Who Cares

The holy driver suddenly arrived, and everyone was stunned for a few breaths before kneeling down and bowing. They thought of the farce that happened before, and their complexion was very brilliant.

"Madame, please." Emperor Sheng Yuan took the boy two steps quickly, and personally helped Guan Suyi up. The little boy hugged her legs and shouted "Sister". He was originally the heir Guan Mumu adopted by the Imperial Master's Mansion, but for some reason, he was brought out by the emperor.

"Xie Emperor." Guan Suyi bowed her knees, then picked up her brother and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here?"

Mu Mu is very clever and sensible, knowing that there are some things that cannot be said in the public, so he leaned on her ear, covered her mouth with her little hand and whispered, "Brother-in-law said that he would take me to see grandfather in the imperial village and go hunting by the way. I told my father and My mother came out. My brother-in-law also gave me a bow and arrow called the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow. It's amazing, you see!" He pulled his back with his short hand, which caused Guan Suyi to glance back and saw one. The bow and arrow studded with jewels hung on his little arm, shiny and beautiful.

"The sun-shooting bow? Isn't that the artifact used by Houyi? It's really amazing!" Guan Suyi is not the character of pouring cold water on the child, so naturally he followed the conversation, causing Mu Mu to smile and squint, with a small chest. High.

While eavesdropping on the conversation between the brothers and sisters, Emperor Sheng Yuan waved his hand to make everyone get up, walked straight to the main seat and took their seats, and commanded, "Get the article, I want to read it carefully."

Ji Chengyue immediately offered the manuscript with both hands, and then stepped aside blushingly. After this incident, he no longer dared to claim that he was talented. Who would have thought that this pamphlet containing women's virtues, words and merits could hide such a huge hidden danger? If it weren’t for Miss Guan’s essay, no one at the scene would have thought of it, and even contributed to the spread of it...

The more I think about it, the more ashamed, many people are too ashamed to look up, and some raise their sleeves to block their faces, wishing to get under the table. The most uncomfortable among them is Xu Yayan. She repeatedly recalled Guan Suyi's articles, trying to find the flaws, but her mind became a pot of porridge, but she was panicked and embarrassed.

When Emperor Shengyuan read the manuscript, he did not forget to greet his wife and brother-in-law, patted the soft cushion beside him, and said softly, "Madam, please sit down. I may have questions to ask later."

Guan Suyi thanked him neither humble nor arrogant, and then took his brother to a seat. Everyone also went back to you, anxiously waiting. Mrs. Ji pulled Ji Ting behind her, trying to hide the person. She has regretted that her intestines are all green now, and remembered that today was not the day when the Qian’s family came to pick up people, but she delivered a message, specially arranged for today, and then ordered the maid, Fang Ji Ting, to come in crying and begging, so as to use the topic to humiliate Guan Su. Yifan, but she didn't expect that with a slight stroke of her pen, she actually refuted the woman's precept "to be the only one" to nothing, and let the emperor listen to it. If the emperor agrees with her point of view, wouldn't the Ji family become a big joke?

After a quarter of an hour, Emperor Sheng Yuan had finished reading the article and handed it to the accompanying minister for reading. One of them was Cao Shangshu. After he got the article, he was like a treasure. After reading it twice, reading it twice, and reading it three times, he waited until his colleagues around him urged him to hand it in.

After the article was circulated, Emperor Sheng Yuan asked in a deep voice, "How do you visualize?"

"Have a long-term view, and bite the country's maladies!" Hu Cao Shangshu slowly said, "A few days ago, the work of collecting household registration has basically ended, but in a century, the population of the Central Plains has been reduced from the original 9 million households to the current 2 million households. Seven or eight out of ten tragic deaths in wars and military disasters. The head of the horse hangs in front of the horse, the woman is carried in the back of the car, the bones are exposed in the wild, there are no chickens in the wild, there are more than a hundred people, and the mind is broken. This is the current situation of Wei. On the battlefield, there are dead bones and mountains, and there are tombs everywhere in the countryside. While millions of heroic souls were martyred, millions of widows and orphans were left behind. These people would not be able to share the fields without the head of the household. If they did not share the fields, they would starve to death, even in war It is over, and there is only one dead end. Weichen inspects various places and feels heartbroken to see such miserable conditions."

He took out a memorial from his arms and presented it respectfully, "It's also a coincidence. Recently, the Weichen is planning to file with the emperor. Please add the policy of cultivating the people into the national law and urge folk men and women to marry as soon as possible and have children. If you follow this book According to the booklet, women should never remarry forever. So how should these million widows and orphans find a way to survive? Excluding them, there are so few unmarried women who are not enough to marry existing men. Many people are helpless for life and cut off offspring. After these people grow old, newborn babies are even scarcer. Wei's population may be reduced by one million households. So where does the national tax come from? Where does the army come from? No national tax. And the army, how can it resist the wolves and tigers of the Huren and Xue Nie? If this continues, the Central Plains will be crushed by the two iron horses in less than 20 years and become a barren land."

Seeing that Zhezi was taken by the emperor to take a closer look, he admired, "Ms. Guan is worthy of being an emperor, she has no lack of foresight and worry about the country and the people. Can this article be loaned to the official as a preface to be included? In the law of cultivating the people?"

Guan Suyi quickly waved her hands to self-humility, and expressed her deep honour.

Everyone in the seat had no face to listen anymore, one by one sitting on pins and needles, wishing to fly away and hurried away.

After reading the memorial, Emperor Sheng Yuan turned over "The Ring of Women" and sneered, "I have heard about the reputation of Miss Xu Er and "The Ring of Women". It turned out to be a foolish theory of misunderstanding the country and harming the people. I can ban it by simply'finalizing it from one', but then I think about it, this is the ignorance of you fools. It makes me want to find out more. Why is it necessary? I watched you pass on word of mouth coldly. I thought it was just to make women more chaste and graceful. There was nothing wrong with it, but it developed into hindering marriage and breaking people. Zixi."

He threw "The Ring of Women" into the tea-making stove, burned it to ashes, and said coldly, "To cut off human life is to cut off the foundation of the Wei state. How can I tolerate it? In order to allow the people to multiply and live and work in peace as soon as possible, I have been exhausted. However, Those of you are hiding in the midst of singing and dancing. Most of you are born in wealth and wealth. Even if you encounter military disasters, you are sent to a safe place by escorts. You have never seen the suffering of the people. How do you know the tragedy after the war? If you are full, dressed warmly, and write a few poems about illness-free groaning in your spare time, you will feel that there is nothing more miserable than this, and how can you know what is truly miserable? If you can’t live on, remarry and remarry if you can’t live. This is the essence of survival. Tao, the way of reproduction, where is the sin?"

He emphasized his tone and said, "It's just a small booklet, which forced me to have to revise the code of law and force Wei to marry men and women. It is also rare in the world. As the saying goes, the people will follow suit, and the people will follow suit. Well, over time, the people also regarded remarrying as a daunting way. How should the millions of widows and widows survive after the war? How did the population of Wei grow and how to strengthen the country? You can only see the square inch of your head, but you can't see the general trend of the world. It’s ridiculous that he often regards himself as a scholar and a well-educated person!"

Every time the emperor said a word, everyone's head dropped a point, and in the end, two of them had their chests and hunched backs, with no self-confidence.

Emperor Shengyuan pointed to the woman behind Mrs. Ji and asked, "Are you going to remarry?"

Ji Ting glanced at her elder aunt and stood up firmly, "Tell the emperor that not only does the citizen's daughter want to remarry, but she also wants to remarry with her daughter."

"Enlighten the emperor, she is giving and receiving privately, privately for life, the minister will punish her, not to prevent her from remarrying!" Madam Ji panicked, and quickly knelt down to defend.

Ji Ting took out a few documents from her sleeve, and choked, "Please look at the emperor. This is the Geng post and marriage letter of the people's daughter. She was originally planning to burn them one by one in front of the eldest aunt. She has shown her determination, and then brought them. Zhang Lang has obtained the consent of both parents, and is not giving or receiving privately, please let the emperor express this!"

Emperor Sheng Yuan ordered Bai Fu to look up the documents and sighed, "Your fiance, son-in-law, is a kind man, and it is not easy to help you raise the children of your ex-husband. This marriage, I will take charge of you; my daughter, I will come back for you. , I also give you a dowry twenty-four to give you a beautiful marriage. I want to tell the people of Wei that it is not shameful for a widow to remarry, but the way to survive and should be supported. Remarrying, giving birth, multiplying, strengthening my people of Wei, Not only are they not guilty, but they also contributed a lot."

Ji Ting was ecstatic, kowtow again and again, feeling that she was flying directly from **** to the clouds, and her happiness was extremely unreal. Mrs. Ji turned pale and faltered. Today's matter spreads to the outside world, she will definitely become the representative of fools and women, where is there any face to speak of?

Oh no, she almost forgot Xu Yayan, this talent is the culprit! If she hadn't eaten enough to support her, and what "Female Commandments" she wrote, how could she have trouble with the emperor and the law? When the law of cultivating the people is promulgated, the voice of Jifu officials will be greatly damaged, and it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the court! The son’s future was ruined!

Mrs. Ji felt more and more horrified as she thought about it, but she was sweating like a waterfall for a while, soaking her single clothes.

Emperor Sheng Yuan glanced at her, then looked at Xu Yayan, whose face was like gold paper, and continued, "Women are lowly? I don't think it is, but to my surprise, most of the women present here agree with this view. What is it that is not conceited? To borrow a word from a lady-men are the sky, women are the earth, how high the sky is, how thick the earth is, how far the sky is, how wide the earth is. The sky rains and dews the rain, the land Breeding lakes and forests, the two are dependent on each other, and they share the world. Zixi reproduces and grows, relying more on the land, steep peaks breed unyielding pines and cypresses; beautiful mountains and rivers breed flexible bamboo. Fertile soil breeds good talents, and poor land does not have good seedlings. This is what people do. We know the truth. I remember the old saying in the middle of the story that “being a mother is strong.” It can be seen that a woman cannot blindly be humble, but must be strong, so that we can raise a better next generation. I do not despise a woman, otherwise I will not. Reuse the emperor sister and activate the female generals, but if you look down on yourself, I have nothing to say."

He looked at his wife and sighed, "If I am a post-employee, I will never stand for a woman with beauty and talent, but without foresight, and a sparse pattern. The position of mother of the country has never been able to be taken by a lowly woman."