"The king is really a minister!" Tang Fengyi clapped her hands and praised.

The same means are used to open the sea, and to suppress extravagance is to be a minister. Tang Yushi's double standard is very slippery, and he doesn't seem to realize this, so he praises Wang Yuan for doing a good job!

The Ni family immediately returned ninety percent of the dowry, and the Yu family went back to her parents' house to remarry.

Immediately afterwards, the Yu family announced their support for the governor, and from then on they would take the initiative to return ninety percent of the Ni family's dowry.

Not only that, the Ni and Yu families have demolished the illegal places in the house, and the children of the two clans are wearing Ge clothes when they go out. The poetry society founded by the Yu family in Hangzhou, when the literary meeting was held, was also entertained with vegetarian tea, and there was no longer a diet such as wine and meat.

In a word, these two wealthy families were frightened by Governor Wang!

The other families in Hangzhou were also frightened, and quickly carried out house renovations, anyway, they could not leave the governor with the handle of violating the system.

Qiantang, Renhe, Haining, Fuyang, Yuhang, and Lin'an counties, which are close to the county seat of Hangzhou, have successively carried out marriage inventory work. They couldn't directly manage the countryside, so they only cleaned up the county town and went door-to-door to ask if there was a marriage contract.

If the children are already married, and they are beyond the prescribed age and have not yet been married, they will be ordered to visit the church within half a month!

The recent auspicious day is just that day, and the six counties will gather to hold weddings.

Just like Tang Fengyi said, the real purpose of stipulating the age of marriage for men and women is not to enforce it, but to give the families of both parties to the marriage a step down.

Especially those ordinary people, because of their good face, they can't get married. Now that there is an order from the government, I finally don't have to pay a huge dowry, and I am not afraid of the neighbors' irresponsible remarks, and I welcome the bride one by one happily.

Tang Fengyi was chatting with Wang Yuan, and suddenly a subordinate official came to report: "General system, there are people outside the camp shouting grievances!" ”

"Bring him in." Wang Yuan said.

Tang Fengyi also sat next to her, waiting to see Governor Wang hear the case.

There were several people who shouted grievances, all of them were shabby-dressed farmers and peasant women, and as soon as they entered the main hall of the Land Temple, they all fell to their knees.

Wang Yuan asked, "What grievances do you have waiting for?" ”

One of the peasants seemed to have read for a few days, and his speech was coherent: "Lord Governor, we are all good citizens of Yong'an Township, Fuyang County. Although there were children in the family, there was no marriage contract, and they were not over the age prescribed by the Governor. But the county soap officials conspired with the country scoundrels, and insisted that we had disobeyed the governor's decree. ”

Wang Yuan had already guessed the truth and asked, "They took the opportunity to blackmail?" ”

The farmer said, "Each family must pay a tael of money for breaking the marriage, otherwise they will be punished as a servant." The soap officials and scoundrels said that this was the rule of the governor, and whoever dared to disobey would be exiled from his house. However, if the family has marriageable children, it is the same within a radius of more than ten miles, and they must pay money to be exempted from forced labor. The grass people heard that the governor was a good official and would not do such evil things, so they brought the villagers to cry out for injustice. ”

Wang Yuan laughed angrily and said to Tang Fengyi: "Tang Yushi, have you seen it?" If you make money under our sign, good things can turn bad things into bad things for you. If this order is forced to be implemented in the whole province, I don't know how many people will be ruined because of this, and you and I will be infamous for a marriage restriction order. ”

"Daring!"

Tang Fengyi was so angry that his face was red and his neck was thick, what he valued most was his reputation, where could he be so slandered? Immediately arched his hand and said: "General Wang, such traitors must be severely punished!" ”

Wang Yuan said: "Give you a hundred soldiers, be sure to take down these thieves, and if anyone resists arrest and resists, they can be killed on the spot." Suddenly, Wang Yuan's face turned cold, "Find out who is supporting them, if there are gentry involved in it, they will be directly exiled to the border, and the Western Regions will just lack the population." ”

"I'll do it right away." Tang Fengyi obeyed the order, he was more anxious about this matter than anyone else.

Wang Yuan was not as excited as Tang Fengyi, waving the red flag against the red flag, which is the usual trick of officials in the world.

Restricting marriage can become a means of making money for corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and if the province is immediately and strictly investigated for drowning, I am afraid that Zhejiang will be angry and resentful.

Although the imperial court clearly stipulated that those who drowned infants were exiled to the army, and those who did not report it were guilty of the same crime, there was no practical possibility of operation. You say that a certain family has drowned a baby, and others say that it died young, how to determine whether it is true or false? In order to avoid sitting together, the neighbors must help to exculpate.

If the chief officer is forced to be ruthless and assigns a task to the adjutant soap officer, he will inevitably get an unjust, false and wrongly decided case. It is very likely that the families of those who actually died babies were framed by soap officials for drowning babies.

In the end, there can only be one result, rich and powerful families, there is no drowning of babies. Families with no money and no power were ruined by the government, while the soap officials could make crazy money in the process of operation.

This kind of thing is not something that the imperial court can handle, at least not that the ancient imperial court can handle.

Tang Fengyi led the troops to deal with the evil officials, and then inspected the whole province, so as not to be taken advantage of by others to destroy his reputation. For the sake of his own reputation, this product is very active, and Wang Yuan believes that he can seriously solve the relevant problems.

As soon as Tang Fengyi left, Wang Yuan immediately summoned Tang Bohu.

"Zi Wei, extravagant marriage, and infant drowning are all difficult to forcibly correct," Wang Yuan asked, "What good methods do you have?" ”

Tang Bohu said: "The extravagance of marriage is caused by the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River. The general system may be suppressed at the right time, and once the general system leaves Zhejiang, the trend of extravagance will surely resume. And the custom of drowning babies, one is because the dowry is too thick, and the other is because of the custom of drowning girls for the first child. Especially for the first-born drowning girl, what is the name of the general system? ”

"What is it called?" Wang Yuan asked.

"Xi'er!" Tang Bohu said.

"Wash, wash...... Syllable! Wang Yuan muttered twice, suddenly understood what it meant, and slapped it on the table in anger.

It's like playing Texas Hold'em, the first card is dealt a small card, so the card is torn off, shuffled and re-issued, and you have to deal an ace or a king.

The baby girl is the small card that was torn off; The baby boy is a big name for shuffling and redealing.

That's it, wash!

Tang Bohu said: "Drowning baby girls has been done since ancient times. "Han Feizi" has a record: "If you give birth to a man, you will congratulate each other, and if you give birth to a girl, you will kill her." 'Why do you have to drown?' There is also a folk saying. Once the baby girl is drowned, the female ghost will not dare to have a firstborn child, so the next child must give birth to a boy. ”

Hundreds of years later, grandmothers pricked their granddaughters with needles, and this kind of news often appeared. Some women, even in adulthood, have pain in their bodies, and go to the hospital to take a film only to find out how many needles there are in their bodies.

This practice is the same as drowning a baby girl, both to scare off female ghosts. If you abuse a girl severely, the female ghost will not dare to come to reincarnation!

Tang Bohu said: "Because it is common to drown women in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a saying among the people. Other drowning girls scared the female ghosts away, if the firstborn daughter of the family does not drown, it will be considered a good bully by the female ghost, and the next few children will continue to give birth to daughters, because there are countless female ghosts vying to come to this reincarnation. The richer the family, the more they believe in this, for fear that their families will not have men, and they will often drown their firstborn baby girls. ”

Wang Yuan was silent for a long time, and suddenly said: "It seems that persuasion is impossible, so you have to use the method of intimidation." ”

Tang Bohu asked: "How to intimidate?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "Writing and compiling dramas, it is said that the drowned baby girl cannot be reincarnated normally, and will turn into a ghost and keep pestering her parents, which will make the family unpeaceful forever." The drowned baby girl must be written with high mana, even the great monks can't accept it. Well, there must be this kind of story, after a certain family drowned a baby girl, they went unlucky, and asked the monk to exceed, but the monk was killed by a female ghost and forced to return to the world. ”

"This ...... The wisdom of the general system may be able to scare some fools and fools. Tang Bohu couldn't cry or laugh.

Wang Yuan said again: "Doesn't Jiangnan believe in Mazu? Make up a few more stories, and say that giving birth to a boy and a girl is the reward of Mazu. If anyone's family is a drowning girl, the concubine will no longer be blessed, and the children and grandchildren will not be blessed by the concubine. Of course, Mazu is kind-hearted and also gives people a chance to mend their ways. As long as you don't continue to spoil women, you will accumulate virtue and do good deeds from now on, and after three generations of good deeds, the concubine will come to bless the family again. If he does not change his teachings repeatedly, Mazu will not only bless him, but will also send down his anger to punish him for cutting off his heirs! ”

Tang Bohu sincerely admired: "Mr. Wang has a good method!" ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "I'll leave it to you if I make up dramas and write this kind of thing, Ziwei won't let me down, right?" ”

Tang Bohu arched his hand and said: "This move is immeasurable, I should go all out." ”

Wang Yuan sighed and said: "I can't let you work alone, I will visit the monks and Taoists in Hangzhou tomorrow." Let them also help, unify the voice, and scare and scare those good men and women. ”