Luo Juncheng went out from Princess Changle's mansion and went to the East Palace, because of the reason for marrying Princess Changle, he now has the title of duke of the county on his body, but basically, most people call him "concubine", and when mentioning him, they will add a sentence "Changle concubine".

The wedding of Luo Juncheng and Princess Changle, even if a short period of time has passed, is still the most talked about event in Chang'an City, not only because of the rich dowry, known as "Ten Miles of Red Makeup", nor Luo's rich dowry, but a marriage that has never been there before.

That is the "holy marriage".

Before the normal wedding process, such as the worship hall, the first thing to do is to praise the saints, and then pray for King Su's blessing on the marriage, and the people of Chang'an learned for the first time that it was necessary to accept the blessing of King Su when they got married between cousins.

Everyone in the world knows that there is no marriage between the same clan, but the Luo clan was the first to break this habit, Luo Jingcheng, the king of Gusu County, and Luo Xuanjing, the wife of Chu State, are the same clan, not to mention that the Luo clan in the Han Dynasty, countless marriages of the same clan, in fact, in the people, this kind of marriage of the same clan has long been broken.

Especially in the troubled times of hundreds of years, who still remembers who is the same clan as him.

Luo's has already told everyone with facts that marriage outside of Wufu is not a big deal, and now Luo's has told everyone again that cousins and clan relatives are the same.

It's not kissing, but getting sick, and the child born will die early, and there will be all kinds of strange diseases, only before marriage, receiving the blessing of King Su can eliminate the ills that may occur in the future.

This is a typical example of Ji Zhao using supernatural to change the rules of the world.

Luo Juncheng walked into the East Palace, almost everyone saluted him kindly, his status in the East Palace is very unusual, in terms of official position, it is not high, but no one will underestimate him, at the beginning, all the officials of the Qin Palace, are not of high grade, but as the King of Qin became the emperor, all of them jumped up and became the Zaifu of the third grade.

Everyone firmly believes that the present of Luo Xuanye, the king of Zhoujun, is the future of Luo Juncheng!

After all, the father and son are too similar, they both made friends when they were young, and Luo Juncheng and the prince met even earlier, they also married sisters, and they were also in charge of the army, so everyone would have an inexplicable sense of immediacy.

When Luo Juncheng went up to the hall, he saw that Li Chengqian's face was a little anxious, and when he saw Luo Juncheng coming, he immediately beckoned: "Juncheng, come quickly." ”

After Luo Juncheng sat down, without waiting for him to ask, Li Chengqian said with some eagerness: "After you and Changle got married, the imperial court has been brewing to promulgate a new marriage law, stipulating that if you don't get the blessing of King Su, you are not allowed to marry cousins within three generations. ”

Luo Juncheng only thought about it a little to know why, kissing and kissing for so many years, it has become a tradition.

Li Shimin didn't do the same, and for the high-ranking lords, marriage is an important means of surviving the family, and it is the most critical point to form an alliance of interests, among which the marriage between cousins is a very important part of maintaining family relations.

If you don't let these families marry, it is to cut off their arms, not only Shandong Gaomen, Guanlong and Jiangnan, no one is willing, ordinary people are like this, cousins are an important source of their marriage, the court directly cut off, opposition is inevitable.

It's a tough thing to do.

In the Taiji Hall, Li Shimin sat on top with a frown, he didn't expect that the decree had not yet been promulgated, and it had already caused an uproar just by spreading it.

Li Shimin has never seen such a wave of opposition, not only the powerful, but even the common people do not support it, and the resistance has reached this point, he is ready to accept the voice of the people.

The prime ministers were all lined up on both sides, bowing their heads and not speaking, Li Shimin looked at the prime ministers, he suspected that there were people who leaked secrets, but he felt that it was impossible, it should not be.

"Let's talk about what to do about this matter, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, you two are quick-witted, you talk first."

Li Shimin ordered Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng first as usual.

Fang Xuanling sighed for a moment and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the minister has been thinking about this problem, now the scholar clan in the world is mainly Guanlong, Shandong, and Jiangnan.

His Majesty has discussed it before, thinking that the atmosphere of the Shandong scholars is not good, it is clear that it has fallen, and there are no outstanding figures in the clan, but they are still respected by the world, and it is ridiculous to use marriage to extort large sums of money and collect a large amount of property, so it is necessary to prohibit the marriage between the Shandong scholars. ”

When Fang Xuanling said this, Wei Zheng was already a little uneasy, because he was the one who admired the Shandong Shi clan, and what he wanted most was to marry a woman from a high gate in Shandong.

Wei Zheng didn't think there was anything wrong, he was not the only one in this world, when Li Xuanba, the king of Qi, was in charge of Qizhou, he wanted to marry his son to a woman from the Lu family.

Even if the Lu clan in Qizhou does not have any prominent house branches now, and the most prominent house branches have followed the Luo family, Li Xuanba is still willing to rush to the name of the Lu family.

Li Shimin heard what Fang Xuanling said and sighed: "Yes, life in the world is all based on the favor of ancestors, and you can't work hard and self-improvement, many families are like this, and now they still rely on these to hinder the governance of the imperial court." ”

When discussing this at the beginning, he was finally stopped by Luo Xuanye, because his views were different from those of Li Shimin and others, in Luo Xuanye's opinion, "The imperial power is supreme, and using the imperial power to prohibit the marriage of these families will not be more plated with a holy golden body, and in the future, the name of a forbidden family can also allow these families to sell their daughters at a better price." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he was immediately disgusted, and now he really made these families more noble because of him, it was really more uncomfortable than killing him, so he didn't mention it again.

Wei Zheng's eyes were indeed vicious, and he soon realized that the key to this was that "What Your Majesty is really worried about is that the people are against this matter. ”

This sentence immediately reached Li Shimin's heart, he rubbed his hand on the handle of the chair, and said in a deep voice: "I have come from the bloody wind and rain of the battlefield, and I am not afraid of any enemy, it is nothing more than a death in the end, but only the people, I love them deeply, and I fear them."

I often say that water can carry a boat or overturn a boat, and I deeply understand that the power of the people is enough to overturn anyone, and the people seem docile on the surface, but that is only because they are not in a hurry enough, everyone is patient, and when they can't bear it anymore, it will explode.

Therefore, the first priority of my government is to reduce the pressure on the people, I actually know that as long as I give an order, the people will obey obediently, but freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and the snow that crushes the branches is not a snowflake.

Every inappropriate decree issued by me is equivalent to placing an extra snowflake on a branch, which seems to be fine on weekdays, but when a decree that is obviously not a major event is issued, the branch will be broken, and the people will not bear it.

I asked the princes to tell me that my fault was to try not to let any more snowflakes on the fragile branches.

The current ban on marriage is like this, and if the people think it's wrong, then I can only cancel it. ”

Even if it was supposed to be right.

This is what Li Shimin did not say, and it is wrong to be out of place.

Li Shimin's narration made all the prime ministers quite recognized, Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, what if the temple blessed by King Su is built in every county?

Vacate Buddhist and Taoist temples or do it in Buddhist and Taoist temples. ”

Luo Xuanye shook his head directly and said: "It's not that simple, now the steps of the holy marriage are proposed by the national teacher, there are so many states and counties in Datang, where to find so many people who can undertake this work, if the person who undertakes this work does something, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Moreover, even if it is built in the county, most of the people live in the village, and it cannot be found in every village, and even if the treasury is scraped, there is not so much money. ”

If it could really be spread across the country, then Luo's would have done it a long time ago, but there are too many practical problems, and for Luo Su, the most important thing is that Zhuxia will be divided and developed again, not a small legal problem.

Wei Zheng said after a deep sigh: "Your Majesty, if you only limit the scope of the ban on marriage to those who can afford it, and set up temples for holy marriage blessings in big cities like Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, and Suzhou, if there are only a few big cities, Luo's should have enough manpower." ”

This method is good, Wei Zheng said, everyone in the palace thinks that the method he said is good, it can take care of all aspects, not only take care of the face of the court, but also take care of the emotions of the people.

Luo Xuanchen suddenly answered: "Your Majesty, the opposition of the scholars is probably because they are worried that the imperial court will use the matter of blessing to manipulate their marriage, resulting in the marriage not being autonomous. ”

As soon as Luo Xuanchen's words came out, everyone suddenly wondered, and said why the scholars were so opposed, and it was not that they couldn't afford to spend the travel expenses in Chang'an, so they were worried about this.

Li Shimin stood up and said angrily: "They spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, I don't care, the three provinces issued an edict, and the law was promulgated, I don't interfere with the marriage blessing, I can go to the temple on my own, but the cousin marriage without blessing will not be recognized." ”

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The law, known at the time as the "Law of Sacred Marriage", was the first law in the world to restrict the marriage of close relatives, and even though it was confined to practical factors and retained a large number of remnants, it was still a progress of civilization. ——History of the Development of Marriage Law

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