Rebirth: The wedding night, my whole family was exiled, I raised 500,000 soldiers

Shen Lanxi was halfway back when she realized that she had strayed from the topic today.

"I wanted to see you off today, but I didn't expect something like this to happen!"

Wei Dongzhu was a little dazed. It took him a while to come back to his senses and realize that Shen Lanxi was talking to him.

"It's okay. It's great that you can spare the time today!" Wei Dongzhu's mind was completely focused on his nephew, the Minister of War's marriage fraud.

From what happened today, it can be seen that she really hates having a bastard child before marriage, and she also hides the fact that she has a concubine at home.

There was a flash of pain in Wei Dongzhu's eyes. He didn't mean it, he really didn't mean it.

Seeing that Wei Dongzhu didn't catch up, Shen Lanxi looked back.

"Let's go, why don't you go?"

Or

"Don't you want to live in the palace today?" She rarely went back to the Regent's Palace now, and lived in the palace most of the time.

There was a flash of panic in Wei Dongzhu's eyes. Afraid that Shen Lanxi would notice, he quickly lowered his head and walked forward.

"No, I was thinking about today."

"The ministers didn't react today, and someone will surely file a memorial of opposition tomorrow."

Shen Lanxi laughed and said confidently: "They'd better raise more objections. What about me? I'll use the ladder they hand me to climb higher!"

Wei Dongzhu thought of the look in the Minister of War's eyes when he was leaving, and said worriedly, "This is about the Minister of War's sister. His daughter is the Princess of Chen. He has also been in the court for many years, and his roots are deep and complicated. I'm afraid he will trip us up where we can't see.

There was a sharp light in Shen Lanxi's eyes.

"Instead of waiting for the fish to bite, it's better to take the initiative!"

Wei Dongzhu said worriedly: "Be careful, I will be leaving Beijing in a few days. If the capital becomes chaotic, I will be worried."

Shen Lanxi smiled: "Don't worry, I never do anything I'm not sure of!"

Seeing Shen Lanxi's confident look, Wei Dongzhu followed with a smile.

……

Just as Wei Dongzhu said, memorials suggesting inappropriate amendments to the marriage law floated into the court like snowflakes.

Shen Lanxi sat on the high seat and asked coldly, "Don't you have daughters in your families?"

Shen Lanxi raised her hand and pulled out a memorial from the table.

"Grand Doctor Zhao Sheng of the Guanglu Temple, two of your three daughters have already started talking about marriage, right?"

The minister whose name was called immediately stood up and bowed, saying, "Yes, Lord Regent."

Shen Lanxi: "You wrote in your memorial that this king favors women and harms the interests of men. This king asks you, has it harmed your interests?"

Zhao Sheng said nothing.

Shen Lanxi: "In addition to three daughters, your family also has two sons. Both of these sons are married, and they both married daughters of government officials. Do you dare to let me announce the contents of the memorial in court?"

Zhao Sheng's legs trembled and he was about to collapse to the ground.

"When you say it's damaging the interests of men, are you talking about damaging your son's interests or damaging your own interests?"

"Do you dare to say that your son can use his daughter-in-law's dowry at will?"

"Do you dare to say that your family can confiscate your daughter-in-law's dowry?"

"Do you dare to say that if the daughter-in-law is gone, all the dowry will belong to your family?"

"You dare?"

Shen Lanxi handed the memorial to Wang Bao: "Read it!"

Zhao Sheng could no longer stand and fell to his knees with a thud.

Wang Bao read out the script: "The regent advocates to amend the marriage law, which is disrupting the foundation of our Great Zhou. In our Great Zhou, men are respected and women are subordinate. The marriage law should put men first. Men go out to support the family and it is difficult and hard, while women just sit at home, doing nothing, enjoying the fruits of others' labor and relying on men for support. Therefore, once a woman dies, her dowry should belong to the man to make up for the loss."

"When a man marries a woman, the betrothal gift is used to buy off the relationship with her family. After that, no matter what happens to the woman in her husband's family, her family cannot interfere, and it has nothing to do with her family!"

"The seven grounds for divorce for a woman should not be changed. After a woman gets married, she should serve her mother-in-law and raise children. This is natural. If a woman is infertile, or cannot give birth to a son who can continue the family line, she has committed one of the seven grounds for divorce and can be dealt with by her husband's family!"

"Marrying a wife and taking a concubine is a moral norm. When a man takes a concubine, his wife must not stop him. She must fulfill her responsibility to expand the family of her husband and take the initiative to help her husband take a concubine..."

Someone quit.

"Bah, Zhao Sheng, you are so shameless!"

"Zhao Sheng, you are shameless and despicable. You actually belittle women like this. Don't you have a mother or a daughter?"

"If I don't beat you to death today, I will be letting down the women in my family!"

Ji Xiuran raised the tablet and hit Zhao Sheng on the head.

"Hey, stop it, stop it..."

The ministers quickly grabbed Ji Xiuran who was about to fight with Zhao Sheng.

Ji Xiuran is now the dean of a girls' college. He has three daughters in his family, and he is well-known in the capital for doting on his wife and daughters.

Zhao Sheng hit a wall.

The tablet didn't hit him on the head because they reacted quickly!

Wang Bao stopped talking, closed the memorial, and covered his mouth with his hands, laughing.

After Shen Lanxi had enough of the fun, she spoke up to stop it.

"Why is Lord Zhao sitting on the ground?"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry up, get up quickly, don't step on Lord Zhao in such a mess."

"Is Lord Zhao tired, unwell, or guilty?"

The color had already drained out of Zhao Sheng's face. With so many people impeaching Shen Lanxi, why did they pick out his memorial to be read?

God is going to kill him!

"Please spare my life, Lord Regent. I just... I just..."

Shen Lanxi chuckled: "You just said what was in your heart."

"No, that's not what I meant. I just saw... I saw others also submitting memorials. If I don't follow them, I'm afraid I'll be excluded." The more Zhao Sheng spoke, the lower his voice became, and the more he spoke, the more uneasy he felt.

Shen Lanxi sneered contemptuously: "The court needs capable ministers who can put forward real insights, not yes-men who are just filling in the numbers."

"Zhao Sheng, you cannot distinguish right from wrong and disrupt the order of the court. You will be sent home to reflect on your actions for a year and demoted two levels. If you still cannot distinguish right from wrong after a year, you will not be allowed to attend court."

Zhao Sheng regretted it! He shouldn't have listened to others.

One year... When he comes back one year later, will there still be a place for him in the court?

Zhao Sheng was thrown out of the court by the Imperial Guards like a dead dog.

In less than an hour, Zhao Sheng was already being denounced by storytellers in all the major teahouses in the capital.

"Bah, he dares to look down on women?"

"You got carried away with your success and forgot who was sitting there?"

"Did he jump out of a rock?"

"Being the daughter-in-law or daughter of his family is really unlucky..."

That was not all. Zhao Sheng's two daughters-in-law threatened to divorce on the same day, and the marriage token for his daughter, which had already been arranged, was returned by the man.

The Guanglu Temple Doctor, who was in the limelight, became a rotten wall in less than a day.

……

"Not only the marriage law, but also the laws of our Great Zhou still have many imperfections. In the future, we will have to rely on all the court officials to discuss and reach an agreement. As the old saying goes, knowing one's mistakes is the best way to improve. The previous laws may not be applicable now. The ancient sages knew how to make changes, so we should not be so rigid. Do you agree?"