Chapter 131 Miscellaneous Talk: The Decline of the Four Major Families 2
Wang Ziteng became a cabinet bachelor, and later became the highest military officer in charge of nine provinces. He was equivalent to the top position of the interest group of landlords and scholar-bureaucrats representing the entire Jinling City and even the richest areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the world. The "King of Jinling" was the official The "big official of the border" and the "general and prime minister" of Erba Jing (similar to the Mongolian Khan-level figure in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace), even the emperor wanted to give him face, so he also named his niece Jia Yuanchun The imperial concubine who is second only to the queen.
As a digression, China has always been an aristocratic republic. The emperor is not like in TV dramas. He can kill the whole family of the ministers with one imperial decree. , is the balance product of various factions.
So don't think that Wang Ziteng is in the favor of his niece, on the contrary, they represent a noble family group, but the royal family needs to win over and marry.
Yuanchun is similar to the character Ying Fei in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace". She has no children, but she can be ranked second only to the queen. Isn't it because of the power of her uncle (mother's family)?
Just like you can't say that the Great Khan of Mongolia was influenced by Concubine Ying.
This can also be imagined how powerful the Wang family represented by Wang Ziteng, and this was because Wang Ziteng did not have a daughter or niece of the right age, so he took advantage of his niece.
For example, Jia Yucun was able to go from being a commoner to the capital to become an official, and it was all a matter of Wang Ziteng's words. People like Lin Ruhai and Jia Zheng didn't have that ability at all.
For example, when Wang Xifeng criticized Jia Lian, she said, "Sweeping the cracks in the floor of our Wang family will be enough to feed your Jia family for a lifetime." Jia Lian could only laugh Xifeng was able to control Jia Lian everywhere and suppress him because his mother's family was powerful.
The problem is that Wang Ziteng has no sons, only two younger brothers (Wang Xifeng’s father and uncle Wang Zisheng) and a nephew Wang Ren. Wang Xifeng’s father is probably dead and has no sons. The remaining Wang Ren is also an uneducated person. goods,
When I say uneducated, I don’t mean how many books you can read or how many words you know. It means that as a member of a family representing an interest group, you must be able to deal with matters within your own family and among the major local families. time and interests with other groups.
Just refer to Sheng Wei and Minglan in Zhiwu, how many properties, villages, and shops the family has, how to do business, and who are the nobles of each example, although Wang Xifeng didn't recognize a word, and although Jia Zheng was a prude, they were not confused at all on these important matters.
For example, if Jia Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan had broken shoes, they would have offended King Zhongshun. This kind of thing might involve the entire Jia family and be ruined. In fact, it did end up because of this, and Jia Zheng beat him. That's no problem at all.
However, among the four major families, in the generation of Jia Jing, Jia She, and Jia Zheng, there was actually no one who took the imperial examination and became an official. In the generation of Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, and Jia Baoyu, there was actually no official in the officialdom. The only one If the reliable Jia Zhu died at a young age, then the Jia family would naturally be doomed.
Of course I am not saying that the imperial examination is a good thing. What I mean is that in that era, if you wanted to maintain the interests of the local gentry group, someone in the family had to serve as an official and serve in the there is no one in your family, others will naturally take the blame, and your family will fall into ruin.
So in general, as long as there is one reliable descendant of the four major families, even if Wang Ziteng dies, he can successfully inherit the local power. Unfortunately, they are all useless.
The logic of Dream of Red Mansions is this. The final outcome must be the decline of the family. So Wang Ziteng must die, because if he does not die, no matter how morally corrupt the four major families are, Wang Xifeng and Xue Pan will not be killed. Three or two lives, even if twenty or thirty people were killed, no one would dare to find an excuse to touch them.
It's similar to what Mrs. Wang said in Zhidou, if your father, Taishi Wang, was still alive, even if your sister (Aunt Kang) killed many more people, those surnamed Sheng and Gu would dare to show off their expressions and say no. Character?
The Wang family has been defeated, let alone the remaining three families.
In particular, the Jia family was close to Prince Yizhong (the original owner of the coffin ordered by Jia Zhen for Qin Keqing). Later, he was defeated by Prince Zhongshun and was on the wrong team, so he naturally lost.
The historians were even more mentally ill. Among other things, they talked about their attitude towards Shi Xiangyun and let him do his don't believe that the noble Marquis is so poor that he lets Miss Marquis do the sewing herself. This is definitely intentional abuse.
If I were Shi Xiangyun's uncle or aunt, it would be impossible for me to treat her harshly, even if I didn't treat her like my own daughter. Support your own family.
It's a pity that they don't have the long-term vision, and failure is normal.
Some people also say that the Shi family did not decline like the other three families. I don’t believe it. Why?Because "Everyone is prosperous, and everyone suffers" is not just talk. The reason why family interests are bound is that "you have me and I have you." How much of the prosperity of the Shi family is due to the influence of the other three families? of light?So if the other three families fail, can the Shi family make a clean choice?impossible.
Needless to say, the Xue family, the Jia Shi and Wang family are all real local nobles and powerful, and are partners of the emperor, while the Xue family is the slaves of the emperor like Sicong's father, Ma Da Yuanwai, especially the one who gave birth to Xue Pan. He is a useless filthy thing, not even as good as Sicong. Just because he befriends Jiang Yuhan is enough to take care of their whole family.
Jia Baoyu is a typical liberal, and in the United States, he is a "white left".It’s okay if you ask him to talk about poetry, poetry, and poetry, but if you ask him to take on family and family responsibilities like a conservative, that’s nonsense.
Sister Lin is also from the same group as him, she is too pragmatic and doesn't know that life is not about romance, but about daily necessities and daily , even if these two people really get married, their lives will not be much easier.
So this is what I don’t really like about the values conveyed by Dream of Red Mansions. It’s the kind of freedom that praises “love” and puts all “public order and good customs” on the line to the point of “moral kidnapping”, and then criticizes and criticizes them. school of thought.
In fact, every Jia She, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and these gangsters were like Jia Baoyu who longed for romance and opposed public order and good customs when they were young.
When I was young, I felt that falling in love seemed very exciting, but as I grew older, I realized that life does not need or cannot only be about the freshness and excitement brought by things like sex and love, but more about the sense of responsibility to the family. and responsibility.
Because no matter how delicate the skin is, it will eventually grow old, and no matter how beautiful the memories will be, people will continue to live, and life will always have risks. People will always be born, old, sick and die. They need to be taken care of by others and need to carry on the family lineage, so they must have morality and religion. , construct order to restrain people's desires, otherwise there will be no way to live those days with only desires and no responsibilities. Everyone hopes to have a harmonious and happy family, right?No one wants their parents to have a bad life because they quarrel with broken shoes and get divorced every day, right?
That's why I said that the most essential reason is moral corruption. As Tanchun said, the centipede is dead but not stiff, and everyone can only kill it from the enemies cannot defeat a nation. They must deconstruct the religious beliefs and morals of that nation, and then the nation will be finished.
A family, family, and nation must have morals. Only when a person is kind to his family and animals, filial to his parents, loyal to his spouse, loving to his children, respectful to his teachers, and humble to his brothers and sisters, can he be kind to outsiders and treat others well. If the nation is good, the family and the nation will not be corrupted.
One is prosperous, one is prosperous, one is deprived, one is devastated.
These four families can be regarded as one big family. The four major families are all big branches that have fallen from the same tree.
The four major families in "A Dream of Red Mansions" have very distinct clan characteristics: they are connected and related.
Jia Baoyu's grandfather, Jia Daishan, married a girl from the Jinling historian family, who was Jia Mu; Jia Mu's second son, Jia Zheng, married a girl from the Jinling Wang family, who was Mrs. . Wang's sister married Aunt Xue of the Xue . Wang's niece Wang Xifeng married Baoyu's cousin Jia Lian; Xue Baochai married Baoyu of Jia's family.
This is the true situation of the aristocracy in the old era, which is intertwined. From this perspective, the other three families and the Jia family can be regarded as a whole. The history of the decline of the Jia family is also a mirror of the other three families.
From a narrative perspective, the Jia family is the bright side; the historians and the Xue family are the dark side.
Let’s talk about the historians first. The historian’s introduction is “Afang Palace, three hundred miles away, cannot live in the history of Jinling.”Epang Palace, I guess is a metaphor for their family’s main business being real main raw materials of ancient real estate were bricks, tiles, wood and stone, and the rise and fall cycle was about 50 years. Compared with the Jia family's century-long history, it is likely that the Shi family was the first family to decline.
Many people say that the eldest lady like Shi Xiangyun still has to do needlework until midnight. This is because the Shi family is in trouble, which is somewhat true but not necessarily; the real difficulty is that the Jia family was raided. After knowing that Jia Zhengyin was eating a lot of food, Jia's mother sighed. : "What's the matter, has our family reached this stage? Although I haven't passed by it, I remembered that my family is ten times stronger than here. I have been putting on false pretenses for several years. If nothing like this happened, it has already collapsed. It doesn't take a moment. It will be over in two years." - It shows that the historian has long declined, but this is Chapter 107, not a manuscript by Cao Xueqin.
Let’s talk about the Wang family
Wang Xifeng and Mrs. Wang gave much more information, "There is a lack of white jade beds in the East China Sea, and the Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling."
Sister Feng said that her grandfather was solely responsible for the tributes and congratulations from various countries - whenever foreigners came, our family would support them.
Among the things Sister Feng gave to her relatives, the toys were from Persia and the tea was from Siam, indicating that the Wang family was in charge of foreign trade in the imperial court and took over foreign ships from Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang. The second time Sister Feng and Jia Lian quarreled, Sister Feng said directly, "Sweep the seams of my Wang family, and it will be enough for you to live in for a lifetime." This shows that the Wang family and the Jia family value power rather than wealth in their marriage.
Sister Feng's uncle, Wang Ziteng, is a hidden boss. Although he doesn't appear in front of him, he influences the fate of the Wang family and the rest of the 's okay for Xue Pan to beat someone to death, thanks to the power of the Jia family and Wang family; Jia Yucun's return to officialdom, although it is said that Jia Zheng helped, but in the end it was the role of Prince Teng who inspected the nine provinces. In Chapter 96, when the news of Wang Ziteng's death came, Mrs. Wang was so distressed that she couldn't sit still. After Wang Ziteng died, Concubine Yuan also died of critical illness.
It was not just Wang Ziteng who died, but the most powerful pillar of the Wang family was gone, and the connection between the Jia family, the Wang family and the royal family was severed.
Finally, there is the Xue family, which has the largest amount of information. Judging from the information given, the Xue family has no actual power, and some have a lot of money. They need to rely on powerful families to maintain their wealth.
The Xue family came from a great imperial merchant. Although the head of the family died, Xue Pan still took a false position in the Ministry of Household Affairs because of his grandfather's relationship. When he first appeared, he said that his family was quite wealthy: he had a house in the capital and hundreds of millions of dollars at home. If you are rich, you still have money to shop and so Xue was a distinguished guest who had been staying in Jia's house for a long time, initially to avoid the Calabash case, and later for marriage. After all, the head of the family was dead, and Xue Pan couldn't support herself, so she seemed to be just a vassal.
Chapter [-] is different from the beginning. Aunt Xue managed three marriages: the marriage of nephew Xue Biao, the marriage of son Xue Pan, and the marriage of Baochai and his son off the hook is a big deal.
The Xue family itself has no power and can only rely on the Wang family and Jia family to Jingui cried and said: "Normally you come to Beijing just to praise them for beating people to death, but now you are really beating people to death. Usually you only talk about being rich, powerful and having good relatives. This is not true." At that time, I was also in a panic. When the uncle can't come back tomorrow for some reason, you all went to do your own thing, leaving me to suffer alone!" It contains several layers of the situation at that time, In general
(1) The backer is gone
1. The Xue family has always relied on others in the past. They have been stable in the Jia family for ten years, which shows that they were reliable in the Pan Taiping's murder case was revealed and Aunt Xue was found. Mrs. Wang was worried and sent someone to investigate. Baochai said: There is still a place to rely on the man over have always relied on it in the past, but now I can no longer rely on it, so I have to do it myself.
2. In Xue Pan’s first murder case, Wang Ziteng took the initiative to help. First, he asked Aunt Xue to go to Beijing to restrain and discipline Xue Pan. Later, he helped Jia Yucun reinstate him, which directly led to Jia Yucun’s partiality and miscarriage of justice in the Hulu case; but in this case, Wang Ziteng Without saying a word, Jia Yucun took the initiative to write to Jia Zheng and Wang Ziteng,
3. When the Taiping murder case of Xue Pan occurred, Aunt Xue asked Mrs. Wang to ask Jia Zheng, but Jia Zheng only agreed vaguely. Chapter 99, when Jia Zheng read the copy from the Ministry of Punishment, his first reaction was that he was afraid that his intercession would harm him, which meant that the Jia family had no hope at this time.
(2) Civil unrest
Chapter 70: Nine, Xue Pan got married and started his own Pan really wants nothing. He beat Feng Yuan to death in order to snatch a maid, then he went to eat, drink, whore and gamble, and finally beat someone to Taiping Murder Case, after the Xue family could no longer serve as backers in the Jia family, they had only one option: spend total, from the beginning to the end, they sent money to Daotai overnight, spending more than [-] taels of silver, directly draining the family's wealth. You know, the Xue family's only capital is money was gone and the family fell into ruin.
The four major families are all united by power and money. The powerful people are either dead or have no children, and the rich people's wealth has been dispersed. How can they not decline?
(End of this chapter)
Wang Ziteng became a cabinet bachelor, and later became the highest military officer in charge of nine provinces. He was equivalent to the top position of the interest group of landlords and scholar-bureaucrats representing the entire Jinling City and even the richest areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the world. The "King of Jinling" was the official The "big official of the border" and the "general and prime minister" of Erba Jing (similar to the Mongolian Khan-level figure in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace), even the emperor wanted to give him face, so he also named his niece Jia Yuanchun The imperial concubine who is second only to the queen.
As a digression, China has always been an aristocratic republic. The emperor is not like in TV dramas. He can kill the whole family of the ministers with one imperial decree. , is the balance product of various factions.
So don't think that Wang Ziteng is in the favor of his niece, on the contrary, they represent a noble family group, but the royal family needs to win over and marry.
Yuanchun is similar to the character Ying Fei in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace". She has no children, but she can be ranked second only to the queen. Isn't it because of the power of her uncle (mother's family)?
Just like you can't say that the Great Khan of Mongolia was influenced by Concubine Ying.
This can also be imagined how powerful the Wang family represented by Wang Ziteng, and this was because Wang Ziteng did not have a daughter or niece of the right age, so he took advantage of his niece.
For example, Jia Yucun was able to go from being a commoner to the capital to become an official, and it was all a matter of Wang Ziteng's words. People like Lin Ruhai and Jia Zheng didn't have that ability at all.
For example, when Wang Xifeng criticized Jia Lian, she said, "Sweeping the cracks in the floor of our Wang family will be enough to feed your Jia family for a lifetime." Jia Lian could only laugh Xifeng was able to control Jia Lian everywhere and suppress him because his mother's family was powerful.
The problem is that Wang Ziteng has no sons, only two younger brothers (Wang Xifeng’s father and uncle Wang Zisheng) and a nephew Wang Ren. Wang Xifeng’s father is probably dead and has no sons. The remaining Wang Ren is also an uneducated person. goods,
When I say uneducated, I don’t mean how many books you can read or how many words you know. It means that as a member of a family representing an interest group, you must be able to deal with matters within your own family and among the major local families. time and interests with other groups.
Just refer to Sheng Wei and Minglan in Zhiwu, how many properties, villages, and shops the family has, how to do business, and who are the nobles of each example, although Wang Xifeng didn't recognize a word, and although Jia Zheng was a prude, they were not confused at all on these important matters.
For example, if Jia Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan had broken shoes, they would have offended King Zhongshun. This kind of thing might involve the entire Jia family and be ruined. In fact, it did end up because of this, and Jia Zheng beat him. That's no problem at all.
However, among the four major families, in the generation of Jia Jing, Jia She, and Jia Zheng, there was actually no one who took the imperial examination and became an official. In the generation of Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, and Jia Baoyu, there was actually no official in the officialdom. The only one If the reliable Jia Zhu died at a young age, then the Jia family would naturally be doomed.
Of course I am not saying that the imperial examination is a good thing. What I mean is that in that era, if you wanted to maintain the interests of the local gentry group, someone in the family had to serve as an official and serve in the there is no one in your family, others will naturally take the blame, and your family will fall into ruin.
So in general, as long as there is one reliable descendant of the four major families, even if Wang Ziteng dies, he can successfully inherit the local power. Unfortunately, they are all useless.
The logic of Dream of Red Mansions is this. The final outcome must be the decline of the family. So Wang Ziteng must die, because if he does not die, no matter how morally corrupt the four major families are, Wang Xifeng and Xue Pan will not be killed. Three or two lives, even if twenty or thirty people were killed, no one would dare to find an excuse to touch them.
It's similar to what Mrs. Wang said in Zhidou, if your father, Taishi Wang, was still alive, even if your sister (Aunt Kang) killed many more people, those surnamed Sheng and Gu would dare to show off their expressions and say no. Character?
The Wang family has been defeated, let alone the remaining three families.
In particular, the Jia family was close to Prince Yizhong (the original owner of the coffin ordered by Jia Zhen for Qin Keqing). Later, he was defeated by Prince Zhongshun and was on the wrong team, so he naturally lost.
The historians were even more mentally ill. Among other things, they talked about their attitude towards Shi Xiangyun and let him do his don't believe that the noble Marquis is so poor that he lets Miss Marquis do the sewing herself. This is definitely intentional abuse.
If I were Shi Xiangyun's uncle or aunt, it would be impossible for me to treat her harshly, even if I didn't treat her like my own daughter. Support your own family.
It's a pity that they don't have the long-term vision, and failure is normal.
Some people also say that the Shi family did not decline like the other three families. I don’t believe it. Why?Because "Everyone is prosperous, and everyone suffers" is not just talk. The reason why family interests are bound is that "you have me and I have you." How much of the prosperity of the Shi family is due to the influence of the other three families? of light?So if the other three families fail, can the Shi family make a clean choice?impossible.
Needless to say, the Xue family, the Jia Shi and Wang family are all real local nobles and powerful, and are partners of the emperor, while the Xue family is the slaves of the emperor like Sicong's father, Ma Da Yuanwai, especially the one who gave birth to Xue Pan. He is a useless filthy thing, not even as good as Sicong. Just because he befriends Jiang Yuhan is enough to take care of their whole family.
Jia Baoyu is a typical liberal, and in the United States, he is a "white left".It’s okay if you ask him to talk about poetry, poetry, and poetry, but if you ask him to take on family and family responsibilities like a conservative, that’s nonsense.
Sister Lin is also from the same group as him, she is too pragmatic and doesn't know that life is not about romance, but about daily necessities and daily , even if these two people really get married, their lives will not be much easier.
So this is what I don’t really like about the values conveyed by Dream of Red Mansions. It’s the kind of freedom that praises “love” and puts all “public order and good customs” on the line to the point of “moral kidnapping”, and then criticizes and criticizes them. school of thought.
In fact, every Jia She, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and these gangsters were like Jia Baoyu who longed for romance and opposed public order and good customs when they were young.
When I was young, I felt that falling in love seemed very exciting, but as I grew older, I realized that life does not need or cannot only be about the freshness and excitement brought by things like sex and love, but more about the sense of responsibility to the family. and responsibility.
Because no matter how delicate the skin is, it will eventually grow old, and no matter how beautiful the memories will be, people will continue to live, and life will always have risks. People will always be born, old, sick and die. They need to be taken care of by others and need to carry on the family lineage, so they must have morality and religion. , construct order to restrain people's desires, otherwise there will be no way to live those days with only desires and no responsibilities. Everyone hopes to have a harmonious and happy family, right?No one wants their parents to have a bad life because they quarrel with broken shoes and get divorced every day, right?
That's why I said that the most essential reason is moral corruption. As Tanchun said, the centipede is dead but not stiff, and everyone can only kill it from the enemies cannot defeat a nation. They must deconstruct the religious beliefs and morals of that nation, and then the nation will be finished.
A family, family, and nation must have morals. Only when a person is kind to his family and animals, filial to his parents, loyal to his spouse, loving to his children, respectful to his teachers, and humble to his brothers and sisters, can he be kind to outsiders and treat others well. If the nation is good, the family and the nation will not be corrupted.
One is prosperous, one is prosperous, one is deprived, one is devastated.
These four families can be regarded as one big family. The four major families are all big branches that have fallen from the same tree.
The four major families in "A Dream of Red Mansions" have very distinct clan characteristics: they are connected and related.
Jia Baoyu's grandfather, Jia Daishan, married a girl from the Jinling historian family, who was Jia Mu; Jia Mu's second son, Jia Zheng, married a girl from the Jinling Wang family, who was Mrs. . Wang's sister married Aunt Xue of the Xue . Wang's niece Wang Xifeng married Baoyu's cousin Jia Lian; Xue Baochai married Baoyu of Jia's family.
This is the true situation of the aristocracy in the old era, which is intertwined. From this perspective, the other three families and the Jia family can be regarded as a whole. The history of the decline of the Jia family is also a mirror of the other three families.
From a narrative perspective, the Jia family is the bright side; the historians and the Xue family are the dark side.
Let’s talk about the historians first. The historian’s introduction is “Afang Palace, three hundred miles away, cannot live in the history of Jinling.”Epang Palace, I guess is a metaphor for their family’s main business being real main raw materials of ancient real estate were bricks, tiles, wood and stone, and the rise and fall cycle was about 50 years. Compared with the Jia family's century-long history, it is likely that the Shi family was the first family to decline.
Many people say that the eldest lady like Shi Xiangyun still has to do needlework until midnight. This is because the Shi family is in trouble, which is somewhat true but not necessarily; the real difficulty is that the Jia family was raided. After knowing that Jia Zhengyin was eating a lot of food, Jia's mother sighed. : "What's the matter, has our family reached this stage? Although I haven't passed by it, I remembered that my family is ten times stronger than here. I have been putting on false pretenses for several years. If nothing like this happened, it has already collapsed. It doesn't take a moment. It will be over in two years." - It shows that the historian has long declined, but this is Chapter 107, not a manuscript by Cao Xueqin.
Let’s talk about the Wang family
Wang Xifeng and Mrs. Wang gave much more information, "There is a lack of white jade beds in the East China Sea, and the Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling."
Sister Feng said that her grandfather was solely responsible for the tributes and congratulations from various countries - whenever foreigners came, our family would support them.
Among the things Sister Feng gave to her relatives, the toys were from Persia and the tea was from Siam, indicating that the Wang family was in charge of foreign trade in the imperial court and took over foreign ships from Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang. The second time Sister Feng and Jia Lian quarreled, Sister Feng said directly, "Sweep the seams of my Wang family, and it will be enough for you to live in for a lifetime." This shows that the Wang family and the Jia family value power rather than wealth in their marriage.
Sister Feng's uncle, Wang Ziteng, is a hidden boss. Although he doesn't appear in front of him, he influences the fate of the Wang family and the rest of the 's okay for Xue Pan to beat someone to death, thanks to the power of the Jia family and Wang family; Jia Yucun's return to officialdom, although it is said that Jia Zheng helped, but in the end it was the role of Prince Teng who inspected the nine provinces. In Chapter 96, when the news of Wang Ziteng's death came, Mrs. Wang was so distressed that she couldn't sit still. After Wang Ziteng died, Concubine Yuan also died of critical illness.
It was not just Wang Ziteng who died, but the most powerful pillar of the Wang family was gone, and the connection between the Jia family, the Wang family and the royal family was severed.
Finally, there is the Xue family, which has the largest amount of information. Judging from the information given, the Xue family has no actual power, and some have a lot of money. They need to rely on powerful families to maintain their wealth.
The Xue family came from a great imperial merchant. Although the head of the family died, Xue Pan still took a false position in the Ministry of Household Affairs because of his grandfather's relationship. When he first appeared, he said that his family was quite wealthy: he had a house in the capital and hundreds of millions of dollars at home. If you are rich, you still have money to shop and so Xue was a distinguished guest who had been staying in Jia's house for a long time, initially to avoid the Calabash case, and later for marriage. After all, the head of the family was dead, and Xue Pan couldn't support herself, so she seemed to be just a vassal.
Chapter [-] is different from the beginning. Aunt Xue managed three marriages: the marriage of nephew Xue Biao, the marriage of son Xue Pan, and the marriage of Baochai and his son off the hook is a big deal.
The Xue family itself has no power and can only rely on the Wang family and Jia family to Jingui cried and said: "Normally you come to Beijing just to praise them for beating people to death, but now you are really beating people to death. Usually you only talk about being rich, powerful and having good relatives. This is not true." At that time, I was also in a panic. When the uncle can't come back tomorrow for some reason, you all went to do your own thing, leaving me to suffer alone!" It contains several layers of the situation at that time, In general
(1) The backer is gone
1. The Xue family has always relied on others in the past. They have been stable in the Jia family for ten years, which shows that they were reliable in the Pan Taiping's murder case was revealed and Aunt Xue was found. Mrs. Wang was worried and sent someone to investigate. Baochai said: There is still a place to rely on the man over have always relied on it in the past, but now I can no longer rely on it, so I have to do it myself.
2. In Xue Pan’s first murder case, Wang Ziteng took the initiative to help. First, he asked Aunt Xue to go to Beijing to restrain and discipline Xue Pan. Later, he helped Jia Yucun reinstate him, which directly led to Jia Yucun’s partiality and miscarriage of justice in the Hulu case; but in this case, Wang Ziteng Without saying a word, Jia Yucun took the initiative to write to Jia Zheng and Wang Ziteng,
3. When the Taiping murder case of Xue Pan occurred, Aunt Xue asked Mrs. Wang to ask Jia Zheng, but Jia Zheng only agreed vaguely. Chapter 99, when Jia Zheng read the copy from the Ministry of Punishment, his first reaction was that he was afraid that his intercession would harm him, which meant that the Jia family had no hope at this time.
(2) Civil unrest
Chapter 70: Nine, Xue Pan got married and started his own Pan really wants nothing. He beat Feng Yuan to death in order to snatch a maid, then he went to eat, drink, whore and gamble, and finally beat someone to Taiping Murder Case, after the Xue family could no longer serve as backers in the Jia family, they had only one option: spend total, from the beginning to the end, they sent money to Daotai overnight, spending more than [-] taels of silver, directly draining the family's wealth. You know, the Xue family's only capital is money was gone and the family fell into ruin.
The four major families are all united by power and money. The powerful people are either dead or have no children, and the rich people's wealth has been dispersed. How can they not decline?
(End of this chapter)
