In the next issue of the weekly bulletin, a decree was published announcing the implementation of the Law on the Protection of Women and Children throughout the country. The full text of the Law on the Protection of Women and Children was published in a weekly newspaper and published in the Lubu throughout the country.

The Law on the Protection of Women and Children is a completely new law. In the general provisions of the law, it is clearly stated that no individual or clan has the right to kill the people of the Ming Dynasty. And the people of the Ming Dynasty include newborn babies.

Article 1 of the law stipulates the sentencing standards for abductors who abduct and sell women and children, and the principal offender shall be hanged and the participants shall be confiscated into the army, and those who receive abducted women and children shall be fined 1,000 yuan and sentenced to confiscation of 3,000 li.

Article 2 of the law stipulates that the sale of a child by a parent is also considered trafficking. If the parents are unable to raise the child due to famine or other reasons, you can apply for a child support loan from the Daming Royal Bank, if you still can't raise the child, you can send the child to a nursing home, and the state will raise you on your behalf until you reach adulthood (16 years old), and if the parents can pay for the child's expenses in the nursing home after adulthood, you can take the child back. If it is not paid, the parent relinquishes all rights over the child, including naming rights. The imperial court would name the children and then emigrate them to new settlements far from home.

This article seems to be a bit unsatisfactory, but in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, if you can't raise your own children to grow up, then you'd better not give birth. If you are born but not raised, then you are inferior to animals. There is no problem with how to treat people who are inferior to beasts.

And in the current Ming Dynasty, you have no land to immigrate, you don't have money to put into production to take out loans, you don't have production technology, you can work all kinds of road construction, wasteland, mining, papermaking, weaving, porterage, fishing boats, that is to say, as long as you are not too lazy, then you can rely on labor to make yourself and your family live a life that is not too rich, but you can definitely eat and wear a good life.

Article 3 of the law stipulates that the killing of a child by a parent or clan is considered homicide, and the murderer will be sentenced to death by hanging, and the accomplice will be exiled for 3,000 miles.

Article 4 of the law stipulates that any abuse of women and children will be severely punished by the law. No underage girl (under the age of 16) is allowed to bind her feet, otherwise her parents will be exiled for 3,000 li.

Article 5 of the law stipulates that no workshop may admit minors under the age of 14 (10 years), and that minors over the age of 14 must be paid the same as adults.

The law also stipulates that if there is abuse in the family or clan that results in injury or even disability, the perpetrator must be held legally responsible without first complaint, and the maximum sentence is 3,000 li in exile.

Women's property rights are also clearly stipulated, and a woman's premarital property can be given to her offspring according to her wishes, and her husband's family and clan are not allowed to plunder. In the event of a divorce (divorce), the property before the marriage must be returned to the woman. When a concubine is kicked out of the house, the man must give her five years of living expenses.

The editor's note to this law points out that no minor in the Ming Dynasty is the private property of his parents. The Ming Kingdom advocates filial piety, but does not advocate foolish filial piety, and the sage has a cloud: "The small rod is accepted, and the big rod is gone." "Only by father's kindness can a son be filial, and only a brother and friend can have a brother. Birds and beasts all know that they must raise their offspring well, and I hope that in the country of etiquette in the Ming Dynasty, there will be no human tragedy of abandoning children and not raising children, and parents not supporting.

This new law will naturally cause widespread controversy, but controversy is okay, and since the law has been promulgated, it must first be enforced in accordance with the law. In order to ensure that the law can be enforced, institutional reforms at the state and county levels have been initiated.

Because the current prefect is no longer responsible for adjudicating cases, the original officials can all be dismissed. In the county office, there are only county governors and county officials and various officials, who are responsible for managing civil affairs. The main book joins the tax department and is responsible for collection

Taxes.

The court was independent of the county yamen, with only judges and recruited miscellaneous servants. And each county has a new inspector. In fact, some of the larger counties also had inspections, but now they have set up inspections and set up patrol houses.

The patrol house is different from the court, the court is only under the jurisdiction of the higher court, not the county yamen, while the patrol house is subject to multiple management, both the superior patrol house is in charge of it, and the county court can also manage it, and the county yamen can also bring them in when there is something to do.

The patrol house recruited patrols in the county, mainly the Kuaishou (Catch Kuai) of the original county yamen, and joined some veterans to be responsible for the county's public security work.

The patrol house is no longer the same as the previous government officials, "the people do not lift, the officials do not prosecute". There is a special horse catcher in the patrol house (that is, the former horse fast), who is responsible for patrolling the jurisdiction every day, and once there is a violation of the law, it will be reported to the court, and then the case will be opened and investigated, and the preliminary trial will be carried out to provide evidence to the court for ruling.

And the patrol house also has an important duty, which is to clean up the beggars. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he issued an edict that "widows, widows, lonely and sick people who cannot support themselves will be compassionate to the officials". In the fifth year of Hongwu, an edict was issued to set up orphanage homes in the counties of the world, which is the famous nursing home.

Even if a sanatorium was set up, some lazy people did not meet the conditions for entering the sanatorium and did not want to work, so they chose to beg, so there were still beggars in the Ming Dynasty. But most of them are healthy people, and these beggars often work part-time as human traffickers and thieves, which seriously affects the local security.

Zhu Youxiao gave a special task to the patrol room, that is, to arrest all the beggars for screening. Most beggars are in good health, and they are all organized. Those who do have disabilities are also artificially created by them, and they kidnap some children, and then break their legs or whatever, and then drive them out to beg, and use their misery to inspire compassion in people, and thus receive a lot of alms.

As soon as the patrol house was established, beggars began to be arrested in various places. Whenever they found beggars who were in good health, they were immediately put into cells, gathered together, and sent to various labor camps. Those who are physically handicapped are sent to a solatorium.

Prisoners in the labor camps are forced to work every day, and as long as they complete their daily tasks, they can eat to their heart's content. If it's not done, then I'm sorry, there's nothing to eat.

After such a crackdown, beggars from all over the Ming Dynasty were swept away. This has not only made the city cleaner, but also greatly improved the law and order situation, at least the abduction and trafficking of women and children has decreased dramatically, and the number of petty thefts has also decreased considerably.

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