Or because the newborn babies have different appearances or congenital deformities, or because the family is poor and has many children, so they cannot provide for them, or even because the day and hour of the baby's birth are unlucky, so these newborn babies are killed alive, and the way of killing is mainly drowning, the main of which is the drowning of the baby girl.

Such a phenomenon is called "not lifting", which is an extremely cruel but helpless thing.

The birth of children is not unique to the Song Dynasty, which can be traced back to the time when Pangu opened the world, and in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was called "eating the first son", which was an extremely extreme and cruel method adopted in order to control the number of people.

However, the Song Dynasty was the most popular and serious era of not lifting children, especially Fujian Road, which was the most popular and serious.

In the southeastern states, there are still people who are content with the old habits, and they are not harmful. Blatant murder, the thief father and son are unkind, hurting the love of nature, the male more will kill his man, and the female will kill his daughter, and the custom is passed down from generation to generation.

"Not lifting" is also called "picking".

Generally speaking, when the Min people give birth to the fourth son, they drown the fourth son, both men and women, and even some people from good families have such a custom.

Even Li Sanjian's master, Su Shi, was distressed about this kind of thing.

"According to my Great Song Decree!" After Li Sanjian learned the ins and outs of this incident, he pointed at the farmer and his wife and reprimanded angrily: "Therefore, those who kill their children and grandchildren will be imprisoned for two years, and the family that kills their children, their parents, neighbors, and those who take in their children will all be sentenced to prison. ”

Li Sanjian is really angry, this old man is trying his best but he can't have a son and a half daughter, but they... They actually wanted to drown their own children alive.

It's simply unreasonable, it's simply unbearable! Li Sanjian said angrily in his heart.

"You... Who are you? The farmer saw that Li Sanjian was dressed like an ordinary person, except that his clothes were relatively neat, there was nothing else special, so the farmer didn't want to deal with Li Sanjian, and even provoked the farmer, maybe he also met him with his fists and feet, but Li Sanjian was so familiar with the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, so his identity must not be an ordinary person, so he didn't dare to act rashly, but just opened his mouth to ask.

"Who am I, and what does it have to do with your transgression?" Li Sanjian said coldly when he heard this.

"I... Master, the little one is the customer, and the family really can't support so many children, and that's the other thing... This is the custom here, the child is not born in a rich family, and he can be reincarnated to a good family. The farmer said with a bitter face.

"What bullshit customs?" Li Sanjian said angrily when he heard this: "Such a custom is contrary to the way of heaven and hurts people, and it is completely for the sake of hurting heaven and reason." ”

Li Sanjian then thought that he couldn't take care of him because of the poverty of his family, so he couldn't help but slow down his tone and said: "Since there are already two sons and one daughter in the family, why do you want to continue to give birth?" If you can't afford to raise it, you have to drown, isn't it... What is the child? You have killed a little one, and besides, isn't the child your own? Why is it so ruthless? ”

After Li Sanjian finished speaking, he suddenly felt that he was asking a little shallow, most people in this world only know about birth, but do not know contraception.

In fact, there are still contraceptive methods, but most people in the world don't know about them.

"The child is his father, let's listen to the young master, don't hurt her, let's go home." The peasant woman snatched the baby girl, who was already scared and cried, and said to the farmer while comforting her in her arms.

"This... the child, hey, what are we going to feed her when we go back? The farmer hesitated, sighing.

The main households of the Song people can be divided into five classes, while the rural households can be divided into rural households and customers, and the lower households are the fourth and fifth class households of the main rural households.

According to the landless and landless, they can be divided into landed peasant households or landless peasant households, and according to the amount of land occupied, they can be divided into wealthy peasant households, yeoman farmers, semi-self-cultivated peasants, and tenant farmers.

Wealthy peasant households refer to the middle and lower strata of the third-class households in the main rural households; Homesteaders refer to the fourth and fifth class households in the main rural households; Semi-yeoman farmers refer to the middle and lower classes of the fifth-class households in the main household; A tenant farmer is a rural customer.

The farmer couple in front of Li Sanjian is a tenant farmer or customer, that is, a farmer who makes a living by renting other people's land, and is the lowest farmer.

Tenant farmers, however, accounted for the majority of Song peasant households.

Before the customer feeds the family, he also has to bear all kinds of harsh taxes such as tenant rent, land endowment, ding tax, miscellaneous tax, forced labor, etc., which can be described as a heavy burden, and they can ensure that the people in the family have stuttering, which is considered to be an eye-opener, and the extra population in the family is really unable to afford it.

The repeated prohibitions that caused the "non-lifting" of Fujian Road have a great relationship with the imperial court and the government, and the bad habits and customs of Fujian Road cannot be blamed.

Li Sanjian thought of this, looked at the ragged peasant couple, sighed and asked, "What's your surname?" ”

"The villain's surname is He, and he is the second in the family, so he is called 'He Er'." Farmer He Er replied truthfully.

"He Er? Listen up. Li Sanjian pondered for a moment and then said to He Er: "The child is innocent, you can't harm her life, no matter what, you can't do such a hurtful thing." ”

"Young Master... Who the hell are you? Hearing this, He Er looked up at Li Sanjian and asked.

Which official should he be? He Er secretly said in his heart, although Li Sanjian was dressed ordinarily, his bearing was extraordinary, so He Er didn't dare to be rude, nor did he dare to contradict it, but just asked.

"yes, who the hell are you?"

"What do you have to do with other people's affairs?"

"I'm really full, whatever!"

"Can you afford to delay the time of reincarnation?"

He Er was timid and afraid, but the onlookers didn't care about 3721, and they all opened their mouths to accuse Li Sanjiandao.

Some people even rolled up their sleeves, ready to teach this man a lesson about the thousands of years of customs in vain...

"The young master is Quanzhou Li Taishou." When Li Sanjian was considering whether to identify himself, Chang Suishi glared at everyone and spoke first.

Li Taishou? Li Sanjian, the governor of Quanzhou? The onlookers immediately froze, looking at Li Sanjian timidly, no one dared to gossip anymore.

Li Sanjian has been the governor of Quanzhou for a long time, and many people in Quanzhou already know that their parents are a young man, but when they see it in person, they can't believe their eyes.

Li Taishou is so young that he can actually meet him here? The people who accused Li Sanjian just now couldn't help but feel remorse in their hearts, and at the same time, they were also terrified, for fear that Li Sanjian would settle accounts after the autumn and take them all down and punish them.

However, there were still people among the crowd who did not believe Li Sanjian's identity, so they looked at Li Sanjian in disbelief.

"Do you see clearly?" Seeing this, the stone took out the official card and stood proudly in front of everyone.

"Villain He Er, meet Master Li, Lord Zhizhou, the villain is blind, he offended the big man, the big man spares his life!" After He Er saw the official card, he trembled with fright, and as soon as his legs were weak, he knelt in front of Li Sanjian.

He Er's wife also knelt in front of Li Sanjian with the baby girl in her arms.

"The villain has no eyes, offended the big man, and the big man of Zhizhou forgives the sin!" Everyone knelt in front of Li Sanjian, especially the person who accused Li Sanjian of kowtowing loudly...

"Get up!" Li Sanjian said to He Er and the others with a gentle expression.

He Er and the others kowtowed a few more times when they heard this, and then they got up tremblingly.

"He Er, did you hear what this official said clearly?" Li Sanjian then said to He Er: "Don't do anything that hurts nature and reason, take the child home and raise it well, and at the same time, the official exempts all the people in your family from the Ding tax, and other miscellaneous taxes can also be appropriately reduced. ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." He Er was already so excited when he heard the words that he couldn't speak, and he fell to the ground with a thud, just kowtowing vigorously and thanking him.

"You get up and speak first." Li Sanjian helped He Er up and then said to him: "It's better to ask for others than for yourself, if you can't farm to feed your family, you can go to the city to work, as far as this official knows, there are many workshops in Quanzhou City that are recruiting people, why don't you try it?" ”

The Quanzhou government encouraged business and encouraged the establishment of various workshops, so at this time, workshops opened by various banks in Quanzhou sprung up, which was also one of Li Sanjian's ways to alleviate the large number of displaced people caused by land annexation.

"But the villain has no skills, will they want the villain?" He Er asked hesitantly.

"Can't you learn without a craft?" Li Sanjian said angrily: "What do you eat with a long brain?" ”

He Er was so frightened when he heard the words that he didn't dare to answer.

After Li Sanjian exhaled two long breaths, he said to He Er: "You can go first, if there is any difficulty, the official allows you to come directly to the official's residence for help." ”

"Thank you, sir!" He Er choked up when he heard the words and said: "The eldest master is the reborn parent of the villain's family, I... ”

He Er's wife also held the baby girl and kept worshipping Li Sanjian.

"The kid doesn't have a name yet, does he?" Li Sanjian then looked at the cute baby girl in the farmer's arms and asked.

"No... Yes, she's a woman, what's her name? He Er replied.

"Women are also human beings, so why can't they have names?" Li Sanjian said angrily when he heard this: "The official wants to give her a name today, her surname is He, her name is Yunu, she was born in winter, and the official hopes that she will be like a plum, bullying the snow and arrogance, and growing up strong." ”

The jade slave is the elegant name of the plum blossom.

"Yu Nu, Yu Nu, you must remember the appearance of your benefactor." He Er's wife picked up He Yunu's little hand and bowed to Li Sanjian.

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"Hey, Li Zhizhou, you can save one person, you can save two or three people, but can you save four or five people? Can you save many, many people? ”

Li Sanjian originally planned to go to the ** county and county office, but there was such an incident, which greatly reduced Li Sanjian's interest, and he returned to Quanzhou City with the stone, and the stone said to Li Sanjian on the way.

"Have mercy on my world, there is much sorrow, and have mercy on my world, there is much suffering!" Li Sanjian said disheartenedly when he heard this.