On the third day after the Tong Sheng test, Emperor Li Sanlang did not rush to inquire about the exam, but ordered the Zuo Shilang Si Qu Tong of the Punishment Department to focus on explaining several new decrees newly compiled into the "Great Sui Law".

The first is the Marriage Act.

This decree is much more comprehensive and strict than the law left by Emperor Yang of Sui.

The first is about concubinage.

The new decree is not as general as Emperor Yang of Sui, no family is allowed to have a firstborn son before the birth of the eldest son, and the concubine is not allowed to inherit the family business, etc.

Mu Fushu felt that it was better to be sparse than blocked.

As for concubines, the new law stipulates as follows: Regardless of whether it is a farmer or a high-ranking official, the main wife can take a concubine if she is over 30 years old and infertile, and the concubine can give birth to a child under the name of the mother-in-law. If the concubine unfortunately dies, the concubine can inherit half of the family's property, and the other two will be sold by the clan, and 30% will be used for the treasury. If the mother-in-law is infertile for life, the concubine can be raised as a son-in-law, and after becoming a family, she can inherit eighty percent of the family business, and the remaining one transaction will be made by the clan, and one percent will be filled with the treasury.

There are pitfalls to this decree.

Many women may not get pregnant until many years after marriage, and it is also possible that after giving birth to a son-in-law, the son-in-law and the mother-in-law will be harmed by the mother-in-law who was previously raised as a son-in-law. The reason for this is that no matter what, as the head of the family, in order to keep his property, he will always protect his son-in-law. As for what will happen to the unwilling mother-in-law, Mu Fushu can only hehe. She can't do everything, she can only help the main room here, after all, in this era, no child is guilty of seven crimes.

The formulation of this decree was also entangled by San Lang and Mu Fushu for a long time. In Mu Fushu's words, not all infertility problems are in women, what if men are infertile? Even if it is useless to take a concubine.

Then the second article is about the infertility of the concubine after taking a concubine: if the concubine has not come out for three years, you can take another concubine, and this concubine needs to pay. How much? It is one-third of the family's property.

For example, if a farmer has three acres of land, he needs to hand over one acre to the court before he can accept a second concubine; The merchant is required to hand over one-third of his family's property; Officials are required to hand over one-third of their family property and demote them by half...... If you want to take another concubine, you must hand over another third...... That is to say, if a person takes four concubines, he will be bankrupt.

There is also a small note at the end: if the concubine dies, the replacement of another concubine will also be carried out in accordance with the above decree.

That is to say, if the first concubine dies, the second one will be counted as the second, and the money will be deducted. As long as the concubine enters the door, it counts!

When the decree first arrived at the Criminal Department, some people questioned it, and as a result, Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department took out a census form of Chang'an City, which clearly recorded: The ratio of young men and women in Chang'an City is 10:7.

That is to say, there are thirty percent more men than women, and if there are men who have more concubines, there are other men who want to beat singles. At present, there are still thirty percent of men who can't get their mothers-in-law!

When this edict was read out by the court, the bottom began to buzz, and the great eunuch saw that the emperor and queen looked solemn, so he knocked on the cloud board, and Si Qutong continued to read.

What follows is the law concerning the prohibition of concubinage in the right place.

Originally, in the laws left by Emperor Yang of Sui, there were many laws for the royal family, such as if the concubine was established as the crown prince, the biological mother should be executed, and there were no such regulations for ordinary people and official families. If the wife of the head of the family dies, the lord can also straighten out the concubine he likes. Because now many high-ranking families still have the habit of marrying concubines, such as marrying a concubine to marry a concubine, this is also a means of grinding the concubine room in the main room, when the concubine is at home, the concubine is under the hands of the main mother, and the daughter who marries the concubine is under the hands of her daughter, which is also a kind of psychological comfort.

In this way, the concubines and the main house are also from the same family, and the identity is not bad, and some Lang owners in order to maintain an in-law relationship with their own family-in-law, after the death of the main wife, many will be as a concubine's aunt or cousin, aunt and cousin and the like.

After the promulgation of this decree, it also caused a whisper, and unfortunately there were two officials standing here who had died in the main room and the concubine, and these two people were red-faced at the moment, and they didn't know what to do.

Mu Fushu saw it on it and understood what was going on, so he motioned to the eunuch to knock on the cloud board and said loudly: "Forget what you have done before, and never in the future!" ”

One of the concubines, Sun Haizhou, the right attendant of the military department, came out and saluted respectfully: "Your Highness, I don't know what the meaning of this decree is?" ”

Mu Fushu looked at him and sneered: "Sun Haizhou, your wife died of illness in June last year, and in August, you will make the concubine who gave birth to your eldest son the main room, and the concubine is still your wife's sister-in-law, is what this palace said right?" ”

Sun Haizhou nodded: "What His Highness said is true." ”

Mu Fushu looked at him with pity on his face: "Your wife once gave birth to a daughter for you, and then she had three miscarriages and died of illness after dragging her body down." And your concubine presided over the middle feed after his wife gave birth to her eldest daughter, and then gave birth to your eldest son and second daughter when your wife was seriously ill. ”

Sun Haizhou sweated on his forehead, and he couldn't help but lean down: "Yes." ”

Mu Fushu suddenly said loudly: "Okay! I ask you, do you know that your noble concubine put musk saffron in your wife's diet, causing her to miscarry unknowingly before she died? ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was silent.

Before promulgating this decree, Mu Fushu investigated the two officials of the Fuzheng concubine room in the court. This check found out that something was wrong.

Don't talk about him, his wife is not in good health in the boudoir, which is commonly known as heart disease, and when she was five months pregnant, she died together with adults and children. The noble concubine of Fuzheng is the aunt and cousin of the main wife, and she is now over forty years old and has given birth to two sons and two daughters.

Sun Haizhou is really stupid. His aunt was gentle and generous in front of him, not only taking her daughter in front of her, but also treating her better on the surface than her own children, and this is how the sister-in-law was still sick and crooked, and at the age of ten she was still the size of a six- or seven-year-old girl.

Sun Haizhou was so shocked by the empress's words that he almost forgot to react, and the other officials also looked at him in shock. Everyone knows that his original partner is not in good health, but he didn't expect that he was drugged by the concubine, and he also straightened the concubine two months after the death of the original partner......

Mu Fushu saw that everyone was making up for it, and Sun Haizhou was also stupid and pestle there, so he said to Si Qutong: "After the next dynasty, I will go to Lord Sun's house and bring the prisoner's wife Zou to the Chang'an Mansion for interrogation." ”

Si Qutong is in charge of the Criminal Department, although it is a bit overkill to let him order the arrest of the Zou family, it also shows that Mu Fushu attaches great importance to this case. came up and said that Zou was a criminal woman, which meant that she had been condemned. She is trying to make an example of the monkeys, so that those concubines who are lucky will understand their position.

It's not their fault to be concubines, and it's not bad to have lofty ideals to climb up, but it's a big mistake to have a harmful heart and step on the top of the main room. Mu Fushu is not unreasonable, she doesn't even look down on Ji Nu, and feels that many of them are involuntarily, but you have to stand firm on your own position, and if you have the ability, you will climb up in the open, so that it is absolutely unforgivable to harm others.

The final result was that Sun Haizhou was temporarily suspended to clean up the back house, and Si Qutong continued to read the revised law.

The rest were trivial, and there was little reaction, especially when the ban on infantile drowning was enacted:

If there is a drowning baby, the mother shall be sentenced to death; Those whose families are drowning infants will be exiled for 3,000 miles, and the head of the family will be distributed and their property confiscated.

This has to be said to be harsh enough.

After this decree was read out, even Cui Yuanqi felt that it was a bit heavy and proposed it in court.

San Lang pointed at Si Qutong and said, "Do you still remember the young men and women in Chang'an that Master Fang Cai showed to everyone?" Don't think that baby drowning is just a trifle! If this continues, there will be more men and fewer women, which will inevitably affect the population of the Great Sui, and when the population of the Great Sui will drop sharply, who will cultivate the farmland? Who will develop the business and commerce? If the foreigners have different intentions, who will replenish the troops? ”

Mu Fushu also added: "Don't underestimate this drowning baby, we all know that most of the drowning are female babies, and the difference between men and women in Chang'an is so big, and Chang'an is still relatively rich and far away from famine and war." Over the years, almost the entire Great Sui has experienced famine and war, and there are many poor people, who are the main group of people who drown babies. Half of the national population statistics have come out, and in some places the ratio of men to women is 10 to 2, that is, there are only two women out of 10 people, and there are so many men left, where do they go to take wives? Where to pass on the lineage? ”

In this age, the heir is a great plan, and without the heir, everything is empty. As soon as Mu Fushu said this, this panic was permeated throughout the morning court.

Mu Fushu continued: "If there are more women and fewer men, then a man can marry a few more, and now that there are more men and fewer women, is it possible for a woman to marry a few more men?" ”

Cui Yuanqi didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he actually said: "This custom does exist, and it is common in Yunnan-Guizhou area......

Mu Fushu and San Lang watched Cui Yuanqi gushing endlessly to supplement the folk customs of a female husband for the courtiers, and looked at the courtiers' wide open mouths and the miserable look of "Please tell me such a terrible thing", both of them couldn't help but want to laugh.

Finally, Cui Yuanqi popularized the border folk customs, and the petrified courtiers unanimously passed the decree of heavy punishment for drowning infants. They can't imagine the sad prospect of their sons and grandsons "marrying" a woman with other men......

This court meeting lasted almost two full hours, and a total of 126 decrees were amended, and 125 were passed, and the one that did not pass guò was proposed by Mu Fushu that women should also go to school in the same way as men.

For this decree, Mu Fushu refers to the nine-year compulsory education in his previous life, and he didn't think that he would be able to pass guò, but he was really killed, but it can be regarded as half of it, and the "must" school was changed to a "voluntary" school.

Others, such as the fact that widows no longer have rewards for remarrying and celebrating festivals, are also considered smooth, because the courtiers are frightened by the imbalance between men and women, for fear that their children and grandchildren will not be able to please their mothers-in-law.

After going down, the eldest princess's mansion handed over the news, saying that the Shen Yinlou had sent her something by name.

And Shen's Silver Building is the one that Mu Fushu and San Lang followed Zhang's into in Fuguifang three days ago, which is the property of Zhang's husband's family. R1152