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Jia Yun went back, and Jia Jing's funeral was also continuing in Ningguo's mansion.

The maids in Yun's mansion are also busy these days, because Xue Baochai is about to give birth in recent days, it is to give birth to the first offspring for Jia Yun, which must be another busy thing.

After Jia Yun came back, he hurriedly instructed the big girl Xiangling and the big girl in the Yun Mansion to go to Xue Baochai's house to wait, at this moment Jia Yun also came to the house and was sitting next to Xue Baochai comforting Xue Baochai, holding Xue Baochai's little hand tightly, and said to Xue Baochai: "Don't worry, lady, I invited you the best stable woman in Shenjing!" There will certainly not be a problem with this. ”

After that, Jia Yun also looked at Xue Baochai tenderly, with a smile on her face.

Xue Baochai also smiled slightly, and said affectionately: "It is also a happy thing to be able to give birth to an heir for her husband!" It would be better if I could give birth to a son. ”

In ancient society, under the clan etiquette, men were extremely concerned.

All because men can study in the future, enter the imperial examination, and have fame, power and identity in the future, completely changing the fate and future of a family, even if the male in the family does not participate in the imperial examination and becomes illiterate, similar to Lu Xun's Ah Q and the like, for ordinary people, it is also a very worthwhile thing to have more men and more children.

First, the disease and famine in ancient times were serious, and there was often a saying that "half the size of the child, eat the poor old man".

If you encounter a disease or something again, the probability of dying violently is very high, so it is difficult for most of the children of the low-level people in ancient times to survive and grow up.

The cruel truth is that there are very few young masters, and most of them are ordinary little people struggling to survive.

Young masters are living, and these people are slaves from birth, and they are survival.

For these ordinary low-level people, having more children can effectively improve the survival rate of their bloodline, so that their bloodline can continue to continue.

The ancients attached the most importance to filial piety, and Confucianism ruled the world with "benevolence, righteousness, filial piety, and courtesy".

In the opinion of the ancients, "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater." ”

Once a woman marries a woman, if she is not able to give birth to children for her husband's family, she will be gossiped and looked down upon by the people around her, especially the parents of the husband's family will have great prejudices and opinions about this daughter-in-law.

Even the prince in the palace is pampered on weekdays, and early death occurs from time to time, and the mortality rate is not as low as in the future world.

At what age a boy can help the family do things, it can be regarded as a labor force, and when he becomes an adult, he is a strong laborer.

In ancient times, the levy and the imperial grain and state taxes, as well as various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, were quite heavy, and the cultivated land also required the strength of the croppers.

Farming is hard work, and if you don't have the strength to do it, you will definitely not be able to plant this land.

It is difficult to survive without a man in the family.

The days of a widow with an only daughter are even more difficult.

There are still men, like Li Kun of Rongguo Mansion, there is still hope for the future.

If you don't give birth to a son and a half daughter, then the evening is bleak, and you can't live a good life.

The benefits of giving birth to a male are endless, but the birth of a female is a splash of water, and the person who marries out is no longer his own daughter, and it is rare to return to his parents' home from now on, and even once the married woman goes back to her parents' house to live, it is a laughing stock and gossip, and the ancients mostly called the baby girl "money loss" and "broom star".

In ancient societies, most of the unenlightened people, especially some extremely murderous figures, would choose to take a rather extreme path, either to abandon the baby girl who was born and throw it into the door of the temple for these monks to give birth to, or to take the baby girl to the sink and commit murder.

On the surface, this is a moral and religious issue, but in fact it is an economic issue.

After all, like the Xue family, the Wang family, the Jia family and other wealthy families, they have always lived a rich life of meat eaters, Zhong Ming Ding Food Family, the view and vision are naturally different from the little people at the bottom, the daughter is also a commodity of high value, strange goods can live, and after being born and raised, it can be used to marry each other for the sustainable prosperity of the family.

Therefore, such as Jia Tanchun, Jia Yingchun, Jia Xichun and others often have maids waiting for them, living a rich life of brocade clothes and jade food.

The only price is that the future marriage cannot be dominated by oneself, and you need to obey the arrangement of your parents and marry a powerful family whose face is unveiled and whose character is unknown.

This is the marriage of the girls in most powerful families.

In the future, the married life of these girls will be similar to opening a blind box, and the lucky girl can find a good family, if the girl who is unlucky will be beaten to death by her husband's domestic violence, and no one will redress her grievances.

The house of the powerful is also more filthy and shameless, and the darkness in it is not much worse than the world of ordinary low-level people.

For poor families, the child born is a baby girl, which means that they have to share an extra bite of food, and they are still living a difficult life, hovering on the verge of food, clothing and starvation, and they are not able to feed themselves, not to mention that they have to share an extra mouthful of food to raise such a daughter who cannot obtain higher economic value, and the future is even darker and cannot see half of the hope?

How can such a mentality last long after a long time?

If it is a baby boy, it is different, after the baby boy grows up, he can be an official in the imperial examination, Jin Ge Iron Horse, and join the army as a general, so that his own carp will jump the dragon gate from now on, and it will be very different, raise his eyebrows, glorify his ancestors, and the genealogy will start from this generation.

For example, Ning Guogong of Ning Guofu and Rong Guogong of Rong Guofu are such figures, following Taizu in the last years of the dynasty to raise troops, fighting for hegemony in the world, and worshipping Guogong, the family genealogy began from here, and continued to Jia Lan and Jia Yun's generation, then there are a total of five generations, relying on a generation of people to change their lives, so that the fate of creation is very different.

On this matter, Mencius once said, "Mencius: Lilou Chapter and Sentences": "The gentleman's Ze is beheaded in the fifth generation; The villain's Ze was also cut in the fifth generation. ”

Rongguofu and Ningguofu have developed to this fifth generation, but they should also be in danger!

Therefore, it is not a stupid, numb, or confused move for the low-level ancients to have more children, but a kind of survival philosophy and wisdom of the low-level people.

They don't see half of the hope of rising in themselves, and they hope that their children and grandchildren can appear a big man, and from then on fundamentally change the fate of the entire family for generations of farming and humbleness.

Looking at the history of thousands of years, the history of the rise of local wealthy families can also be called the results of the long-term efforts and struggles of ordinary people at the bottom in order to change their lives against the sky and become masters.

Just like the Great Qin Empire unifying the world!

"As for the first emperor, the remnants of Fen VI, Zhen Chang Zhi and Yu Yu, swallowed two weeks and died the princes, performed the supreme and controlled the Liuhe, insisted on beating and whipping the world, and vibrated the four seas. Take the land of Baiyue in the south, thinking that Guilin and Xiangjun are the counties; The king of Baiyue, bowed his head and tied his neck, and entrusted his subordinates. ”

"It is to make Meng Tian build the Great Wall in the north and guard the fence, but the Huns are more than 700 miles."

"The Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses, and the soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and complain."

"So he abolished the way of the ancestors, burned the words of a hundred schools, and fooled the head; Famous city, kill heroes, collect the world's soldiers, gather Xianyang, sell Fengdi, cast as the golden man, to weaken the people of the world. ”

"Then practice the city, because the river is the pool, according to the city of hundreds of millions of zhang, the abyss of the unpredictable, think it is solid. The good generals are guarding the key places, and the believers are the best soldiers, and who is the soldier. "Read

"The world has been decided, the heart of the first emperor, he thinks that he is the solid of Guanzhong, the golden city is thousands of miles, and the descendants of the emperor are also the cause of eternity."

The secret and struggle of ordinary people's development is to have more children, give birth to ten or eight of them, but if one person can become a big man, then the fate of the whole family will naturally be different from then on!