On the second day, Zhu Qiyu still patiently summoned the important ministers of the court, and this time he still brought Zhu Wenfang.

Zhu Qiyu made some small changes to the qualifications for participating in the small court meeting: Shangshu, left and right attendants can participate, and they are no longer limited to cabinet ministers. If the additional squire is not invited in advance, he does not need to participate in the small pilgrimage.

In this way, those who are less qualified and non-university scholars can also participate in the court meeting.

Zhou Xuan, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, participated in the small court meeting for the first time, and asked the emperor a very acute judicial question: "Shengshang, Liu Kai, the governor of the Shandong Aoshan Wei Experience Division, said:

Song Cheng, the deputy of the guard, married the eldest daughter of Dai Mao of the thousand households, and was given the title of Dai as a pleasant person.

Dai changed to the commander of Laizhou Wei Yao Xiong.

This is the grace of the gift, and the way of the husband and wife is lost, and the begging for amnesty is made by the prosecutor of Shandong.

And the text was moved everywhere, and the woman was told not to be drunk. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "It's a question of whether the wife can remarry." ”

Zhou Xuan replied: "That's true, the minister thinks that the imperial court should formulate a routine and have a unified and definite disposal plan. ”

Zhu Qiyu turned to He Yi: "This matter is from Ao Shanwei, I remember that there was another mountain and what Wei came before, and it also involved a remarriage lawsuit?" ”

He Yi replied: "It was the year before last, and the Yasukuni Gong played a performance, saying that after some people are engaged, the man will either serve in another country, or transfer to another office, so he will abandon the person he hired before and don't marry and start a family.

The father and brother of the woman he hired had no choice but to remarry her.

As a result, the man who broke the contract instead started to fight.

According to the usual practice, the ex-husband is not paid, or he is sold as a dowry, or he is a concubine.

The reason for this is because the male family is unrighteous, and it is not the female family that betrays the alliance.

For example, Lu Ying, the son of the late Governor Lu Yi, first commanded Ge Tan's sister to be his wife.

Later, Lu Ying attacked Shanhaiwei, did not marry the daughter of Yu Sheng of a thousand households, and married Chen as a concubine, and gave birth to a man and a woman.

Ge Tan's mother and son married Liu Yu of a thousand households in Nanjing because their daughter was thirty years older, and they had three men and three women. Now he is being married by Lu Yinggu, and the two families have been talking about it for many years.

The judiciary ordered Yu to return to Ying according to the law, and Ge Tan's sister was forced to take Lu Ying as a concubine. ”

Zhu Qiyu glanced at He Yi in surprise, this guy can even remember so many names.

Zhou Xuan also echoed: "That's true, the laws of the Ming Dynasty do have many deficiencies on the issue of remarriage. ”

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "This question should be very common, has no one cared about it before?" What do Ren Miao and Xuan Temple say? And how did the Orthodox Dynasty deal with these things? ”

Zhou Xuan smiled bitterly: "Before, once a man and a woman made a marriage contract, according to the custom, the man could marry another, but after the man broke the contract, the woman still couldn't marry another."

As long as the lawsuit is filed, the man will win the lawsuit in the end.

There are also women who have a destiny to remarry, and they will not chase their destiny before. ”

"Isn't there a lot of loopholes in my Ming law?"

Zhou Xuan nodded affirmatively: "The men and women mentioned above are still men and women from the official family." If it is a flat-headed people, it is even more insecure. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "I really ignored these things before, or I would formulate a "Civil Code" to make such things clear, right?" ”

Zhu Qiyu just mentioned it casually, and wanted to wait for the ministers to stand up and oppose it, but as soon as the words fell, Zhou Xuan bowed to the ground and praised loudly: "The saint cares about all the people, has the style of Chinese heritage, and is a true and virtuous and benevolent king, long live, long live, long live, long live." ”

Zhu Qiyu was almost amused by Zhou Xuan's actions on the spot, and he was worthy of being able to send all the minor prisoners in prison home because of the summer epidemic, and invented the funny minister of 'summoning you to come'.

was forced by Zhou Xuan to the position of the Holy Lord of the Ming Monarch with the style of Chinese heritage, Zhu Qiyu had to reply: "Then Zhou Aiqing is responsible for presiding over the formulation of the Civil Code."

As for the two cases just mentioned, I will give a precedent: First, a woman who has a decree can remarry, and the court does not prohibit it.

It's just that once you remarry, you will be deemed to have automatically renounced your fate.

Second, if a man breaks his marriage contract and marries another family. The original marriage contract is automatically nullified, and the woman who is engaged to her can freely remarry, and the government is not allowed to interfere, and the man is not allowed to sue the official.

Everywhere the text was moved, and it was carried out in the future. ”

Everyone is the Son of Heaven and the Holy Father.

Next, Zhu Qiyu began to express his feelings again: "Daming is simply a mountain of disadvantages, and there are big and small problems everywhere.

I also want to stop and take care of people's livelihood, but unfortunately some battles are not fought and cannot be done.

The war with North Korea was a big battle.

In this battle, both Japan and the Jurchens will be involved. Japan, in particular, has a population of seven or eight million, and an elite army of at least 200,000.

It's not easy to fight, you have to be mentally prepared.

Don't think I'm a reckless soldier, if Japan and the Jurchens don't fight now, it will become more and more difficult to fight in the future, and sooner or later they will kill the Ming Dynasty.

For the sake of the long term, it is necessary to fight. But in the short term, it's not without benefits. With the combined population of North Korea and Japan of more than 10 million, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty will rise by a large margin. ”

None of the ministers came forward to refute it, and everyone still wanted to see what kind of war could be fought.

Luo Tong asked: "Holy Lord, if it is really as you said, Japan has 200,000 elite troops, then we start a war with Korea, Japan, and Jurchen at the same time, how many troops do we need to transfer to Liaodong?" ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled bitterly: "Ploughing the court and sweeping the caves must be an army of 200,000. The key to this battle lies in firearms.

In the past five years, I have been giving the best treatment to the ordnance craftsmen of Daming, and it is time to make some achievements. ”

Luo Tong replied: "Today, the scale of the ordnance bureaus and factories has expanded more than ten times compared with the last years of orthodoxy. The entire outer city of Beijing is brightly lit all night, and those who make armor make armor and those who cast artillery must not relax at all.

Fortunately, the saint overrode public opinion and took back Annan and Mengyang. With Mengyang's iron ore and copper mines, supplemented by a steady stream of craftsmen from Annan, Daming supported multi-front operations and was still able to play with ease. ”

"Well, now there are 30,000 local troops in Liaodong in Dingliao's right guard, and Nanhebo has brought 30,000 Beijing troops, which seems to be not enough. Let's transfer all the Jingying and Shangzhiwei in Nanjing.

At least 100,000 troops must be gathered to be sure that North Korea will be taken in one fell swoop. ”

There is a sentence that Zhu Qiyu is embarrassed to say: As far as those local armies in Liaodong are concerned, they are purely dragging their feet, and they are considered cumbersome to make up the numbers.

Last time, he also attacked Shanxi first, and he led a division to attack Liaodong, with only 10,000 cavalry, which frightened Wang Ao with tens of thousands of troops and couldn't shrink in Guangning City.

Just this kind of goods, this is still the early stage of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, those 'elite' Liaodong iron riders didn't know what to say, and they could only feel sorry for Chongzhen for 100 million seconds.

The other ministers also looked at each other, and after the miraculous March reconquest of Annam, the Manchu civil and military forces could not figure out how the Korean War would go.

(End of chapter)