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 and sent someone to check on the original body's parents.
Yes, the time-traveling man is now eighty years old, and most of his sons are naturally married. Even in ancient times, people got married early, and the next generation would appear in less than twenty years, so he has five generations under the same roof. .
Therefore, 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, and it is impossible to take as many as you want, and ordinary people are not forty and have no children, and they are not even qualified. Taking concubines.
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 a fellow concubine was donated 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 are no restrictions, rich people can have countless concubines, which will lead to a large number of ordinary people without wives. Then a lot of bachelors will be in trouble.
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.
This is what a time-traveling man is like.
Therefore, 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 and concubines, and the family members are complicated, there are still many people who are willing to marry their daughters to the son of the time-traveling man Wang Xi. The reason is very simple. Everyone in the world knows that Wang Xi is rich and can rival the country, and his son When they get married, they are given a betrothal gift of tens of thousands taels every time.
Tens of thousands of taels are not something ordinary families can afford. After 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, how can it be worse?
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 pretty much the same, and he doesn't distinguish between good and bad.
As for Wang Xi, who was so rich and could live safely to the age of eighty without having his house confiscated by the emperor, the reason was that, firstly, he was not an ordinary commoner, but a queen of high rank; secondly, from the time he made his fortune, he had provided services to various people in Beijing. High-ranking families gave them shares and tied them to their boats; thirdly, they married their daughters to various high-ranking 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 the throne, whenever there was a natural disaster in the court, Wang Xi was always on the front line to donate money for disaster relief. Therefore, the previous generation of emperors Seeing that he knew things like this, there was no 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 ransacked the Wang family and exiled them after Wang Xi suffered a stroke was because it was 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 dealt with them in one fell swoop.
In fact, he was on the wrong team ten years ago. Wang Xi knew that something was 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's 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 a large ship and established a base overseas when he was young. Otherwise, he would have gone to Nanyang so recklessly. Even if he went there in a hurry, he would not be able to survive, and his wealth would still fall into the hands of others.
It's just that 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 in, it wouldn't make a difference, so Wang Xi saw that I was reluctant to use all the profits I earned to do this kind of thing, so I 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.
Therefore, it is useless no matter how much money you make without finding a way out.
In fact, Linlang felt that the main problem of the Wang family was still too high-profile.
He has more than a hundred beauties, creates hundreds of beautiful pictures, builds luxurious manors, and builds larger gardens in the suburbs for summer escape, and expands various business empires everywhere. Although he makes a lot of money, there is no foundation for the business empire. , 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 had not earned so much money and was not so high-profile, the emperor would not have raided his house. After all, there are countless rich people in the capital. You are not the one with the most money. The emperor's His eyes won't be on you.
But the Wang family is so rich that it is normal for the emperor to covet them.
Either ordinary people can't touch the Wang family, or ordinary people will covet it.
Therefore, if Wang Xi was not stupid, he should have pretended that he only had a few hundred thousand or at most a million and made a fortune in silence, instead of building a luxurious manor, getting so many women, getting his son married, and giving him tens of thousands The betrothal gift lets everyone know that he has a lot of money and attracts attention.
Wang Xi didn't know if he had read too many male pornographic novels, which was why he was so high-profile, got so many women, and then built such a big manor to accommodate so many women. He was too high-profile and was punished by the emperor.
But whether Wang Xi was stupid or not, Linlang wouldn't pay much attention to him. As long as she didn't get married, she would just be a member of the public and have fun listening to people in the capital talking about the Wang family's bad things.
