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Section 67 Obeying the Law (Part 2)

"According to the temporary code, every fellow scholar, or like scholar, can start to receive allowances as soon as their children are born." Until now, the constitution and laws implemented in Sichuan and East Zhejiang are still the same as they were at the beginning, declaring that this was the temporary measure when the emperor hunted south. However, when the Academy talked about this matter, they all seemed to have never thought about what to do after the emperor came back. For fellow scholars in Sichuan, the Ming Dynasty law was a long time ago; although the east Zhejiang side had just begun to be implemented, the case was also decided not based on the Ming Dynasty law but the military law of the East Zhejiang Army for many years. After announcing the promotion of imperial laws the previous year, the Zhejiang East Army and the Zhejiang Sea Forbidden Area were all in joy because they regarded this code as a civil law, and replacing the military law with civil law undoubtedly meant that the top leaders of the Ming army were more confident in ensuring the safety of the ruling area.

"The subsidies given by each government are different because it is decided by the House of the Councils of each government. The interim code only sets a big frame. The specific amount of subsidies must be handled by each government at the discretion of each government." Some governments give more subsidies. For example, in order to encourage immigration and childbirth, they give them monthly, while Chengdu gives them one payment at birth. Because Kuizhou is poor and cannot afford it, it symbolically gives a red envelope to the mother, and plans to improve when she has money in the future. Jianchang is the most interesting, because it is because it is poor and cannot afford it.

For the master of law, He Daoning, he has a large amount of property in Jianchang, so he has now regarded himself as a native of Jianchang. He has formulated very detailed subsidy rules for Jianchang as if he was doing an experiment. The subsidies received by people of different incomes are very different. The subsidies for unemployed people are several times that of rich people, and when he has a stable income, it will drop. Many rich people in Jianchang are retired warlords who don’t care about these few money, so everyone gives He Daoning face and allows his judicial experiment plan to be easily passed.

These allowances are theoretically equivalent to investing in shares, and they redeem the complete ownership of the child from the parents - the state helps raise children, so parents cannot kill them if they want to kill them, and sell them if they want to sell them. In the future, parents want to sell their daughters, whether it is a child bride, a change of marriage or something else, in theory, the "shareholder" of the government needs to agree, and the government will not agree no matter what.

"If you want to marry a Sichuan girl, you need the consent of her father and the government. The government will unconditionally support her wish. As long as the girl herself admits that this is her wish in front of the officials, the government will agree to the marriage. My daughter is also a citizen of the empire and will also win the fame of a lesbian scholar after she is eighteen. At that time, my opinion is the same as the government. As long as she likes it, I will see it again, and I will probably not object." Deng Ming explained calmly that he used the same reason to send other relatives to him.

"The Prime Minister also gets the allowance?" Feng Xifan was shocked when he heard this. He had never heard of Sichuan giving his children a allowance, but he had never thought that Deng Ming would care about this little money.

"Only the emperor's words are inconsistent, the law cannot control it; and I am just the prime minister of Huangming, not the emperor himself, the law is above me; as a soldier, I am also a scholar from Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan, and now I live in the 17th Hall of Chengdu. Every time I elect the director, I will go to vote, and of course I will get the allowances I give to me." Deng Ming smiled and said, in order not to violate the regulations that officials are not allowed to do business, Deng Ming sold most of his ivory import company's shares. At this point, Deng Ming has been completely under the law and has a complete citizenship in exchange: "Since I have received the allowance, I have to give up my arbitrary behavior in the marriage of my children, otherwise it will be illegal and I will be fined or even jail."

Before her daughter was born, Deng Ming also thought about what to do if she had a daughter in the future? Should we follow the rules of this era, carefully choose a prestigious in-laws for her, and find a husband for her who might be afraid or seek power from the Deng family. Although the marriage of the lower-class people in Sichuan has been quite free, the upper class still believes that the orders of parents and matchmakers are the right way. In their opinion, freedom of marriage is just because of the special background of large immigrants, and is a stopgap measure to overcome the early difficulties of Sichuan, and will sooner or later become the same.

It is precisely because of this common phenomenon that Deng Ming had hesitated. However, after her daughter was born, Deng Ming hugged her and patted her gently after she hiccups every day, and patiently waited for her to hiccup, and finally made up his mind - not to compromise anyway. If this society does not agree with free love, then change it; if the upper class still does not know how to cheer for marriage independently, then Deng Ming will teach them step by step.

Feng Xifan thought about it, and Deng Ming added: "Although the imperial constitution does not stipulate that no concubines are allowed, I have publicly stated that my son is not allowed to take concubines, and the same is true for my son-in-law - my will has been written and notarized. If my son dares to take concubines, he will lose his right to inherit my inheritance; my son-in-law must sign an agreement before marriage, and if he dares to take concubines, he will divorce my daughter, compensate for the losses, and give up his children to my daughter - and I also stipulate that if my son wants to inherit my inheritance, he must make the same will as me, and my son-in-law will be the same."

Looking at Feng Xifan who was shocked, Deng Ming laughed: "I just said that the law is above me, so neither my son nor my son-in-law, I cannot control them with the law. I can only rely on this kind of agreement - then again, since my rules are like this, does Feng Weishi think my daughter is still a good match for Yanping's legitimate son?"

Feng Xifan did not answer this question immediately, but thought for a moment before asking: "Since the Prime Minister doesn't care about Ling Ye's marriage, how should other children want to become the Prime Minister's Dongshui son-in-law?"

It seems that Feng Xifan still has not given up, but as long as the other party is not a marriage arrangement, Deng Ming doesn't care: "For example, sending Yanping's legitimate son to Sichuan to go to school. Now many children in Sichuan meet each other when they are in school. They are in love and they will make their marriage successful if they report to the government for approval. In the future, my daughter will definitely go to school, and maybe she will fall in love with a classmate." Seeing Feng Xifan's eyes flashing, Deng Ming hurriedly added: "I haven't promised you anything, and I will never make it happen. My daughter wants to see it myself."

It seems that it is not a good thing to let the legitimate son stay away from Dongning to Sichuan. Feng Xifan looked at it and felt that this matter must be discussed for a long time.

Seeing Feng Xifan start to give up, Deng Ming's heart fell into the ground. He is a powerful person and has considerable wealth, so he must give this daughter and the daughters who may come to the world one after another in the future a choice. However, today Feng Xifan's visit also sounded a wake-up call for Deng Ming, that is, there is still the possibility of internal strife in Taiwan, and such internal strife may cause coups and purges.

"Do Weishi Feng think Dongning will always be away from China in the future?" Deng Ming felt that the best way to eliminate the risk of internal strife in Taiwan was to let Dongning's civil and military officials realize that the things they were competing for seemed not as valuable as they thought.

"What does the Prime Minister mean?" Feng Xifan suddenly became nervous.

"Feng Weishi may think that Dongning will be a vassal state that respects China and has the same governance as North Korea, right? But in my opinion, Dongning and North Korea are different. North Korea is really too poor. Looking around China, it is probably impossible to afford noodles except for that piece of barren land. Because white noodles are specially given to our country. Not to mention that the mountainous areas in northern Korea are so dangerous and difficult to move, and the climate is harsh... At the time, the Tartars were so greedy and unwilling to annex Korea. I guess no other country except Japan would have the intention to annex Korea."

Taiwan produces rice, sugar, a warm climate, abundant water sources, and a warm current fish farm around it. It is also located in the key to the South China Sea. It has benefited a lot from maritime trade. No country will refuse to join such a province.

"But this is all the future. King Yanping treats me very well first, so I will never incite the conflict between the Yuanhui and Dongning. In the future, I think that the descendants of King Yanping can also consider selling Dongning to the Yuanhui, which is also a way." For Deng Ming, this is indeed a very long time later. Just like the way to deal with Jinfan, Deng Minghui encourages Taiwanese children to go to the empire to go to school, serve, gain status within the empire, and then slowly promote the values ​​of the empire. Unification will come naturally. Deng Ming is very confident about his own soft power advantages, and both sides are the same language and the same race. Others cannot do it if they want to use nationalist resistance.

Finally, there is another thing to do for Zheng Chenggong. Deng Ming vaguely remembers that the internal strife in Taiwan seemed to have led to the murder of Zheng Chenggong's grandson: "I just said to Feng Weishiming that I will not be partial to the issue of the ownership of Prince Yanping, but if you fight-"

Feng Xifan did not hurriedly confess that there was no such possibility, but waited quietly for Deng Ming's following.

"I hope no one will die, because they are all descendants of the Guo family. If the eldest son is deposed, I hope he can go to Sichuan to study. I swear that I will never use the eldest son to make trouble for Dongning. And if he wants to return to Taiwan to restore the throne, I will do my best to stop him. If you can't believe it, I can sign a legal agreement."

"The Prime Minister's words are so heavy." Feng Xifan couldn't help but want to defend himself. Although Deng Ming finally launched a bloody coup in his previous life, the conflicts within Taiwan are far from this point at this moment. Feng Xifan still thinks about how to gain the upper hand in the competition for favor, rather than killing each other.

"Everything is planned, and if it is not planned, it will be abandoned. Judging from the experience after the Jiashen year, fighting for the throne will eventually develop into a war of war, killing one's own people and blood flowing into a river, and then being picked up by outsiders, without an exception. And now that you have this mindset, and King Yanping seems to have not stopped you, I have to prepare for the future - my promise is not only effective for the eldest son, but also for you. If Feng Weishi, you unfortunately fail and are locked up in the big picture, you will be locked up.
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