly to the army.

This part of the population is often the bravest presence on the battlefield, and their military quality is higher than that of others, and they are one of the main sources of junior officers in the Bulgarian army! (Also the main force of intelligence officers and death squads)

As for whether parents will have objections, Ferdinand said that in a country like Bulgaria, all people serve in the military, even if they are not conscripted into the army, they have to participate in the annual reserve training photo, and the military has always had a high status, so far he has not heard of anyone enlisted in the army, and his family members came to make trouble!

Besides, being a soldier in this era is really their best chance to escape their fate, as long as they have made enough military achievements, they will immediately become a member of the ruling class!

Even if you change jobs and go home, the government is also guaranteed to distribute, as long as you don't make mistakes, you will basically be guaranteed for the rest of your life!

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So after some discussion, the Bulgarian "Family Planning Law" was promulgated, and it only waited for it to be taken to the National Assembly to go through the process before it officially came into effect.

This "Family Planning Law" regulates the protection of pregnant women with legal acts, and Ferdinand basically copied them from later generations!

However, the wages during the maternity leave are not fully borne by the enterprise, and this part of the expenditure is mainly allocated by the government, and the salary is paid for half a year according to the minimum wage standard in Bulgaria, and the enterprise mainly cooperates with the government to provide convenience for pregnant female workers.

For example, the law stipulates that companies with more than 100 employees must set up a special nursery room for employees to take turns to take care of them, so as to provide convenience for women to take care of children!

In order to encourage childbirth, starting from the third child, there is a material reward of 100 leva issued by the state, and the number of the fourth child becomes 200 leva; 400 leva for the fifth child; 6th child 800 lev......

There is no upper limit at the maximum, and there is no problem in making a fortune by giving birth to children, the premise is that all mothers and babies must be healthy and cannot die young, otherwise they will be deducted!

Oh, fortunately, Ferdinand watched a lot of news about super mothers in his later life, and he didn't take a unit, otherwise if he encountered that kind of multiple births, a few more times, it was really possible to bankrupt the Bulgarian government because of this!

Oh, Ferdinand admits that this is a picture cake to encourage childbirth, in fact, it is rare to be able to give birth to more than ten children, not to mention to ensure that the baby is healthy and does not die young, with this medical condition, it is almost impossible to exist!

However, after the sixth child, they can get the title of heroic mother, and the biggest advantage of this title is that during pregnancy, the company must provide them with full salary!

This has been there before, and it was made up by the capitalists themselves, mainly because few people can get it at all, and of course everyone is willing to take it out for show!

Of course, this time the law also stipulates that if they hurt their bodies because of childbirth, the company has the obligation to change them to easier jobs!

To put it simply, it is to tell everyone to work hard, everything is covered by the government, and it doesn't matter if you can't afford it, the country can do it for you!

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The promulgation of the "Family Planning Law" has made the capitalists breathe a sigh of relief at the same time, and they are really afraid that the government will directly dump all these burdens on them!

Do not doubt that with the strong Bulgarian government, it is completely possible to do this! Previously, UNFPA officials had interviewed a number of socially responsible capitalists and discussed this issue with them.

Oh, this is also the negative impact of reputation, have a sense of social responsibility, when the country needs you to assume social responsibility, as long as it is still within your ability, you can't refuse, otherwise how can you be worthy of your reputation?

Well, in fact, the investment in the early stage is not too large, and the eligible ones are nothing more than ten or two hundred thousand people per year.

Half a year's salary, and it is still paid according to the minimum wage, a total of tens of millions of leva, even if you add the subsidies issued, it will still not exceed 100 million leva!

With the current Bulgarian financial revenue, it can still be easily afforded!