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In January of the third year of Xinghua, the National Day supplement of "China Daily" was released, and the newspaper briefly recorded the 454 nobles who were knighted by Yan Xueyi, and the newspaper listed the methods of becoming nobles, and countless people were shocked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The first to act is the rich class, although it is not possible to become a real nobleman for the time being, but it is also a thing worth celebrating to become an honorary nobleman like a lord, many rich people feel that they are qualified to become a lord, and immediately take out 100,000 Chinese dollars, 50,000 for the construction of urban public facilities, 50,000 for charity, to help those in need.

For ordinary people, the easiest way to become a nobleman is to join the army, as long as you fight bravely on the battlefield and get some combat merits, there is still a high chance of being promoted to a lieutenant and becoming a member of the noble clan, whose status is higher than that of the lord and enjoys certain privileges.

There is a golden avenue ahead, as long as you work hard, you will have the opportunity to step on the avenue and go straight into the sky, how can those who are not willing to be ordinary not work hard to struggle?

In late January, the latest issue of the "China Daily" was released, and at the same time, the imperial emperor Yan Xueyi issued an edict that the Chinese Empire would implement the new marriage law starting on February 1, which triggered heated discussions among the people.

Prior to this, the marriage law of the Chinese Empire was very simple, at most it was to add a marriage certificate.

However, a new marriage law with various provisions is about to be implemented.

Article 1 of the new Marriage Law clearly stipulates that a man and a woman must reach the age of fifteen (weeks) before they can get married.

With the spread of education, the age at which citizens of the empire could marry had been postponed, and as the length of education increased, so would the age at which a couple could marry, and the empire would allow the education of women in the future.

However, in some regions, there are many cases of marriage before minors, so the new marriage law has a strict limit on the age of marriage for both men and women, and it is possible that the minimum age limit will be further raised in the future.

There is less discussion among the people about Article 1 of the Marriage Law, and more discussion is about marrying wives and taking concubines.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have the tradition of three wives and four concubines, of course, this is the tradition of the powerful, the poor can have a wife is good, in the case of poor medical conditions in ancient times, the ratio of men and women is about the same, the magnates can have three wives and four concubines, but the number of the powerful is only a small handful, and more women do not account for much, not to mention the frequent wars in ancient times, in each war, the most dead are men, because the war makes the proportion of men and women in ancient times relatively balanced.

With the establishment of the Chinese Empire, under the leadership of Yan Xueyi, the Chinese Empire will be stable for a long time, and Yan Xueyi will even create a thousand-year empire or even a 10,000-year empire, and the problem of the ratio of men and women needs to be solved.

In this era, it is difficult to completely abolish the tradition of three wives and four concubines, and even if it is abolished, there are other ways to circumvent monogamy.

So Yan Xueyi found another way to solve the problem.

First of all, the system of polygamy and multiple concubines can already be implemented, but women in the Chinese nation cannot be concubines, and only foreign women can become concubines.

Secondly, there is no problem for a male citizen to marry the first wife, but when he marries the second wife, he needs to donate 1,000 Chinese dollars, half of which is used for the construction of public facilities, and half for charity, if he marries a third wife, he has to donate 10,000 Chinese dollars, and the fourth time will continue to multiply by ten on the basis of the third wife, and so on.

However, there is one thing that must be important, in order to continue to marry a wife, you must let your other wives agree.

Then there is the question of concubines, which can be unlimited without any conditions, and male citizens can accept as many as they want, and concubines also need to be approved by their wives.

Finally, there is a little privilege about the nobles of the empire here, for example, the baron can not donate money until the third time he marries his wife, and the third time he has to donate 1,000 Chinese coins, and so on the viscount and earl, and so on, and only need to donate money on the fourth and fifth times respectively.

However, it was Yan Xueyi's choice of this method that caused a great discussion among the people, and formed a tripartite "force": the opponents mainly of the middle class, the supporters of the common people and those who believe in Yan Xueyi, and the rest are neutral, thinking that this matter has nothing to do with itself, and it is purely for the sake of excitement.

Opponents oppose the new marriage law because they lack financial resources, want to marry more wives, and find it difficult to afford huge financial expenditures.

For the really rich, they have money and want to marry more wives, and donating that money is not too much, but marrying too many wives, the rich may not be able to afford to marry more wives.

"If you don't have money, what are you going to marry?" This is Yan Xueyi's opinion, how much ability to marry as many wives, no money, it is better to be monogamous, at most a few concubines to satisfy a man's desires. Hope.

The number of opponents is relatively small, coupled with the authority of Yan Xueyi, so that the opponents are suppressed by the proponents and cannot raise their heads, the new marriage law has been implemented, and the situation in the empire is promising, just waiting for February 1 to be officially implemented, but some people take advantage of the time before the time comes, and hurry up to marry a wife and take a concubine, but the remaining time is only a few days, and everything is too late.

In addition to the imminent implementation of the new marriage law, Yan Xueyi also signed an order: citizens have more children and have more children.

At present, the population of the Chinese Empire has just reached 420 million, which is the most populous country in the world, and the population of the Chinese Empire accounts for more than a quarter of the world's total population.

But this "point" population is far from enough for the big plan in Yan Xueyi's heart, not to mention that there are still large barren areas in the north of the empire for immigration, and the population of the northern region can exceed 100 million, but now the population of the north is less than 10 million, and there are not too many people in the empire who are willing to immigrate to the north.

In fact, Yan Xueyi does not sign the order, and the people themselves will have more children, after all, there are not many entertainment activities at night, and the people only have one thing to do, if there is enough food, they will raise the child, and if they can't support the child, it is more likely that the child will drown.

The Chinese Empire promoted high-yield crop seeds throughout the territory and increased land reclamation in the north, and the empire produced more and more food every year, and the population that could be fed would also increase, and the common people would rely on their own ability to have more children.

"Passing on the family lineage and spreading the branches" is a word that all Chinese want to engrave in their minds.

However, after Yan Xueyi signed the order of "having more children and having more children", he would also give some subsidies to the citizens of the empire who had more children, such as reducing or reducing agricultural taxes and so on.

Under such circumstances, the population of the Chinese Empire would soon grow by leaps and bounds.