Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 902: The girl also has land, how fresh it is
They can't handle their own children yet, which makes some people feel a little uncomfortable.

Opening his mouth to express some opinions, Wang Xiucai started reading again.

"Anyone who abandons a baby or child, whether male or female, will be punished for the crime of abandonment, with a rod of eighty years and a sentence of five years. If a child is abandoned in the wilderness, in a sparsely populated place, and the child dies, he will be punished with the crime of intentional homicide. , punished by hanging..."

"Under the whole world, everything is the land of the king, and on the shore of the land, there is nothing but the king's ministers. The people of Tianyuan are the people of the country, and the sons of the people are the sons of the country. No one is allowed to deal with the children of the country at will. All the people of Tianyuan, if If you find someone killing children at will, you can report it anonymously to the government. If it is verified to be true, you can get a reward of ten taels of silver."

After Wang Xiucai finished reading, he was shocked in his heart. Although the criminal law was too harsh, he felt that it should be legislated in this way.

Although it is said that the body, hair, and skin are all inherited from the parents, these flesh and blood all come from the parents. It is up to them to decide what to do with their children.

But it is still too barbaric and cruel for biological parents to kill their newborn children.

As a great and civilized country, we should indeed prevent such barbaric and cruel things from happening.

"How come the child I gave birth to is still a child of the country? Can I no longer make the decision?" someone couldn't help but ask.

Wang Xiucai looked at the man and said: "I didn't say that you can't be the master of your child. It's just that you can't kill your own child just because you are the child's parent. Will you kill your own child?"

The man's eyes widened, "Of course I can't."

"Since you don't know how to do it, then this law has no impact on you."

That person just felt uncomfortable.

"I am a citizen of the country, and my children are also children of the country. I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Are we originally protected by the country? If anything happens to our children, the country will protect them. Isn't that good? Of?"

"It seems to make sense. I won't worry about it anymore. I won't kill my own child anyway."

The unhappy person heard these words and still didn't speak.

"What's written on this other one?" Someone looked at Wang Xiucai and asked.

Wang Xiucai turned his attention to another notice, with a smile on his face.

"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: From now on, all Tianyuan people, as long as they give birth to a child, regardless of male or female, can cultivate an acre of wasteland and be tax-free for three years..."

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up. Do you have the land to give birth to a child?

In the village, there is wasteland without human cultivation. If you want to farm land, you have to buy it from the government.

Giving birth to a child can open up an acre of wasteland, which is a great blessing.

"The reclaimed wasteland is in the name of the child. It only has the right to use it and cannot be bought or sold at will. It belongs to the state and cannot be inherited by future generations. After a person dies, the land returns to the village collective and is distributed to other newborns."

Many people looked disappointed when they heard that this land could only be used for farming, not trading, and that the land would be taken back to the village after the person died.

"Why can't we buy or sell?" someone asked with a frown.

Someone said with a smile: "It's okay if you can buy and sell. Once this acre of land is taken care of, it won't be fertile land, but it can be sold for sixty-seven taels of silver. If it could be bought and sold, some people would think about having children to open up wasteland and sell the land." ”

"That's right, an ordinary family these days can earn less than two taels of silver for a year's consumption. After giving birth to a child, you can open up an acre of wasteland and sell it to another six or seven taels. Isn't this better than earning money from working?"

"Really, if everyone wants to have children for the land, how many years will the wasteland in this village be able to be cultivated?"

“The land in our village lasts only two years at most.”

"Your Majesty knows that the burden of having a child will be heavy for us poor people, so he came up with this policy. It's not bad to have one more acre of land to plant after having a child. The output of this land throughout the year is enough. A child can chew it for a year.”

"You can also cultivate an acre of wasteland to give birth to a girl. It seems that the emperor also knows that many of these people do not want daughters after they are born. It is also because their families are poor and there are many people and little land. With this policy, in the future, those who do not want daughters will be the ones who do not want them." Yes, for the sake of this acre of land, we have to support it, so there won’t be an imbalance between men and women."

"Our emperor has really good intentions." "Isn't that right?"

Many people understood the emperor's good intentions.

The next day, these newly established laws and newly promulgated decrees spread throughout Kyoto.

No matter what they say, there are many people who support it, but the majority still supports it.

After receiving the copied laws and decrees, the magistrates of various counties near Kyoto invited the head of a village to the yamen and asked the master to explain the contents to them in detail.

When these village chiefs walked out of the yamen one by one, they didn't know whether they should be happy or worried.
After giving birth to a child, villagers can reclaim an acre of wasteland for farming. This is naturally a happy event worth celebrating.

But in the future, if a villager in the village gives birth to a baby girl or a baby boy that they don’t want and throws it away and drowns, if they ignore it and don’t report what they know, then they will be punished.

When the news spread to the village, it naturally caused an uproar, but most people still would not kill their children, so the village returned to normal after a few days of excitement.

Some families with pregnant women at home look for suitable wasteland in the village before the baby is born, and then cultivate it after the baby is born.

Zhoujiacun

"Wow wow wow..." A newborn baby fell to the ground in the delivery room.

People outside the house looked happy when they heard the child's cry.

After a while, the midwife came out holding the baby.

"What are you giving birth to?" Old Zhou, whose face was full of wrinkles, asked quickly.

A forced smile appeared on the midwife's face, and she congratulated: "Congratulations on your daughter."

The faces of the people outside the house were all happy.

Old man Zhou glanced at his eldest granddaughter who was holding his eldest son's hand, frowned and said, "Why is it another girl?"

The eldest son of the Zhou family also darkened his face. He originally thought that this baby would be a son, but he didn't expect that it would be a daughter.

"What's wrong with the girl?" Mrs. Zhou walked out of the delivery room and took her grandson from the midwife. "The second girl in our family came with an acre of land."

Mrs. Zhou looked at her granddaughter in her arms lovingly and said, "Don't worry, Erya, grandma won't imitate those evil-hearted people and throw you away and don't want you."

If the new policy hadn't come out and the baby would still be a granddaughter, she would definitely be unhappy. Of course, even if she was unhappy, she wouldn't be so cruel as to not want her granddaughter.

But with the new policy, the two of them had an acre of land when they were born, so she had nothing to be unhappy about.

And when Erya grows up and gets married, she will definitely not be able to plant the land in the village, and it will only be planted by her old Zhou family.

Even if people have to take it back after they die, the old Zhou family can still cultivate it for decades.

Upon hearing this, the midwife smiled and clapped her hands, "Yes, this child comes with an acre of land."

She looked at the swaddled baby girl and sighed: "It's so new. Girls now can have land to their name."

Only men can establish a household, so the fields and houses in this family are all in the man's name.

But now, as soon as this girl is born, she will have an acre of land to her name!

This made them, the elders who were also women, happy for these girls but also feeling a little sad.

(End of this chapter)