Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1562, the population problem to be faced in the future

At the entrance of the slave shop of the Black Sea Commercial Bank in the slave market, Emperor Hongzhi, Zhang Mao, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Liu Jin and others looked at the old Li Tou and Li Xi who came out of the slave shop, and then looked at the three newcomers behind them. The slave he bought suddenly laughed.

"Sure enough, he came to buy slaves, and if he bought them, he would buy three. This old man is really strong."

Zhang Mao said jokingly.

"It's all right now. If there are three concubines, the grandchildren will be able to hug them."

Liu Jin also followed suit.

"Nowadays, women in my Ming Dynasty seldom make concubines for others. If they want to take concubines, they usually take Koreans or Japanese as concubines, and then they buy slaves to use as concubines."

Li Dongyang stroked his beard and said.

"Yeah, life is better now, even ordinary people don't want their daughters to be taken care of by others, even if it is a rich and powerful family, it is not easy for me to accept my Daming woman as a concubine .”

Liu Jian also followed his feelings. His son wanted to take a concubine, but the other party was just an ordinary family. He thought it would go well, but it turned out to be a mess.

Now that everyone's living standards have improved, every household doesn't have to worry about eating.

Although there are many children in the family, each of them is more expensive.

In the past, many children from poor families would send their daughters to rich families to be maids and servants early because of insufficient food or too many children.

Not only can I change a sum of money to feed other children, but also enter a rich family, at least I don’t have to worry about starving to death.

It sounds like it's still pretty good.

But the real side is how much sadness and helplessness there is.

But as long as they can afford it and have enough to eat, no one is willing to send their own flesh and blood to be a maid or a current person.

Because once the money is collected, this daughter will no longer belong to your family in the future, and will belong to the landlord's family and the rich family's, and she will still be the most inferior maid and servant.

Usually doing the work of cattle and horses, warming the bed for the owner in winter, the owner is the object of the owner's temper when he comes, and has no status at all.

Even if one is lucky enough to give birth to a son for the master's family, the son's status is still very low. Unless the master's wife has no son, he can turn over, otherwise he will never be able to turn over for the rest of his life, and will always be a lowly slave.

Even if you are beaten to death, your parents can't say a word, and you can't even go home to see your parents during the holidays, and you have completely severed ties with your parents.

This is the most tragic. Many big families will raise many such servant girls and servants. They bought them back to the house and raised them when they were very young, and served them as maids and servants.

The second is to be a concubine for others. The premise is that you have to be beautiful, and the rich people like you, so you can be a concubine.

It's not so easy to be a concubine, basically you have to be bullied and ordered by the eldest lady, and the children born are also bastards, and they don't even have the qualifications to inherit the family business.

Of course, if you can give birth to a son, you can still live in your later years. If you can't even give birth to a son, life will be even more miserable.

These are all the old Ming Dynasty.

It's different now. With the development of capitalism and colonialism, and with the large-scale expansion and immigration of Ming Dynasty, the dividends of the times have spread to everyone from top to bottom.

Even the poorest people are still willing to work and earn tens of taels of silver casually a year. Not only can they feed families, big and small, but they can also build big houses and live a prosperous life. Life.

Naturally, the maids in this family are more expensive, and naturally they will not be sold to others as maids, and now Daming has strictly prohibited the sale and abduction of Daming people. side exile.

As for being a concubine for others, that is becoming less and less.

Now that you don't have to worry about food, drink, and clothes, who will be your concubine?

Wouldn't it be good to be the master of the house by marrying someone who is similar to someone from Ming Dynasty?
As a result, it is not easy for even the rich and powerful children in the court to take concubines. Few people are willing to be concubines for others, not to mention that concubines are popular in North Korea, Japan and those bought slaves.

How could the people of Ming Dynasty be like them?
"Times have changed~"

"But the future continues to change."

"So many women from all over the world flow into our Daming, it will bring us many new problems."

Liu Jin looked at the busy slave market on both sides, as if he saw countless newborn babies being born.

In ancient times, the greatest value of women was to reproduce offspring, and the people of Ming Dynasty attached great importance to inheritance. Like the old Li Tou who just passed away, it's not like he didn't have grandchildren in his family.

He already has two grandchildren, but he still felt that there were too few, so he came here to buy slaves and go back to his son as concubines, and continue to have more grandchildren.

This kind of thinking is deeply rooted in Daming, and it is difficult to change at all.

This is the wisdom that the Chinese people have acquired through the wind and rain for thousands of years, and it is precisely because of the emphasis on inheritance and incense that the descendants of Yan and Huang have been able to survive the ups and downs of thousands of years.

Of course, if you want to have children, you need women. The more women there are, the more children will be born.

Now, a large number of slaves flow into Ming Dynasty every year, and it is foreseeable that in the future, the population of Ming Dynasty will show explosive growth.

Just look at the old Wangtou, he gave birth to several sons, and Wang Zhengyuan brought them up, but Wang Zhengyuan has more than twenty children, big and small, and now Daming's medical technology has been greatly improved, and he is teaching them through newspapers. Acquired a lot of correct parenting knowledge.

These can greatly increase the survival rate and reduce the premature mortality rate, which means that the population of Ming Dynasty will continue to grow explosively.

"New question?"

"What new question?"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi asked quickly.

He was most concerned about these things. As a good emperor, he was most afraid of hearing about any problems.

"The problem of population growth, a large number of women imported into our Ming Dynasty will definitely increase the birth rate of our Ming Dynasty, and the population of our Ming Dynasty will increase rapidly in the future."

"The large population growth will inevitably bring about other related problems, such as education. The current scale of education is definitely not enough. In the future, more schools will be built to meet the needs of more children."

"Another example is medical treatment. The growth and outbreak of a large population will definitely require more doctors. At the same time, women who come to Daming from all over the world are very likely to bring various diseases from all over the world. These will affect our Ming Dynasty. create new challenges."

"The other thing is that the children born here, my Ming people usually have black eyes and black hair, but after the mixed race, many of them are blond and blue-eyed, and they look like us Ming people."

"As for these children, how should our Ming Dynasty treat them, and whether they have the same rights, this also needs to be carefully considered and treated."

"These women from all over the world, after they become mothers, will inevitably bring the culture and religion of their respective original ethnic groups to our Ming Dynasty, and form a certain hero for these children, which will in turn affect our Ming culture, culture, and religion. Religion, etc. have a certain degree of impact and influence."

Liu Jin said what he saw in one breath.

In the final analysis, the growth of a large population will bring huge pressure on medical care, education, housing, etc. Of course, population is also wealth, and the more people there are, the more wealth will be created.

The second is how to treat these descendants of mixed blood. This is something that Daming seldom had before, and now it is suddenly placed in front of the people of Daming.

"A lot of people is a good thing, what are you afraid of, isn't it just building more schools, build them~"

Zhang Mao looked indifferent.

"As for the children born of mixed blood, they are also descendants of my Ming people, so they should be treated equally. Although there are some differences in appearance, they are also descendants of my Ming people, and they are also influenced by my Chinese civilization. How can they be treated differently? .”

Li Dongyang also nodded. In their view, these things are very simple and there are not too many problems.

Of course, this is also the characteristic of Daming in this era.

The strength of Daming has created confident Daming people.

However, Liu Jin has seen many problems in the future. With the explosive growth of the population, there will be many problems in the future.

Among other things, as far as Emperor Hongzhi's family was concerned, this classmate Zhu Houzhao was a hardworking cow who sowed seeds every day and was fathered every month. Many of them were born to women from minority tribes.

If the throne of Daming had to be passed on to the children of these minority tribe women in the future, then a blond person sitting on Daming's dragon chair would definitely cause some problems.

Even if this is the descendant of Zhu Houzhao, the blood of the Ming royal family, even if the other party is also a descendant of Yan and Huang in his bones, if there is too much difference in appearance, it will definitely bring about some turmoil.

Of course, this possibility is very small.

The queen must be a pure descendant of Yanhuang, and the child she gives birth to is the legitimate son, the legitimate heir, but who can say for sure about the affairs of the court, anything can happen.

"That's right, they are all descendants of my Ming people, my descendants of the Yellow Emperor."

Emperor Hongzhi also nodded in agreement. Zhu Houzhao had several concubines from a few tribes who were selected from the Western Regions and Nanyun Province. Some of the children they gave birth to did not look like Ming Han people, but Emperor Hongzhi was still very happy. love.

"Well, it seems that I, Ming, don't have to worry about racial discrimination in the future."

Liu Jin has nothing to say. This kind of problem will be a big problem in European and American countries in later generations, but now it seems that Daming does not need to worry about it. As long as it is his own descendants, it doesn’t matter what he looks like. Unlike myself, none of this is a big deal.

(End of this chapter)