The fleet of ships moving the capital continued to move south, and a group of ministers in the political hall were discussing how to limit Zhao Ji's power and how to implement a plan to rule the world in the next ten years.

"Wang Shangshu, don't forget, there is still a waterway that doesn't need to be built." Cai Jing said to Wang Shao with a smile.

"Yuan Chang is talking about the sea route?" Sima Guang didn't like Wang Shao, ignored what Wang Shao said, but took Cai Jing's words and asked with a smile.

Sima Guang has always admired Cai Jing, because Cai Jing is capable of doing things, decisive and capable, not good at money, fame and fortune, and dares to take responsibility, Cai Jing's behavior can be regarded as an absolute gentleman according to Confucian standards. It's just that Sima Guang doesn't know that Cai Jing has only power, and love power is Cai Jing's nature, and no one really sees this nature except for Zhao Ji. Therefore, Zhao Ji not only reused Cai Jing, but also kept knocking Cai Jing. Cai Jing was always frightened by Zhao Ji in front of Zhao Ji.

"In front of Sima Shaobao, you can't hide anything!" Cai Jing is flattering Sima Guang. Although Sima Guang is not in the political affairs hall, the position of the crown prince Shaobao is unattainable, and maybe he Cai Jing will not have that title in his life.

"Jiefu and I talked about it, and we are going to build three major waterways to run through the north and south of the Great Song Dynasty, plus the coastal shipping, that is four waterways. These four waterways, together with the four major water systems of the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, weave a waterway network covering the entire Song Dynasty. How to count some tributaries and small water systems, it is a dense network of waterways. The benefits of water transportation and irrigation are countless! Sima Guang stated with a smile.

"Not only that, but more canals will be built and more deep wells will be dug in various places. Synchronized with the waterway network is also the Chidao network. This is a big project that will continue to be built for ten years! Cai Jing then said with a smile.

"What a 10-year project!" Wang Anshi also laughed.

When everyone was united and ready to work hard for ten years, Xue Xiang, the head of the household department, suddenly said: "Wang Xiang, there is another thing that must be paid attention to, there is a commercial newspaper in Quanzhou that published a report on the phenomenon of baby drowning. Before returning to Beijing, the official family visited the households in various counties of Quanzhou, and was furious when they learned that this incident was true. If this matter is not resolved, it is hard to believe that the government will no longer interfere with the implementation of the 10-year governance plan. Di Yong's commander sent news that after the relocation of the capital, the official family would inspect various military towns. ”

The so-called phenomenon of infant drowning is a phenomenon of artificially controlling population growth caused by the land system, and it is also an important social problem brought about by the rapid urbanization of the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, ordinary lower-class people generally chose to raise their offspring by having two sons and one daughter. In order to achieve the purpose of family planning, except for two sons and one daughter, the extra children were either abandoned or drowned as soon as they were born. This is a very cruel social phenomenon.

There are three main reasons for this phenomenon, one is that the taxes are heavy, the service tax is continuous, many lower-class people are unable to raise extra children, and even in the event of natural disasters, they have to kill young children to reduce food consumption. The lower classes here are not only the peasants, but also the citizens. Citizens are responsible for high property taxes, which means that citizens have to pay taxes on their homes. Cities are crowded, land prices are high, and property taxes are high, so citizens don't have more houses to settle their children.

The second is the extravagant wedding ceremony. If a man wants to marry a wife, he will not have a rich property, and no one will marry his daughter to you. And if the woman wants to get married, she must prepare a large amount of dowry. When married in later generations, if you marry a daughter, you will receive a bride price or something, and if you receive a lot, you are almost selling your daughter. The Song Dynasty was different, marrying a daughter was almost a loss of money, and the dowry was so much that many families couldn't afford it. You can't afford to pay a dowry, and no family wants to marry your daughter. In other words, in order to get married, both men and women must have money. The wedding etiquette of the Song Dynasty was very varied, and I don't know how much social wealth was consumed under the big operation. The basic situation of the Song Dynasty was that they could not afford to get married.

The third is the issue of division of property. In the distribution of family inheritance in later generations, only single-parent families can girls have the right to inherit the estate. If there are more than two children, generally only boys have the right to inherit, and girls are the water spilled by the person who marries, and when they get married, they have to charge the man's family for the girl's maintenance fee before marriage, and most of this childcare fee is also reserved for the boy. The Song Dynasty was different in that both men and women had the right to inherit. As soon as a girl gets married, she almost takes away most of the family's property. In the case of a family with many children, the property of the family is divided equally among all the children according to the right of inheritance. In a family with many children, even if it is a landlord's family, once the children are adults, all the children who have become a family will become poor after receiving a small amount of property from their parents. In order to prevent the dispersion of property, the families of the landlords and wealthy families did not dare to raise more children. In this case, the Song Dynasty basically couldn't afford to raise boys, and even more so girls.

This phenomenon of infant drowning in the Song Dynasty did not discriminate between men and women, and it was not the concept of preference for sons and daughters, because after most families gave birth to two boys and one girl, the fourth child, whether male or female, would be disposed of. Under normal circumstances, it is directly put into the water tank and drowned, and some parents can't do it, so they are directly abandoned on the street, hoping that someone will adopt them.

The concept of preference for sons over daughters was brought in by the Mongols after the Yuan Dynasty, because in the harsh living environment of the grassland, women are the tools and property for giving birth to children, and they can be plundered at will. Women must be dependent on men in order to survive. The Song Dynasty did not have so much pressure to survive, and women could also be the masters of the house.

The Southern Song Dynasty women bound their feet did not mean that women had a low status and that men destroyed women. In fact, at that time, it was as fashionable to wrap small feet as high heels in later generations. As for the fact that this fashion is becoming more and more distorted, that is after the Yuan Dynasty. In other words, the vices of feudal society that later generations said were almost all produced after the Yuan Dynasty.

The government has no choice but to find more ways to adopt these abandoned children. The first option is for the government to set up a Salesian Bureau to adopt these abandoned children. The second option is to order the temple to adopt abandoned children. The third method is to encourage private adoption, and even issue a decree that biological children who violate filial piety cannot return to recognize their relatives after being adopted.

In order to avoid the extravagant marriage system and the issue of property division, many people at the bottom of the river, including some small landlord families, often adopt some more children, and when they grow up, they marry their own children.

The Song Dynasty's system for the protection of children's rights and interests was still very good, and even better than that of later generations. The achievements of officials at all levels of government in the Song Dynasty were often based on the increase in the number of household registrations in the region. Therefore, the officials have done a good job of setting up the Salesian Bureau. However, even so, infant drowning is still widespread, and even rampant in the economically developed southeastern region.

The phenomenon of reluctance to have more children is almost the same as the phenomenon of reluctance to have children in later Western societies. The more economically developed the city, the higher the cost of raising children, which leads to the reluctance of many families to have children.

The social problem caused by infant drowning is that men cannot marry wives and women cannot marry. These young men and women who cannot marry a wife or marry are the targets of social discrimination. This brings about a very paradoxical phenomenon, that is, polygamy and polyandry, two diametrically opposed situations coexist. The phenomenon of polyandry began to appear in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, when only aristocratic women such as princesses and princesses could have many husbands. In the Song Dynasty, it has generally appeared among the people. The women of the Song Dynasty, who received a large amount of property from the family, often had to support many husbands. Such women are often referred to as female officials, and his husbands are called face heads. The so-called face head is willing to be a beautiful man, and by extension, it means male concubine and male pet. Those single men and women have only one way out, to be small for others.

The distortion of the marriage system is also a catalyst for the development of erotic and erotic karma. In the Song Dynasty, not only were female prostitutes rampant, but male prostitutes were also rampant. Song Zhenzong and Song Renzong have repeatedly ordered the prohibition of male prostitution, but the ban has not stopped. The officials had no choice, and when the emperor asked, he could only say: Since women can be prostitutes, why can't men?

Originally, because of the backward medical technology, the survival rate of babies was low, and now it has encountered the Song Dynasty version of family planning. This social problem brought about by family planning has seriously affected the social atmosphere. Not only is it not conducive to social harmony, but it also seriously hinders the growth of the population. Zhao Ji, who has always hoped that the population of the Great Song Dynasty would skyrocket, and then a large number of immigrants would develop overseas, couldn't help but be angry.

However, although Zhao Ji was very angry, when he pulled out the Qinglong Knife, he couldn't find the target of the attack. Such a problem is a matter of customs, a matter of human selfishness, and it cannot be changed through coercion. For the first time, Zhao Ji had a sense of powerlessness, and in the face of the three redundant problems of the Song Dynasty and the problem of food shortage, Zhao Ji never lost confidence. But in the face of this problem, Zhao Ji was helpless, first, Zhao Ji had no reference for future generations, and he didn't know how to deal with it. Second, although it is clear that the Western society in later generations is also facing the problem of negative population growth, Zhao Ji has not inquired about how the western developed countries in later generations dealt with this problem.

After Zhao Ji returned to Shangjing, he could only look forward to it, waiting for the political affairs hall, waiting for Wang Anshi and others to arrive, telling them his purpose, and then letting them think of a way.

Compared with being an emperor to deal with such a problem, Zhao Ji, who was born in special forces, is more willing to train and stay in the barracks. Now, the border of the Great Song Dynasty is peaceful, and Zhao Ji is a little worried that the soldiers and generals of the various military towns will slack off. Before Zhao Ji implemented the new military system, many soldiers and generals stopped training because there was no war, but started the economy.

The soldiers set up a military workshop under the guidance of the generals, and while serving as soldiers and receiving military salaries from the imperial court, they engaged in production and earned their own money. In the end, the generals became the workshop owners, the big merchants, and the soldiers became the oppressed craftsmen. Because they had knives and handles in their hands, they also infringed on the surrounding people, making the people's legitimate business bankrupt, and many of the people became long-term workers of military generals. Even, some generals even set up a green building hook fence.

After the implementation of the new military system, those generals who liked to be businessmen were killed or eliminated by Zhao Ji, and even the generals who did not do so were sent by Zhao Ji to the Weiguo Academy and returned to the furnace for reform.

However, freezing three feet is not a day's cold. Zhao Ji was deeply afraid that the soldiers of the military town stationed on the border would start to operate again. For this reason, in addition to not wanting to think about how to deal with social problems such as drowning babies, Zhao Ji also wants to go back to his old profession and become a soldier king, train his soldiers well, and hand over all internal affairs problems to the political hall to solve.

However, Zhao's motives were misunderstood by Sima Guang and others. Hearing that Zhao Ji was going to inspect various military towns, Sima Guang couldn't help frowning, and scolded dissatisfiedly: "Do the officials want to clean up again?" What exactly does he want? Do you want to destroy the Great Song Dynasty before you are willing? This faint king, this tyrant! ”

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