Su Yonglin took a deep breath and said, "Banning concubines can limit the excessive expansion of a family, and this population will transform into more small families of three and four, instead of being a busy eater with one or two hundred people."
Chapter 172 Do a little thing
Everybody?
Small family?
Is there anything different here?
Xin Qiji paused for a moment and then suddenly realized.
"So you are …"
Su Yonglin smiled.
"The strength of the landlord’s strongmen’s family is either a large family population or a large population because they can take as many wives and concubines as they can, and when they meet one who can give birth to the Lord, they will give birth to 70 or 90 children at one breath.
In this way, from generation to generation, two or three generations are Zhong Mingding’s gourmets, and an entire family’s blood ties hold each other together to benefit the advantages accumulated by ancestors and seize the land on a large scale.
So they occupy a lot of land, share food, and have enough soldiers to rule the bloodline population. What is this? Is this a family? No, this is not a family. This is a paramilitary organization!
Such paramilitary organizations are very unfavorable to the imperial court, and they can resist imperial decrees and taxes at any time. The annexation of yeomen is the biggest unstable factor in the areas ruled by the imperial court and is harmful to the reunification.
All previous dynasties wanted to uproot them, but what they could really do was that there was no containment policy to delay their development and growth, and it was only in the pre-Han period that their Lingyi system suppressed the strongmen, but it was abandoned in the future. "
Xin Qiji thinks Su Yonglin’s statement is very reasonable.
And he felt that the more he thought about it, the more transparent he became.
"After the Lingyi system, no dynasty can stop the landlord’s strongmen from growing and no one has ever terminated the concubinage system! Never! In this way, with the passage of time, it will inevitably lead to the growth of local powerful landlords.
Once their strength grows, once the family population increases, they will inevitably occupy more land, have more population and food, and they will have more words. When they train scholars to enter the court in various ways … Will no one think of this in the past dynasties? "
Su Yonglin nodded his head.
"Of course, but what about that? Those who support the old system can plunge those who hold such ideas into the abyss with one sentence and cannot turn over. "
"What sentence?"
"Filial piety has three big"
Su Yonglin said slowly, "For the official thought dynasty of Confucianism governing the country, filial piety is a root that can’t be bypassed, but filial piety requires a lot of roots for Sun Multiplication."
If concubinage is not allowed and everyone is monogamous, there is no problem for a husband, but the wife can’t have children or is in danger of losing her family. What should I do to save the situation at this time? "
Xin Qiji suddenly realized.
"There are three major reasons for true unfilial behavior. If this is the starting point, everything will stop."
"That’s why I want to disillusion Confucianism."
Su Yonglin said slowly, "Once filial piety becomes politically correct, it will cause a lot of ridiculous things. Filial piety is different from digging your own grave when it comes to ending the concubinage system in the post-Three Times."
Although civilians were never allowed to take concubines and would not object, the rule of the ancient dynasty was based on waiting for people, not civilians. For the rulers, whether civilians supported it or not was meaningless.
No matter how much the civilians support, they can’t help the rulers, and once people oppose the rule of the dynasty with too many waves, they will face overthrow, and the emperor will not do such a thankless thing. "
Xin Qiji nodded slowly.
"If that’s the case, even if people take concubinage, it’s mainly to enjoy women’s sex, but there are also some wives who can’t have children and can rely on concubines to have children, which can’t completely rule out the family inheritance.
To show the importance of family inheritance is that if people try to terminate this rule, they will be knocked down by Confucianism and lost their reputation for a long time, so no one will think so. "
"That’s it."
Su Yonglin took a sip of tea from the tea bowl and said, "Which emperor dares to abolish the concubinage system in this situation? The fact that it can progress to polygamy is enough. They can’t continue to progress and are locked up. "
Xin Qiji wanted to think again and suddenly shine at the moment.
"I’m … I’m not the official thought of Confucianism! I don’t pay attention to filial piety in governing the country … It’s not a problem! "
"I’m not waiting for people to rule the foundation."
Su Yonglin laughed. "The rule of our dynasty is based on the broad masses of people, and the broad masses of people have never had concubinage benefits since ancient times, so they won’t care if I abolish this system."
Rather, if they know about this matter, they will not interfere with me, but will support me. It is obvious to the people that I will terminate this system.
Releasing a large number of rich concubines and maids in Cheng Gui to enter the field of civil marriage can greatly reduce the difficulty of civil male marriage, greatly increase the population and greatly promote the stability of the people.
For those who have malicious intentions and want to take concubinage, from the bottom of their hearts, it is just because our revolution has been almost wiped out that they are dead and living in Shizhou as coolies.
That is to say, at this moment, except for a small number of people in the imperial court, most people really don’t care about this system. This is the best time to completely abolish the concubinage system. Is it better to wait until you do it? "
Xin Qiji figured it all out for no reason, and he was overjoyed.
"As a result, it will be difficult for the people to have a big family. Without a big family, it will be difficult to have a powerful landlord strongman. Without a landlord strongman, it will be difficult to have a large-scale land merger!
In this way, even if agriculture in a big country is stabilized, even if other industries can’t develop well, the people will not go hungry and there will be no unrest because of the land! "
"It does have this effect. Abolishing the concubinage system can greatly curb the momentum of land merger, increase the number of tax payers and increase the tax revenue of the court. With money, the court can do more important things, which is good for the country and the people."
Su Yonglin smiled and put the tea bowl in his hand and said, "It was just like working as a coolie for a while before. Now it seems that the bitter experience has not been done for free and paved the way for what to do now."
It happened that taking advantage of this wave of concubinage trend to appear secretly, but it has not yet fully formed momentum, punching will completely smash and destroy all possibilities, social stability, and at the same time, it can be regarded as a small thing for the people. "
"If you are modest, how can it be a trivial matter? This is the first time in history that someone can solve this problem, even if it is not solved, it has solved more than half! "
Xin Qiji got excited and walked around with excitement all over his face.
"If you can’t see many disadvantages from the standpoint of the people and see the country’s demise all the way, you may have had this feeling in the ancients."
Xin Qiji looked at Su Yonglin excitedly. "But if all the problems in the people’s position seem to be solved, just don’t bother to do it. Anyway, the people will definitely support us!"
Today, I finally understand what the chairman has always insisted on unswervingly working with the people, which can really solve almost all problems! "
"That’s true, but Youan has a more important problem that you haven’t considered."
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