The Roman Empire, which dominated the Mediterranean across Europe, Asia, and Africa, was at war, like the Han Empire in the East, at the end of the second century AD.

After the assassination of Commodus, the last emperor of the Antonine dynasty, in 192 AD, Rome experienced a period of chaos for nearly a century.

During this period, the Roman Empire and the Han Empire seemed to be brothers and sisters, with frequent wars, frequent changes of emperors, and slave revolts everywhere.

It was not until 284 A.D. that Diocletian, the prefect of the Guard, was proclaimed emperor by the army, took imperial power, changed the head of state to a monarchy, officially adopted the ruling form and etiquette of the Eastern monarchs, and implemented many reforms, that the Roman Empire regained its short-lived glory.

However, after the death of Theodosius I in 395 AD, the unified empire split into two parts, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire collapsed.

Wei Yan took a glimpse of the history of the Roman Empire in later generations, and thought that the Han Empire was also chaotic since the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty in 189 AD, until the Western Jin Dynasty advanced in 280 AD, destroyed the Eastern Wu, and the Three Kingdoms returned to the Jin Dynasty.

Wei Yan thought that if the Roman Empire was strong and thriving now, he would definitely salivate over the rich Han, and Wei Yan was confident that he would sweep away the small countries around him, but if the Roman Empire came to fight with all his strength, especially when Wei Yan had not yet unified the Han Dynasty, he had no bottom in his heart, and he doubted whether it would reproduce the scene of the eight-year War of Resistance, but fortunately, the Roman Empire soon became chaotic.

Although the Roman emperor had not yet been assassinated, the chaos of the Roman Empire had already been revealed, otherwise Wei Yu's Immigration Department of the Ministry of Military Intelligence would not have been able to buy so many blonde and blue-eyed beauties from the west of the Western Regions so smoothly in the next few years.

Many Yanmar are too big, rough skin, and have a very heavy body odor, compared with the small and exquisite, delicate skin, and fragrant Han beauties, there is indeed not much advantage, but it is undeniable that there are still some Western beauties, such as the beauties produced in Northern European countries, the skin is not rough, and the body odor is not so heavy, they also have the incomparable advantages of the Han beauties, they have plump chests, tall figures, three-dimensional facial features, maybe after the Han men slightly correct their aesthetics, they will also flock to Western stunners.

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After Wei Yan supervised the work of various divisions and returned to the Pingnan General's Mansion, Dian Wei reported: "Mr. Chengyan has come to visit. ”

Wei Yan hurriedly asked Dian Wei to invite his father-in-law Huang Chengyan in.

Huang Chengyan came in, sat down, and asked with a serious face: "Wen Chang, I heard that you are going to introduce a policy to encourage people to have children?" ”

Wei Yan judged from Huang Chengyan's expression that Huang Chengyan must have some different views on his own set of policies.

Now, what Wei Yan needs most is different opinions, so that he can correct his omissions in time, after all, this superbirth policy was put forward by Wei Yan on a whim, and it is the product of impulse, and it is not mature.

The reason why he originally proposed this somewhat radical policy was not only because he needed more labor to enhance the productivity of the Han Dynasty, but also because Wei Yan, an aggressive leader, would lead the Han nation to greatly expand the living space of the Han nation, and needed many Han people to occupy those newly opened up territories, but more importantly, he had a strong aversion to the parasitic policy that violated the ethics of the Han nation and violated human nature, so he did not think too much about it, and brazenly launched this supernatural policy.

Wei Yan defeated Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Biao with the momentum of thunder, and the generals were in awe of him, and even kept silent, not daring to raise objections clearly, only Wei Yan's cronies knew that Wei Yan was following the advice, and put forward several opinions, which Wei Yan adopted one by one, but those adoptions did not involve the essence of the problem.

Huang Chengyan is Wei Yan's father-in-law, and he is in charge of finances, so it would be better for him to raise some substantive issues.

Thinking of this, Wei Yan replied with a smile on his face: "Father-in-law, this is just a child's humble opinion, and I ask my father-in-law to correct it." ”

Huang Chengyan knew that Wei Yan's current status and majesty had been established, and it was not good to give Wei Yan a step down in front of so many people, so he wanted to suppress it and said first: "Wen Chang, your strategy of encouraging childbirth is generally good, and it is very beneficial to the improvement of our strength. ”

Wei Yan smiled slightly and said, "Father-in-law, you know that the child needs some criticism and correction now, and I hope that my father-in-law can give me advice!" ”

Huang Chengyan saw that Wei Yan's attitude was very sincere, so he spread out the topic and said: "Generally speaking, everything is good, and there are a few places that are worth discussing.

First, if a man or a woman is not married at the age of 20, both parents and children shall be fined 500 yuan each year. Second, a woman must have more than two children, only one child, and a fine of 100 yuan per year for social maintenance, until she gives birth to two, the fine is exempted. Wen Chang, have you ever thought about what your well-intentioned policy will become because of your fine regulations! ”

Wei Yan was stunned, and said helplessly: Father-in-law, the first one was stipulated in previous dynasties, and the latter one is also similar to the previous one, all of which are urging the people to give birth and expand the Han population, I really don't know what's wrong with this? ”

Huang Chengyan shook his head lightly: "Wen Chang, you are a military general, you don't know the filthy behavior of local officials, your regulations open the way for them to collect money, they have this policy in hand, they will rack their brains to exploit loopholes to expropriate ordinary people, the darkness in this is unimaginable, the people complain, but those local officials are pretending to be innocent and saying that they are implementing the policies you promulgated, and then your hard work will not only not be understood by the people, but will become a reason for them to flee." ”

Wei Yan listened to Huang Chengyan's analysis, and suddenly remembered those parasitic (family planning) moths at the grassroots level in later generations, who used the so-called national policy as a magic weapon to collect money, and did everything to illegally detain houses and demolish houses, which seriously tarnished the image of the government.

Although he couldn't think of how those grassroots officials would find ways to make money from these two fine regulations, he knew that once those officials found a loophole to exploit, it would be he Wei Yan who would lose the support of the people, not those brazen and insatiable officials.

Wei Yan listened to Huang Chengyan's correction, and began to seriously face the various adverse consequences of his policy after it was promulgated, his face was solemn, and he asked seriously: "Father-in-law, how can I adjust to make this policy perfect?" ”