Chapter 57: The Realm of Women
Since that day Zhao Jixiang had the title of the book, Lin Muzhiyi didn't go out much, and read hard at home for a few days.
But this time, I learned to be obedient, and I didn't read those classics of humanities and history again, it's too difficult! Big allusions are set with small allusions, and if there is nothing to do, they will borrow a sage saying, and if you want to really understand it, you must go to other books to verify. Those books that need to be verified and are difficult to obtain may have become unique or extinct.
A book is like a labyrinth, and the entrance is a normal gate, and when you enter, you will find that it is full of twists and turns, and it will not take long to get dizzy. Every time one thread is pulled, another thread is brought out, and the end result is still a mess.
didn't read the scriptures, so he asked Huang Guan to bring this book over again - the legal code of the Dahua Dynasty.
There are no quotations and allusions, Lin Muzhi roughly adds a punctuation mark, which can barely be understood.
I didn't look at any criminal law or anything like that, but I read the marriage law. I got married before I was twenty, don't talk about what Ning'er's mother's family is underage and talk about things with the law.
As a result, the more Lin Muzhi looked at it, the more frightened he became, the more he looked at it, the cooler his heart became, the more he understood the feudal society, and the more he hated it.
Legally, Lin Muzhi's marriage is naturally legal, and Zhao Dongning is already considered to be a late marriage, in other words, it is an "older leftover girl".
The law stipulates that a woman may marry at the age of 13 and a man at the age of 15.
I knew that the ancients took wives early, but I didn't expect it to be so early.
Lin Muzhi didn't want to believe it, he didn't want to believe that a polite Celestial Empire would be cruel to women to such an outrageous degree. Therefore, let Huang Guan move the laws of many dynasties in history. The result?
He was desperate!
If that woman still wants to go back to ancient times and have a big dream in the Spring and Autumn Period, then Lao Shi must slap her back!
It's really good that everyone is equal.
After reading all the laws that Huang Guan brought, Lin Muzhi found that the original laws of Dahua were the most lenient for women.
According to the law of the Han Dynasty, if a woman does not marry at the age of fifteen, she will be fined 600, which is equivalent to a year's ration for an adult man.
According to the law of the Western Jin Dynasty, a woman does not marry at the age of seventeen, and the state distributes her husband for free - directly to the border pass, and marries the soldiers who are on the border!
According to the law of the previous dynasty, women should not marry at the age of sixteen, and they were distributed free of charge like the Western Jin Dynasty. The surplus of women will also be written into the evaluation of officials.
Between the two dynasties, there was a brief period of division, and the small countries treated women even more harshly in order to develop their populations. At the age of fifteen, he did not marry, and the family sat together. It is not uncommon to be arrested and locked up for three or five years.
And Dahua is the best for women, if you don't marry at the age of sixteen, you will be fined one stone, and you will grow to three stones before you get married at twenty. At the age of twenty-five, he still can't escape the state arrangement.
In other words, Zhu Fuzi has now started to fine three stones a year. One stone is almost one hundred and twenty catties, and three stones are equivalent to the annual ration of six adult men!
Therefore, Dahua has no "leftover women", no strength, and there is no leftover. About 360 catties of rice, it doesn't sound like much, ordinary people can buy 1,000 catties of rice with a month's salary, but there is no technical premise for hybrid rice, rice, is not a high-yield product, and the market price cannot be measured horizontally with the price of the future. According to the market price, three stone rice is about two taels of silver.
Is it much? Not enough for Huang Guan to have a meal. Is it less? The difference between the rich and the poor cannot be saved in a year. Don't forget! And the landlords who suck people's blood.
Don't think that this is unfair to women, the dark side of society, written in the bright law, is actually not even one in ten thousand.
Everyone has heard of the three from the four virtues, and let's talk about the three from the father, at home from the father, married from the husband, and the husband from the son. In just twelve words, how many women have been killed? Lin Muzhi couldn't figure it out.
Thousands of years of early marriage laws have magnified the social atmosphere at the bottom of the people, which is particularly inhumane. Half of the women were married at the age of thirteen. At home, my father said it nicely, what does a thirteen-year-old girl know? Nothing's a no! It's just so confusing to let the family make arrangements.
Therefore, the female disciples above the ninth floor in the academy are fined every year, which also shows that their family is also a famous family in the local area. But Lin Muzhi knew that these women would definitely not get married at the age of nineteen.
Zhu Fuzi's teaching in the academy can actually be regarded as an escape. The gossip in my hometown has long been flying in the streets and alleys. She now has to bear not only the pressure of her family, but also the pressure of public opinion. Lin Muzhi admired her courage very much, but the result was not so good. Her family didn't defend her in the end, so the word "Lady of the Princess" came out. Lady - a dissolute woman.
Marrying and obeying the husband, four simple words, but depriving women of their human rights. In Dahua, it is not illegal to hit a child, and so is domestic violence! This is a family matter, and it is difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs. Thinking of this, Lin Muzhi smiled, domestic violence is not a man's dictatorship. It is said that in his later years, Lao Shen was beaten and could not take care of himself.
The social system of male superiority and inferiority of women leads to extreme inequality in the human rights of men and women in this society. If a man wants to divorce his wife, a word of virtue is a loss, and he can divorce his wife a thousand times. And if you want Hugh, it's almost impossible. The most famous Hugh that Lin Muzhi knows may be Li Yi'an. Many people may not know that Li Yi'an actually has two marriages.
The first husband died early, although Lin Muzhi did not recognize Zhao Mingcheng's character, but he made Lin Muzhi unable to pick out Li Yi'an. The second term was a bit of a beast, not only greedy for her body, but also for her property. Alcoholism, gambling, domestic violence, these are not grounds for divorce. In the end, he was sentenced to divorce by the government for serious crimes such as cheating in scientific examinations, and in the society at that time, there was a lot of uproar.
Although the ancients did not oppose remarriage, they advocated the observance of festivals and the beginning of the end. Most people think that the ratio of men to women is half and half. But in fact, no, genetically speaking, it should be fifty-two for women and forty-eight for men. That is, there are more men than women, and in societies without machinery, the consumption of men is far greater than that of women.
For example, there are more than 2 million soldiers in Dahua, and 5% is consumed every year, and there are more than 100,000 a year! Don't think that there are many calculations for forest and animal husbandry, no matter how prosperous the period is, the country's borders will not be calm. Not to mention the heavy labor of mining and smelting that consumes men.
Because of the need for population, polygamy became an inevitable product of the development of feudal society. But Lin Muzhi doesn't understand, why can businessmen and women set up archways, but the country does not encourage widows to find their true love?
These injustices to women are still visible, and they are invisible, which is disgusting and disgusting.
Why is Dahua's legal code the best for women? Is it because Dahua is not large, but it is the first dynasty to break through the number of tens of thousands, and because of the overpopulation, it is much more lenient for women? Maybe a little bit. The real reason is that the "stepwife" and "pawn wife" were abolished. These two crimes are both felonies in Dahua, and only one word was sentenced - beheading!
I believe that many people have never heard of these two statements.
"Stepwife", succession, the meaning of inheritance, the son takes the father's wife, and the brother takes the brother's wife.
What?! There can still be such a disgusting thing in the Celestial Empire, that's right, it appeared, and it was not until Dahua was abolished from the root. At first, Lin Muzhi didn't believe it, but this deep thought, thinking about it carefully, was extremely scary!
In all dynasties, it was illegal for "stepwives". Only Dahua can really be implemented.
For example, Wu Meiniang is a talented person in Taizong, but she is the queen of Gaozong! This is the typical stepwife.
An emperor is like this, so what will the people at the bottom do in order not to lose their family property to the outside world?
The reason why Yang Guo wants to take Xiaolongnu but has to be pointed out by Qianfu is also here, Dahua no longer agrees with the marriage of the poor.
"Pawn wife", pawn, pawn meaning, more that person is not a person. Why would anyone believe in a small advertisement like "Heavy Money for a Child" posted on a telephone pole? This is actually a "pawn marriage", but in ancient times, it was men who pasted it.
If a husband pawns his wife, he is actually treating his wife as inappropriate, and it is a cargo, an item, which can be rented to others at will.
Although the punishment of the law is very severe, there will still be those bachelors who can't afford to take a wife and men who are interested in profits, and do such unconscionable things. The reason is just four words, passing on the ancestry.
The strictness of women has reached the point where it is difficult to write, just like a woman must keep her chastity and not expose her skin. The kind of behavior of wearing sandals and white thighs dangling on the street will not appear at all in Dahua. If you weren't a merchant girl, you would have been put in a pig cage by your family the next day and sunk to the bottom of the river.
Don't talk about exposing your thighs, except for your hands and face, revealing that, it's called a loss of joint! What does it mean that life and death are small, and failure is big? It's really going to die!
When Zhao Dongning promised Lin Muzhi to wash his feet, he had already admitted him as a husband in disguise, but Lin Muzhi was stupid at that time and couldn't tell the difference.
At this point, TV is deceiving people again!
What female protagonist has broken her foot, and the male protagonist will be fine if she rubs her. In reality, if this kind of thing happens, it doesn't matter if a woman rubs a woman's feet, what a man? Hehe! It's nothing more than two results, the next day, you get it back, or on the third day, his family goes to the river to catch her!
Speaking of chastity, Lin Muzhi began to worry about it, and before Zhao Dongning left, he told him two things. One thing is to be nice to Zhu Fuzi, and the other is to be careful of her master.
Looking back on this "good point" now, there is a little bit that Lin Muzhi can't figure out. Zhu Fuzi is out of control in Lin Muzhi's hands, and that is already a sure thing. If it's just two people, then it's okay to say, God knows, you know and I know, if you don't say it, I won't say it, no one knows.
But at that time, not only the "livestock" of the academy saw it, but Mr. Big was also there! And it's not even more excessive to crush her on horseback!
At first, Lin Muzhi thought that the "good point" was to make up for it afterwards, but now that I think about it, it doesn't seem to be so simple.
Three wives and four concubines, Lin Muzhi didn't think about this, the orientation is normal, and there is a bird under the crotch, if you haven't thought about it, then it must be a bit of a problem!
But after the education of monogamy, I can only deal with it with the sentence that I don't care about my heart and I don't care about my heart.
In the past, except for Zhao Dongning, Lin Muzhi's water and fire were invulnerable, invulnerable, and he dared to peel it if he had nothing to do, and called Sister Zhu, but now he is indeed a little afraid of Master Zhu. If you are really looking for death and life, the reason is still Lin Muzhi.
If Zhu Fuzi follows her old path, then the title of "Lady of the Mountains" must be inseparable from Lin Muzhi.
It's hard!