I am Da Song

Chapter 573

This really can't tolerate Zhao Huan not being curious.

A small landowner actually has three concubines.

Zhao Huan didn't know whether it was normal for a small landlord to have one wife and three concubines in other dynasties.

But based on what Zhao Huan knew so far, Yang Yuanwai, a small farm owner, has raised three beautiful and beautiful concubines, isn't he a little too rich?
If Da Song's ordinary families were like him, then talking about the prosperous age would really belittle Da Song.It has to be described as paradise on earth!

Member Yang said with a smile: "As long as you don't laugh at the old man, I will crush the crabapple with a pear tree."

Zhao Huan didn't smile, a pear tree crushes a begonia, this poem looks very beautiful, but the real situation is very cruel.

According to folk rumors, this poem was written by Su Shi, the number one writer in the Song Dynasty.

It is said that it was an old Mr. Zhang who, at the age of eighty, happily took a house of young concubines.Zhang Xian, who had enjoyed the joy of taking concubines, still did not forget to show off. After the bridal chamber, he wrote an impromptu poem to express his joyful mood:
"I am eighty years old and Qing is eighteen. You are a beauty and I have white hair."

"It's the same age as Qing upside down, with only a sixtieth birthday in the middle."

So Su Shi also wrote a poem to make fun of his "old and unscrupulous" old friend, and there is a famous line through the ages:
"Eighteen brides eighty-seven, pale hair and red makeup."

"Mandarin ducks are trapped in a double night, and a pear tree crushes crabapples."

But a young bride married an 80-year-old man, everything Zhao Huan saw was the darkness of the feudal dynasty and the helplessness of the common people.

Therefore, if a small owner like Yang Yuanwai can marry three beautiful concubines, Zhao Huan has to carefully evaluate his previous views.

Is there a serious unfair distribution in the Song Dynasty? The first 1000 million people took away the wealth of the whole world.

The world is poor and poor, and Tianlu will die forever.

If the vast majority of people in the world are poor and prostitute, then the so-called prosperous age is simply a joke.

After all, Zhao Huan was not as thick-skinned as Zhu Di. Ma Zheng forced the people to sell their wives and concubines, and the people fled in large numbers, and they could still call themselves a prosperous age.

So much so that after his son ascended the throne, he had to issue an edict to help him wipe his ass: "The soldiers and civilians everywhere were forced by the government to sell their men, women, wives and concubines to others because they were chasing and breeding horses. , no excuses are allowed to delay.”

That is to say, the government pays to redeem the men, women, wives and concubines of the people and return them to the people.

But if a good son, girl, or good wife and concubine are sold, and then bought back, how can the hardships suffered in the middle be counted?

Member Yang saw that there was no smile on Zhao Huan's face, so he explained: "My dear brother, don't misunderstand me. Brother, I am not an unscrupulous gentry who bullies southern bullies. You have also seen it with your own eyes. Xiaoyi is from my village. The daughter of an ordinary farmer. With Xiaoyi's eyes, can you see this old bone?"

"I'm not afraid of my virtuous brother's jokes. I asked a matchmaker to come to propose marriage for an outstanding child in the clan, but they all declined."

"If anyone dares to bully the little girl with a finger, her father can go to Tokyo to beat the Dengwen drum, and the lawsuit will go to the government. The Dengwen drum has a censor on duty. As long as the drum is sounded, there will be three This is the joint trial of the Supreme Judiciary, the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Procuratorate, but no one can cover the sky with one hand and bribe all three of them."

Zhao Huan nodded in approval.Let's not talk about the wealth of the people, but at least one thing is certain, the idea of ​​these big clans bullying men and women is generally not dared to have, and the cost is too high.

As Yang Yuanwai said, there are almost no people who can bribe three judicial offices at the same time.

Especially the Inspectorate, they don't even pay attention to the prime minister.

If a prime minister interfered with the judiciary, maybe there would be a young censor who would follow the example of his predecessor Han Qi and give up the four prime ministers.

The prime minister, senior officials, and even the Zuodu censor of the Inspectorate are very afraid of the young censor who is not afraid of anything these days.

Every year, the three divisions organize joint trials of some cases, some of which are difficult cases where the legal principles are difficult to judge, and it is difficult for local officials to make a judgment. Such cases will be handed over to the highest judicial institution for joint trial, and finally a ruling will be made to form a code of guidance.

Some are death penalty cases, and the review of death penalty is done in every dynasty.

For example, the Ting Wei of the Han Dynasty was dedicated to this job. Some Ting Wei simply did not give a word of approval during his tenure, so during his tenure, no criminal was executed because of the death penalty.

In the Tang Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Taizong, even the sentence of every death row prisoner had to go through the emperor to show respect for life.Every year, only a few hundred people are sentenced to death.

The Song Dynasty also had a system in this regard. Of course, Zhao Huan was not as diligent as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Basically, major and important cases were handed over to the three divisions for joint trial, and he only passed the seal at the end.

And knocking on Dengwen drum is obviously a serious case among major cases.

Basically, if the people are really forced to live in dire straits, the other party will travel thousands of miles to Tokyo to beat Dengwen drums.

Then go down from the criminal punishment department at the first level of the road, and wait in line to be liquidated.

As for blocking the way...

Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, really encountered this kind of thing, but he didn't reach the stage of killing people, but only reached the stage of blocking the way.Local officials prevented the other party from entering Beijing to file a complaint, but failed to do so.

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang pursued him to the end, and all the officials who participated in the obstruction were severely punished.

So if someone really killed the person who complained, it would scare all the people involved.Kill relatives immediately.

Zhao Huan believed that Yang Yuanwai's three concubines were not obtained by bullying men and women.

But if it wasn't for this kind of method, it would be amazing that he could marry three beautiful concubines outside of a small member of staff.

Yang Yuanwai said: "I don't know my virtuous brother, but I have heard a saying that a female envoy from the North must win a girl from Korea, and a family boy must win a black servant. Otherwise, you can't be an official."

Zhao Huan shook his head, saying that he had never heard of this sentence.

Member Yang said with a smile: "In my Central Plains, there are several most popular servants, namely Orchids, Kunlun slaves and Silla maids."

"In Xijing, orchids are all over the place. In Nanjing, there are many Kunlun slaves. The rare treasures of the four seas in Tokyo can't be collected. But in Beijing, Silla maidservants are the main ones."

"Hejian Mansion is next to Beijing, and this old man has been to Beijing a few times. These concubines are all Silla maidservants bought in Beijing."

Silla maid, Zhao Huan's eyes lit up, he had heard of this before.

"Princes and grandsons follow in the footsteps, green beads shed tears and scarves. Once the Hou family entered the deep like the sea, Xiao Lang was a passerby from then on"

As soon as Hou Men entered the deep sea, this sentence must be familiar to everyone in the Central Plains.

It is Cui Jiao's "Gift to a Maid", which is about his love story with Silla's maid.

(End of this chapter)