Great Qin Shi Empress

Not surprisingly, male officials have grown increasingly resistant to the decree "giving maternity leave to men."

They thought of countless ways and said countless good things, but Ying Zheng, who was sitting in a high position, was unmoved by this and still insisted on perfectly implementing these two decrees.

Because after this group of people brought up the neglected group of "concubines", Ying Zheng suddenly thought of one thing——

Looking at the reactions of these ministers, in their minds, the future must be more important than the beauty.Then if this policy is really promoted, many people with many concubines in their families will take the initiative to release their concubines.

This is all population! ! !

Moreover, there are many people who can read and write among these concubines, and even most of them have special skills: even if it is just a useless (Yingzheng idea) skill like singing and dancing, it is not necessary to use it to make a living in order to survive after independence, and then as I have seen before Those modern economic books generally drive the operation of the economy?

The main reason most people take concubines is because they are greedy for beauty. If this beauty is put on their lips but they can be seen or eaten, who would want to spend money to keep it for nothing?

There may be such people, but definitely not many.

Once this decree is really carried out, not to mention all concubines will be liberated, but the number will definitely be indispensable.

So all the ministers found that the more they tried to persuade His Majesty to give up this decision, the firmer His Majesty's eyes became.

Everyone: "..."

Ying Zheng looked at the minister, and it was rare for him to remind him kindly: "I have made up my mind, and these two decrees are bound to be implemented. You should think about how to fill in the details so that more people are willing to marry and have children."

Li Si and Feng Quji looked at each other, and subconsciously turned their attention to Lin Qian.

If there is no possibility of recalling this decree, then...

Now everyone in court is almost a grasshopper tied to the same rope, and all suggestions related to maternity leave will only benefit everyone after being adopted.

Since this suggestion was originally proposed by Lin Qian, the two felt that Lin Qian might have more suggestions.

Lin Qian also said: "It is necessary to pay the husband and wife as usual during the maternity leave, because only in this way can a family's income and living standards be guaranteed during the wife's childbirth, but the length of the maternity leave and the time of the maternity leave are required. Discuss carefully."

"I personally suggest that half a year's maternity leave is more appropriate, because a woman may give birth at any time in the last month of pregnancy, so she must be sent home to wait for delivery this month, and after giving birth, she needs to sit for one to two months. I also need more care from my parents, so a maternity leave of three and a half years is more appropriate."

"But half a year has too much impact on a single person's career, so it's better for the parents of the child not to take vacations together, and it's better to stagger the time."

"So it is better for the wife to take maternity leave from the time when the pregnant woman is about to give birth to the end of the confinement period. After the wife resumes her job, the husband will be given maternity leave..."

Lu Zhi had a different opinion: "It's not good for me to stagger it. Because not every pregnant woman has someone other than her husband to take care of her. Before me, I met an ordinary person, because the parents of both husband and wife have passed away. passed away, so after the wife gave birth, the husband could only take leave of absence to take care of him at home."

"If the couple's vacation time is really staggered, the wife may not have received good care at all when she gave birth."

Lin Qian paused and apologized, "I took it for granted."

Lu Zhi shook his head and said embarrassedly: "Your other suggestions are still very good."

When the others heard this, they all turned their heads to look at the pair of superiors and subordinates.

Fortunately, Lin Qian was not affected, so he continued: "Then we will take a vacation together in the first two months, and then one of them will resume work for a period of time, and then go home to take care of the children and the other will return to his own position to deal with important matters. matter?"

Li Si frowned: "Half a year, isn't it too long..."

The officialdom is changing rapidly. Once you rest at home for half a year, by the end of the maternity leave, the original position may have been replaced.

He paused, and said, "If you must take half a year's maternity leave, then it's best to guarantee that the other party can return to his original post when the maternity leave is over when the government order is issued?"

As soon as Li Si opened his mouth, others also expressed their opinions on this.

Such as maternity subsidies, such as allowing mothers or fathers to take their children on duty, or opening a special place to take care of children in the government office, and entrusting all children to someone to take care of them...

A group of people worked together and finally came up with a set of decrees that are more exciting than modern related policies.

Just when everyone thought that the birth-related decrees had been discussed and were about to start to solve the other two issues, Zhang Fu suddenly remembered something: "Your Majesty, these decrees sound really good, but they don't seem to mention if If someone conceals the truth about the pregnancy of his wife and concubine, what punishment will be given?"

Everyone looked at Zhang Fu in unison.

Zhang Liang was standing beside Zhang Fu, and when he saw the eyes of everyone, his expression was extremely helpless.

He had even guessed what Zhang Fu wanted to say, and knew that if she said this, she would probably offend many ministers——

Even Gu Fenghou, who is deeply in love with His Majesty and his wife, did not let her suggest "give men maternity leave" before she was about to give it up. Instead, he chose to put it on himself, blocking Gu Fenghou's proposal. Bo hostility, let alone Zhang Fu, a person with an unstable foundation?

However, after Zhang Liang frowned and looked at Zhang Fu, he only got a smiling nod.

She seemed to be saying, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

Although he has grown a lot in age, Zhang Liang still has some blood and enthusiasm in his bones after dealing with literati all the year round, so after confirming that Zhang Fu insisted on speaking, he only hesitated for a moment, but didn't say anything more.

So Zhang Fu said directly: "Wei Chen just remembered an old incident. When Wei Chen was young, he went to a certain Korean nobleman's house as a guest, but during the dinner, the master and the hostess slashed at each other with swords, trying to put each other in peace. Terrible thing to die for."

"At that time, all the guests were frightened to death by this incident. After the two of them calmed down, we found out that the quarrel between the husband and wife was actually because the host secretly took the maid beside the hostess."

"If it's just that, it's fine, but the mistress is jealous and her natal family is very powerful. The male master didn't dare to let his wife know about it, so he made a point of pointing out the maid to his confidant so that he could continue to have an affair with her." Afterwards, the two gave birth to two sons and a daughter successively, although they were named under the name of that confidant, they were still cultivated by the master with all their strength."

"As for this matter, it was not discovered until the two children were 15 years old, because the hostess wanted to point the daughter to her son as a concubine."

Zhang Fu smiled: "I don't want to express my opinion on this matter, but I just think that it took more than ten years for the hostess to get along with the person next to her pillow and her confidantes every day before she discovered the truth. Put your own child under the name of other men, and wait until you get a soldier to recognize him again..."

Some men who had a similar experience and thought of this earlier, but didn't bring it up but wanted to take advantage of it, looked at Zhang Fu instantly with unkind eyes.

Zhang Fu smiled, but didn't take it seriously at all.

Seeing this, Lin Qian said: "This is indeed a very serious problem. I personally think that in order to prevent this from happening, it is best to come up with a punitive measure, such as encouraging others to report. Once the report is verified, it will be Really, not only the whistleblower can get a huge bonus, but also the whistleblower will be dismissed and fined."

"Seriously, it's not impossible to go to jail directly."

jail?

Everyone looked at Lin Qian.

But Ying Zheng thought it was good after listening to it, and finalized the matter before they could react.

Even Ying Zheng opened his mouth, and the matter could not be undone.

After clarifying the decrees related to childbirth, everyone turned their attention to marriage and divorce.

It is obvious that the opinion mentioned by the previous official was not accepted by Ying Zheng.

Therefore, the ministers did not take the official's suggestion into consideration at the beginning.

In other words, the ministers directly regarded it as a wrong answer and started the method of elimination——

As long as the idea I came up with had too many similarities with that minister's idea, I could throw it away from my mind without hesitation, and it was best not to even bring it up.

Everyone first set their sights on Heli.

It is obviously impossible to directly stop the people from reconciling with the law, but before that, it is more appropriate to find out the reasons for those people's reconciliation.

Although Qin State also pays attention to the life of parents, but it is not strict——

The main reason is that in order to increase the population, the government holds a "blind date festival" every year in the spring to encourage young men and women in the Qin country to go to the same place together.

If it is said that getting married may be because of worrying about pregnancy, Heli is obviously not the reason.

This question is for Li Si.

Li Si didn't know about it.

After all, the reason for the divorce is a private matter between the husband and wife, and it cannot be calculated by checking the household registration information.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Qian came up with a possible answer: "One of the reasons must be that the wife has already given birth and then doesn't want to, but the husband must want his wife to give birth, right? Another reason may be that the husband and wife have children. After the two separated and lived in two places, did the husband change his mind, or did he spoil his concubine and destroy his wife?"

Li Si was helpless: "Why is it impossible for the wife to change her mind?"

Lin Qian replied calmly: "Of course it is also possible."

After all, women these days don't have much concept of chastity. For them, cheating will not affect their lives except for being accused by some outsiders.

but……

She looked at each other suspiciously, "Aren't the divorced female officials you mentioned earlier all pregnant and gave birth? Although I personally disagree with this, most women actually tend to give their children a full body after giving birth." family."

"If there are children, those divorced female officials may not reconcile with their husbands even if they have moved on."

After a pause, Lin Qian said, "Even if there are such people, there must not be many."

The couple who care less about the family is usually the husband.

Even Li Si couldn't say anything to refute.

But guesses are just guesses after all, so even though Lin Qian mentioned several possible reasons, Ying Zheng did not order anyone to discuss specific measures based on this premise.

Everyone went through the government orders related to childbirth again, and then they left the court directly.

Li Si and Zhang Liang were sent to investigate the matter——

Li Si directly took people from door to door to "interview", while Zhang Liang flexibly used the newspaper in his hand to directly launch a questionnaire in the newspaper.

In less than half a month, Li Si got the answer from the officials in Xianyang who had reconciled with him. Zhang Liang's questionnaire was also coming to an end. Report on several sheets of paper.

After sorting out, there is only one ranking table left in the end.

And among the top three reasons, there are the two reasons that Lin Qian guessed before, and besides these two reasons, there is another one...

Husbands and in-laws forced them to give up their careers and stay at home to take care of their children.

In addition, of course, the original marriage is purely the order of the parents. The husband and wife have no relationship at all, but because the wife has no independent financial ability, she can only obey her parents and depend on her husband, obediently be a good wife and mother.

But after they became officials and had a source of income, they naturally reconciled without hesitation.

There are also two parties who are really indifferent, and one of them meets someone he really likes; there is also domestic violence by the husband; there is also a bad relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; and...

Many of them could not be solved by the imperial court, and the reasons for Heli were beyond reproach.

Arranged marriages and spoiling concubines and destroying wives...

Lin Qian said: "Your Majesty, I suddenly remembered that if the previous maternity leave policy continues, maybe some men who don't like their wives will only let their concubines give birth to their children in order to reduce the time of maternity leave?"

Doting concubines and destroying wives has not been uncommon since ancient times, and such things are indeed very likely to happen.

Ying Zheng scanned for a week, and it was no surprise that several officials bowed their heads in guilt.

tsk...

He was about to ask Lin Qian, but he remembered that she had offended many ministers these days, and she couldn't let her get ahead in this matter.

Therefore, Ying Zheng set his sights on Li Si.

Li Si was not ambiguous, and said directly: "This problem is actually very easy to solve. Just directly order that the concubine should not be allowed to conceive before the wife gives birth to an heir."

Ying Zheng paused and nodded immediately: "Yes!"

Lin Qian was stunned, she wanted to propose monogamy.

……

After discussing everything, Ying Zheng ordered the dynasty to disperse.

That night, after returning to the palace, Lin Qian couldn't wait to ask him: "Did you guess that I would propose monogamy, so you directly agreed to Li Si's proposal?"

Ying Zheng glanced at Lin Qian and nodded.

Lin Qian was a little puzzled: "Why? You should know the benefits of monogamy?"

Ying Zheng looked at Lin Qian's expression and said with a smile for a while: "It's not that the widows are unwilling to implement relevant policies, but that there is no need to rush this matter. After the implementation of the decree that allows men to take maternity leave together, it may not take a few years. Many people have spontaneously chosen monogamy, and the implementation of this decree will be smoother when the time comes."

After a pause, he stretched out his hand and squeezed Lin Qian's hand, "The decree on maternity leave has just been implemented, so we are not in a hurry to promote monogamy for now."

Lin Qian immediately reacted——

Ying Zheng was worried that forcibly promoting the two decrees would cause trouble for himself who proposed the two decrees.

Lin Qian raised her head, smiled and leaned forward to kiss the corner of Ying Zheng's mouth: "Thank you..."