Farming in Lanzhou is not as intensive as in the Central Plains, and Wu Yingying believes that it is a huge waste of labor, and if the households do not want to be idle, they can engage in some peripheral processes of artisan workshops. The new households did not dilute the large tracts of land that had already been allocated to the original households, and after the proportion of land resource factors was increased, the marginal efficiency of agricultural labor force was greatly higher than that of the Central Plains Prefecture, and the productivity of each agricultural labor force in Lanzhou was much higher than that of the Central Plains. Some people secretly regret that the real estate is not high, but Wu Yingying does not care, which is more important, the average land output value or the average per capita output value? For Lanzhou, which already attaches great importance to industry and commerce, it is of course the latter, and Lanzhou's agriculture is already the industrial sector with the lowest per capita output.

On the other hand, it is because there are almost no elderly and children in the households in Lanzhou, and all of them are adult strong men and women. This is the demographic dividend effect, the first 30 years of the later dynasty to encourage childbearing, the next 30 years to limit births, the result in the first few decades of family planning, the whole society in the proportion of strong labor is very large, this demographic dividend has created the world's first high growth. It's just a blessing and a curse. Therefore, for the sake of long-term peace and stability, Lanzhou now wants to encourage childbirth.

In order to solve the problem of the imbalance in the population of Lanzhou, the caravan also abducted the population part-time. At this time, there were many women and men everywhere after a long period of war, and this business was easy to do. From the countries of the Western Regions to the inland state capitals, the eldest girls and little daughters-in-law were sent to the city like water, and they were all hung under the woolen workshop of the craftsman's camp. In order to prevent them from suffering losses from afar, they were regarded as slaves in the state capital in the first year, and after a year, they turned into cute households, and let the soldiers and private households talk to each other and marry each other. This year is enough time for these smart or stupid and honest women to figure out the rules of Lanzhou, and when they decide on lifelong events, they will not be deceived by two pieces of white-flour steamed buns.

The three states of the party have successively sent the households that redeemed the iron harrier nobles and the corresponding grain, grass and bedding, plus the female workers bought from other places, and there are now 40,000 households in Lanzhou. As soon as the population is large, the city and terrain appear cramped. A small half of the new households were placed in the woollen and porcelain workshops of the artisan camp. The rest only relied on establishing settlements on the outskirts of Lanzhou, reclaiming abandoned fields, and raising cattle and sheep. Each settlement is guarded by a squad of Lanzhou sergeants. Fortunately, this year, two big victories were won against the Dangxiang and the northern tribe of Mobei, and no tribe dared to go to the suburbs of Lanzhou to fight grass valleys in the summer and autumn, and because of this, the newly arrived households also harvested a stubble of summer wheat. It's just that the winter outside the city is more difficult than in the city.

However, at this moment, in the back hall of the Lanzhou Mansion, Wu Yingying is now restless, not only because the charcoal stove is too hot but also anxious and nervous, the goose-featherlike snow outside the house is blowing, but there are beads of sweat on his forehead. A new servant woman hurried into the room and asked, "Madame has called me to see what the master has to serve?"

Wu Yingying put the tea cup on the table and shouted: "What do I want to serve, you hurry up and serve the lady!" After driving the servant woman back, Wu Yingying poured a sip of tea impatiently, and suddenly woke up: "When she gives birth now, how can she still have the leisure to ask someone to serve me?" ”

In a clean room in the backyard, there are already more than a dozen servant women and maids, and Huang Wen, the mother of Lanzhou, is pregnant in October and is giving birth in pain. Zhou Wei stayed next to her, carefully wiped the fine beads of sweat from her forehead, and comforted her in a low voice: "Don't worry, I'll come out soon." How do you feel now?" she frowned slightly, she had never experienced this childbirth before, but she wanted to hold back the same anxious mood to appease Huang Wen.

Huang Wen's face was slightly pale, probably the room was too hot, and she was a little dizzy, so she endured the pain and replied, "I'm fine, I'm just a little depressed." Zhou Hou comforted her softly, and took a sweat towel to wipe her sweat, and she turned her head to see the new servant woman timidly poking her head out of the house, crowded in the outer circle of people, but only standing helplessly. Gently pressed Huang Wen's wrist, signaled the midwife to take care of it, then got up and walked to the servant, and asked in a low voice: "Shi Niang, what are you doing when you come back, didn't I let you go to the front hall to stay?"

The servant woman who called Shi Niang said with some grievances: "My lord asked me to come back to take care of Madame again." ”

Zhou Wei's heart was on fire. This man doesn't understand anything, the delivery of the baby, two midwives, a few maids to help enough, is it useful to send so many people to block here? She lives in the backyard all the year round, commensurate with Huang Wen's sisters, and has Feng Yi, who has been in the top position for a long time, and restricts her servants and maids, to the point that she is even more powerful than Huang Wen herself. All the servants didn't dare to compete with her, so they retreated, and one of them opened the window a crack and peeked at Zhou Wei's expression.

Zhou Wei didn't have time to talk to these people anymore, so she went back to Huang Wen's couch, and after the breath in the room was much fresher, she said softly: "I told irrelevant people to wait outside, open the window to breathe, does my sister feel better?"

Huang Wen nodded slightly and said, "Well, hard work, sister." Suddenly, his face changed, and he was in labor pain.

Wu Yingying waited impatiently in the front hall, and personally ran to wait outside Huang Wen's delivery room, and when he saw that all the servants were waiting outside, he said angrily: "What are you waiting outside the door, and you don't go in to help?" Everyone looked at each other, although Wu Yingying was the supreme of a state, but he usually didn't care about them, what really made these people uncomfortable was the two ladies in the backyard, especially Mrs. Zhou. Only the new servant replied timidly, "Madame said that people were too angry, so she asked me to wait outside the room for the summons." ”

Hearing that it was Mrs. Niang's words, Wu Yingying really didn't pursue it anymore, and just kept pacing back and forth outside the door and waiting.

The birth of women in this era is very different from that of later generations, probably because of shyness, no matter how painful it is, they just clench their teeth tightly, and they will not cry out hoarsely. Therefore, there was silence in the delivery room, and the people outside the room were even more worried.

Suddenly, a loud cry of a baby came from the room, Wu Yingying was overjoyed, just pushed the door in, Zhou Wei, who was taking care of the mother with the maid, turned around and scolded: "Didn't you say that you should not enter without a summons? What if the cold wind outside blows the child?" She didn't even see who the person who came in clearly, she said it very quickly, and then turned around to take care of Huang Wen. Seeing that the midwife had already wiped the child clean and wrapped it tightly in brocade, she carefully hugged Huang Wen, who was almost collapsed, to her and let her see.

After the child cried a few times, he lay quietly in swaddling clothes, the mother's sweaty face showed a smile, carefully teased a few times, the child ignored her, and fell asleep by herself, Huang Wen woke up and asked a little embarrassedly: "Is it a boy or a girl?"

In this era, she is patriarchal, she has been in Lanzhou for a long time, and she has seen that Wu Yingying's soldiers are strong and brave, and his power is expanding day by day. If Wu Yingying has no son to inherit the inheritance, I am afraid that these generals will also want Wu Yingying to accept his wife again, and the Confucian scholars will also arrange the words of the harem and the special favor, which is not the luck of the country.

"It's a daughter, as beautiful as my sister. Zhou Wei replied, with joy in her words. After she was a country, Huang Wen didn't know what her mind was, but she didn't value it, if she was an affectionate person, she would have three thousand fans in the harem, and she would only focus on one person. If you are ruthless, no matter how many children you give birth to for him, you can only live with tears in your face. You don't see Gillian Changmen Fu, and the sorrow of the concubines in the palace is exhausted, and even the son born to the emperor was unjustly killed.

"Let me see again, good daughter, mom loves you. Although Huang Wen was slightly disappointed in her heart, she was filled with the happiness of her daughter in an instant, "Dad will definitely hurt you too." Wu Yingying's voice sounded behind Zhou Wei, which simply startled her. Zhou Wei turned around and saw that Wu Yingying seemed to be standing behind her all the time, and couldn't help but wonder, this person didn't walk with quietness, and he didn't know when he came in.