The governor's granddaughter was seventeen years old this year.
Peng Joe, the Federation, and Gefra had an astonishingly similar view on age—
A person was considered an adult at twenty, but could get married and have children at sixteen.
Sometimes, even they themselves found these rules difficult to understand. Things like high school students starting families and having children were common in all three countries.
Peng Joe was especially enthusiastic about encouraging childbirth.
After a man and a woman started a family, if they failed to have children within a certain period, their tax rate would increase.
Conversely, the more children they had, the more their tax rate would decrease, until it was almost nonexistent! Some women gave birth to more than a dozen children in their lifetimes, while others had over twenty or even more. No one found these people strange. Instead, they could receive a medal known as the "Glorious Mother."
Registering a marriage and becoming pregnant at sixteen in Peng Joe was extremely common, especially among the lower classes.
With production yet to escape large-scale manual labor, population was a resource.
Encouraging people to have children was equivalent to turning a poor mine into a rich one.
The governor's granddaughter looked very beautiful, and her bearing was excellent. After all, she came from a great noble family.
People with outstanding identities and backgrounds generally had excellent bearing, and it was also rare for them to be unattractive.
Those who were unattractive could not enter their gene pool in the first place. They were eliminated directly during the selection of breeding partners.
In reality, this was also a good thing, because the ugly would eventually be eliminated, leaving only the good-looking.
In the future, the word "ugly" might gradually disappear from the world.
Lin Qi could fully understand