Chapter 490: Hedong Wei Family

Wei Zhongdao, his real name is not recorded in history, only the table word "Zhongdao" is left, but according to the table name method of "Bo Zhong Shuji", the uncle of the same family is the eldest brother and Zhong is the second brother, so it is visually estimated that Wei Zhongdao should be the second in this group of family members of the Hedong Wei family. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

And the Hedong Wei family is also an ancient family in the Han Dynasty, because the Hedong Wei family has existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and because of Wei Qing's exploits during the Han Dynasty, the Hedong Wei family has developed rapidly and has become one of the top families in the Han Dynasty, but because of the lack of ability of the Wei family during the period, the Hedong Wei family is no longer as strong as it was back then, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the current Hedong Wei family is still firmly in the position of the first-class family of the Han Dynasty. It's a pity that there are not many people from the Hedong Wei family among the high-ranking officials in the DPRK, so the current influence of the Hedong Wei family is just Erer.

However, Liu Xin estimated that at this point in time, the people of the Wei family in Hedong came to visit Cai Yong, and nine times out of ten they came to propose marriage to Wei Zhongdao, after all, according to relevant historical records, Wei Zhongdao should have been born around 170 AD, and now it should be about ten years old, so it is time to talk about a family matter, because for well-known reasons, most of the marriage ages in the Han Dynasty were around thirteen or fourteen years old, because girls of this age have begun to come to the first "geranium", that is, menarche, This means that this girl has the ability to have children, so for the Han Dynasty, the average life expectancy is relatively low, the population is limited, and the premature mortality rate is very high, it is natural to "not waste any time", so the general marriage age is set at about twelve or thirteen years old, of course, the specific marriage time is generally based on the woman's age.

And Liu Xin remembers that Cai Yan was generally considered to have been born around 178 AD in the relevant records of history, which is because Wei Zhongdao married Cai Yan around 190 AD, and as a result, Wei Zhongdao, a sick seedling, died shortly after marriage, so according to the age when the woman could not get married until she was twelve or thirteen years old, Cai Yong's birth time was around 178, which means that the current Cai Yong is a two or three-year-old girl...

Liu Xin had to secretly scold here that the Hedong Wei family is really a group of beasts, such a little girl will not let go, but Liu Xin doesn't want to think about why he came here...

But then again, it's very common for Cai Wenji to be nearly ten years old like Wei Zhongdao, because they are just engaged in advance, and this kind of engagement is generally a political marriage, after all, two little boys and little girls who are only a few years old know a fart of love... However, for this marriage concept that pays attention to the right family and attaches importance to the "words of parents", basically the marriage of the children of those families is not decided by themselves, even if Yuan Shao, who is not valued in the Yuan family, his wife is arranged by Yuan Feng, Liu Xin heard that it is also the concubine of the patriarch of a first-class family who has a good relationship with the Yuan family, but Yuan Shao also feels that he is very lucky, his wife is at least a good-looking lady with a very good temper, which makes Yuan Shao still acceptable, It's not like the family affair arranged by Yuan Feng for Yuan Shu, the object is the patriarch's daughter of another first-class family of the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately the eldest is very sorry, and her personality is also very rude, after all, she is also a concubine, naturally she is pampered, and there is also the support of her family behind her, so Yuan Shu can't be scolded, so she can only choose to buy a new courtyard for herself outside the Yuan family's mansion, most of the time Yuan Shu finds a reason to attend the banquet held by some children of the family, and then gets drunk. Under the pretext of going to the compound to rest, even if he returned home, Yuan Shu preferred to sleep on the soft couch in his room instead of going to bed with his wife, so this is also the reason why Yuan Shao was able to use itch powder to plot against Yuan Shu...

Liu Xin still remembers that Yuan Shao was already smiling when he said this, and Liu Xin also had to mourn Yuan Shu, after all, he inexplicably had an ugly and bad-tempered wife, and Liu Xin would feel that he couldn't live this day, not to mention that he couldn't divorce his wife casually, even if Yuan Shu became the head of the Yuan family and had the control of the Yuan family, I am afraid he would not kick his wife away casually, after all, this also represents the marriage between the Yuan family and another first-class family of the Han Dynasty. Yuan Shu had to focus on the overall situation and live "endure humiliation", and in the eyes of a big family like the Yuan family, his wife's family is also an important bargaining chip for them to compete for the position of the head of the Yuan family, just like Yuan Feng was able to take over the position of the head of the Yuan family from his brother Yuan Huai, because Yuan Feng's wife's family made a great contribution!

So even if Yuan Shu has all kinds of displeasure with his wife, he can't do anything to his wife, and he should be with him for a lifetime. . . Liu Xin can only wish Yuan Shu to grow old with his wife now...

Then again, Liu Xin visually measured that the people of the Hedong Wei family came to Cai Yong today, and they should have betrothed to Cai Yan on behalf of Wei Zhongdao, after all, if Liu Xin is not mistaken, although the most famous family member of the Hedong Wei family is Wei Qing, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, but the Hedong Wei family has always been based on Confucianism, so the Hedong Wei family is also a scholarly family, but unfortunately there have not been a few recognized Confucians, but this is also the reason why the Hedong Wei family proposed to Cai Yong, after all, although Cai Yong's background is not good compared to the Hedong Wei family, But Cai Yong is one of the best scribes in the Han Dynasty today, so such a marriage is also excusable, and Liu Xin is also full of malicious conjectures, Wei Zhongdao can be said to have been a medicine jar since he was a child, almost everyone who knows the Hedong Wei family knows that the current second son of the Hedong Wei family is a sick man, so many families who want to marry the Hedong Wei family are deterred by this.

After all, today's Han atmosphere is much more open than the later Song Dynasty, and it also maintains a relatively enlightened attitude towards women's remarriage, but this is only for ordinary people, for the children of these families, unless the woman's family is in a strong position, then the woman can seek to remarry after being widowed, otherwise generally speaking, the man's family will not let the woman remarry casually, after all, this is the so-called "dignity" of the family...

And a person like Wei Zhongdao, who has been sick for a long time and may die at any time, if the woman is engaged to him, whether Wei Zhongdao dies before or after marriage, then the woman will be infamous as a "Kefu", which is also a great blow to the woman's reputation, so those who know Wei Zhongdao's situation are naturally impossible to push their daughters into the fire pit, and according to the Han's opinion, The families of the Hedong Wei family who want to marry Wei Zhongdao are basically about the same size as the Hedong Wei family, so these families are not afraid of offending the Hedong Wei family too much, so they all politely rejected the marriage proposal of the Hedong Wei family, and a Confucian family like the Hedong Wei family has no influence in the Han officialdom, although they know that those families do not want to marry Wei Zhongdao, so the Hedong Wei family can only choose to break their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs.

However, as a first-class family of the Han Dynasty, the Hedong Wei family is naturally unwilling to let go of the conditions casually and find a second-rate family of the Han Dynasty to marry, because it is too faceless to say, so the Hedong Wei family, which should have determined a family affair when Wei Zhongdao was five or six years old, has not determined a family affair for Wei Zhongdao until now!

Therefore, in the past two years, the Hedong Wei family has finally selectively let go of the conditions, that is, they are willing to engage with some famous scribes whose families are not very good, so the Hedong Wei family found Cai Yong.

Of course, by the way, although Wei Zhongdao does not have a wife, he already has a few concubines, because this is also a lot of men who marry for politics, and the age will be several years older than the woman, so the man can marry a few concubines in advance, just vacate the position of the wife, and then wait until the woman reaches the age to get married, so many children of the family have not yet married a wife, and there are many children in the family, after all, take Wei Zhongdao as an example, Wei Zhongdao is about seven or eight years older than Cai Yan, Therefore, it is impossible for Wei Zhongdao to be Cai Yanqing's "guard like jade" for seven or eight years, which is neither realistic nor possible in the Han Dynasty.

After all, in the Han Dynasty, only the project of "marrying a wife" is valued, because this is the "façade" of the man, and it must be decent enough, as for how many concubines you marry, and what is the identity of the concubine, basically there are not so many requirements, just like Yuan Shu's concubines, but they also have civilian backgrounds.

So to put it simply, the current Hedong Wei family wants to leave a "façade" for Wei Zhongdao, and the reason why Cai Yan was chosen is just an expedient measure.

Having said that, after Cai Yong learned that the Hedong Wei family was coming, he smiled and asked his subordinates to bring the people from the Hedong Wei family over.

Of course, Liu Xin will definitely not let Wei Zhongdao and Cai Yan get engaged, after all, Liu Xin knows history and will never let Cai Yan fall into this fire pit, so Liu Xin immediately said to Cai Yong: "Brother Bo, what did this Hedong Wei family come to you for?" ”

Liu Xin now wants to know how many times the people of the Wei family in Hedong have been in contact with Cai Yong, and whether the engagement between Wei Zhongdao and Cai Yan has been negotiated, so that it is good to decide how Liu Xin should destroy the engagement ceremony between Wei Zhongdao and Cai Yan this time.

As soon as Cai Yong saw Liu Xin asking himself like this, he thought that Liu Xin was interested in the Hedong Wei family, so he smiled at Liu Xin and said: "Oh, in fact, I have heard a little about this Hedong Wei family, today's person should be the sister-in-law of the current head of the Hedong Wei family, Wei Qian, two days ago he came to find Zaixia, and discussed Confucianism with Zaixia, and saw that his talent was good in Xia, so he became a year-old friend with Wei Qi, and then Wei Qi said that he would bring some ancient books to Zai Xia today, but he didn't expect to come now." ”

Liu Xin raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect that the person who came turned out to be Wei Qi, this can be regarded as a rare talent of the Hedong Wei family, and he is also the most famous child of the Hedong Wei family in addition to Wei Zhongdao during the Three Kingdoms period, but compared to Wei Zhongdao who relied on Cai Yan to be "famous", Wei Qi relied on his own talent to become so famous, and he also became Cao Wei's heavy minister.

Wei Qi was born in 155 A.D., and now he is about twenty-five years old, but his name has been recognized by Cai Yong, which shows that Wei Qi's talent is still good, and according to historical records, before Cao Cao had no power to lean towards the government and the opposition, Wei Qi became a subordinate under Cao Cao, so he was an old minister under Cao Cao.

During the period when Cao Cao "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes", Wei Qi was ordered to guard Guanzhong, and made various preparations for Cao Cao to pacify the Central Plains and then capture Hanzhong.

In the fourth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao sent Wei Qi to Chengdu in order to contact Liu Zhang, who had seized Yizhou, and as a result, after Wei Qi arrived in Chang'an, because the road to Shu was too difficult, so Cao Cao stayed in Weiqi to guard Guanzhong, and at that time, the Guanzhong people who flowed into other places because of the war gradually returned to their homeland, but because Cao Cao's policy at that time was unable to support these Guanzhong people who returned to their homeland to rebuild their homes, so these returned Guanzhong people could only become the part of the Guanzhong separatist forces, so Wei Qi aimed at this situation, It is suggested that the salt pond in Hedong should be taken into official ownership, and an envoy should be set up to supervise the sale, and the salt tax should be extracted to buy farm tools and ploughing cattle, and supply them to the returned people, so that they can resume production and rebuild their homes as soon as possible. Wei Qi's suggestion was conveyed to Cao Cao by Xun Yu, and Cao Cao praised it, so Cao Cao quickly sent people to manage the salt pond in Hedong, and set up Yu Hongnong, the commander of the division, in charge of the return of the displaced people to cultivate the valley and cultivate the fields, in this way, stabilized the people's hearts, promoted the recovery of the economy in Guanzhong, especially the Yanchi official office, increased Cao Cao's financial resources, and supported Cao Cao's next various wars.

In the period of Emperor Cao Pi of Wei Wen and Emperor Cao Rong of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Qi was a scholar, and together with Wang Xiang, presided over the formulation of the ceremony system, and Wei Qi attached great importance to the restoration and construction of the ritual system because of the bias of family learning towards Confucianism, and Wei Qi also believed that criminal law was the most important tool of the country, and as a result, it was often despised by officials and replaced by subjective assumptions; The officials of the prison have the human rights of life and death, and should be served by people who are clear and fair, and often because the rulers despise them, they use non-people, which is an important reason for the disadvantages of the king's government and the decline of the country, so Wei Qian advocated the restoration of the "Nine Chapters of Law" of the Western Han Dynasty, and set up the post of doctor of law (to put it bluntly, he is a teacher of jurisprudence) to turn into a professor, so that officials and the people can understand the law and rule the world by law.

At that time, Emperor Wei Ming agreed with Wei Qi's proposition, and specially sent Liu Shao, Chen Qun and others to delete the Western Han Dynasty laws and regulations, and made 18 articles of "New Law", 45 articles of "State and County Orders", and 180 articles of "Shangshu Official Order" and "Military Order", thus increasing the content of "Nine Chapters of Law" and reducing the provisions of other chapters and laws in the Han Dynasty.

The formulation of these laws and regulations has played a role in the history of China's legal system, especially the establishment of a doctor of law, which is unprecedented since the Qin and Han dynasties, and all of these are inseparable from Wei Qi's efforts.

According to the statistics of relevant historical materials, when Emperor Wen of Wei and Emperor Ming of Wei, Wei Qi was responsible for writing hundreds of edicts and refutations, and his personal works include more than 10 books such as "Wei Guanyi", but unfortunately most of these works are lost, and now they are preserved in the "All Ancient Qin and Han Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties", only see the table of contents of the two books of "Wei Guanyi" and "Filial Piety Map".

At the same time, Wei Qi is also a famous calligrapher at that time, ancient texts, bird seals, grass, everything is good, many inscriptions at that time were written, are from his handwriting, in terms of article writing, he and Jian'an at the end of Pan Miao, Huang junior high school Wang Xiang is equally famous, in calligraphy, he and the Later Han Liang Hu, Wei Dan is equally famous.

Wei Qi and the calligraphers who were able to show future generations at that time, in addition to Zhong Xuan, only Wei Qi can keep pace with it, "Book History" said that it is good at ancient writing, seals, subordinates and cursive script, "Four-Body Calligraphy" in the legend that he wrote the ancient text "Shangshu", and the great calligrapher Handan Chun (one of the most famous calligraphers in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, even Cai Yong recognized his calligraphy, but his most famous is to write "Xiaolin" and other works, which can be said to be the earliest joke book in China) is no different, even Handan Chun himself is difficult to identify, Wei Qi's calligraphy achievements can be seen.

Therefore, Liu Xin is full of interest in Wei Qi.