At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang traveled to my home

Chapter 332 Listen, is this a human chapter?

The people of the Song Dynasty were relieved to hear that they could still get two conditions. The immortal still remembered them and did not vent his anger on them. However, they would arrest those who did evil things.

A strict ban has been issued, prohibiting the private execution of baby girls, but these people don't listen. They will have to bear the consequences themselves.

"In the Yuan Dynasty, women had a relatively high status. However, that was only true for Mongolian women. The status of women from other ethnic groups was still relatively low. These are two extremes." Because the Mongolians were the emperors in the Yuan Dynasty, naturally the Mongolians had the highest status. In general, the Han people had the lowest status, regardless of whether they were men or women.

It was because the Han people at that time had too low a status and were oppressed every day, coupled with various natural and man-made disasters, and the court did nothing, so the people could not survive and they rose up one after another and began the road to rebellion.

As a result, the Yuan Dynasty collapsed in less than a hundred years.

The people of the Yuan Dynasty listened to the immortal's words, but they could not make changes all at once.

After all, they knew that there were too many Han people, and they were afraid that the Han people would rebel against them, so they oppressed them so much.

When people from other dynasties heard this, they began to curse the people of the Yuan Dynasty in various ways on the barrage, and even people from the Qing Dynasty were dragged out and scolded.

The people of the Yuan Dynasty remained silent and did not dare to refute. If they did, they would be scolded even more severely.

Those Han literati were really going too far. They cursed in such a refined way that they couldn't even understand what they were saying.

But there are still a lot of rude people who curse in a very unpleasant way, and they are almost becoming autistic because of being cursed.

"The lowest status would be the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict in the first year of the Hongwu reign to encourage women not to remarry.

If a woman's husband died before she was thirty and she remained a widow until she was fifty, the imperial court would erect a chastity arch for her and exempt her from labor service.

Since the edict of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty came out, there were suddenly many chaste and heroic women in the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, there were only 51 chaste women in the Tang Dynasty, 267 in the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, the number suddenly soared to . You can see the difference yourself, so many people refused to marry just for a chastity arch." Li Wu shook his head. If the Ming Taizu had not issued this edict, this phenomenon would not have occurred.

In ancient times, people had to consider the population. If everyone observed chastity, how would the population increase?

Many people will die in the war, and there simply won’t be enough people.

Barrage

Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng: This Ming Taizu must have something wrong with his brain. He even encourages people not to remarry. Where will the population come from?

Qin Shihuang thought that Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was sick. He attached great importance to population and wished that the population would be as large as possible. It was impossible for him to oppose remarriage and he was very supportive of it.

Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin: I also cannot understand, why would you keep your chastity for a dead person for your whole life? You should remarry.

Many people in the barrage expressed that they couldn’t understand it, they couldn’t understand it at all, and felt that there was something wrong with Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

The widows also felt puzzled. They did not want to guard a dead man for the sake of a chastity arch for their entire lives. Besides, being a widow was not easy. Without someone to help, they could not do many tasks.

Their court also strongly encouraged remarriage. There was nothing wrong with women remarrying. Many people remarried, and it was normal.

During the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, he looked extremely unhappy and he did issue this edict.

The chastity arch was also intended to encourage those who could uphold their integrity. However, who would have thought that more than 30,000 people would not remarry just for the sake of this chastity arch. Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty became a little angry and embarrassed.

Is this still his fault?

Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty did not want to admit that it was his fault.

None of the ministers dared to speak, they were all terribly scared. They all looked at Crown Prince Zhu Biao and Empress Ma, hoping that they could persuade them.

They did not dare to persuade him, for fear that His Majesty would chop them off.

"Zhongba, I know you did this with good intentions, and the people have misunderstood you. However, there are more than 30,000 people who remain chaste, which is indeed too many. How about we encourage them to remarry?" The gentle voice of Empress Ma sounded, and she slowly spoke while holding the hand of Emperor Taizu of Ming.

"Hmph, this is my fault. What fault have I done? I am the emperor, I can't be wrong," Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty felt angry and aggrieved after being persuaded by Empress Ma. He can't be wrong, it can't be his fault.

It was the people who misunderstood his meaning.

Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty shook off Empress Ma's hand and walked to the other side angrily. Empress Ma and Crown Prince Zhu Biao looked at each other, with a hint of helplessness in their eyes.

Finally, after the persuasion of the two, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty issued another decree to encourage remarriage, and said in the barrage that the emperors of other dynasties were satisfied, and this Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was still admirable, as he admitted his mistakes and corrected them.

Others said that it was because of Empress Ma and Crown Prince Zhu Biao, otherwise, even death would not have been possible to change the situation, and people would have been killed if they were persuaded.

When the other emperors of the Ming Dynasty saw that their ancestors had released the news, they naturally followed suit, supporting remarriage and abolishing the chastity arch.

There will be rewards for remarrying, after all, there are rewards for the chastity arch, and many people fight to the death for such a spot.

Many widows from the Ming and Qing dynasties burst into tears when they heard someone who could read say that the emperor had abolished the chastity arches and that they could remarry.

Many people fell silent. So, what was the point of keeping the chastity they had kept for half their lives?

Many widows are actually not willing to remain faithful. If their husbands are good, they are willing to remain faithful. But if they are not good at it, then there is no point in remaining faithful.

However, they did not want to keep their chastity, but their families would not allow them to do so and forced them to do so just for the sake of the chastity arch.

Now it’s gone, it’s cancelled.

Sky

"Well, Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty knew his mistakes and was able to correct them, which is very good.

You don’t know how lowly women were at that time.

Especially the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism that emerged during the Song Dynasty, which is simply harmful to people.

At that time, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism had become the official orthodox thought of the Ming Dynasty. I dare not even think about it. If I were born in that dynasty, I would go crazy," Li Wu shook his head. It was simply too scary.

People who don't know about Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism are a little curious. What on earth is it that makes the little immortal so disgusted?

"This famous saying of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is that starving to death is a minor matter, while losing one's chastity is a major matter. Listen, listen to this. Is this what human beings say?

Women's thoughts began to be restricted, and the idea that a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent gradually spread and was accepted by the people.

If a woman is accidentally touched by a strange man, she will become unclean. If a woman falls into the water and is rescued by a strange man, she must marry that man, no matter what he is like.

If she is unwilling to get married, the woman can only die or cut her hair and become a nun for the rest of her life.

If your feet are seen by others, it means you don’t respect yourself.

In short, whatever the woman did at that time was wrong.

After the Qing Dynasty, it was even more amazing. The Qing Dynasty was only more than 200 years old. Do you know how many chaste and heroic women there were?"

"More than one million people, more than one million people. Just imagine, there were almost three thousand people every year. You don't even need to think about how low the status of women was during this period."