"Who...who exactly is it?"
"What kind of white lotus magic is this!"
"Where did the voice come from? Could it be that this voice is really the voice of Princess Jiahe? How is it possible?"
Some people were so frightened that they could not make a sound. Naturally, some people emboldened themselves, pretended to be calm, roared and questioned, looked around, and some carefully identified the source of the sound. However, Qu Jie had placed micro cameras in all directions of the government hall to ensure that The monitoring content is accurate and comprehensive.
So sounds naturally come from all directions.
It's really hard to pinpoint.
"Are you the head of the Daughter Kingdom?" There was chaos in the hall for a while, before Emperor Xuanwu managed to calm down, slapped the dragon chair hard, stood up and asked loudly.
"Not bad, not too embarrassing at least.
Grandnephew, I am your aunt. Don’t call me so polite. Look, your ministers still know how to call me Princess Jiahe. You are too polite to call me the head of my daughter’s country. You should just call me Princess Jiahe. My aunt, I prefer this title.
After all, you and I are now considered equals. There is no need to pay attention to the difference between monarch and minister. You and I are both monarchs.
By the way, did you hear clearly what I just said?
You don’t think I’m really pretending to be a bluff. If it weren’t for the sake of saving fewer lives, I really don’t want to talk nonsense to you. You don’t have to treat your soldiers as human beings, but I still care about them. After all, I am very short of people to expand my territory outside.
Okay, I won’t talk nonsense to you anymore.
Make a truce immediately and issue an edict to punish yourself. Then I will send someone to establish diplomatic relations with you and sign some agreements.
From then on, everything will follow the old system, but if there are people in Daqian who are willing to immigrate to my daughter country, you can't stop it. That's about it. The specific agreement to establish diplomatic relations will be clearly written. You can read it yourself.
Otherwise, you can try to see if you can leave the capital. As long as one of the people in the government hall can leave the capital alive, I will lose, so you can take care of yourself. "
After saying these words, Qu Jie turned off the call button and immediately contacted the airship and asked them to park directly above the Chaozheng Hall. Once anyone wanted to leave the Chaozheng Hall, they would immediately shoot and kill them on the spot. Haha, if you really let them They left the Chaozheng Hall and scattered. It was really difficult to ensure that no one could leave the capital alive. In order to keep from breaking his promise, he could only torture them and prevent them from leaving the Chaozheng Hall.
It may be difficult for the people on the airship to stare at the entire capital, but it is still no problem to stare at the Chaozheng Hall. Besides, there is no underground passage under the Chaozheng Hall. If they want to dig a tunnel to leave by themselves, they might as well think about it first and figure it out. They can How long to stay in there.
Then, of course, the airship flew directly above the Chaozheng Hall. Anyone who wanted to leave the Chaozheng Hall was instantly killed. Qu Jie and the others were still sitting in the Daughter Kingdom Pilgrimage Hall, watching the show through different screens.
See them terrified and torn internally.
Seeing that in order to survive, they had no choice but to ask Emperor Xuanwu for permission regardless of their face. Of course, Emperor Xuanwu had to compromise and wrote a self-incriminating edict on the spot and read it several times in all directions in the open space. Until Qu Jie expressed her approval again.
Then he sent a eunuch to take the sinner out.
It's like admitting defeat.
The eunuchs who went out this time were fine. Even the airship parked above the imperial palace left under Qu Jie's command. However, before leaving the capital completely, they listened to Qu Jie's instructions and dumped the remaining items inside. I found an open place nearby and threw all those missiles down, so as not to take them back again.
It not only gave Emperor Xuanwu another deterrent, but also proved with facts that they really didn't lack this stuff.
There is no need to make blind guesses on your own.
Being honest and obedient is better than anything else.
After all this torment, both Emperor Xuanwu and the civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty lost their temper. No matter whether they had a temper in their hearts or not, at least they lost their temper on the surface.
Then, of course, he urgently recalled the naval forces, disbanded them on the spot, issued a criminal edict, and pinched his nose with the female diplomat sent by the daughter country.
The minister signed a series of agreements. But overall, Qu Jie really gave him face and was quite polite.
He was neither made a vassal of the daughter country, nor was he made to cede land to pay compensation, nor was he made to pay annual coins.
It's enough to reflect her great aunt.
As for the terms such as allowing immigrants and not hindering transactions between the two parties, they are quite reasonable and normal wherever they are placed!
Who can you blame if your country cannot retain people?
After that, of course, the daughter country and the Daqian country could barely continue to live in harmony.
And the population movement finally no longer had to be carried out secretly and secretly as before, but began to emigrate openly and openly. Qu Jie even sent many people to the poor areas in Daqian Kingdom to publicize the disaster-stricken areas, and Emperor Xuanwu He dares to be angry but dare not speak.
In a word, the population of Daqian Country is constantly losing to the Daughter Country. Today's Daqian Country not only does not have various problems caused by population growth, but has many other problems due to its small population.
And the butterfly effect those questions cause.
For example, land is getting cheaper and cheaper, the price of farm labor has increased, and there are not even enough people to work in the fields.
In the past, there were many people, and at the same time, ordinary people had no other way out. Even if the landlords and nobles annexed land and hired people to farm at extremely low prices, or rented the land to others and paid extremely high dividends, the ordinary people who did not have land had to make a living in order to make a living. If you eat, you can only do it.
But now, as long as those who have no land are willing to go to the Daughter's Country, they can immediately receive twenty acres of land. At the same time, the first three years are tax-free. A family can get as many twenty acres of land as their family members have. In addition, the Daughter's Country is not a barbaric land. In the land, they had just defeated Da Gan and forced Emperor Xuanwu to issue a criminal edict. At the same time, the head of the Daughter Kingdom was a family member of Emperor Xuanwu and was Emperor Xuanwu's aunt.
They can't be considered barbarians, so the landless people are not very repulsive to the Girl Country. Some uneducated people even think that the Girl Country is a larger vassal state, and they don't regard the Girl Country as a foreigner at all. Everyone is willing to take it with them. The whole family immigrated together.
Most people without land have run away. How much land can those who have land rent after cultivating their own land? Those nobles and landlords who are crazy about annexing land have more land. It is useless if no one cultivates it. They can only Can land prices not fall if it becomes a wasteland?
In addition, Emperor Xuanwu did not dare to directly prevent people who wanted to immigrate from leaving, so he could only try to retain his citizens through other methods, such as not allowing land to be abandoned, reducing the head tax, delaying the collection of the head tax, and a series of other operations , these have directly or indirectly contributed to the reduction of land prices to a certain extent, and large landowners and nobles have also had to increase the price of hiring people to farm.
And many people have nothing to eat but starve to death.
In fact, I am unwilling to leave my hometown.
Those who have a little money are also quite willing to buy a few acres of land when land prices drop to increase the number of acres of their own land. In a few years, when their sons divide their families, each of them can get a few more acres of land and get more food.
Because of this, Emperor Xuanwu barely managed to retain most of the remaining farmers and the basic tax base.
Another example is that the status of women has been improved.
That's right, although Qu Jie did not send anyone to preach equality in Daqian Country, the status of women in Daqian Country was still improving year by year under the indirect influence of some of Qu Jie's operations.
After all, there are too many baby girls in Daqian Country, and women who were sold or were in other miserable conditions were sent by Qu Jie to rescue them back to the Daughter Country. At the same time, the status of women in the Daughter Country is slightly higher than that of men. There are laws to follow, and there is no need to worry about orphans and widowers. National conditions such as the mother being deprived of her family are also very attractive to some women, and there are also stories about brothel girls who became county magistrates based on their knowledge.
Many young women are willing to go to the land of daughters.
Many times, the reason why many women swallow their anger is not because they don't want to resist, but because they know that resisting is useless and will only make things worse after resisting. The existence of the Daughter's Kingdom gives them the confidence to live on their own after resisting. The boundary that goes down.
Therefore, in recent years, many women in Daqian Kingdom have gone directly to settle in the Daughter Kingdom, or have
The husband and Li went to live in the Daughter's Country, and the Daughter's Country also specially organized a women's mutual aid association in the Daqian Country.
Help women who are resisting but unable to do anything.
These circumstances have directly or indirectly prompted more and more women to immigrate to the Daughter Country. The final result is that the ratio of men to women in Daqian Country has become increasingly disparate.
In order to maintain population growth, the imperial court had to restrict officials from taking concubines, while at the same time cracking down on the drowning of female infants. In addition, it also implemented some measures such as canceling the female head tax, and how many daughters in the family could be exempted from the tax. In addition, the chastity memorial arch was cancelled, and widows were strongly encouraged to remarry. Even widows in their forties were not spared. They really did everything possible!
Although the status improvement thus obtained actually has little to do with equality, it is mainly driven by interests.
But at least infant drowning has been reduced.
The big plan was indirect, and due to the influence of the Daughter Kingdom, great changes took place in all aspects of the country.
Later, Emperor Xuanwu and others also discovered that it was not okay to continue like this. If they did not make some changes, they would probably lose their country in the future. Since they could not defeat it, they were unable to stop the influence of the Daughter Kingdom.
Instead of being passively influenced all the time.
Then passively continue to issue policy patches.
It would be better to directly learn from the Daughter Country, so that they can at least control the general direction, and not be like now, waiting until problems are discovered every time, and the problems have occurred for a long time, and the impact is very far-reaching, and they only realize it later. to compensate and adjust policies.
Some people even proposed learning from the barbarians and developing skills to control the barbarians.
So the final result was that Emperor Xuanwu sent many children of the royal family and children of noble officials to go to the daughter country for study and exchange.
The main thing is to learn some advanced knowledge and bring it back.
Great construction work.
Qu Jie did not refuse, but she was not in a hurry to teach them advanced knowledge, but advanced ideas could be instilled in advance. Anyway, as long as they did not send their daughters to study, Qu Jie would not teach them anything useful.
After a few years of this.
Emperor Xuanwu and the others only belatedly discovered the core problem, and then they had no choice but to send their own princesses, princesses, and daughters of other officials' Xungui families to their daughter's country to study. This time Qu Jie had the guts to send someone to teach her, so she only However, while teaching all kinds of useful knowledge, he also did not forget to instill some thoughts that women should strengthen themselves, who said women are inferior to men, and that the first emperor in ancient times was Emperor Wa.
A few years later, although the women who were sent here learned a lot of advanced knowledge as Emperor Xuanwu and others wished, after returning to China, they used their identities and the knowledge they had learned to establish some women's colleges and even several The princess also launched an affirmative action movement.
Hope to obtain more equal inheritance rights.
You can also participate in seizing heirs and so on.
How to describe it, it made Emperor Xuanwu and his companions feel as if they had stolen the chicken but lost the rice. Some old scholars and those who insisted that men were superior to women even believed that the women's college must be closed to prevent the spread of heresy, and even wanted to expel those who returned from studying in the daughter country. If those princesses, princesses and other noble ladies were not afraid of the Daughter Kingdom, they might even want to ban any comments from the Daughter Kingdom! Read the book
The new-seeking faction and the conservative faction within the imperial court.
The dispute is inextricable.
However, no matter how stubborn the conservatives and those old diehards are, they cannot stop the people's pursuit and yearning for a better life, nor can they stop the grand trend of advanced culture and advanced ideas crushing the old culture, so even if the conservatives There is struggle.
Some ideas still spread quickly among the people.
Coupled with the emergence of more and more machines and the emergence of more and more jobs that do not require heavy physical labor, many women have left home and become financially independent. As a result, the general trend of the entire society has been gradually reversed.
But these changes are subtle.
Even if it has an impact, it will not completely reverse it, let alone be completely changed in one or two generations. It can only be said that the overall social atmosphere is not as suffocating as in the past. There are fewer people binding feet, more women are willing to go out, and there are fewer chastity memorials. Now, remarriage and divorce have become normal.
The old stubbornness is still there, and the new ideas have not died out.
Old and new coexist.
The only thing that is certain at present is that as long as the daughter country does not decline or perish, new ideas and new trends will not be extinguished. One day they will be able to overcome those old stubbornness and old ideas and completely lead the times.
In addition to continuing to implement her policies of expanding territory and popularizing education, Qu Jie focused more on the laws of the country's political system, the repair of various departments and institutions, and the training and education of the crown princess.
Her mission has actually been completed, but the heirs have not been trained yet. In order to prevent the daughter country she created from being short-lived, she must train her granddaughter, and even her granddaughter must train one or two generations of heirs, so Qu Jie's It is not only necessary to train the granddaughter well, but also to build a inheritance system and a training system for the crown princess that can last for at least a hundred years.
This is the real big problem!
After all, there are many examples of the survivors of the sixth generation of Fen, who were eventually harmed by prodigal sons in three or two years!
