Chapter 4473: Position

Wang Ke's face looked a little ugly. He originally planned to recruit some people from his wife's natal family. After all, he didn't have a family. His father used to be a beggar. Later, he heard that he followed Guo Si as a horse bandit and was able to recruit Dong Zhuo when he met him. If you know your ancestral home, at most you know that you were born in Liangzhou.

This is why Wang Liang didn’t even know where his ancestral tombs were. However, he was also a free and easy man. He relied on military achievements to stand up later. He did not return to Liangzhou to find his family and pay homage to his ancestral tombs. He just hung out in Mount Tai, just every New Year. When I watch other people visit their graves, I feel a little embarrassed that I have no roots.

However, he got used to it after being embarrassed. Without ancestor sacrifices, it was also an idea to pay tribute to his comrades who died in the past. Anyway, when others visited the grave, he followed him and told the brothers below how he was doing recently. It is also a way of thinking that allows them to feel at ease even under Jiuquan.

"In other words, we can only rely on us?" Wang Ke turned his finger back to point at himself with an idiotic expression. There was no other way. Even if he was an idiot, he knew that just these few people in their family would not be able to play. Transferring a fiefdom cannot be run by just a few people. Even if the fiefdom gradually develops, it cannot only be run by a few people in their family at the beginning.

Even the Caotai team needs at least thirty or fifty people to run such a large place. And their family, including their disabled father, their son who has just entered elementary school, and their two daughters who have not gone to school, has a total of six people to run such a large place. Fiefdom, what a joke!

"No, besides the Zheng family in Xingyang, we have other things to rely on. The official document issued by Chang'an to you is to prepare you in advance." Zheng Ling shook her head and said, "It is impossible to rely on the Zheng family in Xingyang. Of course, there are some who may not have a clear mind or have no sons, but most of them will choose to rely on themselves.”

As long as there are no big twists and turns in the past few years, the concubines who have married from major aristocratic families have basically turned their heads and know who they will rely on in the future.

In fact, looking at Li Huan's situation at the time, we know that the concubine who designed Li Huan actually died with Li Huan. Maybe she had a mission attitude at first, but later she actually gave birth to a son for Li Huan, and she realized that Li Huan could indeed After supporting myself and being able to live a good life for myself and my son, my thoughts have already changed. At most, the change was too late.

A concubine from an aristocratic family such as Zheng Ling now follows the once most elite centurions from the Han family for as little as five or six years and as long as ten years. Normally, they have two or three children.

As for these most elite centurions, as long as they are still alive and have not been discharged from the army, they have basically reached the 11th and second-level titles, and even those who have been discharged from the army, such as Sun Er and Jiang Guang, are actually now mainstream. Eighth to tenth level knighthood.

Just like Zheng Ling thought before, when she got married a few years ago, she still felt that her natal family's family conditions were much better than her husband's family. But as time went by, the upper limit of her natal family's family was set there, as long as she was not a direct descendant. Sooner or later, our family will be surpassed by this group of young people standing at the forefront of the times.

The problem is that even with Chen Xi's reputation, it is impossible for major aristocratic families to marry the daughters of their direct lineage to elite men. Those who can marry are the concubines of their branches.

Even a family like the Deng family would not marry a concubine from a branch with a title of marquis. They accepted Chen Xi's suggestion, rather than being mentally ill and going crazy.

Therefore, when these young centurions pass the tenth level of knighthood, they have actually caught up with his wife's natal family. Maybe his wife will have some memory bonuses, but as their family's knighthood continues to improve, this thing Sooner or later it will be wiped clean.

Maybe the background is not as good as that of my wife's natal family. After all, I have a backer from the Liehou family. Maybe I can't compare to the other party in terms of education. Who makes the Liehou family pay attention to this these days, but in terms of their own strength and assets, to Young people of this level are actually not inferior to these branches at all.

Although it takes three generations to raise a noble, one can be killed with three punches.

Of course, they can't catch up with their temperament, but compared with their actual assets and development potential, these young people with twelfth and third-level titles are even worse than their wives' natal families.

After all, if you take the benefits of Liehou's family, your own family's upper limit will naturally be harvested. This is also an exchange of interests.

Therefore, those centurions who got married back then, as long as they survive to this day, can basically guarantee that the family assets and development potential of this group of people will never be inferior to their wives’ natal families, and their wives’ lives will be better. It's definitely better than when I was at my parents' house.

After all, those centenarians back then were all bare-chested, the kind where one person had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry. Now, they are just one man, one wife, two or three children, and they hold twelfth or third-level titles.

Compared with their wives' natal family, it is almost at the same level, but their wives' natal family really has to support a large family, so it is self-evident which one is more prosperous.

Jiang Guang’s wife went to her natal home and brought various things as gifts, which can actually explain a lot of problems. It is true that on the surface, Jiang Guang’s wife’s natal house is larger, and there are servants, maids, and carriages. And so on, it seems to be much better than Jiang Guang's family.

The problem is that these are actually used to show off the family's face, plus the foundation left by the ancestors. It is really not possible to say that the resources and power purely belong to Jiang Guang's wife's lineage, as well as the things that are actually controllable. Can surpass Jiang Guang.

The real difference between the two parties actually lies more in the ability to effectively monetize information, connections, and resources, rather than in the actual capital they hold.

To describe the situation in the 21st century, Jiang Guang and his wife's natal family both have assets of 100 million, and both can earn 18 million a year. Even Jiang Guang can earn more, but Jiang Guang only has 100 million in cash. , and her wife’s natal family has hundreds of millions in various physical properties, land, and shops. However, because there are so many bank loans, the actual assets are similar to Jiang Guang. After excluding all kinds of messy expenses every year, the actual accounts may not be as good as Jiang Guang’s. wide.

But judging from the reception and reception, as well as the feeling on the table, Jiang Guang's wife's natal family at least seems to be much better than Jiang Guang's family. But as Jiang Guang's wife knows both families well, her natal family is just that. , it seems to be just prosperous, not as good as my own family. After all, my natal family relies on the main line for protection and needs to turn over to the main line.

If you think about it carefully, your natal family's land, shops, these things truly belong to your natal family, and there are not many things that do not belong to the Chen family in Luoyang.

From a certain perspective, although things like clan have given you a certain amount of protection when you were growing up, you still have to pay back these things when you grow up but do not grow enough to change the rules of the clan.

Of course, if the strongest boss doesn't care about this, there is indeed no need to repay it. The problem is that this kind of thinking is basically equivalent to placing one's own destiny and one's own possibilities on others.

Wang Ke's wife Zheng Ling doesn't say she knows the Zheng family in Xingyang. At least she knows what kind of family background her own family and her natal family's branch have. Coupled with the things she has learned from her brother and sister-in-law in the past few years, she can basically be sure that she is. Not counting those imaginary things, the mother's family may not be able to suppress her own family without the help of the family's strength.

Since this was such a situation, Zheng Ling's already clear mind became even clearer.

Especially when Wang Ke put the fact of the fiefdom in front of her, Zheng Ling's mind became clearer and clearer - she accepted her mother's family's hint that her family's fiefdom would be completely eroded in the next few decades, and the most she could do was be praised by the direct descendants of the Zheng family. , but she is still a daughter of Zheng, still just a concubine from a branch, and still cannot enter the ancestral hall.

But if she refuses, completely refuses, even if there will be some conflicts with her natal family, she is also the mistress of the Wang family on the first page of the genealogy, Wang Zheng Shiling. As long as the Wang family is not wiped out, her tablet will enjoy the incense forever. .

A fiefdom of 10,000 square kilometers, capable of raising a population of one million, may not be as good as the direct descendants of the Zheng family in Xingyang in name, but in essence, this is already the foundation of the county king, so what else to choose?

In other words, what is the meaning of choice?

If you don't have a son, if you don't live well in the Wang family, you may still miss the days of the Zheng family's concubine, but I, Zheng Ling, live a good life in the Wang family. I am a member of the Wang family and the future mistress of the Wang family!

As Chen Xi said, if you have never seen prosperity, you cannot imagine that kind of glory, but if you have seen prosperity, how can you not expect that kind of glory.

The education Zheng Ling received in the Zheng family was to marry a well-matched husband and then try her best to become a good wife like her mother. However, she is a concubine, and even if she marries a branch of another family, she may not be able to become a good wife. First wife.

It was precisely because she was aware of this when she was eight or nine years old that she became eager to learn and worked hard to improve herself, hoping that she could be married off as the wife of a small family instead of being sent as a dowry concubine.

From a certain point of view, marrying Wang Ke was a fork in the road of fate. Although she was not a good match at the time, at least she was a legitimate wife, so she didn't have to worry about being given away as a gift one day.

But as Wang Ke struggled, Zheng Ling got closer and closer to her mother's position. Even after Wang Ke was promoted to the right, when Zheng Ling returned to her natal family, she suddenly realized that her childhood dream had come true.

But now, Zheng Ling originally didn't dare to think about it, even if she had witnessed it, she didn't dare to touch it. She only dared to look at it from a distance, for fear that if she got close, her dream would be burned again. Madam Hou, get in and out of the carriage, shouting in front of you and supporting you behind you!

That was a scene that Zheng Ling saw from afar when she was young. The mounted guard in front of the car, the luxurious frame, and the noble figure even made Zheng Ling, who was not qualified to accompany him and could only look at her parents from a distance, still remain at this moment. The memory is still fresh.

In the past, Zheng Ling did not dare to think about it, because every time she recalled that scene, it was a denial of her own struggle - just birth divided people into different levels. If they were not born, wouldn't they be there in this life?

Zheng Ling obviously knew that she was actually living a happy life, but as long as she dared to recall that scene more than ten years ago, she would be burned by the memory of that moment.

Why!

Zheng Ling really wanted to ask, but she couldn't or didn't dare to ask. Even now, after having three children, Zheng Ling has basically given up on this question completely.

What I saw with my own eyes when I was young, what was suppressed by social education when I grew up, and what I dare not dream about now, is all before me.

Why can't I be her?

I can be her!

Even if it's just possible, I can give it a try. Even if it's a dream, at least I can have this dream at this moment, and it won't sting my heart because of this dream. At least now I can feel right after this dream. My son and daughter confidently said, "Be good, mother will give you the opportunity to compete with Zheng Miao's children."

Maybe in terms of knowledge accumulation, maybe in terms of education, I really can't catch up with the direct descendants of the head of the family and Zheng Miao's children, but I can at least hold my children and say, my parents did their best, and the rest, I can't catch up with them. We can really catch up with our hard work.

What did Zheng Ling face before?

She is a mother who has gone through education and study. When she sees the child she gives birth to, she knows that her child's life will end. She also knows that her whole life's hard work will not reach the level of the head and wife of the Xingyang Zheng family in the end. , even after trying all their efforts, they still could only take a look at the opponent's level from a distance outside the track.

Desperate? If you don't think about it, you won't be desperate, but how can you not think about it.

If you can't see it, you can pretend you don't know it. If you can't see it, you can pretend it doesn't exist. But Zheng Ling lives in the Zheng family. She has seen it all with her own eyes. There are some things that you can't go back to when you see them.

This is also the reason why high-ranking families suppress human nature and have a clear sense of superiority and inferiority. They see a life that they cannot achieve in their lifetime efforts, and they can't find anything that can change it. In the end, they can only rely on superiority and inferiority.

This is the reason for despair, and the reason why rebels want to escape this kind of thing.

Just like a casino, small bets make you happy, but big bets can kill you. This thing changes your perception of money and effort. At that time, you found that your decades of hard work disappeared in an instant, and then turned around in an instant, and Once you develop a habit, your efforts lose meaning and you can’t go back.

Zheng Ling doesn't want to think about the wife of the head of the Zheng family, because Zheng Ling knows very well that before today, her efforts are not worth mentioning in the face of other people's background, and the same will be true if doubled or doubled again.

Before today, the clothes worn by the wife of the house were something that Zheng Ling was not qualified to wear in her life. The high-top horse and horse she rode on were also something that Zheng Ling could not achieve in her life.

What's more important is that some of the things that the heirs of the wife of the family can obtain are also things that her heirs cannot touch despite their hard work in this life.

For Zheng Ling, she had never questioned or understood. She just didn't dare to think about it and didn't want to be burned by the despair.

But one day when she can think about it without being burned by the brilliance, her thought is very simple, I want to be her, and I want my children to be like them.

Even if it cannot be fully realized, as long as it is possible, it is still good.

When ambitions begin to expand, it is not so easy to take them back, not to mention that there are enough and correct reasons. At this time, no one is willing to stand still.

"Can we withstand it?" Wang Ke habitually accepted his wife's proposal. At least his wife was smarter, more reliable, and understood Zheng better, but he couldn't erase the trace of hesitation.

As an ordinary person, Wang Ke still feels a certain amount of fear when faced with this kind of wealthy family that existed when he was born, even when his father and grandfather were born, and it is like a natural landscape. This is human nature. It's normal.

Just like most ordinary people will lose part of their fighting spirit when they look at certain existences, or even give up directly. Even if they actually have some kind of trump card, they will still feel awe when facing certain existences. It is the same reason. .

But for those who understand these existences, as long as they don't give up directly, the trump card in their hand is enough to play!

This is the difference in thinking between Zheng Ling and Wang Ke. Zheng Ling believes that without the Zheng family, if the Wang family fights her natal family head-on, they may not lose. Even with her as a traitor, they have a high chance of winning.

But in Wang Ke's view, let alone the Zheng family in Xingyang, the capital of his wife's natal family cannot be underestimated. Not to mention the possible interference of the Zheng family in Xingyang, just dealing with his wife's natal family may be overturned. .

In fact, this is a difference at the cognitive level. Just like when Chen Xi arranged blind dates and let concubines from aristocratic families marry elite centenarians, in the eyes of major aristocratic families, they suffered a loss, and even now there are still many The Aristocratic Family was actually doing this just to save Chen Xi's face, but later it was because Chen Xi was really invincible that they continued to do it.

In the eyes of the elite centenarians, this is directly the national government distributing welfare. A young lady who can read, write, and arithmetic and is much prettier than most country women comes with a dowry. This is directly the treatment of a winner in life.

At least for most centurions who are ordinary people, this is really a dream reflected in reality.

This is why a **** like Sun Er, after confirming that Zhang Ningning was willing to marry him, would rather break his own legs, give up his position as the first centurion of the Army Soul Corps, and retire from the army.

For many soldiers, being a soldier is just a job. The reason why they risk their lives is to have a better life. If their life is gone, they will be gone. However, it is not easy to marry a beautiful wife, start a family and start a career, but they are blind on the battlefield. , if one person dies, it’s not a loss.

This is why a group of top elites in the first year of Yuanfeng immediately retired from the army after marrying their wives. To put it bluntly, in their minds, they made money, earned blood, and took their wives home, no matter how hard they fought!