The enactment of the Child Protection Act has unsurprisingly sparked a great deal of discussion. Since the last time the imperial court changed the monarch as a minister and the father as a son to the monarch and the minister, the father and son, the Ming people have been greatly touched. And now the "Child Protection Law" actually stipulates that parents who punish their children for negligence and cause the death of their children must be sentenced to ten years of hard labor, so that many people can't sit still.

Speaking of drowning a baby girl, many people think that they can't afford to raise it after they have given birth, so in order to prevent the child from suffering with it, let her leave this world safely when she is just born and her mind is not opened, what is the problem?

These ideas were published in the newspapers, and Zhu Youxiao wrote an article in the name of Mr. Xiaoqi to refute these views: Children are not the property of their parents, and I believe that every normal Ming person will recognize this. Children are the continuation of the life of their parents, they have souls, they have ideas, they are human beings like you, they are not like cattle and horses, they are at your disposal, they can be slaughtered at will.

Some people say that they can't afford to raise them after giving birth, so they drown baby girls. How does that sound so awkward? Is it that the boy can afford it, and the girl eats more or wears more than the boy? Raising a child now is only two stones, rice, and a few feet of cloth a year, so don't you give birth if you can't take out this little thing? She didn't ask you to give birth to her. Taking a step back, if you don't have the ability to support you, you emigrate, a lot of vacant land is not planted, as long as you go, you can get fifty acres of land or more, why don't you go? Take a step back and say, if you don't have the ability to support you, you will be sent to the nursery, and they will not take your money.

We should have enough reverence for life that when you are about to drown a baby girl, think about how you would think about it if it was you who was drowned. Mencius said: Everyone has compassion. Thou hast so viciously destroyed a life, where is your compassion? Can you still be counted as a human being? Life is given by God, so only God can take it away.

Our thinking is going to change, the original saying that it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs has become a thing of the past, and now the imperial court is going to start taking care of your family affairs. Daming is made up of families, and if the family is healthy, then of course Daming is also healthy. If there is a problem in the family, then of course there will be a problem with Daming. The "Child Protection Law" says very well that after the birth of all babies in the Ming Dynasty, their right to life was immediately protected by the Ming Emperor. If you kill a newborn baby for no reason, the emperor can make you serve in labor or even execute you according to the law. I think this is the fairest and most reasonable approach. Finally, I want to say that how to establish a healthy and normal relationship between the upper and lower generations is really worth thinking about for every Ming person.

The change of concepts is an extremely slow process, and Zhu Youxiao knows this, so he first has to use the law to force some people to accept certain concepts, and he really can't wait for decades or hundreds of years to change some people's concept of ignoring life. However, the current Ming Dynasty can be said to be the best era since the founding of the country, except for Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, other provinces have basically solved the problem of food and clothing. Even in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, only those ethnic minorities who do not accept the king's transformation and are unwilling to go down the mountain have not been solved, for this point, Zhu Youxiao can only say that there is no way, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty feel that they are not willing to go down the mountain.

Now that the law has been enacted, the next year will be a difficult one for the courts. A large number of cases will be piled up on the court's desk, and judges will receive a lot of boos. Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture will breathe a sigh of relief, because soon a large number of laborers will enter the labor camps in various places, which will enable the Ministry of Agriculture to complete the task of clearing the land as soon as possible.

The debate in the newspapers continued as usual, and more officials began to express their views on the Child Protection Act. Yang Lian said in his capacity as the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture: "In the second year of the Apocalypse, the entire Ming Dynasty had more than 90,000 mu of cultivated land, and the total population of the country at that time was 98 million. By the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the cultivated land in the interior of the Ming Dynasty had exceeded 100,000 mu, and the overseas cultivated land had reached 86 million mu. We have thought of many ways to increase the arable land, such as making better tools, buying more cattle and horses to assist in farming, and promoting new agricultural technologies, but these are not likely to produce great results in a short period of time, so in the final analysis, more people need to farm. Killing a child, my Ming will lose a strong laborer more than ten years later, killing a baby girl, my Ming will lose one or more children after more than ten years. I do not condemn this kind of behavior from the moral and legal aspects, I only look at this matter from the perspective of the agricultural development of the Ming Dynasty, and the food production that everyone needs, and I can assert that harming children is a crime against the entire Ming Dynasty. ”

Yang He, as the secretary of the Ministry of Education, expressed his opinion: "A child who has received basic education will understand that as a Ming and Han people, he should have his own pride and pride, as well as his own persistence and upbringing." He will know how to deal with his parents and relatives in his daily life, and how to deal with strangers. They will recognize common words and learn simple calculations. It will be more difficult for the profiteers to deceive him. His Majesty the Emperor said that the mother is the first person the child meets when he comes into this world, and she is also the enlightening teacher of the child's whole life path. To educate a woman well is to educate a family well. Those executioners who drowned baby girls, those short-sighted people who did not let girls receive education, you are destroying the future of the Ming Dynasty, ten years of labor reform is too little, he should be sentenced to life labor, and use his labor to atone for his sins. ”

Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, wrote: "From the first year of the Apocalypse to the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the population of the Ming Dynasty increased from 96 million to 11,000,000. The increase in population is due to two factors, one is due to the increase in food production, and the increase in human life expectancy due to advances in medicine. Second, the number of births is relatively large. Among them, the number of births is the most important, accounting for more than eighty percent of the total increase. So if we want to grow the population, we don't want to let a child die unexpectedly because of something other than disease. His Majesty the Emperor led us to conquer more and more places, but it was wasted because there were not enough people to occupy it, which is a crime against our descendants, a crime against the entire Ming Dynasty, and a crime against our Chinese nation. We at the Ministry of Household Affairs are very supportive of the Child Protection Act and would like to see the penalties for offenders increased. ”

The voices of many officials have made ordinary people wonder if they are thinking too narrowly. It is always beneficial to let more people start to reflect, especially after linking this law to the future of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the future of their own families, many opponents have figured out a lot of things, and they have changed their position and switched to supporting this law.

Of course, for Zhu Youxiao, if you go and discuss, I know how to do it right, because I have more than 300 years of experience than you. I just need to let the law be enacted, and then force you to obey it. As for whether you understand it now or not, it doesn't matter, history will tell you that I am right.