Agriculture Escape: Ultimate Boss Has A Space Pocket! (3)

Chapter 405: I'll Marry You

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

'A new marriage law?'

The men intuitively felt that the marriage law set by the Great Empress was not beneficial to them, while the women looked expectant.

Bai Wutong returned to the Great Empress's residence and carefully listed out the new marriage system.

The new marriage law made monogamy compulsory.

The legitimate wife was acknowledged as the legal wife. From now on, apart from the assets before the marriage, the assets earned after the marriage were jointly owned.

Locals could only have one legal partner. Only the legal partner had the other party's inheritance rights, custody, and shared property.

Apart from a portion of the inheritance rights, children born to concubines were not allowed to infringe on any rights and interests of the legitimate wives.

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If the husband used the common assets of the husband and wife to give it to others privately, one could file a case in the government office and request for the assets to be returned.

A child born to a concubine had custody of the child if she had a stable income.

For example, all the expenses of the concubines in the 30 families of Qinghe were from the man's own assets. After so many years, the concubines must have a lot of private assets. After the marriage law was enacted, they temporarily had no job or place to go and could also rely on the private assets on hand to transition.

If a man forcefully kept a concubine at home or kept her outside, he would have violated the cohabitation rules in the marriage law and would be considered a guilty party. When the relationship between the two parties was completely irreparable, it was very easy for the person to lose the custody of the child when they had to file a lawsuit for divorce. The division of assets would also be more inclined towards the complainant.

Bai Wutong handed the listed regulations to every important official present. Everyone looked shocked.

Xu Ke suggested on the spot, "Isn't this regulation too unfair to men!"

He had three concubines and two female partners at home. According to Bai Wutong's rules, if they wanted to leave, he had no way to stop them. The children might also be taken away by them. How could he tolerate this?

Moreover, in everyone's opinion, it was normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines. If the monogamous system was implemented, wouldn't it be too biased towards a group of women who were idle at home?

If they threatened to divorce and split the assets, wouldn't the house be in a tizzy all day?

He asked what most of the men were thinking. Everyone held their breaths and waited for Bai Wutong's answer.

Bai Wutong looked at Xu Ke. "What's unfair about that? A woman can only have one husband, and a man can only have one wife. Isn't that fair?"

"If you want to find another woman, you can get a divorce and be a groom every night."

Everyone in the hall immediately held back their laughter. If he was a groom every night and divorced every day, not long after, Xu Ke would probably become a beggar.

Xu Ke was choked by Bai Wutong. After a while, he said again, "How can a child be taken away by a woman! They can't take good care of the child at all."

Bai Wutong raised her eyebrows. "Why can't a woman take care of a child? Weren't you raised by your mother? Did your father usually take care of you?"

Xu Ke choked again and said with difficulty, "How can a woman raising a child be compared to a man educating a child? Besides, if it weren't for a man earning money, a woman wouldn't have the time to raise a child."