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Chapter 437 Linked to Taxes
Unlike Li Jing, who is clean and self-sufficient, these people have some little pigtails that have clearly violated the law and can be caught.

Among them, the ones with the lightest crimes are those who violated the rules by taking concubines or doting on concubines and destroying their wives.

If spoiling concubines and destroying wives, depending on the severity of the circumstances, the imperial court may impose punishments such as suspension, demotion, and dismissal on officials.

If there is a life lawsuit, the mastermind and accomplices will either be executed according to the laws of Daqi, exiled into the army, or exiled.

As for taking concubines beyond the system, when it comes to this, I have to talk about the strict restrictions on taking concubines in the laws of Daqi.

Like many previous dynasties, Daqi also stipulated the conditions for the people under the rule to accept concubines.

Different from those previous dynasties, Daqi's official government really grasped this indicator, rather than making it useless.

Let’s talk about ordinary people who don’t have official positions or titles. These people need to meet two conditions to accept concubines: one is to be over forty, and the other is to have no children.

Then there are the children of the royal family and those who have titles or official positions. According to their respective ranks, these people:

Small officials of the seventh rank and below can accept a concubine, but they cannot give birth to concubine children.

Middle-level officials of the sixth to fourth ranks can take two concubines and have concubine children, but the concubine children do not have the right to inherit property.

Senior officials of the third to first rank can have three concubines, and they can have concubines and children, but the children of concubines do not have the right to inherit property and do not enjoy the favor of the court.

The Earl of Chaopin Duke, or the children of the royal family who have been conferred the title of Prince of the County and above, can take five concubines and have children from concubines, but the children of concubines do not have the right to inherit the title.

The emperor himself can have ten concubines, and he can have concubines and children. However, the succession of the throne must strictly abide by the principle of establishing a concubine.

To be honest, he would limit himself to be included in the legislation. Xie Yuan is truly the unprecedented No.1.

But because of this, this law has been paid more attention to by people.

For those common people, officials, and royal children who illegally take concubines, Daqi Law clearly stipulates that every time they illegally take one more concubine, the tax they pay will increase by [-]%, and each time they illegally give birth to one more concubine child, the tax they pay will be [-]%. To increase by [-]%.

In addition, drudgery such as conscription, labor, donations, porridge and medicines will also be given priority to them.

Not to mention how many ordinary people can afford such a wonderful tax increase method, just say that conscription and labor have been regarded as hard work by the people in the past dynasties, and every family is eager to never have their turn. .

Taking a concubine will actually increase the probability of being conscripted and forced to do hard labor. Which man can stand this?
In addition, Daqi also encouraged the neighbors of concubines to report. As long as the report is true, the government will reward the whistleblower with a tax reduction quota for the year.

The reduction ratio is also very coincident, it is exactly the [-] or [-]% that the concubine needs to pay more.

With these two methods, the previous situation of "Even if he is digging food in the field, if he collects three or five buckets of grain this year, he would like to buy a concubine to come back as an envoy" will never happen in Daqi Then there is the living soil.

Of course, those wealthy businessmen, landlords, noble officials, royal family members, and those dudes who have no ability but can't afford a good pregnancy, if they really want to take concubines, they will pay more taxes. In fact, they can afford it. They can also use money to find candidates for conscription, labor, and so on.

But the problem is, being able to afford it and really having to afford it every year are definitely two completely different things.

Their family's property was not blown by the wind, and they "donated" all their hard-earned family property to the yamen just for the sake of beauty. This kind of stupid thing is probably only for those hungry ghosts who are lustful, or those who don't know how to make money What is not easy can only be done by the second generation ancestors.

And what makes them speechless the most is that Da Qi Law also clearly stipulates that if a man takes a concubine, then the dowry property under the man’s wife’s name, various private properties under the concubine’s name, and even if there is no separation, then the man’s grandparents, Parents, brothers and sisters, children and grandchildren, all of these people's properties, without exception, have to pay more taxes.

With this article, it is conceivable that if a man wants to take a concubine, he will face many obstacles.

Even if there are three or five men in this family who take concubines together and give birth to children, then their family's tax payment will skyrocket at a very ridiculous speed.

Maybe they don't care about the three to five percent increase, but what if it is three to five times or even ten to twenty times?It's scary just thinking about it.

And this is not the worst for them. The worst thing is that if their wives would rather reconcile than their husbands take concubines, then when they reconcile, if the wives want to take away the children, want to If she gets material compensation, then she only needs to bring the lawsuit to the Yamen, and the Yamen will fight for her due benefits in accordance with Daqi Law.

As the party at fault, the husband not only has no right to object to the wife taking the child away, but also must pay a sum of money as spiritual compensation to the wife.

In addition, the husband also needs to pay the maintenance fee for the minor children taken away by the wife. The amount depends on the local consumption level and the man's family environment.

In addition to these heinously detailed punishment (income-generating) measures, Daqi Law also stipulates that if common people want to take concubines illegally, but at the same time do not want to be punished obediently, then the local yamen can punish them according to the severity of their crimes. Penalties such as hard labor, exile, and even exile.

And if the guy who wants to take a concubine illegally but does not want to be punished obediently is a noble official or a royal family member, then their superior officials or the emperor himself can demote them, dismiss them from office, demote them, seize them, etc. Severe punishment.

As for the emperor himself, Da Qilu wrote that the emperors of all dynasties were supervised by Zongzheng, and if they broke the law, they had to take money out of their private treasury in proportion every year.

Dare to attack the emperor's small treasury, I have to say that Ye Anlan who proposed this law is really brave enough.

She even thought about how the government should deal with this situation if there was a real warrior who, as a woman, dared to risk the disgrace of the world and grandly raised three husbands and four attendants.

Then the result of her consideration was, "This article also applies to women who marry Funa servants."

As soon as this line of writing was written, the male officials in the court directly criticized those officials who were in charge of revising the Great Qi Law.

The focus of their quarrel directly went beyond "the Daqi law's punishment for men who exceed the limit and take concubines is too harsh", and became "the officials responsible for revising the Daqi law simply disregarded the principles of ethics, and they can be punished if they are rebellious."

(End of this chapter)