Chapter 284: Pity the hearts of parents in the world
Zhao Guo's brother-in-law is the lifeblood of Zhao Nu, although he still wants to go to the battlefield and serve in the military for his son, which seems to be very good. But Bai Gui still didn't worry about him going back to Zhao alone, so he asked the guards to focus on protection and escort him back to Zhao State.
If something happened to him, Zhao Nu would not forgive him.
All these years! The brother-in-law followed the guards to learn martial arts, but after all, he had never been on the real battlefield, and I don't know if he would stay calm and give full play to his skills when he really faced the battlefield.
Not to mention the battlefield, but what happens in peacetime, can he face it bravely?
It won't be like Qi Guo's brother-in-law Lin Yi, right? In case of trouble, it will be cowardly.
Seeing off Zhao Guo's brother-in-law, Bai Gui did have a headache for a while. Oh, yes! The children grew up quickly. In this troubled world, the son grew up and faced the hurdle of military service. And what about daughters? is facing the level of marriage.
It's not that he doesn't want his son to do military service, it's not that he's unpatriotic. The key question is: in this troubled world, in this troubled era of princes competing for hegemony, many wars are unnecessary, and they are all the inflated ambitions of princes, kings or some people, risking other people's lives. At last! Nothing will be gained, just a toss, just a loss of countless lives.
If the war is meaningful, Bai Gui is patriotic and loves his family, and he will definitely support it vigorously and send his son and son-in-law to the battlefield.
But in this troubled world, many wars are meaningless. So! He was also unwilling to let his son go to the battlefield to die in vain.
As a father and elder, who wants their son to die on the battlefield in vain?
If you fight for yourself, you are dead, and we think it is worth it. If it is for the sake of family and loved ones, it is even death, and we also think it is worth it. If it's to fight for survival, it's to die, and we think it's worth it.
If the survival of the country directly affects our survival, we are willing to fight, even if we die in battle, we feel that it is worth it.
If a country not only fails to protect our right to life, but also seriously affects our right to life, is the survival of the country a matter of concern to us? Why are we fighting for him? Maybe! The change of dynasty is conducive to our survival. So! Why should we fight? To die in vain?
But! In the back of this era, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and no one can escape the doom of military service.
In this troubled era, Zhou Tianzi can't guarantee his own survival, so how can he protect his people? The princes and kings under Zhou Tianzi are just for their own dreams, their own hegemony, and their luxurious lives, so why should we go to give their lives for them in vain?
Now the situation in the vassal states of the Great Zhou Dynasty is probably the same: when a woman reaches childbearing age, she must marry, with a mandatory fertility policy.
Because! In this troubled world, there will be wars almost every year. When war comes, it's all about death. So! The fertility policy is similar in all countries, and girls must marry and have children as soon as they reach childbearing age to increase the population. If you don't marry, you will increase your family's taxes, charge you for "not getting married and not having children", and force you to have children.
And for widows, unless your family is too heavy and no one wants you, otherwise! They all have to start a new family. Giving birth to a baby and feeding a baby is a woman's main task.
So! The children are growing up day by day, and Bai Gui is also having a headache day by day!
The matter of his son's military service gave him a headache. The matter of a woman marrying someone also gave him a headache.
The only way to get a son-in-law not to serve in the military is to find a disabled person who has escaped death from the battlefield. Can that? It's also uncomfortable! Why? What about my daughter looking for someone with a physical disability?
Isn't that too cruel?
Still is? The social reality at that time was too cruel? Is the war too cruel?
For the sake of her children, Zhao Nu thought about migrating from Zhao and going to Lan Gongzi's ranch. But the brother-in-law's idea was very helpless, thinking that he would "join the army for his son" and go to the battlefield.
In the Zhao State at that time, there was a law: how many people and how many men in your family must be arranged according to the proportion of several people to serve in the military.
The country's military service task is coming, how much do you have to recruit in this region. Officials had no choice but to come up with a local policy for conscription.
Or! Other families are willing to pay for their lives, give you money, and let your son go to the army to replace their family's military service tasks.
In a word! If you have a man in your family and you are poor, you should go to military service.
And Bai Gui's idea is similar to that of Zhao Nu, that is, seclusion.
Zhao Nu wanted to move the whole family to the ranch of the prince of Zhongshan Guolan, which was equivalent to seclusion. Lan Gongzi is a waste child, and there is no population on his territory, so! Zhongshan Kingdom will not ask him to recruit soldiers. Furthermore! Zhongshan is a small country, and the chances of war are very small.
And Baekyu's idea is: to establish his own kingdom, form a powerful force, and protect himself. We don't dominate, we don't infringe on others. If someone violates me, I will fight back and deal a devastating blow to the enemy.
Bai Gui not only wanted to bring the mother and son of the sheep girl on the grassland, and the five sisters such as Xuelian, but also wanted to bring the two families of the Wei State.
Although Bai Mei has a marriage contract with Shang Ying, he doesn't want Bai Mei to go to Qin to live, and he doesn't want her to be Mrs. Shang Ying or Mrs. Da Liangzao or something. Qin State! For Shang Ying, it is not safe. If it was safe, the later Shang Martingale would not have been torn apart.
Seclusion in the mountains is just an expedient measure. Mt. Kuo! It's too small after all. As long as the enemy searches carefully, they will soon find you.
The family members of the Chu State, Bai Gui wanted them to go to the mountains in the south of the Chu State to live in seclusion.
Because! In the mountains south of Chu State, there are many primitive tribes (ethnic minorities). We can also migrate our families and live the life of a "primitive tribe".
The mountains in the south of Chu are very large, and there is a feeling that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.
The family members over there in Yan Guo don't want him to worry about it for the time being, it's enough to have the old man to worry about. Furthermore! The place where the old man lives in seclusion is also very large, the terrain is dangerous, and it is equivalent to an independent kingdom, and ordinary people can't attack it.
It was for this reason that he arranged for Jiang's mother and son to go there to live in seclusion.
When he came to Yinshan Town and saw his five lovely sons, Bai Gui's mood was a little better.
Although his son is only a few months old, none of these little guys are fuel-efficient lamps, and their voices are very loud, and they don't recognize their relatives when they cry. Only by plugging their mouths with milk can they be stopped.
"The baby can drink half a bowl of milk a day!" Xue Lian said proudly while breastfeeding the baby.
Bai Gyu looked at the bowl and was scared!
That bowl is a "sea bowl". It's similar to the bowl that modern northerners eat with big bowls of noodles.
(End of chapter)