Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 606: Changing Customs, Rewriting the Code of Laws, and Meeting to Discuss a Comprehensive Increase in Troops
On the second day, Zhu Qiyu still patiently summoned the important ministers of the court, and this time he still brought Zhu Wenfang with him.

Zhu Qiyu made some minor changes to the qualifications for participating in the Xiaochao meeting: all ministers, left and right ministers can participate, and are no longer limited to cabinet ministers.If the additional minister is not invited in advance, he does not need to attend the Umrah meeting.

With this change, those ministers with lower qualifications and non-majority degrees would be able to participate in court meetings.

Zhou Xuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice, attended the small court meeting for the first time and asked the emperor a very sharp judicial question: "Your Majesty, Liu Kai, the governor of the Wei Experience Department in Aoshan, Shandong, reported:

Song Cheng, the vice-president of Qianhu, married the eldest daughter of Dai Mao, a Qianhu, and was granted the title of Yiren by imperial decree. Soon after, he died.

Dai changed his position to command Yao Xiong, the commander of the Laizhou Guard.

I have received the gift of a gift from above, but I have lost the way of being a married couple below. I beg for pardon from Shandong's Inspector General, Si Zhiwen, and pursue corrections.

He also moved the text to various places, informing the married woman not to marry again. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "It's just a matter of whether the destined wife can remarry."

Zhou Xuan replied: "That is indeed the case. I believe that the imperial court should make a rule and have a unified and definite solution."

Zhu Qiyu turned to He Yi: "This matter comes from the Aoshan Guards. I remember that there was another Shanshan Guard before, and it was also involved in a remarriage lawsuit?"

He Yi replied: "It was the year before last, Duke Jingguo reported that after some people were engaged, the man would serve in a foreign country or be transferred to another position, so he gave up the person he had hired and did not marry and start a family.

The father and brother of the previously hired girl had no choice but to remarry her to someone else.

As a result, the man who broke the contract started to complain.

According to the common practice, the wife stopped paying her ex-husband, or was married off, sold, or turned into a concubine.

The original reason was that the male family was unjust, and it was not the female family that broke the alliance.

For example, Lu Ying, the son of the late Governor Lu Yi, first decided to make Ge Tan's sister his wife.

Later, Lu Ying attacked Shanhaiwei and married the daughter of Yu Sheng of Qianhu. He also married the Chen family as his concubine and had a boy and a girl.

Because their daughter was thirty years old, Ge Tan and her son married Liu Yu, who was from a thousand households in Nanjing. They had three children, a boy and a girl.Now Lu Ying is vying for his wife, and the two families have been writing poems for years.

The judiciary ordered Li Yu to return to Ying in accordance with the law, and Ge Tan's sister was forced to become Lu Ying's concubine. "

Zhu Qiyu glanced at He Yi in surprise. This guy could even remember so many people's names.

Zhou Xuan also echoed: "It is true. The Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations do have many shortcomings when it comes to remarriage."

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "This problem should be very common. Has no one taken care of it before? What did Renmiao and Xuanmiao say? How did the Zhengtong Dynasty deal with these matters?"

Zhou Xuan smiled bitterly and said: "In the past, once a man and a woman entered into a marriage contract, according to the rules, the man could marry another person, but after the man broke the contract, the woman still could not marry another person.

As long as you file a lawsuit, the man will eventually win the case.

There are also women who are destined to remarry, but they would not pursue the imperial decree before. "

"Then there are many loopholes in our Ming law?"

Zhou Xuan nodded firmly: "The men and women mentioned above are officials. If they are ordinary people, they will be even more insecure."

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "I really ignored these things before. How about I formulate a "Civil Code" to clearly stipulate such things?"

Zhu Qiyu just mentioned it casually and wanted to wait for the ministers to stand up and object. Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Xuan fell to the ground and worshiped, praising loudly: "The Holy One has a heart for all people, a legacy of Chinese culture, a truly virtuous, wise and benevolent king. Long live, long live, long live." Zhu Qiyu was almost amused by Zhou Xuan's actions. He was worthy of being the funny minister who could send all the minor prisoners home because of the summer epidemic and invented the phrase "call you and you will come."

After being forced by Zhou Xuan to take the position of Mingjun Holy Master with Chinese heritage, Zhu Qiyu had no choice but to reply: "Then Zhou Aiqing will be responsible for presiding over the formulation of the Civil Code.

As for the two cases mentioned just now, I will give you a established example: First, a woman with a royal decree can remarry, and the court does not prohibit it.

However, once you remarry, you are deemed to have voluntarily given up your royal life.

Second, if a man breaks the engagement and marries another man to start a family.The original marriage contract is automatically annulled, and the woman engaged to her is free to remarry. The government is not allowed to interfere, and the man is not allowed to file a lawsuit against the official.

The document has been moved everywhere and will be implemented accordingly in the future. "

Everyone knows that the emperor is a saint.

Next, Zhu Qiyu began to express his feelings again: "The Ming Dynasty is simply full of evils, and there are problems of all sizes everywhere.

I also want to stop and improve people's livelihood, but unfortunately some battles cannot be fought without fighting.

The war with North Korea was a big war.

In this battle, both Japan and the Jurchens will be involved.Japan, in particular, has a population of 800 million and an elite army of at least 20.

It's not easy to fight, so you have to be mentally prepared.

Don't think that I'm being militant. If Japan and the Jurchens don't fight now, it will become more and more difficult to fight in the future. Sooner or later, they will kill the Ming Dynasty.

For the long term, we must fight.But in the short term, it is not without benefits.With the combined population of North Korea and Japan of more than 1000 million, Ming's national power will increase a lot. "

Still no one among the ministers stood up to refute. Everyone still wanted to see how the war would turn out.

Luo Tong asked: "Your Majesty, if it is true, as you said, that Japan has 20 elite troops, then if we start a war with North Korea, Japan, and the Jurchens at the same time, how many troops will we need to send to Liaodong?"

Zhu Qiyu smiled bitterly and said: "It takes 20 troops to plow the courtyard and sweep the holes. The key to this battle lies in firearms.

In the past five years, I have been giving the best treatment to Ming's arms craftsmen, so it's time for me to make some achievements. "

Luo Tong replied: "Nowadays, the scale of various ordnance bureaus and factories has expanded more than ten times compared to the last years of Orthodoxy. The entire outer city of Beijing is brightly lit all night, and those who make armors and those who make artillery must not relax at all.

Fortunately, the Holy Spirit overcame all opinions and took back Annan and Meng Yang.With the iron ore and copper mines in Mengyang and the continuous supply of craftsmen from Annan as supplements, the Ming Dynasty could support multi-front operations and still be able to handle it with ease. "

"Well, now there are [-] Liaodong local troops in Dingliao right guard, and Nan Hebo has brought [-] Beijing troops. It seems that it is not enough. Then transfer all Nanjing's Beijing camp and Shangzhiwei.

It would take at least [-] troops to be sure of taking over North Korea in one fell swoop. "

There is a saying that Zhu Qiyu said shamelessly: The local armies in Liaodong are just dragging their feet, and they are considered a burden even if they are used to make up the numbers.

Last time, he attacked Shanxi first, and Tuotuo Buhua led a partial division to attack Liaodong. With only [-] cavalry, Wang Ao and his tens of thousands of troops were so frightened that they were unable to retreat in the city of Guangning.

For this kind of stuff, this is still the middle and early Ming Dynasty.By the end of the Ming Dynasty, those "incomparably elite" Liaodong cavalry made people don't know what to say. They could only feel sorry for Chongzhen for [-] million seconds.

The other ministers also looked at each other. After the magical recovery of Annan in March, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were not sure how the Korean War would progress.

(End of this chapter)