sweeping the world

Chapter 927 Why is this?

If you look through the history books, you will find that Xia, Shang, Zhou (Spring and Autumn, Warring States), Qin, and Han never rejected women from other countries and races. Intermarriage with other races is a very common phenomenon in the long history.

The men on Zhuxia's side did not reject women of other races, but they extremely rejected marrying women of their own race. Not only men rejected them, but women also rejected them.

Men's refusal is naturally out of dignity and pride in their own nation, thinking that it would be a shame to marry a woman of their own race to a foreign race.

Female rejection may have something to do with dignity and pride, but it is more about not being able to accept some customs of other races. On the one hand, living habits are one aspect. The husband's heirs accept female elders as concubines, and many other things that are simply unacceptable to the Han people.

Hulu on the grasslands and some barbarians in the south mostly have the custom of inheriting from father to son (or brothers). Han people think it violates the principles of ethics, but they think they are doing good deeds by being good people.

It's a very simple thing. The Hulu and the barbarians will feel that they are doing good deeds. It is because women lose their support after their husbands die and cannot survive. If a woman who has a dead husband is accepted, she will assume the responsibility of supporting her.

The strange thing is, shouldn't one's elders support him?Also assume the responsibility of warming the bed?This will involve the aspect of population growth.

Different social structures and customs have created the ideology of different nationalities, and they all look at the actions of other races with the perspective of their own nation, and cannot simply distinguish between right and wrong.

As the emperor of the Han people, Liu Yan's ideology must be based on what the Han people can accept as the benchmark, so he doesn't care about the reasons why the Hulu or barbarians did what they did.

As a matter of course, Liu Yan should continue to carry forward the rules handed down from ancient times, rejecting the marriage of women of his own clan, and advocating the acceptance of a group of women.This kind of thing is also the responsibility of the emperor, all because the emperor is the head of the clan, and what the clansmen think is right should be right.

From another point of view, Liu Yan, as the emperor, not only wants to advocate from behavior, but also needs to use the system to make that beautiful concept a framework supported and restricted by law.

Accepting women from different races starts with Liu Yan himself, and he has no reason not to do it. Since ancient times, there is only one Sima family who has not broken the inheritance handed down from ancient times. Even if women can't go to sleep, there are still basic political shows.

The fact that the Sima clan didn't accept women from other races was not because they didn't want to, it was because there was no other race who was willing to give a woman to the Sima clan.

"This Daqin woman named Helena has a very strange reputation." What Cui Wan held in her hand was the collected information: "Daqin people are not stingy with admiration for her, but the language is so vague. People from other countries, they think This Daqin person is an unclean woman."

Women, as long as there is a "dirty" reputation, it means that people think that her private life must be very corrupt.

The world will always have different views because of gender. The erosion of a man's private life can be interpreted as flirtatious, and he thinks there is nothing wrong with this flirtatious guy; but if it is a woman, there will be no positive comments anyway.

The reason for the difference is very simple. Men control most of the resources in society, and power is controlled by men. The matter of three wives and four concubines has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has become the rule.

One day, if resources and power are in the hands of women, maybe things should be reversed?
Not to mention the maternity society in ancient times. Since the birth of the country, men have had three wives and four concubines. Have you ever seen a woman with three husbands and four faces?

Actually there are!Like the Western Han Dynasty, who among the many imperial concubines lacked face?But even if Di Ji can do this, no other women would dare to do this.

An absolute minority cannot become a social rule accepted by the general public. Generally speaking, it is right for men to have more than one woman for the world, and it is wrong for women to have more than one man.This is the rule, and not only men take it for granted, but women, except for a very few, don't think there is anything wrong with it.

Now it is not the Song Dynasty (including later), the social restrictions on women are not so exaggerated, and women are not much different from men in many rights and interests (excluding polyandry).

The most direct manifestation is that the property of a family is jointly owned by the husband and wife. Not only the husband can divorce his wife, but the wife can also propose a divorce.Unless the government judges that a certain man (female) needs to bear the fault according to the law, there is no such thing as leaving the house without a divorce.

For the Han people, marrying a woman who is not a virgin is not unacceptable, but the reputation must not be too bad!
"The foreign country spreads an unclean reputation..." Cui Wan looked at Liu Yan with a cautious expression, and said hesitantly, "Your Majesty...are they defaming it?"

It's not impossible...

Ordinary people look at each other after a blind date, and ask in private what kind of person the man (female) is. Some neighbors may just be out of a little bit of displeasure, and they will still talk nonsense when there is no such thing.

There is no need for reason to destroy each other between countries. For example, among the collected information, not only Helena has a bad reputation, but in fact, any one of them has it.

Cui Wan saw negative information in every report. If the assessment is based on the information, any bad rumors should be eliminated, so Liu Yan will not be able to choose anyone this time.

"Your Majesty." Cui Wan didn't know why she blushed, but her demeanor seemed generous, and the difference between her mentality and behavior could explain the problem.She said: "If not...can you check...check...", the following words are really hard to say, it means whether there is any film in the physical examination.

The Han family never had the procedure of checking that layer of film, even in the Song Dynasty, which was considered the most conservative.

Liu Yan understood what Cui Wan wanted to express without finishing her sentence, and couldn't help feeling embarrassed.

For such a matter, Liu Yan has already intervened too much.This is also because there is no empress dowager, or the draft should be checked by the empress dowager later.

Without the empress dowager, the empress could still preside over and guard the harem. If Cui Wan had enough ambition, she could even show the empress' majesty in this matter. The key is that she did not express any ambition.

"It has never happened before..." Liu Yan didn't want to make such a headline for future generations on such a matter: "If there is a big fanfare, the queen..."

It's definitely not good to do it in a high-profile way, otherwise Liu Yan would have won the title of "unclear king", and if it spreads out, it will even involve rumors of lack of self-confidence, and the impact on the entire country will be infinite.

Before the Han people married wives, it was not such a thing. As the "ruler of the world" who combined the emperor and the emperor, he suddenly made such a thing, and the imitation would start with the officials, and then spread to all walks of life across the country.

In fact, it's not that men don't care about that layer of film, it's that society has decided not to advocate caring about that layer of film.

In the era of frequent wars, most men would be recruited to the battlefield. If there were young ladies in the pre-Qin period, they would hurry up and have sex with men who were about to go to the battlefield. The main purpose was to pass on the incense to the men they liked.

Furthermore, since there is a possibility of death in battle, the chances of widows appearing are infinite, and the government will not require widows to observe festivals.

It's not about liking or disliking, but having too many widows will cause too many problems in society, and it will also become a hindrance to population growth.

Hulu and barbarians accepted women (not biological mothers) from their fathers (brothers), in a way, to increase their population.

If you look at the laws of the past dynasties, you will find that most of the dynasties have such a rule, which is the age at which men and women must get married, especially strict standards for women.

For example, it is a crime for a woman to remain unmarried after a certain age. It is not to say that she will be arrested, but she will be forced to choose a husband for her, or she will be fined.

Who wrote the measures for how old women are not to marry?It came from Lu Zhi, who is also a woman, and she signed the relevant decrees.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, all dynasties have continued that law.The reason why there was such a law in the Western Han Dynasty was that the population dropped too sharply after the chaos of the world, so women had to be forced to marry at an appropriate age so that they could become pregnant to increase the population.

The current Han Empire has also inherited that law, and at the same time continued another previous practice. It will not force widows to remarry, but it does not advocate keeping festivals.

Under normal circumstances, the local government will implicitly encourage widows to remarry without making it too obvious, but everyone knows that there is such a thing.

Soldiers died in battle, but the government encouraged widows to remarry?No matter how you look at it, it is extremely impersonal.

Will the widow be able to support her children and elders if she no longer remarries?In terms of productivity and women's status, it may be difficult.

If the widow remarries, according to social customs, her new husband is responsible for taking on those responsibilities, which means that this man is not only going to support a family.

There are too many aspects involved, not just a human touch that can explain everything. In many years after the end of the war, a man marrying multiple wives is not only not enjoying pleasure, but actually suffering.Not only will this man not be despised, but he will also be respected enough that he is considered to be doing a righteous deed.

The Han Empire established by Liu Yan did not encounter such a situation. On the contrary, it was because of Shijie's wanton persecution of women that the number of women dropped far more than men during this war.

The difference between this war and other wars is that the Jie people have a tradition of arresting women accompanying the army, using them to vent their animal desires at night, and cooking them when they want to eat.

The other Hulu were not as brutal as the Jie tribe, but the influence of the Jie tribe was not much better for women, and the women who caused the war this time were the most victims.

"Your Majesty, minister..." There is nothing wrong with Cui Wan calling herself a minister, and the queen also has a salary, so she is one of the ministers: "Why don't we all meet first and ask?"

Liu Yan's mood suddenly changed.He hinted just now that Cui Wan could check the film in a low-key manner, but Cui Wan didn't expect to notice the hint at all.He could no longer hint at it, or bring it up blatantly.

Regarding who to choose, Liu Yan's intervention has come to this point.

Now that Liu Yan's identity has reached him, what kind of woman does he want?Treating it with caution only involves the future relations between countries.

Liu Yan left the harem and went to Weiyang Palace, and asked if Lu Yi was on duty.

Lu Yi, who was summoned, soon met Liu Yan. After saluting, he reported some things, and paused to wait for Liu Yan's prompt, such as why he was specially summoned.

Of course, Liu Yan couldn't say it clearly, he was talking about a lot of national system, reputation, reputation and so on.

Lu Yi was stunned for a moment before he realized it. He didn't think there was anything funny about Liu Yan's move. On the contrary, he responded cautiously.

"Wang Meng is the official envoy, and I have inquired about my experience." Lu Yi repeated some of the answers he got from Wang Meng without adding any personal subjective consciousness, and finally talked about Helena: "I was about to report to Your Majesty, about that person The reputation of the princess of Da Qin is indeed not good."

Lu Yi talked a lot later, and only after the foreshadowing was sufficient did he get to the main topic: "I think this matter can be used?"

No one dared to mess around with the emperor's concubine, and neither did Lu Yi. Helena would definitely be removed from the list, but he felt that Helena was very useful from a national perspective.

Liu Yan understood, but he had to act like he didn't understand: "The meaning is..."

"You can let her stay in Dahan, and when the time permits, you can ask Daqin." Lu Yi said a little cautiously, seeing Liu Yan's expression froze, and explained: "This matter is an excellent excuse for war, and it can also be used as an excuse." It shows that a big man can't be bullied."

Use women to make a fuss?The whole world has never lacked this method, and it is very useful every time. Liu Yanhui's face is serious, and he is not used to it.

"I have heard of a war in Europa thousands of years ago." Liu Yan explained the background of the Trojan War to Jian Jian: "The woman named Helen has become famous, and she is destined to remain famous forever."

However, Lu Yi became more and more alarmed. He knew Liu Yan somewhat, and he had already guessed what would happen next.

"I'm not Liu Heng, I'm not Liu Qi, and I'm not Liu Che!" When talking about the Xiongnu, these three people Liu Yan would mention Mao Dun's insult to Lu Zhi, and use it as a spur to keep the shame in mind. A day of vengeance.His face was almost ashen: "If the big man wants to conquer the big Qin, it is enough to use the reason that the big Qin is disrespectful to the big man. Why is it so?"

Lu Yi had no choice but to plead guilty. He thought Liu Yan would react like this because he felt that his dignity had been insulted.

"I mentioned it to Qing and others again and again!" Liu Yan said almost domineeringly: "The Han people should be the masters of Blue Star, and we will inevitably become the only masters of Blue Star. Be more generous!"

(End of this chapter)