Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

After sending the people away, Zhang Xin stood up and walked around a little, then went back to the study to continue thinking about what he had not had time to think about yesterday.

She and Zhu Gaochi both had a vague premonition about what happened last night.

All the things that the royal family has been doing in the past two years have been on people's minds, so it's normal that some people can't help themselves.

What she arranged were still small things.

On Zhu Gaochi's side, the Imperial College had been issuing debate topics all the time, and most of them were discussed between her and Zhu Gaochi.

Every question challenges the bottom line of court officials.

The empress of the Tang Dynasty was a good emperor, and the empress of the Tang Dynasty was not a good emperor.

A daughter in the family should be married off with a large sum, but a daughter in the family should not be married off with a large sum.

The emperor sent troops to Annan to enhance the prestige of our country. The emperor sent troops to Annan not to enhance the prestige of our country.

It was right for Cao Cao to kill the genius doctor Hua Tuo, but it was also wrong for Cao Cao to kill the genius doctor Hua Tuo.

There are also questions like whether the royal family should enrich their harem, whether Qin Shihuang's merits outweighed his faults or his faults outweighed his merits, whether the people of the Ming Dynasty lived and worked in peace and contentment, whether salt and iron should be monopolized, and so on.

Almost every debate topic, if you pay a little attention, you will find that it is closely related to the decree issued by your father-in-law.

For example, when we were discussing the great doctor Hua Tuo.

It is wrong to say that Cao Cao was the victorious party and killed the great doctor Hua Tuo.

Regardless of who wins this debate, during the discussion, everyone agrees that the Medical Saint will be remembered forever.

But during the Three Kingdoms period, being a doctor had already been a lowly profession for a long time.

Quite a few people in power think that doctors are rats who rely on their medical skills to treat patients and like to publicize their own reputations, and finally use their reputations to seek official positions.

Cao Cao was one of those who had this idea.

As a result, the Medical Saint died.

What this debate topic wants people to reflect on is that some of the cognitions at that time will eventually be overturned in the long course of history, such as the nobility of the profession of doctor.

In a blink of an eye, my father-in-law appointed my mother as a physician in the Imperial Hospital.

When the court officials objected, the father-in-law would ask:

Male doctors can be imperial physicians, so why can't female doctors be? Are men more valuable than women?

Another example is the debate on whether a daughter in the family should be given a generous dowry.

Because a case happened in the capital at that time.

The girl's parents took action and sued their daughter's husband and his entire family for using the marriage to make money and kill people.

The girl's family has little wealth, but only one daughter.

Originally they wanted to find a son-in-law for their daughter, but their family looked down on those of lower status, and families of higher status also looked down on those of lower status.

If she didn't get married when she reached a certain age, the government would force a marriage on her. In the end, she had no choice but to get engaged to a poor man through a matchmaker.

The other party took advantage of the woman's old age and was anxious to get married, and suddenly went back on his word about marrying into the woman's family.

If the engagement was broken off, the reputation of the daughter's family would be ruined, so the girl's family had no choice but to marry their daughter off and give up almost all of the family wealth as a dowry.

As a result, as soon as the dowry entered the husband's house, it was immediately controlled by the husband's family.

The shops and farms were all taken over by the man's brothers and uncles from his married family.

Just because of this, the woman just endured it.

Barely two years after the marriage, the man had already spent all the money the woman had brought, and even sold a lot of his farm and shops.

The daughter was stubborn and refused to go back to her parents' home to ask for money for the man's family to squander, no matter how much the man's family harassed her.

The girl's daughter was pregnant and about to give birth. The loyal servant that the girl brought into her husband's house heard the boy's family secretly planning to kill both the girl's daughter and her husband.

Because the man’s family has already found a new partner for him.

The girl went to the man's house and took her daughter back, but the man's family, who were more numerous and powerful, took her back again and threatened that the girl's family would not give up until they gave up all their belongings.

For the sake of their daughter, the girl's family had to give all their remaining wealth to the boy.

But, in the end.

This daughter has two bodies.

She said she was disobedient to her mother-in-law and even wanted to beat her, and she fell and died.

This case was tried in Shuntian Prefecture for a full month.

The man has been saying that the woman's family is slandering him and that his daughter's death was an accident.

The woman was troubled by the fact that there was no evidence to prove her guilt, and all the loyal servants who had come as a dowry were sold out one after another by the man.

In the end, it was the midwife hired by the man's family, who was planning to kill their daughter twice, who revealed everything the man had done.

At this point, the man confessed, saying that the girl's daughter had scolded her mother-in-law before she died, which was disobedient and unfilial, so he couldn't help but push the girl's daughter, causing her death. Moreover, after they got married, the girl's parents looked down on them and often provoked the relationship between the couple, which led to their breakdown.

Shuntian Prefecture’s final verdict was also amazing.

Because the wife's status was lower than her husband's, the husband had reasons for killing his wife and it was not intentional, so he only needed to be punished with 60 strokes of the cane and one year in prison.

The woman's family also turned the tables and falsely accused the man of murdering his wife. According to Ming Dynasty law, false accusations against others were not punishable by death, and the woman's family was sentenced to death instead.

Because it was a death penalty case, it had to be reviewed by the Dali Temple. The chief minister of the Dali Temple at that time hated evil and was furious when he saw it.

This restarted the review.

On the day of the trial, the Dali Temple official scolded the Shuntian prefect.

The husband says that his wife insults her mother-in-law, is disobedient, and is extremely unfilial. Where is the evidence?

The husband said he did not push his wife on purpose, but where is the evidence?

The husband is a party involved, not a witness. What he says cannot be used as evidence, and he is not a witness.

The wife died, two lives were lost, there is no doubt about it.

The midwife confirmed that the man had thought of harming someone and was in the process of doing so, and that the person had indeed died. This was solid human evidence.

Not listening to the witnesses but listening to the defendant, how ridiculous!!!

The review results speak for themselves.

Murder pays off lives, debts pay off.

The former is necessary, but the latter has been squandered. Even if it is ordered to be returned, it is just a piece of paper.

When the Dali Temple Minister presented the entire case to Zhu Di for approval, the Shuntian Prefecture Governor was demoted to the lowest position. This man took money from the man and found loopholes in the Ming Dynasty law to let the man escape the death penalty.

Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Xin took the opportunity to ask the storyteller to make up a story about this case.

The two of them did not dare to take too big a step, so they took the opportunity to raise the topic of dowry in the Imperial College.

Families who love their daughters let them marry off with a large sum so that they will not lack anything and will live comfortably in their husband's family. However, it may become the cause of their death in the end.

Well, from now on, it is better not to marry at all than to marry excessively.

However, the man’s family pays the betrothal gift, but the woman’s family takes nothing to the husband’s house. Isn’t this unfair to the man?

This topic has been discussed over and over again.

The winner was the opposition side, because most of the debaters on the opposition side were married, had children, and were putting themselves in the shoes of a father-in-law.

After the storyteller's exaggeration, everyone understood the case of wife-murder.

No one could bear to see their daughter having to support a poor boy with a huge dowry and end up being killed.

The opposing side opened fire with full force, forcing the pro-side to stop.

But the contestants on the affirmative side also led everyone to consider the issue from the perspective of a man in a legitimate marriage.

Can you tolerate marrying a wife without a dowry?

Especially those poor scholars who have studied hard and have pale faces, who wouldn't want to marry a rich girl with a generous dowry to improve their family's plight?

Because of such black sheep, they can no longer marry wives who are rich and can help them bribe their superiors. How unfair is it for them?

Afterwards, the private discussions continued.

In the end, it developed into the direction that Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Xin wanted.

Everyone agreed.

A dowry is a must.

It should be owned and managed by the woman and not belong to the husband's family.

After the woman's death, the dowry will be left to their common children.

If there are no children or the couple divorces, the dowry must be returned in full to the woman's family.

In this way, the father-in-law does not have to worry about his daughter's life being in trouble or being murdered for money, and the son-in-law also benefits.