A person can have no ability, and a person can have no ambition, but no matter what, as long as this person has no negative effect on himself and society, can abide by his duties, manage himself, and do not cause trouble to himself and others, such a person is a very good person.

Wang Shuhui's father-in-law, Zhu Shuzhen, the former king of Zhijiang County, is such a person.

How so? In Zhu Shuzhen's life, the first 30 years were a life that was worse than that of ordinary people.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for the fact that he was to support his daughter Zhu Weiyan well, there was such a sense of responsibility as a father to support, coupled with the direct help and help of the six brothers-in-law and brother-in-law of the old father-in-law's family, this Daming clan that did not officially seal his grandfather's title of Zhijiang County until he had such a son-in-law as Wang Shuhui, it is very likely that just like in history, without even a record, it would have disappeared without a trace like most ordinary Chinese in that era.

Although Wang Shuhui or the Chinese Empire, which was established for a few years, are not emperors and dynasties in the traditional sense, it is not very realistic to say that the identity of Zhu Shuzhen's former dynasty prince is not at all inconvenient.

But it's a question of who and how to see it. In fact, in the entire Chinese Empire, except for the old feudals from the Ming scholars who had been sent by Wang Shuhui to the Palace Museum to retire, Zhu Shuzhen himself felt that his identity was a little embarrassing and taboo.

In fact, as far as this matter is concerned, let alone Wang Shuhui as a son-in-law, even Zhu Weiyan, who is Zhu Shuzhen's daughter, doesn't take this matter as a matter at all.

Of course, although Zhu Shuzhen was in the core sphere of influence of the Baath Party since Wang Shuhui came to the late Ming Dynasty, there are not all people who want to make ideas from Zhu Shuzhen.

In addition to the intelligence agents and meticulous workers of the Ming Dynasty who were quickly unearthed after infiltrating the Baath Party's sphere of influence, some national capitalists who were not completely willing to enjoy second-class citizenship in the Chinese Empire and had serious feudal ideological poison in their minds also attacked Zhu Shuzhen's idea.

It's not that they really want to do anything like rebellion through Zhu Shuzhen, this kind of thing has no meaning and no benefit for them. Their main idea is to go through the back door through Zhu Shuzhen's connections, to be able to get close to Wang Shuhui in personal relations through Zhu Shuzhen, and to seek a change in their status and status, so that themselves, more of their own children, can get out of the cage of dictatorships who are treated differently and deprived of all political rights.

In addition to these people, it was the death of some speculators, including those in the Baath Party.

You must know that in this era, even though Wang Shuhui led the Baath Party, from the inside out, from action to thought, from the economic base to the superstructure, from customs and habits to the form of consciousness, the anti-feudal revolution was not so easy to get rid of in China in the 17th century.

If the ideas of feudalism were really so easily stripped from the minds of the Chinese, there would not have been so many ideological movements in the new China of the 20th century.

Therefore, including within the Baath Party, some people who prefer the idea of feudalism for reasons of interest, such as some opportunists who want to be attached to the descendants of the "Wang Dynasty" and enjoy the position of aristocracy, as well as some delusional people like Gu Junen, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, who hope to become vested interests in the new dynasty, they know that they have no hope in facing Wang Shuhui head-on, so they will hit Wang Shuhui's father-in-law, Zhu Shuzhen, the father of Wang Shuhui's only wife.

Speaking of which, I have to say that Zhu Shuzhen, who is fifty-four years old and has gray hair, is a person who has never caused trouble for himself and others.

Because since he was a few years old, Zhu Shuzhen, who was a broken clan, lived a very down, very hard, and very miserable bottom life, so Zhu Shuzhen, who didn't have much culture, was a person with a pure civilian consciousness.

The feudal system may theoretically be beneficial to Zhu Shuzhen, who has the identity of the clan, but from the actual situation, Zhu Shuzhen not only did not get any benefits from the feudal system, but also really felt the disadvantages of the feudal system from the purest bottom life.

To give the simplest example, when Wang Shuhui crossed into the backyard of Zhu Shuzhen's house in Zhijiang County, the reason why Zhu Shuzhen went to the Yangtze River to catch fish in the winter caused himself to get inflammation and high fever and was about to die of calves, was because Zhu Shuzhen's family, who had been relying on the relief of several of his eldest brothers and brothers-in-law, ran out of food. It was not for himself to eat, but for his daughter to eat without starvation, so that Zhu Shuzhen ran to the Yangtze River to catch fish.

Why didn't Zhu Shuzhen's eldest brother and brother-in-law continue to help Zhu Shuzhen? The reason is also very simple. At that time, Zhu Shuzhen's fourth brother-in-law, one of Liu Huaiji's sons, who now works in the foreign trade department of the Ba'ath Party, fell ill. So Liu Huaiji borrowed some usury from a local landlord to find a doctor for his son.

The result? Not only was Liu Huaiji's son treated to death by quack doctors, because he couldn't afford to repay the loan sharks, but Liu Huaiji himself was arrested by the landlords who lent money in collusion with the county government.

So at that time, the entire Liu family filled the money and food used by the family to make ends meet into the bottomless pit of the county government. If it weren't for Wang Shuhui's sudden arrival at that time, it is likely that all the families related to Zhu Shuzhen, including Zhu Shuzhen, would have starved to death after this lawsuit.

Wang Shuhui himself once thought about whether it was because of his own crossing that the Zhijiang County Wang lineage, which had never been recorded in history, had been inherited.

Think about it, in this era, not to mention that ordinary people are about to rebel by the land caused by the cruel feudal land ownership system and the increasingly fierce Xiaoice disaster climate, even those clans of the Ming Dynasty themselves are actually in a state of not being able to survive and rise up.

Otherwise, how could there be a "robbery case" in which the clan itself gathered the people to rob the local feudal kings to pay tribute?

You must know that from the identity of those Ming clans, they are all serious and serious members of the royal family who share weal and woe with the Ming Dynasty, but these royal clansmen who should have shared weal and woe with the Ming Dynasty have robbed the local vassal kings of the tribute to the Ming Emperor because of the real pressure of survival.

Therefore, at the end of the feudal dynasty, when all the ills of feudal land ownership broke out, the feudal system was definitely a thing that was annoying to individuals.

Anyway, no matter on the surface because of the traditional concept of parenthood, Zhu Shuzhen has always looked like an elder in front of Wang Shuhui, and sometimes he is a little stubborn, but Zhu Shuzhen, who was born at the bottom, actually agrees with the policies and ideas of the Baath Party very much.

At the very least, he can clearly realize that feudalism is definitely the enemy of the vast majority of Chinese. Zhu Shuzhen agrees with and yearns for the anti-feudalism, the state-owned land, and the Baath Party's ideal of establishing the toiling masses to turn over and liberate themselves, and for the people to be the masters of their own country.

So even in the eyes of many guys who can be regarded as very cunning and cunning, Zhu Shuzhen is a fool who can be used as a brand and used as a wronged boss, but Zhu Shuzhen himself is quite sober and understanding.

It was Gu Junen's gang of very shrewd people who used the future of Zhu Shuzhen's favorite and cherished grandson Wang Qingbai as an excuse to lobby Zhu Shuzhen, and they all seemed to agree and agree at the time, but Zhu Shuzhen, who turned around and told Wang Shuhui everything they had done, cleaned it up.

Therefore, even the old lady Qin Liangyu, who later enjoyed the lifelong allowance of the Chinese Empire and was established by the Chinese Empire as a "national hero who has made great contributions to the unity and development of the big family of the Chinese nation", lobbied Zhu Shuzhen, hoping that Zhu Shuzhen could persuade Wang Shuhui to treat the clan of the previous dynasty well and leave a way back for the puppet emperor Zhu Youzhen, did not make Zhu Shuzhen, who insisted on not participating in any political affairs, waver in the slightest.

Wang Shuhui admires his father-in-law very much to a certain extent.

An ordinary person can know very clearly, very clearly how many catties and taels he has, very rationally realize that he can eat a few bowls of rice, never take the initiative to create trouble, never participate in any useless toss, very clear about his position and attitude, not to mention that such people are not common in China in the seventeenth century, even in later generations, there are really not many people who understand like this.

Don't cause trouble to others. It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do. Being able to know how many pounds and taels you have, what position you should stand on, and what attitude you should take, is also easier said than done.

Let's take Wang Shuhui's personal experience as an example, when he was a teacher in college, he found that many students did not know how many bowls of rice they could eat. Those college students who have also been studying for more than ten years are obviously from low-level families of workers and peasants, but they never consider the actual situation of their own families and their family's ability to bear it.

There are those who go out to spend dozens or hundreds of dollars to watch movies and fall in love, there are students from wealthy families who go out to study at every turn to travel to increase their so-called knowledge, and it is even more common for those who play computer games and often fail their courses all day long. But it's just such a group of guys who have completed four years of college and can't answer simple questions such as what they are studying in their majors, and they are still full of universal values, democracy and equality, and beautiful fathers, and so on, and they can casually pull you a lot.

It can be seen that he has been in school for more than ten years, and a foolish egg is also a foolish egg, a guy who is shiny on the surface but has a belly of straw, that is as many as he wants, and as common as he wants.

Therefore, from this point of view, hundreds of years in advance, Zhu Shuzhen was able to clearly know how many catties and taels he had, how many bowls of dry rice he could eat, how could he not make Wang Shuhui feel very admired?

Wang Shuhui is willing to give his extra salary to his father-in-law to consume, which is the reason.

Wang Shuhui first hoped to take Zhu Shuzhen to his home to live with him. But Zhu Shuzhen made it very clear to Wang Shuhui that on the one hand, Wang Shuhui's work is very important, and he should not be distracted by an old man at home; On the other hand, as Wang Shuhui's father-in-law, Zhu Shuzhen is unwilling to live with his son-in-law Wang Shuhui, both psychologically and habitually.

So in the end, according to Zhu Shuzhen's wishes, Wang Shuhui took out his manuscript fee, paid a one-time pension fund and medical fund to his father-in-law, and then found a nursing home (nursing home) in Xinjing Special Economic Zone that Zhu Shuzhen liked more.

At the beginning, Wang Shuhui also arranged a job for his father-in-law. This work is to carry out the preservation of rare books in the National Library. Although he is called an "ancient book researcher", he is actually a simple job responsible for sorting and transporting books.

At that time, Zhu Shuzhen did not object to Wang Shuhui's arrangement, but he said to Wang Shuhui during a meal together: "I know that the rule of your revival party is called 'distribution according to work', and it is absolutely impossible not to work without labor. So as a rule, I agree with your arrangement. But I can't do that. ”

"On the one hand, my identity is quite special, and many times I can't wipe my face and let go of my relationship with others. Let's just say that if the people who work together know that I am your father-in-law, how do you think they should treat me? If it's too attentive, I think it's troublesome. If it's too lonely, people are worried about offending you. This is not only a burden on myself, but also a problem for others. ”

"On the other hand, I know very well what kind of person I am. Don't look at me when I was young, I had a hard time, but I'm not the kind of person who can really do things. Back then, I relied on your uncle's relief to survive with Wen'er. I'm not a person who can do things. The main thing is that after so many years, I can't do anything. So it's not impossible for me to work, the key is that I definitely can't do any work. ”

Wang Shuhui is not afraid that Zhu Shuzhen will not be able to work, and when Wang Shuhui arranged a job for Zhu Shuzhen, he hesitated whether his father-in-law was willing to live a relatively cold retirement life.

You must know that after Zhu Weiyan's older uncles died one after another, Wang Shuhui felt that his father-in-law was living a very lonely life, so he thought of taking his father-in-law to live with him.

But judging from the current situation, he is busy with work every day, and his wife has to go to work every day. The children all live in groups in the Cadet Army, kindergartens, and nurseries, and in this case they take over their father-in-law, and they also live alone at home. That's why Wang Shuhui thought about arranging a job for his father-in-law.

Now, Zhu Shuzhen has clearly expressed his willingness to live his easy life in the nursing home, Wang Shuhui does not feel that this old man who is in his fifties (in this era) is not motivated at all, but feels that his father-in-law is a bit wise and dashing modern old man.