"Master, I'm going to stop these people's behavior, it's too much!" Seeing the girl with hazy eyes in her eyes being forcibly taken away, Cai Wenji immediately said angrily.

"Stop!" Unexpectedly, Liu Xu stopped Cai Wenji, and then said, "You let these soldiers stop now, then let me ask you, did some soldiers and their generals make mistakes?" Who is the person who gave the order that all women of school age, except those suffering from infertility, must become pregnant within 3 months? ”

"......" Cai Wenji didn't dare to speak.

"It's me, I'm the one who gave the order, and these soldiers are carrying out my order, and although the means may be somewhat violent, how can such an order be carried out without violent means. So they are all working for me very loyally, and if I order them to stop at this time, or even reprimand them, who else in the world will want to work for me? Liu Xu shook his head and said.

"Besides, what is happening in front of me is probably not an isolated case, the same thing should happen in all villages in the entire empire, what I need to think about is not how to save her alone, but to find a way to save more people!" Liu Xu said, and then watched the soldiers take the girl away, while he continued to observe in the village.

Then he saw more problems, although the development of the whole village is very fast, but everyone in the whole village is extremely oppressed, women are pregnant, men are working, and children repeatedly watch Liu Xu's works such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms every day.

Although the living standard of the village has improved and the food has also improved, Liu Xu obviously found that it is difficult to see sincere smiles on the faces of these people, because such a life is undoubtedly extremely painful.

After observing these situations, Liu Xu was no longer in the mood to play, and took Cai Wenji directly back to his palace, and then called Zhuge Liang, the prime minister, to his side, and at the same time told Zhuge Liang everything he witnessed today.

"Your Majesty is indeed a good person with a kind heart, but you must also know that these are the only ways for the development of the empire!" After listening to Liu Xu's words, Zhuge Liang said calmly, "People are greedy and hardworking, if there is no compulsion from us, then they will definitely not act according to the line we set, and the development speed of the whole country may be reduced several times at that time." The 200 million people that could have been reached in about 20 years will be delayed until 50 or even 100 years later. ”

"And if a person's living conditions are good enough, then he won't even want to have the next generation, because it will reduce their quality of life, and it will not be as easy as living alone."

"So my lord, it is true that you have a good heart, but you can't give up the right path because of this, otherwise it will be too late to regret it in the future!"

"What the prime minister said is very true!" Liu Xu nodded, in fact, he also understood what Zhuge Liang said, after all, he came from that world, and he knew very well how far the fertility level of developed countries had fallen.

"But Prime Minister, in your eyes, are they people, numbers, or tools?" Liu Xu asked rhetorically.

"It's people, but people are also a kind of tools!" Zhuge Liang said, "Even the minister is just one of His Majesty's tools, this is the consciousness that you must have as a human being." ”

"Tool man, right?" Liu Xu couldn't help laughing, then waved his hand and said, "It's okay, even if they are people and tools, but they are also my readers!" ”

"Now the readers of the White Elephant World occupy eight or nine tenths of the power of reading in my body, and the reason why I was able to establish the current country, and the reason why you can stand here to assist me in my decision-making, is precisely because of their existence."

"I should teach them, respect them, treat them well, love them, and protect them! Instead of using them as your own tools, as is the case now, it's against my readers' way, it's wrong! ”

Liu Xu thought that Zhuge Liang would argue with himself, but what he didn't expect was that Zhuge Liang just glanced at himself deeply, and then took out a USB flash drive from his sleeve and said, "Lord, this is the new deal plan formulated by the minister, and please take a look at it!" ”

"New Deal?" Liu Xu was stunned for a moment, then directly inserted the USB flash drive into the computer, and sure enough, he found a document with a total number of more than 20,000 words.

This document describes in detail the new policies that the empire is about to implement, and these new policies are ultimately how to deal with the policies of the people.

First of all, the first article is to open up the birth system, no longer forcing all women to give birth, but to change to a reward system, with rewards instead of punishment, and to encourage women to give birth to a certain social status and money for each child.

The second article is to establish a more perfect education system, from the previous only learning, revised to a comprehensive basic education, children will be from Chinese, mathematics, music, physical education, literature, philosophy, history, the Three Kingdoms, Chu Han, Journey to the West and other subjects for a wide range of learning.

Article 3 is to lift the restrictions on the movement of people and allow people to move freely.

Article 4 is to remove the restrictions on grain trade, and all grain must be allowed to trade freely, except for the grain required for government tax revenue

Article 5 is the land restriction, which makes all the land owned by the state, and then rents the land to all the peasants for cultivation free of charge, and the contents of the fields are the peasants' own except for taxes, and so on.

Article 6: Comprehensively establish a police system and other corresponding supervision systems......

Zhuge Liang's new policy enumerated more than 160 articles in one go, subverting many of the empire's national policies, and at the same time almost completely unlocking the restrictions of the people, except for the two core policies of finance and land, which are still firmly controlled by the government, almost everything else is open to the people, and almost overnight, these readers of Liu Xu have been given unprecedented freedom.

But if you read carefully, you will find that although the people are given a lot of freedom, there is also a lot more regulation, almost every time the people get a freedom, they also get a supervision, and to a certain extent, they are not much freer.

"My lord, do these fit the way of your readers?" Zhuge Liang asked.

"Yes!" Liu Xu nodded and said.

"Don't you think that there are more things to supervise in my new policy?" Zhuge Liang asked with a smile.

"Absolute freedom means that no one can get freedom, and only freedom that is fully respected under supervision is real freedom, and I figured this out when I was in high school!" Liu Xu glanced at Zhuge Liang, and the prime minister smiled slightly.

"Prime Minister, you should be the second person to hear my readers, but you have already prepared these new policies, can you predict the future?" Liu Xu asked curiously.

"Definitely!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "These have already been decided by the minister, and the minister actually knows very well that if such a high-pressure policy is implemented for a long time, unless more high-pressure means are used to suppress it, sooner or later it will bring about a huge resistance." ”

"Therefore, the minister originally planned to introduce these new policies in 10 years, when the agricultural system of the empire has been completed, the industrialization has been basically completed, and a large number of teachers and basic social service units have been cultivated successively, and then all kinds of restrictions will be lifted step by step, so that the entire empire can successfully complete the reform."

"It's just that the minister didn't expect the lord to get the Tao in advance, so he had to take it out first." Zhuge Liang held the USB flash drive in his hand and said, "Dare to ask the lord, should you let the ministers implement these reforms in 10 years according to the original plan, or promote the new policy now?" ”

"I beg all forgiveness for saying that if we reform in 10 years, we will be able to prosper the world in 20 years. But if the New Deal is pushed ahead of schedule now, it will probably take 30 years, or even more. ”

"It's better to suffer the people first......"

"No!" Liu Xu directly interrupted Zhuge Liang's words and said, "When I heard the phrase "the people suffer first" for the first time, I thought this sentence was wrong. ”

"Later, I thought that this sentence was right, first bitter and then sweet, first bitter people, and it will naturally be sweet in the future!"

"But now I think this sentence is wrong, because all the people here are my readers, so why should I make the readers suffer first, why not me?"

(End of chapter)