It is said that the Hairui family is really poor, and only when his mother has a birthday, he dares to buy two pounds of meat and come back to congratulate him. This often makes headlines on the streets, and the Harry family buys meat! Even his boss, Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, often joked about it. But no matter how poor he is, he can't have a poor child, not to mention that Hai Rui does not have a son, and the old Hai family has been passed down from generation to generation, which is his mother's lifelong wish, so even if the Hai Rui family is poor, he also married three wives and two concubines. Didn't you need money to marry your daughter-in-law in the Ming Dynasty? How can a person as poor as Hai Rui still be able to marry 5 wives? Of course not, it is expensive to marry a wife at any time. Even if it doesn't cost money to marry a wife, it costs money to adopt a wife. After all, in ancient times, it was generally men who earned money outside to support their families.
Hai Rui, as a qing official with a clear soup and a small amount of water, can afford to marry 5 wives, which is indeed quite subversive of the three views. The purpose of his wife is actually very simple, that is, to pass on the lineage to the Lao Hai family, but not because he is lustful, but unfortunately, in the end, the two sons and a daughter born all died prematurely, and the Old Hai family was still the queen.
Marrying a wife is too expensive, and Hai Rui is marrying a wife to toss herself poor.
During the Tang Dynasty, marrying daughters-in-law and children did not have so many cumbersome etiquette, since Zhu Xi's grandfather made a series of regulations that restrict women such as three from four virtues, women also engaged in a series of cumbersome marriage customs in order to retaliate against men's power.
By the time of the Ming Dynasty, it was not easy to marry a wife:
1. First of all, you need to marry together, let the fortune teller calculate whether the eight characters of the two are compatible. If the eight characters can't come together, then the matter can be blown, and bribing the fortune teller is an expense.
2. Secondly, the man wants to send a dowry to the woman's home, and the most basic provision is a piece of silver and a gold ruyi. In addition, there are various fruits, pastries, tea ceremonies, etc.
3. In addition, the man needs to salute the woman, that is, send the dowry, clothes and jewelry to the woman. Among them, there are 4 pieces of clothing jewelry that are necessary: hairpins, ear steaks, white purple and big red skirts.
Coupled with the matchmaker, the miscellaneous money, and the money to run a banquet, such a set is down, and the ordinary people's family media is marrying a wife, which probably needs 100 taels of silver. So how much is Hai Rui's salary for a year? When he was in Chun'an Zhi County, his annual income was less than 50 taels of silver, which meant that he had to pay two years' salary without eating or drinking before he could marry a wife back.
Moved to Chun Anzhi County. The cloth robe is stripped of millet, so that the old servants are self-sufficient. Governor Hu Zongxian tasted the words of the people: "Yesterday I heard that hailing was the mother's birthday, and the city meat was two pounds. "Zong Xianzi passed through Chun'an, angry with the officials, and hung upside down. Rui Yue: "Duke Hu of Hu pressed the ministry, so that the passing did not give Zhang." Now that he is dressed up, he will not be a hu prince. "Send thousands of gold, Na Zhi Ku, chi to Zong Xian, Zong Xian is not guilty." - "History of the Ming Dynasty"
Then 5 wives need Harry to save 10 years of wages without eating or drinking before he can marry back. If other expenses are taken into account, then Harry spent at least 15 to 20 years of salary income in order to marry 5 wives. Where do you say he still has spare money to eat meat?
You can skip meat, but you can't pass it on from generation to generation. Harry is a mommy boy, and this is something that the whole world knows. He is very filial, to what extent is he filial piety? Thirty or so people, every day in front of their mother to read to their mother, coax the mother to fall asleep before they can go back to sleep, sometimes directly on the ground and fall asleep. He was obedient to his mother's words, coupled with the very strict family style of their old Hai family, so that Hai Rui had to pass on the family for the old Hai family.
No matter how poor he was, he could not be poor enough to have children, and in order to have children, Hai Rui began to save money to marry his daughter-in-law. A Zhixian, wanting to go to one or two wives, in any feudal dynasty, is relatively easy. Hai Rui is actually the same, if there are only one or two wives, then their family can eat meat every day. After all, at that time, the price of pork was only 2.5 yuan a catty, and Hairui's annual income could be converted to about 40,000 yuan, and one kilogram of meat per day was also completely ok.
Unfortunately, Hai Rui must save this money to do a big thing, that is, to marry a daughter-in-law. Only by marrying a daughter-in-law can he give birth to a son to the Lao Hai family, which is his mother's wish for a lifetime, and it has also become Hai Rui's wish for a lifetime. It is a pity that if you marry the first one, you can't have a son, and if you marry the second one, you still can't have a son. It was difficult to marry the woman who gave birth to a son, but the son died prematurely. Really asking for what not to come, there is a heart to plant flowers and flowers, Hai Rui spent such a big price, married 5 wives, spent a lifetime of effort, failed to give the old Hai family inheritance. His mother also died in despair.
Although Hai Rui is a well-known Qing official, and is willing to make decisions for the people, he is known as Hai Qingtian. But which woman married him, it was really eight lifetimes of blood mold. 1. Hai Rui's first wife, Xu Shi, is a good daughter-in-law who can do any housework, but unfortunately, because she gave birth to two daughters before and after, she did not give birth to a son, so she was suspended by Hai Rui. 2. Hai Rui's second wife, Pan Shi, is also a good daughter-in-law, but because she does not attract the likes of Hai Mu, under the instruction of Hai Mu, she married in less than a month, and was expelled from the house by Hai Rui. 3. Hai Rui's third wife, Wang Shi, this daughter-in-law is very contentious, and has given birth to two sons and a daughter to Hai Rui in a row, then there should always be a good ending, right? As a result, people inexplicably committed suicide. 4. In addition, Hai Rui also had two concubines, the first concubine, Han Shi, who chose to hang himself 11 days before the death of his third wife, Wang Shi. This incident caused quite a stir. 5. The second concubine, Qiu Shi, was married when Hai Rui was in his 70s, and you look at such an old age and are not dead hearted. As a result, he did have a son, but this son died at the age of 3.
In addition to this, Harry once forced his daughter to die. When the daughter was still young, the servant sent her a piece of bread to eat, but Hai Rui saw it, and when asked, she was furious, saying that as the daughter of the Hai family, she could not accept gifts from men casually, and if you were Hai Rui's daughter, she would go on hunger strike and die. As a result, this baby girl actually went on a hunger strike and died.
Summary: Hai Rui is a great Qing official, but he is also a pedantic person. Hai Rui is indeed a clean official, he has not taken a single unreasonable amount of money in his life, so he will be famous. And he especially likes to be on the side of the poor people. Rich people and poor people come to him to fight a lawsuit, sorry, anyway, it is the fault of your rich people. Therefore, Hai Rui has a high reputation in the minds of ordinary people. Unfortunately, this Haiqingtian is really pedantic, and in order to pass on the generations, he does not hesitate to live a messy life at home. Families that could have eaten meat at once could only eat a meal of meat on their mother's birthday, and you say that this is not pedantic? Seventy years old, still do not give up the matter of succession, it is really enough, do you have a country and mountains to inherit?