62. The meeting of the untimely death, the revised marriage law
Zhang Hui let out an "ah" in surprise, "Oh, then I'll also talk about my opinion; I don't think it's necessary to implement any surrogate education plan, I don't have any discrimination against mixed-race children, but I think it takes one or two decades to raise and educate a child, which is too long, and it will take twenty years for this batch of babies to grow up.
Another reason is that our energy in the East China Sea is limited at present, and industrial and agricultural construction, education, scientific research, highway and railway construction, as well as berth construction and military tasks have greatly consumed our energy, so there is no need to add any unnecessary plans; Thankless efforts and forecasts are not optimistic, and it is difficult to say whether millions of mixed-race children will cause future social problems. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Fu Ning nodded and did not speak.
Lu Nande, director of the Department of Industry, immediately opposed the plan and supported Zhang Hui's views, but unexpectedly Yu Wangchun, director of the Department of Culture, suddenly spoke in support.
"I think there is still merit in this plan, but the scale of the plan is a bit larger."
Yu Wang Chun took a sip of tea and said, "I have been in the Department of Culture all these years, and I found that some of the people's concepts are really difficult to change, the propaganda and law prohibiting the drowning of female babies have been implemented for many years, and there are still people who die without repentance, and last year alone, more than 20,000 families were sentenced to be fined and relocated to the Antarctic Mansion for drowning female babies, and the social survey provided by the Intelligence Department shows that teenagers with new education often have a very heavy patriarchal mentality, and other clan concepts and patriarchal rights concepts are still very stubborn and often interfere with the law; In view of this, it is better to try to raise a group of mixed-race orphans with a new type of education, teach them new ideas and new ways of thinking, see if they are still patriarchal and stubborn, and then expand the scale of the program if the results are good. It's just that the number of mixed-race children in the first batch should not be too large, tens of thousands of people are enough, and if the effect is good, the plan will be increased later. β
Fu Ning slapped his forehead with a headache, "Okay, okay, no need to say it again!" What are you doing to support the surrogate parenting program for interracial women? You're obviously trying to do a social experiment! ββIf you don't support this plan, just say it, don't turn around and oppose it! β
Zhang Qi, Minister of the Navy and Deputy Director of the Department of Military Affairs, laughed out loud, and the tea in his mouth squirted out;
Fu Ning glanced at Zhang Qi dissatisfied, "Zhang Qi, you can also talk about it!" β
Zhang Qi smiled wryly, sat up straight and said: "I think we have all gone wrong, in fact, there is no need to engage in any interracial women's surrogacy plan, which will greatly consume the power of the official, and the gains outweigh the losses; We might as well revise the marriage law, Han women are wives, protected by the national marriage law, and women of different races are concubines, not protected by the marriage law, so that the sinicization of women of different races, and the increase in the number of newborns, isn't it much better than any surrogate parenting plan?! β
As soon as Zhang Qi's words were finished, several people objected, and Liu Yuandao, director of the Department of Scientific Research, said: "Nonsense! My youngest is Dutch, how did your good wife become a concubine according to your theory, and you still won't let me go home and sleep?! β
Zhang Qi felt wronged, "Lao Liu, the eldest of your family has citizenship, which is equivalent to a Han person, how can you become a concubine, don't misinterpret what I mean; You are a marquis, and all five wives are wives; What I mean is that you can't marry a woman of citizenship anymore, and then you're breaking the law of marriage, breaking the law; However, if you marry a woman of different races without citizenship, you can only be considered a concubine, and the concubine is not included in the marriage law quota, and is not limited by the number of concubines, nor is she considered a citizen, nor is she protected by the marriage law. β
Tian Yanwu, who has been in a state of semi-drowsiness since the meeting, immediately came to his senses, "Okay, good! That's a good suggestion! I support! Everyone is definitely in favor of it! β
Fu Ning slapped the table angrily, "Tian Yanwu, you shut up for me, you will sleep as soon as the meeting starts, and now you are in spirit?!" No matter how much you talk about it, give me further study! β
Tian Yanwu immediately weakened.
The venue was lively in an instant, and the directors and deputy directors of Sheng Shiran, Zhang Hui, Lu Nande, Zhou Runshui, Hong Bin, and other departments were all in good spirits, and they enthusiastically supported Zhang Qi's suggestion.
Fu Ning held his head and frowned, feeling that this meeting was a failure.
In the end, Lao Yue, who was still upright, spoke, Lao Yue slapped the table fiercely and said loudly, "Give me silence, talk well one by one, what concubines are not concubines, concubines who have no marriage law protection and no citizenship are still concubines, won't they all be killed silently by your wives, and you can't live a peaceful life one by one?" Besides, how to count the children born to concubines? Is it a citizen? Who of you would dare not give citizenship to your children? But if you give citizenship to the children born to concubines, and when they grow up to seek revenge for your biological mother, will you still have a peaceful birthday?! ββWhen you think about women, you are all full of energy, but do you still have brains? If you don't have a concubine, you are a concubine! β
The midshipman staff officers who attended the hearing for questioning were dumbfounded, and they finally knew what the legendary meeting of the highest level of the General Staff was like!
Fu Ning didn't want the trainee staff officers to see the ugliness of the meeting at the top of the General Staff Department, so he hastily wrote a few items in his notebook and stood up and announced his concluding remarks.
"After discussion at the special meeting at the highest level of the General Staff Department, the plan proposed by the General Staff Department for the Probationary Staff Office of a different race for surrogate rearing for women was collectively vetoed, and it was decided to formulate a separate population growth plan, that is, to revise the marriage law of the East China Sea in order to increase the birth rate of the East China Sea country;
The meeting decided:
First, Zhang Xu, director of the Intelligence Department, is responsible for making an investigation report as soon as possible, soliciting social suggestions, and investigating the public's opinions on the inclusion of women of different races who do not have the citizenship of the East China Sea into the marriage laws of the East China Sea Kingdom; The investigation report shall be submitted to the General Staff Department within half a month.
2. All women who give birth to children to citizens of the East China Sea, regardless of whether they are citizens of the East China Sea or regardless of their race, shall be granted the citizenship of the East China Sea, receive the new education of the East China Sea, and be protected by the marriage laws of the East China Sea.
Third, after receiving the relevant investigation report of the Intelligence Department, the Deliberation Department of the General Staff Department shall make a draft amendment to the marriage law in a timely manner, and submit it to the General Staff Department and the General Department within half a month, and the members of the General Staff, that is, the top level of the 12th Division, will jointly discuss and determine the final marriage law amendment, and finally the General Director Fu Ning will sign and implement it. β
Then Fu Ning raised his hand, "Break the meeting!" β
Since Fu Ning had already made a summary decision, everyone didn't dare to say more, so they all immediately stood up and saluted, and then the meeting ended lively.
Zhang Xu of the Intelligence Department took out the investigation report in only four days and submitted it to the Deliberation Division, but it took half a month for the Deliberation Division to submit the final draft of the marriage law revision to the General Division, and then the eleven directors of the General Division and Fu Ning, the general director, began to collectively discuss the final marriage law amendment.
The new marriage law was soon issued and implemented, but it caused a lot of controversy, because the inherent marriage law regulations have not changed much, and the only thing that has changed is that male untitled citizens of the East China Sea are allowed to marry second wives, but many conditions are limited.
First, whether or not to marry a second wife is entirely voluntary;
Second, male citizens of the East China Sea who do not have knighthood and honor are allowed to marry another wife, but the second wife cannot be a Han woman;
Third, the other party must be a woman of a specific foreign race, such as a woman from a country or a different race, such as Rakshasa or Franco, England, Germania, Ayutthaya, Toungoo and other countries or other countries; Foreign-born women from Africa, Antarctica, Luzon and other places are not included in the scope of the new marriage law;
Fourth, the second wife must take an oath to renounce the religious beliefs of the original ethnic group and must learn basic Chinese within a certain number of years; Otherwise, the marriage will be deemed invalid, the citizenship of the second wife in the East China Sea will be revoked, and the children born to him will be regarded as orphans and returned to the Nursery Hall of the Administrative Secretary, and the orphanages will be responsible for raising and educating them.
The laws of the East China Sea Kingdom have always been known for changing and changing rapidly, but the various new laws do not follow the past, and they are all buffer periods of two months to half a year, so the various discussions that have disturbed them have gradually faded after the excitement, and the opposition raised by some female citizens of the East China Sea has gradually died down under the rules of a patriarchal society.
The ripples of the revision of the marriage law did not have a big impact on the East China Sea Kingdom in a short period of time, because the East China Sea State officials could not provide many qualified foreign women in a short period of time, and the two departments of industry and transportation insisted that all newly captured foreign women must serve hard labor for more than one year and learn simple Chinese before they can be provided to the society for selection, so there are very few foreign women available for the new marriage law to choose from.
The Intelligence Department is responsible for statistics and excludes unsuitable female laborers of different races from the scope of investigation, and the remaining women of different races who are within the limited range and have not been sterilized are only a few hundred thousand; The government gathered these women and distributed them to the public, so some civilian men laughed and said, "The official sent a nanny for free to our family to take care of the elderly!" βγ
The spring of 1731 arrived as promised, the rainy season had already continued in the south of the East China Sea, but the north had just begun to thaw, and a few years ago the East China Sea was full of hungry people willing to study and work frantically with salted fish, but now people will only complain that the corn is not delicious and the salted fish stock is too large.
Fishing and seafood processing in Yingzhou Province have long become the largest industry in Yingzhou Province, but the cultivation of rice and other food crops is relatively small, and there is no industrial support from the high-level of the East China Sea State, so Yingzhou Province spontaneously and rapidly expands the mining of gold and silver and other minerals, and almost all the early foreign laborers died in the silver mines in Iwami and other places, and then a large amount of gold and silver flows to the market or the treasury.
Bo manufacturing, iron smelting, steel making, machinery manufacturing, as well as electricity and oil refining, frantically established and expanded in every coastal major city port, the north and south quickly formed the chicken coop, Lushun, Shenyang, these three large heavy industry bases, Liaoyang South Iron Mine concentrated more than 400,000 alien laborers, Lushun Coal Mine concentrated more than 600,000 alien laborers, and Luzon southeast iron mine, at the highest time, once concentrated nearly 2 million alien laborers, massive coal, iron, copper, timber and other resources were frantically mined and processed.
The boundaries of the prefecture and administration of Annam Province were swept by the high-level of the East China Sea State, so that the Annam Province, which originally only included the boundary between the Annam Kingdom and the Champa State, suddenly encompassed the entire Indochina Peninsula, covering the endless arable land and forests south of the imperial court and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.
The Dutch frantically transported the industrial products of the East China Sea countries from Asia, tea, paper, cloth, porcelain, silk, steel, and even ships, munitions, oil, horse-drawn carriages, countless materials and ships to and from the sea between South Africa and the South Seas, and then countless European merchants brought gold, silver, tobacco, furs, cotton, rare minerals and other materials from the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa to trade with Dutch merchants, and South Africa under the rule of the Dutch prospered rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Dutch's South African entrepot business prospered rapidly, but Geert Francis still coveted the narrow strip of Suez in Egypt, and the East China Sea State was slow to fulfill its promise to annex Suez, so Geert Francis had no choice but to continue to wait for news from Fourning.
The industrial products of the East China Sea Kingdom spread to Europe after a circle from the hands of the Dutch, and at the same time, the gold and silver of Europe spread to the East China Sea after a circle from the hands of the Dutch, but the Dutch made excess profits from it;
Europe's precious metals are violently draining to the East China Sea countries, and have risen to tens of millions of taels of silver per year; The city-state system in Europe is collapsing at a predictable rate, and countless Europeans have foreseen a violent social storm that will peak, but even the most famous Enlightenment thinkers cannot predict what kind of social change will lie ahead;
Because of the shortage of currency, the industrial products in the East are violently impacting the agricultural economy of Europe, the small feudal city-states are constantly disintegrating and collapsing, the huge Eurasian trade from the Mediterranean to every port in the Balrod Sea, dumping every industrial product of the East China Sea, paper money quickly appeared and expanded in Europe, and then rapidly depreciated and replaced, and every silver coin was siphoned off by the East China Sea State in silence.
Passive emergency policies continue to appear on the European continent, Franco, Spain, Sicily, Venice and other countries are constantly innovating policies in order to passively respond to various invisible social and market situations, commercial excitement and social panic are constantly impacting the inherent order of European countries, so that all countries are constantly suppressing peasant uprisings and reaping huge profits in foreign trade in a mixture of joy and sorrow.
Fu Ning ignored the intelligence from Europe, and the East China Sea Country did not want to pay attention to European affairs, because the East China Sea Country only cared about what it could gain from Eurasian trade, and as for the future of Europe, it was not something that Fu Ning nor the East China Sea Country cared about.
The Dutch left behind in Europe were driven by commercial profits to almost all of them to South Africa and New Netherland in the South Seas, and to the Indian Ocean maritime trade routes, so that the Netherlands in Europe was even more empty;
Divided Germany, Italy, the city-states of Italy, the radical and arrogant England, as well as the old Francois and Spain, countless scholars rushed to the New Netherland in the South Seas to learn and pursue the second-hand scientific knowledge spread out by the East China Sea Kingdom, so that countless European scholars have joined the nationality of the New Netherlands in the South Seas, become Dutch, and then strive to become the nationality of the East China Sea State;
As Fu Ning foresaw, he has only been in this world for a short period of eighteen years, but he has already swept the whole world into a stormy change.