Cai Wei smiled back at him, squeezed his hand under his sleeve again, and then looked at Shangshu of the Criminal Department and said: "If everything is not peaceful, it will be loud, and so will people!" How can so many women risk prison to take to the streets □□ protest? I don't know if Zhao Shangshu knows that they did this amazing thing? ”

When she asked the reason, Zhao Shangshu was so angry that his white beard trembled, and he said angrily: "It is precisely because the reason why they are making trouble in the streets is so ridiculous that the old minister implores His Majesty to put all these crazy women in prison, so as not to let them speak absurd words and bewitch the public on the street." ”

Out of nowhere, these women heard that the imperial court was going to carry out the "marriage decree", so they ran out into the street and made a fuss. When a woman reaches an age, she should marry and have children, spread branches and leaves for her husband's family, and reproduce heirs, which is a natural thing, but now these women are good, they can support themselves by themselves, and they even shout that they don't want to marry, and they are forced to marry, and they would rather comb themselves and die alone. As the people of the court, not only did they not share the worries of the court, but dared to disobey the orders of the court and openly disobey the orders, which is simply trying to make trouble, Your Majesty! ”

Emperor Yuan Jia, the "Majesty" who was earnestly called by him, still didn't say a word, and the voice of the queen mother came from the throne.

"Zhao Shangshu is afraid that he is old, and his memory is not very good. When did His Majesty issue a clear decree that the "Marriage Decree" would be implemented throughout the country? ”

"However, there are some government officials at the bottom, and it is clear that the imperial court has not yet implemented this "Marriage Order", and has forcibly matched the women like wolves and tigers, and forced many flower-like girls to be matched to some men who are not as good as pigs and dogs, and it has only been a few days, and there have been hundreds of women who have fought to the death in order not to be sent to the fire pit. This provoked women everywhere to protest, if you really want to be guilty, it should be those government officials who abuse private law and forcibly force marriage to disobey the will of the imperial court! ”

Zhao Shangshu was stunned, a while ago, a group of courtiers took out the "Marriage Order" in the court every day and said, Emperor Yuan Jia didn't say anything against it, just let them discuss it again and draw up a more complete decree. Although they have not yet issued a clear decree, in their opinion, it is a sure thing to issue this "Marriage Decree" across the country, and it is a matter of time and time, so they subconsciously feel that the street parade of these women is openly confronting the court, but they don't want to be slapped in the face by the queen.

Seeing this, Hubu Shangshu hurriedly said: "Niangniang, the government officials in various places are also forced by the local people, so they have to do it as a last resort!" I don't know if Niangniang has seen Mr. Jia Pingwa's new masterpiece "Jihua", as written in that book, in the villages and towns under the jurisdiction of many prefectures and counties, only one or two of ten men can marry wives, and there is no woman in the whole village in that remote and poor place. In the long run, there will be more and more men, not only is yin and yang out of balance, but these men are also unable to reproduce heirs, not only will they cut off the ancestral incense from now on, but for my Great Qin, there will be countless fewer people, and so the young and middle-aged people in the country are all old, but there are not enough babies born, and then the population of the country will wither, and I am afraid that there will be a disaster of extinction of the country! ”

The official department also said: "Yes, Niangniang, since ancient times, all dynasties have attached great importance to the reproduction of this nation, this is a major event of the country, the place of life and death, and many dynasties have carried out this marriage order." For example, when Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, a woman who did not marry at thirty would be fined 600 yuan; During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, "if the parents of the seventeenth year of the female are not married, the elders will be matched." "During the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang, all women who had no husbands in their twenties were filled with laundry rooms; During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, women of appropriate age had to get married within one year, otherwise they would be blamed on their parents first, and the local county government or education department would marry in accordance with the provisions of the Tang Dynasty. At the time of Yuan Dingzong, the sixteen women who had no fingers were returned to the big tent, and the second was given to the sergeant. ”

"After all, the rise and fall of this country is not only the responsibility of the husband, but also the responsibility of the woman. Didn't this Nuwa Niangniang create women to come out just so that they could marry and have children? This is the responsibility that they are born to bear as women, and now a large number of young and strong men in the country have no wives, but there are so many women in the ann women's hall who are unwilling to marry for their own selfish interests, and in the long run, not to mention that in another one or two decades, there is a risk of extinction of the country, even now, it is also the boiling of public resentment, and incidents are frequent! ”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department understood, and hurriedly said: "What Li Shangshu said is true, this lonely yin is not born, and the only yang is not long, only the harmony of yin and yang can make the world peaceful." But now the country is full of lonely yang, and there is no female yin and harmony, can this not happen? In the past two years, the government has received several times more cases of abduction of daughters than before. The world scolds abductors and traffickers, but where is there no demand for trafficking? is still written in the book "Jihua", the women in those villages have run away, and the men will have to fight for a lifetime if they don't find traffickers to buy a daughter-in-law! ”

In addition to this abduction and trafficking case, there are more and more cases of women being □□ by men, and even in broad daylight, there are people who act openly regardless of it, which shows that those men are really ruthless. If it goes on like this, not to mention whether the men who can't marry their wives can hold it any longer, will they get sick, even if it is extremely unsafe for women! ”

Speaking of which, the voice of the criminal department Shangshu trembled, and his voice was full of deep compassion and sympathy for those singles who had been absent for a long time and could not marry wives, as if he had felt the same for what they had suffered.

A sneer appeared on Cai Wei's lips, and she looked at the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry and said, "The four of them have expressed their own opinions on this "Marriage Order", do you two have anything to say?" ”

The secretary of the military department took a step forward and said solemnly: "Even if the mother doesn't ask, the minister also has something to say." When there are a large number of absent men among the people, the most terrible thing is not the crimes of abduction, trafficking, □□ and other crimes mentioned by the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, these are just petty fights, but some women suffer. What is really terrible is what if these out-of-town men rebelled like those homeless people who couldn't eat enough during the famine? ”

"Originally, this man was born with a masculine spirit, and he was born to be more brave and ruthless than a woman, if he could marry a daughter-in-law, he could reconcile the violence of a man with the femininity of a woman, but now does the mother know how many men in the people who can't marry a daughter-in-law? There are four million people, once these men gather to rebel in order to rob women, then our entire Great Qin Kingdom will suffer from war! There are records in the history books, because of the disaster of Kuangnan, there were five or six dynasties that died in the country, Your Majesty! ”

The secretary of the military department said that he was worried about the country and the people, and he was impassioned. As soon as his words fell, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu saw that the emperor's four pairs of eyes shot towards him, and he hurriedly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said loudly: "The minister thinks that what the five Shangshu said is extremely true, and I also ask the queen to think about my Great Qin Guoyun, and put the country's society as the priority, don't continue to protect women for the sake of selfish interests, so that my Daqin is in danger, Niangniang!" ”

For a while, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty said in unison: "Please also ask the mother to focus on the society of the country and the society, and the self-interest of women is light!" ”

Cai Wei looked at the loyal ministers who were angry and asked for the people's lives, and suddenly laughed.

"Hahahaha, it turns out that in the eyes of your ministers, I help women speak, but it's just for my own selfish interests? Vain Er waited all day long to boast that he was better than Zhuge and comparable to Guan Zhong, all of them were people with eyes and beads, and they couldn't even see the good intentions of the palace for the country. Of course, this palace is speaking for women, but this move is to fundamentally strengthen my Great Qin and rejuvenate my Huaxia! ”

The military department Shangshu was the first to jump out and said: "Niangniang's words are wrong, it is simply black and white, and then the "Marriage Order" is not good, so that men have wives, I am afraid that the world will be peaceful in the past few years, and there will be civil strife." And the people can't reproduce their descendants, and the population of the country is decreasing day by day, so how can we talk about strengthening my Great Qin and prospering my China? ”

"It seems that listening to what Sun Shangshu said, as long as the "Marriage Order" is implemented, it can ensure that those absent men will not rebel, and Daqin will not be in danger of losing the country, right? You just said that there are five or six dynasties in the history books that led to the death of the country because of this disaster of the man, I don't know which dynasties they are, please say it so that the palace can see it for a long time! Cai Wei asked for a long time.

"This—" The soldier Shangshu coughed twice, but he couldn't speak.

"Why, could it be that Sun Shangshu is also old, and his memory is not very good, so he can't remember it for a while? If this palace is not mistaken, among the dynasties that died due to the disaster of the empty man, it happened to be the five dynasties of Han, Jin, Liang, Tang, and Yuan, oops! Isn't this the five dynasties that the Ministry of Ministers said had made the marriage order? Why did they all practice the law of marriage, but in the end they died because of the disaster of absenteeism? ”

"You are all seven-foot men who have read all the subsets of scriptures and history, and they are talented and knowledgeable, and they have always been very knowledgeable.

"This ......" the official Shangshu cleared his throat and said: "Niangniang doesn't know, those dynasties were all in the beginning of this marriage order, to the last few monarchs, because of the increasingly sparse government, so that the government order was abolished, which made the number of men increase unabated, and finally there was a military rebellion, it can be seen that the reason for its demise is not in the "marriage order", but in the fact that although there is this order, but can not adhere to the implementation of the reason! ”

Cai Wei clapped her hands lazily and praised: "Li Shangshu is really eloquent!" It's just that I don't know if you have ever asked the head of the household, how many bachelors are there in the country who can't marry a daughter-in-law, and how many marriageable women are there? ”

Hubu Shangshu didn't think about it and said: "There are more than four million single men, as for this marriageable woman, I think it's about the same number, but they are all hiding in the An Nutang and don't want to get married, that's-"

"Nonsense!" Cai Wei said angrily: "Dare you think that all the women in the world have gone to the An Nu Hall in this palace? This palace tells you, I want to build an announ hall in every village and county in the world, but how can I use more than ten years of hard work, so far I have only built an announ hall in a total of 360 state capitals across the country, a total of 360 houses, each ann nu hall can accommodate a maximum of 1,000 women, and there are only a few people together, but only 360,000 people. Compared with the more than 4 million empty men, how much is the difference? ”

Where are the ministers willing to believe it, "Wouldn't this be, didn't they all say that the women in many villages and towns all ran to An Nutang?" "Niangniang is underreporting the number, right?"

Cai Wei didn't bother to reason with them, so she directly ordered someone to move out a bunch of rosters and put them on the main hall, "This is the roster of women in the Annutang in the past ten years, and it is clearly written in black and white, and the household registration offices of various state capitals are also registered, so go and see for yourself!" My Ann Nu Tang is a woman's paradise again, but how many unmarried women in this world can muster the courage to disobey their parents' orders, resolutely refuse to marry regardless of etiquette and customs, and escape from home? I'm afraid it's not as many concubines in this world? ”

She looked at the Hubu Shangshu, "If the palace asks you again, how many concubines are recorded in this household register, I'm afraid that Qian Shangshu will probably not be able to answer!" ”

Tobe Shangshu wiped the sweat from his forehead and shrunk his neck.

"According to the statistics of this palace, there are as many as 120,000 concubines in the country who are recorded in the household register, and there are even more concubines who are not registered, and there are as many as seventy-eight concubines in the six of you in the study alone. Don't be embarrassed, there is a big family in Wangjia Village, Dingyuan County, Tuzhou, don't look at the family is a rich man, but there are as many as 100 concubines in the room, more than the six of you in the Shangshu room combined? ”

"I have a close friend in the boudoir, and it took ten years to roughly count the number of concubines in the country, guess how many there are?"

"There are a total of 860,000 concubines, which is 500,000 more than all the women in my Annu Hall. And how many husbands and husbands are there? But sixty thousand. On the one hand, 4 million men could not marry a daughter-in-law, but on the other hand, 60,000 men accounted for 860,000 women. Since you are so worried that these absent men will not be able to marry their daughters-in-law, why not make another "Abolition of Concubine Order" in addition to the "Marriage Order", each man is only allowed to marry one wife, and no longer accept concubines, so that in addition to the 360,000 women in my Naan Nutang, there can be more than 800,000 women to match those empty men? ”

What the? "Abolition of Concubine Order"? This week, the queen is too ruthless, not only did she prevent Emperor Yuanjia from taking a concubine, but now she even stretched out her hand to the heads of men all over the world, and even wanted them to be like Emperor Yuanjia, only guarding one woman for the rest of their lives, how can this be done? It's just too deceitful!

So the ministers became angry again, and the ministers shouted: "It is natural for this man to have three wives and four concubines, and if he doesn't marry a few concubines, how can he spread out and have many sons and grandchildren!" ”

"If you are not allowed to take concubines, in case the wife can't give birth to children, wouldn't it be cut off from the incense in the family, this is not filial piety, and there are no queens!"

even questioned her, "As long as the "Marriage Order" is implemented, the unmarried women in the people are enough to match the four million absent men, why do you need to abolish the concubine order again." ”

There are also people who blushed and shouted: "Carrying out this order to abolish concubines, and letting those men who have concubines leave their homes to re-marry, isn't this tantamount to cuckolding their own heads?" The dignity of men is at stake, and the stakes must not be made in such an absurd manner. ”

Cai Wei sneered: "The same is to solve the problem of a man not being able to marry a daughter-in-law, how can the "Marriage Order" be implemented for the country and the people, the benefit is in the present, and the merit is in the future, and the "Abolition of Concubines Order" will no longer allow one man to dominate many women, but it is extremely ridiculous?" ”

"As for the nonsense about the dignity of men, don't talk about it, the concubine room is just a decoration in the eyes of you men, and there are fewer people who are sent by you to exchange or even killed on weekdays? There are not a few people who exchange horses, money, and paintings, so why didn't they care about the color of the hat on their heads at that time? ”

"And the one who said that the marriageable women of the people are enough to be matched to those absent men, do you know how many marriageable women are in the country but are not married? Even if you count those widows and abandoned women, the total is only 2.84 million. ”

Immediately, someone muttered: "Isn't this the same as the hundreds of thousands of people in the Annu Hall?" ”

Cai Wei smiled coldly, "Qian Shangshu, you come and explain to them the true meaning of these four million empty men." ”

Hubu Shangshu couldn't imagine that the queen mother knew all about the household registration numbers of these men and women, and he didn't dare to be vague anymore, so he had to say with a bitter face: "There are 7.17 million marriageable and unmarried young men in the country, and 2.84 million marriageable and husbandless women, and the two are subtracted, a total of 4.33 million men...... It's for the open man. ”

"Did you hear that? This palace reminds you again that the 360,000 women who are housed in the Ann Nu Hall of this palace are also among the 2.84 million people. That is to say, at present, there is no one left in the country except for the 860,000 concubines who can be married. Even so, there are still more than 3 million absent men who are destined to not be able to get wives, because they have no wives to marry at all! ”

The ministers were shocked: "How is this possible? "How so?" "Isn't it always the case that there are more women than men? How many men have died in the previous war, why is it rare to have daughters in the country? ”

Cai Wei ignored them and asked about the head of the household, "How many people are there in my country today, how many men are there, and how many are women?" In the past decade, has there been more men than women, or more women than men? ”

Qian Shangshu frowned, and reluctantly replied: "Hui Niangniang, there are 20,000 people in my country today, including 10,000,000 and 28 million men and 72 million women. In the past 10 years, there have been more women than men, but in the past two years, the number of women has increased compared with previous years, and 10 years ago there were 70 or 80 million more men than women. ”

"Since Shang Shu has been in charge of the household department for many years, he should know why the number of men is more than 50 million more than that of women, almost half of them, why is this?"

"This--," Qian Shangshu thought for a moment and replied cautiously, "First, I am extremely effective in sending Guanyin, so the number of newborn male babies is far more than that of female babies, and second, men are born strong and healthy, and often live to be more than forty, while women are endowed with weak endowments and often die of illness before they are thirty. This one is born less than a man, and dies faster than a man, and it is a ......"

Cai Wei didn't have a smile on her lips, nodded and said, "This second article is good, but this first article says that baby girls are born less than baby boys, but they are talking nonsense with their eyes open." ”

"Another friend of mine also spent ten years and found that if there was no external interference, for every 100 female babies born, there would be 105 male babies, because the survival rate of male babies is much lower than that of female babies, so they have to give birth to a few more to offset their premature mortality rate. In this way, it is actually a man and a woman, a radish and a pit, just right. But why are there so many more men now? It is not because of the manifestation of Guanyin, so that the women are pregnant with male fetuses, but those tens of thousands of female babies are born, because they are not boys, they are immediately drowned, lose their lives, and they will not live to grow up at all! ”

"In every village and town in this land, you can see the bones of discarded baby girls by the ditches, and in some places there is even a special baby girl tower so that people can put unwanted baby girls in them and leave them to fend for themselves."

"You bring out "Jihua" at every turn to say how miserable it is for those men who can't marry their daughters-in-law, so have you ever heard a poem written by the poet Chen Kaican - "Drowning Girl's Mourning"?

"Don't rejoice in giving birth to a man, and be sad when you give birth to a girl. There are also spoiled women from poor families, and it is common for rich women to drown their years. Today, when a woman is born, he is talking about marriage. The poor family pays a lot of money, and the rich family marries a daughter. Dumping the box, the master is worried first, the poor flesh and bones have been floating, and the grandfather doesn't care about turning back first. I call on Grandpa and Grandpa to endure this, and I hope that all people in the world will have children. If you give birth to a child, you must marry a woman, please marry and flow eastward! ”

"It's not just the poor who want to drown their daughters, but even the rich and noble don't want daughters, so you can understand why the four million absent men in the country can't marry their daughters-in-law, because the daughters-in-law whom God has given them have been buried in the earth when they were born, thrown into the water, or buried in the belly of wild dogs......"

"Now you come to sue me, who is the culprit who caused these four million men to have no women to marry? Are those baby girls who died at birth, or those self-combing girls in Ann Nutang who don't want to marry? ”