Time passes quickly, especially for a busy person. In the busy running of the King Arthur's Palace, from time to time to meet with the governors of the colonies, and to inspect the territory, June also passed quickly.

With Australasia approaching elections for a new cabinet government, Arthur also has good news, that is, Queen Mary is pregnant for the third time.

The first two pregnancies brought Arthur two princes, William and Peter, as well as Princess Anna. And this pregnancy can be accepted by Arthur, both men and women, after all, there are many children and many blessings, and the prosperity of the royal family also includes the continuation of children.

Australasia does not have any birth restriction policy, and even the government strongly encourages all people to actively have children, and it is not uncommon for a family to have three or four children.

As a result, Australasia has more than 500,000 new births every year, and people's desire to have children is still very strong.

In order to promote more active childbearing, Australasia promulgated a number of policies to encourage childbearing under Arthur's orders.

For more than two children, each additional child receives a subsidy of $8 per year, and there is a tuition fee waiver for all children in the household.

The Australasian government also counts the families with the highest number of children, and if they have more than five children, they will receive a certificate of "Honorable Mother" issued by the government.

Although this certificate does not bring any practical benefits, after all, it was issued by the national government itself, and it also has Arthur's encouragement for such a heroic mother, which is still very attractive to Australasian people.

According to government statistics, more than 8,000 women have been awarded the title of "Glorious Mother" issued by the government, which is also the guarantee of Australasia's high fertility rate.

The way to increase the fertility rate is simple, let the people live well, live happily, and they will have enough mood and time to have children.

If the people themselves are not well fed and clothed, and they will face high financial and debt pressure, even if they give birth to children, won't they suffer with them?

Knowing this, Arthur issued an order to the government to reduce the burden on families with large numbers of infants, including education and medical care.

Even Australasia has a maximum incentive for childbirth, which allows a pregnant woman to give birth to more than 10 children (including multiple births) with free education from primary school to high school, with all tuition and fees waived.

Don't underestimate these tuition and fees, if you have 10 children and all of them graduate from high school, the cost of tuition and fees starts at least $200 each.

Tuition and fees for 10 people are at least $2,000, or there is a government policy waiver.

If all these tuition fees can be waived, it will definitely reduce a large burden on families with multiple children.

Although there are currently no more than 1,000 families in Australasia receiving this benefit, the public has maintained a welcoming attitude towards business, and the number of people is inevitable.

Arthur's policies to increase fertility go far beyond that. On the streets of Australasia, it's easy to find slogans promoting fertility.

There are even many movies that promote the idea of having more children, having more children, and more blessings, and influencing Australasian people in various ways.

It is worth mentioning that although the Australasian government does not prohibit abortion, the Australasian Protestant Church condemns abortion, arguing that abortion does not respect new life.

Australasian Protestantism is the largest religion in Australasia and its influence on Australasian people is enormous.

It is precisely because of this doctrine that the number of abortions in Australasia is limited to a very small range, and many hospitals do not have abortion services at all.

For Australasia, the growth of the native population is definitely more exciting than the growth of immigrants.

In order to maintain the majority ethnic group, that is, the population of British immigrants, Australasia has been desperately trying to attract immigrants from the United Kingdom, but it still cannot match the speed of Russian immigrants.

It would also be a good way to increase the fertility rate of the Juche nationalities and thus increase the number of Juche nationalities.

Even presciently, it is not impossible for the population born now to reach adulthood around 1937 and catch up with the tail of World War II.

And the larger the population of Australasia, the greater the potential and combat effectiveness shown in World War II.

Before the population reaches 50 million, it will be difficult to develop into a superpower.

Even the most complete industrial system and industrial chain need a sufficient population to support it.

It is not an exaggeration to say that an industrial power must also have a supporting market. If there is no market, a simple economic crisis may turn a country from prosperity to decline, or even gradually to extinction.

After Queen Mary became pregnant again, Arthur was undoubtedly in a very good mood.

Even Arthur occasionally checked the progress of Prince William and Peter, and brought new gifts to Anna by the way.

As Arthur's eldest son, Prince William is now ten years old. Arthur has high hopes for Prince William, and Prince William has indeed lived up to Arthur's hopes.

Arthur also experienced the hardships of exam-oriented education in later generations, not only being forced to learn some messy knowledge that is not used in life, but also relying on the results of this knowledge to decide a person's fate.

It was indeed very hard, but if you compare it with the education that Prince William received from the elite aristocracy, Arthur felt that the education in later generations was still somewhat easy.

However, this is just an example, after all, the environment in Australasia as a whole is not so strict.

The education that Prince William and Prince Peter underwent was rigorous because they were princes of Australasia, important members and rulers of the future state.

Arthur has not yet determined the real crown prince, after all, the education of the two princes has not yet been completed, and there is no way to actually test how much knowledge the two princes have mastered.

But this is also temporary, and when they reach adulthood, they will face a great test to determine their ability to determine whether they will become ordinary nobles or the ruler of the country.

Because of this, the two princes and a princess do not have any titles until now, and their real titles will not be divided until they reach adulthood in the future, but at least they will be dukes of the country.

Anyway, all the titles of nobility in Australasia are nominal, and the nobles have no right to notify the territory at all, and Arthur does not have any burden to divide it.

This is also the advantage of these princes and princesses in blood relations, they are destined to be born dukes, and the lowest title they can only get can be dukes.

If Australasia reaches the level of an empire in the future, perhaps the highest title of Australasia will have a prince.

But now it is only a kingdom, the Duke is destined to be the highest divisible noble title in the current kingdom, and the difficulty for ordinary people to obtain the title of duke is comparable to ascending to the sky, and even Arthur did not think of separating a commoner-born duke in his lifetime.

This is also because of the importance that Europeans place on blood. In a country like Australasia, which has a clear system of awarding military merit, it is still very likely that ordinary people will become nobles.

But if it is an ordinary European country, these countries still attach great importance to blood, although ordinary people also have the opportunity to become nobles, but it is impossible to enter the middle and upper echelons of the nobility in a short period of time.

That is, Australasia originally lacked the aristocratic class, except for the royal family, they were basically commoner nobles, so there was no such blood discrimination.

Another very important premise for guaranteeing the fertility rate is to protect people's income.

To put it bluntly, the fertility rate is very easy to control, and it is nothing more than whether the country's top leaders are willing to control it or not.

Although this is a relatively dark era, the birth rate of various countries in this era is still very high, generally remaining at about 3% to 4%, and the world's population is still growing very rapidly.

But if we look at some parts of Europe, especially Western Europe and Northern Europe, we can still see traces of a decline in the birth rate.

Why is the birth rate declining? In fact, a decline in the birth rate does not necessarily mean that people are less willing to have children.

But it can't be helped, with the development of capitalism, the oppression of workers and civilians by the capitalists is also increasing.

In addition, the protection of human rights in this era is still relatively fragile, and many pregnant women have to continue working with a big belly, or risk losing their jobs.

Don't look down on these capitalists, for whom it doesn't matter whether the pregnant woman has a miscarriage or not, but if there is a lack of people to work, the profits of the factories will be reduced.

If you lose your job, it can be fatal for a family. The savings of the common people in this era were not much, after all, the factories of the major powers were exploitation concentration camps a few decades ago, and it was good to eat a mouthful, how could it be possible for the workers to accumulate enough income.

Of course, there is also a very important point, that is, some factories are very harmful to people.

Especially in some factories in the early stages of industrial development, there were no sanitary standards at that time, and the damage to workers in these factories was not verified.

Some harmful substances have caused some people to lose their ability to have children, which has also affected the fertility rate of the population.

This is also a terrible manifestation of capitalism, where the exploitation of the common people by the capitalists is endless, but the capitalists control the government, so that the people have no place to seek justice.

When the fertility rate of the common people in a country is drastically reduced due to various exploitations, it is not the fault of the people, but the fault of the capitalists and the governments that support the capitalists, such as some of the gradually developed European countries.

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