In one of the four famous works, "Water Margin", there is such a scene, Song Jiang killed Yan Po and fled on the rivers and lakes, and Ya Gong came to the home of his father Song Taigong to ask him about the crime, but Song Taigong said: "Song Jiang, the son of filial piety, has been rebellious since childhood, refuses to do his duty, and wants to become a bureaucrat... He had no relationship with the old man Shui Mi and did not interfere. ”
In other words, it was Song Taigong who expelled Song Jiang from the clan, the two severed the father-son relationship, and when they heard Song Taigong's words, the servants had no choice but to leave. In fact, Song Jiang and his father had a very good relationship, and they had long anticipated the possibility of such a thing, so they deliberately set up this answer to avoid disasters and family.
Is the above thing true? The answer is naturally yes, in ancient law, an important one is even the law of sitting, the criminal's family also has to bear the corresponding legal responsibility, the other person in the "Water Margin", Li Kui's brother Li Da, just because Li Kui killed people, he did not have time to clear the relationship and suffered a lot.
However, during the Qing Dynasty, there was a talented man who had just won the Jinshi and was kicked out of the family tree by the patriarch, and after 34 years, people knew how clever the patriarch was.
The Lujiang Zhu clan is a famous and prestigious family from the south of the Lujiang River, from the grandson of the Yellow Emperor "颛顼", and is also a descendant of the Southern Song Dynasty theorist Zhu Xi, the Song and Ming dynasties as officials and generals, although some of them withered in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, but the population is still very large.
In the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1677), in the Lujiang Province, a poor Xiucai named Zhu Shangmeng, after more than ten years of hard work, first won the lifting, and then continued to work hard, and then passed the jinshi, the Zhu clan was very excited, thinking that this was a great opportunity for the family's status to be promoted again.
Just as everyone was preparing to celebrate, the patriarch of the Zhu clan, not long after, held a clan assembly, at which the patriarch, after consultation, openly removed Zhu Shangmeng from the family tree, claiming that he had nothing to do with Zhu Shangmeng and made a preparatory registration in the county court.
This made Zhu Shangmeng depressed, seeing that it was the elders deliberating, but it was not easy to say anything, hurriedly took his wife and family members to the capital to take office, and soon after, the news of his flying yellow Tengda came.
Many members of the Zhu family secretly complained about the patriarch, believing that he had blocked the great opportunity for the Zhu family to cling to the patron, but the opportunity had passed, and people could only secretly regret it, but in the fifty years of the Kangxi Dynasty, things changed.
In 1711, the "Nanshan Case" broke out, Hanlin Dai Mingshi's work "Nanshan Collection" was accused of being "arrogant and imprudent", "more than crazy", which quoted Fang Xiaobiao's Nanming Yong calendar number, which was considered to have the intention of rebellion, and eventually led to the arrest of Dai Mingshi and Fang Xiaobiao, in addition, there were many people implicated, even Zhu Shangmeng was also in a different place, fortunately, the Zhu clan had already drawn a line with him, and in the end there was no impact, and people knew the wisdom of the old patriarch.
Interestingly, 70 years later, in the forty-sixth year of Qianlong, the Lujiang Zhu clan produced another jinshi named Zhu Shaoyu, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, Zhu Shaoyu took the initiative to ask to remove himself from the clan, but the patriarch who succeeded him at that time did not agree to this request, but instead celebrated with great fanfare and feasted.
The clan wondered again, why did the patriarch and his predecessor adopt the opposite attitude. The patriarch patiently explained to everyone: During the Kangxi Period, contradictions were sharp, writing prisons were prevalent, and officials were all in danger, not to mention that the Zhu family and the Ming Dynasty royal family had the same surname, which was expelled to protect themselves.
The words of the patriarch were indeed true, and in the end, Zhu Shaoyu successfully achieved the position of directly subordinate to the governor, and thanks to Zhu Shaoyu's protection and promotion, the Zhu clan was also able to prosper and develop in the long run, and the wisdom contained in it could not help but be admired.