At the beginning of June, Li Su's King of Qi returned to Si Xuan, and with his return, it officially marked the end of the war of the Wa Kingdom, but the army that attacked the Wa State has not been withdrawn for the time being, after all, there is still some instability within the Wa State, but it is also soon, Li Su plans to completely settle the Wa State within this year, and the troops stationed in the country will also slowly withdraw part of it during this period.

However, after Li Su returned to Sixian City, he suddenly issued a series of strange decrees, which in general encouraged the common people to have children, especially the Han people under his rule.

For example, there is a decree stipulating that the Han people under the rule of King Qi should have at least two children per couple, and if both children are boys, then they will be rewarded by the local government, and if there are three boys, they can receive a certain amount of rice and noodles and meat from the government every month, which is equivalent to the government raising children for them, and they have been raised until they are fifteen years old. Of course, the more children there are, the more food the family can receive, and even if a couple can have more than 10 children, they will be classified as a tax-free home by the government and exempt from land tax.

In fact, there are similar laws to encourage childbirth in the Tang Dynasty, but the Han people under Li Su's rule are relatively few, and the finances of his palace are also very abundant, so the rewards are much more generous than the official Tang Dynasty, and most of the Han people under his rule are concentrated in Dengzhou, so they can not only receive the rewards of the imperial court, but also get the rewards of the Qi Palace, which together is not a small number, especially those who have more sons, and they don't have to worry about starvation just by relying on the reward.

In addition to the above decrees that are similar to the Datang Dynasty's encouragement of childbirth, Li Su also deliberately added a very special decree, that is, the decree on the Tang Dynasty men accepting women of different races as concubines.

The population of Dengzhou alone has reached more than 2 million. Dengju Fortress alone accounted for nearly half, and Yi Su conquered Silla and Baekje. It is now divided into three Korean states, and the population is nearly one million. The island of Taiwan has also been established as a state, and is developing, and the number of Han people on the island is gradually increasing, and now there are just over 300,000 Han people on the island, in addition to a large number of foreign merchants, and even more large slaves.

Now that he has conquered the Wa Kingdom, although the population of the Wa State is not very clear, according to Wang An's estimates, it should be around one million. In addition to these. Li Su brought more than 100,000 grassland people from the grassland, and now lives in South Korea temporarily, and will soon be sent to Ezo Island, which will be Hokkaido in the future.

In this way, under the rule of Li Su, the number of all Han people together only accounted for about half, and most of them were in Dengzhou, although these people were also Li Su's subjects. But at the same time, he is also the people of the Tang Dynasty, if Li Su really wants to become independent in the future, how many of these Dengzhou people are willing to follow him? It is precisely because this problem has been considered for a long time that Li Su is calculating. did not regard Dengzhou as his real territory, and the island of Taiwan was the focus of his future development.

Excluding Dengzhou, the number of Han Chinese in Li Su's hands will be even smaller. Even if fertility is encouraged, there is no large population base. This rate of population growth is actually extremely slow, so Li Su is on this basis. Another decree was added, that is, when a man from the Tang Dynasty entered the land of Sanhan and Wa, he must accept a local woman as a concubine, and the number depends on the amount of his property, but the maximum number of people will generally not exceed six.

As soon as this decree came out, some people couldn't cry or laugh, shook their heads and said it was ridiculous, and some people sang and danced happily, shouting that His Royal Highness King Qi was wise, and some women who were married and married gritted their teeth and scolded Li Su for being a bastard.

In fact, as long as it is a man, there will not be much rejection of Li Su's decree, especially some businessmen who are more afraid of the inside, although they are rich, but they have a tiger in their family, and they don't even dare to take a concubine, and now they are almost crying with joy when they hear the news, there used to be a thief but not a thief, but now His Royal Highness the King of Qi has an order, if you want to go to Sanhan and the Wa Kingdom, you must have to take a concubine, and then the fierce woman in the family dares to stop it, then let her choose one of the sugar swallows and concubines, after all, a lot of their business is related to Sanhan and the Wa Kingdom, If you don't go there, the family will wait to drink the northwest wind.

Although there are a lot of women who scolded Li Su, but once the decree came out, it would not be withdrawn, and this is not a harsh decree, plus there are many people who support it, so the implementation is very smooth, and the businessmen who come and go in Sanhan and the Wa Kingdom have accepted local women as concubines, some of them are more lustful, and they have accepted more than one, after all, most of them are not bad for money, and a few more are just a few more mouths to eat. And the local women of Sanhan and Wa are also willing to intermarry with the Han people, although they are only concubines, but they are at least the figures of the Celestial Empire, which is much better than the man who marries the king.

Just when the Han men under the rule of Li Su began to frantically accept foreign women as concubines, Li Su's palace was also noisy because of the concubine, although Wu Meiniang returned to Si Yu a few months ago, but because of Wen Xin and Xijun's previous attitude, Wu Meiniang did not go back to the palace to meet them, but found a big house in Si Yu City, and lived in it for the time being, and everything was waiting for Li Su to come back.

And Wen Xin and Xijun originally looked down on this 'Yang Meier', but now the other party came to Sixian, but they didn't live in the palace, and they didn't come to see their two sisters, so they were naturally very angry, so even if they knew that Wu Meiniang was pregnant, they never went to see each other. This made Wu Meiniang breathe a sigh of relief, after all, Wen Xin and Xijun had seen her at the beginning, and if they met now, they would definitely be able to recognize her, and she didn't know how to explain it then?

After Li Su returned to Siyu City, Lu Hong and Liu Renliang were busy with political affairs, such as the decree to encourage childbirth, which he discussed with Liu Renliang on the boat, and then he and Lu Hong jointly promoted it. However, although he doesn't have to worry about political affairs, he can't hand over family affairs to others.

Today is the third day that Li Su returned to the palace, but in these three days, Wen Xin and Xijun didn't give him any good looks, and openly and secretly asked him to summon that Yang Mei'er into the palace, so that their sisters could see who this woman was, and they didn't come to see them for a long time when they returned to Sixian.

For this matter, Li Su also delayed again and again, after all, it was not a glorious thing for him to kidnap Wu Meiniang at the beginning, so he never thought about how to explain to Wen Xin, but now Wu Meiniang is seven months pregnant, and when I went to see her yesterday, I saw that Wu Meiniang was supported by several maids to walk, and her stomach was even more bulging, and it was estimated that she would give birth in more than two months, so she couldn't delay it any longer.

It's the beginning of June, and it's the hottest time, and although the vegetation in the back garden of the palace is luxuriant, it's also very hot, and it's impossible to stand at noon. However, in this back garden, there is a place to escape the heat, that is, the Water Curtain Palace, this palace is not large, and the whole body is built of huge stones, but there are no walls around it, only a few huge pillars to support, it looks a bit like a Western temple. Of course, this building is naturally from the hand of Li Su.

The reason why the water curtain hall is called the water curtain hall is because this palace is built according to the mountain cliff, the water on the mountain cliff is chiseled out of a passage from the top by the craftsman to form an artificial waterfall, which just falls on the top of the water curtain hall, and the palace has a roof is also specially designed, so that the water flows down from the surrounding of the palace, forming a water curtain one after another, and the water curtain hall is also named after it.

The water curtain hall has just been built, when the water curtain falls, the high temperature of the scorching summer has been brought away, making the hall extremely cool, today Li Su set up a banquet here, and Wen Xin and Xijun opposite to drink, in addition to the three of them, only Wen'er, Hua'er and Lu Zhu three people stood around, and the others were driven out by Li Su.

"Husband, you've been back for three days, how long are you going to hide that Sister Yang?" Wen Xin took a sip of his favorite cherry juice and asked Li Su with a smile.

"Sister, people have their husband's flesh and blood in their stomachs, and now they are delicate and expensive, so they can't wait for our sisters to come to her door in person to give her a gift." Xijun also opened his mouth with something to say, and the unaware painting and green beads next to him also showed an expression of righteous indignation, only Wen'er, who had already known Wu Meiniang's identity, pursed his lips and snickered.

Seeing the two beloved women making trouble together, Li Su was also very embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Wenxin, Xijun, in fact, Mei Niang doesn't want to come to see you, but she also has her own difficulties, if you see her, you will definitely be surprised, and she will also feel embarrassed, so I explained to her in advance, so that she is not in a hurry to go back to the palace first, everything will be said when I come back, these Wen'er know, if you don't believe it, you can ask her!" ”

Li Su said, stretched out his hand and pointed at Wen'er, and Wen'er, who was snickering, immediately made a serious expression, and nodded again and again, the reason why Wu Meiniang didn't come to see Wenxin, in addition to being embarrassed, His Royal Highness did order it at the beginning.

Hearing that this was his husband's arrangement, Wen Xin and Xijun glanced at each other, and the anger in their hearts disappeared a little. And although Li Su called out the name 'Mei Niang', Wu Mei Niang's pseudonym originally had a Mei character, so Wen Xin and the others didn't think it was strange, they only thought that this was Li Su's nickname for that Yang Mei'er.

"Okay, husband, tell me, what is the trouble of that Yang Mei'er, she has come to Siqian for so long, but she didn't come to see us?" Wen Xin asked unceremoniously again, but his tone was not as blunt as just now. (To be continued.) )