Chapter 995 Love or Not?

As for the matter of rain and dew, the benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom.

It may be unbearable in modern times.

But this was in the Qing Dynasty, and people in the Qing Dynasty felt that the fourth master was pure-hearted and ascetic.

If you put it in the eyes of those relatives in the harem.

They also felt that fourth master was too diligent in politics and ignored the harem.

After all, the royal family pays attention to branching out.

Here, ordinary people are "more children, more blessings", let alone emperors.

Otherwise, what would the three thousand beauties in the emperor's harem do?

In addition to consolidating politics and using this to win over Mongolia's upper-class forces.

A large part of it is to be able to have more children.

In the Qing Dynasty, medicine was underdeveloped, coupled with fierce palace battles, death was death, and death was death.

In the end, there are still a few left.

Among the remaining few, we have to pick out capable people.

Otherwise, if no one inherits the foundation laid by the ancestors, it will fall into the hands of others.

Even, divided by others.

Don't look at the superficial scenery of being emperors, in fact, they don't live long.

One of the big reasons is the daily schedule, mental stress and overwork.

In the past, Ruoyin just read history, and only knew that fourth master was a diligent man.

Now that she saw it with her own eyes, this made her seriously suspect that the fourth master in history died suddenly because of the approval of the memorial.

As far as Yu Ruoyin was concerned, she felt that fourth master was pretty good compared to most men in the Qing Dynasty.

He never took the initiative to accept concubines.

No special hobbies either.

Or use power to snatch other people's wives.

Maybe she can't tolerate the sand in her eyes for the love she is looking forward to.

But for the fourth master in reality, all she wanted was a pamper, so that she could sit firmly in the position of queen and die.

And as little damage as possible, that's all.

Seeing that Ruoyin didn't intend to take the initiative to go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Grandma Liu said, "But those people in the harem are all trying their best to show their face in front of the emperor, creating all kinds of opportunities to compete for favor."

"Let them go. If it's useful to compete for favor, the emperor won't be reviewing memorials in the Hall of Mental Cultivation all day long, and rarely set foot in the harem." Ruoyin said indifferently.

"Just in case." Liu Mama was really anxious for her mother.

As long as she thinks of the methods used by those little goblins in the harem to fight for favor, she will get angry!

"If it happens, then it will happen." Ruoyin was very indifferent.

With so many people in the harem, there is no such thing as "little threes and little fours", and there is no such thing as "first come, first served".

Otherwise, according to modern times, the Mao concubine is the first woman of the fourth master.

Then all the women who came after were all mistresses.

In this way, could it be that she, the empress of the palace, is also a mistress?

But in the Qing Dynasty, the mao concubine was just a trial marriage arranged by the Qing Dynasty before the prince got married, and it was nothing.

It was the boy Fourteen who doted on his concubine and killed his wife, and spoiled the first woman Wu Gege to heaven.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is the main wife or the side wife.

Even those concubines with no status.

Everything is the epitome of the era of the Qing Dynasty.

In other words, it was just a deal between the natal family and the royal family.

They are all serious officials and officials. Every woman just wants to find a rich, powerful and capable man to entrust her life to. Everything is legal.

It's like everyone likes to climb up.

In addition to fighting for favor and having children, they have no other way out.

To them, fourth master is their husband, the kind for a lifetime.

As far as fourth master is concerned, he is also responsible for them.

It's not realistic to ruin the lives of all the women in the harem just because she came from time travel, and let the whole Qing Dynasty revolve around her alone.

She is not a fairy reincarnated, just an ordinary woman.

What's more, in this feudal dynasty, the status of a woman is extremely low, and she is even more insignificant.

There is nothing to change the world, change the Qing Dynasty.

She can only integrate herself into this dynasty as much as possible.

Because what she thinks is ridiculous and absurd in the eyes of Qing Dynasty people.

To put it another way, if an elder brother from the Qing Dynasty travels to modern times.

It is ridiculous and absurd to say that we want to change the 21st century, rule the country, and let all men in the new era become stallions.

Maybe he will become a street rat.

After all, a person's thoughts, facing the thoughts of a dynasty's people, are like dust!

When she was just Fujin, she didn't think so much.

Now that I am a queen, I am more open to these things.

Besides, if the fourth master really favors only one concubine, the harem and the former court will probably be in chaos.

After all, if someone takes the best daughter-in-law in the family to marry you politically, and you put her in the cold palace, who will feel better?

"Even that Wu Chang is here, he was reciting poems in the imperial garden a while ago, trying to seduce the emperor." Liu mama wanted to provoke her own mother.

It's also good for my own mother to use all her strength to compare with those little goblins in the harem.

Ruoyin raised her eyebrows, for some reason, she thought about the scene where Wu Chang met by chance while reciting poems, and she wanted to laugh.

"Then the emperor has flipped her brand?"

"No way, the emperor punished her to recite poems for three hours in the cold wind, and also punished her to copy Tang poems."

"Pfft...haha..." The fourth master's puzzled and indifferent look flashed through Ruoyin's mind.

Grandma Liu looked at her mother's big-hearted appearance, she was helpless.

After Ruoyin finished laughing, he suddenly became serious.

She held her lips, and said lightly: "Who made us women have a low status, do they have any other way out besides fighting for favor?"

"That's true. Let alone the masters of the harem, just take the women of ordinary people's families. All the property in the family belongs to the men, and the women have no share at all, let alone any inheritance. They can only rely on men." Liu Nam As a woman, Mama also felt a little emotional.

Ruoyin: "..."

"Especially in the countryside, sometimes when you meet some hooligans, if you are humiliated, no matter if you are forced or actively seduced, you will be beaten 80 times. If a married woman is humiliated, then It's even worse, you have to add 20 big boards, and directly hit 100 big boards. In this way, women's bodies are weak, and they often can't bear the physical and mental torture, and they die, not much better than soaking in a pig cage."

"What?" Ruoyin still didn't know about this.

Because she was almost kept in captivity by fourth master, she didn't know that the countryside was so dangerous.

And...the status of women in the Qing Dynasty was so low.

If you are bullied, you will be beaten, what kind of rule is this?

"Because as the saying goes, starving to death is a small matter, but injustice is a major matter. Beating to death is a small matter, but losing chastity is a major matter. The family pays attention to morality, and it is worthwhile to die a life to restore the family's innocence. Moreover, it is just that one woman is missing. .”

"This is too pedantic." Ruoyin said angrily.

It's okay to say that a man has three wives and four concubines.

But to be humiliated and even lose his life, this is so unreasonable!

Isn't it conniving those sinister people to break the law?

"Isn't that right? Even when husband and wife quarrel, there are double standards. If a wife beats her husband, she is guilty as long as she hits her husband. If the husband sues the judge, the wife will be punished with a stick. If the wife beats her husband more than a broken injury, then the husband After suing the magistrate, the wives shall be punished three degrees more severely than those who wound unrelated persons."

"This palace seems to have heard of it." Ruoyin tilted his head and thought for a while, "There seems to be another saying that a husband beats his wife, as long as he doesn't beat his wife into injuries, he is not guilty. If a husband beats his wife If the injury is more than broken, after the wife sues the official, the husband’s punishment will be reduced by two grades compared to the punishment for injuring an unrelated person, isn’t it?”

Grandma Liu nodded, and replied, "Yes, that's how the laws of the Qing Dynasty were."

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Ruoyin clicked his tongue.

Although she knew that the status of ancient women was low.

But unexpectedly, the status of women in the Qing Dynasty was much lower than she had imagined.

It's no wonder that the concubines kept a low profile when they were sleeping.

Even the fate of the empresses of Kangxi, it can be seen that women in the Qing Dynasty did not have a good time even if they were in the royal family.

Of the three queens of Emperor Kangxi, one died directly for the stability of the Qing Dynasty and the continuation of the emperor's heir.

One was sick, so in order not to affect her husband, she kept it secret.

If a daughter dies, she can't be buried, so she just takes it out of the palace and burns it.

However, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the status of women was a little better.

If it goes back to the Huang Taiji period, the status of women is even lower.

Huang Taiji's concubines are more than a miserable word.

Even the side wife who gave birth to children for Huang Taiji, as long as he is happy or unhappy, he can reward his subordinates.

And after his subordinates get tired of playing, they can reward them again.

This simply does not treat women as human beings.

Even the natal family treats the girls only for trading.

Including women from families with eight major surnames in Manchuria.

Perhaps in their eyes, women are just private chattels, which can be given away at will, let alone the slightest respect.

However, even a cold-blooded and heartless man like Huang Taiji, holding Hai Lanzhu in his palm and pampering him alone, is strange.

Just like Emperor Shunzhi wanted to divorce his queen in order to favor Concubine Dong E.

So, what honor and glory is, it's all a gimmick.

Only when a man dotes on you, your life will be easier.

Thinking of this, Ruoyin chuckled and murmured softly: "It seems that people have different standards for men and women from ancient times to the present."

Needless to say about ancient feudalism.

But in modern marriages, most of the standards of a good wife are virtuous and virtuous.

And the standard of most good husbands seems to be no cheating or domestic violence.

It is precisely because of seeing these clearly that she was so independent in her previous life that she didn't need a man.

But God just played tricks on her, an independent young woman, and brought her to the feudal Qing Dynasty.

In this way, it is even more difficult to talk about love or not.

It can be said that she didn't think about love at all.

Because she understands that she may be a queen in the eyes of others.

But in the Qing Dynasty where servility was deeply rooted.

To the royal family and the emperor, she is nothing more than a servant of the highest rank.

However, if there is a chance, she must find a way to overthrow this kind of unconscionable patriarchal law.

Not to mention letting a woman stand up and be the master, at least in the case of interests and physical and mental damage, you can use the law to protect yourself in order to seek equality, right?

Ruoyin curled her lips, and flipped through the medical books in her hand a little boringly.

The top priority right now, she'd better get her illness cured first.

If there is a small disease in the body, such as a tumor, it will be quite serious, and it is not a question of whether or not you can conceive an emperor's heir.

But there is a fear of life.

It was night, and the fourth master, who hadn't turned over his cards for five days, was reviewing memorials in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The eunuch in the respect room carried a silver tray and walked carefully to Fourth Master.

The tray was full of green cards of the harem concubines.

"Your Majesty." The eunuch placed the tray on the left side of Fourth Master.

Fourth master turned his head slightly, and his mysterious and deep ink pupils glanced lightly at the tray.

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Let me explain in a unified way that the price has not changed, but this chapter has more than 1,400 words. In the future, if the price is different, the number of words has changed. Don’t be alarmed, the price will not change.

You may find this chapter confusing, but I think it is necessary to declare the existence of women in the Qing Dynasty, so as to reflect the hardships of women in this dynasty.

I hope that the veterans will put themselves in the perspective of the Qing Dynasty and consider the situation of Yinyin.

Instead of thinking about it from the perspective of the new socialist century.