In November of the seventh year of Jiajing, Wang Shouren, a famous writer, military strategist and thinker, died of illness on the way home. Unfortunately, soon after his death, the once-prominent Wang family fell apart and fell off a cliff. The root cause of civil strife is not the conventional "disaster and depression wall", but the "toss" of the saints.
Because Wang Shouren has been childless since he got married, he succeeded his cousin Wang Shouxin's son Wang Zhengxian as his heir. But there was a happy or embarrassing event in the fifth year of Jiajing, and Wang Shouren's concubine Zhang gave birth to his youngest son Wang Zhengyi.
After the Ming Dynasty, there are generally two ways to deal with parent-child children. The first is to dissolve the father-son relationship with the stepson and let him return to his original ancestry. The second is to continue to keep him as an heir, and have the right to inherit his father's title, family property, etc. Judging from the fact that Wang Shouren did not let Wang Zhengxian return to the sect before his death, he most likely chose the latter (probably worried about Wang Zhengyi's death).
In addition, Wang Shouren had another worry in his later yearsIt's a mess at home
After the death of Wang Shouren's father Wang Hua, due to his perennial absence and inability to take care of the family, the internal affairs of the Wang family were entrusted by Wang Shouren to the housekeeper Wei Tingbao (Wang Shouren's stepmother, Mrs. Zhao, was unwilling to preside over the family affairs). Although he has the support of the head of the family, Wei Tingbao's "home" is difficult to be.
The Wang family only made a rapid fortune after Wang Huazhong became the champion, and the psychology of the nouveau riche made many Wang family members who had risen pretentious and acted with high spirits. Wang Shouren's group of uncles and nephews naturally don't look down on Wei Tingbao, who is originally a servant, how can they be under his jurisdiction, so the Wang family is not peaceful at all.
Many of Wang Shouren's family letters can also corroborate this point, such as "everyone in the family should follow Tingbao's teachings", "everyone must listen to Wei Tingbao's decision", "Lai Tingbao corrects family affairs", "All hundreds should listen to Wei Tingbao's advice", "All family affairs should be discussed with Wei Tingbao", and so on.
repeatedly emphasized, on the one hand, to show his attitude, and on the other hand, it also shows that Wei Tingbao is difficult to restrain the unscrupulous children of the Wang family. To this end, Wang Shouren appointed his students Xue Kan, Qian Dehong, and Wang Ruzhong to assist Wei Tingbao in managing his family.
As soon as Wang Shouren died, this group of ** people looked at Wang Zhengxian unpleasantly, and wanted to support Wang Zhengyi, who had not yet passed the premature death period, as the heir.
Some people think that Wang Shouren's ** is doing this to care for his young son Wang Zhengyi, and to put an end to the possibility of Wang Zhengxian** Wang Zhengyi and being in charge of the Wang family alone. Even if they really think so, they can only say that they have good ideas and stupid behaviors.
First of all, Wang Zhengxian has been performing very well since his succession, and after Wang Zhengyi was born, he did not have any actions against Wang Zhengyi. If you can be convicted only on the basis of "suspicion", you have to drive out all the members of the Wang family.
Note: In fact, Wang Zhengxian is not bad to his younger brother, not long after Wang Zhengyi was born, Wang Zhengxian transferred the position of Jinyi Wei Qianhu obtained by Yin Wang Shouren for his military exploits to Wang Zhengyi.
Secondly, not to mention that Wang Zhengyi has not yet passed the period of death, his growth also needs the protection and support of his close relatives. After driving away Wang Zhengxian, how did Wang Zhengyi prevent the ** of his uncles and elders, and what did he rely on to deter the evil slaves?
The "eldest brother raising the younger brother" that was supposed to appear evolved into a demolition of the family because of Wang Shouren's "assumptions" of the "assumptions".
They first united with Wang Chengzhai, a servant sent by the imperial court to mourn, and deliberately insinuated that Mrs. Zhao wanted to seize the family property for her son Wang Shouwen (Wang Shouren's younger brother). The Zhao family, who fell into the trap, stated that he would not interfere in the affairs of the Wang family in order to prove his innocence and anger, and Wang Shouwen was also forced to say that he would no longer participate in family affairs. Then, they squeezed Wei Tingbao, the housekeeper who had lost the support of the head of the family, out of the Wang family.
The ** who held the power of the Wang family first made the decision for Wang Shouren and straightened his concubine Wu as his wife (before Wang Shouren's death, Xue Kan and others advised him to set up Wu as his wife to preside over the affairs of the back house, but Wang Shouren did not agree). Then, through the new "housemother" Wu family, he continued to put pressure on Wang Shouren's heir, Wang Zhengxian, to force him to leave the main line of the Wang family.
In October of the eighth year of Jiajing, Wang Shouren's group of strong ** people, with ".Divide the food to prevent microscopic foodFor this reason, the relatives of the Wang family were summoned to separate the families of Wang Zhengxian and Wang Zhengyi.
Strictly inside and outside to avoid suspicion, divide food to prevent micro, one should have, congregation analysis, with a consensus. In the future, if grace is inherited, there will also be law. Zhengcong is young, and the family affairs are managed by relatives, and the two comrades are taken in turn every year to support them together, and the uncles and nephews are not allowed to participate.There are three main contents of the separation. First, Wang Zhengyi became Wang Shouren's heir and inherited his mantle; Second, Wang Zhengxian is not allowed to compete with Wang Zhengyi for family business (including the newly built earl title that has been deprived by the imperial court); Third, the Wang family's family affairs are temporarily presided over by the Wu family, and the uncles and nephews are not allowed to interfere, and Wang Shouren's ** work in shifts every year to support the two of them.The same door wheel year to care for orphans "Xue Kan.
It seems that the overall situation has been decided, but the new mother Wu quickly repaid the trust of Wang Shouren with practical actions.
The Wu family didn't have a lot of mother's belly, so they first teamed up with the relatives of the Wang clan to suppress Wang Zhengyi's biological mother, Zhang, ".So that the mother of Zhengyi is in a dangerous place, and there is no way to be at ease”。After rectifying the Zhang family for more than two years, he began to toss the young Wang Zhengyi as his mother-in-law.
Wu asked his henchmen and maids to take care of Wang Zhengyi, not only preventing his biological mother from seeing him, but also preventing Wang Shouren's students from seeing him. Wu's attempt is not directly recorded in historical sources, so it can only be said that it is extremely scary.
Later, Wang Shouren's student Ouyang De realized that something was wrong, and Huang Honggang, Li Feng and others forcibly took Wang Zhengyi out of the backyard, so that he could get rid of the control of the Wu family, which can be called Wang's version of the "palace transfer case".
In order to settle Wang Zhengyi, Huang Honggang came forward to reach a marriage with Huang Xuan, a waiter of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites. Huang Juan married his daughter to Wang Zhengyi, and took this son-in-law to Nanjing to raise him until he reached adulthood.
At this point, Wang Shouren's two sons were exiled from the Wang family, and could only sit back and watch the Wang family's unscrupulous children, relatives, and slaves wantonly suck the family property accumulated by Wang Shouren and his father.
Wang Zhengyi's father-in-law Huang Juan is much smarter than Wang Shouren's cadres. In the name of not seeking to rob his son-in-law's family wealth, he carried out a "property notarization" in the 11th year of Jiajing. List the industries inherited by Wang Zhengyi one by one, and let all parties express their approval.
This not only protects Wang Zhengyi's family business to the greatest extent, but also creates an opportunity to suppress the Wang family's Xiao Xiao. Wang Shouren's **, in order to correct the previous mistakes, they once again made the decision for Wang Shouren, removed the status of Wu's wife (not divorced wife), and replaced Wang Zhengyi's biological mother Zhang as his wife.
If he had directly supported the Zhang family as his wife before, why would there be so much trouble? As for why Wang Shouren's students were not like this at that time, they probably took it for granted that they didn't want to "Si Chen". thinks that the Wu family has no heirs, so he won't think about interfering in the affairs of the Wang family and controlling Wang Zhengyi.
But the student "changed" his wife for the teacher twice, and this is the only case in the ages. For Wang Shouren, this is definitely not a good reputation.
To sum up, it can be seen that the turmoil of the Wang family's separation this time was completely tossed by Wang Shouren's cadres. However, they can toss the Wang family like this, and Wang Shouren himself also has "responsibility".
This educator is too good, and the ** that is stored and taught is excellent. They are not only leaders of scholars in the local area, but also officials. It is precisely because of their prestige and ability that they are able to intervene in the teacher's family affairs in the name of the students.
The wanton behavior of these students not only tormented the Wang family, but also ruined Wang Shouren's career. The psychology founded by Wang Shouren was destroyed in the hands of this group of wanton students. From another point of view, this is also a failure of Wang Shouren's education.