Although the feudal scholar-officials practiced the system of monogamy and multiple concubines, they at least knew that the legislation protected the interests of the official wife who was married by the media.
Unless he commits the "seven outings", the husband cannot divorce his wife, nor can he straighten his concubine.
If you commit the crime of favoring a concubine and destroying your wife, and divorce your wife without justifiable reasons, once it becomes known to the government, it will inevitably lead to the intervention of the government.
At that time, the government will force the case to be handled in accordance with relevant laws to protect the interests of the principal wife, and will impose a certain degree of punishment on the husband and concubines to serve as a warning to others.
Even for people with a certain status, it is not easy to do this. If you do it forcefully, there is a risk of social death.
They were able to achieve this, but when it came to the Ming Dynasty, they became worse than them?
Just do nothing?
Su Yonglin must not turn a blind eye to this matter and never admit the occurrence of such a thing.
The central meeting of the revival meeting was held in a relatively hasty and urgent manner. Many members did not know what had happened and hurried to the meeting place to attend the meeting.
When they arrived at the meeting place, they saw Su Yonglin with a dark face, and their hearts suddenly trembled, wondering if someone was going to be in trouble.
Indeed, someone is going to be in trouble.
But Su Yonglin first conducted self-reflection and admitted his mistakes.
"When the "Ming Law" was promulgated, due to various reasons, many legal provisions were not revised properly. Therefore, a considerable part of the Ming Law was originally transformed from the laws of the Jin Kingdom. This is also what everyone knows. Things to know.
These include laws related to marriage, including legal provisions on marrying and divorcing a wife. However, in terms of actual implementation, it is one thing for the people and another thing for the revival meetings. The rules of the revival meetings Marriage and divorce must be reported to the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of General Affairs.
My original intention is stated in the general constitution of our revival association. All marriages of revival members must be reported to the organization and must be approved by the organization before proceeding. This is written in black and white, clearly written.
You can look through the General Articles Manual in front of you and see if Article 27 of Paragraph 6 contains this content. This was revised in the third year of Hongwu. There is no temporary increase. You can see for yourselves whether this is the case. "
Su Yonglin got straight to the point, and everyone in the meeting basically understood the problem here.
Of course they knew the provisions regarding marriage in the revival meeting's bylaws, and this had been the case for some time.
They didn't know why Su Yonglin was angry about this matter.
But when they whispered to each other, it was generally speculated that someone had taken a concubine, and then Su Yonglin found out about it, which made Su Yonglin very angry.
The currently prevailing regulations on marriage in the "Ming Code" still use the system of monogamy and multiple concubines, just like the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. No changes were made during the previous revision due to various considerations.
But at the actual implementation level, Su Yonglin only had one queen and no other concubines. Some people suggested that he choose a concubine, but he also rejected it.
After this news spread, everyone thought that Su Yonglin was deeply in love with the Queen and did not want to take concubines. Therefore, in order to make a political gesture of closely following Su Yonglin's footsteps, a considerable number of Fuxing members did not take concubines.
As the trend of Fuxing members not taking concubines spread, non-Fuxing members within the imperial court seemed to have noticed this trend, and privately speculated that Su Yonglin did not like officials taking concubines and disliked officials who took concubines.
At the actual political level, for this reason, Su Yonglin may be more willing to promote officials who do not take concubines than to promote officials who do take concubines.
As the saying goes, what is good at the top will be bad at the bottom. For the sake of their own political future and political interests, the decisions made by officials are relatively wise.
Some officials who have taken concubines choose to send the concubine back to their hometown, leaving only their wives. Some even send the concubine directly back to her parents' home and give them a sum of money to cut off contact with each other to show the deep love between the husband and wife.
Among young officials, there is an unspoken rule against taking concubines.
This is true even for officials who are not members of the Renaissance. Within the Renaissance, not taking concubines is regarded as an absolute political correctness, and they dare not go further.
And now that Su Yonglin is so angry, I haven't heard of any idiot who can't control his lower body openly taking concubines. Could it be that... the secret concubinage was discovered?
Pretty obvious thing.
People are lustful, and there are many people who can't control their lower bodies, especially officials who have great power.
Some revival members with high ideological awareness can still control themselves and choose to limit their enjoyment in other aspects for the sake of their future future.
But some people can't control it, and secretly take concubines, or hide young beauties at home under various names, using various methods to hide their existence and enjoy them secretly.
The first wife is required to cover up, otherwise she will be threatened with divorce using the "seven outs" rule.
So much so that even though some wives are slightly dissatisfied, they dare not violate the traditional "seven outs" rule.
Not to mention non-Fuxing members, even Fuxing members have heard some rumors, saying that some people are not ideologically aware, secretly take concubines, and have fun in private, but never show off on the surface.
But no one has said it openly, and it is not clear who is so unpolitically correct.
As a result, with the current situation, it is estimated that something has happened and someone is going to be unlucky.
But what Su Yonglin said next didn't seem to be the case.
“Some people pretend they haven’t seen the charter written down in black and white. Of course, I also have problems. I have to do some self-examination first, because I am too focused on military affairs and not enough on these ideological and moral matters, and I don’t catch them much.
This is my problem. I did not put enough energy into this aspect, so that some people and departments became lax, muddle along, and treated the charter as if it did not exist. I want to apologize to everyone. This is my fault. "
Su Yonglin admitted his mistake in public, and then asked the Renaissance Organization Department to record a serious mistake of his.
After admitting his mistake, Su Yonglin asked Tao Yongguang, director of the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of General Affairs, to stand up.
"You are the person in charge, but you take the lead in not paying attention to such regulations, muddle along, and only regard yourself as a data administrator, not an audit checker. You completely failed to pay attention to what you should do, so that you appeared. So many questions.
Your responsibility is too great to be shied away from. I am now making a motion to remove Tao Yongguang from his position as Director of the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of General Affairs. He will be recorded as a serious culprit and his membership will be retained on probation for one year. If he makes another mistake within one year, he will be directly punished. Expelled from membership! "
Su Yonglin raised his hand in agreement.
Xin Qiji raised his hand to express his agreement.
Members raised their hands one after another.
All votes passed, except Tao Yongguang, who looked pale.
His problem has been dealt with, but the matter is not yet done.
