The Qing Dynasty.
Since Fang Xi had taken control of the various Mortal Kingdoms on Xiankong Island, the Jiuzhou Sect cultivators had gradually grown unable to tolerate the troublesome situation of having many small kingdoms and conflicting administrations. They began consciously integrating the various dynasties.
First, using the small kingdoms as a foundation, they established the "Great Green United Nations," initially reclaiming control over the economy and military.
They then began promoting education, planning to achieve complete unification and carry out the transformation into a modern nation after three generations.
In this way, they did not violate the promises the Jiuzhou Sect had originally made to those monarchs.
It could be said that high-level cultivators, blessed with long lifespans, possessed patience in abundance.
Three generations amounted to merely one Jiazi Cycle, sixty years...
But those Mortal Kingdom monarchs had already grown old and died, or died of illness, once or even several times over. This was not a case of killing the donkey once the millstone had been turned, and resistance to the new policies was correspondingly much smaller.
In a city, the common people gathered beneath the public notice board, looking at the new announcement the authorities had posted.
Thanks to the widespread establishment of schools, there were still quite a few literate people among the populace.
Someone immediately began reading aloud:
"Fertility Reward Order!"
"The court decrees: The people shall multiply their offspring abundantly, thereby strengthening the state and the Incense Offering Divine Path... The previous laws are hereby solemnly amended... Women who remain unmarried at eighteen, and men who remain unmarried at twenty, shall have their parents fined two jia... Hospitals shall be established; women giving birth shall be admitted to the obstetrics department..."
"Fertility rewards doubled. If a commoner gives birth to a son, they