It is another comprehensive meeting at the end of a month, although under normal circumstances, some policies and regulations that Zhang Tiancheng wants to implement will be supported by the vast majority of the people, but today it is unprecedented and has been opposed by the vast majority of people.

The opposition is so strong that it is much more difficult to bring women into the civil service than it was in the first place, and even several officials who are women oppose the policy that Zhang Tiancheng wants to implement to raise the age of marriage to 18.

It's not because I like more mature girls, it's mainly because I saw a rather scary set of statistics last night.

Because in this era, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old woman can get married, and she will basically get pregnant in less than a year after marriage, because the body is not fully developed, resulting in postpartum hemorrhage and other diseases and the probability of death is as high as 7%.

Although this data seems to be good in the eyes of people in this era, it is indeed too terrible in Zhang Tiancheng's opinion, and the mortality rate is even more than double that of those expeditionary corps who went to fight in the Japanese country, so he had the idea of revising the marriageable age.

But I didn't expect that after the bill was proposed, it was unanimously opposed by everyone, even Kou Zhong, who had never unconditionally supported him.

Although it has been stated that if the marriageable age is postponed, the mortality rate should be greatly reduced, but there are still few people who support it, believing that the lord of the country is choking.

Almost all of them opposed it, and there was no way to force the new law, so the proposal could only be postponed for the time being.

Later, several bills on the issuance of banknotes, official evaluations, and the handling of members of the royal family of the island country were discussed, and it seemed that they had returned to Zhang Tiancheng's Yiyan Hall again, and it was still Zhang Tiancheng who said that everyone would fully support it.

At the end of the meeting, everyone chatted and gossiped and left, but Kou Zhong followed Zhang Tiancheng.

"Ling Shao, what do you think?"

"What do you think?"

"That rule that a woman can only get married at the age of eighteen, although I know you like those more mature women in their twenties, but you can't let others be the same as you because of your own personal preferences, right?"

"Didn't you already say that after the age of eighteen you are fully mature, the risk of childbirth will be reduced a lot."

"Isn't it because of your personal preference?"

"Of course not."

"Since ancient times, women have been married at fourteen and fourteen, why do you have to change this rule?"

"Don't tell me anything Since ancient times, the rules are set by people, and if you find a problem, of course, you have to correct the mistake in time, so that society can progress."

“…… This, maybe you are right, but it is not suitable for reform yet, especially when a full-scale defense counterattack is about to begin, it is really not suitable for the unstable people's mind, and after they unify the world, no matter what you want to do, I will fully support you. ”

"That's the only way, by the way, Zhong Shao, according to the news from the spies, your first love has gone south, and there is a chance that he will come to Nanling to find you, what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry, Ling Shao, no matter what the purpose of her coming here is, I will never stand on the opposite side of you."

"Not going to pick her up at the pier?"

"Forget it, I'll be sad if Yuzhi knows."

“…… You've converted a lot faster than I expected! ”

"People will always grow up, you are so promising, I am also your brother, I can't be too bad."

"Well, you don't have to be too embarrassed, as long as you touch the bottom line of your national interests, it's okay to promise her some conditions, I heard that she hasn't officially married yet, if you really can't let go, you can still work hard."

"Then why don't you fight for that Fu Junwu? Don't you like her too? ”

"It's not the same situation."

"What's the difference?"

"I think I should like Qingxuan's sister more in my heart, but that Song Shidao's love for Fu Junwu is far greater than my love for Fu Junwu, so I don't have the face to continue to chase."

……

I have only learned about Nanling from the news reported by the spies, and I can't intuitively understand how strange and prosperous the real Nanling City is, and almost anyone who sees Nanling for the first time will be shocked by the prosperity of the city.

There are more than 500,000 permanent residents, and there are still quite a lot of floating people every day, there are caravans from all over the country, and there are even many caravans going overseas. After more than two years of hard work, it can be said that the maritime trade routes have been completely opened, and the merchant fleet has reached as far as the Red Sea.

Those porcelain, silk and even cotton cloth, as well as some spices from the South Seas, were shipped to the Middle East in a price that could skyrocket dozens of times, earning back a lot of gold and silver.

Li Xiuning, who quietly entered Nanling with a caravan, looked at the endless convoy outside the car window, and could be regarded as seeing what prosperity is.

Especially when I saw that there was a kind of magical and magical vehicle with ten carriages connected together on the side of the highway roaring past, I could be regarded as experiencing the mood of those spies when they saw this strange car.

A lot of carriages are connected together, like a dragon lying on the ground, which can swallow clouds and spit out fog, and drive like thousands of horses galloping to win people's hearts, can carry people and goods, and the speed is far better than ordinary carriages......

"The strange car with black smoke in the red breeze is really driven by coal?"

"According to the information from the investigation, it is indeed driven by carboniferous, but it also needs to add water, which is said to be a magical device that uses boiling water vapor to drive the equipment."

“…… In order to find out this news, a lot of spies were folded, right? ”

"If this is not there, it will be taught in the classroom, as if the Chinese lord does not want to keep this technology completely secret."

"Such a precious technique is not afraid of being learned by others?"

"Regarding this matter, the Kou Dashuai asked a few days ago, but Lord Xu didn't seem to care, and said that everyone understands the technical principles of nuclear bombs, but not everyone can build them."

"The nuclear bomb was the kind of firearm that was used to ambush Duvowe in the first place?"

"It doesn't seem to be, it's said to be a terrible weapon, and it only takes one to wipe out an entire city."

"Impossible, impossible, how can there be such a terrible firearm in the world."

"This, maybe these news are, the scheming Nanling City Lord deliberately released the news to bluff people."

“…… If someone had told me before that if you could use charcoal to boil less boiling water, you would have been able to run faster than a horse with millions of pounds of goods, and you would never have believed it. ”

"Miss thinks the nuclear bomb is real?"

"Maybe it's an exaggeration, but Nanling may indeed have no fear, otherwise with the wisdom of Xu Ziling, he would definitely not have been robbed by bandits in the Wa State without unifying the Central Plains, just because some of the goods of a caravan in Nanling were robbed by bandits in the Wa Kingdom, and then rashly sent a large number of expeditionary corps to conquer the Wa State."

"Miss, I still don't understand, since Nanling has such strength, why don't you unify the world first and then conquer overseas?"

"It should be to gain the hearts of the people, take the lead in destroying the temporary peace and start a war with the outside world, and naturally lose part of the people's hearts, but after a few major forces unite together and suddenly attack Nanling, it will give enough reasons to launch a counterattack, so as to start the process of dominating the world."