The boss of fast time travel, she is a bug

Chapter 282 233. Strange Ancient Lady (4)

"Women naturally don't have to do anything!"

Wang Jie's reasonable answer made Xia Wen fall into deep thought.

Xia Wen asked some more questions, concentrated his energy and observed the whole village, and only then did he fully understand what kind of world he had entered.

This is a world where women are respected, but it is different from the traditional understanding of matriarchal society.

It can be said that in this world, women are the ones at the top of the food chain, but men are not flowers kept in greenhouses.

They need to rely on their strong force, strong financial resources, and strong protection to give women a sense of security.

The reason for this phenomenon is because of the sudden rise of the patrilineal society in the past few thousand years.

Under this kind of rise, many people think that only men are the pillars of this society and the hope of this society.

So they pin their hopes on their offspring, only want boys, who can pass on the incense.

If it is a family with a better family background, if a girl is born, she may keep it if she is in a good mood. If she is in a bad mood, she will drown in the river with the newborn baby.

If the family is not well off, the female baby will be abandoned directly.

In some exaggerated places, girls are regarded as ominous symbols.

As a result, every river has become the home of newborn baby girls.

After hundreds of years like this, Zhaoguo, where no more girls were born, suddenly discovered that women accounted for only one-thousandth of the population of tens of millions in the whole country.

Among them, most of them are over 50 years old, including more than 20 concubines in the harem.

Emperor Zhaoguo, the ministers suddenly discovered this horrifying thing, and they were terrified.

Without girls, it means that offspring cannot be reproduced. If all the women die in a few decades, the whole country will be completely over.

Therefore, His Majesty Zhaoguo immediately issued an imperial decree to give birth to a girl!
If a family gives birth to a girl, the tax can be reduced for one year.

However, how can the thoughts that have been passed down for thousands of years be changed because of this imperial edict.

There are still people who ignore the imperial decree and drown the baby girl.

What's more, it's only a year's tax, how can it be worth decades of being treated with strange eyes.

Therefore, this imperial edict is basically useless.

The emperor was very anxious. Although he had no direct relationship with him, it was impossible for him to let his country perish after a hundred years because there were no newborns.

What's more, due to the reduction of women, many families have already been wiped out!
In desperation, the emperor had no choice but to issue an imperial decree again, saying that all direct families with daughters can reduce all taxes while the daughter is alive, and if the family with a baby girl is left, they can still enjoy the imperial salary, which is not lower than that of a sixth-rank official One year's salary.

As soon as the imperial decree came out, the people of Zhao Kingdom were instantly shocked.

Many people who have not married a daughter-in-law hurriedly make arrangements to marry a daughter-in-law, hoping to reduce or exempt their family's taxes.

But at this time, a woman is a treasure. How could those fathers and mothers marry off their daughters so easily.

Always choose some people with good family background and good character.

There are even many people who even marry into families with women in order to reduce or exempt taxes.

For a time, the matter of marriage arose.

However, there were few women and many men. Within a year, only five or six thousand couples of boys and girls were married, which could not solve Zhaoguo's urgent needs.

Emperor Zhaoguo was even more furious. He set an example and directly ordered that if there is a concubine who can be left as a princess, he will be directly promoted to imperial concubine.

These concubines worked hard to give birth to the emperor, but I don't know if these thousands of years of customs have affected them or what. Ten years have passed, and the royal family only has one more princess.

And the concubine who gave birth to the princess really soared into the sky and became a royal concubine. In the harem, one person is below ten thousand.

All the people saw that the royal family also respected giving birth to baby girls, so they gradually began to give birth to baby girls.

It's just that at this time, they only regard baby girls as a way to reduce taxes and make money.

In the hundreds of years since then, only a few hundred baby girls have been born every year, and there has never been an increase.

The lack of women in this world is also becoming more and more obvious.

Thus, polyandry became popular.

Even in this world, women are the people that all men should protect.

For them, women only need to be beautiful at home and do whatever they want.

Because they have seen too many women who died because of childbirth and miscarried because of too much work, how could they let women keep busy.

For a time, the status of women was unprecedentedly dignified.

Perhaps because women are treated better and better, in recent years, the birth rate of girls will exceed [-].

However, although it cannot solve the most practical problems, it has given people hope.

They have a better attitude towards women.

This is why Xia Wen saw that there were only three women in the entire village.

But in such a big environment, the original owner would still be abandoned in the wilderness, which made Xia Wen always feel surrounded by conspiracy.

Of course, what makes Xia Wen even more strange is why the whole village can't give birth to a girl?
So, Wang Jie told Xia Wen one more thing that shattered her three views.

Because, in the entire village, there were hundreds of men, except Liu Yi who married Wang Jie by virtue of his wealthy family, and the rest did not marry wives.

The only two women were recruited, and each recruited ten men.

That means that the other 80 men are all single.

It can be seen how serious the problem of the male to female ratio in Zhaoguo is.

That's why Wang Jie didn't let Xia Wen reveal her identity before.

Just imagine, a five-year-old girl suddenly appears in the wilderness, what if she meets a gangster?

It has to be said that Wang Jie's consideration is prescient.

However, Xia Wen was speechless.

Who can tell her what kind of society this is, the problem of the male-female ratio is so big that the court only wants to solve it, why not wait until all the women have passed away to find a solution!

One more thing, just based on the proportion problem that cannot be alleviated for thousands of years, one can imagine how serious the problem of gender discrimination was in the previous world!

But now, to be honest, from Xia Wen's point of view, they may not all respect women in their bones.

As the saying goes, the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change.

How could the idea that men are superior to women, which has lasted for thousands of years, disappear completely.

Perhaps waiting for the problem of female ratio to be resolved, their idea of ​​male superiority and inferiority will come back again.

A new round of population problems will come back again.

It's not Xia Wen's malicious speculation. Now it seems that this is not unfounded worry.

However, this is not something Xia Wen should consider.

The first thing she should figure out now is what is the mission of this world.

(End of this chapter)