The Sinful Woman's Golden Branch: The Jade-Faced Yama is Actually Me (Chapter Thirty-Five...)
After that, the system fell silent, and Ye Xiqing began her ideal life.
Although there were no cell phones in ancient times, those with power and influence could still live a very comfortable and happy life.
With the slow pace of modern life, Ye Xiqing, who had been wound up in the clock, suddenly relaxed and didn't even want to review her college entrance exam knowledge anymore.
One reason is that I've reviewed it so much that I'm almost sick of it.
One is that there are still six worlds left, and the knowledge she should have mastered is already ingrained in her bones, just like her driving instincts. The knowledge she can forget will be forgotten even if she looks at it again, so it's better to wait until she goes home to look at it.
Of all the worlds, this is the first time Ye Xiqing has abandoned her identity as a high school student and is completely unconcerned about her studies.
With a relaxed and cheerful mood, Ye Xiqing treated this time-travel journey as a complete "farm stay" and a real-life management game.
Food is the most important thing for people. In ancient times, productivity was low and many people could not get enough to eat. Farming was still the most important thing.
When it comes to improving crops, all that's needed is to propose a concept, and the ancients would automatically know to start researching it.
As Li Siyin reorganized the navy and vigorously developed shipbuilding technology, gunpowder was applied to ships, and Dayu's fleet sailed further and further, bringing back many excellent crops, including Champa rice, whose yield saw an epic increase.
Although the South had favorable climate conditions at that time, it was not yet fully developed. With the opportunity of Champa rice and cotton, Shangguan Lanyi's wish to carry out urban and rural planning in the South was realized.
In her modern life, Ye Xiqing experienced many deeply ingrained and difficult-to-change problems, so she made sure Shangguan Lanyi took note of them at the beginning of the transformation.
Shangguan Lanyi is a person who is very good at planning for people's livelihood. When she gets some inspiration, she will come up with very good solutions. Ye Xiqing likes to talk to her the most. She is very easy to communicate with.
With the joint efforts of the imperial court and local officials dispatched by the court, all prefectures and counties are planning their development in an orderly manner, and the people have also given the court room to slow down and develop.
No matter when, ordinary people just want to survive, but often, even surviving is difficult.
After Li Siyin came to power, she forcefully abolished all those of low social status, treated everyone equally, and reassigned land to others.
After the nationwide land reform was completed, the population was re-reported, and the number of registered residents increased by about ten million.
These are not newborns, but rather people who previously became unregistered private slaves to evade taxes, but are now returning to register their households due to the lenient policies of the imperial court.
With their own land, farmers could support themselves by cultivating it. As long as they could support themselves, they would be grateful to the imperial court and would work hard to pay taxes.
After the new land law, all land was taken over by the government, and no form of land sale was allowed. This prevented, to the greatest extent possible, the farmers' land from being taken over by powerful clans.
The imperial court's agricultural technology department was conducting various researches on hybridization, transplanting, and fattening techniques, while also reforming agricultural tools to make farming and land reclamation easier for farmers.
In their spare time, various places designated water conservancy zones, allowing local people to dig rivers and build dams, jointly constructing water conservancy projects.
The new law abolished the system of conscripting labor from each household and having them work silently until the project was completed.
The system of rotating households was adopted, with each household assigned a work section. Local people were divided into groups to do the work, regardless of how many people were on the job. As long as the work was completed within the time limit, they could go home and the next group would take over, giving the workers a break.
This kind of work is indeed much slower than having a supervisor whipping the workers from behind.
But slow and steady wins the race. The people won't be driven to their deaths, and they'll still have a sense of collective honor. So they'll expand outwards bit by bit, until they eventually connect into one whole area.
Rivers are like the blood vessels of the earth, allowing for quick passage in any direction. Water transport was the most convenient mode of transportation in ancient times when technology was underdeveloped.
The people, who were originally without property, received land from the government, which increased their enthusiasm for farming. Agricultural technology improved, crop yields increased, and grain quickly became a surplus product.
Once there is a surplus of grain, commerce will flourish, and all kinds of merchant ships will travel throughout the country as the canals are opened.
Feudal dynasties always imposed great restrictions on merchants, and Dayu was no exception.
The new law not only failed to lift restrictions on merchants, but also added a new provision: merchants could not be allocated land, could not take the imperial examinations, and paid very high commercial taxes.
Even so, more and more people are abandoning farming to go into business, because the traditional social hierarchy is scholar, farmer, artisan, and merchant. Scholars are the true leaders, while farmers are just a title.
Once society develops, everyone will be better off than farmers. If farmers aren't given some verbal praise and encouragement, no one will want to do it anymore.
Therefore, although history tells Ye Xiqing that the next step after feudal society is capitalism, Ye Xiqing also feels that there is no need to develop it, and merchants should still be suppressed.
Regardless of whether it has a unique history or whether it has any reference value, if we already know that we went down the wrong path, why would we repeat it?
They could not survive the affluent yet oppressive feudal period, and the people's consciousness awakened, realizing the harm of the feudal system.
Capitalism did not develop under the oppression of feudal society. Should we skip this period and go directly into a utopian society?
Therefore, in terms of ideology, whether it was Li Siyin or the compilation of the witch cult's doctrines, Ye Xiqing intentionally cultivated the consciousness of prioritizing workers and peasants, so that workers and peasants could enter politics, but merchants could not.
The treatment of workers and peasants has been continuously improved, agricultural and miscellaneous taxes have been reduced again and again, and workers' wages and holidays are all written in the Da Yu Law and strictly implemented.
Local officials can engage in collusion with businessmen, but they must ensure that no one covets their position.
After Li Siyin came to power, he opened public schools everywhere to educate the people and lowered the threshold for officialdom. It was truly a case of "if you don't want to do it, there are plenty of others who will."
Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants—scholars were the first in line, and there were far too many people who wanted to become officials. As long as you gave them a handle to use against them, someone would try to take their place.
Experience has shown that improving workers' wages does not hinder business development; only national turmoil and corrupt governance will.
A stable political situation and a much more transparent and efficient bureaucracy than before provide fertile ground for commercial prosperity.
Ordinary people have high incomes and high consumption, and the development of commerce is more positive.
High labor costs allow small businesses to take the lead, sharing the profits among many people, ensuring everyone gets a share, and reducing the monopoly of large businesses and the squeeze out of competitors.
Strict and clear business protection laws also prohibit officials from arbitrarily exploiting merchants. In fact, it is the exploitation by officials that is more unacceptable to merchants than improving the treatment of workers.
Workers and peasants lived in peace and prosperity, and merchants thrived. The political situation obtained through violent suppression could only be described as "slow" in its subsequent development.
However, slow development does not mean no development. By laying a solid foundation layer by layer, an unprecedented explosion finally occurred at a certain moment!
In just over twenty years, the number of registered residents has surged by 20 million, and this time it's all newborns.
The national grain reserves have reached the point where they rot and cannot be sold locally, and can only be used for brewing and exporting to distant places.
Having developed to this point, Li Siyin abolished the land tax, as well as many miscellaneous taxes levied on handicrafts, unified the currency, established government-run grain banks for storing and selling grain, and regulated grain prices.
With the national treasury full, Li Siyin began her journey westward and northward.
She's had enough of the constant harassment from the enemy on the western and northern borders. This time, even if they don't come on their own, she'll go on her own!
After Ma Sangu quelled the rebellion in the south, Li Siyin appointed her as the military governor of the western border to help her pacify the west.
Tu Si Niang and Wu Kuo Zhen joined forces for a northern expedition!
The army of Dayu no longer uses the previous conscription system, but instead adopts a recruitment system. It no longer encourages fighting by allocating land, but instead encourages fighting by granting titles and stipends. These titles and stipends can be inherited for three generations, after which the rank will be reduced according to the generation.
Unlike the old society, which prohibited women from various professions, the reformed Dayu Dynasty allowed men to participate in all professions except for the witchcraft profession, which was explicitly designated as a women-only field by the Goddess of Wushan. This included the imperial examinations.
But the parental leave issued by the government is terrifying.
In the past, when a man's elders passed away, there was a three-year mourning period, but everyone had to observe it, and even if you were lucky, you might not be able to make it.
But now, no matter which of your wife, mother, or sisters gives birth, you might be called home to take care of the child and take parental leave. Three years on top of three years on parental leave, and half your life is wasted.
If someone tries to evade parental leave, they'll be labeled as unfilial. In feudal society, unfilial piety wasn't just an adjective, but a crime.
So even without mandatory regulations, men are becoming less visible in all walks of life and are spending more time at home taking care of children and managing household chores.
When the practice of establishing a female household was first introduced, it was permitted to establish both female and male households. However, the practice of male-female households gradually disappeared in later periods.
In the old society, the primary function of marriage was to procreate. Men, being infertile, needed to pay a high dowry to marry a wife.
In a woman-dominated family, this is not necessary. The woman can give birth to the next generation on her own to the maximum extent possible, and the sisters in the family will help her raise the children. It is not necessary to welcome a man into the family.
In the past, women were not given land or could not inherit family property, which forced them to leave home and marry into other families.
Nowadays, not only are men and women given land together, but in densely populated areas, women are given land even more often, and female infants are also given land. So, people naturally want to have daughters.
After having many daughters, it was suddenly discovered that it was quite convenient to live in the mother's household without separating the family, and there was no need to follow the old system of women and men living together.
People's lives have always been based on convenience. Even the most stubborn person, once they see the practical benefits, will no longer be willing to continue the old marriage system.
Families with many sisters tend to live together, and the traditional courtyard house style is very popular among ordinary people.
They built more rooms so that the mother and sisters could live together. The elderly mother would live in the main house, and the three sisters would each have a room so they could live together and run some small businesses together.
When it's time to have children, if there are three sisters, and each of them gives birth to one child, then there are three more people. It's good to have children to carry on the family line. It's impossible for all three sisters to be so unlucky as to have only sons.
As long as there is one daughter, their family line can continue, and any extra sons can stay to take care of the family.
Maternal families are all blood relatives and are very exclusive. They are generally reluctant to accept outsiders as sons. When they reach a certain age, women will spend money to buy sons.
The cult of witches places great importance on female fertility, and government officials who promote the cult naturally also value fertility, resulting in fewer births and higher quality offspring.
Old things don't disappear that quickly, so there are still indignant, pedantic scholars who bitterly denounce this increasingly unfamiliar world:
A group of women have turned the world upside down, thinking that they can pass on power if they gain temporary power? They want to see how women who die from giving birth can hold onto power!
How can women who hold onto power and are unwilling to endure hardship obediently give birth to children?
Once the country is deserted, how can that empress continue to rule?
His outrageous remarks naturally alarmed his neighbors, who reported him. The news reached Kyoto, where Ye Xiqing saw it and couldn't help but laugh.
Sometimes, people like to reverse cause and effect.
Feudal society never took women's lives and deaths seriously. Women were married off at the age of thirteen or fourteen, had children before their bodies were fully developed, never thought about contraception, had children one after another until they died, believed that many children meant many blessings. Even old men in their seventies or eighties, sickly men who could barely live, could find a woman to continue the lineage of a child with unknown diseases.
Women work in the fields and live in the woodshed, hiding from the filth of childbirth. Even if they are not in good health, they will risk their lives to give birth. It doesn't matter if they die, as long as they can carry on the family line for the X family!
One after another, like weeds, they died silently on the delivery bed, which ironically became evidence that women were prone to death during childbirth and had no right to control their own lives.
She didn't kill the pedantic scholar, but instead made him see how the world should have been.
A world born of women cannot tolerate a system that ignores women.
Since ancient medical technology couldn't achieve the desired results in one step, they used the primal privileges bestowed upon females by nature to select genes.
Genes that are detrimental to a woman's reproductive safety are not allowed to continue. In the old society, eighty-year-old men, men born with disabilities, and men with intellectual disabilities would be indulged and their genes would be allowed to continue. Don't even think about it now.
Every village should have a professional witch doctor to ensure the safety of women during childbirth. The government will subsidize the medical expenses for childbirth, so the mothers do not need to pay anything.
Excellent witch doctors who have accumulated extensive experience in childbirth in the local area and saved countless pregnant women in critical condition can also enter the palace to serve His Majesty the Emperor.
Medical advancements often stem from countless trials and errors. The practice of witch doctors, which has accumulated such a rich collection of samples, could reduce the number of empresses dying during childbirth and prevent emperors from suddenly dying during childbirth, thus avoiding political turmoil.
Moreover, Dayu also attaches great importance to pediatric medical care.
Women have to pay a huge price to give birth, and their children cannot be used as disposable commodities. Just like in the old society, when emperors killed their sons, it was as easy as cutting up a watermelon.
Da Yu, a believer in the shamanic religion, cares not only about mothers but also about children. Pediatrics is a top priority for medical technology development, as she cannot allow the children that women have worked so hard to give birth to to die in vain.
Infants receive subsidies upon birth, and children under six years old continue to receive government subsidies; medical treatment is free.
No matter how much money is required for this matter, the imperial court will fully support it.
Every woman in Dayu knows that they are messengers of the Goddess of Wushan, shouldering the important responsibility of guiding the world and holding the happiness of their future generations in their own hands.
It's not worth trading a child for a mother's life. If a woman is not in good health, she should rather give up the opportunity to become a mother than risk childbirth and gamble on the possibility that she won't die during childbirth.
The gametes provided by the man can also affect the quality of the embryo. Poor embryo quality can cause miscarriage, and the harm of miscarriage to the mother is no less than that of childbirth. Unhealthy gametes should never be selected, as they can cause damage or death to the mother.
Before procreation, one must first learn to protect oneself; the Goddess of Wushan did not wish to see women die from childbirth.
Healthy women who choose healthy men to have children not only reduce the probability of the mother dying during childbirth, but also reduce the incidence of hereditary diseases. Their offspring will suffer from fewer and fewer certain hereditary diseases, and future generations of women will be physically stronger, making childbirth easier for them.
The days when childbirth felt like stepping into the gates of hell are over.
In matriarchal societies, fewer mothers give birth, but more and more mothers survive and thrive after giving birth.
With more mothers, even if each mother only gives birth to one child, the population will continue to grow.
The Goddess of Wushan is a goddess who reveres life; she praises life but does not glorify death.
Reproduction is something that living beings should consider. If reproduction threatens a woman's life, then it must be stopped immediately!
This world changes every day.
Prime Minister Shangguan Lanyi was busy with the people's livelihood every day.
The three military giants, Tu Si Niang, Wu Kuo Zhen, and Ma San Gu, were originally at odds with each other, but somehow they suddenly became friends one day.
Zhao Yingying and Cui Xiaoyu, who were high-ranking officials in the local area, would occasionally send some local specialties back to Ye Xiqing, reminiscing about their friendship from when they secretly ate together at palace banquets.
The most unfortunate were Peng Liangong and Miss Lakshmi. They were a perfect couple, inseparable, but one was busy going to sea and the other was busy planting cotton, so they could hardly reunite.
Having long suffered the pain of separation, Lord Peng began to cultivate a successor and asked Li Siyin if she could accompany Rami back to China after she stepped down from her post.
Li Siyin, a very straightforward woman, was puzzled by their love, but she understood and respected it, so she didn't do any work for them and let them go wherever they wanted.
Every day brings new good news: bumper harvests, great victories abroad, the Ministry of Science and Technology has come up with something new, and a strange species has been brought back from overseas. I don't know what it is, but I'll present it to Your Majesty for your consideration.
Sweet potatoes arrived first, and corn is also on the way. Ye Xiqing also asked Peng Liangong if he could get her a durian to drive down the price in the future.
The pace of development in reproductive technology is also astonishing. The number of mothers reported dying in childbirth is decreasing, and more and more officials are being promoted from the grassroots level.
Even though the world is gradually getting better, Ye Xiqing has gradually lost the desire to explore and spends her days idly in her mansion, enjoying her retirement.
She's so lazy, she can't be bothered to feed anyone.
No matter how good this world is, it has nothing to do with her. Ye Xiqing has worked hard for more than ten years for the revenge system, and now she doesn't want to work hard anymore.
You are the one who manages your own world.
All she wanted was to live, and then live on until she died.
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