Regarding divorce, there were generally three forms in ancient China - divorce, divorce, and righteousness.

Divorce, as the name suggests, is the man's unilateral request for the dissolution of the marriage. Although this form is unilateral and more in line with the ethics and morality of a patriarchal society, according to the records of the ancients and some foreigners, the proportion of divorced wives in ancient China was very low. The reasons for this are, on the one hand, the protection of women's marital rights and interests in the seven and three no-gos, on the other hand, the obstruction of the wives' and clans' forces in the case of the right family, and on the other hand, it also involves economic issues such as dowry, and in addition, due to many reasons, even the magistrates generally choose to judge or not to divorce. It's really not going to work, and separation is also a more harmonious way to solve it.

In contrast to divorce, divorce means that both parties to the marriage dissolve the marriage relationship under the common will. In this way, the face of the wife's family, the woman's dowry, and even remarriage are more acceptable than unilateral divorce.

Aside from these two, the final renunciation is no longer a matter for both men and women, but under the provisions of the law, the way to dissolve the marriage relationship enforced by the government, and even the judgment is issued, and either party will be punished by the law if he does not accept it.

I remember that before I got married, I seemed to have heard someone talk about these things, but now Zheng Chenggong doesn't remember it very clearly, but when it comes to righteousness, I don't seem to have killed the woman's uncle. But when he asked the question, his grandmother gave him another answer that made him jaw-dropping.

"There is no "Da Ming Law", but it was in the Tang Dynasty, which shows that it makes sense. You can completely cite the example of the Tang Dynasty, and retire this marriage to the old body, and retire now! ”

The Ming Dynasty basically followed the old laws of the Tang and Song dynasties in terms of the marriage system, for example, the Ming law stipulated that the same surname, the same clan and no relatives and good and low could not be married. The dissolution of the marriage relationship is conditional on seven outs, three non-gos, and righteousness. Like the Tang Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also made righteousness a condition for divorce, but the content of righteousness was different.

Tang Law mentions that if you kill your wife's relatives, you will invoke righteousness to sentence you to divorce, but Ming Law gives a new interpretation of righteousness: "The state of righteousness refers to the fact that if you are in a distant place, your wife's parents will remarry your wife, or drive her out, and you will not recruit your son-in-law, and you will tolerate adultery by outsiders." Another example is that he beats his wife until he is bruised, he suppresses his wife from committing adultery, if he falsely claims that he has no wife, if he deceives him into marrying a wife, if he takes his wife as a concubine, if he marries a wife or concubine by wealth, and if he marries a sister in vain. This determination focuses on the state of the marital relationship itself, and is different from the crime of assault and murder of the husband against the wife, the wife against the husband's family, and the crime of murder by the wife against the husband, as well as the crime of murder by the wife against the husband.

Since righteousness is routinely enforced by the government, at this moment, Mrs. Huang now wants Zheng Chenggong to use the marriage law of the Tang Dynasty to judge the divorce case of the Ming Dynasty, just like using the sword of Shang Fang of the Ming Dynasty to behead the officials of the Qing Dynasty, which is illogical. However, the old lady's stubbornness came up, and no matter how Zheng Chenggong explained, he couldn't screw the old lady's temper.

"Grandmother, it is a great shame to withdraw from the marriage, you let your grandson judge this righteousness, it is better to ask your grandson to kill it directly. Otherwise, in a fit of rage, he threw himself into the Tartars, and with his talent and the strength of the court, within ten years, our Zheng family would have to be wiped out. When the time comes, will you explain to your ancestors, or your grandson will explain to your ancestors! ”

In the end, Zheng Chenggong was also very angry, put aside these words, saluted and got up and left, leaving the old lady stunned.

Pushed open the door and strode away, Zheng Chenggong was already tired of this broken matter, but it was a pity that Chen Kai and Zheng Xiyuan did not worship heaven and earth for a day, and there was no cave house for a day, so this broken matter was not over for a day.

Zheng Chenggong's attitude towards Chen Kai has always been to win over - this is his own cronies, not the talents provided by the family behind him who may fall to the Qing court at any time like his father, and in this regard, even Chen Bao and Hong Xu, the generals transferred from his father, are slightly inferior.

For a long time, he also looked forward to being able to achieve the great cause of expelling the Tartars and reviving the Ming Dynasty with the help of Chen Kai.

It is impossible to get out of the marriage, even if it drags on like this, for a year and a half, as long as his cousin is still Chen Kai's nominal wife, it is enough. As for when this nominal problem will be solved, but it will be a matter of the future, there will still be such a day.

When he thought of this, Zheng Chenggong had already stepped out of the courtyard gate, but as soon as his front foot went out, he retreated again, and then frowned and called a servant of an old lady who served in the courtyard, stared at him and asked a few questions, and soon found the answer he wanted.

According to the next person, when Mrs. Huang had just come to the island, Chen Kai came to visit, but she was blown away before she could enter the courtyard. However, a group of distant relatives in his clan, as well as Zheng Zhiguan's wife and children, have come a few times. It seems that even Zheng Hongkui's son Zheng Zhaoji has been called once.

Speaking of which, the Ishii Zheng family has been going to sea for many generations, but the real rise is still in his father Zheng Zhilong. In this era of paying attention to the right family, the conditions of one's own family can also be reflected in the family background of the wife's family.

His wife, Dong Yougu, was born in a gentry family and was the daughter of Dong Biaoxian. His mother, Weng, was the stepdaughter of the Fujian blacksmith Weng Yihuang, and although she was a commoner, her grandfather was also a master of forging knives for the lords of the Hirado Domain, and his mother at least knew a lot about Confucian culture and the country. Compared with his mother and wife, his grandmother is different, but she is from an ordinary civilian family, and his uncle Huang Cheng is already a very prominent figure in the clan when he does business in Macau. With such a family background, what his grandmother knew was some firewood, rice, oil, salt and the family's shortcomings, and she couldn't tell the difference between state affairs and family affairs at all.

Thinking about it this way, there is no reason why his grandmother would know anything about Tang Law, even if she knows anything about righteousness, she can only know Ming Law. Moreover, according to what he knew about his grandmother, this was a straight-hearted old lady who could say whatever she wanted, and it was impossible to make a strategic statement like the one just now, who first used murder to deceive, and then used the divorce as a reality.

Thinking about it, just with his grandmother, with those relatives, it really doesn't seem enough to do what he is doing now. Inside, it is likely that a pair of invisible hands are pushing an earth-shattering conspiracy directed at his most trusted staff.

"No, it's not just a calculation, it's a calculation for me. Because once something happens, it is no one else who will really suffer, it is the cause of expelling the Tartars that I have painstakingly managed! ”

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Thoughts gradually detached from yesterday's scene, and it is indeed difficult to determine who will be secretly arranged.

The celebration banquet continued, Zheng Chenggong drank a round of toast and then stopped drinking, and when the banquet was halfway through, he withdrew from the banquet and retreated to his study with Chen Kai.

"Actually, the marriage between you and Yuanyuan, grandmother and four, and Dingguo Gong's side, should be ...... after a while"

"Damu, I plan to leave Fujian for a while. To be exact, it's a trip to Jiangxi. ”

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As promised, the addition is completed.