Strictly speaking, this is not the first time that Emperor Chongzhen has been a father.

There was a baby before the crossing, so it was a drop.

But after the crossing, it was the first time in this life, and Queen Zhou gave birth to a child for the first time, and she was a little younger, so how could she not be nervous - she was even so nervous that she didn't know which leg to take first.

hurriedly walked to the door, but Chongzhen suddenly ordered Wen Tiren and others, who were originally planning to retire: "Wen Aiqing and Guo Aiqing will follow me together, and the others will disperse first." ”

After Wen Aiqing and Guo Yunhou bowed together, Emperor Chongzhen then ordered: "Order Jinyi Wei to go to the Imperial Hospital, and the imperial doctor who is good at yin and dumb will enter the palace and wait for death." ”

The little eunuch who came to report the news was quite clever, and when he heard Emperor Chongzhen's order, he hurriedly responded: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Hospital is already waiting for the decree outside the Kunning Palace, and the Yin Imperial Doctor is also there." ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted, then stopped talking, and just walked quickly towards Kunning Palace.

When they arrived outside Kunning Palace, the eunuchs and palace maids outside the entire Kunning Palace were busy back and forth, and Emperor Chongzhen had a headache when he looked at it.

It's just like the hospital in the future, it's better not to bother at this time, and Emperor Chongzhen can only press the irritability in his heart and wait patiently.

Just listening to the screams of Empress Zhou in Kunning Palace, Emperor Chongzhen was originally worried, but now he couldn't help it, and he was about to walk towards Kunning Palace with his feet raised.

Ke Yinyue, who was coming out of Kunning Palace, saw Emperor Chongzhen heading towards Kunning Palace, this posture was obviously about to break into the palace, and hurriedly took two steps to block Chongzhen's body and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty stays." ”

Emperor Chongzhen's face immediately fell, squinted his eyes and said, "You dare to stop me?" ”

Hearing the unkindness in Emperor Chongzhen's tone, Ke Yinyue hurriedly bowed: "The slave doesn't dare, and I ask Your Majesty to calm your anger, it is really the queen's birth, and Your Majesty should not enter." ”

Emperor Chongzhen also remembered at this time, the ancient people thought that giving birth to children was unclean, and they usually avoided men from entering, so it is no wonder that the guest Yinyue.

Emperor Chongzhen suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "How is the empress?" ”

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was no longer pushing in, Keyin Yue bowed again: "Fortunately, thanks to the blessing of the ancestors and ancestors, Your Majesty is blessed, and everything is going well when you see the fetus, Your Majesty can relax." ”

Chongzhen snorted, and after telling Ke Yinyue to go and get busy by herself, he went back outside and sat down, waiting with peace of mind.

Just looking at the waiting Tai Hospital, there were several imperial doctors who had never seen it at all, Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou had also rushed over, and Emperor Chongzhen remembered what he had thought of before he came just now.

After thinking about it for a while, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "I heard that most of the folk women married when they were thirteen or fourteen years old? ”

Guo Yunhou himself is the head of the household, how can he not know these things that are similar to basic common sense? Immediately, he bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, when a woman is thirteen and the sunflower is up, she can marry and give birth." ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted and secretly scolded the beast.

At the age of thirteen or fourteen, in the future generations, she is still a little Lori who has just entered junior high school, and these bastards can also do it.

Although the strange uncles in later generations who always want to take the little girl to watch the goldfish are all saying that Lori has three good, and the light voice and body are soft and easy to push down, but Emperor Chongzhen can't get this hand - it's sixteen anyway, isn't it?

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to say directly that women who were not under sixteen would not be allowed to marry in the future, but this fucking was politically incorrect, and Emperor Chongzhen could think of the consequences of saying it with his toes.

After pondering for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "I am a father at the beginning, and I am really worried about the safety of the queen. As for the folk, I often hear that there are women with difficult birth, and many families are protecting their children and giving up their mothers, I don't know if it's true or not? ”

Guo Yunhou is not a hairy boy, of course, he knows a little about these things, so he immediately bowed down and said: "What Your Majesty said is good, the people value babies and ignore mothers, and if it is a male baby, it is even worse." ”

Emperor Chongzhen hummed and said: "They are all parents, and the mother is not human?" How can you not be the heart of your parents? Furthermore, who in the world was not born of a mother? It's really hateful! ”

After Emperor Chongzhen's words were finished, Guo Yunhou said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, if this is the case, it is easy to say, but the people value male babies, and there are no longer a few people who drown female babies." In addition, there are many controls on women, such as remarriage. ”

Guo Yunhou's words are fair, and they are completely from the perspective of a household secretary - if a woman remarries or there are more girls, there will be more children, and won't he collect more taxes?

Besides, seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was worried about the queen's appearance, and Emperor Chongzhen's favor for several concubines faintly came out of the palace, where could Guo Yunhou not guess Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts?

Emperor Chongzhen said in his heart, Lao Tzu also knew the folk atmosphere of fucking up.

But knowing is knowing, but Emperor Chongzhen himself has no good way.

To put it bluntly, every time a war is over, a large number of men always have to die, and the situation often occurs is that there are more women than men, and in order to ensure the population, this is the phenomenon of men having three wives and four concubines.

Otherwise, look at the future generations, in a society that has been peaceful for a long time, there are three wives and four concubines? Think too much. Men die less, and every woman is not enough, and they still want to eat more and occupy more?

Of course, this situation cannot include some rich and powerful people, otherwise how did the word "junior" come out?

But it is undeniable that when there are more men than women, the strong demand for monogamy will be higher day by day, and even a little more excessive, in order to ensure that they have a daughter-in-law, even what men join feminist organizations will come out.

But ancient societies played monogamy?

It's definitely not going to work.

In ancient times, population was the strategic resource of the country, and the more the population was, the more territory could be occupied, which was the fundamental meaning of three wives and four concubines.

For example, in the Han Dynasty, there were examples of people who couldn't get along with their husbands and kicked a man to remarry, the most famous of which was Wang Huan, the wife of Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Wang Wan first married Jin Wangsun and gave birth to a daughter, Jin Shu, and then was sent to the palace of the imperial prince by her mother, and gave birth to three daughters and one son for Liu Qi, whose son was Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

And after Liu Che ascended the throne, because the Queen Mother Wang Wan missed her daughter, she went to find Jin Shu to confess her relatives, and gave Tang Muyi, who was only available to Princess Jin Shu, and named Jin Shu as the king of cultivation.

Jin Shu has a son and a daughter, and the son is called Xiu Zizhong, because of the connivance of the Queen Mother, rampant in Beijing.

It can be seen that in the Han Dynasty, no one cared about women's remarriage at all - all his mother's could remarry into the heavenly family, and someone else cared? How?

This situation was the same in the Tang Dynasty, and no one cared about the remarriage of a woman or anything.

According to the records of the "New Tang Dynasty Book: The Biography of the Princess", there were 29 princesses in the middle and early Tang Dynasty who remarried, and five of them even married three times.

The famous Princess Xiangcheng and Princess Taiping have all remarried. The royal family is like this, and the people are even more commonplace, and the great Confucian student Fang Xuanling and Han Yu's wife or daughter have all remarried.

As for what Ban Zhao said in "The Female Commandment" "Men have the intention of remarrying, and women have no more suitable texts", no one has ever taken it seriously.

The "Tang Law and Discussion" stipulates in "Husband who is forced to marry after losing his will": "If the husband wants to keep his will except for mourning clothes, and is not the grandparents or parents of the daughter and marries by force, he shall be imprisoned for one year; For those who marry in the future, they will be reduced by two grades. Separate from each other. In the discussion, he explained: "The husband of the woman is removed from mourning clothes, and she vows to keep her will, but her grandparents and parents are taken away and married." ”

This kind of law is very clear, even if the woman doesn't want to remarry, grandparents and parents can still force the woman to remarry, so it's good to listen to the big guy for what "the woman has no intention of being suitable", the daughter is her own family, who can give up her daughter to be a widow for a lifetime?

But since the Song Dynasty, the fuck-up thing has come about.

What kind of three wives and four concubines did the ancestor play, to put it bluntly, it was so that there were more horses to follow him to grab the territory, but some stupid people messed things up.

has become his own enjoyment, not to mention, but also to suppress the status of women day by day.

Especially those literati and doctors in the Song Dynasty, in order to cover up their incompetent nature of being constantly suppressed by outsiders in foreign wars, they can even think of such a as binding their feet, and even the previous law that prohibits women from remarrying has been changed.

The famous female lyricist Li Qingzhao was originally married to Zhao Mingcheng, with a happy love and a happy life.

Later, Jin Bing joined the Kou, and her leisurely life was gone forever - shortly after the Nandu, Zhao Mingcheng died.

After Zhao Mingcheng died, Li Qingzhao remarried Zhou Ruzhou as his wife, and after marriage, he found that her husband had poor character, had illegal behaviors, and was unbearable to live together, so Qingzhao sued the official to report Zhou Ruzhou.

After Zhou Ruzhou was disposed of by the government, Li Qingzhao's trouble also came.

The law of the Song Dynasty stipulated that a wife suing her husband, even if the accusation was true, was to be "imprisoned for two years".

Qingzhao thinks that even if he is famous, his friends always have something to rely on, so he was saved from being imprisoned and divorced Zhou Ruzhou.

However, this experience of Li Qingzhao in the second half of her life is often hidden by literati who appreciate her talent - isn't it because Li Qingzhao remarried, so it doesn't conform to their values?

But that's not the most fucked up.

The most fucked up thing is the drowning of baby girls.

Many newborn baby girls, often not even the first mouthful of milk, are drowned - the poorer the family, the more common this situation is, as for what tiger poison does not eat children, they can't afford to feed themselves, don't hurry up to give birth to a male baby to pass on the family to work in the field of cattle to work, what to do with a female baby?

It is also based on this idea that there are countless people who drown female babies.

If it is put on other emperors, it may be like this, anyway, it can't be managed, why do you bother so much?

But Emperor Chongzhen felt that it was not good.

After a few years or more than ten years, wait until the Xiaoice River period has passed, and then kill Jiannu, there is not enough population, who the hell will give Lao Tzu to fight? Whoever pays me taxes - never more, but that doesn't mean never collect!

After thinking about it for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen felt that this matter had to find a way to solve it.

It's just this kind of thing, the people often do it secretly by themselves, and the court and government don't know, and when they know, the matter is over, and they still hold a fart?

After pondering for a long time, Chongzhen thought of a reliable way.

According to the record in the famous historical reference book "I Want to Be an Emperor", how did the traveler solve this problem?

Don't think that drowning of baby girls didn't exist in the Han Dynasty, on the contrary, because the productivity at that time was even lower, there were more such things.

But the guy who crossed over into Liu Che proposed a solution - whoever dares not to do it, drowning the baby girl, will be counted.

Five counting, that is, a fivefold increase in endowment.

The Ming Dynasty paid five times more than the tax, which obviously did not work.

According to the situation at the time, this situation can directly force people to death - if you give birth to a child and can't afford to raise it, it is estimated that you will have to starve the whole family, simply drown, and you will have to pay five times the endowment, but the endowment of the Ming Dynasty itself is not low, what should I do when the time comes?

In order to survive, I don't know how many people will rebel, so this method will not work.

But Emperor Chongzhen had a better way.

What to do if the donkey is disobedient?

With a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, of course.

So after thinking about it for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen spoke: "Go back and discuss with Guo Aiqing and the others, and see if what I said is feasible." ”

Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou bowed together and said, "Please give instructions from Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted and said: "After that, when a folk woman is pregnant, she must report to the government, regardless of whether she gives birth to a boy or a girl, it is counted as her merit, and there is a reward, so that she can raise the child to the age of sixteen.

If the infant is not reported or drowned, he shall be fined for the crime of not doing so, and the amount of the fine shall be discussed by the secretary and others. ”

Wen Tiren hadn't spoken yet, but Guo Yunhou said with a painful face: "Your Majesty, at this time, the world has been peaceful for a long time, if every household is rewarded, even if each family rewards one or two taels of silver, it will cost tens of millions of taels every year, how can there be so much silver in the treasury?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "I have my own way, Aiqing can discuss with Wen Aiqing with confidence." ”

Emperor Chongzhen's plan is very simple, no money? Isn't there a vassal king? Don't the local tyrants in Jiangnan have them?

When the time comes, let's talk about a wave of autumn wind first.

Besides, he is a traverser, and he is a waste scum that can't make anything, so didn't he come up with Xu Guangqi to make ice from saltpeter?

When the time comes, I will think of more ways to get more other good things, and just collecting taxes or something will be enough to make me happy.

Besides, don't you have to fight in the future, if you don't grab things in the war, you'll still be a fart! Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen is always not too worried about silver.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and simply added another article: "From tomorrow, anyone who drowns a baby girl will not be allowed to take the imperial examination." ”