Chapter 30 Salted Fish Eating Melon 2
The time when Linlang entered this world was when the original family was invited to attend a banquet at the time-traveling man's family. The time-traveling man's 100th son was interested in the original body. , when someone was sent to check on the original parents.
Yes, the time-traveling man is now eighty years old, and most of his sons are naturally married. Even because marriages were early in ancient times, the next generation would appear in less than twenty years, causing him to have There are five generations living under one roof.
So the only ones who are not married yet are those sons born in later years, such as the current one, who was born to a certain woman when the time-traveling man was sixty years old.
The reason why I am talking about a certain woman, not one of his concubines, is because in this era there is a limit on the number of concubines, it is impossible to take as many as you want, and ordinary people are not in their forties. Childless, not even qualified to take a concubine.
As for the time-traveling man, as the bastard of Uncle Anding, he naturally has no right to inherit. The person who inherits the title is his eldest brother.
But as the concubine of Uncle Anding, the time-traveling man also had some privileges. He was granted a minor official position and donated a fellow concubine to him.
But even if he has a false title of fellow concubine, the number of concubines he takes is limited, and if he exceeds the number, he will be punished.
It is normal to have such a setting. After all, if there is no restriction, rich people can have countless concubines, which will lead to a large number of ordinary people without wives. Then there will be a lot of bachelors, which will cause trouble. of.
Although there are such regulations, there are actually policies from above and countermeasures from below. Many people still have concubines that exceed the limit. It’s just that this is the case for high-ranking officials, so no one reports it.
Of course, these people also know that there is no excuse for not reporting to others on the surface. The number of concubines on the surface is still limited, and the others have no status.
Like the time-traveling man.
So most of his concubines have no status. They are said to be concubines, but in fact they can only be said to be his women, without names or status.
Although there are many sons, concubines, and complicated family members, there are still many people who are willing to marry their daughters to the son of Wang Xi, a man who has traveled through time. The reason is very simple. Everyone in the world knows that Wang In the past, when the country was extremely wealthy, its sons were given tens of thousands taels of betrothal gifts every time they got married.
Tens of thousands of taels are not something ordinary families can afford. Seeing so much money, who wouldn’t want to marry off their daughter? After all, any betrothal gift can give tens of thousands of taels. Living in the Wang family can still Bad?
In fact, because of the large population of Wang Xi's family, he acquired a large piece of land in the capital and built a large manor. Therefore, despite the large number of people in his family, the family was not crowded. Every concubine and her son were there. They can live in one courtyard, unlike other wealthy families in Beijing who have many concubines. Several concubines may live in one courtyard, which is very crowded and cramped.
Wang Xi has a lot of money, and he claims to treat all women equally, so the place where he lives is almost the same, and there is no distinction between good and bad.
The reason why Wang Xi is so rich and can live safely to the age of eighty without having his house confiscated by the emperor is because, firstly, he is not an ordinary commoner, but a queen of high rank; secondly, he started from the time when he made a fortune. , he sent stocks to various high-ranking officials and noble families in Beijing and tied them to his own ship; thirdly, he also married his daughter to various high-ranking officials and noble families.
Through various methods, most of the dignitaries in the capital were captured. In this way, naturally no one would give him eye drops in front of the emperor and let the emperor ransack his home.
Of course, the main reason is that the previous generation of emperors came to power. Wang Xi was on the right side and had the merit of following the dragon. After he came to power, whenever there was a natural disaster in the court, Wang Xi was always on the front line to donate money. Disaster relief, so the emperor of the previous generation saw that he was so understanding and did not cause trouble for him.
After all, he has supported himself, has such knowledge, and can make money, so it is better to let him make money. During natural disasters, it is better to have people like him to stand up for disaster relief than to spend the court's money. That's why the previous generation of emperors did not touch Wang Xi. .
The decades during the reign of the previous generation of emperors were Wang Xi's most glorious and successful decades.
The reason why this generation of emperors immediately confiscated the Wang family and exiled them after Wang Xi suffered a stroke is because it is very simple. When this generation of emperors came to power ten years ago, Wang Xi was on the wrong side. It's just that Wang Xi's tree has big roots and deep roots, and Wang Xi is more powerful than his sons, so he couldn't move for a while, so he didn't move.
But when Wang Xi suffered a stroke, his sons were busy fighting for property. The emperor used them to attack each other and collected a lot of evidence against them, so he killed them all Packed up.
In fact, he was on the wrong team ten years ago. Wang Xi knew that things were not going well, so Wang Xi had been organizing large ships over the years, hoping that when things went bad, some of his sons would go to Nanyang to escape.
But it is a pity that because of his old age, things were prepared in a hurry, so when he suddenly suffered a stroke, Wang Xi had no time to make arrangements, and was swept away by the emperor.
In fact, Wang Xi should have organized large ships and established bases overseas when he was young. Otherwise, he would have gone to Nanyang so recklessly. Even if he went there, he would not have been able to survive in such a hurry, and his wealth would still have fallen In other people's hands.
When he was young, every time he had money, Wang Xi used it to expand his business. He didn’t want to spend money to build a fleet, because building a fleet and opening up wasteland was a bottomless pit. No matter how much money he put into it, he couldn’t put it in. So Wang Xi felt reluctant to use all the profits he earned to do this kind of thing, so he didn't do it.
When the previous emperor came to power, he was on the right team, and the emperor was very kind to him, so he didn’t want to do it anymore, so he never found a way out.
So when things came to a head, it was time to do something, but it was too late.
So, no matter how much money you make, it’s useless if you don’t find a way out.
In fact, Linlang feels that the main problem of the Wang family is still too high-profile.
Have more than a hundred beauties, engage in beautiful pictures, build luxurious manors, and build larger gardens in the suburbs for summer escape, and expand various business empires everywhere. Although they make a lot of money, But a business empire without a foundation is like a castle in the air that can collapse at any time.
In fact, given the background of Earl Anding's Mansion, if Wang Xi didn't earn so much money and wasn't so high-profile, the emperor wouldn't have raided his house. After all, there are countless rich people in Beijing. You are not Even if you have the most money, the emperor’s eyes will not be on you.
But the Wang family is so rich that it is normal for the emperor to covet them.
Either ordinary people cannot touch the Wang family, or else ordinary people will covet it.
So if Wang Xi was not stupid, he should have pretended that he only had a few hundred thousand or at most a million, and quietly made a fortune, instead of building a luxurious manor, getting so many women, and having a son. He also gave a bride price of tens of thousands to let everyone know that he had a lot of money and attracted attention.
Wang Xi wonders if he has read too many male pornographic novels, which is why he is so high-profile, has so many women, and then builds such a big manor to accommodate so many women. It is so high-profile that he was The emperor took care of it.
But whether Wang Xi is stupid or not, Linlang won't pay much attention to it. As long as she doesn't get married, she will just be a melon-eater, listening to people in the capital talk about the Wang family's bad things, just for fun. .
(End of this chapter)