Everyone?

Small home?

Is there any difference here?

Xin Qiji was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.

"So you are..."

Su Yonglin smiled.

"The reason why the landlords and powerful families are strong is that their families have a large population. The reason for their large population is that they can take concubines unscrupulously and take as much as they can. When their wife and concubines are combined, they will meet a master who can give birth to seventy or eighty or ninety sons in one go.

If the inheritance of this generation is not required for two or three generations, it is the Zhongming Ding Food Family. The entire family uses blood ties as a bond to join each other and use the advantages accumulated by their ancestors to occupy land on a large scale.

So they occupied a large amount of land, tenants, food, soldiers, and sufficient bloodline population to rule. What is this? Is this a family? No, this is not a family, this is a paramilitary organization!

Such paramilitary organizations are very unfavorable to the court. They can resist the imperial decrees, resist taxes, and annex the self-cultivated farmers at any time. They are the biggest unstable factors in the imperial court's rule, and are harmful to unification but not beneficial.

All dynasties have wanted to remove it, but what can be done is that there is no such thing as a policy of curbing and delaying their growth. It was only a period of time in the pre-Han period. They used the magistrate system to suppress the powerful, but in the future, they were abandoned."

Xin Qiji felt that what Su Yonglin said was very reasonable.

And as he continued to think about it, he felt that the more he thought about it, the more he became more and more thorough.

"After the magistrate system, no dynasty could curb the growth of landlords and powerful people, and no one had proposed to terminate the system of taking concubines! Never! In this way, as time goes by, the power of powerful landlords in the local area will inevitably grow.

Once their strength grows and their family population increases, they will inevitably occupy more land, have more population and food, and will have greater voice. When the scholars they trained enter the court through various means... Chairman, will no one in all dynasties think of this?"

Su Yonglin nodded.

"Of course there is, but so what? Those who support the old system can push people who hold such ideas into the abyss with just one sentence and cannot turn over."

"What sentence?"

"There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and there is no descendant."

Su Yonglin said slowly: "For a dynasty that uses Confucianism as the official idea of ​​governing the country, filial piety is a hurdle that cannot be avoided at all, and filial piety has very great requirements for the reproduction and inheritance of descendants and cannot be eliminated at all.

If you are not allowed to take concubines, everyone is monogamous, as long as the husband has no problem, but the wife cannot give birth to a son or cannot have children, and faces the danger of the family cutting off the inheritance. At this time, what should we do to save the situation?"

Xin Qiji suddenly realized.

"Indeed, there are three types of unfilial piety, and no descendant is the greatest. If you use this as the starting point, everything will be done."

"That's why I want to destroy Confucianism and not use it as an official school."

Su Yonglin slowly spoke: "Once filial piety becomes politically correct, many ridiculous things will cause. In an era when unfilial piety is the greatest thing, ending the system of concubines is tantamount to digging a grave.

Although civilians were never allowed to take concubines and would not object, the ruling of ancient dynasties was based on superiors, not civilians, so for the rulers, it was meaningless whether civilians supported this matter.

No matter how much the civilians support them, they cannot provide any assistance to the rulers. Once the opposition from the superiors is too loud, the rule of the dynasty will be overturned, and the emperor will not do such thankless things."

Xin Qiji nodded slowly.

"If this is the case, it is true. Even if the superiors take concubines mainly to enjoy women, there are cases where wives cannot have children and can only rely on concubines to give birth, and the reasons for family inheritance cannot be completely ruled out.

As long as the importance of family inheritance is a dead end that cannot be avoided in any case, anyone who tries to terminate this regulation will be defeated by Confucianism and will be ruined. Over time, no one will think like this."

“That’s it.”

Su Yonglin picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, and then said, "Under such a situation, which emperor dared to abolish the system of taking concubines? In fact, it is enough to be able to make progress to a monogamous and have multiple concubines. They cannot continue to make progress and are locked down."

Xin Qiji thought about it again, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Our dynasty... our dynasty does not regard Confucianism as its official idea! It does not pay attention to governing the country with filial piety. This aspect... is not a problem!"

"Our dynasty is not as good as the basis for the rule."

Su Yonglin laughed and said, "The basis of our dynasty is the rule of the general public. From ancient times to the present, the general public has never had the right to take concubines and never had it, so they would not care whether I abolished this system.

It would be better to say that if they knew about this, they would not only not interfere with me, but would instead fully support me. The benefits of my termination of this system will be obvious to the people.

Releasing a large number of women who should have become concubines and maids from powerful families, allowing them to enter the field of folk marriage, which can greatly reduce the difficulty of marriage for civilian men, increase private household registrations, and greatly promote folk stability.

As for those who want to take concubines with bad intentions and think that taking concubines is natural, it just happened that our revolution has been almost wiped out. Those who die are dead are dead, and those who live are all working as laborers in Jishizhou.

In other words, at this moment, except for a small number of people within the imperial court, most people actually don’t care much about this system. This is the best time to completely abolish the concubine system. If you don’t take action at this time, when will you wait?”

Xin Qiji figured everything out and was overjoyed for no reason.

"In this way, it will be difficult for the people to have big families. Without big families, it will be difficult for a huge landlord and powerful. Without landlords and powerful people, it will be difficult for large-scale land annexation!

In this way, even if the agriculture of the Ming Dynasty is stabilized, and even if other industries cannot develop well, the people of the Ming Dynasty will not go hungry or cause any unrest because of the land!”

"It does have this effect. Abolishing the concubine system can greatly curb the momentum of land annexation, increase the number of household registrations paid by taxes, and increase the taxes of the court. With money in the hands of the court, it can do more big things. This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people."
Chapter completed!