"Even people in the old days would look down on such people and abandon their lousy wives after they achieve great things, and they would often ridicule them. For us, we should not only look down upon them, but we should resolutely stop such things from happening!"
After learning about this, Su Yonglin was very annoyed and said to Xin Qiji: "You have followed me for so long, experienced so many tests and life-and-death battles, and in the end, you lost to your lower body and did such a shameful thing?"
Xin Qiji had a different view on the matter, so after hesitating for a while, he decided to tell the truth.
"The reason why this matter has reached this point is because they are concerned about your opinion."
"E?"
Su Yonglin was stunned for a moment and felt baffled: "Because of me?"
"Because you only have one queen and no other concubines."
When Xin Qiji said this, Su Yonglin suddenly realized.
"So, they don't dare to take concubines?"
"right."
Xin Qiji slowly spoke: "In recent years, I have inspected the army and gone to the grassroots level to chat with officers and soldiers. More than once, I have heard people discussing this matter privately, saying that although you have not explicitly banned the concubinage system, you only have one. A queen.
You don't have concubines or other concubines, and you set an example, so obviously you don't want others to do the same. It doesn't matter to the people, but officials and military officers are all working under you, and everything you say and do will affect them.
They worry that you will not like officials or military officers who have multiple concubines. Although they do not explicitly prohibit it, they will secretly suppress the future of such people. Many people do not dare to have concubines because of this concern. "
After Su Yonglin heard this, he sneered.
"Because he didn't dare to take a concubine, but he disliked the bad wife and felt that the bad wife was not good enough for him, he chose to divorce his wife and marry a young and beautiful wife. Isn't this a typical policy and countermeasure?
Since they can do this now, do they have to wait until their current young and beautiful wives grow old to divorce their wives and continue to marry young and beautiful wives? They just want young and beautiful ones anyway, right? "
Hearing the serious dissatisfaction in Su Yonglin's words, Xin Qiji had something to say.
"Food, sex, and nature are human nature. Although this dynasty does not regard Confucianism as an official school, there are some truths that these sages of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods clearly understood."
Xin Qiji whispered: "Although the act of abandoning a wife who is a scumbag makes people feel shameful, at the end of the day, it does not violate the current law. The current law does not require them not to take concubines, and many officials and military officers are worried about it. You don't dare to take a concubine based on your opinion, but you are actually quite restrained."
"Quite restrained..."
Su Yonglin said coldly: "I lead them to make decisions for themselves, not so that they can make decisions for others!
Divorcing his wife who did nothing wrong because of his own selfish desires and marrying another wife shows that his ideology and morality have declined and he is no longer worthy of being a revival member!
If we can't correct it and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, such things will continue to happen in the future. This is just a small gap, but as the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike is destroyed by an ant nest. This incident is very likely to be the fault of our Renaissance Association's dam. Ant nests should never be taken lightly. "
Xin Qiji felt that the situation was getting serious, so he asked: "What...are you going to do?"
"It is true that he did not break the law. However, within the Renaissance Association, we have regulations. Marriages of Renaissance members must be reported to the Ministry of General Affairs for record. Has he filed the record? After filing, he still needs approval. He was approved. Yet?"
"I don't know about this. I need to ask the General Affairs Department."
Xin Qiji asked: "Do I need to ask someone from the General Affairs Department now?"
"certainly."
Su Yonglin nodded, so Xin Qiji immediately went to handle the matter and called Tao Yongguang, the head of the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of General Affairs, who was specifically responsible for this business.
After the establishment of the Fuxing Association, Su Yonglin stipulated that members' marriages must be reported to the organization and approved, and those who are already married must also report to the organization for filing, in order to strictly investigate the personal life and style of members.
If you can't control yourself on the issue of men and women, it's also difficult to control yourself on other issues, so Su Yonglin has always been more concerned about this aspect.
Some of the revival members who fell during the Great Purge just couldn't control themselves on the issue of men and women and fell deeper and deeper into it. Su Yonglin was fully vigilant about this.
It's just that such a thing has never been put in front of Su Yonglin before, so that he once thought that the status quo had satisfied many people, but he did not consider that he had not abolished the concubinage system.
Obviously, this kind of vigilance is not meaningless. In the process of Su Yonglin's questioning of Tao Yongguang, he discovered the problem.
That is to say, the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of General Affairs has not played a supervisory and vigilant role on this issue.
The Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of General Affairs has just become a simple record-filing department. When someone comes to report, they record it. When someone submits a marriage application, they agree without even looking at it. It is a "you are good, I am good, everyone is good" style.
Of course, according to traditional concepts - marriage is a beautiful thing.
Su Yonglin looked at the marriage application reports of nearly a hundred Fuxing members who held mid- to high-level military and mid-level official positions from the second half of the third year of Hongwu to the fifth year of Hongwu, and felt a little unable to control his anger.
There was not even a single review document, so when they applied here, they were immediately approved, and all they had to do was send them gifts to celebrate.
Is this how the Department of Civil Affairs handles matters?
Although things here may not be like Sun Jingwei's situation, Su Yonglin is still very angry.
"I remember that there are regulations on the work requirements of the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of General Affairs in the charter of the Renaissance Association. They accept reports, review reports, allow or refute reports, and file reports. What have you done? What about the review? I ask you about the review?"
Su Yonglin waved his hand and threw the filing record in front of Tao Yongguang, making Tao Yongguang look pale.
"Chairman, this... this marriage is a happy event. Everyone wants to get married and have children, increasing the population. This... this is certainly something that should be congratulated, right?"
"Should it? So it is also right to divorce the original wife and marry a new wife? Have you ever read the charter of the revival meeting?"
Su Yonglin suppressed his anger and said coldly: "Of course it is normal to get married, but is it normal to divorce your wife? The old bureaucrats still know that there are conditions for divorcing a wife. The wife needs to make seven mistakes before divorcing his wife can be done openly. Otherwise, it is The name is not justified!
What about us? There are no problems, just break up? I thought that our Ming Dynasty paid more attention to such things than the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty, but I didn’t expect that we were even worse than them in this aspect? "
Tao Yongguang swallowed and looked at Su Yonglin with horror on his face.
"The Lord... what the Chairman said is that I... we have neglected this aspect of work..."
Because he was too nervous, he kept wiping the fine beads of sweat on his forehead, trying to hide his nervousness.
But he doesn't hide himself at all.
Su Yonglin's anger could no longer be contained.
"If it's just for filing, what's the use of you? If we are not even as good as the Southern Song Dynasty, why did I establish the Ming Dynasty? You have done a good job, very good, and successfully made our moral level worse than that of the old bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats. Okay. !well done!"
With an angry roar, Su Yonglin punched the table and immediately ordered to convene a central meeting of the Renaissance Association to seriously discuss and deal with this issue.
