Chapter 1167 Personal Matters (Part 1)
To the east of the Daji Dynasty, Liuchen County is the place where the crown prince Yong Wang was elected.
Yes, you read it right, it is Liuchen County, a simple name without any ambiguity.
The population of the two major surnames Liu and Chen almost accounts for 70% of the population of this county, and the lower-level officials, imperial examinations, and all the benefits of this county are almost monopolized by the two major families. It is difficult for the remaining minor surnames to survive.
Before Liuchen County was established and it was still a foreign land, it was originally ruled by the Dongyi tribe and had its own set of customs and habits.
Later, the Taizu of the Daji Dynasty, Emperor Wu, the head of the Nine Emperors, conquered this area and ordered all tribes to change their customs. The two remaining tribes nearby changed their surnames to Han surnames, which are today's Liu and Chen surnames.
When the two tribes resisted outsiders, they were still able to maintain peace. Once the foreign enemies retreated, they would inevitably fight among themselves.
This is also the clever arrangement of Taizu. Two powerful families with similar strengths are fighting. In order to gain relative advantages, they must build good relations with the government to avoid being suppressed. Then, in the constant communication, the degree of Hanization becomes deeper and deeper, and there is no need for war.
In this way, it is the way to pacify the people and stabilize the border. Facts have proved that this method has both advantages and disadvantages.
The two tribes have indeed been Hanized. Whether participating in the imperial examinations or paying tributes, they behave like ordinary families, and they do compete with each other, which has produced certain benefits.
However, no matter how they compete, they are unwilling to share their status and power with outsiders. If the outsiders in Liuchen County want to gain a certain status in this county, men will marry into the family, and women will naturally become daughters-in-law. Otherwise, they will be slaves.
Not only in Liuchen County, but also in various places in the Daji Dynasty, there are such big families holding power in one side and competing with court officials. It’s just that Liuchen County is just a typical example.
As a typical example, it also entered the eyes and ears of the court. When choosing the place for the selection of the sons, it became one of the candidates, specifically to examine whether the prince can coordinate the interests between the big and small clans.
If you go along with these big surnames, it is naturally not difficult, but in this way, your vision is too narrow, which is contrary to the original intention of the court. If you lose the support of the court, your prince will become a shallow water snake even if he is a powerful dragon crossing the river.
Therefore, it is necessary to handle the balance between the big and small clans. In fact, every place for the prince to be selected has considerations and thoughts behind it.
After King Yong took over Liuchen County, the first thing he did was to take the daughters of the two families of Liuchen as concubines. No, concubines cannot be used, but quasi-concubines should be used. If King Yong succeeds to the throne, they will be real concubines.
Don't think about the position of queen. These two small families are local lords in Liuchen County, but looking at the world, they are really as small as shrimps. There is no blessing to hope for the position of queen.
Prince Yong took the daughters of two families as his quasi-concubines. It was unknown whether the two families had accumulated blessings for several lifetimes. Their status in the country was instantly raised by several levels, and the chances of their family members being promoted in the future were also much higher.
Nothing is absolute. If one of the two women is very skilled and has the ability to turn the tide, it is not impossible for her to climb to the position of queen, but it is extremely difficult. If she really wants to achieve the position of queen, she cannot rely solely on her mother's family. She needs to find new forces.
Prince Yong took the daughters of two families as his quasi-concubines. Just this one move successfully made the two families submit, saving a lot of trouble and easily controlling and taking over the affairs of Liuchen County.
In addition, the people under Prince Yong also married with the two families one after another. However, only Prince Yong married two families at once. His people would speak for the family they married, forming a balance.
Among them, Wu Yi was also an ordinary person. He also married a woman from the Chen family, named Chen Jiaying, who was also the daughter of the head of the Chen family and had a good reputation in the Chen family.
Before Rensheng, he had not married yet. If he married, she would be the legal wife. In addition, Wu Yi was the confidant of King Yong and had a very high status. In order to win Wu Yi's support, the Liu and Chen families fought hard and even came to King Yong. In the end, King Yong made the final decision to marry the daughter of the Chen family.
In fact, King Yong had a private talk with Rensheng at first, and hinted that it was not impossible for Wu Yi to marry two families at once. How else could Wu Yi answer? He naturally refused. What King Yong did, could he want to imitate it again? Is there any loyalty to his subjects?
Therefore, the object of the Chen family's marriage is the daughter of the head of the Chen family, the younger sister of King Yong's concubine, which is not strange. If it is not the daughter of the head of the family, but just a daughter of a collateral family, it would be strange.
Even so, the Chen family still felt that they owed it. In order to make Chen Jiaying sit firmly in the position of legal wife, the Chen family almost spent half of the family savings as a dowry. In the Chen family, the weight of Wu Yi's words is second only to the head of the family, or even equal.
This is the status of Wu Yi's human body. At present, he is the first person under King Yong.
The Chen family attaches great importance to this marriage, second only to the daughter of the clan who married King Yong. They have always hoped that Chen Jiaying would give birth to a child for the human body as the fruit of the marriage.
Although Wu Yi's human body is full of energy and spirit in the talisman, even if he has intercourse with Chen Jiaying, the child born in the end is the blood of the original owner of the body, and has no blood relationship with Wu Yi, so there should be no worries.
It's just that the cause and effect of things are not related to reality. The question is whether you think there is cause and effect. If you think there is, then there is. If you think there is no, then there is no. Everything depends on your heart.
So some people look down on everything, or they are the ones who are free from all emotions, or the ones who are too indifferent to emotions. All the causes and effects have nothing to do with them, and the external disasters will not come to them on their own.
If he really marries Chen Jiaying, the final offspring, from the perspective of blood relationship, is indeed unrelated to Wu Yi.
But from the perspective of affection, Wu Yi cannot be too indifferent to emotions, and the cause and effect are inevitable. In the future, when this child encounters a disaster, he will have to help him. In this way, he will become a person in power and cannot be as calm as before.
Therefore, for four or five years, Wu Yi and Chen Jiaying have not had any offspring.
The man is vigorous and the woman is gentle and lovely. There is no news of hidden diseases. In their prime years, they have no offspring. People outside are talking about this. Even King Yong laughed at Wu Yi for this when he was talking at the table.
Because of his worries about cause and effect, Wu Yi has not thought about the issue of offspring. However, in this way, the view of the Chen family has changed. Is it necessary to support a son-in-law who cannot bring inheritance to the Chen family?