Qiming 1158

Chapter 1072 Monogamy

Su Yonglin let Xin Qiji stay with a slightly tired look.

Xin Qiji knew that there was nothing he could do, so he sat down beside Su Yonglin.

"You look tired."

"How can I not be tired? Domestic affairs, foreign affairs, meeting internal affairs, and foreign affairs are all my own. There are too many things that I can't understand, and I have to deal with them all. I can't blame others, but my own. The demands are too high."

Su Yonglin shook his head with a smile, and said, "But it has to be like this, otherwise, the problem will be even bigger."

Xin Qiji smiled bitterly and said: "Don't overwork yourself, you have too many things to manage, I'm afraid that you won't be able to manage it, but you will tire yourself out. There are so many important things in the country, you There's no need to grab it all in one go."

"I don't care who cares? Who else is in charge except me? Who else can withstand such a lot of pressure?"

Su Yonglin sighed.

He trusted Xin Qiji. He was a revolutionary who dared to sacrifice his life, so facing Xin Qiji, Su Yonglin said something from his heart.

"You'an, I plan to abolish the concubine system in the near future."

Xin Qiji was a little surprised.

"This... so you really have such an idea?"

"Otherwise? What do you think of me?"

Su Yonglin looked at Xin Qiji with interest.

Xin Qiji hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth.

"This minister thinks that this is your family matter, and it is a decision made after you and the queen have discussed it. It is naturally inconvenient for you to interfere."

"No, no, I really want to abolish the concubine system."

Su Yonglin shook his head and said slowly, "Although we are also concerned about monogamy, the rich and those who have made meritorious deeds can always obtain more women through the concubinage system, although there have been etiquette regulations throughout the dynasties since ancient times. The upper limit of concubinage, but this upper limit belongs to etiquette, not mandatory law, whether it is enforced or not depends on personal consciousness.”

Xin Qiji agreed with this.

"I heard that there was a custom in the Han Dynasty, and it was important to have eight concubines when successful and successful, while ordinary officials can only have two concubines, and common people can only have one husband and one wife, and there is no place for overstepping."

Su Yonglin smiled.

"But the rules are such rules, but in practice, the binding force of this kind of rules is not big on how many concubines a man of status takes, especially those rich and powerful landowners, and the imperial court can't even control them when they collect taxes. , and want to control the number of their concubines?

The real binding is actually on the wife side. Only one person is allowed, not even the emperor. No one can violate this rule. Besides, everyone is just trying to scare people and really want to take a concubine and hide it. Up, most people can't find it at all.

And why is the status of the wife so important?It is nothing more than to rule the order. The child born by the eldest wife is the eldest son, and the eldest son can inherit the father's most important inheritance. The meaning of the eldest wife is to determine the identity of the eldest son, so as to assist the eldest son to inherit the father's inheritance. "

"It's true, in this way, the order will not be chaotic, so..."

"So I want to establish the system of monogamy even more, abolish the system of multiple concubines, and use the coercive power of the imperial court to set this rule down, and no one is allowed to break it."

Su Yonglin said sternly: "No one wants to live a hard life, everyone wants to live a good life, men are like this, women are like this, and today, only men are successful, and only a very small number of men, but they want to live a good life. Women of the day abound.

Therefore, as long as many women have seen the world, they would rather be the concubines of rich and powerful families than the wives of commoners. It is nothing more than life is too hard to eat enough to eat, so they do not want to suffer hardships and suffer until they grow old.

Although there are all kinds of difficulties in being a concubine of a rich and powerful family, you may be sent around as a gift at any time, or you may be beaten to death, but at least when you are alive, you will not be hungry. This is very important, and it is not What to point out. "

Xin Qiji recalled what he had seen and heard in his youth and youth, and knew that what Su Yonglin had said was true.

When I think about it after I became a high-ranking official and married a wife, I don't know how many people secretly suggested to me to take a concubine, let alone, some women's looks are really good, and as a man, it is really impossible not to be moved.

It was just because Xin Qiji admired Su Yonglin, and Su Yonglin had only one wife and never took a concubine, so Xin Qiji was unwilling to disagree with Su Yonglin on this matter.

But is the reason why those women want to be concubines because of feelings?

Is it because he Xin Qiji is so handsome and talented, so they fell in love with Xin Qiji at first sight, so they wanted to be his concubine?

If you think about it with your toes, you know it's impossible.

"If the chairman says so, it is true..."

"So, all the women have become concubines of powerful and rich families, what will the remaining men do? They can only fight for the few remaining women, and what will happen then? Unrest, war, vendetta, eternal No peace."

Su Yonglin shook his head and said, "So why is there monogamy? Why did the dynasties and dynasties at least superficially restrict the rich and powerful households from taking concubines? It is nothing more than to maintain stability. Without these systems, the three generations of society in the ancient times must have been Unrest, vengeance all day long, in order to possess more women.

Later, the ruler found that this would not work, and found that everyone was thinking about women, so they stopped giving birth, and they could not live. how many women you have.

If you don’t reach this level, you can’t have more women. Although you still turn a blind eye at the actual execution level, once you get into trouble with the government, the number of concubines who don’t meet your status will inevitably lead to the government’s punishment. In this way, the seriousness of the situation is also curbed. "

Xin Qiji took a deep breath and thought about it seriously, feeling that what Su Yonglin said made sense.

"That's true. I have seen some officials punish wealthy households who violated the rules by taking concubines in the past, and even put them in jail and force the concubines' maids to pick them up."

"That's natural, stability can lead to development, stability can lead to population growth, and stability can lead to a good life for rulers, so if a fixed spouse can bring all this, why not do it?"

Su Yonglin's words are certainly reasonable, but Xin Qiji also feels that something is not right.

"But taking a concubine does not mean not having children, taking a concubine is also for having a child. I have never heard of any man who takes a concubine and will not have a child with a concubine. , so the concubine gave birth to a son."

Xin Qiji wondered: "In terms of population, it seems that the banning of the concubine system has little impact?"

"That said, but You An, there is a more important issue that you haven't considered."

Su Yonglin took a deep breath and said: "Banning multiple concubines will limit the excessive expansion of the number of people in a family. This part of the population will be transformed into more small families of three or four, instead of a family of three or two hundred people. Family."

(End of this chapter)