To the east of the Daji Dynasty, in Liuchen County, this was the place where Prince Yong was elected.
Yes, you read that right, it’s Liuchen County. The name is simple and has no ambiguity at all.
The two major surnames Liu and Chen account for almost 70% of the county's population, and they almost monopolize the county's lower-level officials, imperial examinations, and all the benefits. The other families want to survive.
The difficulty is not small.
When Liuchen County was not established as a county and was still a foreign land, it was originally a place under the control of the Dongyi tribe and had its own set of customs and habits.
Later, 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.
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The two tribes were able to maintain peace while resisting outsiders, but once the foreign enemies retreated, they would inevitably fight among themselves.
And this is also Taizu's ingenious arrangement. Two surnames with similar strength are fighting. In order to gain a relative advantage, they must have a good relationship with the government to avoid being suppressed. Then, in the constant exchanges, the degree of Chineseization becomes more and more.
It is too deep to be effective in fighting.
This is the way to stabilize the people and stabilize the border. Facts have proved that this method has both good and bad consequences.
The two tribes have indeed become Chinese. Whether they participate in the imperial examinations or pay tribute, they behave like ordinary families. They also compete with each other and produce certain benefits.
However, no matter how they compete, they are not willing to share their status and power with outsiders. If the foreign surnames in Liuchen County want to gain a certain status in this county, the male will naturally become the daughter-in-law, and the female will naturally become the daughter-in-law. Otherwise, she will become the daughter-in-law.
The life of a slave.
Not only in Liuchen County, but also in all parts of the Daji Dynasty, there was a situation where a large family controlled one party's power and competed with the court officials. However, Liuchen County was a typical example.
As a model, he also entered the eyes and ears of the imperial court, and became one of the candidates when choosing the place to be recommended by the princes, specifically to examine whether the prince could coordinate the interests of the big and small families.
It is not difficult to join forces with these big names, but in this case, the vision is too narrow, which goes against the original intention of the court. If you lose the support of the court, your prince, no matter how powerful the dragon crossing the river, will become a shallow water snake.
Therefore, it is necessary to handle the balance between the big and small clans. In fact, there are considerations and thoughts behind every selection of the prince.
After King Yong took over Liuchen County, the first thing he did was to take the daughters of the Liu and Chen families as concubines. No, you can't use concubines, you should use quasi-concubines. If King Yong succeeds to the throne, she will be the real concubine.
Don't think about the posthumous position. These two small families are princes in Liuchen County, but looking at the world, they are really as big as shrimps. They are not blessed to expect the posthumous position.
King Yong accepted the daughters of two families as his quasi-consort. It is unknown how many generations of blessings the two families had cultivated. Their status in the country was instantly improved by several levels. In the future, the chances of promotion for the clan members were also much higher.
Nothing is absolute. If one of the two women has superb skills and the ability to turn things around, it is not impossible to climb to the lower rank. However, it is extremely difficult. If you really want to achieve the lower rank, you cannot rely solely on your mother's family. You need to find a new one.
of power.
King Yong accepted the girls from the two families as his quasi-concubines. With just this move, the two families were successfully surrendered, saving a lot of trouble, and he could easily control and take over the affairs of Liuchen County.
In addition, the people under King Yong also married into two families successively. However, King Yong was the only one who married two families at once. The people under King Yong would speak for whichever family they married.
A balance.
Among them, Wu Yi is also an ordinary person. He also married a girl from the Chen family, named Chen Jiaying. She is the daughter of the head of the Chen family and has a well-known name in the Chen family.
Wu Yi had not married a wife before. If he married a wife, he would be the official wife. In addition, Wu Yi was a confidant of King Yong and had a very high status. In order to win Wu Yi's support, the Liu and Chen families went to war and even made trouble.
After arriving in front of King Yong, King Yong finally made the decision to accept the daughter of the Chen family.
In fact, at first, King Yong wanted to talk to him privately. In his words, he hinted that it was not impossible for Wu Yi to marry two families at once. How else could Wu Yi answer? Naturally, he refused. What King Yong did, he
Is it possible that if you still want to imitate it, you still have the righteousness of being a courtier.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the marriage partner of the Chen family is the daughter of the head of the Chen family and the sister of Princess Yong. It would be strange if she was not the daughter of the clan leader, but just a daughter of a collateral line.
Even so, the Chen family still felt that they were in debt. In order for Chen Jiaying to secure the position of the head wife, the Chen family spent almost half of the family's savings as a dowry. Among the Chen family, the weight of Wu Yi's words was second only to the clan leader, and even equal to that of the family leader.
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To this extent, this is Wu Yi's status as a person. Now, he is truly the number one person under King Yong.
The Chen family attaches great importance to this marriage, second only to the daughter who married King Yong, and has always hoped that Chen Jiaying would give birth to an heir as the fruit of the marriage.
Although all of Wu Yi's body essence and energy are contained in the talisman, the offspring he gave birth to after intercourse with Chen Jiaying are also the bloodline of the original owner of the body. They have no blood connection with Wu Yi and should not have any worries.
It's just that things like cause and effect have little to do with 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 not, then there is not. Everything depends on your mind.
Therefore, some people who look down upon everything, or are all in vain, or are too forgetful of love, have nothing to do with them, and external disasters will not come to them on their own.
If she really marries Chen Jiaying, the final heir will indeed have nothing to do with Wu Yi from the perspective of blood relationship.
But from a sentimental point of view, Wu Yi could not be too ungrateful. The cause and effect was inevitable. If the son encountered a disaster in the future, he would have to help. In this way, he would become a member of the authorities and could not be as calm as before.
Therefore, for the past four or five years, Wu Yi and Chen Jiaying have not given birth to any children.
The man is handsome and handsome, the woman is gentle and lovely, and there is no news of hidden diseases. In the great years, no heirs were born. There was a lot of discussion about this in the outside world. Even King Yong laughed at Wu during the banquet.
Yi.
Because he was worried about cause and effect, Wu Yi had not thought about heirs for a long time. However, the Chen family's views changed. Is it necessary to support an uncle who cannot bring about the continuation of the Chen family's inheritance?