inspire-indiana Chapter 641: This ratio is really impressive!
Chapter 641: This ratio is really impressive!
After listening to this, Lu Yuanyi asked the servant standing at the door to go and invite Yao Lao over.
"My wife, what you said might be true. My mother has three or four sons in the Lu family. They are all my mother's cousins. My mother liked these fathers very much. However, in all these years, my mother only gave birth to one child for the sixth father. But that child was weak since childhood and died young."
"Except for the four cousins, mother and other fathers have given birth to children one after another. Those four fathers have never made mother pregnant. Mother wanted to, but she never got her wish." Lu Yuanyi said.
After hearing this, Su Yueyao sighed. In ancient times, people emphasized marriages between relatives, so it was normal for cousins to marry each other!
"Master wife."
At this time Gongyang Ruoyu, Pu An and Sun Yibai appeared in the yard.
"Have you found out the marriage rate between cousins among women in Fengdu?" Su Yueyao asked directly.
"My dear wife, there are less than 10,000 households in Fengdu, and each household has more than a dozen people. Assuming that each household has two girls, there are about 20,000 girls. Among them, less than 10,000 can give birth after reaching the age of 15. However, every family has married cousins."
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When Su Yueyao heard what Gongyang Ruoyu said, her first reaction was that there were more than 100,000 people in Fengdu, 20,000 of whom were women and the other 80,000 were men. Moreover, it was not certain that all of these 20,000 women were of marriageable age. This ratio was indeed quite impressive!
"I got this data about wives after visiting four government offices in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest of Fengdu. I feel the exact number of women does not reach 20,000," Gong Yang Ruoyu continued.
After listening to this, Su Yueyao felt that encouraging women to marry more husbands was indeed because there were more men, but some older and younger men should be excluded, and there should be no statistics on slave men.
"Did the cousins they married have any children?"
"I checked some of the wife's relatives at the government office, because many of the registrations there are incomplete. I can only see that they married cousins, but I'm not sure if they gave birth to children."
Pu An said, "My dear wife, according to the information from the government office that Gong Yang gave us, I sent our people to the east and south to inquire, and found that less than 30% of those who marry cousins can successfully give birth to children."
Sun Yibai then said, "My dear wife, less than 20% of those in the north and west successfully give birth to children."
"Is it so low?" Lu Yuanyi said with some disbelief.
"Yeah! I just counted all the records and calculated it last night." Urayasu said with a headache.
He did not expect it to be so low. The impact is indeed huge. No wonder the pregnancy rate among women is getting lower and lower. Moreover, many women directly married five or six men in order to strengthen the relationship!
Or like what my wife said, there is some blood relationship.
"Have you brought over the data you collected?"
"My wife and master are here."
The three of them took out thick papers from their sleeves and handed them over.
"My dear wife, this is my summary." Gong Yang Ruoyu took out another piece of paper and handed it to Su Yueyao.
Su Yueyao took a quick look and said directly.
"I will report this matter to His Majesty. He must intervene."
"My dear wife, if you tell me this, those men who have married their cousins will be ruined. How will they survive in the woman's family in the future?" Baili Jihua said.
Su Yueyao sighed when she heard this and said, "These young men who are getting married are wronged, but if we don't intervene, the female fertility rate will get lower and lower in the future, which is not good for the country! And if this is changed, it will benefit future generations."
"My wife is right. I am narrow-minded."
"They are all cousins. Now that we say it out loud, I don't think it will be too difficult for them. Cousins' marriage will only affect their children, not other aspects of their lives." Su Yueyao explained.
After hearing Su Yueyao's words, Gong Yang Ruoyu and Pu An said at the same time: "My dear wife, let's go to the palace!"
"Is it unsafe for my wife to go out while she is pregnant?" Lu Yuanyi asked with some concern.
"Have you forgotten that the Crown Princess is in the mansion? I will take her carriage directly to the palace."
"Gong Yang, you and Pu An can go directly to the palace to see His Majesty and tell him that you have something to report. We will meet at the palace gate!"
"Okay, my wife." Gong Yang and Pu An bowed and walked out.
"My dear wife, I will inform the master and arrange people for you in secret." Lu Yuanyi said.
"Okay! It's settled."
After everyone made arrangements, Su Yueyao got directly into the Crown Princess's carriage, which went out from the side door of the Prince's Mansion.
The carriage was guarded on both sides by the Imperial Guards and the Phoenix Feather Guards, as well as the Crown Princess's personal guards. Passing civilians hardly dared to come forward.
"Master, why are you going to the palace to see our mother?" the Crown Princess asked happily.
"There are some things I want to tell Your Majesty, and I want Your Majesty to issue an order to deal with some matters."
"Master really cares about the country and the people. Even with such a big belly, he still cares about Fengluan Country. I am so happy."
Su Yueyao looked at the happy Crown Princess and felt helpless. It seemed that since she knew that she was pregnant with the eldest prince's child, she was so excited. Didn't she know? If this child was a girl, she would take away her throne!
The Queen's attitude was also abnormal. She always felt something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
"Your Highness, I see that you have been neglecting your studies recently. Go back and write me an article about your thoughts on the Analects of Confucius." After Su Yueyao finished speaking, the princess' face visibly wilted.
That's right! A country's crown prince should learn more.
"Master, my mother has been supervising me to study hard in the palace. Now that I'm finally out, let me take a break!"
Su Yueyao said nothing more. The Crown Princess' attitude was inexplicable.
The carriage went all the way into the palace and stopped at the gate of the inner palace.
The moment Su Yueyao got off the carriage, the eunuchs and the imperial guards all looked at her. It was the first time they had seen a pregnant woman.
"Greetings to Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, Grand Tutor Su." The eunuchs and the imperial guards knelt down immediately after they realized what was happening.
At this time Gongyang Ruoyu and Pu An came over. Gongyang Ruoyu bent down and picked up Su Yueyao, and Pu An took out a cloak and covered Su Yueyao.
"Get up! I have something to say to the Queen Mother with the Grand Tutor. The news of the Grand Tutor entering the palace must not be spread out." The Crown Princess said.
"promise."
Su Yueyao lay in Gongyang Ruoyu's arms and walked into the imperial study.
Before they could salute, the empress said, "No need to salute, Fu'an, why don't you quickly bring a chair to the tutor."
"I'll move it right away."
Afterwards, Su Yueyao was helped to sit on the chair.
Su Yueyao felt a little embarrassed being stared at by several people. Was she too nervous?
The others saluted the Queen.
"Yueyao, you insist on coming to the palace even though you are so pregnant. Is there something important?" the Queen asked directly.
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"Please use love to generate electricity..."
My dears, I will write about the birth of a girl next! If you have any ideas, please leave a comment!
Look who has the same arrangement as me~~~~