"Master, I'm going to stop these people's behavior. It's too much!" Cai Wenji said angrily when she saw the tearful girl being forcibly taken away.
"Stop!" Unexpectedly, Liu Xu stopped Cai Wenji, and then said, "Now that you tell these soldiers to stop, let me ask you, did some soldiers and their generals make mistakes? An order was issued to all women of appropriate age, except those who Who is the person who issued the order that anyone who suffers from infertility must get pregnant within 3 months?”
"..." Cai Wenji didn't dare to speak.
"It's me, I gave this order, and these soldiers are executing my order. Although the means may be somewhat violent, how can this order be carried out without violent means? So they are all very loyal to me. Work, if I order them to stop at this time, or even reprimand them, who else in the world will be willing to work for me?" Liu Xu shook his head.
"Besides, what happened in front of me is probably not an exception. 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 how 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 whole village was developing very fast, everyone in the whole village was oppressed and extremely nervous. The women were all pregnant, the men were working, and the children watched Romance of the Three Kingdoms over and over again every day. Waiting for Liu Xu’s works.
Although the living standards of the village have improved and the food has also improved, Liu Xu obviously found that it is difficult to see sincere smiles on these people's faces, because such a life is undoubtedly extremely painful.
After observing these situations, Liu Xu was no longer in the mood to play anymore. He took Cai Wenji directly back to his palace, then called Zhuge Liang, the prime minister, to his side, and at the same time told him what he had witnessed today Everything was told to Zhuge Liang.
"Your Majesty is indeed a kind person with a kind heart, but you, my lord, must know that these are the only way for the empire to develop!" After listening to Liu Xu's words, Zhuge Liang said calmly, "People are greedy for leisure and hate work. Without our compulsion, they will definitely not act according to the route we have set. By then, the development speed of the entire country may be reduced several times. The 200 million population that originally only took about 20 years to reach may be delayed. In 50 years, or even 100 years from now."
"And if a person's living conditions are good enough, he won't even want to give birth to the next generation, because this will reduce their quality of life, which is not as easy and enjoyable as living alone."
"So, Lord, it's true that you have a kind heart, but you can't give up on the right path because of this, otherwise it will be too late in the future!"
"What the Prime Minister said is true!" Liu Xu nodded. In fact, he also understood what Zhuge Liang said. After all, he came from that world and knew very well how low the fertility rate in developed countries had fallen.
"But Prime Minister, in your eyes, are they people, numbers, or tools?" Liu Xu asked.
"He is a human being, but a human being is also a kind of tool!" Zhuge Liang said, "Even the minister is just one of His Majesty's tools. This is the consciousness that a human being must have."
"Tool people, right?" Liu Xu couldn't help but smile, then waved his hands and said, "No matter what, even if they are people, they are also tools, but they are also my readers!"
"Now the readers of White Elephant World account for nine out of ten of the power of reading in my body. 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. "
"They are my readers, so I should teach them, respect them, treat them well, love them, and protect them! Instead of treating them as my own tools like now, this is against the way of my readers, and this is wrong. of!"
Liu Xu originally thought that Zhuge Liang would argue with him, but what he didn't expect was that Zhuge Liang just looked at him deeply, then took out a USB flash drive from his sleeve and said, "Lord, this is the new policy plan drawn up by me. Please take a look, my lord!"
"New deal plan?" 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 word count of more than 20,000 words.
This document describes in detail the new policies that the empire is about to implement. In the final analysis, these new policies are policies on how to treat its citizens.
First of all, Article 1 is to open up the reproductive system. Instead of forcing all women to have children, it will be changed to a reward system, using rewards instead of punishments, and encouraging women to have children by giving them a certain social status and money for each child they give birth to.
Article 2 is to establish a more complete education system, from the previous study-only to a comprehensive basic education. Children will learn Chinese, mathematics, music, sports, literature, philosophy, history, Three Kingdoms, Chu-Han, Journey to the West, etc. A wide range of studies are undertaken across various subjects.
Article 3 is to lift restrictions on population movement and allow people to move freely.
Article 4 is to lift the restrictions on grain trading. Except for grain needed for government taxation, all grain must be allowed to be traded freely.
Article 5 is land restriction, all land will be taken as state-owned, and then these lands will be rented to all farmers for free for cultivation. Except for taxes, everything in the fields will belong to the farmers themselves, etc.
Article 6: Comprehensively build the police system and other corresponding regulatory systems...
Zhuge Liang's New Deal listed more than 160 items in one go, subverting many of the empire's national policies and almost completely lifting private restrictions. Except for the two core policies of finance and land, which were still tightly controlled by the government, almost all other policies were under the control of the government. Everything was open to the public, and almost overnight, Liu Xu's readers gained unprecedented freedom.
But if you read it carefully, you will find that although the people are given a lot of freedom, there is also a lot more supervision. Almost every freedom the people get, they also get a supervision. To a certain extent, they are not free either. A lot.
"Lord, do these conform to your way of reading?" Zhuge Liang asked.
"It fits!" Liu Xu nodded.
"Master, don't you think there are more things under supervision in my new policy?" Zhuge Liang asked with a smile.
"Absolute freedom means that no one can have freedom. Only freedom that is fully respected under supervision is real freedom. I wanted to understand this when I was still in high school!" Liu Xu glanced at Zhuge Liang, Prime Minister Smile slightly.
"Prime Minister, you should be the second person to hear my readers' advice, but you have already prepared these new policies. Could it be that you can predict the future?" Liu Xu asked curiously.
"No!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "These have been decided by me long ago. In fact, I know 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 huge consequences. resistance."
"So I originally planned to introduce these new policies in 10 years. By then, the empire's agricultural system has been established, industrialization has been basically completed, and a large number of teachers and basic social service units have been cultivated. By then, we will gradually release the policies. Opening various restrictions will best allow the entire empire to successfully complete the reform."
"It's just that I didn't expect that my lord would actually gain enlightenment ahead of time, so I had to take it out first." Zhuge Liang held the USB flash drive in his hand and said, "I dare to ask my lord, let me implement these reforms in 10 years according to the original plan. Or should we push forward the New Deal now?”
"Please be honest, if we reform in 10 years, the world will be prosperous within 20 years. But if we promote the New Deal in advance now, I am afraid it will take 30 years or even more."
"It's better to suffer for the common people first..."
"No!" Liu Xu directly interrupted Zhuge Liang and said, "When I first heard the sentence "Suffer the people first, I thought this sentence was wrong."
"Later I thought this sentence is right. It's bitter first and then sweet. The people will be bitter first, and the sweetness will naturally become sweet in the future!"
"But now I think this sentence is wrong, because all the people here are my readers, so why should the readers suffer first? Why am I not the one who suffers first?"
(End of chapter)
