Although the feudal literati and officials practiced a monogamy system of multiple concubines, they at least knew that legislation was protected by the interests of the righteous married wife who was married to the plaintiff.

Unless you make a "seven mistakes", the husband cannot divorce his wife and cannot support his concubine.

If you commit a crime of favoring your concubine and destroying your wife, you will divorce your wife without a legitimate reason. Once it is known to the government, it will inevitably lead to the intervention of the government.

At that time, the government will force the handling of the matter in accordance with relevant laws, safeguard the interests of the wife, and impose a certain degree of punishment on both husbands and concubines to serve as a warning to others.

Even for people with a certain status, it is not easy to do this. If you forcefully operate, you will risk your social death.

Even if they could do this, it was the Ming Dynasty's turn, and they became worse than them?

Just do nothing?

Su Yonglin must not ignore this matter and will never admit that such a thing occurs.

The Central Conference of the Revival Conference was held in a hurry and urgent manner. Many members did not know what happened and rushed to the meeting place to attend the meeting.

When they arrived at the meeting location, they saw Su Yonglin with a dark face and suddenly felt a stern, wondering if someone was going to be unlucky.

Indeed, someone is going to be in trouble.

But Su Yonglin first reflected on himself and admitted his mistakes.

"When the Ming Law was promulgated, many legal provisions were not in time for various reasons, so a considerable number of the Ming Laws were originally transformed from the laws of the Jin Kingdom, which is also something everyone knows.

This includes laws related to marriage, including laws on marrying and divorce. However, in terms of actual implementation, it is one thing to target the people, and another thing to target the Revival Association. The rule of the Revival Association is to get married and divorce must be reported to the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of Commonwealth.

My original intention is written in the general charter of our Revival Association. Any marriage of Revival members must be reported to the organization and must be approved by the organization before it can be carried out. This is written in black and white, and it is clearly written.

You can look through the general charter manual in front of you to see if Article 27 of Paragraph 6 is like this. This was revised in Hongwu in the third year, and there is no temporary increase. You can see if it is like this for yourself."

Su Yonglin was straight to the point, and the members of the congregation basically understood the problem here.

Of course they knew the provisions of the Revival Association’s constitution on marriage and this was also carried out during this period.

They don’t know why Su Yonglin was angry about this.

However, when they whispered to each other in a low voice, it was generally speculated that someone had taken a concubine, and then Su Yonglin found out, which made Su Yonglin very angry.

The current common provisions on marriage in the Ming Law still extend the system of monogamous and multiple concubines. Just like the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, there was no change in the past due to various considerations when it was revised.

However, in terms of actual execution, Su Yonglin himself had only one queen and no other concubines. Some people suggested that he choose a concubine, but he refused.

After such news spread, everyone thought that Su Yonglin and the Queen had a deep relationship and did not want to take a concubine. Therefore, in order to follow Su Yonglin's footsteps, a considerable number of members of the Revival did not take concubines.

As the trend of Fuxing members not taking concubines spread, non-Fuxing members within the court seemed to have noticed this trend, and privately speculated that Su Yonglin did not like officials to take concubines and did not like officials who took concubines.

On the actual political level, for such reasons, Su Yonglin may be more willing to promote officials who do not take concubines than officials who take concubines.

As the saying goes, the superiors have something to like, and the officials make relatively wise decisions for their own political future and political interests.

Some officials who have taken concubines choose to send their concubines back to their hometowns, leaving only their wives, and some even send their concubines back to their parents' homes and give them a sum of money to cut off contacts to show that the couple has a deep relationship.

Among young officials, there has been a hidden rule of not taking concubines.

This is true for officials who are not members of the Revival Society. The Revival Society regards not taking concubines as an absolute political correctness and dare not step beyond the line.

Now that Su Yonglin is so angry, I haven't heard of any errant man who can't control his lower body publicly taking a concubine. Could it be that... he was discovered by secretly taking a concubine?

It's very obvious.

People are lustful, and there are many people who can't control the lower body, especially those who have great power.

Some Revival members with high ideological awareness can still control themselves and choose to limit their enjoyment in other aspects for their future future.

But some people can't control themselves, secretly take concubines in private, or hide young beauties at home in various names, hide their existence in various ways, and enjoy them secretly.

The wife is asked to cover up, otherwise she will be threatened to use the "seven-out" regulations to retire.

Even though some of the wife is a little dissatisfied, she does not dare to violate the traditional "Seven-Exit" regulations.

Not to mention non-Fuxing members, even if they are members of the Fuxing members, they have heard some rumors that some people are not aware of their thoughts, secretly take concubines, and play very well in private, but they never show any signs of dew on the surface.

But no one has ever said it out loud, and he is not sure who is so unpolitical.

As a result, the situation is probably revealed and some people are going to be in trouble.

But what Su Yonglin said next does not seem to be the case.

"Some people think that the charter written in black and white is not seen. Of course, I have problems. I must first review it because I pay too much attention to military and national affairs, and I don't pay enough attention to these ideological and moral matters, so I don't pay much attention to it.

This is my problem. I have not invested enough energy in this regard, so that some people and some departments have relaxed, just passed by, and regarded the constitution as non-existent. I want to apologize to everyone. This is my fault."

Su Yonglin admitted his mistake in public and then asked the Organization Department of the Revival Association to record his serious mistake.

After admitting his mistake, Su Yonglin asked Tao Yongguang, Director of the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of Commonwealth, to stand up.

"You are the person in charge, but you take the lead in not paying attention to such regulations, just treat yourself as a data administrator, not an auditor. You have no idea what you should do, so many problems arise.

Your responsibility is very great and cannot be rejected. I am now proposing to remove Tao Yongguang from his position as Director of Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Common Affairs, and to record serious negligence once, retain the membership for one year. If you make another mistake within one year, you will be expelled from the membership directly!”

Su Yonglin raised his hand and agreed.

Xin Qiji followed closely and raised his hand to agree.

Members raised their hands one after another.

The vote was passed unanimously, except for Tao Yongguang, who was pale-faced.

His problem has been handled, but the matter has not been handled yet.
Chapter completed!