The originally silent main hall of the Qianqing Palace was like a pot of boiling water that suddenly boiled.

All the voices sounded together, and each sound seemed to fall abruptly on the copper wall of the main hall, which was bound to block the words that Chang Shengning had just spoken.

Liu Kangyong is talking about the ancestral family law.

Yang Zhai said that the man is strong and strong, in order to protect his family and defend the country.

Shen Shiqing's gaze swept over these two people, as if she was looking at them, and as if she was looking at something else—for example, the boundary monument that had been standing for a long time in her short twenty years.

This is how people answer her confusion, including her father, who is enlightened enough.

Hearing these words again only made the corners of her lips smile a little.

was caught between the two, Chang Shengning knelt on the ground and looked at Liu Kangyong with a smile:

"Ancestral family law? Which generation of ancestors is Liu Shangshu talking about? Which family's family law? Since the establishment of the Dayong Dynasty, the law made by Taizu has changed countless people, Taizu set up female officials, was abolished by Suzong, Chengzu said that he would release the ship overseas, but was rejected by Muzong, Zhongzong said that the excessive taxes should be reduced redundant, and Shenzong did not limit the donation of prison in order to raise military expenses...... According to Liu Shangshu's meaning, it is wrong to rank as the first emperor?"

Liu Kangyong took a deep breath, he was about to speak, but he saw Chang Shengning suddenly and suddenly stroked his chest.

"Ahem, ahem! Ahem!"

Chang Shengning's face flushed, and his gray beard trembled lightly with his coughing and wheezing, and he became more and more haggard with the passing of his years.

Liu Kangyong took the opportunity to speak, but saw His Majesty wave his hand:

"Senior female official, go and help Chang Shangshu get up."

Liu Kangyong was interrupted again.

Chang Shengning finished coughing, and kowtowed heavily: "Your Majesty, just let Weichen kneel!"

He gasped, then continued:

"The law is not immutable, nor has it never changed. Taizu once said, "The lawgiver is often the rule." The ordinance is expedient for a while." In addition to the "Dayong Law", there are expedient methods in my Dayong Dynasty. Where does the expediency come from? It comes from the case, and the case is the case, and the law and the law must also be in harmony with the case. The successive emperors of the past dynasties devoted themselves to state affairs, judged the situation, and established expedient laws based on examples. The expedient law has gradually become a common law, that is, the "Punishment Regulations", and then into the "Dayong Huidian", which is the basis for our Dayong Dynasty to deal with things according to the law. Lord Liu, "Gou Mu is ancient but not modern, and those who drown near and forget far away are not either." Have you forgotten that?"

After speaking, Chang Shengning laughed again, and when he laughed, every furrow on his face hid an unknown emotion:

"I heard the words "ancestral family law" thirty-five years ago, and it is the ancestral family law that a wife who kills her husband should be killed, but I have watched the man who is a husband beat his wife and concubine...... According to the "Da Yong Law", if you don't break the bones of his wife and concubine, you can't care. These are ancestral family laws! It's all our Dayong's ancestral family law!"

The old man's palm slapped on the ground, as if to wake up the god buried in the center of the entire dynasty.

"Why? As a state criminal magistrate, this official has to watch a man beat his wife and concubine but be unharmed, and he has to watch his wife and concubine be humiliated and kill that man and then pay for his life! Why? Why?"

This is the anger that has been buried for more than thirty years, like a jar of wine that has been brewed for too long, and as soon as it is opened, people can smell the pungency in it.

"The city is full of vegetarians, everyone shouts injustice, and the people's compassion and pity are deafening, but Xu Bing, the chief officer of the military preparation road in charge of this case, keeps saying that this is the ancestral family law! Lord Liu, if you were in that place at that time, would you be able to say this? Ancestral family law cannot be violated? Ha! Lord Liu, have you ever seen the numerous case files sorted out by the female officials before? The official read all the case files word by word, and was beaten and abused by her husband for a long time, so she had to hurt people, kill people, and die! To be beaten is to die, and to resist is also to die, and half of the people of my Dayong Dynasty are living like this, just because of the ancestral family law!"

Liu Kangyong opened his mouth before he said:

"Master Chang, the ancestral family law is the foundation of the dynasty, and women have the righteousness of three observants, and there is no special way. Therefore, if you are not married to your father, you are married to your husband, and your husband is dead from your son, this is a ceremony! I act according to the law of Dayong, what is wrong?"

After he finished speaking, he saw Chang Shengning looking at him, and then, grinning:

"Li? Lord Liu, Liu Shangshu, Liu Ge Lao, you open your mouth and close your mouth is "ceremony", I heard that Ling Zun almost finished the three books and six rituals in one step, but he forcibly changed his wife with his family background, forcing the woman he was originally going to marry to commit suicide, do you know about this."

In an instant, Liu Kangyong's pupils shrank like a needle's eye.

He was born in Yongzhou, since his ancestors have been cultivating and studying, his father Liu Geng and a woman of the Liu family in his early years set a family affair, to his father was seventeen years old, the two families officially began to agree on the marriage date, but at that time, Liu Kangyong's grandfather Liu Yu was lifted, he looked down on the white body of the Liu family, the marriage date has been set, the dowry has been carried to the Liu family, Liu Yu is repentant of the marriage let Liu Geng marry the daughter of a rich businessman in Yongzhou as his wife, the Liu family came to seek justice, Liu Li only said that if the Liu family is willing to let the Liu family daughter as a concubine.

The woman has been engaged since she was twelve years old, but four years later, she had to end up like this, and strangled herself that night with the belt originally made for Liu Geng.

The Liu family lost their daughter, so they sued the Liu family in court, and the county official refused to accept the case and sued the state capital, the then prefect had quite an official reputation, and after trying the case decently, he let the Liu family vacate a piece of space from the ancestral grave for the Liu family daughter to be buried, called Liu Men Liu's family, and also Liu Geng's wife. He also invited a "Jielie" watch for the Liu family to hang in front of Liu's house.

Liu Kangyong naturally knew about this, and their family did not level the tomb of the Liu family until he was admitted to the Jinshi.

The Liu family didn't dare to offend his family, so they got a hundred taels of silver and withdrew the watch.

At the moment when the tomb was leveled, he thought that no one would mention this matter again.

Not to mention in front of the Imperial Palace.

"Tut-tut." Chang Shengning saw that Liu Kangyong was speechless, so he shook his head and said, "Lord Liu, if Ling Zun is courteous, there will be no you."

Liu Kangyong hurriedly walked a few steps on his knees and shouted at the imperial case, "Your Majesty! Chang Shangshu is a minister's private matter......"

Chang Shengning: "Indecent!"

Liu Kangyong: "Your Majesty! The origin of the minister......"

Chang Shengning: "Indecent!"

Liu Kangyong was almost hoarse: "Your Majesty, the ministers are dedicated to the court and your Majesty......

Chang Shengning touched his beard and curled the corners of his mouth: "You, you are not a courtesy!"

Cold sweat wet his underwear, Liu Kangyong crawled on the ground trembling, for decades, he stood up with "etiquette", and the first emperor chose him as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites before his death, because he felt that he knew the etiquette law, kept himself upright, and could persuade His Majesty.

Life is not courtesy, these four words are forcing him to die!

Chang Shengning! He is indeed the reincarnation of Yama!

Seeing him like this, Chang Shengning had a smile on his face, but he only had silence in his heart.

Ever since he was determined to assist His Majesty in revising the Fa, he secretly sent someone to check the case files, and he had been litigating prison affairs all his life, so he naturally knew what was in those layers of case files.

It is the trace of the stumbling and climbing of all beings in the world.

It is also the aftermath of the world's beings falling into the boundless hell.

If you want to know the law, you can't do it unless you don't do it.

Supporting his old body with one hand, which was already unbearable, he turned his head and looked at Yang Zhai, who was also kneeling beside him.

"Lord Yang, men defend their families and countries, so the law must protect men. Is it true that only men are in the midst of war? Thou hast also been in charge of a garrison, and have those wives of the army not farmed? Never spun? Then where did the clothes on my Dayong soldier come from? Where does the food and clothing in the belly come from? Why did I let the wife of a military household also join the army? It's to share the hardships of the military households!"

Yang Zhai looked at Chang Shengning and moved his ass a little uncomfortably.

"Chang Shangshu, even if women have some hard work, it is men who can shelter them from the wind and rain, erect the door, and let them not be disturbed by robbery."

Hearing this, Chang Shengning smiled again.

"Lord Yang, what kind of wind and rain is the woman trying to avoid? What kind of portal are you guarding? Who will plunder and harass them?"

"Naturally, it's ...... outside," Yang Zhai stuck.

The wind and rain that women have to avoid has always been men.

Chang Shengning rubbed himself vigorously

Beard:

"Lord Yang, the women who loyally guarded the city in my Dayong Dynasty are incalculable, when you were a thousand households, you were under the command of Lin Quan, can you know that his great-grandmother Cai also personally climbed the wall to take the family slaves, women and children in the city to guard Guiyang City for three months? Not only can she defend herself against the enemy, but Mrs. Cai also dares to lead her troops to defeat the thief army, and her loyalty and courage are not necessarily within her reach*. Lord Yang, if Mrs. Cai also met a husband who beat her every day, what would she do?"

After Chang Shengning finished speaking, he suddenly realized again, and actually answered himself:

"If you go well, you will die, and if you don't go well, you should die. This is my Dayong's ancestral family law! This is my Dayong's manhood! Worthy of heaven and earth! There is no loss in virtue! Ladies and gentlemen, do you think the old man is right?"

With that, his body shook.

There was a leaking sound, and it was almost time for the early dynasty.

Li Congyuan, who had never spoken, said softly:

"Master Chang, since there are laws and regulations, it is better to set a few cases first, and as for the matter of amending the law, we still have to act cautiously and consider it in the long run."

"Examples? Elder Li Ge, how do we make a case? Look at how Zhuo Shengquan, the servant of the Criminal Department, interrogated the Bai family, he didn't regard the Bai family as a bitter master! He asked if the Bai family had an emotional relationship with Hu Hui, and asked the dead Qi family if he had an emotional relationship with Hu, if it weren't for Shen's background, he was afraid that he would have to ask Shen if he had any previous relationship entanglement with Hu Hui. Our Dayong's dignified and upright three-grade criminal department waiter is trying the case like this! If it weren't for the fact that this case file was to be presented to the Imperial Palace, and I would use my head to vouch for it, Zhuo Shengquan would definitely create some entanglements for these women, and besides, the Shen family was not brave, but jealous!"

Thirty-seven years ago, he also thought about writing a case of leniency.

But the result?

Xu Bing's case file is clearly written, and those women killed people out of jealousy because they were not angry with their husbands and favored concubines.

Ridiculous, ridiculous!

If Xu Bing was still alive, he Chang Shengning wanted to go to him and ask him personally, if he Chang Shengning beat Xu Bing three times a day, would Xu Bing also be jealous because he was close to others.

"What if an exception is set? The law is above, as long as men and women cannot be punished for the same crime, people will be extremely strict with women who have made mistakes. At that time, the entire prison yamen of the Dayong Dynasty will have to do their best to turn the woman into a jealous woman who deserves it, and how many people can think of citing an example to overturn the case for a woman?"

After that, Chang Shengning crawled on the ground again:

"Your Majesty, the ministers have taken people to read the case files, and in the past three years, there have been eighty-two women who have been beaten and killed by their husbands without any information done by women in Hejian Mansion alone, and the number of women who have not been convicted is even more incalculable, but there are only three cases of murder of husbands, and two of them have neighbors who testify that they have beaten their wives. In the 153 prefectures of Dayong, nearly 10,000 women die every five years according to the population year, and the Dayong dynasty has been in power for 200 years......

Finally, he had nothing to say.

If there are really 400,000 women who die like this, and 400,000 men do not pay for their lives, the men in the world don't have to say anything to protect their families and defend the country, and the people who have killed the most people are not foreign enemies, but the law of the Dayong Dynasty!

"Chang Shangshu is tired." After the imperial case, Shen Shiqing said slowly, "Three cats, take someone to help Master Chang to the side hall to rest, and then find the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat him."

"Yes."

Seeing Chang Shengning being helped out half-conscious, putting down the pen in her hand, she stood up.

"Since the re-introduction of female officials, I have often wondered why there are many women in this world who are intelligent and intelligent, so why can't they be used by me? Today, after listening to Chang Shangshu's words, I understand. My Dayong's law makes women subordinate to their husbands, not to their kings, and not to their countries. A kingdom binds its people with the law, I bind my subordinates with faithfulness, and a husband restrains his wife with chastity. If a woman understands her situation, she knows that she is just a cow and a horse, and she is a cow and a horse in Dayong, and she is still a cow and a horse after being robbed to Moxi, Mobei, Liaodong, and Liaodong. They are not my Dayong's people, they are the objects that Dayong uses to appease the men, like military salaries, salaries, and titles."

These words were really heartbreaking, and Yang Zhai hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, women are also the people of Dayong......

"Son

People? It is the word that is taught, and the whip that is used to the oxen and horses, and is not this unjust law to the woman, the whip to the oxen and horses?"

The young monarch raised his head and commanded:

"Open the door."

The gate of the Qianqing Palace was opened by the eunuchs.

The sky was dark and incomprehensible, and the snow was falling out of nowhere.

A bitter wind blew into the hall.

Shen Shiqing looked at everything and said slowly:

"If half of my people are cattle and horses, then what am I? Mingjun? Renjun? Or, brute?"

The three pavilion elders lay on the ground, not daring to say a word.

Shen Shiqing smiled and asked the senior female official to pick up the holy decree she had just written.

"Yang Shangshu."

"The minister is here."

"After the Nine Towns competition next year, I want to see a detailed count of the wives of the guards who accompanied the army."

"Yes."

"Liu Shangshu."

Liu Kangyong, who was exposed to his old bottom, did not dare to speak.

"How old are you?"

"Minister, minister, this year, thirty out of sixty."

"It's not small."

「…… Yes."

Shen Shiqing ignored him anymore and looked at Li Congyuan again.

"Li Shangshu."

"The minister is here."

"You let me think long-term...... Let Chang Shangshu reason with you today, I have already considered it for the long term."

After speaking, Shen Shiqing turned around and left, leaving only Li Congyuan's back.

In the early days of this day, His Majesty the Emperor, who was becoming more and more elusive in the Dayong Dynasty, made three more wills.

"The three divisions have compiled the case for the purpose of reforming the law."

"Inspections of the imperial history in various places have found out that in the past three years, there have been local officials who have been sentenced to prison for 'personal morality' and 'jealousy', but there is no substantiation."

"Zhuo Shengquan, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, is exempted from the official and is pending investigation."

Two days later, the Xicheng Procuratorate ruled that Shen's killing of Hu Hui was done by righteousness and bravery, and that Hu Hui had committed many crimes and should be punished as Ling Chi, and that Yu Songbai and Hu Hui's uncle colluded to cover up was the root cause of Shen's killing, so Shen was fined 20 taels of silver and exonerated from the crime.

Shen's arson in the prison of the procuratorate was an act of self-preservation, and he was fined 50 taels of silver and exonerated from the crime.

"Shen Niangzi! Miss Tunan stewed a big pot of elbows for you at home, make sure you have enough to eat!" Tong Wule, who drove the carriage and came to pick up "Shen Shiqing" from prison, said hehehe.

"No."

It's been three days, and Zhao Surui hasn't forgotten the elbow he conjured up in front of Shen Sanrui.

He didn't want to eat elbows for the rest of his life.