Chapter 173: Population Recovery

Summer is hot, and now is the hottest time of summer, and there are many people in the fields who are busy serving wheat. The wheat is also starting to thrive, and this year is also a good harvest year.

"the kid, we're going to have another baby this year. We used to have three children, and now I want to have one more! Liu Gou'er said.

Liu Gou'er's wife also said: "Yes, in the past, we were poor and couldn't afford to support it." Now that the Chen County Order is here, life is getting better and better, and we can have a variety of children. Many children and many blessings, in the future, we will have more children, and then we can also spread the branches and leaves for you, and then the future is great! ”

In this way, a matter about "family planning" spread among many people, and at the same time, it was also reflected in Chen Fei's statistics in the county government.

"Chen County, we now have a total of six or seven hundred families in the county women pregnant, and this number is still increasing." Tobo Shusa said.

Chen Fei did the math and immediately said in surprise: "Six or seven hundred households, if you count seven people in each household, then there are about more than 20,000 in the county." And if a pregnant woman gives birth to a child, the county's population growth rate this year has reached 33 percent, that is, 3 out of 3. And it's surprising that you say that the percentage is still increasing! ”

The population growth rate of 33 percent is simply powerful in later generations, and the population growth rate of the world in later generations is less than 3 percent, but I actually made a 33 percent here, which is really fierce. And this proportion is still increasing in public, which is obviously very powerful.

"This is all Chen County's order to bring you a good life for everyone, and the people have extra money, of course, they want to have more children and more blessings, and then have more children. In this way, after the family is divided, they can also get more land from the imperial court, and they can also have many descendants to support. And the population is larger. It is also what our court needs. If calculated according to this ratio, it will not take a few years for us to return to the standard before the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty. We've done a miracle. One year is more than the past seven or eight years. Tobo Shusa said.

It only takes a split second to kill a person. But I want to support a person to adulthood. It is impossible to do without a lot of material costs and time costs. In feudal times, population was the most valuable productive force and the greatest wealth of a country. Therefore, the increase and decrease of population has always been an important factor in the evaluation of officials, and if the population growth is negative, then you will be unlucky. Ancient times are different from later generations, ancient people paid attention to the richer they are, the more children they have, but later generations are just the opposite. The more developed the place, the lower the fertility rate. And now Chen Fei has given the people a better life, and they all want to be able to have children, and then they will be able to have more children in the future. So now that the population of Shuo County is increasing, there are more and more pregnant women, which makes Chen Fei worried.

However, Chen Fei will not carry out the kind of family planning in later generations, because in this era, the government not only supports childbearing, but the more children the better, so this is the reason why the government needs the population now. Population was really the primary productive force in ancient times, so there is no need to say anything without population. Taxes, army food, are all needed by the population to provide. So the ancient rulers instead wanted the population to be as large as possible. Especially in this era, when the world has just begun to settle down, it is natural to want to restore the population and start to restore more abandoned land to cultivation.

And so it goes. Since there are so many pregnant women in Shuo County, of course we must take this matter as the first priority. First of all, we can invite the pregnant woman to the designated place to raise the baby, and then our government will take care of the pregnant woman at the unified expense. That's about the ratio of 50 pregnant women to a servant, and then pay for hired people to take care of the pregnant women. Chen Fei said first.

"Government funding?" Tobo Shusa was surprised.

People of this era could not have imagined that the government would pay for the people under its jurisdiction to hire servants to take care of pregnant women. And Chen Fei proposed this, in fact, he also hoped to reduce accidents. These populations are all Chen Fei's political achievements, and they are also the achievements of the county's officials, of course, they cannot be underestimated. Therefore, the government should pay for hiring people to take care of these pregnant women, and it is not too much money anyway. If it's out, it's out, don't worry about anything. And this reflects the thoughtfulness and love for the people. Why not?

Of course, this is also based on the small population of this era. So the government can afford to pay for it. If you're in a populated place, you can't afford it. According to the ratio of 50 to 1 to take care of pregnant women, then the maximum number of people in the end is only about 60 people, so you don't have to worry about spending too much.

"Next, when pregnant women are confined, we also have to hire a special confinement lady to take care of them. Then follow my recipe to give some nutritious products such as egg soup to pregnant women, and now we have broiler chickens in Shuo County, and there is no shortage of eggs. So with eggs, we can give pregnant women stewed egg soup to add nutrients. As for confinement and pregnancy, don't eat the very greasy chicken soup, and eat egg soup instead. Chen Fei said.

This household Shuzuo felt a little strange, Chen Fei actually even knew this kind of recipe for pregnant women when they were pregnant, and he knew too much about this. If you didn't know that Chen Fei was unmarried, I am afraid that you would have thought that Chen Fei was an experienced person! But as a subordinate, he certainly knows what to ask and what he shouldn't. He soon knew what he had to do, which was to organize people to take care of these pregnant women, so that the population could increase smoothly. As long as the population increases smoothly, it means that the political achievements are in hand, so that everyone can be promoted together.

"Okay, the next thing is to be solved by yourself, as long as you take care of pregnant women, then our population will be able to increase, and then our results will be better and better." Chen Fei said.

Next, Hufang Shuzuo immediately began to carry out Chen Fei's various orders, and then began to prepare the plan for the population. Chen Fei's arrangements do not cost a lot of money, but they have a very good effect, which can ensure that pregnant women can successfully give birth to children, reduce the premature death rate, and are very helpful to pregnant women, so no one will object. What's more, the birth rate of this child is related to his political performance, who wouldn't care! Many people are thinking of taking advantage of this opportunity to move up to the next level! (To be continued) R655