Zhenguan Xiaoxian Wang Li Shen Li Shimin

"Half a year?" Li Shen pondered for a moment and continued, "Half a year is enough. Let's wait a little longer. It's not time to go crazy yet.

We cannot take part in this plan. Right now the aristocratic families are very vigilant. If our Ji Wang Mansion gets involved, they probably won't be fooled.

The methods for making money are actually very simple, and the essence remains the same.

The key is how to execute it.

We just had some unpleasantness with the family, so this is not the time for us to do this.

You need to find someone that the family trusts more."

"The prince said last time that he wanted to cooperate with the Du family. The Du family has always been there. If the Du family does it, it shouldn't arouse suspicion."

Wang Hongfu immediately suggested.

Li Shen nodded:

"Yes, it is the Du family. I heard that one of Du Gou's concubines is pregnant?"

"Your Highness, it is true. It was diagnosed before Yuan Zheng. The Du family celebrated for three days and even rewarded the servants generously."

Wang Xuance nodded in confirmation. Since they were going to cooperate, Li Shen would naturally send someone to keep an eye on the Du family for safety reasons.

It seems that Du Gou's circumcision operation was very successful, and Li Shen was happy.

"Okay, then I'll find a time to discuss cooperation with Du Gou in person. I'll also go and congratulate Du Gou.

Remind him not to burn bridges after crossing them, and not to forget the kindness I have shown him, as this child was given to him by me.

Ha ha ha ha. "

Li Shen said this and laughed happily.

Cut Ding Ding, wow, in this era, I have done a great feat.

This Du Gou is really crazy. He actually dares to try it. If he fails, he will have to go to work in the palace.

"Your Majesty, can we send Wang Wencheng's family away now?"

Wang Hongfu continued to ask.

"Send him away, but I do have a suggestion. I wonder if you would like to hear it."

Speaking of Wang Wencheng's family, Li Shen had an idea.

"Please speak, Your Majesty. I would like to hear the details." Wang Hongfu bowed immediately.

Li Shen thought about what to say and then said:

"Old Wang, Wang Wencheng and you are cousins, right?"

"Your Highness, yes." Wang Hongfu nodded.

"In fact, I saw that Wang Wencheng's wife was not very old that day, probably in her thirties.

She has an extraordinary appearance and is well-mannered, and should be a lady from a wealthy family.

Moreover, Wang Wencheng's concubines were all good-looking.

Why don't you take them all in? This will also be good for the descendants of your Wang family.

what do you think? "

"Ah?" Wang Hongfu was listening carefully to Prince Ji's teachings, but he had no idea that Prince Ji would have such a ridiculous idea.

"Your Highness wants me to marry a levirate?" Wang Hongfu was extremely surprised.

"Levitra?" Li Shen was even more surprised than Wang Hongfu. It was the first time he heard this term.

His head turned to Wang Xuance, his main tool was the translator.

As expected, Wang Xuance started to explain:

"Your Majesty, levirate marriage is a system where a woman marries her husband's brother or other relative after his or her husband dies.

There are clear regulations in the Tang Code.

There are four in total, but Shopkeeper Wang should meet all of them."

"What? This is also stipulated in the Tang Dynasty Law?" Li Shen was surprised again. Were the laws of the Tang Dynasty too restrictive?

There are regulations for remarriage, and they are written in the law.

"Your Majesty, my Tang Dynasty allows women to remarry in order to increase the population.

But it must also comply with etiquette.

One of these is that if a woman has no children, she can remarry after the mourning period is over.

But if a woman has children who are not yet adults, she must raise the children to adulthood before she can remarry.

None of Wang Wencheng's children had reached adulthood, and one of them was born to a concubine not long ago, so she could not remarry.

The other concubines had to observe three years of mourning for Wang Wencheng before they could remarry.

So I'm afraid your proposal cannot be realized."

There was no other way, Wang Xuance could only give Li Shen a detailed explanation why Li Shen’s proposal was ridiculous.

"Really? There is such a thing? I know that Dingyou is in mourning, but Wang Wencheng is a person who has violated the law.

I can charge him with being disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust, so that your family members don't have to observe mourning, right?"

Li Shen only had one period of mourning, when his grandfather Li Yuan passed away.

But he didn't mourn for three years. He only mourned for a few months. Anyway, no one paid attention to him.

His father was in mourning for only one month, and during this month he was still the Crown Prince Regent (this is recorded in history)

Li Shen didn't know much about the laws and etiquette, he only knew some general things.

"Your Highness, even if there is no mourning period, we will probably have to wait until Wang Wencheng's offspring reach adulthood before we can arrange a levirate marriage," Wang Xuance reminded.

Li Shen sighed after hearing this:

"Alas~~~ Actually, I have good intentions. I was wondering if Li Zhi and the noble families, who did not frame me this time, would vent their anger on Wang Wencheng's wife and children.

For one thing, if we send them back to their hometown, it might be dangerous.

Second, Wang Wencheng’s wife will have a harder time living with the child in the future, after all, Wang Wencheng made a big mistake.

I'm afraid your Wang family won't take such good care of him. Wang Wencheng deserves to die, but his child is innocent.

I think since they are all descendants of your Wang family, and you are very wealthy, any money you take out would be enough to support their whole family.

Besides, you won’t be too harsh on the descendants of your Wang family, right?

Third, instead of pursuing women all day long, it would be safer for you to have a few concubines.

I am afraid that you might catch some bad disease outside and die. It doesn’t matter if you die, but please don’t infect me.

It’s really that simple.”

"......." The two were speechless after hearing Li Shen's last words. Wang Hongfu even sighed inwardly, what bad intentions could Prince Ji have? He was doing this for his own good.

Eh? No, Wang Hongfu suddenly thought:

"Your Highness, I have never been a prostitute. I am innocent."

When Wang Hongfu thought of this, he immediately cried out for justice.

"Okay, we are all men, I understand, you don't need to explain." Li Shen waved his hand and gave Wang Hongfu a look that said "I understand."

A wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as a secret lover.

"Your Highness, I..." Wang Hongfu wanted to explain, he was almost crying.

Isn’t this a very bad impression?

Li Shen interrupted him:

"How about this, I think Wang Wencheng's wives and concubines are all pretty, so I'll make the decision and you can take them all in.

You are a businessman and no one is watching you.

Just tell everyone in the clan that I’m the boss, and if anyone has any objections, let them come to me.

Forget about the mourning period. If you don't like them, just give them some money and let them go back to their hometown.

Our Tang Dynasty is short of population now, and they can still have children after remarrying."

Finally, Li Shen made the decision for Wang Hongfu. Wang Wencheng's wife was in her thirties, almost forty, and still had some charm.

Li Shen once discovered that Wang Hongfu looked at others in an abnormal way, so Li Shen did him a favor.

"I obeyed the order of His Highness Prince Ji. Thank you for your gift." Wang Hongfu bowed and thanked him. His face showed some helplessness, but also some joy.

(The Tang Law Commentary does have provisions regarding women’s remarriage, and levirate marriage is one of them. It is not made up by the author.) Don’t forget to rub, rub, rub.