[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

Although the other party's voice was very low, Lin Liu still heard it.

She smiled and said directly: "I think you're right. It's just that if women stay at home to be filial to their in-laws, raise their children, manage the housework, and take care of the family's livelihood, men should naturally bear all the burdens of supporting the family, right?"

"In order to protect the interests of these women, I have someone promulgate the law immediately. In the future, as long as women are willing to stay in the family and pay for the family, they will automatically receive all the husband's income, and all the property in the family will also be registered in the wife's name. What do you think? How about it?"

"Oh, there is one more thing to add." Lin Liu looked at the other party and smiled, "Once you do something wrong to your wife outside, all the children and property will be given to your wife. After all, you are the one who prevented your wife from going out to work. Let your wife lose the opportunity and ability to make money, now that your wife has given everything for you and is still hurt, naturally there should be compensation, right?"

Lin Liu spoke softly from the beginning to the end, and almost never said a word of harshness, but the official broke out in cold sweat immediately after listening to it. As soon as she finished speaking, the official knelt down on the ground with a plop, apologizing repeatedly, saying that he was wrong.

Lin Liu glanced at him: "Don't you think my proposal is wrong? You can't cut off your wife's chance to go out to work and earn money, let her stay at home and dedicate everything to you, and you don't want to give her any protection? The court There are tens of thousands of officials, but there is still someone as brazen as you?"

The official didn't even dare to speak, he was already too frightened to speak a complete sentence.

Lin Liu glanced at the other party: "Since you say you don't dare, it seems that you agree with my proposal? If so, I will immediately send someone to send an imperial edict to your wife to tell her the good news."

The official wanted to stop him, but was frozen in place by Lin Liu's cold eyes.

During the whole process, the other officials didn't dare to interrupt at all, they were worried that if they accidentally attracted Lin Liu's attention, they would implicate themselves.

No one spoke up for the official, or even dared to speak up.

The imperial decree was drawn up quickly, and Lin Liu directly ordered someone to go to the official's mansion to announce the decree.

Although the official's idea made people think, he did nothing after all, just said such an "unpleasant" sentence.If Lin Liu really slapped him hard because of this, it would be bad, such a small punishment and a big reprimand would be enough, and no one would be able to say anything bad.

But what Lin Liu didn't expect was that the people who went to announce the decree came back soon.

He also brought back the official's wife.

Now, people are waiting outside the palace gate, waiting for Lin Liu to summon him.

Lin Liu: "???"

Not only Lin Liu was a little confused, but all the civil and military officials in the court were also at a loss when they heard the news. They didn't understand why the officials who went to announce the decree brought their wives to the palace.

The official also knew that what he was doing was a little strange, and worried about being misunderstood, he quickly explained: "It's not that I have too many things, but after the lady received the order, she immediately asked me, if she is now expose……"

He glanced carefully at the official who was still kneeling on the ground, and said in a low voice, "If she now exposes that Mr. Sun has done something wrong to her outside, can she take the child and all the property to make peace with Mr. Sun now?" Weichen felt that only the emperor had the right to decide on this matter, so he brought him back directly."

Everyone subconsciously looked at the official, but saw that the official's eyes flickered, sweat dripped down like a small river, his lips squirmed as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say a word in the end, as if he had predicted the ending Limp on the ground.

With his behavior like this, what other people don't understand?

The official must have really done something wrong to his wife, so at this moment, he was so panicked when he heard that his wife wanted to take the children and property to reconcile with him.

Lin Liu had a bad impression of this person, and now it has fallen to the bottom.

She directly asked the lady to be invited into the hall, and wanted to know what the official had done, so that the lady could not wait to propose a divorce just after receiving the imperial edict.

The lady was quickly brought in.

Xu Shi stayed in the back house all year round and hardly came out. When this lady was among a group of men, her complexion was tense, and her body was extremely tense.

Just when Lin Liu was hesitating whether to take her to other places alone, the lady came to her husband's side, and immediately relaxed when she saw how embarrassed he was.

She knelt down on the ground and shouted long live three times, and then under Lin Liu's questioning, she revealed all the things her husband had done.

It turned out that the official had broken sleeves, and he was okay when he first got married, but after his wife gave birth to a son, he never touched her again.

Moreover, this person not only often goes to the Nanfeng Pavilion, but also redeemed one of his lovers. Now he lives outside for more than half of a month, and he also goes to that kind of place for the remaining half of the time. It is very nice to be able to go home once a month. Amazing.

After this lady was married back home, she not only had to take care of his parents, siblings, children, and housework for him, but also was verbally abused by his family members, who scolded her for not being able to hold her husband, and would be scolded by her family no matter what she did.

And every time he goes home, after learning about these things, he will only stand by his family without hesitation, belittle her to the mud, say that she eats her own and uses her own, and that it is not careful to serve the old man. The child is also not close to his father, and he really doesn't look like a woman.

She had already had enough of this kind of life, if she hadn't worried that after she left, the child would be bullied by this family, even if she asked herself to go down, she would never stay in that family again——

She gave birth to a son and a daughter for her husband, and the daughter still has a chance to take her away. After all, the family has been calling her daughter a loser, but they feel that there is no way to leave the house with their son. Even if they go to the government, the son will only Sentenced to the husband's family.

Now Lin Liu's decree made her see hope, so she couldn't wait to leave that house immediately.

Lin Liu was already extremely angry after hearing this, even other officials could not say a single good word about this official after hearing the lady's complaint.

Many officials respect their wives even if they are romantic.They can still tell the difference between the flowers and plants outside and their wives.Even if there are one or two of them who dote on their concubines and kill their wives, they dare not speak at such a time.

The official was left alone.

Lin Liu looked down at the other party: "Do you have anything to argue with?"

The official's eyes moved, as if he wanted to say something.

Lin Liu added coolly: "Don't lie, I will send people to investigate later, if you are found out for lying, it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor. Deceiving the emperor will punish the nine clans."

The official paused and gave up all resistance in an instant.

Because he never cared about his wife, he never thought of concealing what he did. Not only did his wife know what he was doing, but many colleagues present also knew about his behavior.

Even if he is lying now, once the emperor sends someone to investigate, he will definitely reveal the truth immediately.Originally, he just lost his official position and lost his family property, and he lost his child by Heli. I'm afraid that he will really be punished by the nine clans.

Based on the emperor's behavior just now, if she really committed a crime against her, she would definitely not be relentless.

This official surnamed Sun has an idea now——

Why did he have such a low mouth at that time, and insisted on saying such things in the court?

Now Lin Liu only felt that looking at this official surnamed Sun would hurt his eyes, so he ordered the two to reconcile on the spot, and directly awarded the wife's two children and all the property of the Sun family to this official according to the imperial decree. lady.

The lady didn't want to take the property of the Sun family, but just wanted to leave with her dowry and children.

But Lin Liu said: "All these years, you have worked as a cow and a horse for the Sun family, raised children for him, and you are the only one who manages all the property of his family. Even if you are a servant, you still have monthly silver. ? You don’t need money to raise your children in the future? Take the money, you deserve it.”

After the lady hesitated, she still accepted all the properties of the Sun family under the nervous eyes of her ex-husband.

Mrs. Sun left soon, but the end of the officials surnamed Sun was not over yet.

After Mrs. Sun left, Lin Liu directly said, "As an official of the imperial court, he should be a model for scholars in the world, but who knows that he is not filial to his parents, does not respect his wife, and does not love his children. He is really a parental official in vain."

So he took off the black gauze hat on his head.

Sohn was quickly driven out of the hall.

After this incident, other officials who had objections to Lin Liu's proposal fell silent for a moment, and did not dare to say anything more.

With fewer opponents, the remaining officials quickly discussed several key points.

In order to reduce the cost of women's childbearing and improve women's plight after marriage, the first thing to solve is various emergencies during pregnancy and the complete inability to work in the later stages of pregnancy.

This one is easy to solve, just write maternity leave into the law.

In addition, paid leave must be paid. In order to prevent factories and other places that employ women from feeling that the cost is too high, certain tax breaks can be given according to the number of pregnant women, or the salary during maternity leave can be directly paid by the state.

After giving birth, in order to take care of the child, the mother cannot go to work immediately. She also needs to take a few months of maternity leave, which should not be too long. The child can be weaned after six or seven months.

Benefits are generally the same as maternity leave.

These two problems are not big. Although it is inevitable that some officials feel that this is a waste of money, they don't have too many complaints considering that there are only a small number of women who have come out of their homes.

amount……

An official thought of a question: "Your Majesty, is this kind of benefit available to every pregnant woman? Or only women who go out to work can enjoy it?"

Lin Liu glanced at the other party: "Of course it is provided for women who are willing to go out to work. These benefits are just to solve the worries of women going out to work. Those women who do not want to go out to work and have never contributed to the construction of the country do not have families. There are conflicts between careers and trade-offs that must be made. Naturally, their husbands will take care of them, so why waste the country's money?"

The official paused, saluted and retreated.

Because of the official's words, Lin Liu thought of another matter, so after discussing with the official, he proposed maternity allowance——

Any woman who gave birth to a child can receive a sum of money from the government to subsidize the child and her body loss after childbirth.

However, after this proposal was put forward, the men did not object, but those female officials who were married and had children raised objections instead.

One of them said directly: "The emperor's heart is good, and doing so can indeed increase the country's population, but if this maternity allowance is distributed directly in the form of money according to the emperor's wishes, the final result may not be as good as the emperor's." Wish."

Lin Liu looked at the other party: "Why does Aiqing say that?"

The other party didn't keep it secret, but said directly: "If the emperor directly distributes the money in the form of money, it is very likely that the money will not fall into the hands of the puerpera in the end. Not only that, but some vicious people may also use women as reproductive tools. It’s just to get money from the government after giving birth, as for the mother and child, I’m afraid no one cares at all.”

Lin Liu thought it was a good thing, but now she was startled when she heard the other party's words.

She knew with just a little thought that such a situation was very likely to happen.If the government distributes enough money, I'm afraid it will spawn a group of people who specialize in production for profit.

This is a very extreme situation, but there are also some extremely impatient situations that are very likely to occur commonly——

For example, after getting the money, save it all for emergencies or to buy other things; or I don’t want to use it, and use it all on my children and husband; or simply treat it as a windfall for the whole family, and everyone has a share...

Lin Liu wanted to improve the living environment of women, but did not want to push women into a more miserable situation.

She was hesitating whether to dismiss this idea directly, so she heard the other party continue to say: "If the emperor really wants to help these pregnant women, he can actually set up a separate department to take care of this matter, and exchange the money that was originally planned to be distributed for daily necessities. Supplements with relatively high prices can even be stored directly in that department, and it is enough for people to send one meal three times a day. When the other party is confinement, people can go to the department to pick it up."

Although it is unavoidable to do so, some people exchange supplements for money, but it is a minority, and some daily necessities will be used on children and mothers.

Although it is a bit troublesome, doing so can also provide some jobs for some women.

She was about to nod, but she hesitated and said, "Why don't you just take the mother to this place for confinement?"

Although China has always had a tradition of confinement, there are very few people who really have the opportunity to confine themselves and live well during the confinement period.

The conditions of ordinary people are not good. Many pregnant women have to get out of bed to work after lying in bed for a few days after giving birth. They can't eat well, sleep well, or rest well.

This proposal was a bit unexpected, and after discussion, everyone felt that it was feasible.

However, this place was originally provided for those mothers with poor conditions. In order to prevent more people who have the conditions to confine themselves to occupy resources, the conditions provided in it will definitely not be particularly good, just some relatively basic resources.

But for those mothers who have difficulty in confinement, it is already very good.

Added to this is the issue of childcare.

Rich people will not lack people who take care of their children. As long as women want to work, it is impossible for them to take care of their children.Ordinary families do not have this kind of financial support, and there is not necessarily anyone in the family who can take care of the children. This is similar to the existence of modern confinement centers to solve the problem of these confinement women.

In addition, Lin Liu also discussed with the officials about the nursery school for the child to study after weaning and before the child's enlightenment——

It just so happened that among the old nuns released from the palace earlier, there were many who were good at taking care of pregnant women and children. These people went to Lu Sui's place to take care of children as well.Now they don't need to take care of them personally, they just need to let them teach people who are as capable as them, and they can also get a lot of commission, and the pension is also guaranteed. Presumably these nuns will not refuse.

After all, taking care of children by yourself and instructing others how to take care of children are not at the same level of difficulty at all.

In addition to nursery schools, children also need to go to school after enlightenment.

Nowadays, under the efforts of Sheng Man, women's schools across the country have been opened one after another, but it seems that male students can only enroll in county schools and Guozijian after passing the examination of scholar, but both of them must pass the examination of scholar. After that, you are eligible to study, and you must be the best among scholars.

As for the schools before the exam, there are also private schools in various places, but they only need money, and the price is very expensive.

According to Lin Liu's current plan, it seems that the girl has been taken care of since birth, and can read and write. If she is good enough, she can even spend no money at home——

Women's schools have always had a scholarship mechanism. As long as you study hard enough, you will not only be exempted from tuition, board and lodging fees, but also have the opportunity to receive bonuses.

On the contrary, boys, in addition to nursery schools, seem to have to start paying.

Lin Liu didn't realize this question, but it was Lin Ruhai who raised it.

After Lin Ruhai raised this issue, other officials also began to echo, suggesting that boys should be treated the same as girls.

Lin Liu thought for a while, and said directly: "Then open another boys' school, a school where children can enter after enlightenment until they pass the examination for scholar, and the treatment is equal to that of girls' school."

Others naturally have no opinion.

Lin Liu herself faintly felt that something was wrong, because she was sensitively aware that it seemed inappropriate to continue to divide schools according to their merits in the imperial examination.

Because some people are born smart, and they can pass the examination of Tongsheng scholar after a few years of study, but some people are likely to fail the examination of Tongsheng all their lives, let alone a scholar. In this case, is it possible to let him study in school for a lifetime?

But such an idea didn't stay in Lin Liu's mind for too long, because he also needed to pay money for studying at school, but Shuxiu was less than other private schools.

She thought about the modern college entrance examination system, and after hesitating, she still felt that it was too late, so she didn't bring it up——

There are many subjects in the modern college entrance examination, and there is a lot of knowledge to be learned, so subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics can occupy an equal position with major subjects such as mathematics and Chinese. However, except for Chinese, other subjects are still developing. The amount of knowledge is not necessarily equal to the language.

And now those scientific products are only trains, ships and textile machines, etc., which have appeared in front of the common people, and more products have not yet been put into production, let alone entered the lives of the common people.

It is still too early to replace the imperial examination with the college entrance examination system.

Let's wait another two years, until the common people accept the existence of those scientific products, and then replace the current imperial examination system with the modern education system, and everyone's acceptance will be a little higher.

Countless thoughts flashed through Lin Liu's mind, but her face remained the same as before, and no one could see what was going on in her mind.

Civil and military officials are still discussing how to get more women out of the house, how to solve their worries, so that they can enter the officialdom and other industries without any scruples like men.

There are not many effective solutions that Lin Liu can come up with in this regard, because there are not many examples for her to refer to in modern times, and even if they exist, they may not be suitable for the current national conditions, and everyone must discuss them before arriving at the best solution. Compatible with current legal regulations.

A group of officials worked together and finally discussed the most suitable legal regulations.

For example, regarding the issue of paid maternity leave for pregnant women, officials have proposed a more suitable method for the moment——

The money for paid leave for maternity is directly collected by the state from various businesses every year, and then sent to the maternity by the state.However, if the number of pregnant women among the employees of the merchant exceeds a certain number each year, the state can give certain tax reductions, and if the number of pregnant women is sufficient, the final tax reduction can not only offset the previous taxes paid, but also make some profits.

Hearing this method, Lin Liu's eyes lit up slightly.

If this law is really implemented, businesses will not say that they welcome pregnant women, at least they will no longer discriminate against pregnant women, and they will not be full of discrimination against the entire female group because of the loss during pregnancy.

It's like the reduction and exemption regulations related to the modern disabled. Once such a law is promulgated, many companies may deliberately recruit pregnant women in order to reduce or exempt taxes.

In addition to such laws, other opinions put forward by Lin Liu have also been revised and supplemented by civil and military officials in light of the current environment. Their own fathers have proposed more laws to protect women's rights. Although most of them are only for working women, this has already It greatly exceeded Lin Liu's expectations.

Maybe, the way she dealt with the officials surnamed Sun before scared these officials.

Lin Liu smiled, pleasantly surprised at the change brought about by this matter, after all, when she first brought up this matter, half of the officials in the court and China were not interested and had no intention of contributing at all.

This time, the Great Court Conference had been discussed from the morning until it was almost dark, and the discussion had not yet been completed. Afterwards, it was discussed intermittently for a long time before finally finalizing all the detailed regulations and writing them into the law.

Now that there are relevant laws, of course it needs to be notified.

So it didn't take long for the mansion newspapers distributed to government offices all over the country, as well as the newspapers of Lin Shenjian Deer and Rose Newspapers, to enter thousands of households with relevant legal provisions.

At the same time, most female officials in North Korea and China have also begun to act for the promulgation of this new law.

At the same time, Lu Sui, who entered the household department, also began to get busy with the inventions of those bigwigs.

Except for the invention of the electric light that he fancied, he carefully studied all other inventions, and then made the Merchants Fair look like an auction. The prospects of the changes and inventions brought about are depicted extremely beautifully, and a complete marketing plan is also designed by myself!

Listening to his up-and-down "speech", every businessman who came to participate in this investment promotion meeting was excited, and he couldn't wait to spend all his wealth to win all the inventions.

But these people are not without doubts——

Lu Sui is still very famous in the mall, even more famous than the rest of the Lin family combined.Because he has a very good vision, and he is very good at doing business, and he has often used strange tricks in publicity, and he can make a lot of money every time.

If these things are really so profitable, how could Lu Sui, as the younger brother of the current emperor, not keep the money for himself, but use these things to cooperate with other people?

In this case, it's like adding salt to Lu Sui's wound!

If he has the strength to win all the inventions, what's the matter with these businessmen?Even if he is acting like a spoiled child, he will absolutely win all... At least most of the inventions, right?How could it be possible to watch these golden egg-laying old hens being taken away by others?

In order to experience the feeling of making money, he even entered the court that he was not interested in at all, and chose to make money for the court, and took the wool from these well-behaved businessmen who got cheap, and these sheep even suspected that old hens could not lay eggs?

Lu Sui was so angry that he lashed out at the others, making a group of businessmen blush and almost want to run away.

People in Tobe have never seen such a scene——

Although the government has always been a bit condescending when facing businessmen, everyone's cooperation is about harmony and wealth. No matter how many thoughts they have in their hearts, they will be hidden in their stomachs and put away. Is it possible that their attitude is so arrogant?

Everyone in the household department suspected that this time the investment promotion meeting was going to fail.

The final result was completely beyond their expectations. Not only were the officials not angry after being bullied by Lu Sui, but they felt that Lu Sui's reaction was more reassuring, which also showed that he really liked these inventions.

Therefore, the businessmen who had some concerns before, and their attitudes were also waning, paid a lot of money in the subsequent bidding, and the profit share of the partner that stood out in the end directly exceeded the maximum value originally expected by the Ministry of Households.

After Hubu Shangshu learned about this, he immediately found Lu Sui, and regarded him as a cornucopia where money can make money, and he didn't want to let go of him at all when he hugged him.

Lu Sui: "..." Let go of me, I'm not interested in being an official!

No matter how capable Lu Sui is, he can only do limited things. Today, a business promotion association has almost mobilized famous businessmen from the entire country. The details of the cooperation in the field, and then immediately started the production of the product.

And after the imperial court opened the power stations all over the country, the various products they produced were quickly placed on the shelves of major shops.

Telegraph, typewriter, camera, telephone, light bulb, tape recorder, record player...

Some unheard-of and unseen novelty objects appeared all over the country like a blowout, and their names and functions were also published in the newspaper with the largest circulation, Lin Shenjianlu.

——Of course, it was paid for Lu Sui's advertising fee.

In just two years, technology has developed rapidly, and these things have gradually become common daily necessities.

Although not everyone can afford them, everyone can name them when they see them.

More and more women are starting to come out of their homes, and they can walk in the streets openly, laughing and laughing without being blamed; various means of transportation can be seen everywhere on the streets, and bicycles and rickshaws have become the most common means of transportation , trams also appeared in every street, even on the more commonly used main arterial roads such as Helin Avenue.

It is no longer as dangerous and difficult for people to travel far away, and they no longer need so much money. People's lives have become much more convenient.

It was also at this time that Lin Liu and Ji Song's wedding date was finally set.

The Minister of Rites had actually picked a good date before, but because he was arrested as a young man soon, the wedding date could only be postponed.

Now that the Minister of Rites finally let go, the wedding can naturally be arranged.