The court hall of Nuoda was silent for a while.

In fact, how these ministers don't know what the root cause of the lack of men and women in this country is, in the final analysis, just the word "patriarchy".

But who made this son more expensive than his daughter Jin? Only by giving birth to a son can you inherit the incense lineage, inherit the family business, what's the use of having a daughter? Can't stand up to the door, not to mention, the married daughter spilled out of the water, not only for nothing to raise the daughter-in-law for more than ten years, but also to pay a dowry, the father and mother died only to wear a year of filial piety, but to give the in-laws three years of filial piety, who wants to give birth to such a money-losing goods? Even if they are allowed to choose, they are naturally willing to have more sons and fewer daughters, if they can only choose one, then of course they want sons and not daughters.

Cai Wei looked down at these important ministers, and said word by word: "'It is a man who is born, a bed that carries sleep, a dress that carries clothes, and a zhang who carries play. It is a place of birth, a place of sleep, a cloth of clothes, and a tile of play. Since the Zhou Dynasty, people have favored sons over daughters, all of whom are happy to give birth to men and sad to give birth to girls, all because of various laws and customs, so that women can not bring any benefits to their mothers' families, and they are not as good as sons. ”

"Everyone has this heart, and the people will drown women, so that even if the war disasters have continued for thousands of years, the number of men will always be more than that of women, and the yang will always be prosperous and the yin and yang are not in harmony, so that from time to time there will be a rebellion of the men and the disaster of the country."

"Governing the country is like curing a disease, since the root of this disease has been found, how to treat the law, what is your opinion?"

The ministers looked at each other, everyone knew what this method should be, but who was willing to say it, once he said it, wouldn't it damage his own interests and be the enemy of the men in the world.

Cai Wei saw that they all shrunk their necks and became turtles with shrunken heads, and couldn't help sneering: "Qian Shangshu, you are in charge of the household department, so naturally you should know better than them the consequences of this imbalance in the number of men and women. You keep saying that a man cannot reproduce for the country if he cannot marry a daughter-in-law, but without a woman, how can he have offspring? It is already a dereliction of duty for you to let more than 4 million marriageable men have no women to marry, and now do you have a way to atone for your sins? ”

Seeing that the queen named him again, Hubu Shangshu was depressed in his heart, and thought for a long time and said: "Hui Niangniang, how do the old ministers not know the disadvantages of having more men and fewer women, and they have also used various methods to prevent the people from drowning women, but they have had little effect. Didn't Niangniang also issue three bans in a row when she was in charge of the government before, strictly prohibiting the people from drowning women? But this imperial power is not lower than the county, the county, the countryside and towns are still under the control of the clan and family law, and the many villages, counties and towns that we can't control are still drowning women. This is to increase the number of women in the country, but I am afraid that we still have to think about it in the long run, and then think of some ways to motivate the people to be willing to have daughters. ”

"I don't know how to make the people willing to have daughters?"

Qian Shangshu wiped the sweat on his forehead, "At this time, people don't want to have daughters, one is that they can't afford to raise them, and the other is to pay for the dowry, now that the treasury is abundant, it is better to issue a decree, but whoever gives birth to a daughter, the state will allocate rice and grain every month to support her, and then the state will give a dowry of a few taels of silver when she gets married, so that the people will not drown if they give birth to a daughter." ”

Cai Wei smiled: "This method looks good, but once it is really implemented, hehe, it will be difficult to say." No matter how good this decree is, once it goes down layer by layer, the further down it goes, the more unrecognizable it becomes. How do you ensure that the rations given to your daughters are not given to their sons by patriarchal parents, and how do you ensure that those who have no daughters, or whose daughters have drowned or starved to death, stuff some money into the servants and pretend to have women, and go to receive the subsidized rations in a grand manner? ”

"If this method is really to be implemented, I am afraid that it will not do much good to improve the practice of drowning women, but will only increase the expenditure of the state treasury, damage the public and private interests, and fatten many national moths. After all, how can the monthly ration allocated to a female child be compared to the land and property that a man can share from the clan. It is really necessary to effectively change the trend of drowning women, and the rewards and punishments in these details are useless, and we must first fundamentally change the bad customs of the Chinese people who favor sons over women. ”

And to change this custom, women must be given the same rights and interests as men. First, daughters, like their brothers, were born by the blood of their fathers and mothers, and like sons, they can also set up a household, inherit the ancestral family, inherit the incense, and be in the family tree, even if they are married, they still keep filial piety for their parents for three years. Their children can also take their mother's surname, which is sometimes seen in the Northern Qin, which is called a female household, and this example can be repeated today. Second, women shall have the same inheritance rights as men, and when the clan divides the land, the women shall have the same rights as the men. The property and dowry inherited by a woman are her private property, and even if she marries, she has nothing to do with her husband's family, but only passes on her children or still returns them to her parents. Third, women are allowed to go out of the house to read and write, work and do business, join the army and politics, and only those who have reached the age of 20 can marry, and under the age of 20, their parents and government cannot force them to marry. ”

"As long as these three can be achieved, within ten years, the people will feel that giving birth to a boy and a girl are the same, and they will no longer want to have a son, and those baby girls will not have to re-enter the cycle as soon as they are out of their mother's womb. Only in this way can we fundamentally solve the crisis of absent men with more men and fewer women and no women to marry, what do you think? ”

The ministers below immediately blew up the pot, and the head of the Ministry of Rites was unhappy, shaking his beard and saying loudly: "Niangniang, this male is inferior to women, it is the ancestral family law that has been passed down for thousands of years, how can you not respect the ancient teachings, and let the humble sit on an equal footing with the venerable, and even come to rob the man's job, this, this is simply not abiding by the law of etiquette and respecting the ancient system!" ”

Cai Wei sat for a long time, her waist was a little sore, and she simply stood up and said: "Since you are talking to me about the ancients, then let's talk about it well, although men are inferior to women in the past few thousand years, but if you go up, what about five thousand years ago?" There are records in the history books, in ancient times, they were all matrilineal clans, when people only knew that there was a mother, did not know that there was a father, and all major matters in the clan were decided by women, and the matrilineal inheritance system was implemented. This is why the surname in this surname is next to the female character, not the male character. To this day, the Mosuo people in Yunnan still live this matrilineal clan marriage system, in which men do not marry, women do not marry, marriage is voluntary, separation is free, and women are preferred over men. The whole family is happy, and there has never been such a singles crisis of more men and fewer women. Why don't-"

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu's heart was beating wildly, for fear that Queen Zhou would say something faint about learning from the Mosuo people, and she didn't care about any etiquette, so she cut off her words and said: "Niangniang's words are bad, the reason why she later changed from matrilineal to paternal is precisely because this male superiority and female inferiority is the real way of heaven."

"Heavenly Dao?" Cai Wei asked rhetorically, "What is the Heavenly Dao?" 'The way of heaven is to make up for what is lacking. The higher ones suppress it, the lower ones lift it, the surplus loses it, and the insufficient ones make up for it. This is the way of heaven. As for what 'male superiority and female inferiority' is just the humanity that you men later settled on for their own selfish interests, and you are embarrassed to put gold on your face and say that it is the way of heaven? ”

"Since the way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency by losing more than is exalted, then it is appropriate to make up for the women at the expense of men, elevate the status of women, and suppress the privileges of men. In addition to those three articles, since women are not allowed to marry a second time, and can only marry one husband in their life to show their chastity to their husbands' family, then men should also marry only one wife in their lives to show respect for their wives, and change the monogamy and multiple concubines to monogamy, and no longer allow men to take concubines, so as to save all kinds of disputes between concubines and make the family uneasy. ”

Among these ministers, the number of concubines accepted by the Shangshu of the Criminal Department is the most, and he is usually the most fond of women, and when he heard that Queen Zhou would not allow them to take concubines, he was immediately angry, "Queen Mother, this manly husband should have one man with many women, this is his natural nature, all things are animist, even those birds and beasts are also a male and many females to match it, you just force men to live with only one woman, this is completely disregard for men's nature!" ”

Cai Wei slowly paced on the Dan rhino and said, "The reason why people can be the spirits of all things, why? It is precisely because it is not like those beasts who only know animal nature but do not know human nature, and they have the heart of courtesy, righteousness, honesty, and self-denial. Besides, even those beasts, people also have monogamy, such as geese and swans, if one of them dies, the other will never live alone, even the ferocious wolf is also monogamous, never two colors? ”

In addition to looking at his files, Shang Shu of the Criminal Department was still in the red and green, where did he know the habits of these beasts, and he was suddenly dumbfounded. Gongbu Shangshu is a person who likes to read some idle books, and stepped forward to retort: "That is, there is one or two in all things who are monogamous, but after all, they are a minority, and most creatures are still polygamous, this is their nature, only by possessing more females, males can have more offspring, and their species will not die out." ”

Seeing that they really followed her words and gradually entered her, Cai Wei couldn't help but smile: "Yes, most creatures are like this, one male has more than one female, but can each male have more than one female?" Only the strongest male in the group can have three wives and four concubines, and those who are weak cannot compete with the stronger males than them, and even the females look down on them. If it is the nature of males to leave more of their offspring, then the nature of females is to try to ensure that their offspring are the best and strongest of their blood, so they will only select strong males to reproduce. ”

"And when it comes to us human beings, men must not only be physically strong, but also have money, because only if they have enough financial resources can they afford to raise children. So don't look at what you are shouting about four million empty men, in fact, those who can't marry a daughter-in-law are those who are at the bottom, have no money, no appearance and no ability, and those who have a little money are no matter how old and ugly they are, and they don't worry about finding a woman to give birth to children for them. Therefore, according to your argument, these four million open men are just like the male beasts who can't get the female, but it is natural selection. ”

"This, this lady also said just now, people are the spirit of all things, how can they be compared with these beasts, those beasts only know the weak and the strong, and there are no etiquette rules, but we have ah, what the people do to support our court, is to do practical things for the people. Those four million men are all His Majesty's people, and you can't watch your people die alone and grow old alone, Your Majesty! ”

For the first time in his life, Qin Fei felt a little headache, he simply closed his eyes, out of sight and out of mind, but unfortunately this ear could not be blocked, and he still had to listen to how his queen responded.

"Therefore, in order to allow these three-nil men to have their wives and children hot on the kang and not gather crowds to riot, you so-called parents and officials do not hesitate to use the power in their hands, regardless of the women's fight to the death, but also force them to jump into the fire kang and marry those men who can't bring them happiness at all and be cattle and horses for them. In this way, the poor men at the bottom have wives and children to serve them, and the rich men at the top no longer have to worry that the poor men who have nothing will rebel and take their wealth and women, except for those who are cannon fodder, which is really a great joy for everyone. ”

"But do you think that the only women who have been sacrificed and damaged are those who have been pushed into the fire and oppressed?"

"You're wrong! When you step on the bones of a woman, you think you are taking advantage, but in fact you are paying the same heavy price, and even the whole country has paid an even more painful loss! ”

The military department Shangshu blew his beard and glared: "Why did Niangniang say this, we are dedicated to planning and planning for the country, but Niangniang does not distinguish between right and wrong, just blindly supporting women." If it weren't for the Niangniang Niang who has been doing something in the ann women's hall over the years, so that those women can read and read, and work to make money, they will completely forget their own duties, and they don't know what the three outlines and five constants, three obediences and four virtues are, and they only care about their own comfortable life, and ignore the interests of the country, and are unwilling to marry and have children, so that there are many contradictions between men and women in the country today, which is all a lot of trouble caused by Niangniang! ”

"Yo, you're really good at dumping pots! Seeing that he couldn't say that he couldn't do it, he simply put this black cauldron on the head of the palace. Tracing back to the source, the evil was created by you patriarchal men, and as a result, the black cauldron asked the palace to carry it for you, just because the palace can no longer stand your patriarchal and feminine behavior of helping men and harming women, and wants to turn things around and enrich the people and strengthen the country. ”

As soon as the ministers wanted to refute, Cai Wei had already said sharply: "This palace asks you, why is it that since the time of the Western Qin, through the Northern Qin and the Southern Qin, my combat power has been declining, and the national strength has been declining, and when I am Yan Qin, I was almost wiped out by foreign races. ”

"Why is it that most of the men in the country today are unmanly waste, they can't pick their shoulders and can't lift their hands, most of them have to rely on their mothers and wives to provide for them, once the foreign enemy invades, they will immediately tie their hands and surrender, bloody men are becoming scarcer and rarer, and the servility of bullying the good and fearing the evil is becoming more and more serious, why are the sons and daughters of my Great Qin deteriorating and weakening to such a point?"

The military department is silent, he commands the military department, and naturally knows the su zhì of these soldiers today, and then think about the combat power of the Qin army in the Western Qin period contained in the history book of the military book, at that time, not to mention the soldiers in the barracks, even the champions and poets are all able to write poems with a pen, and can kill the enemy on horseback, and there are many fierce sons and women who are both civil and military, but now the men in the country ......

The official Shangshu answered: "This is all because since the Northern Qin Dynasty, the court has blindly emphasized military force and light literature, which is just-"

"Heavy martial arts and light literature are just one of them," Cai Wei interrupted him, "The more critical reason is that these men have been spoiled since childhood!" ”

"I don't need to say more about how high the status of women was in the Western Qin Dynasty, how free they lived, they wore men's clothes, played polo with men, fought wine and poetry, and became female officials and female generals. But when he arrived in the Northern Qin and Southern Qin Yanqin, Cheng Zhu Lixue became more and more prosperous, and the women were forced to wrap their little feet, let alone ride horses, and they couldn't even walk far, so they could only be locked up in the back house to take care of the house. ”

"Haven't you found out? When the women of a country are less shackled, the more they can show their vitality and talent, correspondingly, the men in the country are also more and more masculine, more confident and powerful, this is the so-called Yin Ping Yang secret, Yin and Yang harmony, it is the Western Qin Dynasty will be unprecedentedly strong, dominate the four seas, and all countries will come to the dynasty. ”

And after the Western Qin Dynasty, under the pressure of etiquette and religion, the women gradually became weak, and they were locked up in the back house and kept in captivity all day long. In this way, the husbands are naturally satisfied, and they make women so weak and powerless, isn't it just to contrast their strength, so as to satisfy their vanity, which is both inferior and arrogant, but what about the children who are taught? ”

"The closest person to every child after birth is his mother, what kind of person is the mother, and her words and deeds have a far greater impact on the child than in a private school. Not to mention that many people can't even afford to go to private schools at home. Whether men are breadwinners, lazy or lazy, they are all hands-off at home, leaving all the things about taking care of children to women. What would it be like for a strong, confident, optimistic and open-minded mother to raise a child? What kind of heart is a child raised by a weak, helpless, ignorant, and obedient mother who only knows how to be subservient and obedient? ”

"If the youth is strong, the country will be strong, and if you want the youth to be strong, you must first let them have a strong and confident mother, and the hand that pushes the cradle is the hand that pushes the country. In recent years, our Daqin is no longer closed to the country, and the sea market is wide, and you all know the strength of the Western Zealand country, and the novelty and subtlety of its various scientific and technological cultures. All because their country attaches more importance to the status of women, women can also succeed to the throne and govern the country, and the Beilu country on the northern island, the status of women in its country is the lowest in the world, worse than our Daqin, and its country is also recognized as the most ignorant and backward poor and weak country in the world. ”

"You say that men are the backbone of the country and the pillar of Daqin, but if you want men to be strong, you must first improve the quality of women, but what about you? On the contrary, they sailed against the current, not to mention improving the status of women, but to suppress and weaken them, because you yourself know that most of the men in the country are what kind of character, once women can support themselves, they would rather never marry for the rest of their lives than marry those who are useless, except for eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling and beating their wives, and will not waste anything else, and lose their own lives. ”

"But how did these three-no-no men who are above the top, who think they are sorry but have nothing to grow, all because of this patriarchal vulgarity! As soon as a parent sees that he has a son, he can't wait to hold it in the palm of his hand, spoiling him in every way, and whatever food and clothing there is in the house, he is all close to this son, and he is reluctant to let him do any heavy work, not only sacrificing his sisters, but even parents are willing to give everything for this son. ”

"Even if their parents don't have money and can't help them marry a daughter-in-law, they only need to howl twice, and their parents are worried that their eldest is not too young and they don't have wives and children, so they quickly try their best to force women to marry them, so that they can pass on their ancestry and take care of them for the rest of their lives."

"Those male beasts still know that they have to fight to the death with other males in order to win the female, but what about our Great Qin? Men know that they are superior from birth, as long as he is a man, then he is an uncle, he doesn't have to do anything, someone will arrange everything for him and serve him comfortably. In the first half of their lives, they were supported by their parents, and in the second half of their lives, they were served by their wives, and there were always people who paid for them. ”

"As for themselves, they don't have to do anything, they can live a life without any effort or cost. As the saying goes, born in adversity and dying in peace, the blade of the sword is sharpened, so the men in this land are used to being unlikely, and they have become a wine bag and rice bag that does not learn and eats and waits for death, like a parasite. The so-called preference for sons over women is actually a kind of killing for men? ”

"Among those beasts, only the strong can have a queen, and the weak male can't leave offspring at all, although cruel, but this mechanism of competition also ensures that the offspring it gives birth to are stronger than the next generation, and what about us? No matter how weak and frustrated the men in the country are, there are still women for them to knock on the bones and suck the marrow, and blindly accommodate them to be cattle and horses, and the result is that they are more and more unenterprising, and one generation is weaker than the next. This is why, since the fall of the Western Qin Dynasty, the trend of preference for sons over women has intensified, and the more privileges men enjoy, the more the overall national strength and national strength have weakened. ”

"So that when the iron hooves of the Tartars swept through the rivers and mountains of China fifteen years ago, except for a few bloody men who defended their homes and defended the country and fought bravely against the enemy, more men simply surrendered the Tartars when they saw that the enemy was strong, because they had already learned to obey the strong from their obedient and servile mothers."

"If they have seen since they were children that their mother wants to compete with a bunch of women next to them for their father's favor, and they want to compete with a bunch of half-brothers for the family property, the ability to fight in this nest is perfect, even if the external enemy is current, it is still an endless internal fight."

"The catastrophe of the invasion of foreign enemies fifteen years ago was precisely because a large number of officials and generals surrendered without a fight, coupled with the endless internal strife before His Majesty ascended the throne, that my Great Qin had so many people's land, but it couldn't even defeat hundreds of thousands of Tartars, and it almost wiped out the country."

Cai Wei's long speech was about to come out, and the ministers below were churning in their hearts, only to feel that her words were like knives, and the knives were stabbed in their hearts, and like a steel whip smashing their gorgeous brocade robes, revealing all kinds of ugliness inside.

How can they still listen to it?

"Queen Mother," the official Shangshu said a little angrily, "You are simply messing around and making such a bunch of fallacies, isn't it just for your selfishness in the final analysis?" I'm afraid that Your Majesty will accept the harem and insist on monogamy, just for your own selfish interests, and the result-"

Before he finished speaking, Cai Wei shouted: "You are just talking nonsense here, and you are talking nonsense!" Your Majesty loves me deeply, don't you know how many times you have mentioned beauty pageants and concubines in the past ten years, and the result? ”

"You actually say that this palace is for your own selfishness? I tell you clearly, if this palace really wants to only care about itself, it will not take trouble to come out and speak for women at all. Just raise the fetus in the Palace of Eternal Life with peace of mind, and enjoy His Majesty's special favor for me to the fullest, why bother knowing that it will make His Majesty embarrassed, but still insisting on going his own way, against your infamy, but also to risk the disapproval of the world, and fight for the rights that women deserve. ”

"Fang Cai Bengong has said it, I repeat, I am for women, but more importantly, for the well-being and national fortune of my Great Qin, and for the future generations of my Great Qin. I don't believe that no man has seen the disadvantages of patriarchy that I have just enumerated. Hasn't Zhu Qing always boasted that as a man, a woman with far more knowledge and wisdom than a woman with long hair and short knowledge? Can't you even see these benefits and harms that even I, a woman, can see? ”

"You know it, but you keep silent, knowing that this thousand-year-old chronic disease is the cure, but you still don't say a word, and you still want to continue to oppress women to drink to quench their thirst, for what?"

"It's just that I can't bear all the privileges and benefits that this patriarchal woman gives you men. Just for the sake of your men's selfish ideas, knowing that being with the country will only be harmful and not beneficial, but you don't want to change at all, who puts your own selfish interests above the interests of the country? Who would rather harm the public and private interests, cheapen themselves and pit the country for the sake of their own vested interests? ”

Some ministers finally have a look of guilt on their faces, but many more still don't want to change the status quo. When you have enjoyed a benefit for thousands of years and have long been accustomed to the benefits it brings to you, that is, no matter how much righteousness of the family and country, how can they be willing to give up and spit out the fat that has been eaten in their stomachs.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu fell to his knees and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I am in the ancestral system, and the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics." The queen mother did not comply with the etiquette law and came to the court without permission, which is one of the crimes, not abiding by the ancestral system, and the second crime is also the second crime. openly appeared in front of us and other courtiers, and did not use a curtain to cover his face, which is really a loss in women's morality, and these three sins are also. Since the queen is the mother of the country, she should be an example for women in the world, and please ask Your Majesty to strictly punish the queen for this kind of immoral behavior, so as not to make the universe hang upside down, yin and yang upside down, and cause great disasters! ”

As soon as the ministers saw that there was a leader, they immediately knelt down and shouted in unison: "The queen is arrogant about the government, repeatedly violates the ancestral system, and has a loss of virtue, and asks Your Majesty to punish her severely to set an example!" ”

Seeing that so many ministers were all about to crusade against her, Cai Wei smiled faintly, and also turned to look at Qin Fei, waiting for his ruling, to see if he would finally stand on the side of the men, or if he would still walk side by side with her.