Chapter 9: Marriage 1

86_86695From a certain point of view, Wang Shuhui crossed the late Ming Dynasty and met Zhu Youzi, a down-and-out royal family, which was a very lucky thing.

In feudal society, feudal etiquette, as the basic order of feudal society, penetrated into all aspects of ancient people's lives. But in feudal societies, especially in the Ming Dynasty, there was one group that was an exception. This group is the clansmen of the Zhu family.

As the blood nobles in the Ming Dynasty, the clans of the Zhu family have a very high status, and they can completely ignore the constraints of feudal etiquette and live freely and freely. Of course, this also comes at a price, and the price is to be detained in the royal fiefdom and raised like a pig by the imperial court. Anyway, as long as there is no intention of rebellion, the court will ignore them at all. This may also be the fundamental reason why none of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty looked like individuals, and all of them looked like either psychopaths or physiological perversions.

Comrade Zhang Dahua, a non-famous god, once very cleverly evaluated the difference between the founding emperor and the last emperor. What he said was, Wang Shuhui couldn't remember. However, in general, it means that the founding emperors, especially the civilian emperors represented by Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, had the unscrupulous rogue style at the bottom of society, which gradually died out with the succession of emperors from generation to generation, and completely disappeared from the last emperor. In a sense, that kind of unscrupulous scoundrel style is actually the inevitable quality of a good feudal ruler, without this quality, the emperor is not qualified, and he cannot be done.

When Wang Shuhui looked at the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, he was deeply impressed by Zhang Dashen's words. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were indeed in a process of continuous aristocracy. As a researcher majoring in sociology, Wang Shuhui believes that once the feudal rulers completely severed the blood ties between themselves and the common people, they basically came to an end. Because the aristocratic emperor could not understand and could not understand how dirty and shameless the feudal bureaucrats from landlords and quasi-landlords were, and how bad and hideous they were for their own interests. Once the emperor was unable to effectively restrain the landlords and the bureaucrats represented by the landlord class, their desire for land would expand unlimitedly, and with the concentration of land leading to the shrinking of the state finances, the final outcome would be the demise of the entire dynasty.

Therefore, a good feudal emperor must be more shameless than the feudal bureaucrats and more unscrupulous than the feudal bureaucrats, so as to ensure the continuation of his dynasty in the constant power struggle between the imperial power and the bureaucracy.

Judging from the known history of the late Ming Dynasty, the two dynasties of Emperor Tianqi and Emperor Chongzhen were both bureaucratic powers that were extremely inflated and the imperial court was out of order. After Wei Zhongxian's death, the emperor's suppressive methods of the landlord class and the civil official group completely disappeared, and Emperor Chongzhen completely relied on civilian officials to govern the country, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the state finances and the final demise of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in Wang Shuhui's view, the second half of Emperor Chongzhen's statement that "the monarch is not the king of the dead country, and the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country" is completely correct.

As a contemporary of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Youzi has been deprived of his nobility since his grandfather's time, so he embodies a certain atavism. Zhu Youzi is not thinking about how to maintain the dignity of a royal family at all, but the problem of wanting to catch a golden beetle son-in-law for his radish head girl. For the sake of the happy life of his only relative in the future, Zhu Youzi is unscrupulous.

"It's really hard for my nephew to make alchemy for me." Zhu Youzi said to Wang Shuhui with a smile.

Wang Shuhui, how to say it, in fashionable terms, is a socially incompetent person. In his more than 20 years of life, he has realized that there is a problem, that is, things like face and human affection have no value in any sense other than hindering and destroying the progress and efficiency of doing things. Therefore, Wang Shuhui is a relatively unsophisticated guy in modern society, everyone always has to rely on him at work, but in life, in the distribution of interests, he always stands aside.

His temper is very acceptable to ordinary people, and none of the neighbors who helped him raise him do not praise or dislike this child who is really duty-bound. However, in the social life that pays attention to human relationships, Wang Shuhui is a relatively marginal person. He himself doesn't care about this phenomenon.

Wang Shuhui can't adapt to the human relations in modern society, and he can't adapt to the human relations in feudal society. In fact, Wang Shuhui also knows that the human relationship is actually the original product of feudal society, and the industrialized society only has a relationship of interests, not a relationship of human feelings. The so-called face-saving favors in modern China are just a kind of poison of feudalism.

However, as mentioned earlier, Wang Shuhui's crossing encountered a declining royal family, which originally had no sense of feudal etiquette. After it was broken, it was closer to ordinary people. If Wang Shuhui had encountered a family of feudal scholars when he crossed over, he might have lost a few lives by now.

Wang Shuhui really doesn't like the red tape of ancient society, and he won't hide his likes and dislikes, so he said directly to Zhu Youzi, "Uncle Shi and little nephew don't have to be polite, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly, they are all a family, there is no need to talk about two families, it seems to be a raw part." ”

Zhu Youzi was overjoyed in his heart, this is a good thing, a family, isn't it a family. Zhu Youzi didn't care about Zhu Weiyan, who was standing next to her, her face changed greatly, and she said happily to Wang Shuhui, "Since my nephew said this, then I won't hide it with my nephew." When I was sick, I was most worried about the fate of your sister. My nephew also saw that although my family claims to be a royal family, it is actually an ordinary family, not even a solid farmer. Let your sister marry into a rich family, that's delusional. If I marry her into a poor peasant family, I am reluctant to let her suffer that hardship and sin. The nephew is still down the mountain, and according to the rules of the imperial court, you also have to return to your hometown. However, since my nephew wants to settle down in Zhijiang County, I think the best way is to marry my family. Second, it can also satisfy the love of my daughter as a sick and weak person. ”

As soon as the little radish head Zhu Weiyan heard this, she immediately fled like a rabbit. Wang Shuhui was choked by this mention of thunder, and he didn't know what to say for a while. Good guy, it's really a so-called closed-door house, and the daughter-in-law comes from heaven. The relationship also brings benefits, wants to gain a foothold in the Ming Dynasty, and also sends a wife with a radish head.

Wang Shuhui is in his twenties this year, and as a young man who is very physically and psychologically healthy, it is impossible not to think about marriage. However, the shadow brought about by the unhappy marriage of his own parents and the complex and dilapidated relationship between men and women in modern society made him have a great fear of marriage problems.

A former colleague of his, however, analyzed the increasing rate of failure in modern marriages from a sociological point of view. He believes that the main reason for the failure of modern marriages is the economic independence of the husband and wife. As financially independent individuals, they have a strong independence in life, and a strong sense of independence leads to their free choice. Unlike people in the past, who had to bear the pressure of life as a family unit, modern marriage has almost no external pressure, but has to face a problem of external temptation, whether it is a man or a woman, they have to accept the material and spiritual temptation outside of marriage, and modern people's ability to resist temptation is very weak, which leads to the general unsustainability of modern marriage.

Wang Shuhui agrees with the words of this middle-aged bachelor who has been divorced three times. As a sociological researcher, Wang Shuhui has his own understanding of not wanting to find a wife or not being able to find a wife. He believes that no matter what kind of society and what kind of environment it is in, the allocation of social resources is optimized. And women and men are also a social resource in modern society. Then, while the rich and powerful people have high-quality social resources, men and women, who are high-quality social resources, will naturally lean towards them. He couldn't agree more. This is called an objective law, and it has nothing to do with people's subjective wishes