In order to arrange a marriage for his daughter, Su Xun extended his period of mourning and continued to stay in his hometown of Meizhou to observe the mourning period.
Unexpectedly, during this period, Su Banniang was abused in her husband's family. Su Xun was very angry about this and wanted to sever ties with the Cheng family and tried to make Su Banniang divorce Cheng Zhicai.
However, in ancient times, divorce was usually only possible if the woman made a mistake. Even if the man made a mistake, it was rare for the woman to initiate a divorce.
Because a man’s divorce does not prevent him from marrying again, but if a woman gets divorced, she is often easily criticized and it is difficult for her to get married again.
So under Mrs. Cheng's persuasion, they can only maintain this stalemate for the time being.
However, in order to support Su Banniang, Su Xun's original plan to return to Beijing for the examination and selection after Su Banniang got married was delayed again, and he had to continue to stay in Meizhou.
After all, although Su Xun was also in Meizhou's hometown in history, he had no official position and could only watch Su Banniang being abused to death by the Cheng family.
Now he is an official, he has just resigned temporarily. His social status is there. Su Xun believes that as long as he stays in his hometown and intimidates the Cheng family, the Cheng family will not be too presumptuous.
But he still seriously underestimated the shamelessness of the Cheng family.
Although Su Banniang was no longer beaten, she was often subjected to cold words, sarcastic remarks, corporal punishment and humiliation by the Cheng family. She was so worried that she fell seriously ill and almost died.
Su Xun then took Su Banniang back to recuperate, but it was this incident that completely ignited Su Xun's anger.
He explained the matter in his letter to Su Huan.
The original intention was to tell Su Huan about this matter. After all, as the head of the Su family and the patriarch of the Su clan, Su Huan needed to be asked for his opinion on this matter.
In addition, Su Huan holds a relatively high official position. With his support in this matter, they can compete with the Cheng family and successfully complete the divorce.
But unexpectedly, Su Huan was accompanying Zhao Jun on a tour of the world at that time, so Zhao Jun naturally knew about this matter very quickly.
Zhao Jun was very unhappy when he learned about this.
Because Zhao Jun has been actively improving the status of women in recent years, he has written many articles in newspapers criticizing the constraints of feudal ethics on women and encouraging women to be independent.
And the Ministry of Justice makes the laws.
If a woman suffers from domestic violence for a long time without reason and wants a divorce, the local government should actively provide help, establish the woman's husband as a shameful example of a man who only bullies weak women, and establish the woman as an independent and self-reliant woman.
If a woman's family is in financial difficulty and she cannot make a living, the government can provide her with some jobs in light industries such as textiles, tea, wine, leather, etc. to help her make a living.
From this we can see that in addition to improving the status of women, Zhao Jun also has strong political intentions.
It is the hope that women can be liberated, freed from feudal ethics, and actively participate in the construction of light industry that produces consumer materials.
Just as great men of later generations proposed that "women hold up half the sky", this will not only improve the social status of women, but also greatly increase the labor force and improve productivity, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
As a result, just when Zhao Jun wanted to achieve this political goal, he encountered the incident of Su Banniang.
Su Xun is now an official. If even officials are like this, what about the common people?
That's why Cheng Zhicai was caught in a trap.
Zhao Jun was about to use his power to establish his authority, warning all men of domestic violence that the court would severely punish such behavior. He also wanted to tell all women who were bullied that the court had their backs.
So we can only blame the Cheng family for their bad luck.
Zhao Jun then asked Su Huan to write back to Su Xun, ordering Su Banniang to divorce Cheng Zhicai, and because of Cheng Zhicai's record of domestic violence, he was banned from taking the imperial examinations for life!
Then, with an order, the Constitutional Council sent a handwritten order to Chengdu Prefecture Road.
The Cheng family was immediately set up as a model, and the Chengdu Prefecture Transport Commissioner and Meizhou local officials were directly instructed to promote it, and it was vigorously publicized in newspapers and in Meizhou.
Moreover, when Zhao Jun passed by Chengdu in the eleventh year of the Qingli period, he made a special trip to Meizhou and criticized the Cheng family as a negative example in front of so many officials and local dignitaries.
Under the crushing pressure of the highest level of power, even though the Cheng family was a prominent family in the local area, they were soon destroyed by the society and had to move away from the area and disappeared in Meizhou.
Su Banniang's problem was finally resolved, but after this incident, Su Banniang's health has not been very good and she has to recuperate at home.
Because his daughter was weak, Su Xun never left.
It was not until the beginning of this year that Su Banniang's health improved a lot, and then she left her hometown and went to Bianliang for research.
It has been five years since Su Xun resigned from his post due to mourning.
Among his fellow Jinshi candidates that year, some who fared better were the top scorer Wang Anshi. After traveling around the country with Zhao Jun, he was transferred to the Judicial Examination Institute, a third-level central government department, as the director.
Just because he traveled around the country for two years, he was gilded, skipping the fifth and fourth ranks, and became a fourth-rank official like a rocket.
There is also the runner-up Su Song. Although he did not go to serve as an official in the local area, he has been studying science in the Academy of Sciences.
In his early years, he was promoted to a fifth-rank doctor of the Academy of Sciences for his contributions to the research on the structure of steam engines. Later, he was promoted to a fourth-rank director of the Academy of Sciences for assisting Zhao Zhen in perfecting the law of universal gravitation. Now he is the vice president of the School of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, also a fourth-rank official.
Moreover, due to the very special status of the Academy of Sciences, the researchers there were highly valued by the court. Although it seemed to have little power, the problem was that the Academy of Sciences had two presidents.
One is the full-time dean Jia Xian, and the other is the honorary dean.
This person's name is Zhao Zhen.
In addition, Zhao Zhen often summoned academicians of the Academy of Sciences to his Houyuan laboratory for academic exchanges.
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