Chapter 437: linked to tax
Chapter 437 linked to taxes
Different from Li Jing, who is clean and self-sufficient, these people have some braids that have clearly violated the law and can be caught.
Among them, the most lightly charged are those who exceed the limit of taking concubines or spoiling concubines and destroying wives.
If the concubine is favored and the wife is killed, the imperial court may impose punishments such as suspension, demotion, or dismissal on officials, depending on the severity of the circumstances.
If there is a life lawsuit, the mastermind and accomplices will either be executed according to the laws of Daqi, exiled into the army, or exiled.
As for taking concubines beyond the limit, when it comes to this, I have to talk about the strict restrictions on taking concubines in the Daqi law.
Like many previous dynasties, Daqi also stipulated the conditions for the people under the rule to accept concubines.
Different from those previous dynasties, the government of Daqi really grasped this indicator, rather than making it a mere name.
Let’s talk about ordinary people who don’t have official positions or titles. These people need to meet two conditions to accept concubines: one is to be over forty, and the other is to have no children.
Then there are the children of the royal family and those who have titles or official positions. These people are according to their respective grades:
Small officials of the seventh rank and below can accept a concubine, but they cannot give birth to concubine children.
Mid-level officials of the sixth to fourth ranks can take two concubines and have concubine children, but the concubine children do not have the right to inherit property.
Senior officials from the third rank to the first rank can have three concubines and concubines, but concubine children do not have the right to inherit property and do not enjoy the favor of the court.
The Earl of the Super-Pin Duke, or the sons and daughters of the royal family who have been conferred the title of Prince of the County and above, can take five concubines and have children from concubines, but the children of concubines do not have the right to inherit the title.
The emperor himself can have ten concubines, and he can have concubines and children, but the succession of the throne must strictly abide by the principle of establishing a legitimate son.
To be honest, he will restrict himself when making legislation. Xie Yuan is really the first person in history.
But because of this, this law has been paid more attention to.
For those common people, officials, and royal children who illegally take concubines, Daqi Law clearly stipulates that every time they illegally take one more concubine, the tax they pay will increase by 10%, and each time they illegally give birth to one more concubine child, the tax they pay will be 10%. To increase by 20%.
In addition, drudgery such as conscription, labor, donations, porridge and medicine will also be given priority to them.
Not to mention how many ordinary people can afford such a wonderful tax increase method, just say that conscription and labor have been regarded as hard work by the people in the past dynasties, and every family is eager to never have their turn. .
Taking a concubine will actually increase the probability of being drafted into the army and required to perform hard labor. Which man can bear this?
In addition, Daqi also encourages the neighbors of concubines to report. As long as the report is true, the government will reward the reporter with a tax reduction quota for the year.
The proportion of the reduction is also very coincident, it is exactly the 10 or 20% that the concubine needs to pay more.
With these two methods, the previous situation of "Even if he is digging food in the field, if he collects three or five buckets of grain this year, he would like to buy a concubine to come back as an envoy" will never happen in Daqi Then there is the living soil.
Of course, those wealthy businessmen, landlords, noble officials, royal family members, and those dudes who have no ability but can't afford a good pregnancy, if they really want to take concubines, they will pay more taxes. In fact, they can afford it. They can also use money to find candidates for conscription, labor, and so on.
But the problem is, being able to afford it and really having to afford it every year are definitely two completely different things.
Their family's property was not blown by the wind, and they "donated" all their hard-earned family property to the yamen just for the sake of beauty. This kind of stupid thing is probably only for those hungry ghosts who are lustful, or those who don't know how to make money What is not easy can only be done by the second generation ancestors.
And what makes them speechless the most is that Da Qi Law also clearly stipulates that if a man takes a concubine, then the dowry property under the man’s wife’s name, various private properties under the concubine’s name, and even if there is no separation, then the man’s grandparents, Parents, brothers and sisters, children and grandchildren, all of these people's properties, without exception, have to pay more taxes.
With this article, it is conceivable that if a man wants to take a concubine, he will face many obstacles.
Even if there are three or five men in this family who take concubines together and give birth to children, the tax amount of their family will skyrocket at a very ridiculous speed.
They may not care about the three to five percent increase, but what if the increase is three to five times or even ten or twenty times? It's scary just thinking about it.
And this is not the worst for them. The worst thing is that if their wives would rather reconcile than their husbands take concubines, then when they reconcile, if the wives want to take away the children, want to If she gets material compensation, then she only needs to bring the lawsuit to the Yamen, and the Yamen will fight for her due benefits in accordance with Daqi Law.
As the party at fault, the husband not only has no right to object to the wife taking the child away, but also must pay a sum of money as spiritual compensation to the wife.
In addition, the husband also needs to pay the maintenance fee for the minor children taken away by the wife. The amount depends on the local consumption level and the man's family environment.
In addition to these heinously detailed punishment (income-generating) measures, Daqi Law also stipulates that if common people want to take concubines illegally, but at the same time do not want to be punished obediently, then the local yamen can punish them according to the severity of their crimes. Penalties such as hard labor, exile, and even exile.
And if the guy who wants to take a concubine illegally but does not want to be punished obediently is a noble official or a royal family member, then their superior officials or the emperor himself can demote them, dismiss them from office, demote them, seize them, etc. Severe punishment.
As for the emperor himself, Da Qilu wrote that the emperors of all dynasties were supervised by Zongzheng, and if they broke the law, they had to take money out of their private treasury in proportion to each year.
Dare to attack the emperor's small treasury, I have to say that Ye Anlan who proposed this law is really brave enough.
She even thought about how the government should deal with this situation if there was a real warrior who, as a woman, dared to risk the world's dissatisfaction and grandly raised three husbands and four servants.
Then the result of her consideration is, "This article also applies to women who marry Funashi".
As soon as this line was written, the male officials in the court directly criticized those officials who were responsible for revising the Great Qi Law.
The focus of their quarrel directly went beyond "the punishment of the Daqi Law for men who exceed the limit and take concubines is too harsh", and became "the officials responsible for revising the Da Qi Law simply disregarded the principles of ethics, and they were punishable if they were rebellious."
(end of this chapter)