such as Yue Linyuan

The first person to answer Chu Yuezhi's question was Wang Ren.

He obviously disapproved of changing the law for women, and said with a frown: "Your Majesty, I think that the laws of the Daheng Kingdom exempt women from military service, and there are also "three do not go" regulations in marriage, which are already clearly protecting women. statute."

There are "seven outs" regulations for men to marry a wife, and "three do nots" for women after marriage.

The so-called "three don'ts", one is that as long as a woman fulfills her obligation to support her parents-in-law after getting married and keeps a filial piety for three years, the husband cannot divorce his wife, and the wife should be buried in the ancestral grave after death; Marry a wife when you are poor, and the wife will accompany him through the hard days. Even if the man becomes rich in the future, he cannot divorce his wife; the third is that if the wife’s natal family has no one to rely on or even no longer exists, then the husband cannot divorce his wife. .

"Your Majesty, according to the laws and regulations of the Daheng Kingdom, the crime of raping a woman is to be punished for the light ones, and for the serious ones to be exiled. I think this law is enough." He Jingwen has been the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment for many years and has handled many cases. In his view, it is too inappropriate to co-exist crimes such as rape, abuse, and violence with homicide.

"Enough? Where can He Shangshu prove that it is enough? Restraining women by etiquette, and even repeatedly emphasizing starvation to death is a small injustice and a big one. How many women commit suicide or suffer further harm from their family members because of involuntary indecency? "Chu Yuezhi's face was cold, and he slowly clenched his hand on the imperial case into a fist, and said: "My queen is a voluntary member of the Jiaofang Secretary? When I first got married, I took the queen out every time. People point and point at the queen; they dare not talk blatantly in front of me, but they are unscrupulous behind their backs, do you really think I don't know? However, why is the queen wrong, why should she bear those gossips? All innocent victims, They are innocent but are driven to a dead end by public opinion, and the perpetrators are punished and exiled, is it enough?"

There was a slight bulge of blue veins on the forehead. Chu Yuezhi felt angry rising in his heart, but his face became more and more frosty. He looked at Wang Ren and continued, "Exempting women from military service is protection? Isn't it arrogance or contempt for women? You can't carry the hand, you can't pick it, it will only hinder you? Don't you already know that I want to order Huangfu Liangyu to inherit the title of military general and guard the frontier. Before I made the decree, the letter of opposition has already been handed over to my desk. This counts What protection?"

He never objected to letting Huangfu Liangyu inherit the title of military commander. The reason why Huangfu Liangyu had to be tested was because she wanted to guard the frontier. He had already learned about Huangfu Liangyu's thoughts from Wei Yunxiao, so he made arrangements in advance. Well tested.Frontier cannot afford to make any mistakes, no matter what, he will never send a woman who has never really killed anyone to the battlefield.This is not contempt or arrogance, but because he has experienced it. He will never forget the shock he received in his heart after going to the battlefield for the first time in his life.What he gave Huangfu Liangyu was both a test and a baptism. In fact, even if Huangfu Liangyu failed to kill all the thirty captives in the end, he had already decided to let her enter as a female general based on her wheel battles in the training ground. The barracks, let her experience a little more tempering before letting her go to the frontier.

But how did the ministers below react after receiving the news?One by one hurriedly handed over the brochures, the contents were similar, they were nothing more than saying that it was incompatible with the etiquette, and the words all meant that he should choose a good son-in-law for Huangfu Liangyu, that a mere woman should never enter the military camp to break the rules, let alone go to the frontier, Some even bluntly said that letting Huangfu Liangyu go to the frontier would only sap the morale of the army and make the foreign races of the enemy country think that the Daheng Kingdom is weak and deceitful.

Simply ridiculous!

"There is also the so-called 'three don'ts'. I am quite curious. How can theft, jealousy, and serious illness be grounds for divorce, but there are only three regulations that cannot divorce a wife? Why is theft a ground for divorce? Jealousy, after I get married to the empress, I can't bear others to think about the empress, but on the contrary, the empress must tolerate me in the future. If the empress is seriously ill, I, as a husband, can use this as an excuse to rest Wife, but once the situation is reversed, the queen will not only be unable to reconcile with Li, but will also serve the decoction by herself, what is the reason for this?" Chu Yuezhi asked Wang Ren almost aggressively, and finally asked with a sneer: "Censor of the Royal Capital, why don't you tell me why men can divorce their wives but women can't divorce their husbands and can only reconcile?"

Wang Ren probably never expected that his simple remonstrance would provoke such merciless rebuttal from Chu Yuezhi. However, when Chu Yuezhi's last rhetorical question came out, Wang Ren still couldn't help but hesitate The neck replied: "Your Majesty! Women should obey the three virtues, follow the father at home, obey the husband when married, and obey the son when the husband dies. This is recorded in the Five Classics "Book of Rites". Such a ridiculous thing happened!"

"You only know how to use etiquette to admonish me all day long. In the final analysis, this etiquette is also established by the predecessors. It has inherent merits in the millennium inheritance, but why do you believe that the etiquette cannot be changed, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the rules of the etiquette?" Chu Yuezhi said. I feel that the nerves in the back of my head are jumping wildly, everything is etiquette, and there is nothing wrong with etiquette not treating women as human beings, because all those who can stand in the court are actually vested interests under the constraints of etiquette, even So does he.

"Your Majesty, 'laws of etiquette' are related to morality and etiquette, but also related to the system. "Historical Books Rites and Laws" records: the order of the emperor, ministers, and court, and the distinction between Li Shu, cars, clothes, palaces, food, weddings, and funerals. Appropriateness, things have restraint. Rituals can cultivate one's morality, regulate one's family, and govern a country. The law comes after the etiquette, precisely because the etiquette is morality, the norm, and civilization. Legalism, Your Majesty, Qin State finally II, Shang Yang The reform ended in failure, which shows that the legalists are eager for quick success, and if ruling the country with cruel laws can achieve temporary results, it is by no means a long-term solution." Ruan Xing spoke under Chu Yuezhi's angry eyes, and he knew very well that although Chu Yuezhi He still looks very calm, but in fact Chu Yuezhi is already angry. If he is thinking about his official career, he should keep silent at this time. However, etiquette and law are absolutely invincible to him. He believes in what he has learned and followed for many years, so He must also be blunt, "Your Majesty, reforming the law for mere women is not as simple as setting up a law. In terms of etiquette, this is the foundation of shaking the country!"

Chu Yuezhi was still standing in front of the imperial case, he didn't look at the three ministers below, he just lowered his head slightly and quickly passed the "Zhou Li", "Yi Li" and "Book of Rites" he had memorized in the past .However, before it was over, he remembered what he had seen and heard while fighting abroad.

Why does he think that etiquette is unfair to women?

Probably, it started when he understood why his mother and concubine were always depressed, when he saw how the unprotected women outside the thirteen provinces would be persecuted, when Zhou Ji told him the tragedy of his dead mother, It started from the time when Si Zhuxi told him that he was in the Jiaofang Division.

He is a prince, born in the emperor's family no matter how noble his status is, he doesn't need to take the lives of palace servants seriously, or like most people in the world, he doesn't regard women as human beings but as things that can be thrown away at will. No one would blame him, and no one dared to say anything wrong about him.In fact, there are many things that happened to women, which should not touch him at all.

But he remembered that his mother and concubine once said to him during the expedition: "It's good to go outside the palace to have a look, after all, you are a lucky person."

So he understood that the whole life of the mother and concubine was nothing more than a canary imprisoned in a cage, a plaything of the emperor's whim.

After recovering his memory, he also remembered that about the envoy back then, when he stumbled all the way to find his father for help, his father finally went with him to the green brick road back to the Hall of Harvest Fang, holding Si Yuan in his arms. Ting was sobbing, but his father refused to take a step forward, fearing that the soles of his shoes would be stained with blood; before the Si family was condemned, his father came to see him, thinking that he had fallen asleep after being forced to take medicine, but he didn't know what he was doing. He overturned the medicine that day and hadn't taken it at all. He clearly heard his father standing beside his bed, looking at him and saying, "If it wasn't for the prince, it would be fine to give it to the Tatars, and there is no need to cede the city."

In the next few years, maybe the reason why the father looks at him so complicated every time is because he is thinking that because he is not a princess, he can't be given to the Tatars as an object to spoil, so that Daheng Kingdom will lose five. A city.

If he were a woman, his fate would be so miserable.

Chu Yuezhi came out from behind the case. He didn't look at the three ministers, but at Si Yuanting, and said, "So the three ministers are all against my legislation for women, right?"

Ruan Xing knelt down and said loudly: "Your Majesty, legislation for women is a violation of the etiquette system. It must not be done. I hope Your Majesty will think twice."

He Jingwen and Wang Ren also knelt down and said, "I second the proposal!"

Si Yuanting was still standing, and he didn't say a word from the beginning to the end after entering the hall. At this moment, he and Chu Yuezhi looked at each other, and he didn't intend to speak. He shook his head slightly.

Chu Yuezhi understood what he meant, and now there were only three ministers kneeling in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. If he would speak out the legislation for women in the early court, then it would be the civil and military officials of the court who kneeled him.

Turning around, Chu Yuezhi walked towards the Nuan Pavilion. He didn't let the three kneeling ministers stand up, but waved his hands and said, "Si Chief Assistant, you come in with me."

Chu Yuezhi couldn't walk fast, and his back, which was always straight, even slightly collapsed. After he entered the warm pavilion, he walked to the pair of words written by himself and ordered people to hang them, until he heard Si Yuanting walking behind him. Hearing footsteps, he said in a low voice, "Si Jiu, I'm the emperor now, but it turns out that being the emperor doesn't mean that you can do everything you want."

There were only two candles burning in the warm pavilion, and it was even darker than usual. Si Yuanting stood behind Chu Yuezhi, neither stepped forward to hug him, nor reached out to hold his hand hanging by his side, but said calmly: "Now is not the time, you are too anxious."

"You knew this would happen, didn't you?" Chu Yuezhi turned his face slightly, and said with a wry smile, "You know you can't persuade me, so you let me hit the south wall by myself."

Si Yuanting was silent for a moment, and asked, "Chu Qi, do you think they are wrong?"

Chu Yuezhi didn't answer, and turned his attention to the painting of the king's way hanging in front of him.

"Actually, you also know in your heart that this is not their fault. This etiquette has been passed down for thousands of years, and it cannot be changed just by changing it. The education they have received since childhood is all derived from the etiquette. ’” Si Yuanting said.

"Yeah, it's deeply rooted..." Chu Yuezhi clenched his fists and laughed at himself, "I was so naive, thinking that sitting on the throne would change everything I thought was unfair."

How can the system of etiquette and law be shaken by him alone? This is different from examinations, official studies, and scientific examinations.

"Chu Qi." Si Yuanting sighed lowly, and said: "The duty of the Son of Heaven is nothing more than propriety, and there is nothing greater than courtesy, and nothing is more important than fame. What is courtesy? Ji Gang is the same."

The most important duty of the Son of Heaven is to maintain the ritual system, and the most important thing in ritual education is to distinguish status, and the most important thing in distinguishing status is to correct one's name.What is etiquette?It is law.

Turning around, Chu Yuezhi looked at Si Yuanting, stared blankly, frowned slightly as if talking to himself, and said, "Yes, you taught me, I shouldn't forget."

I just thought that there are some things that I can change.

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The author says:

Quoted in the text:

"The duty of the Son of Heaven is no greater than propriety, no propriety is greater than division, no division is greater than fame. What is propriety? Ji Gang is also." ———— "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty

No reform can be smooth sailing.