Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Although those strange uncles in later generations who always want to take little girls to see goldfish are saying that lolita has three good things, light voice and soft body are easy to overthrow, but Emperor Chongzhen can't let go of this hand-at least sixteen isn't it?

Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to say directly that in the future women under sixteen would not be allowed to marry, but this is fucking politically incorrect, and Emperor Chongzhen could imagine the consequences of saying it with his toes.

After pondering for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "As a father, I am really worried about the queen's safety. As for the folks, I often hear that there are women with dystocia. Many families protect their children and give up their mothers. I don't know if it is true or not. ?”

Guo Yunhou is not a brat, of course he knows something about these things, he immediately bowed and said: "Your Majesty's words are true, folks value babies and despise mothers, especially if it is a male baby."

Emperor Chongzhen hummed and said: "They are all parents, and women who give birth are not human? How can they not be the heart and soul of their parents? Besides, who in the world is not born by their mother? It is really hateful!"

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, Guo Yunhou smiled wryly and said, "Your Majesty, if that's the case, it's easy to say, but the folks all value male babies, and there are no fewer people who drown female babies. Besides, the folks have more control over women. For example, remarriage."

What Guo Yunhou said was fair, and he said it entirely from the perspective of a minister of the household department - if a woman remarries or has more girls, she will have more children, and the tax she collects is more?

Besides, seeing how Emperor Chongzhen was worried about the empress, and the faint rumors from the palace that Emperor Chongzhen favored several concubines, how could Guo Yunhou fail to guess what Emperor Chongzhen was thinking?

Emperor Chongzhen thought to himself that Lao Tzu also knew this kind of fucking atmosphere among the people.

But if you know it, you know it, but Emperor Chongzhen himself has no good way.

To put it bluntly, every time a war is over, a large number of men are always killed. It often happens that there are more women than men. In order to ensure the population, this is the phenomenon of men having three wives and four concubines.

Or look at later generations, in a society that has been peaceful for a long time, three wives and four concubines?Think too much.Fewer men die, and there is not enough for each woman, so you want to eat more and take more?

Of course, this kind of situation cannot count some rich and powerful people, otherwise how did the word mistress come out?

But it is undeniable that when there are more men than women, the calls for monogamy will become louder day by day, and if it goes too far, in order to ensure that he has a daughter-in-law, even what kind of man joins a feminist organization? Things just popped up.

But ancient societies played monogamy?

This is definitely not possible.

In ancient times, the population was the country's strategic resource, and the larger the population, the more land could be occupied. This is the fundamental meaning of three wives and four concubines.

For example, in the Han Dynasty, there were many examples of kicking the man off and remarrying when they couldn't get along with their husbands. The most famous one was Wang Zhi, the wife of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Wang Zhi was first married to the grandson of King Jin and gave birth to a daughter, Jin Su. Later, she was sent to the empress dowager's womb by her mother, and gave birth to three daughters and a son for Liu Qi, who became Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che.

And after Liu Che ascended the throne, because the Queen Mother Wang Zhi missed her daughter, she went to find Jin Su to be married, and gave Tang Muyi, which only Princess Jin Su had, and named Jin Su Lord Xiucheng.

Jin Su had a son and a daughter, and his son was Xiucheng Zizhong. Because of the connivance of the Queen Mother, he ran rampant in the capital.

It can be seen from this that in the Han Dynasty, no one cared about the woman's remarriage at all-if the **** can remarry into the heavenly family, who still cares?What to do?

This situation was the same in the Tang Dynasty, and no one cared about the remarriage of women.

According to the records and calculations in "New Book of Tang Princess Biography", there were 29 princesses who remarried in the middle and early Tang Dynasty, and five of them even married three times.

The famous Princess Xiangcheng and Princess Taiping all remarried.The royal family is like this, and the folks are even more commonplace. The wives or daughters of Fang Xuanling, a great Confucian scholar, and Han Yu have all remarried.

As for what Ban Zhao said in "The Commandments for Women" that "a man has the intention of remarrying, but a woman has no suitable writing", no one has ever taken it seriously.

"Tang Laws and Discussions" stipulates in the article "Forcible marriage when a husband mourns and guards his will": "All husbands who are mourning and want to keep their will, who are not grandparents or parents of the daughter and marry by force, will be punished for one year; Minus the second class. Separate each other." In the discussion, it was explained: "Women wear mourning clothes and vow to keep their vows. Only grandparents and parents can marry them."

This kind of law is very clear, even if the woman doesn't want to remarry, grandparents and parents can still force the woman to remarry, so just listen to the words "women are no longer suitable", The daughter belongs to her own family, who would be willing to let her daughter be a widow for the rest of her life?

But since the Song Dynasty, the fucking thing has appeared.

The old ancestor played with three wives and four concubines. To put it bluntly, it was to have more horse boys follow him to grab the territory, but some fools messed up the matter.

Not to mention enjoying himself, but also suppressing the status of women day by day.

Especially those literati and bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty, in order to conceal their incompetent nature of being outsiders in foreign wars and constantly being suppressed by outsiders, they could even think of foot binding for fun, and even the law that prohibited women from remarrying before get rid of.

Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess, was originally married to Zhao Mingcheng, with a happy love and a happy life.

Later, when the Jin soldiers entered the bandits, her leisurely life was gone forever——Shortly after going south, Zhao Mingcheng passed away.

After Zhao Mingcheng's death, Li Qingzhao remarried Zhou Ruzhou as his wife. After marriage, he found that her husband was of poor character, committed illegal activities, and could not live together, so Qingzhao sued the authorities to report Zhou Ruzhou.

After Zhou Ruzhou was dealt with by the government, Li Qingzhao's troubles also came.

The law of the Song Dynasty stipulated that if a wife sues her husband, even if the accusation is true, she must "be imprisoned for two years."

Qingzhao thinks that even if she is talented and famous, she still has some friends she can rely on, so she was saved from being imprisoned and divorced Zhou Ruzhou.

However, Li Qingzhao's experience in the second half of her life was often hidden by literati who appreciated her talent—isn't it because Li Qingzhao remarried, so it didn't conform to their values?

But that's not even the worst part.

The worst thing is drowning a baby girl.

Many newborn baby girls are often drowned without even taking their first mouthful of milk. The poorer the family, the more common this situation is. Come on, why don't you give birth to a baby boy to carry on the family line and herd cattle to work in the field, what's the point of having a girl baby?

It is also based on this kind of thinking that there are countless female infants who drowned among the people.

If it was placed on other emperors, it might be like this. Anyway, it can't be controlled, so why worry so much?

But Emperor Chongzhen didn't think so.

After a few years or more, wait until the Little Ice Age is over, and then kill Jiannu, there is not enough population, who the hell will fight for me?Who will pay taxes to me—never add taxes, but it doesn't mean never collect taxes!

After thinking for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen felt that he had to find a way to solve this matter.

It's just that the folks often do this kind of thing in a sneaky way, and the court and the government don't know about it. When they find out, the matter is over, and why should they be held accountable?

After pondering for a while, Chongzhen finally thought of a reliable method.

According to the records in the famous historical reference book "I want to be the emperor", how did the time traveler solve this problem?

Don't think that there was no such thing as drowning a baby girl in the Han Dynasty. On the contrary, because the productivity was lower at that time, there were more such things.

But the guy who transmigrated into Liu Che proposed a solution - whoever dares not to do it, drowning the baby girl will be punished.

Five calculations, that is, five times the gift.

It is obviously not feasible for the Ming Dynasty to pay five times more taxes.

Judging from the situation at the time, this kind of situation could directly drive people to death—if they had a child and couldn’t afford it, the whole family would have to starve to death, or if they drowned, they would have to pay five times the tax. The endowment is not low, what should I do then?

In order to survive, I don't know how many people will raise their flags to rebel, so this method will not work.

But Emperor Chongzhen had a better way.

What if the donkey is disobedient?

Of course, a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other.

So after thinking for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen said: "Go back and discuss with Wen Aiqing and Guo Aiqing to see if the method I mentioned is feasible."