Chapter 593 The Importance of Eugenics and Good Childbearing
On September 22, Li San Niang requested that the meeting be held at Xing Yu's Man Kou Xiang private restaurant in the West Market.
The post by Li San Niang said that people should arrive at 9:00 AM, but more than 25 minutes before 9:00 AM, everyone who was supposed to come arrived.
And there were new people arriving, people that Li San Niang had met before.
"This is my fiancé, Shi Le'an. He and I are from the same place."
I brought him along today so you can all see him and get to know him, so he can integrate into our group.”
Jiang Yiyun, beaming with joy, hooked her arm around Shi Le'an's and stood in front of everyone to introduce him.
"I am Shi Le'an, greetings to you all."
Li San Niang wasn't surprised at all. After all, what she had seen at the Song family's door last time had already given her a heads-up. Seeing Jiang Yiyun and Shi Le'an's intimate behavior now made everything clear, and it also confirmed Li San Niang's earlier guesses.
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Sure enough, these two know each other, and they have such a close relationship!
Everyone applauded in welcome, but what each person truly thought was anyone's guess.
A round table was packed with people. Li San Niang had placed a copy of her prepared report on the table beforehand. The cover of the somewhat thick booklet was titled "The Importance of Eugenics and Good Childbearing," and the subtitle was "Some Suggestions and Measures on Optimizing the Tang Dynasty's Fertility Policy to Promote the Long-Term Stable Development of the Population."
Xing Yu, being quick to speak, felt somewhat confused after reading the title on the cover, so he carefully read it again in his mind. Then he looked at Li San Niang, who was standing at the head of the round table, preparing to give a presentation using her self-made PPT, and asked in a very surprised tone, "Dr. Li, what are you doing?"
Sitting next to Xing Yu, Chang Siyuan looked at the titles on the booklet. Although he didn't ask with the same surprise as Xing Yu, he did have some questions on his face. However, he was reserved by nature and wanted to hear what Li San Niang had to say, or at least see what was written in the booklet before he could speak.
Ding Anbo and Ding Mingxuan, who were sitting opposite Xing Yu, exchanged a glance. Ding Mingxuan nodded, signaling Ding Anbo not to speak yet and to wait and see.
As for Bi Qionglan, although she didn't say anything, judging from Li Sanniang's personality and the title of the booklet, she already had some guesses in her mind.
Jiang Yiyun was just as lively as Xing Yu. Before Xing Yu could finish speaking and before Li San Niang could reply, Jiang Yiyun opened the booklet and said, "Dr. Li, you've stirred up a big problem."
Shi Le'an remained silent, but like Jiang Yiyun, he also opened the booklet and began to read the densely packed words on it.
Li San Niang stood at the head of the table and smiled, "The booklet isn't very thick. I'll give you all a quarter of an hour to take a good look at it. Once you've had a general idea, I'll explain to you why I invited you all here today."
In just a quarter of an hour, it would be very difficult to read through the entire report that Li San Niang had spent more than two months writing, word for word.
But if you just need to get a general idea and clearly understand what Li San Niang is trying to say, that's enough.
"First of all, I must thank you all for your support. It is really an honor that you came after I posted the message."
After saying this, Li San Niang bowed to everyone.
“I’ve invited you all here today for one thing. After I explain the contents of this booklet to you, if you agree with my opinion, please sign your names here,” Li San Niang said, picking up a thick, bound booklet from a nearby table and showing it to everyone. “In that case, I can submit it to the Imperial Medical Bureau.”
If we're lucky enough to get our proposal adopted by higher authorities, then we've done something truly beneficial in the present and for future generations.
If you're unlucky enough to attract some attention from higher-ups and slightly improve the situation, that would be a good thing.
But if I'm really unlucky and it doesn't make a ripple at all, it just means the time isn't right yet, and I'll look for another opportunity to do it later.
Now that Li San Niang had put her words to this point, everyone understood why she had gathered them together today.
The original intention was to gain their signatures, so that these time travelers, also known as extraordinary people by the Tang Dynasty, could influence the higher-ups, or to put it more directly, could influence Emperor Wu, the entire court, and the Tang Dynasty!
So Li San Niang turned to the first page of her self-made PowerPoint presentation, which was already hanging up and was four feet long, and began to talk about the title at the very top: "The Importance of Eugenics and Good Childbearing."
"I am a female doctor. Before I transmigrated, I was an obstetrician-gynecologist. I'm sure you all have already guessed this."
During the year or so that I worked as a female physician in Chang'an, given the productivity at that time, it was entirely possible to propose the concept of eugenics and good prenatal care, which would have been groundbreaking and could have promoted the long-term stable and balanced development of the population of the Tang Dynasty.
Humans, in any time and space, are the most important resource.
During my medical practice, I discovered…
Li San Niang spoke at length for a full quarter of an hour, focusing on the first page of the PPT. The people at the round table listened to Li San Niang's presentation while looking at the PPT on the stand and carefully comparing it with the booklets in their hands.
Bi Qionglan and Jiang Yiyun were the only two women present. As women, they naturally understood that everything Li Sanniang said was good for women and beneficial to them in terms of benefits.
Although Li San Niang had not yet mentioned the relationship between women's age at first childbirth and the number of surviving babies, Jiang Yiyun had already decided to sign the booklet after seeing the graphs and bars that Li San Niang had compiled and statistically analyzed at the back.
After all, each of those numbers represents a life lost!
"In fact, if you go deep into the grassroots, you will find that many young couples cannot support their first or even second child."
Aside from nutritional issues related to food and drink, the main reason is that both parents are not fully developed and have not yet reached the age where they can conceive a healthy child.
In this respect, the mothers who bear the burden of childbirth experience even greater suffering.
Every pregnancy depletes a woman's life force. If the marriage age could be fundamentally raised, it would undoubtedly promote healthy births, increase the number of healthy children born at birth, and reduce maternal mortality, thus preserving the female population and ensuring a larger birth rate.
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