Lord Lu looked at her with indiscriminate eyes and said, "To be honest, these meats are still home-raised pork, fat but not greasy, wild boar, too firewood, you can't chew it, it costs fire!" He snorted lightly, "What can't be on the table, if you can eat enough, if you want to grow tall and strong, you have to eat meat, eat more meat, eat pork." ”

"You want to eat braised pork." Mrs. Lu's crisp voice came from outside.

Ye Sanniang stood up with her two sons when she heard the sound and looked at the door.

Lord Lu also stood up and looked at his own wife who came in with the curtain open.

"The woman has seen Mrs. Lu." Ye Sanniang blessed her body and saluted.

"Boy, meet Mrs. Lu." Ye Yanxing's brothers saluted in unison.

"Yikes! Sanniang is here. Mrs. Lu looked at her enthusiastically and said, looking at the Ye Yanxing brothers, "Good! Get up, get up. He smiled heartily and said, "Let's sit down and talk." With a smile, he sat on the chair of the head official hat on the lower right of Lord Lu, looked at the little baby in her arms and said, "What's going on?" Whose children. ”

"I picked it up in the baby tower, I was frozen and purple, the little baby was alive, and I didn't have a fever today." Ye Sanniang gently lifted the baby in her arms and said.

"Uh......" Mrs. Lu pursed her lips and said, "That Sanniang, if you are looking for the child's father, I advise you to say goodbye, and give them back to death in the end." ”

persuaded her not to look for the child's parents, it can be seen that the phenomenon of abandoned babies is too common, but this is not normal at all.

Ye Sanniang shook her head slightly when she heard this, "You and Lord Lu are really not a family, and you don't enter the door." ”

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Lu looked at her incomprehensibly and said.

"Lord Lu also persuaded the women in this way at first." Ye Sanniang's eyes like ink jade looked at her warmly and said.

"Then what did the prefect come to me to discuss?" Mrs. Lu looked at the table and said fairly.

"This abandoned baby is not an isolated case, and this kind of incident must be prevented from happening again, so I need the help of my wife." Lord Lu arched his hand at her.

"Me?" Hearing this, Mrs. Lu's eyes fluttered slightly, "This needs to be a children's rescue meeting." ”

"Madame also knows about the children's rescue club of the Dongpo layman." Ye Sanniang looked at her with some surprise when she heard this and said.

"From the book." Mrs. Lu's starry eyes flashed and looked at her and said, "Giving birth to a child without lifting a child, not raising a child was an extremely common phenomenon in the Song Dynasty. Giving birth to a child without nurturing, drowning or throwing away the baby. Usually this happens when the family is extremely poor, or because of wars, plagues, disasters and famines. ”

"Don't talk about it in the late Song Dynasty? How can it be a common phenomenon! Lord Lu said in surprise.

"The heavy tax burden of the Song Dynasty was one of the reasons for the widespread infanticide and infanticide customs in the Song Dynasty." Mrs. Lu looked at him with compassion and said, "Dongpo monk said in "A Book with Zhu Ezhou": Jinghu North Road, Yue Etian villain, for example, only raise two men and one woman, and kill them too often. Especially the adopted daughter, so the folk girl, many widowers. When he was born, he was killed by dipping in cold water, and his parents could not bear it, so they often closed their eyes on the back of their eyes, pressed their hands into a basin of water, and babbled for a long time before they died. There are people in Shenshan Township who killed two sons in a row, in the middle of the summer of last year, his wife gave birth to four sons, Chu poison is unbearable, both mother and son are killed, retribution is so, and the fool does not know how to create Ai. ”

"It's cruel." Ye Yanxing said angrily, "My own flesh and blood, how can I be willing to do it." It's not a troubled time, human life is like an ant, and the day is precarious. ”

"So retribution, deserved." Ye Luoxing said with relief.

Mrs. Lu looked at the brothers with gentle eyes and continued, "Dongpo monks were demoted to Huangzhou: the small people of Huangzhou, the poor have many children, and the newborn is easy to be soaked in water basins. ”

Taking a deep breath to calm her emotions, Mrs. Lu continued, "Zhu Xi's father, Zhu Song, is an official in Fujian: I heard that Fujian people don't like to have many children, and they often kill people...... Although there is a law, it cannot be defeated. There are also records of Wang Dechen, Song Shenzong, Zhezong's minister, Zhang Dun and other ministers. Then he added, "From their mouths, we know that in the southeast of the Song Dynasty, infant drowning was quite common. ”

"Why?" Lord Lu said in surprise.

Ye Sanniang was shocked that Mrs. Lu was familiar with historical books.

Ye Yanxing's brothers were even more exaggerated, and their eyes were round, looking at Mrs. Lu.

After Mrs. Lu's words, is this still the prosperous and brilliant Song Dynasty in their eyes?

Are ordinary people so miserable?

"What else? Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger. Mrs. Lu said angrily, "The government of the Song Dynasty not only inherited the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the previous dynasties, but also added many new laws to collect the people, among which the Ding Fu became a heavy burden on the general public. Its Ding endowment is the heaviest in the southeast. Cai Xiang's "Duanming Collection" volume 26 said that households in southern Fujian lose seven buckets and five liters of rice every year. "Chunxi Sanshan Chronicles" volume ten years, three mountains area: at the beginning of Xianping, the summer tax and the total amount of money is more than 29,700, Dazhong Xiangfu four years, the edict is released Ding money, and the summer tax is 7,69 runs. The amount of money is as much as three times the summer tax. With an ugly face, he said, "The various poll taxes in the Song Dynasty were full of tricks and heavy. Fan Chengda said: The money in the state is too heavy, so there is a tendency not to raise children. "Song Hui Wants to Compile Manuscripts and Food" contains: Huzhou Ding Juan is the heaviest, and he does not lift until he gives birth. Zhao Shanliao's "Self-Police: Helping People" cloud: Zhejiang people lost their lives in Ding Qian Juan, and the people abandoned it when they were born, and killed it when they were a little longer. In Taiping Prefecture on Jiangnan East Road, the people must pay for the children, and the annual amount is million, and the people are poor and cannot lose the official, so the children are drowned. It can be said that the cruel poll tax oppression in the Song Dynasty was an important reason for the infertility of the people. ”

"Didn't the government take care of it at that time?" Lord Lu looked at her with dark eyes and said.

"At that time, some scholars and doctors severely reprimanded: The custom of not raising children in the southeast is unreasonable, and asked the government to strictly prohibit it." Mrs. Lu clenched her fists, calmed down her emotions and said, "The government has indeed taken a variety of measures to try to stop it, but the custom of not raising children has not improved, and the prohibition has not stopped, and even intensified in some places. "Closed his eyes and said, "On the one hand, the court of the Song Dynasty wanted to legislate to stop this custom, and on the other hand, it promoted this custom with heavy taxes. But the emperor of the Song Dynasty would not cancel the tax at all and save the children, which is impossible. ”

In Ye Sanniang's ears, it was the poll tax, it was too fragrant, and she had to collect it!

Ye Sanniang looked at Mrs. Lu with admiration in her eyes, she was so amazing!

"That's not right!" Lord Lu scratched his head and said, "The people of the Song Dynasty paid heavy taxes and did not raise children. But now we have a very low tax on the acres of land, and most of the north is tax-free. ”

At six o'clock in the evening, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a collection

(End of chapter)