Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 157 The Widow Remarries
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Qingji adopted Wu Zixu's idea.

He decided that all the orphans of the Wu Kingdom can be gathered in Wudu to organize and form an army, that is, implement militarized management, and daily farming exercises are essential.

In this way, the orphans were brought up by the country and baptized by the military since they were young. They will be unswervingly loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and become a powerful trump card in Qingji's hands.

What's more, Qingji must be able to build the Orphan Camp into a professional army with super high military literacy!
Just as Qingji was about to turn back into the six imperial carriages and enter Meili City, suddenly a young woman ran out from the crowd and rushed towards Qingji with brisk steps.

"Your Majesty! The women are wronged!"

The nearby guards quickly blocked the young woman and pointed at her with a spear. If the latter dared to act rashly, blood would be spattered for five steps and she would die on the spot.

The woman knelt on the ground with a plop, just screaming for grievances!

"What grievance do you have? Just say it."

It was rare to come across someone who filed a lawsuit against the imperial court, and Qingji became interested, so he asked the young woman to come forward and speak.

Seeing this scene, the county magistrate Meili was very embarrassed, obviously he knew what was going on!
I saw the woman weeping and wiping away her tears, saying, "Your Majesty, the people's wives are wronged!"

"The woman died two years ago with her beloved (husband) and never remarried. I don't want the new law to be promulgated, but the government ordered the woman to remarry or impose a tax on the woman's parents!"

"The women were forced to have no choice but to sue again and again, but they had nowhere to go."

"Please, Your Majesty, decide for the women!"

After saying that, the young woman knocked her head on the ground again, crying so hard that it was very pitiful.

Seeing this, Qingji was speechless.

"Why can't you remarry?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the woman is already a widow, but she still misses her dead husband and has no one she likes, how can she remarry?"

The woman had a point.

According to the modern point of view, love is free, and the state cannot interfere with private marriages.

However, this was in the Spring and Autumn Period, ancient times!
Parents to enrich people.

How can Qingji let the people of the country pursue free love?
If everyone cannot give birth early, how will the population of Wu increase?

Without the population as its foundation, how can the state of Wu be truly powerful and enduring?

Therefore, Qingji can only pity the woman's experience out of emotion and reason, but he must put the interests of the country first and put all personal sympathy behind him.

"Do you know that in the new law of my country of Wu, there is an item of encouraging childbearing?"

Qingji said patiently: "If you remain single all the time and decide not to remarry, what good will it do for the country? What good will it do for the family?"

Hearing this, the woman choked with sobs and said, "Your Majesty, what the women know and do is against the new law."

"However, the new law only clearly stipulates that women must be married when they are seventeen. It is true that women are over twenty, but women are already married as women. Why do you still say that the parents of women are guilty and impose additional taxes on women?"

This woman obviously knew some of Wu's new laws.

The new law stipulates that the government will present fine wine, dogs or dolphins as congratulations to anyone who gives birth, and will send doctors to deliver and take good care of the pregnant women when they give birth!

On the date of promulgation of the decree, the existence of old couples and young wives or old wives and young husbands is strictly prohibited, and those who already exist will not be held accountable.

But since then, Chinese people are not allowed to marry an old woman with a strong man, or an old man is not allowed to marry a strong woman, and those who violate the order will be severely punished!
Furthermore, girls must marry when they reach the age of seventeen and men reach the age of twenty, otherwise their parents will be considered guilty and ordered to pay double the oral tax...

It all looks ok.

The woman is really nitpicking, looking for loopholes in the new law to exploit loopholes!

Unreasonable trouble!

Qingji's face straightened immediately, and he said slowly: "You are now a widow, in the prime of your youth, why can't you remarry?"

"If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your parents and children, your future, your deceased husband, and the country!"

"The spirit of your late husband is in heaven, do you expect to see you remain a widow and live alone forever?"

"You guard your body like a jade, and you say you are chaste, but in fact you have no compassion for the country, yourself, or others!"

"The government blamed your parents for the crime, and added your oral taxation. Why can't it be excused?"

Hearing this, the woman was so stunned that she couldn't speak, she could only bow her head silently, dejectedly.

Qingji knew that he would never soften his heart towards such incidents.

Once this hole is opened, widows will not remarry in the future, and men will not remarry. Why does the population of Wu country increase rapidly?
love?

Qingji didn't care about these things at all.

It's not that he doesn't believe in love, but that true love is rare.

In Qingji's opinion, love at first sight is almost equivalent to falling in love with someone after seeing sex, and love over time is the kingly way!

This person is everywhere, how can he not be secretly in love?

The twisted melon is not sweet, but it quenches your thirst!
Widowed widow?

This is not allowed to exist in Wu State at this time!

Qing Ji then said to the left and right: "Second and third sons, according to the opinions of the widows, the local government can hold a blind date meeting once or twice a year, ordering all local men and women of suitable age to participate, marriage or engagement are acceptable, and widows are not exempt."

"Your Majesty Yingming!"

Qingji is already trying every means to increase the population of Wu State and increase the marriage rate of men and women in Wu State.

Therefore, official blind date activities are indispensable!

No matter how bad it is, Qingji can make it possible for the state to allocate objects, so that male colleges should be married and female colleges should be married.

……

Qingji stayed in Meili for three days, during which time he offered sacrifices to the mausoleums of the ancestors of the Wu Kingdom, inspected the workshops, and observed the people's sentiments.

Overall, Meili gave Qingji a good feeling.

After all, most of the people who live here are old Wu people who are full of loyalty and patriotism. They dare to fight and die, and they can give their lives for Qingji!

For this alone, Qingji has enough reason to treat these Meili people kindly.

After leaving Meili, the next stop of Qingji's tour is Yu'er and Wuyuan in the south.

It is the junction of the Wu and Yue countries, and it belongs to the frontier.

Therefore, Qingji planned to meet with King Yun of Yue on the Yu'er River to talk about the friendship between Wu and Yue.

After all, he is an old neighbor, and Qingji is Yunchang's son-in-law, so it is really unreasonable not to meet him.

Therefore, Qingji had already sent envoys to Kuaiji to express his willingness to meet Yue Wang Yunchang long before his tour.

At this time, in Kuaiji, the capital of the Yue Kingdom, in the Palace of the King of Yue, Yunchang summoned the two great Sima Shimai and the great Sikou Luming to discuss the meeting between him and Qingji.

"I want to meet Qingji in Yu'erjiang, but I don't know how to treat Qingji?"

Yun Chang frowned and asked his two important ministers.

Upon hearing this, Shi Mai and Lu Ming looked at each other, knowing why Yun Chang was worried.

Qingji, maybe the visitor is not good!
(End of this chapter)