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Chapter 77 I, Daming, also talk about monogamy!
Suzhou Mansion, in the west wing of the other courtyard arranged for Peng Ke.

Also a little maid.

It was also reckless, and ran in hastily.

"Saint, Master Peng is taking Ah Hu out!"

"Listen to him, Mr. Peng's fiancée has come to Suzhou!"

The shock on Xiaocui's face hadn't subsided yet, she opened her mouth wide and asked Yan Qingbo in disbelief: "Where did this fiancée come from?"

"Master Peng hasn't been married yet!"

Yan Qingbo, who was embroidering leisurely and embroidering mandarin ducks, was also stunned.

"fiancée?!"

"Never heard of it?"

"Which girl?"

what's going on?
Yan Qingbo was completely dumbfounded.

She always thought that she was the one who had the most hope of getting married with Penke!

Although her status is somewhat unworthy, isn't she trying hard to make herself worthy of Penke!

Why did a fiancée appear out of nowhere?
"Ahu didn't say anything, but just said: Mr. Peng's fiancée is here."

"Then I rushed to prepare the carriage."

"Saint, what should I do, Master Peng already has a fiancée!"

"Is it possible that you want to be a concubine for Mr. Peng?"

Xiaocui looked bitter, and said in horror: "I heard from the old bustard of Mengxian Pavilion that it is a very terrible thing to be a concubine for others. If you are nameless, you can't even call your own mother when you give birth to a child."

"No status at all."

"Saint, you have to think twice!"

Yan Qingbo's eyebrows were frosty, and he glared at Xiaocui sharply, and cursed: "Who said I'm going to be a concubine!"

"I, Yan Qingbo, in this life, it is impossible for others to lie down and be a minor!"

"Brother Ke always said in the past that the universe is uncertain, and you and I are both dark horses!"

"What's the matter with the fiancee, she hasn't passed the door yet!"

"It's not certain who will be Brother Ke's wife!"

Yan Qingbo's chest trembled violently, and his mood was very ups and downs.

This sudden news disrupted all her plans and thoughts.

Since when did Penke have a fiancée?
Didn't they all say that he failed to go on blind dates many times!

Yan Qingbo always thought that Peng Ke's failed blind date many times was because he still had himself in his heart, so he procrastinated on finding someone new.

But I never thought that this sudden, fiancée already has it!
No!

She couldn't just watch brother Ke being snatched away by others!

There is only one wife, and she must not give it up!

Whoever loves to be a concubine will go, Yan Qingbo won't do it anyway!

China has been monogamous since ancient times.

What is monogamy?

That is, only the wife is the other half of the children, and monogamy forms a family.

And concubines are not considered members of the family!
Not to mention wanting to stand up and become the master.

The "Law of the Ming Dynasty" has the following express regulations on "disorder among wives and concubines".

Anyone who regards his wife as a concubine will have a staff of one hundred.

If the wife is still there, those who take concubines as their wives will have a staff of ninety and make corrections.

If there is a wife who remarries another wife, the staff will also be ninety and divorced.

What do you mean?

That is, the wife who is being married by the Ming media cannot be demoted to a concubine, otherwise the wife will sue the official, and you will suffer a hundred battles.

If the one hundred sticks are beaten, basically unless it is a strong man with a strong physique, or an ordinary rich man or a scholar, his life will be handed over directly.

Fortunately, he didn't die, and he probably had to cultivate for more than half a year.

And if the main wife has not died, and you want to divorce the main wife and help the concubine to be your wife, then you can stick ninety and reject the request.

If you have a wife and want to marry another wife?
If I handcuff you, then you are too punished!

But a new life that cannot be imprisoned is in front of Yan!
Sorry, you committed bigamy, you know!
Not only do you have to be punished ninety times, the main wife can also file for divorce, divide your family's property, and then happily remarry and become the main wife of another family!

Daming law so resolutely supported the legal rights of monogamy, which made the wife's status in the family stable.

At the same time, the status of the concubine is suppressed very low, and the wife has absolute binding force on the concubine.

In Daming, the status of a concubine is that of an inflatable doll that can give birth to children.

The low status is similar to that of a servant at home.

Concubines are not counted as family members and cannot participate in family sacrifices, and concubines' relatives cannot be included in the husband's in-laws.

The children of a concubine are not her own children, but those of the principal wife.

The children of concubines should call their regular wife their mother, but the real biological mother can only be called their aunt.

Even for this family, a concubine is just a property of the family, and in many years, it can even be given as a gift to each other.

There are not a few regular wives who resell their concubines as slaves after the death of their male masters.

And it's a very common, not too strange thing.

Not to mention far away, just talk about the former dynasty, the famous great poet Su Shi and Su Dongpo.

In Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi", there is a sentence of ten years of life and death, which is unforgettable without thinking.

It caused countless talented men and women to shed tears for their love for their wives that transcended life and death.

Who hasn't been moved by Su Dongpo's affection after reading this poem?

but!

Su Dongpo is not a peerless, affectionate and good man who makes people call him a perfect son, and envy him so much that he jiojio's.

Su Dongpo had a concubine's room. He had many concubines in his life, and his romantic affairs emerged endlessly.

Moreover, his attitude towards his concubine was completely different from that of his regular wife.

As soon as Su Dongpo was demoted, the first thing he did was to give away or dismiss his concubine.

It was rumored that among the concubines he gave away, there were two pregnant women who were also given away as soon as he said so.

Although, this is a rumor, and it is impossible to verify whether it is true or not.

But this kind of rumors can be spread with nose and eyes, which at least shows that most people at that time thought that it was not a strange thing for Su Dongpo to give away his concubine's room.

In other words, in the Song Dynasty, it was a very common thing for literati and nobles to send concubines to each other.

It is really unsurprising and reasonable for a concubine's room to be given away as an item.

No status, no identity, and as long as the main wife is around, it will be difficult to be righted.

Even if the main wife passed away, the male host would choose to remarry a new main wife instead of helping the concubine.

A concubine, just a concubine, will never be able to enter the elegant hall.

If you have to find out one advantage of the concubine's room.

There is one too.

If the husband's family commits a serious crime, it will be punished by the Yi family or the Jiu family.

When the government is going to execute the sentence, the wife's family belongs to the three clans, so the parents and brothers of the main wife will also be executed by the family.

And the concubine's room is not a wife, only she belongs to her husband's family, so she only needs to die alone, and she doesn't have to implicate her relatives.

Don't underestimate the benefits of this.

In Daming, those who can take concubines are all dignitaries!

Either it's honorable, or it's an official!

At the very least, you have to be rich in your ancestors, or some kind of poetry and book heir, there are a bunch of official poetry and book families in your family!
Otherwise, ordinary rich men, even if they are landlords or businessmen, usually marry a wife, plus the wife's housemaid is almost the same, and they rarely take concubines.

The more landlord or rich man he is, the stricter he will be on the number of heirs.

They are not short of labor force and have too many heirs. For them, it is a black hole that consumes money and resources.

Usually, three or five births are enough, otherwise, after one generation, the family's wealth will be exhausted.

A wife and a housemaid can almost complete this task, and there is no need to hire more people.

Therefore, ordinary middle-class families in Ming Dynasty would only take in a concubine when their wives had been infertile.

What family conditions?Still thinking about groups of wives and concubines?

Don't weigh your own pockets!
Can so many women afford it?
With so many children, how will the property be divided?

Once the old man died, the legitimate son divided the family property, and a middle-class family immediately became a family of four or five.

So in Daming, only nobles and high officials would play the system of monogamy and multiple concubines.

As for nobles and high-ranking officials, the chances of being killed by the three tribes of the barbarians and the nine tribes are still quite high.

For these concubines, if their husband's family is uncovered by the emperor, at least their parents and brothers will not be involved. This is also a benefit, right?
However, Yan Qingbo never thought about this!
She is an orphan!
There is a fart relative!
With mixed feelings in his heart, Yan Qingbo, who was in a very difficult mood, gritted his teeth and said after a complicated brainstorm:
"there is always a solution to a problem!"

"I'd like to see what the origin of this fiancee is!"

"I was actually able to be spotted by Brother Ke!"

　In fact, the Ming Dynasty did not have the word fiancee, but it was really hard for me to find other words to use.

　　"Wife who hasn't gotten married" is somewhat suspicious.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)