In ancient times, punishment involved the whole family, including confiscation of property, suppression of three tribes and suppression of nine families. At this time, the men in the family are usually beheaded or even in the middle of the year. Women in this family generally don't kill, and there are often four endings.
The first kind of fate is also the worst, being sent to official institutions such as Jiaofang Department or Huan Yi Bureau as slaves or even prostitutes.
In ancient people's cognition, women were accessories of men, with low status and independence, so the government felt that women were much less threatening. Once a minister commits a crime, he usually only kills men, not women.
Do you think they are poor women? Of course not. Women end up worse. The minister died lightly, but the women of the minister's family were sent to official institutions by the court, such as the Ministry of Industry, the Laundry Bureau, the Royal Guards, domestic slaves and official prostitutes, who did rough and hard work and suffered all their lives.
Jiao Fangsi, in particular, is an entertainment institution of the imperial court, where there are many singers, musicians and official prostitutes for princes and foreign envoys to enjoy. Once the families of these ministers enter the Jiao Fang branch, it is impossible for them to turn over for 10,000 years and live in pain all their lives.
For example, what did his concubines do after the war in Jingnan? Many of them were sent by Yongle Emperor to Jiaofang Department and Huan Yi Bureau as slaves and prostitutes, and the wives of his loyal ministers also ended in the same way. Even a priest's four-year-old daughter Hu Run was sent to Huan Yi Branch as a slave.
The second ending, even worse, is to become a slave to the hero family.
In order to win over heroes, the ancient imperial court often gave them titles, money, treasures and so on. In fact, the imperial court gave them slaves in order to make them more loyal. It's called making the hero's family slaves.
In addition, in order to show the privilege of heroes, the court stipulated that ordinary people were not allowed to keep maids and maids, only heroes and ministers could.
There were six decrees in the Ming Dynasty: First, the law stipulated that there should be no handmaiden in Shu Ren Palace. Guy said, the house of active reward handmaiden, Shu Ren should be diligent, can't stay.
If the minister's property is robbed, he can copy out a lot of maids, maids and geisha. Where did these people come from? Part of it was bought by myself, and the other part was given by the court. These copied women, the minister's family, will be sent to other heroes as slaves. In short, these poor women can't get away from it all their lives, serving people like cows and horses.