Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 422
"Aren't you very proud?"

In the early morning, Lu Lingqi asked Bai Tu while putting on her clothes.

The two of them settled the accounts regarding Xia Houjuan last night, but as we all know, the settlement at night cannot be written down.

"I've been very proud since the day we got married." Bai Tu, whose emotional intelligence was on the line, hugged Lu Lingqi from behind and said.

"Bah!" Lu Lingqi's face turned red and she spat softly.

"Okay, don't hold on to your Su Wei Chief. Your Highness, King Chu, has something else to be busy with, right?" Lu Lingqi reminded.

When Bai Tu heard this, his face was filled with distress...

When we were "settling accounts" in the evening, what he said was very good - didn't His Highness the King of Chu say that "women can hold up half the sky, and in the prosperity and development of Chu State, the status of men and women is equally important"?

As for the princess's matter, I won't share your knowledge for the moment. The recent matter of Wang Lang's appearance should be properly resolved as soon as possible!

It was indeed a headache, but even if there was no such thing, Bai Tu would still have a headache in this regard. After all, this is King Chu's business.

What kind of spirit does Lu Lingqi have to deal with government affairs very quickly as a condition?
No need to beautify it, it can be written directly into the history books!
As for what gives Bai Tu a headache...

In fact, generally speaking, this is not an isolated case, but something that the Chu State must face now - why did Bai Tu focus on "rest and recuperation" in the early days of the founding of the country when the Chu State was gaining momentum?

What needs cultivation most is actually not the people's power. In addition to redeeming the dividends of preliminary industrialization, we also need to repair the various hidden dangers brought about by preliminary industrialization!
For example, after the concentration of the population in the workshop group, the problem of greatly accelerated information exchange was not only reflected in the faster transmission of Baitu's gossip, but also meant that the people had more opportunities to be incited.

Just like the "historical experience" of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, when the court is generally hated by the people, no matter what happens, it should not concentrate the people, otherwise a rebel army can be built by building a river.

In fact, ever since "Princes, Generals, and Prime Ministers would rather have their own kind" first resounded in China, there have been many such lessons. In the late Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang led the garrison soldiers, and in the late Sui Dynasty, countless canal-building laborers revolted. , Huang Chao in the Tang Dynasty initially revolted with the people serving as corvees...

For most uprisings, the initial gathering was often organized by the imperial court itself.

For this reason, among a group of conservatives represented by Zhang Zhao, this is the "original sin" of the workshop. If Bai Tu had not supported industrialization and had seen results, I am afraid that this original sin alone would be enough for industrialization. It was delayed indefinitely.

Of course, Chu State still has an advantage in this regard, that is, the people's acceptance of the Chu State's court is very high, but they have to guard against subtle changes...

Not only did Bai Tu understand what this meant, but the Yushitai and the Ministry of Rites also warned Bai Tu. Even if they didn't know how Meng Yuan died, they knew the importance of this aspect.

For this reason, Baitu also specifically urged the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Rites to pay attention to the information explosion in a timely manner and establish channels for dissemination and guidance.

Cao... Xia Houjuan came back at this time, and I have to say that he did help Bai Tu. Watching more operas is better than being incited by some weird sects.

This is just one aspect and a microcosm. The Xingbu, which has always been forging ahead, has recently encountered difficulties again... Saying "again" is not quite accurate. The Xingbu's difficulties have never stopped.

What Wang Lang reported to Bai Tu this time was related to the "problem" Lu Lingqi mentioned before!
The "Chu Law" has been implemented for a long time, and the new law places more emphasis on the unity of husband and wife. The Ministry of Punishment even took the lead and went directly to the local governments to handle several cases involving "extermination of households" as typical examples.

Executing a household is a bad habit in the old society. That is, after a man dies in infancy, if there is no heir, the relatives, brothers and neighbors will divide the family property. Some of the property that cannot be divided will be sold and the money will be used to raise money on the spot. Set up a table with running water and wait until you have eaten and wiped everything clean.

Ordinarily, if there is really no heir, it would be okay to deal with it this way. However, in the folk customs of grassroots clans, heirs are specifically sons or grandsons, and wives and daughters are not among them. You can only watch the family collapse after the person dies. In essence, the clan system protects its family. Authority - In the clan system, it is emphasized that brothers with the same surname are closer than wives with other surnames.

Although the Criminal Department has encountered some obstacles in the past, most of the cases handled before were not widely implicated. At most, a few brothers committed the crime against their will, and they were all handled by the County Criminal Division and the County Criminal Hall.

However, Bai Tu was in Wancheng the day before yesterday and received a memorial from Wang Lang...

There was a case that made him very embarrassed. In a clan in Jiyang County, a young man died young. There was widespread resistance to women's inheritance rights within the clan. They followed the old customs and passed off the property of the "heirless" clan as family property, ignoring his widow. With his young son, he bribed county officials when handling property deeds.

Ordinarily there is no embarrassment, deal with it according to the law?

However, there are still some peculiarities. When Bai Tu was in Jiyang, the local criminal department would not bother the King of Chu with such a trivial matter, but would report it step by step. When it came to Wang Lang, Wang Lang couldn't make up his mind. Go back to the white picture.

What's special?
Firstly, the clan involved was very large, but it was simply "big", without any great figures or family status; secondly, this was not a family that was being exterminated in the general sense, it was not just one family but a whole family that was exterminated. And note that the deceased had a young son...

Why is it said that there is only one?
This branch has been passed down for four generations, but it has a strong foundation. It is considered a direct line of small landowners in the clan, with dozens of hectares of land under its name.

The youngest son left behind after his death was only five years old, and seemed to be a bit stupid. He was not able to speak well at the age of five, and he had no close brothers or uncles in adulthood. He was a template for the word "easy to bully".

Therefore, the clan only left a hundred acres of land for his son, and the rest was used as clan property—that is, it was considered the public property of the whole clan. It was not a problem that could be solved by asking a servant to go to several households to persuade or persuade (physics) .

If it had been a year ago, then this matter could have ended here. Self-discipline in the clan is justice. If you file a complaint with the county government, you will only despise this woman for being unruly and unruly.

But now, with the support of the Chu State's national laws, the widow sued the clan to the Criminal Division of Jiyang County...

This also involves another "special" aspect of this case - compared with the previous typical cases, Jiyang is located in Nanyang County, Jingzhou, between Wancheng and Xinye.

Because it was incorporated under the rule of Bai Tu relatively late, it belongs to an area with a relatively weak sense of identification with the Chu State, and the folk concepts are also more conservative.

This woman does have some insight if she can think of filing a lawsuit...

As for how to deal with it, Wang Lang was a little unsure. After all, Jiyang was originally a new land, and this time a clan was involved. If he was too hasty, it might intensify conflicts, but if he was too slow...it would affect the Ministry of Punishment's determination to implement the new law, and the people's response to the new law. New law faith.

It is not only related to inheritance law, but also to the national policy of "women hold up half the sky".

Lu Lingqi had also seen this memorial before, but it was not something that Guard Chief Su should be concerned about, and she didn't pay much attention to it.

But after Xia Houjuan's incident, Lu Lingqi raised this problem to Bai Tu and urged him to deal with it as soon as possible...

(End of this chapter)