In the next issue of the weekly newspaper, an imperial edict was published announcing the implementation of the Women and Children Protection Law nationwide.
The full text of the Women and Children Protection Law was also published in weekly newspapers and posted on placards across the country.
The Women and Children Protection Act is a completely new law.
The general principles of the law clearly state that no individual or clan has the right to kill the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The people of Ming Dynasty include newborn babies.
Article 1 of the law stipulates the sentencing standards for kidnappers who abduct women and children.
The principal culprit will be hanged and all participants will be exiled.
Those who accept abducted women and children will be fined 1,000 yuan and sentenced to 3,000 miles of exile. .
Article 2 of the law stipulates that the act of parents selling their children is also considered trafficking.
If your parents are unable to raise their children due to famine or other reasons, you can apply for a child support loan from Daming Royal Bank.
If you still cannot raise your children, you can send your children to a nursing home, and the state will raise them on your behalf until you are sixteen years of age.
After reaching the age of 18, if the parents can pay for the child's expenses in the almshouse, they can take the child back.
If payment cannot be made, the parents relinquish all rights to the child, including naming rights.
The court would name the children and then immigrate them to a new settlement far away from home.
This rule seems a bit unkind, but in Zhu Youxiao's view, if you can't raise your own children, then it's best not to have children.
If you are born without nourishment, you are worse than an animal.
There is no problem in treating people who are worse than animals.
And in the current Ming Dynasty, you have no land to immigrate, you have no money to invest in production and can borrow money, and you have no production technology.
You can work hard in various road construction, land reclamation, mining, papermaking, textiles, port handling, and fishing boats, that is, It is said that as long as you are not too lazy, you can rely on labor to make yourself and your family live a life that is not too rich, but can definitely have enough food and clothing.
Article 3 of the law stipulates that the killing of children by parents or clans is regarded as murder.
The murderer will be sentenced to hanging, and the accomplices will be exiled for three thousand miles.
Article 4 of the law stipulates that any abuse of women and children will be severely punished by law.
No underage girl under the age of 16 is allowed to have her feet bound, otherwise her parents will be exiled for three thousand miles.
Underage girls who have had their feet bound must let them go, while adult women can choose whether to let them go according to their own wishes.
Article 5 of the law stipulates that no workplace may recruit minors under the age of fourteen, and when minors over the age of fourteen are recruited, their remuneration must be the same as adults.
The law also stipulates that if abuse occurs in the family or clan and results in injury or even disability, the perpetrator will be held legally responsible without first filing a complaint, and can be sentenced to up to three thousand miles of exile.
Women's property rights are also clearly stipulated.
A woman's pre-marital property can be given to her descendants according to her wishes, and her husband's family and clan are not allowed to plunder it.
If a woman divorces her husband, her pre-marital property must be returned to the woman.
When a concubine is driven out of the house, the man must provide her with five years of living expenses.
The editor's note of this law points out: Any minor in the Ming Dynasty is not the private property of his parents.
The Ming Dynasty advocated filial piety, but not stupid filial piety.
The sage said: "A small stick will lead to acceptance, and a big stick will lead to walking."
Only a kind father can make a son filial, and only brothers and friends can have brothers.
All animals know that they must raise their offspring well, and we hope that in the Ming Dynasty, a country of etiquette, there will be no human tragedy of abandoning children and failing to support parents.
This new law will naturally cause widespread controversy, but controversy is okay, and since the law has been announced, it must first be implemented in accordance with the law.
In order to ensure that the law can be implemented, state and county institutional reforms have begun in various places.
Because the current county magistrate is no longer responsible for hearing cases, all the original government officials can be dismissed.
There are only county magistrates, county magistrates and various officials in the county government, who are responsible for managing civil affairs.
The main bookkeeper will join the tax department and be responsible for collecting taxes.
The court is independent of the county government, with only judges and hired servants.
Each county has a new patrol inspector.
In fact, some larger counties used to have patrol inspections, but now they have all set up patrol inspections and set up patrol rooms.
The patrol room is different from the court.
The court is only under the jurisdiction of the superior court and is not under the jurisdiction of the county government.
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The patrol room is subject to multiple managements.
The superior patrol room manages it, and the court of the county can also manage it.
When the county government has something to do, You can also bring them here.
The patrol room recruits patrol officers within the county.
They are mainly fast-hand police officers from the original county yamen, and some veterans are added to take charge of the security work of the county.
The patrol house no longer adheres to the principle of "the people do not promote, the officials do not investigate" like the previous government officials.
There is a special Ma Kuai in the patrol room, who is responsible for patrolling within the jurisdiction every day.
Once any violation of the law is discovered, it will be reported to the court, and then a case investigation and preliminary interrogation will be started to provide more evidence.
Let the court decide.
The patrol room also has another important responsibility, which is to clean up beggars.
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he issued an edict: "For those who are widowed, widowed, lonely, disabled, or sick and unable to support themselves, the official position will be to support them."
In the fifth year of Hongwu's reign, an edict was issued to establish orphanages in counties and counties across the country, which became the famous nursing homes.
Even though almshouses were established, some lazy people did not meet the requirements to enter almshouses and did not want to work, so they chose to beg.
Therefore, there were still beggars in the Ming Dynasty.
But most of them are healthy people, and these beggars often work part-time as human traffickers and thieves, seriously affecting local security.
Zhu Youxiao assigned a special task to the patrol room, which was to arrest all the beggars for screening.
Most beggars are in good health and they are organized.
Those who do have disabilities are actually created by them.
They kidnap some children, break their legs or something, and then drive them out to beg, using their miserable appearance to inspire people's compassion. heart, thus receiving a large amount of alms.
As soon as the patrol house was established, it began to arrest beggars in various places.
As long as a healthy beggar was found, he would be immediately imprisoned in a cell, then gathered together and sent to various labor camps.
Those who were truly physically disabled were sent to almshouses.
Prisoners in the labor camps were forced to work every day, and as long as they completed their daily tasks, they would have enough to eat.
If it is not completed, then sorry, no food.
After such a crackdown, beggars all over the Ming Dynasty were wiped out.
This not only makes the city more tidy, but also greatly improves the public security situation.
At least the trafficking of women and children has dropped sharply, and there have been much fewer petty thefts
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