The Reborn Wife is Farming

"You should know that although aristocratic families and some well-established families will also arrange roommates for their children, they will generally not be younger than fourteen years old, and marriages will not be younger than seventeen years old, and even if there is a roommate, the elders in the family will There are also many restrictions on this, but why did the royal families of all dynasties arrange a room for the prince at the age of twelve? What's more, they took one or two side concubines in the room early?"

"In order to spread branches and leaves for the royal family," Xiaobao said in a slightly lower voice, "It's more a precautionary measure..."

To prevent the death of the emperor, there will be successors. Only by giving birth to heirs early can the hearts of the people, the hearts of ministers, and their own hearts be at ease.

Life is impermanent, who knows what will happen tomorrow?

One of the important reasons why the royal family arranged for the maids to sleep after the prince's first sperm was to prevent such accidents. Moreover, people in the royal family didn't live long, and if they had heirs earlier, the children would be able to stand up when they died.

However, the earlier you have intercourse, the shorter your life span is, and the shorter you are, the more anxious you are to have children, and the earlier you have intercourse. This is almost an endless loop.

It's not that Qi Xiuyuan and Qi Wenchen didn't know this kind of truth, but they didn't want to break it in the past. If it wasn't for Xiao Xiong and Xiao An's troubles, they probably wouldn't take it too seriously, so they followed the rules of the imperial palaces of the past.

"The royal families of all dynasties have been like this. That's because they never changed from the first generation to the second generation. Should we also learn from them? Get enlightened early, and then give birth to children early. Or miscarriage, or premature death, or sickness, the children who can grow up continue this kind of inheritance, because they are enlightened early, they indulge themselves again and again, and they are obviously sitting on the most abundant medical resources, but the average life expectancy is only fifty."

Mu Yangling felt endless regret when she said this. In her opinion, the average life expectancy of common people is low because of poor living conditions and shortage of medical resources, but for the royal family and these upper class people, their life expectancy is not high but It's because of being too indulgent.

The first generation and the second generation of the royal family are alright, and they are somewhat restrained, but the founding emperor has many injuries and his life span is generally not long, but the second generation has already begun to spend extravagantly. , Gradually hollowed out the body, even if there are occasional people who pay attention to health preservation, there are very few.

Mu Yangling vomited as long as she thought that her descendants would one day become the descendants of the former royal family.

However, it is impossible to only rely on the family rules set by her, because the general environment is such that even if they are good in nature, they can be led badly, so Mu Yangling hopes to fundamentally improve the general environment.

She will not set a lot of rules for future generations, because they may not necessarily abide by them, and it is useless to set them. It is better to educate this generation well, and let them educate the next generation well, so that these things become a matter of course , so that even if it is not a rule, it is a rule.

"Your father was seriously injured and poisoned in the early years. His body was indeed damaged, but the imperial doctor has been taking care of him for many years. He dare not say that he is completely recovered, but his body is definitely not bad. Xiaobao, you said he can live for a few more years. ?”

Xiaobao was surprised by his fourth aunt's straightforwardness, but he still thought about it seriously and said: "If the father can always pay attention to health preservation, he will still be strong in twenty or thirty years."

Twenty or thirty years later, Qi Xiuyuan will be in his sixties, and Xiaobao will be in his thirties and forties.

"What about you," Mu Yangling asked, "how long do you think you can live without sudden illness or accident?"

"Fifty or sixty years old shouldn't be a problem."

"That's it. Could it be that your son was not yet twenty at that time? So I think you are completely unfounded. You are enlightened at the age of twelve, but how many children can be conceived or born before the age of sixteen grow up? "

Xiaobao said seriously: "Fourth aunt, I have never had a child."

"Then go and check, just look up the information of the former royal family, and when you finish the research, come and tell me, how old were the surviving children of the former royal family who were born to their parents? After you finish the research, we will talk again. "

Xiaobao is the prince, so it is not difficult to look up these information, not to mention that he has a lot of life, and he got several forms the next day after he ordered, not only the age of the parents when the child was born, but also the life expectancy of their parents, own lifespan, age of having first child, etc.

What Mu Yangling said is correct. The table records the lifespan and production of the children of the royal family in the past five generations. Generally speaking, the output is very large. The worst prince has had sixteen children, but he can survive until There were only eight twelve-year-olds, not counting miscarriages or children who died at birth, and the survival rate was extremely low.

In the table, most of the children who can grow to be over twelve years old are born with fathers over sixteen years old. As Mu Yangling said, the fathers are too young and the sperm is too weak, so most of the children born will not grow up. .

Xiaobao copied the form twice, sent one to his father and one to his mother, and went out of the palace with the original to find Mu Yangling.

Mu Yangling said: "So I suggest that the palace should abolish these rules. It is best for the prince to arrange a concubine after the age of seventeen, marry the main concubine after the age of eighteen, and then accept the side concubine. The relationship between husband and wife is also good."

Xiao Bao pondered: "I'm afraid the ministers of the former court would not agree."

The issue of the royal family's heirs is not only a family matter, but also a state matter.

Mu Yangling smiled and said: "I didn't say to change the rules with great fanfare, we will do what we do, and we will set the rules when the ministers of the previous court mention it. Your father is the first emperor of Daqi. Emperor, his words are the rules, who said we have to abide by the rules of the previous dynasty?"

This made sense, but he was speechless.

Xiaobao asked: "Fourth aunt, you told me so many reasons yesterday, you don't just want to change this rule of the royal family, do you?"

Mu Yangling smiled, took down the "Law of Great Qi" from the bookshelf, flipped to Marriage, clicked on one of them and said, "I think this one should be changed as well."

That is the age regulation for ordinary people to marry in the law. Among them, the limit for women is after the age of thirteen, and they must be married before the age of eighteen, otherwise they will be fined.

It was copied from the previous law, and Da Qi Law did not modify it.

In Emperor Sejong's time, this law stipulated that women should be born after the age of fifteen and before the age of twenty. Later, foreign enemies invaded, the country's population withered, and the age of marriage was repeatedly lowered. It is because the risk of having a child is too great, and the age limit of the previous dynasty will be lowered.

Qi Lv copied it because the population was really small at that time. After more than 20 years of wars, when Da Qi was founded, the population was only in the early 40 million. The population is 50 million, but for the vast territory of Daqi, the population is still a bit small.

Therefore, the age requirement for marriage has not changed.

Xiaobao looked at this law and pondered. If this law is to be changed, the resistance will be more difficult than the conditions for the royal family to change it, because if it is changed, the population growth rate will definitely decrease a lot.