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Chapter 838 What kind of contradiction is this?
After completing the circle, the eldest princess took Liu Xu back to the previous manor, and then slowly said, "Do you know why I took you to see these?"

"I know!" Liu Xu nodded and said, "Her Royal Highness, the eldest princess, wants to tell me that the mistress system is almost unbearable, right?"

"You are indeed smart!" The eldest princess sighed, "Who could have imagined that the matron system that has been passed down from 8000 years ago is almost unbearable in the Nine Heavens Empire!"

"Except for a small number of wealthy matrons, 80% of the empire's matron families cannot afford the first mother's gold for every adult daughter. Daughters without the first mother's gold can only give birth to children and live with their mothers. Drag the two mistress families together until the entire mistress family collapses!"

"What I just showed you was a pretty good case. According to statistics from the Imperial Ministry of Civil Welfare, more than 12 mother-in-law households have gone completely bankrupt across the country. All mothers have to give up their children who cannot be raised. All of them were sent to the Empire’s nursing homes, which resulted in the Empire’s nursing homes being unable to take on so many children, and eventually they were on the verge of bankruptcy!”

"No wonder the nursing home even took away my clothes. They really can't handle their feelings!" Liu Xu said with a bitter smile. He thought of his previous experience and thought that the nursing home was too cruel. Now it seems that the nursing home is too cruel. It’s almost finished!

"The empire has been providing blood transfusions to the nursing homes, and is also providing a large amount of subsidies for the first mother's gold, but this will consume a lot of the empire's finances. Therefore, the empire has been in a state of fiscal deficit for 15 consecutive years!" The eldest princess continued.

"But that's not the worst. The worst thing is that mothers in the empire no longer want to have children!" The eldest princess sighed. "The fertility rate in the empire has been declining year after year in the past 10 years. The average fertility rate has dropped to 1.4. Each mother only gave birth to 1.4 children. Although I don’t want to admit it, the empire’s population has entered a downward stage, and the empire is in danger!”

"It shouldn't be!" After hearing what the eldest princess said, Liu Xu scratched his head and said, "I think any mistress has given birth to more than a dozen mice. How can the fertility rate be only 1.4?"

"That's because more women give up becoming mistresses and choose to be infertile for life!" The eldest princess said with a cold face, "When a snowflake falls on the palm of your hand, the first thing to feel the cold is actually the skin, not the brain! "

"Only when the empire sees the plummeting data can we understand the horror of the situation, but all the young women at the grassroots level have already spent more than ten years of their lives experiencing this coldness."

"These young women saw with their own eyes how their mistresses could not make ends meet, how they worked so hard to get enough first-mother money for their sisters, selling everything that could be sold in the house, but their sisters could not get it. The first mother Jin’s situation is that she can only stay at home, compressing the poor living space of these younger sisters, and making the whole life fall into dire straits!”

"After seeing all this, do you think these young women will still want to become mistresses who continue to give birth to children for the empire after they grow up?" The eldest princess clenched her fists and said, "The family I just showed you Inside, you saw three new mistresses huddled together with the old mistresses, in addition to two new mistresses who left with the first mother's gold, and six underage daughters."

"But he gave birth to a total of 20 daughters, which means that 11 adult daughters gave up being matrons and chose to be independent women and give up their own childbearing responsibilities. And the remaining six underage daughters, According to our investigation, after seeing the painful lives of their three sisters, they all decided to become independent women who do not need children!"

"So although this mother gave birth to 36 children, there are only 5 matrons who can actually continue to give birth to offspring for the empire."

"This family was specially selected by me. It belongs to the median family. The situation of families with more matrons is even worse!" The eldest princess sighed.

"That's not right!" Liu Xu suddenly slapped his head and said, "Even if each mother only gave birth to five children, no, even if there were only four mistresses who were willing to continue having children, the fertility rate should be 4 instead of 1.4. ah!"

"You guys are pretty good at counting." The eldest princess glared at Liu Xu, and then said, "Have you forgotten that there are military households?"

"Jun Hu!" Liu Xu slapped his head, he had indeed forgotten about Jun Hu.The so-called military households are not the same as the military households in the Ming Dynasty. The military households in this world actually refer to women who serve as soldiers for their masters.

As we all know, the power system of Rose World is a human-lord system. A marshal-level human master has 1 million soldiers to serve as cash machines for her. All the human master's power comes from these soldiers. .

At the same time, because of the male revolution that broke out before, military households that were originally able to recruit male soldiers have now recruited only female soldiers.

Only when these soldiers gather together and perform their skills together can they provide strength resources to their lord. Once a female soldier is pregnant, her skills will weaken to almost zero, so the master is Soldiers under his banner are not allowed to get pregnant.

What's even worse is that as military households continue to practice, the strength in their bodies will naturally continue to increase. Therefore, the older the military households are, the more precious they are, and the owners are reluctant to let these military households go.

So in the end, military households basically defaulted to extinct households, and these women had no descendants.

"The empire is facing a huge danger, and there is only a small shortage of human masters. Now the empire's military households have reached 400 billion people, and they are still increasing year by year. These military households will usurp more of the reproductive population. The two combined, The fertility rate has dropped to 1.4!" The eldest princess said helplessly. "More and more women are unwilling to become mistresses. On the other hand, there are more and more demands from military households. The two can complement each other perfectly, directly combining those Women who don't want to have children are all being sent to military households, but the population of the empire is actually decreasing, and in the end, in another 30 to [-] years, everything will probably be over!"

"The empire that has lost a large number of sources of military households will no longer be the opponent of the Rose Empire. The crisis of annihilation of the empire will also be staged again. Liu Xu, do you understand the horror of it?" the eldest princess said through gritted teeth.

"I understand!" Liu Xu nodded vigorously. If the eldest princess hadn't revealed this, it would have been hard for Liu Xu to believe it.In a world like the Rose World, where women are the dominant force, family income is obtained by having children, and everything is driven by the crazy increase in population, in the end, it will actually face a crisis of reverse population growth!

This all seems so weird, but it is also a terrifying reality!

"But, what does this have to do with me?" Liu Xu finally couldn't help but ask, "I'm just a writer of novels. Do you need to tell me such a big thing?"

"It didn't exist originally, but after reading your novel, it did!" The eldest princess tapped the table gently and said, "But before talking about your role, Liu Xu, what do you think is the root cause of the population crisis in the empire?" What is it?"

After the eldest princess finished speaking, she looked at Liu Xu with squinted eyes. She thought that Liu Xu should be able to answer this question very easily. After all, she had made the answer very obvious. This is because men leave home after the age of 35. , are unwilling to use their own income to support the family, causing the family's income to continue to decrease, and finally collapse completely!
These are the answers that she has almost made explicit through her constant visits, and Liu Xu should be able to answer them soon.

As a result, he heard Liu Xu say, "It's the contradiction between the income from the new population being lower than the consumption of the new population!"

"Hmm... Anthracene??" The eldest princess opened his mouth, then closed it again.

How to do?
What should I do if she doesn’t understand what Liu Xu’s words mean?
(End of this chapter)