Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 239 Concubine Provisions
In fact, when Li Jing had just occupied the five counties of Pingyang Prefecture and started to build textile factories, printing and dyeing factories, and garment factories, Li Jing was preparing to formulate a law on the protection of women.

You must know that since the emergence of the old gentleman Zhu Xi in the Southern Song Dynasty, the status of women in society has plummeted.

After the Ming Dynasty, they became completely men's vassals. Those old masters made many rules for women, and women were not allowed to do many things, even showing their faces in public.

However, Li Jing's factories just needed a large number of women to work, and these restrictions gave Li Jing a real headache.

If Li Jing hadn't mobilized the families of the soldiers to work in the factories, these factories would have been nothing but empty shelves.

It was at this time that Li Jing decided to formulate laws to lift many restrictions on women, because if a large number of women were not allowed to come out to work, many factories would not be open.

But at that time Li Jing was busy dealing with Wang Ziyong and other rogues, so he really didn't have the energy to do this, and there was no one around him who knew about it.

It wasn't until he acquired most of the Pingyang Mansion that Li Jing began to look up information about it.

It's a pity that Li Jing looked through a lot of classics, but couldn't find any information about this.

Instead, I found a lot of materials about marriage in the Northern Song Dynasty. Among them, there are many regulations on women, marriage, and family, which can be regarded as protecting women in the form of legal provisions.

In desperation, Li Jing formulated a law similar to the protection of marriage and the protection of women's rights based on the marriage laws of the Northern Song Dynasty, in which detailed regulations and norms were formulated for the act of taking concubines.

This law is not intended to improve the status of concubines in the family and society, because doing so is tantamount to depriving the mistress of the status and rights in disguise, and will cause conflicts in many families that would not have arisen in the first place.In that case, enacting this law would be putting the cart before the horse.

This decree mainly protects the personal safety of concubines, maidservants, maids and other low-status people, because there is no security guarantee for concubines in the family. Husbands and mistresses can beat and scold concubines at will, and can dispose of concubines at will, anytime, anywhere You can sell your concubine or even kill her without paying for it.

Just imagine that even after being a concubine with Zhu Huiyu's identity, he was still worried in front of Shen Ying, let alone those ordinary people?
This decree stipulates that husbands and mistresses are not allowed to beat and scold concubines at will. As for beating concubines to death, they will pay with their lives.

At the same time, it is stipulated that concubines cannot be bought and sold at will. If the husband feels that the concubine is not in harmony with the family, he can divorce, but he must go to the corresponding government department to go through the formalities and pay part of the alimony at the same time.

At the same time, Li Jing formulated strict restrictions on concubine behavior.

Who can take concubines and who cannot take concubines are regulated in detail.

For example, only a man who is over 30 years old and childless can take a concubine. In addition, there are grades for concubines. Common people, ordinary officials, and low-level military officers are only allowed to take one concubine. However, this regulation is of little significance, because these people Basically, they will not take concubines, nor can they afford concubines.

Officers at the school level and officials above the county magistrate and below the magistrate are only allowed to take two concubines, and officers above the general level and officials above the prefect are allowed to take three concubines.

For the group of merchants, Li Jing classified them into the second category, which meant that they could take two concubines.

To be honest, Li Jing may not have any good intentions in placing businessmen in the second tier.

Because Li Jing stipulates that the second concubine needs to pay taxes, and the tax is fixed at 1000 taels of silver.

Li Jing's explanation for this is: people who take concubines raise concubines, then some people will not be able to marry a wife, and if they cannot marry a wife, they will do some illegal things, which will cause unpredictable harm to the local area. The money is for the local compensate.

In fact, under normal circumstances, if officials do not take bribes or take bribes, it is difficult to spend so much money to pay taxes. Only the third tier is able to take two concubines due to their high income.

But the group of businessmen is a wealthy family, especially those wealthy businessmen, 1000 taels of silver is nothing in their eyes, if Li Jing does not collect taxes from them, he is really sorry for them.

But sometimes it is inevitable that some special things will happen. For example, if a woman falls in love with a man with a family, and the two have a similar friendship, and the woman volunteers to be a concubine, then it is also allowed to take a concubine.

However, this situation needs to be investigated and confirmed by the relevant government departments, and will only be agreed after it is confirmed that it is not coercion.

In addition, if this situation happens to the first tier, that is, ordinary people and low-level military officers and low-level officials, then there is no need to pay.

But those in the rank of officials still have to pay, because these people are privileged, and there may be some tricks in it. What Li Jing means is that they would rather kill the wrong than let them go. As long as they are in this rank, all All have to hand in 1000 taels of silver.

This article was actually added later, and the instigator was Zhu Huiyu, because this was basically the reason why Zhu Huiyu married Li Jing.Zhu Huiyu believed that if this clause was not added, then her marriage to Li Jing would be unfair.

When formulating this article, there was a small episode.

At that time, when Zhu Huiyu said that the two were congenial, Li Jing jokingly said that Wang Ba looked at Mung Dou. Zhu Huiyu was very coquettish at the time, saying that Li Jing was calling her a bastard in disguise.

Li Jing said with a wry smile at the time that if Zhu Huiyu was a bastard, wouldn't he be a mung bean?How could he scold himself?
There is also a special situation, which is tantamount to a special privilege formulated by Li Jing. Li Jing can grant or reward those officers and men who have made great contributions to the Jishi Army and those officials with outstanding abilities.

Since it was licensed or rewarded by Li Jing, the tax money was naturally paid by Li Jing.

Some parts of this decree are actually unreasonable, and there are many loopholes that can be exploited, but Li Jing has no choice. They all left gaps.

In this regard, Li Jing is also very helpless, and can only hope that future generations will improve it.

However, after the enactment of this decree, the effect is still very obvious. At least the senior officers of the Jishi Army and those local officials dare not violate these regulations.

Everyone knows Li Jing's character. Once Li Jing's rules are violated, Li Jing will turn his face and refuse to recognize anyone. In order to take a concubine, Li Jing is offended. Everyone will not do such a thing.

With these people as examples, it naturally touched the nerves of many people, and they dare not take concubines easily.

Another big reason is that Li Jing collected money too harshly. To take a concubine would cost 1000 taels of silver, which most people simply couldn't afford.

Even for a general of Gao Qi's level, it takes at least a year for him to take a concubine, and he has to add Li Jing's reward to save enough 1000 taels of silver.

Because the threshold for taking concubines is too high, almost no one takes concubines in the territory of Pingyang Prefecture.

But some time ago, Yang Liufeng accidentally saw a girl, after meeting Yang Liufeng was very excited, couldn't bear it, he discussed with the girl's family to take her as a concubine, what is Yang Liufeng's status?Naturally, it's easy to say.

However, Yang Liufeng already had two concubines, and his status happened to be at the Zhizhou level, which means that Yang Liufeng is no longer allowed to take concubines. If Yang Liufeng wants to take a concubine, he can only ask Li Jing for one. Award quota.

Generally speaking, the people below will not easily ask Li Jing for a special case, because doing so will lose points in Li Jing's heart.

Who would have thought that Yang Liufeng, who was so smart at the time, went to Li Jing to ask for a third place. Of course, Yang Liufeng also hoped that Li Jing could lend him part of the tax money, but Li Jing did not agree after learning about it.

It wasn't that Li Jing had a prejudice against Yang Liufeng, on the contrary, Li Jing valued Yang Liufeng very much, and because of that, Li Jing didn't want to give Yang Liufeng the spot so easily.

Because Yang Liufeng is very capable, this reward will fall on his head sooner or later, what will happen after the reward now?In addition, Yang Liufeng is so handsome, if a certain girl falls in love with him in the future, won't she still have to take a concubine?What to do then?
Governor Wu and the others naturally didn't know that Pingyang Mansion had so many regulations on taking concubines, and thought that Li Jing was harsh on his subordinates, but they didn't know that Li Jing's promise just now was a great reward for Yang Liufeng.

This is the first time that Li Jing has given out privileges to reward after the enactment of this law.

Of course, Li Jing had no doubts whether Yang Liufeng could get this reward.

Li Jing dared to entrust such an important matter to Yang Liufeng, so he knew that Yang Liufeng must have a way to solve this problem.

Li Jing knows Yang Liufeng very well. Yang Liufeng is a shrewd and capable person who often uses some abnormal means to solve problems.

If Yang Liufeng can't solve this problem, then basically there will be no one in the Ji Shi Army who can solve this problem.

After many years of teaching by Yuan Keli, Li Jing is no longer the iron-blooded soldier he was back then.

Yuan Keli once commented on Li Jing with Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and others, saying that Li Jing's greatest ability is to know how to employ people, and he is not suspicious of employing people, and he absolutely delegates power.Especially in terms of decentralization, few people can compare with Li Jing.

After hearing Yuan Keli's evaluation, Xu Guangqi and others all nodded their heads.

When Li Jing employs people to do things, he almost always entrusts them with carte blanche.

Xu Guangqi is now in charge of the Academy of Sciences, Sun Yuanhua is in charge of the military factory, and Fang Fang is in charge of the rest of the factories.Li Jing would only look for them when he thought of a good idea, and rarely asked them the rest of the time.

Working under Li Jing is extremely comfortable.

Xu Guangqi is 71 years old this year, and because he works comfortably, his face is radiant all day long, as if he was ten years younger.

Like Xu Guangqi and others, Yang Liufeng was in charge of Jiangzhou's administrative affairs, and Li Jing also delegated all powers. However, Li Jing knew that Yang Liufeng often did not follow the routine, so he would beat him from time to time.

Now to solve King Fu's problem, Li Jing naturally had to hand it over to Yang Liufeng. With Yang Liufeng's personality, he would definitely be able to find a way.

(End of this chapter)