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Wu Yuanqing, Wu Yuanshuang!

Hearing these two names, Wu Meiniang's eyes couldn't help but burst into flames, and her beautiful face was distorted. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Don't look at the openness of the Tang Dynasty, and don't look at the emergence of strong women like Wu Zetian, Shangguan Wan'er, Princess Taiping, Empress Wei, and Princess Anle in the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, women have no status in the Tang Dynasty. Most people believe that the Tang Dynasty was open and women's rights were on the rise. This is a misunderstanding, in fact, it is not, those women with status are princesses and county lords. There are many romantic stories that they have passed down, which gives people a misunderstanding.

The Li Tang royal family cannot be used as a universal representative because of its status.

The development of women's status has been a long process in history. Thousands of years ago, in the matriarchal society, women in this era were in charge, and the status of men was comparable to pigs and dogs, and they wanted to kill them.

In the Han Dynasty, women still had a certain status, which can be seen from the inheritance of property and identity in the Han Dynasty.

According to the Two-Year Decree. The "Household Law" stipulates that there is an order of inheritance in the inheritance of family property in the Han Dynasty, in order: son, parent, widow, daughter, grandson, ear grandchild, eldest parent, and co-birther. Therefore, women in the Han Dynasty had a certain economic status, had the right to inherit property, and could also obtain the status of head of household.

As for the succession to the title: women in the Han Dynasty also had the right to inherit their status. The so-called identity inheritance mainly refers to the inheritance of the title, and it can also be said to be related to political status. Although women can obtain the same titles as men, there are still prerequisites. Generally speaking, the acquisition of female titles in the Han Dynasty did not rely on their own ability and efforts, but on men, which was a manifestation of male dependence. Moreover, in the succession of titles, according to the "Law of Backwardness", men are still the first, and only if there are no men can women be heirs. The order of succession is: male, female, female, male, female, and wife.

It can be seen that women in the Han Dynasty can not only inherit the family business, but also receive knighthoods.

And with the development of time, the status of women is not as good as day by day.

During the era of the two Jin and Northern Dynasties, women gradually lost the right to inherit property and the right to inherit titles, and they no longer had any status, but they could still get land or rights. When the court distributed the fields according to the population, the women were able to get a piece of land of their own.

By the Tang Dynasty, women didn't even have the right to acquire land.

As for the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties after the Tang Dynasty, not to mention, Zhu Xi's goblins and Cheng Yi's Zhu Chenglixue knocked women's status to the bottom, and their concepts of "men are inferior to women, husbands and wives are subordinate", "starvation is very small, and loss of festival is great" and other concepts completely reduced women to vassals, affecting them for hundreds of years.

That is to say, in the Tang Dynasty, ordinary women ate white rice and could not get any pillars of the state.

Wu Meiniang lived in this era of low status of women, but she was happier than ordinary women. Because her father is a warrior Yan, one of the founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, ranked in the second class "Taiyuan Yuanmou Xun Meritorious Hero", a product of the Duke of the country, is one of the most trusted ministers of Emperor Wude Li Yuan, not only one of the eight prime ministers, but also in charge of the emperor's forbidden army. After the death of Wu Shiyan's original match, Li Yuan even personally acted as a matchmaker for him and married Wu Meiniang's mother Yang, which shows his grace.

Although because Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, all the important ministers in the court were replaced by the Qin King Shogunate, and as Li Yuan's cronies, he was not reused, but he was still the governor of Lizhou and held the power of local military and political affairs, and had an unusual status.

In this kind of family, Wu Meiniang is naturally worry-free about food and clothing.

However, all happiness came to an end in the ninth year of the Sadaka, and in the ninth year of the Sadaka, the samurai died of illness.

According to the inheritance law of the Tang Dynasty, all the property and titles in the family were inherited by Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang, the two sons of Wu Shiyi, and as women, Yang, Wu Shun, Wu Meiniang, and Wu Jingniang, they were not even eligible to share a copper.

Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang are villains with bad personalities, and the four of Yang, Wu Shun, Wu Meiniang, and Wu Jingniang are not "relatives" in their eyes at all, so they have no intention of raising them at all. At the beginning, they were given a decent house to live in, and the Yang family relied on weaving day and night to support the family, but later Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang even took away the house and drove them to several dilapidated houses in the countryside.

One winter, Wu Jingniang was critically ill by frost, and the money earned by Yang's Textile barely supported the family, where was the spare money for medical treatment? I can only ask Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang for support with a cheeky face, but the two beasts ignore it, and even say that if they die, what do they have to do with it, this kind of thing.

In the end, because the Helan family came to the door, Wu Shiyan made a marriage with the Helan family before his death, and the Helan family did not dislike Wu Shun, Wu Shun got married, and the money from the marriage saved Wu Jingniang.

Within a year, because of the land rectification, Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang drove Wu Meiniang and them out of the thatched hut in a frenzy, and this time they didn't even give them a house, but just gave them a dilapidated cave to live in.

Life is getting worse and worse, and the Yang family has no choice but to take Wu Meiniang and Wu Jingniang to Luoyang to join their relatives. This thousands of miles away, they have suffered a lot along the way, if it weren't for Du He's timely appearance, the Yang family might even die on the way.

Wu Meiniang has not been a kind-hearted person since she was a child, she has a strong scheming, and she is very good at holding grudges, and she has hated Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang to the core.

Listening to the conversation between the Yang family and Wu Jingniang in his sleep, he was reluctant to get up, but when he heard that it was about Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang, the hatred buried in his heart suddenly emerged, and all the sleepiness disappeared, and he broke out of the door and asked out in a menacing voice.

That posture frightened both the Yang family and Wu Jingniang.

Seeing that the two didn't answer, Wu Meiniang asked, "Say, what's going on?" What happened in the month I was away? ”

Wu Jingniang was about to speak, but let Yang hold her.

Yang Shiqiang smiled and said: "Mei Niang, you have heard the errand, what is there?" ”

Wu Meiniang couldn't see the problem, and had already concluded that Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang were looking for trouble, and said in a deep voice: "What are those two bastards doing...... Little sister, you say! ”

Wu Jingniang looked at Yang, looked at Wu Meiniang, broke free from Yang's hand, and hid behind Wu Meiniang. Although in terms of identity, the Yang family is the biggest mother. However, the Yang family is everyone's best girl, has no desire and no quarrel, and has no opinions. And Wu Meiniang has been a strong woman since she was a child, and all the decisions in the family are made by her, and in terms of prestige, the Yang family can't compare.

Compared with Yang's mother, Wu Jingniang was still more afraid of her second sister in the bottom of her heart, and in the face of Wu Meiniang's questioning, she immediately hid aside and talked about it in detail.

It turns out that the business of the Wu family is getting bigger and bigger, especially tea, which has become a monopoly in the market, and the tea of the Wu family has spread all over the Tang Dynasty.

Since he had no official position, he could only rely on his father's title to survive. In the past, the samurai Yan left a lot of assets, and the two two hundred and five developed a lavish character, and their way of spending money only in and out of the country, even if it was a mountain of gold and silver, they had to squander it, and in the past two years, the samurai Yan had spent all his money.

Although he has the support of his knighthood, he has a lot of money every month, and he will not go hungry, but where is the rich man who is used to living a poor life, and that kind of life is extremely difficult.

The two brothers heard the news of the Wu family at this time, and they didn't pay much attention to it at first, until they heard that the stewards of the Wu family tea were Wu Shun and Wu Meiniang, so it was different. Wu Meiniang was obtained by Du He, but Wu Shun used the original name.

After inquiring carefully, I learned that Wu Meiniang was Wu Zhao, and the Chang'an martial arts family was the person of their martial family.

"Three obedience and four virtues" is a moral concept handed down in the Spring and Autumn Period. "Etiquette. Mourning. The Biography of Zixia said: "Women have the righteousness of three subordination, and there is no special way." Therefore, if you do not marry your father, you will marry your husband, and your husband will die from your son. ”

Wu Shi Yan is deceased, according to the moral concept of modern people, the martial family respects Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang, as long as the Yang family, Wu Meiniang, and Wu Jingniang are still Wu family, then they must listen to Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang.

Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang relied on this ancient precept, came to the door with high spirits, and spent some money very politely.

Wu Jingniang was young and unwilling, but she couldn't do anything, while the Yang family was cowardly and deeply influenced by etiquette, so she always had to be a little shorter in front of Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang, and she couldn't resist their arrogance and gave them a sum of money. Fortunately, the Yang family didn't care, she didn't have the right to use the business funds in the martial family's treasury, but only gave them the family's money.

Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang were naturally dissatisfied, and threatened to come to the door again after Wu Meiniang came back.

Hearing the reason, Wu Meiniang was so angry that she said: "Mother! Why are you so confused, how did they treat us in the first place and give them back the money? ”

The Yang family was also a little afraid of his baby daughter, so he only promised: "This ...... They're your brother, aren't they? ”

"They don't deserve it!" Wu Meiniang looked disdainful, but when she saw Yang's appearance, she couldn't bear it in her heart, and she stepped forward and apologized softly: "Mother, I said it too seriously...... Let me take care of this! Her first sentence was extremely submissive, but the second sentence was extremely stern, and her big watery eyes were full of cold smiles.

"Mei Niang!" Yang was a little worried.

Wu Meiniang smiled: "Mother, don't worry, I will treat them well!" She said the word "good" very seriously, bowed to the Yang family, went down to prepare, came to the front hall, called her subordinates to ask them about the whereabouts of Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang, and then specially told them that Wu Meiniang had returned.

At the same time, in the Chang'an Qi Palace!

Li You, the king of Qi, got the news that Wu Meiniang was back!