More than 100 students are worried about leaving their hometowns and going to Beijing, and they are most worried about their relatives in Yanshen County.

As the masters of the most sophisticated weapons of the era, these students should have entered the army, or were hidden in some secret place to secretly develop gunpowder for those in power. Until the time of old age and death, he will never see the light of day again.

Even for the sake of secrecy, the imperial court will execute all of them and choose another trustworthy person to replace them.

Now these students are lucky enough to get out of the big trouble, which has a lot to do with the fact that Wen did not take any secret measures about the formula of gunpowder from the beginning.

This is not to say that we do not understand the importance of technical secrecy, especially military secrecy.

If the formula of gunpowder could be known by other forces a few years later, the process of unifying the world in the Song Dynasty would have been much easier. It will even force many hostile forces to choose to surrender because of this advantage. The people of the world will naturally be exempted from many hardships of war.

This is a dilemma between choosing to sacrifice the ego or choosing to sacrifice the greater self.

It's just that Wen chose the former without hesitation, as a later generation, in fact, he has not yet had much sense of substitution for this era, or a sense of responsibility and mission.

In terms of human feelings, people often instinctively choose to protect the people they know or have relationships with. And for all living beings, most of the time, they are just a concept or a number.

The reason why great people become great people is that they often choose to sacrifice their ego to achieve the self.

Obviously, Wen is running wildly on the road to becoming an ordinary person, and he has not noticed it at all.

The reasons that Old Man Mei said were all, and the fathers and elders of Yanshen County were not worried about whether they would rob their children's wives and concubines.

Although the people often seem dull and ignorant, a great man of later generations once said that the wisdom of the people is infinite.

Although most people may not be able to understand the situation of these students, there will always be a few who understand and can see the essence through the phenomenon.

Their old man Tomei asked Wen if the students could get married, in fact, he was asking whether the students' current situation was safe.

As long as the students can get married, it means that their safety can be guaranteed.

If the imperial court wants to continue to keep their mouths shut, it will never agree to their marriage, the reason is actually very simple, because once the students get married, it means that the possibility of leaking secrets will be greatly increased.

After all, as long as there are more people who know about secrets, they are no longer secrets.

Although they didn't know what the court was doing to put these students under house arrest in disguise, this was the only effort they could do for their children.

Of course, for the imperial court, there is not much difference between killing a hundred people or killing two hundred people, and even if Yanshen County is slaughtered, as long as it is necessary, the imperial court will definitely not hesitate at all. So it's important to have a big head in front of you.

The sky is falling, there are big men on top, and the thoughts of the people will always be so realistic.

So even if Wen can't get married now, it is still necessary to take the lead in taking a concubine.

It felt very bad to be forced to go to Liangshan, but Wen was very helpless, after all, a large part of the reason why he can live now is because of the sacrifices of these students.

And this kind of persecution, in the eyes of everyone, is actually not persecution, as a noble, just a concubine, it is as simple and easy as buying a cabbage from the vegetable market.

This kind of requirement seems to be very excessive as a later generation, but in the eyes of the ancients, it is actually a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

As a result, the Wen clan has incense, and they can also be sure of the safety of their children. Hello, I'm good, everyone!

This is very much in line with the win-win spirit advocated by later generations.

"San Lang, are you experiencing any difficulties? Don't you seem to be happy at all lately? ”

I was happy on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, but all the bad things I encountered in the past few days turned out. Shi Wen had been depressed recently, so he wanted to relieve him.

"They have to force me to take a concubine, is this a difficult thing?" There isn't much to hide about stones, Wen said frankly.

"Ahh It's not that difficult, is it? Besides, you're your age, and it's time to find a woman to serve you. Stone grinned.

“........ I knew you'd say the same thing. Wen smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, it's not impossible to take a concubine, the key is that it's not right!" ”

According to Wen's idea, this kind of thing, it is best to ask Tan Fengyi's opinion first, whether she agrees with her concubine or not, but since she likes others, she should give others an explanation.

"Isn't this kind of thing just going with the flow? Is there a time to divide it? Stone wondered.

In ancient times, the noble family would arrange one or several maids for the young masters in the family to serve since childhood. Many noble young masters, for the first time in their lives, are actually dedicated to these maids who serve them by their side.

Because this situation is very common, it is inevitable that these maids will conceive children, but the objects of these young masters who marry cannot be their maids with no background, so in order to solve this matter, they have to take a compromise measure.

After all, although their children are concubines, they are also their own bloodline, and in case the main mother does not come out in the future, they have to count on these children to inherit the family business. Therefore, these maids who were pregnant with children were promoted and promoted to become a glorious concubine in the house, which is also the ideal that many maids have been fighting for all their lives.

Even in later generations, this situation is not uncommon, and those juniors who have to hide in the shadows, the biggest wish in this life is to be able to enter the house and be corrected.

"You're talking about it easily." Wen shook his head helplessly.

"It's very easy, those noble young masters who came to our house some time ago, although many of them didn't get married, but there are several concubines."

In Shishi's opinion, there is nothing more important than the family branching out, the San Lang he follows is good at everything, but it is a little bad, looking at the woman's vision, it is really bad.

Tan Xiaoniang, although she was born beautiful and the country is fragrant, her temperament is terrible. Such a woman, no matter how beautiful she is, she must not marry.

Obviously, there are virtuous and virtuous women such as Mei Xiaoniang and Xiao Fengxian around her, and her appearance is not weaker than Tan Xiaoniang. But this San Lang is blind and can't see dead or alive.

Now that he can finally marry one of them, he is still hesitant to hesitate, and he doesn't know what he thinks in his heart.

"It's not appropriate, is it?" Wen hesitated.

Later generations pursued the concept of equality between men and women, and when they heard that they were deeply affected by this, they always thought that it was unfair to women.

"What's wrong with this, everybody does it." Shi explained: "And you can be regarded as accumulating virtue and doing good deeds." ”

"Concubine, when has it become a good thing to accumulate virtue and do good?" Smell unbelievable.

"San Lang, you are also an official of the DPRK and China now, don't you know that the world has been in war all these years?" Shi sighed and said: "Don't talk about it, let's talk about the relatively stable Yanshen County, which is relatively stable, and it has also become ten rooms and nine empty because of the conscription over the years." Even those war-torn places, one by one, are all widows' villages!

The current situation is that there are many men and girls, and capable people like you must marry more wives, otherwise there are so many women, they can't get married, how can they live?

Saburo, tell me, is this considered a good deed? ”

“........”

Wen really didn't expect that one day marrying more wives would actually become a good deed.

But the current situation is indeed the case, which is completely opposite to the situation in later generations when there were more men and fewer women, and men could only be forced to be singles.

Because of the continuous hundred years of war since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the adult male of the people has almost disappeared, and the ratio of men and women is completely out of balance. In some widows' villages, not even a single adult male can be seen.

It can be seen that the reason why polygamy can prevail in ancient times is not only because of satisfying the ** of men, but also because there are more practical reasons.

Because if monogamy is practiced, all the extra women must not be allowed to become nuns.

At the current ratio of men to women, a man has to marry at least four wives to barely solve this problem. But the Chinese concept of marriage has always been to marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat. Although a wife can marry casually, the problem is that she must be able to afford it!

Even in a rare era of peace, for most people, it is already a great thing to be able to support themselves and their children, not to mention that it is still an era of war.