No. 219: Women's Census

"The tail daughter of the Fang family, Zhenguan is 15 years old in the second year, married to the Wang family at the beginning of the year, and has two sons and a daughter."

"The eldest daughter of the Xiao family, Wude was thirteen years old in the sixth year, married in a family, and died in childbirth."

……

Li Chengqian watched them one by one, nodding his head from time to time.

The record of this investigation is much more comprehensive and meaningful than the last book of the dead fat man.

Turning to the last page, there is a summary, the number of people surveyed was 237, 52 died due to dystocia or miscarriage, and 17 died of disease.

"Sick?" Li Chengqian raised his head and asked.

"Well, a woman's illness." The dead fat man said, "When I went to check, two of them died of bleeding from the cave room, one died of stomach pain, more than ten of them died of stinkiness, and one or two died of illness and fever." ”

Then there is a kind of death related to this investigation, and a kind of death that is not related, such as the two people who died of high fever. Among the deceased, there are two types of victims: trauma and gynaecological diseases.

The total number of people was 237, and the number of deaths was about 69, accounting for about 30 percent. Seeing this data, Li Chengqian's mouth opened wide, almost one out of three young women died, this proportion is too high!

"Okay, this investigation will definitely convince the queen mother and the emperor!" Li Chengqian nodded.

The dead fat man listened and laughed.

"Let's refine this table, let's divide those under the age of twelve into a range, the ages of twelve to fourteen into a range, and the ages of fifteen to seventeen into a range, and calculate what the mortality rate of each age group is, so that it can more directly explain that the younger the age, the greater the possibility of dystocia!" Li Chengqian said as he drew a table on the paper.

"You take the record of this survey and read it to me!" Li Chengqian said, "I'll take note." ”

"Oh!" The dead fat man picked up the notebook and read out the information in it one by one, and after Li Chengqian heard it, he wrote a "positive" stroke on the corresponding form, and if it was dead, he also wrote a stroke below.

As Li Chengqian said, the mortality rate of girls under the age of 12 who marry has reached more than 80 percent, about 40 percent between the ages of 12 and 14, and only 6 or 7 percent between the ages of 15 and 17.

"Huh?" The dead fat man looked at these three levels of data, and couldn't believe it, the gap between different age groups is too big, right?

Most of these people were investigated by him personally, but they were not as shocked as the detailed data!

And this kind of data breaks the inherent concept in his heart a bit. The Tang Dynasty was a society that offered early marriage, especially when girls were eleven or twelve years old. Everyone is accustomed to this, normal, but now these three sets of data are explaining to the dead fat man that the earlier he marries, the more harmful it is!

He couldn't help but pick up the account book he had set by himself and looked at them one by one. He didn't believe it a little, but after flipping through a few pages, he did!

After a while, he allowed himself to accept this fact, and then said to Li Chengqian: "It seems that the eldest brother is right, this survey can convince the queen mother!" ”

When the two brothers took the investigation notebook to the queen, the queen picked it up and flipped through the two pages, there were more living people and fewer dead people in it, and she couldn't help but say strangely: "You want to rely on this book to convince me?" ”

"Yes, Queen Mother, please look back." The dead fat man nodded and said.

After the queen saw the summary data at the end and the age group data drawn by Li Chengqian, her face froze, and then she showed a serious look, carefully looked at every data in the summary, and then opened the previous content, and counted them one by one. And this time she looked more seriously, and the speed of turning the page was even faster than just now.

After a while, the queen put the account book on the table, and was silent for a while, before she breathed a sigh of relief, looked at her two sons, and asked, "Are the people on this list real?" ”

The fat man said confidently, "Yes, every one of them has been found in the household register, and I have gone to their house to verify it." ”

The queen's last suspicion was shattered, and she fell silent.

The results of this survey made her a little unacceptable.

Eight girls under the age of twelve will die if they marry ten, and four out of ten will die when they are about fourteen years old, which is too large!

After a while, the queen came back to her senses, picked up the account book again, and read it again seriously.

"The queen mother, the woman married prematurely, which has a great damage to her body, and it can easily hurt her life, please allow the eldest sister to marry after she is seventeen years old!" Li Chengqian said.

The dead fat man chimed in: "Yes, queen mother! ”

The queen didn't say anything, but after reading the whole book, she raised her head and said: "From the Sui Dynasty to the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there have been wars and chaos for many years, and a large number of people have been lost. If the women of the world are like the account book you two investigated, one of the three people dies, then when will my Datang surpass the previous dynasty? The two of you investigate this matter will be beneficial to the country and the people, okay! This time, I want to show those ministers how sloppy they are! ”

Li Chengqian and the dead fat man glanced at each other, and both of them saw hope.

was originally talking about the eldest sister, but the queen suddenly skipped the eldest sister and talked about the population of the world. But she even thinks about the women of the world, how can she not think about her daughter!

The queen handed the account book back to the two of them and said, "This is what you do as a prince to share the worries of your father and the emperor and seek the blessings of the world, you should personally hand it to your father!" ”

"Uh......" The queen actually asked them to hand it over to Lao Li in person, Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, and had to respond: "Yes." ”

After Li Chengqian took it, he handed it over to the dead fat man.

"Qingque, you have lost weight twice recently, are you sad for that poor Qingling'er? Child, look away, it's because she has no fate to follow you to enjoy happiness! The queen looked at the dead fat man, said bitterly, and then turned around and said to Li Chengqian: "What have Chengqian been busy with lately, I heard that you always let the chamberlain of the East Palace come to Hanliang Hall to move materials, what are you messing with?" ”

The queen is a mother who thinks that the child is fat and strong, and the dead fat man has been running to the countryside to investigate for half a month, and it is the height of summer, he is not exposed to the sun and dried up, but now he has just lost weight again, which is already the result of his excellent environment of eating and drinking. But the queen was heartbroken that the dead fat man was missing two circles of meat.

And Li Chengqian has been renovating his pool recently, in order to save money, he asked Lao Zeng to run Hanliang Hall to shun the materials!

(To be continued)