Chapter 971: Zhuangzi has no children by his side
Since marrying his twin daughters, who had just become adults, to beggars and beggars, Zhuangzi sent his son Yang Hu, who was born and raised with Yang Qing'er, to the state of Chu to avoid military service.
In order to prevent his son and son-in-law from performing military service and not sending them to death for the king, Zhuangzi has been looking for people, preparing to send Zhuang Ping and Zhuang Geng away as sons-in-law.
Zhuang Ping and Zhuang Geng inherited the genes of him and Mai'er, and they are not tall and of medium stature. looks very handsome, looks honest, and both of them can do martial arts, work, and be diligent. So! There are many families who are willing to marry their daughters to them.
But Zhuangzi disagreed, so he found two families who were very poor and had a heavy burden of life, and let his son become a son-in-law.
Zhuangzi valued nothing else, that is, because other people's families had heavy family burdens, and he was a son-in-law, according to the laws of the Song Kingdom, he was not required to serve in the military. Although everyone has the obligation to serve in the military, in order to develop the population, to stabilize the people's morale, and to ensure that the families serving in the military can survive, families in difficulty and families lacking labor force do not need to serve in the military.
What happened to poor families? Don't let people live yet? Can we watch others suffer and die? If that's the case, it's too cruel, isn't it? Don't say it's someone else's, it's none of your business. But? What if that person was you? Is it your family?
Life! You are born to live for the sake of living, and if you want to live, you have to work. Life is endless, and the struggle is endless. In order to live, you have to fight all your life.
Furthermore! Zhuangzi's house hides a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, and jade, but there is no way to take them out and spend them. After his son became a son-in-law, he could send some money over every now and then to keep his son's family afloat.
Originally! Zhuangzi wanted to keep the boy Zhuang Su by his side, and give him and his son a pension to the end. But? The world is not as he imagined. The youngest daughter was bullied once in a small town when she was an adult. Just as the youngest daughter was about to hit someone, she was rescued by an officer who retired due to disability.
Zhuang Lian, the youngest daughter of Zhuangzi, is also good at martial arts. Although Mai'er didn't like her daughter from the bottom of her heart, she still treated everyone equally and taught her daughter Taoist martial arts natural boxing. Zhuang Lian is very smart, and she is especially willing to endure hardships, so her martial arts are the best.
The retired officer was wounded in both his left leg and right hand, walked with a slight limp, and his right hand was broken from his wrist. I couldn't ride a horse or hold a weapon, so I had to retire and return to my hometown to develop the population.
The youngest daughter, Zhuang Lian, saw that her parents were tall and handsome, and she saved her with righteousness, so she was willing to be good with others. Outcome! This retired officer has no relatives at home, and is willing to come to Zhuangzi's house to be a son-in-law.
Zhuangzi is helpless! had to take in this door-to-door son-in-law. That's fine! The son-in-law no longer has to serve in the military, and the daughter can live a stable life.
The youngest daughter Zhuang Lian recruited her son-in-law to come back, and Zhuangzi couldn't keep her youngest son Zhuang Su by his side. According to the "Military Service Law" of the Song State, Zhuang Su was required to perform military service.
Now! But Zhuangzi is in a hurry!
The son is old and of age for military service. Under the "care" of King Song Kang, the town officials in charge of the conscription work began to come to Zhuangzi's house every now and then, urging Zhuang Su to become his own son as soon as possible. When you have children, you will start your military service.
Soldiers who have given birth to children are subject to permanent military service and will not be discharged. Retire unless you're injured and can't fight. For soldiers who have given birth to children, according to the law, only after they have achieved military exploits can they have the opportunity to return to visit their relatives. Visiting relatives is one aspect, and population development is the main one.
So! Those soldiers who had wives and children fought to the death in order to win military exploits, receive awards, and get the opportunity to return home to visit relatives, and often died on the battlefield because of this.
For those who have reached the age of marriage and childbearing but have not had biological children, and who still do not have biological children despite the repeated urging of the town officials, they will be forcibly dragged to military service. These people do not have wives and are often trained separately by the military to become daredevils.
When they die, they will be given a certain amount of subsidies to their families according to the size of their military merits, so as to motivate more family members to voluntarily send their sons to the battlefield and exchange their lives for silver to subsidize the family.
It's cruel, but there's no way around it. Just like those old people who touch porcelain in modern society, in order to make some money, they have to exchange their lives for it.
The hardships of life make the world only like this: give up this and save that. Even! Some families also hope that their sons who joined the army will die on the battlefield and make great contributions. Such! You can get a sum of money to subsidize the family.
Although it was cruel, it was worth it to sacrifice a son to save the whole family.
And the sons of some families who come out of the family are willing to die in order to receive rewards for meritorious service and help the family. Father and mother don't want such a good son to die, and he is not so cruel.
Zhuangzi's family is not short of silver, he will not sacrifice a son to support other children, he is not so cruel.
Originally! Zhuangzi wanted to find a daughter from a good family to be his daughter-in-law, and as a result! I recruited a door-to-door son-in-law and came back. Such! He had to make a new choice for his youngest son Zhuang Su, find a good family, and "marry" his son.
Zhuang Su didn't care, he said that even if he was in the military, he would not be an ordinary soldier, he wanted to be a general. But Zhuangzi disagreed, and did not want him to make fearless sacrifices for King Song Kang.
If he was fighting for survival, Zhuangzi would not object to his son's military service. Can now? Isn't it? All the wars in the Great Zhou Dynasty in the past few hundred years have almost all been meaningless wars, all wars for the princes to fight for hegemony, not for survival.
Under the strong opposition of Zhuangzi and Mai'er, Zhuang Su had no choice but to follow his father's wishes, not to serve in the military, to find a family, and to "marry" himself.
The children of the Zhuangzi family are different from the children educated by Confucianism and other schools of thought, all of the children of Zhuangzi are Taoists, and they can all go to the pulpit to preach. They are all real Taoists, different from Yang Qinger's Taoists.
No! Yang Qing'er did not fully accept Yang Zhu's sermons because she had too few times to follow her grandfather Yang Zhu. Yang Qinger is not a real Taoist, and can only be said to be a Taoist who is deeply influenced by Taoism. Because! Her ideas are too extreme.
So! The children of Zhuangzi are not of the same nature as Yang Qing'er.
The children of the Zhuangzi family have no concept of surnames. Like Zhuangzi, children's surnames can also be Zhuang, and other people's surnames can also be, whatever surname you like!
It was also when Zhuangzi couldn't find anyone to be a son-in-law for his son, and the Jianhe Hou, who lived in the county seat of Mengxian County, happened to come to the town to inspect the work. Coincidentally, I met Zhuang Su in the town. The mayor of the town was persecuted by the envoys of King Song Kang, and when he saw Zhuang Su, he urged him to become his own son and go to military service as soon as possible.
"Hurry, hurry! I'll give you another three months, and if you don't marry before the spring festival, don't blame me for being unkind! I'm going to forcibly drag you to military service......"
When the Marquis of Jianhe saw that Zhuang Su looked talented, he liked it. Afterwards! Ask the mayor what's going on? The mayor told him what had happened.
"Ask him if he would like to join my family?" Jian Hehou asked anxiously.
"This?" The mayor didn't know either.
Afterward! Under the mediation of the town elder, Zhuang Su became the son-in-law of the Jianhe Hou family.
Zhuangzi didn't like the person of the Marquis of Jianhe, but in order to prevent his son from not serving in the army, he had to agree.
"As long as you don't do military service! Never mind! Never mind! Zhuangzi sighed.
I didn't want to sell it, and I couldn't get used to seeing Jian Hehou look down on their family. But! For the sake of her son, she had to agree.