In the court, everyone from the emperor to the ministers felt incredible.
The comparison of the two data is shocking.
A total of thirty-seven prefectures in Dazhao were mobilized by the Women's School, and over a period of five years, all data was collected as fairly and impartially as possible.
It's not that close relatives can't give birth to normal children, but compared to unrelated couples, it's a 60 to 70 percent chance of success.
Lin Ruhai finished reading it with trembling hands.
There is a piece of data above, which lists in detail the difficulties faced by 129 couples who are married to close relatives in having children.
The rates of miscarriage and premature death are surprisingly high.
There are also physical weaknesses. Children from farming families are weak and most of them do not live to adulthood. Even if they survive, according to past data collected by the government, they are a burden to the entire family.
Because of this, some particularly poor or cruel families will abandon these children or let them die early in accidents.
As for the wealthy...
Several prefectures dug out some of the extinct families from the previous dynasty. They all had one thing in common: they married close relatives.
Before the children grew up and their parents died one after another, the family property was either divided up by the clan or by the children's in-laws.
But if it were just that it would be fine, but the only child in their family ended up dying.
he……
Lin Ruhai didn't know how he left the court. He went home and sat in his study, unable to move for a long time.
The Lin family has been marrying close relatives for several generations.
By the time he came to power, it was time to make changes because his maternal grandfather's family had been wiped out.
Although his mother brought a lot of property with her, most of it was divided up among her clansmen.
His mother hated the clan so much that when he was able to get married, the most important thing she considered in choosing a woman was not only whether her family was powerful but also whether she was good at giving birth.
Because she has suffered enough from the pain of having a child.
She wanted to have another child to inherit the surname of her maternal family. Only in this way could she use the power of the Lin family to get back the property that had been divided out from the clan.
However, until my father passed away, my mother never got what she wanted.
The past is like smoke! Having lived a good life in the past few years, Lin Ruhai subconsciously forgot the pain of that time.
Because he had been married for several years, but he still hadn't been able to give his mother a grandson.
Even if Min'er lets him take a concubine, it won't work.
My mother eventually became ill due to worry and died early.
Lin Ruhai touched his chest with trembling hands.
The same mistakes cannot be passed on to the next generation.
Especially my daughter is not in good health.
But breaking off the marriage...
He has been able to be so successful these years, all thanks to the Yue family.
No matter if it was the East Palace or the West Palace, even if one of them was good at literature and the other was good at martial arts, they did their best to help wherever they could.
Now that he has agreed to the marriage, if he goes back on his word and cancels the engagement...
It would have been fine if my second uncle hadn't passed away, but both he and his wife are gone. Even though they did it themselves, he was my mother-in-law's biological son. After all these years, she would only feel more concerned about protecting the second wife.
Especially since the old lady is old.
A bad...
Lin Ruhai had no choice but to go find Jia Min and tell her about today's court and then extend the story to today's major events.
He didn't know that Jia Min had been waiting for this day.
Ever since she learned from her daughter about the disadvantages of marrying close relatives, she has been thinking about what happened when she got married.
She and Lin Ruhai were not close relatives, but the three generations of the Lin family had all been close relatives.
After being married for several years without having any children, her mother-in-law blamed her until her death.
She compromised step by step and allowed her husband to take a concubine, but even after taking a concubine, she still had no children.
How much bitter medicine had she taken for her child? How much did she blame herself for? Even if she later realized that the problem was with her husband, she still suffered.
She couldn't let others think that her man was incompetent. In Jiangnan's situation, she had to help him, so she was jealous.
This seemed to be proven later because she was the only one who had a child.
So in Jiangnan, she is a famous jealous woman.
"My dear, I had a dream..."
Jia Min burst into tears, "In my dream, Chang'an had an accident in the summer when Lian'er went to Jiangnan, and I was too sad, and I was gone a year later."
What? Lin Ruhai's heart trembled.
Faintly, he seemed to have had a similar dream.
It's just like waking up from a dream, forgetting most of the details, only sadness and grief remain.
Now my wife said this...
"At that time, the eldest sister-in-law of the East Palace died early because of giving birth to Yue'er. My mother was worried about Daiyu, so she asked someone to bring her to the capital."
Jia Min looked at her husband, tears streaming down her face. "Husband, tell me, what kind of life can our daughter have in the hands of my second sister-in-law? Can you watch her grow up?"
Lin Ruhai: “…”
I once had a dream in which he seemed to have died early.
If the eldest sister-in-law in the East Mansion also died early, the second uncle would definitely be in charge of the West Mansion.
That……
"In my dream, although I died very early, I didn't let you and my daughter go, and I never reincarnated."
Because of that dream, Jia Min felt a lot of resentment towards her own mother.
So true.
There are many things that her second brother and sister-in-law can do.
Jia Min was very sad. "Our daughter and Baoyu are very good, but Second Sister-in-law doesn't like her. After you passed away, people said that our daughter used all the needles and thread of the Jia family."
Lin Ruhai: “…”
How is that possible? His family has been marquisates for five generations and is very wealthy.
It was also because of this that the retired emperor and the emperor were able to confidently place him in the position of Salt Inspector.
He doesn't need to be greedy, he just needs to be a good official.
"My daughter was so sad that she wrote a poem called "Song of Burying Flowers," which said, 'Three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind, the frost, the sword, are pressing hard.'"
She was so hateful that she wished she could turn into a ghost and kill all those who harmed her daughter.
Jia Min trembled all over. "Mother is old, and can no longer make decisions for our daughter. She is also powerless to suppress Second Sister-in-law. Our daughter...died of grief on the day of Baoyu's wedding."
After she woke up in heartache, she couldn't let it go for a long time.
"We are all here, we are all here, we are all here..."
Lin Ruhai hugged his wife, his voice trembling, "We have to protect our daughter ourselves."
The couple went to cancel the engagement with great fanfare.
Jia She didn't expect that the first place to be burned after the things in the court were burned was his house.
Of course, the one who could not accept it the most was Grandmother Jia.
The old lady was so angry that she pointed at her daughter and son-in-law and fainted on the spot.
The court doctor immediately gave him acupuncture and boiled medicine.
But the old lady was old, and Jia She was worried, so he invited the imperial physician again.
Therefore, the various bad things about close-kin marriage surrounding the cancellation of the engagement were quickly spread in the capital by people from the Shen Ning, Lin Daiyu and other factions.
For a time, before the imperial court officially issued the decree, more than twenty couples went to Shuntian Prefecture to sign divorce agreements.
They all have one thing in common: they marry close relatives, and either have no children for several years, or their children die early...
Half a month later, the Dazhao household marriage law clearly stated that close relatives within five generations were not allowed to marry.
For those who are married but have no children, the government should help them to divorce as long as one of the spouses is willing.
Of course, it was Lin Ruhai who presided over the reform of household marriage laws.
Fellow students, classmates, and old friends were all mobilized at once.
This year, Dazhao experienced the largest wave of divorces since its founding.
The various paradoxes such as "marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog" and "a member of his family while alive and a ghost after death" are also subtly changing some people because of the promotion of household marriage laws.
The household marriage law guarantees the absolute inheritance rights of women whose families have no male heirs, and there are clear provisions for the inheritance shares of virgin girls, girls who have returned to the clan, and girls who have married out.
The rights to dowry, freedom of divorce, etc. have also become known to thousands of households thanks to the free short plays (stories) promoted by local charity offices.
Ordinary people have almost no resistance to free operas, and Shen Ning's idea to the queen was to let them learn about their rights little by little while watching the opera.
Because of this, the Women's School even launched a writing competition with prizes, adapting the various cases in the Great Edict into operas.
Because the changes in two of the cases were so good, the emperor simply launched a similar essay contest with prizes in the name of the Hanlin Academy.
However, the emperor had great power and he was a person who liked stories (gossip), so he specially gave the first three positions of deputy director and librarian of the Zhao Library.
Anyway, as long as you write well and can perfectly combine the law and cases so that ordinary people can understand it at a glance and enjoy reading it, then an official position as low as seventh rank can be yours.
So countless people were eager to try, but what was unexpected was that the top three places were all taken by students from girls' schools, with Lin Daiyu at the top.
Well, one day when Baoyu went to work at the library, his immediate boss was Lin Daiyu, who had broken off the engagement. (End of this chapter)
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