Chapter 12: Marriage 4
86_86695 Whether in ancient times or in modern times, buying a home is a big thing. The Chinese often say "starting a family and starting a business", linking the establishment of a family with the success of a career, although it makes people feel more strictly utilitarian, but it also shows that the Chinese view of family and career is equal.
From the four words "starting a family and starting a business", it can be seen that as a Chinese, without a successful career, there will be no successful family. This view is a very realistic and reasonable view, both in modern times and in ancient times. For thousands of years, the Chinese have summed up profound wisdom with historical experience, and this wisdom is that a happy marriage must have a solid economic foundation. Wang Shuhui feels that the view that "poor couples mourn everything" can be said to reflect the golden rule of Chinese for thousands of years on family and marriage relations.
Wang Shuhui has always firmly believed that without investigation, there is no right to speak. But he also believes that there are some truths that need not be verified from historical experience, and there is no need to doubt them.
In the winter of the forty-seventh year of Wanli, a few miles away from Zhijiang County, it has been deserted, and many locals do not know what the Zhijiang Wang Farewell Garden is, which has been lively again after being silent for decades. Hundreds of displaced people who had fled from the north to Zhijiang County, and had been regarded as a trouble by Zhijiang County, were summoned to Zhijiang Wangbiyuan.
An old man of about sixty years of age, dressed in a very strange suit, commanded several people who were also dressed in the same clothes, and boiled porridge in several large pots. About 200 men, women, and children, speaking with Shanxi accents, lined up in five long lines and were waiting to receive porridge to drink.
Since Wang Shuhui decided to help his future father-in-law revitalize the family business, he immediately started to do it. The first thing he thought of was to reorganize and repair the Zhijiang King Garden, a large but dilapidated building complex. Accompanied by Zhu Youzi, he carefully inspected the situation of the Zhijiang Wang Farewell Garden.
The history of the construction of the Zhijiang King Garden is quite long. About 180 years ago, Zhu Guiyi, the sixteenth son of Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, was named the king of Zhijiang, which was still a matter during the Xuande period. The emperor at that time was Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, who also belonged to the emperor of the early Ming Dynasty.
As the grandson of Emperor Chengzu, Emperor Xuanzong is certainly not as great as his grandfather, but compared with the Ming Dynasty emperors of later generations, I don't know how much better. At the beginning of Emperor Xuanzong's succession, the biggest problem was the vassal kings during the period of Emperor Chengzu. Although they were cut off a lot of power by Emperor Chengzu, the sons of Emperor Chengzu and the uncles of Emperor Xuanzong held real power. Although the kings of Han and Zhao, who ultimately threatened Emperor Xuanzong's throne, did not succeed in rebellion, their changes also made Emperor Xuanzong particularly suspicious of the vassal kings.
As the concubine of Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, the first king of Zhijiang was an honest character, but in fact he was just a relative of the emperor who had no ambitions and had too much pleasure. However, because of his honest and hedonistic style, he was not cleaned up much during the Xuande period.
Although he is honest in politics, as a relative of the emperor, he has not relaxed at all in terms of pleasure. In addition to the rich and magnificent palace of the prince in Zhijiang County, the first king of Zhijiang also built a large-scale Zhijiang palace near the hill outside Zhijiang Castle for the convenience of hunting.
Wang Shuhui spent a whole day inspecting the inside and outside of this Zhijiang King Garden. From the geographical point of view, Zhijiang Wang Farewell Garden is about five miles away from Zhijiang County. It's not very far from the Yangtze River, about five miles. It is backed by a small mountain with a lot of trees. As a rich and powerful family, it is really a wonderful pleasure to be able to have such a large manor in this place.
However, as a declining royal family, the reason why Zhu Youzi's family was able to retain such a residence was not because of the preferential treatment of the imperial court.
Although the Zhijiang King Villa is close to the mountains and water, the surrounding terrain is not flat. The land around the garden is relatively barren. Although it is close to the Yangtze River, it is more difficult to divert water from the river for irrigation under the ancient technical means. This kind of land, which has no cultivation value, is naturally a barren land, overgrown with all kinds of miscellaneous trees and weeds. In the five or six miles around the palace garden, there are no people at all, except for a small fishing village where some fishermen and hunters live.
Although the Zhijiang King Garden covers a huge area and has many buildings, after the Zhijiang King title was removed, this garden has been completely dilapidated because no one has repaired and managed it for decades. Hundreds of houses, pavilions, and buildings of all kinds have either no roofs or are completely collapsed. It's no wonder that when Wang Shuhui crossed into the back garden, Zhu Youzi's father and daughter didn't notice it at all. With such a large garden and dilapidated houses everywhere, who of the father and daughter would have nothing to do and run to the back garden by the hill at the end.
As a modern person, Wang Shuhui has a relatively clear sense of property rights. Through the communication between Guò and Zhu Youzi, he found that Zhu Youzi's father and daughter were actually not the real owners of this Zhijiang Wang Villa. The ownership of the other garden belongs to the county government of Zhijiang County, and their father and daughter do not have the property rights of the Zhijiang Wang Farewell Garden at all.
Wang Shuhui knew that the reason why the county government of Zhijiang County gave this garden to Zhu Youzi's family to live in was that the houses of this size were all dilapidated, and they were located in a deserted village and wild shop, and the surrounding land had no cultivation value, and if they wanted to sell it, they would not spend money to buy it. But once he contributed money and efforts, he renovated the Zhijiang King Garden. Judging from the corrupt style of the feudal bureaucracy, they will definitely take away the renovated garden. Therefore, Wang Shuhui decided to pay for the purchase of Zhijiang Wangbiyuan and the nearby wasteland before starting construction.
Therefore, the first task of Wang Shuhui and Zhu Youzi's son-in-law is to go to Zhijiang County to implement the issue of Wang Shuhui's registration and the property rights of Zhijiang Wang Beiyuan.
Whether it is ancient people or modern people, going out to do things is to pay attention to pomp. As a modern person, Wang Shuhui believes that pomp should be something like a beautiful woman in a fragrant car, and Zhu Youzi, who is a native of the Ming Dynasty, believes that pomp is supported by the number of people. Although Zhu Youzi lived a down-and-out life, when he was a child, he saw the pomp and circumstance of his grandfather, the last King of Zhijiang. Even his own father, the prince of Zhijiang, who did not inherit the prince, has a lot of pomp. Of course, Zhu Youzi's family's current downfall is also caused by these pomp.
Wang Shuhui and Zhu Youzi both know that if they want to go to government offices to do things, they can't hold down the position without a certain amount of pomp. The so-called landed phoenix is not as good as a chicken, not to mention that Zhu Youzi is just an empty royal family without a title, those serious vassal kings, if there is no political and economic strength support, who will be an official in his eyes.
After Weng and his son-in-law reached a consensus, pomp and circumstance became a very important thing to carry out.
Zhu Youzi is not completely without relatives. Zhu Weiyan's mother's family was originally the servant of the Zhijiang Palace, and after the removal of the Zhijiang King, the old family has never left the family. Later, the old family also died, and the granddaughter of the old family who married Zhu Youzi also died, and Zhu Youzi's family was completely dilapidated and had no financial resources to maintain the livelihood of those family members. In this case, Zhu Weiyan's uncles and grandmothers and other relatives all left Zhu Youzi's house and went elsewhere to seek a livelihood.
Zhu Weiyan's mother has seven brothers, and she is the youngest child and the only girl in her family. Zhu Youzi's seven eldest brothers all live in nearby fishing villages, some are fishermen, some are hunters, some are teaching, and some are bookkeepers. Although he often helps Zhu Youzi's father and daughter, because of the huge pressure of survival, he is also powerless. The seven of them are also struggling to survive. Fortunately, Zhu Youzi got a rich son-in-law, and as soon as he was preparing for the show, Zhu Youzi thought of his seven eldest brothers.
Wang Shuhui has no objection to this. It's just that the first time I saw these seven people, the same yellow and thin faces, and the appearance of being unclothed in the winter of minus a few degrees Celsius, gave him a great shock. Wang Shuhui didn't think too much about it, so he went back to Hyundai in the evening and brought back a large cart of clothing and food. Looking at the seven maiden uncles who were the oldest in their sixties and the youngest in their thirties, swallowing a big bowl of white rice with tears in their eyes, Wang Shuhui's belief in changing the world in the last years of the Ming Dynasty strengthened a lot.
After eating white rice and braised pork, wearing clothes and cotton pants that Wang Shuhui bought from modern times, the mental outlook of the seven maternal uncles also improved. Originally, Wang Shuhui was a little worried that those modern styles of clothing would become an obstacle, but he didn't expect that these uncles had no objections at all, and they accepted it quite quickly. In fact, if you think about it, there are a few people at the bottom of the society who care about the style of clothes, but as long as they can eat enough and wear warm clothes, the people will be quite satisfied.
According to the history that Wang Shuhui understands, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty implemented the shaving of hair and easy clothing on the land of China. Not to mention that there are few objections from tens of millions of ordinary people, that is, those landlords and bureaucrats who are arguing about the law of their ancestors all day long, and who want to mention Sage Kong when they have nothing to do, don't they all pick their heads like chicken butts, and they are all very active one by one. In the historical materials that Wang Shuhui read, it was not the Manchu barbarians who proposed to promote shaving hair and making it easy to wear clothes throughout China, but a Han bureaucrat named Sun Zhiqi who had been a Zhongguo Jinshi and had worked in Hanlin.
The idea of the common people is quite simple, if you give me the opportunity to eat and wear warm clothes, I will fully support you and help you. Wang Shuhui's seven maiden uncles immediately entered the role, and before Wang Shuhui could tell him, he began to clean up the environment of the palace garden by himself. Of course, seven people can't undertake such a big project, and only seven people can't support the pomp and circumstance that Zhu Youzi said.
Wang Shuhui set out from the needs of the future and asked several uncles to go to the vicinity of Zhijiang County to collect manpower. Hearing the news that someone hired people, took care of food and housing, and wanted men and women, young and old, the refugees who were originally near Zhijiang County, but gradually fell into despair as the weather turned colder, all ran to Zhijiang Wang Beiyuan