Fast Travel: A Record of Unusual Creatures

"Who... who is it?"

"What kind of white lotus magic is this!"

"Where did the voice come from? Could it be the voice of Princess Jiahe? How is it possible?"

Some people were so scared that they couldn’t make a sound. Naturally, some people had the courage to pretend to be calm, roared and questioned, looked around, and some carefully identified the source of the sound. It’s just that Qu Jie has placed miniature cameras in all directions of the government hall to ensure The monitoring content is accurate and comprehensive.

So the sound naturally comes from all directions.

It's really hard to pinpoint.

"Are you the lord of the Daughter Kingdom?" The hall was chaotic for a long time before Emperor Xuanwu forced himself to calm down, slapped down the dragon chair vigorously, stood up and asked loudly.

"It's not bad, it's not too embarrassing.

Grandnephew, I am your aunt, don’t call me so smug, look, your ministers still know how to call me Princess Jiahe, it’s too polite for you to call my daughter the Lord of the Kingdom. My aunt, I prefer this title.

After all, you and I are now considered equals. There is no need to pay attention to the difference between monarch and minister. You and I are both monarchs.

By the way, did you hear what I said just now?

You don't think I'm really pretending to be a tiger, bluffing, if it's not for killing people, I really don't want to talk nonsense with you here, you don't need to treat your soldiers as human beings, but I still care about them, after all I am very short of people to open up territories outside.

Okay, let's not talk nonsense with you.

Make a truce immediately and issue an edict to punish yourself. Then I will send someone to establish diplomatic relations with you and sign some agreements.

From then on, everything will follow the old system, but if there are people in Daqian who are willing to immigrate to my daughter country, you can't stop it. That's about it. The specific agreement to establish diplomatic relations will be clearly written. You can read it yourself.

Otherwise, you can try to see if you can leave the capital, as long as one of the government halls can leave the capital alive, I will lose, so you can do it yourself. "

After saying these words, Qu Jie turned off the call button and immediately contacted the airship and asked them to park directly above the Chaozheng Hall. Once anyone wanted to leave the Chaozheng Hall, they would immediately shoot and kill them on the spot. Haha, if you really let them They left the Chaozheng Hall and scattered. It was really difficult to ensure that no one could leave the capital alive. In order to keep from breaking his promise, he could only torture them and prevent them from leaving the Chaozheng Hall.

It may be difficult for the people on the airship to stare at the entire capital, but it is no problem to stare at a government hall. Besides, there is no underground passage under the hall. How long to stay in there.

Immediately afterwards, of course, the airship flew directly above the main hall of the court, and all those who wanted to leave the main hall were instantly killed, while Qu Jie and the others were still sitting in the main hall of the Daughter Country, watching the show through different screens.

Watch them terrified, internally tearing forks.

Seeing that in order to survive, they had no choice but to ask Emperor Xuanwu to agree, but of course Emperor Xuanwu had to compromise, and wrote an edict of guilt on the spot, and read it several times in the open space in all directions. Until Qu Jie expressed her approval again.

Then he sent a eunuch to take the sinner out.

It's an admission of defeat.

The eunuch who went out this time was fine, and even the airship parked above the main hall of the government left under Qu Jie's command, but before they left the capital completely, they still listened to Qu Jie's instructions to throw away the leftovers inside. Those missiles, found an open place nearby, and threw them all down, so as not to take them back.

It is not only to deter Emperor Xuanwu again, but also to prove that they really do not lack this stuff.

There is no need to have any more, just guessing by yourself.

Honesty and obedience are better than anything else.

After such a toss, no matter whether it was Emperor Xuanwu or the civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, they lost their tempers. Regardless of whether they had a temper in their hearts, at least they lost their temper on the surface.

Then, of course, they urgently recalled the sailors, disbanded them on the spot, issued an edict of guilt, and signed a series of agreements with the female foreign minister sent by the daughter country.But generally speaking, Qu Jie really gave him face and was quite polite.

He was neither made a vassal of the daughter country, nor was he made to cede land to pay compensation, nor was he made to pay annual coins.

It's enough to show how good she is as an aunt.

As for terms such as allowing immigration and not hindering transactions between the two parties, they are quite reasonable and normal wherever they are placed!
Who can you blame if your country cannot retain people?

After that, of course, between the Daughter Country and the Dagan Country, it can barely be regarded as continuing to live in harmony.

And the population movement finally no longer had to be carried out secretly and secretly as before, but began to emigrate openly, and even Qu Jie specially sent many people to the impoverished areas in the territory of the Dagan Kingdom to publicize the disaster-stricken areas. Emperor Xuanwu Dare to be angry but dare not speak.

In a word, the population of the Dagan country is constantly being lost to the daughter country. Today's Dagan country not only does not have various problems caused by population growth, but has many other problems due to the underpopulation.

And the butterfly effect that those problems cause.

For example, land is getting cheaper and cheaper, the price of farm labor has increased, and there are not even enough people to work in the fields.

In the past, there were many people, and at the same time, ordinary people had no other way out. Even if the landlords and nobles wantonly annexed land, the price of hiring people to farm was extremely low, or rented the land to others, and the share was extremely high. To eat, can only do.

But now, as long as those who have no land are willing to go to the Daughter Country, they can immediately receive [-] acres of land. At the same time, the first three years are tax-free, and the number of people in the family can get as many [-] acres of land. Land, they had just defeated Dagan, and forced Emperor Xuanwu to issue an edict of guilt. At the same time, the daughter of the Lord of the Kingdom is also a family member with Emperor Xuanwu, and is Emperor Xuanwu's aunt.

They can't be considered barbarians, so the landless people are not very repulsive to the Girl Country. Some uneducated people even think that the Girl Country is a larger vassal state, and they don't regard the Girl Country as a foreigner at all. Everyone is willing to take it with them. The whole family immigrated together.

Most of the people who have no land have run away. How much land can those who have land rent after plowing their own land? No matter how much land those nobles and landlords who have frantically annexed the land, it is useless if no one cultivates it. Can the price of land not fall if it is reduced to wasteland?

In addition, Emperor Xuanwu did not dare to directly prevent people who wanted to immigrate from leaving, so he could only use other methods to try to retain his own nationals, such as not allowing land to be abandoned, reducing poll tax, postponing the time of collecting poll tax, etc. A series of operations , these have directly or indirectly contributed to the reduction of land prices to a certain extent, and large landowners and nobles have also had to increase the price of hiring people to farm.

And many people have something to eat, and they will not die of hunger.

In fact, I don't want to leave my hometown.

Those who have a little money in their hands are also quite willing to buy a few acres of land when the land price drops to increase the number of acres of their own land. When the sons separate in a few years, each person can also share a few acres of land and get more food.

Because of this, Emperor Xuanwu managed to keep most of the remaining self-cultivated farmers and the basic tax base.

Another example is the promotion of women's status.

That's right, although Qu Jie didn't send anyone to preach equality in Dagan Country, the status of women in Dagan Country is still improving year by year under the indirect influence of Qu Jie's operations.

After all, there are too many baby girls in the Dagan Kingdom, and Qu Jie sent people to save the women who were sold or had other misfortunes back to the Daughter Kingdom. At the same time, the female status in the daughter country is slightly higher than that of the men. There are laws to follow, so there is no need to worry about orphans and widows. The national conditions such as the mother being eaten out of the house are also very attractive to some women. In addition, there are stories about women from brothels becoming county magistrates based on their knowledge.

Many women are willing to go to the country of daughters.

Many times, the reason why many women swallow their anger is not that they don't want to resist, but that they know that resistance is useless, and it will only be worse after resistance. down the land.

Therefore, in recent years, many women in Daqian Kingdom have gone directly to settle in the Daughter's Kingdom, or they have gone to settle in the Daughter's Kingdom with their husbands and Li. In addition, the Daughter's Kingdom has specially organized a women's mutual aid association in Daqian Kingdom.

Help women who are resistant but powerless.

These situations have directly or indirectly prompted more and more women to immigrate to the daughter country, and the final result is that the ratio of men to women in the Dagan country is getting more and more disparity.

In order to maintain population growth, the imperial court had to restrict officials from accepting concubines while cracking down on the phenomenon of drowning female babies, and cooperated with some operations such as the cancellation of women's head tax, how many daughters in the family can be reduced or exempted, and so on. In addition, the chastity archway was cancelled, and widows were strongly encouraged to remarry. Widows in their 40s were not spared. They really did everything they could!

Although the status improvement thus obtained actually has little to do with equality, it is mainly driven by interests.

But at least infant drowning has been reduced.

It is indirect, and it has to be affected by the Daughter Country, and great changes have taken place in all aspects of the country.

Later, Emperor Xuanwu and others also discovered that it was not okay to continue like this. If they did not make some changes, they would probably lose their country in the future. Since they could not defeat it, they were unable to stop the influence of the Daughter Kingdom.

Instead of being passively affected all the time.

Then passively continue to issue policy patches.

It's better to learn from the daughter country directly, so that they can at least control the general direction, so that they don't wait until they find the problem every time, and the problem has occurred for a long time, and the impact is very far-reaching, and they only realize it later to compensate, and to adjust policies.

Some people even proposed learning from the barbarians and developing skills to control the barbarians.

So the final result is that Emperor Xuanwu sent many children of the royal family, as well as children of noble officials, to go to the country of daughters for study and exchange.

The main thing is to learn some advanced knowledge and bring it back.

Build big.

Qu Jie didn't refuse either, but she wasn't in a hurry to teach them advanced knowledge, and advanced ideas could be instilled in advance. Anyway, as long as they didn't send their daughters to study, Qu Jie wouldn't teach them useful things.

After so many years.

Emperor Xuanwu and the others discovered the core problem belatedly, and had no choice but to send their own princess and the daughters of other officials Xungui's family to study in the Daughter Country. However, while teaching all kinds of useful knowledge, I did not forget to instill in some women the idea of ​​self-improvement, who said that women are not as good as men, and that the first emperor in ancient times was Emperor Wa.

A few years later, although the women who were sent over learned a lot of advanced knowledge as Emperor Xuanwu and the others wished, after returning to China, they used their identities and the knowledge they had learned to establish some women's colleges and the like, and even several The princess also started the affirmative action movement.

Hope to obtain more equal inheritance rights.

You can also participate in the seizure of the heir.

How to describe it, it made Emperor Xuanwu and the others feel like stealing chickens but not losing rice. Some old scholars and those who insisted that men are superior to women think that women's colleges must be closed to prevent the spread of heresy, and even want to expel them from returning from studying in the country of daughters. Those princesses, princesses, and other noble daughters, if they were not afraid of Daughter Country, they might want to prohibit any speech from Daughter Country from coming in!
The new-seeking faction and the conservative faction within the imperial court.

The struggle is inextricable.

However, no matter how stubborn the conservatives and those old diehards are, they cannot stop the people's pursuit and yearning for a better life, nor can they stop the grand trend of advanced culture and advanced ideas crushing the old culture, so even if the conservatives There is struggle.

Some ideas are still spreading rapidly among the people.

Coupled with the emergence of more and more machines, and more and more jobs that do not require heavy physical labor, many women have stepped out of their homes and become financially independent. As a result, the general trend of the whole society has gradually reversed.

However, these changes are subtle.

If there is influence, it will not be completely reversed, and it will not be completely changed in one or two generations. It can only be said that the overall social atmosphere is not as suffocating as it used to be. There are fewer people with feet bound, more women who are willing to go out, and fewer chastity archways. Now, remarriage and divorce have become normal.

The old stubbornness is still there, and the new ideas are not eliminated.

Old and new coexist.

The only thing that is certain at present is that as long as the daughter country does not decline or perish, new ideas and new trends will not be extinguished. One day they will be able to overcome those old stubbornness and old ideas and completely lead the times.

Qu Jie, on the other hand, apart from continuing to implement her own policy of expanding territory and popularizing education, put more energy into the country's political system and laws, the repair of various departments and institutions, and the training and education of the empress dowager.

Her mission has actually been completed, but the successor has not yet been cultivated. In order to prevent the Daughter Kingdom she created from being short-lived, she must cultivate her granddaughter well, and even her granddaughter must cultivate a successor for one or two generations, so Qu Jie said this At this time, it is not only necessary to train the granddaughter well, but also to build a inheritance system and a training system for the crown prince that can last at least a hundred years.

This is the real big problem!
After all, there are quite a few examples of survivors of Fen VI being killed by prodigal sons in three to two years!