Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

After all, although women were encouraged to remarry during the Tang Dynasty, in general, it is more respected to be consistent. There is absolutely no woman who holds back her preparations for remarriage when she gets married. Most people enter the palace of marriage with the good wish of growing old together.

For men, however, the situation is quite different. The vast majority of men, or the vast majority of men with conditions, certainly cannot marry only one wife. It has been said before that many young masters of rich families have a maid who serves them personally when they are young in their teens, and even before they officially get married, they will have a child with this maid.

Of course, Li Xin never did such a ridiculous thing.

Although this situation has factors of inequality between men and women, there are also very realistic social factors to consider—that is, Datang’s underpopulation.

In the feudal era, science and technology were not as developed as later generations. Although the production efficiency varies from country to country, in general, it is still similar—you grow rice for a year, how many catties of grain can you grow, and I grow wheat for a year , How many jins of grain grow, compare and calculate, almost.

But if my country has five million people and your country has only one million people, then I'm five times as productive as you. During the war, I can summon at least five times as many men of the right age as you. So, how do you fight me? Being run over is the most obvious outcome.

For a country, population is power. Even if this sentence reaches later generations, it cannot be said that it is completely inapplicable, it is just an additional modification of technological efficiency.

Going back to the situation of Datang, since the population is insufficient, of course everyone should be encouraged to have more children. If one advocates being consistent, then a woman who is obviously still fertile will be unable to have children because of the end of her marriage, which will affect the national power of the Tang Dynasty. Encouraging men to marry more wives is actually to promote population growth.

Li Xin knew all these things. When talking about it with Chen Youlan last time, he also made a promise to Chen Youlan, but these things are not easy to tell Cui Yingying. He had no choice but to change the subject with a smirk, and asked, "Can you help me make this dress?"

Cui Yingying was not stupid either, and she immediately knew that Li Xin didn't want to discuss the inequality in marriage between men and women, so she smiled and said, "Of course. But... I can charge more."

Li Xin nodded vigorously without saying a word, and said, "It should be righteous, it should be righteous. If you don't charge money, I'll be embarrassed."

This is the basic principle of being a human being. A friend doing a favor for you is a favor for helping you, that is due to love, but the money that should be paid cannot be waived because of this love. Otherwise, it is equivalent to exchanging love points for money, and in the end love points are gone, and friends are gone.

"His Royal Highness Chu Wang is really refreshing." Cui Yingying said, "I'll go find Master Xiuniang in a while."

Li Xin nodded and said, "I'll ask Wang Gui to send two hundred guan as a deposit later, so as to save you from paying for materials in advance. When everything is finished later, I'll settle the rest of the money."

Cui Yingying wanted to say that she didn't have to be so polite, but Li Xin didn't let her say it. She just said: "This is what should be done. Obviously I asked you to help, so I can't ask you to advance the money, right? You and I are both in business , knowing the importance of liquidity on hand, don’t refuse.”

indeed.

Cui Yingying sighed with a smile, and said, "Okay, then follow His Highness's advice."

"That's right." Li Xin said with a smile, "I will also send you an invitation when the time comes, remember to come and have a wedding wine."