729. Governing the country is easy, managing the family is difficult (Part 2)
Jing Wen proposed to make Yuriko a wife, but Cheng Lin refuted it again. Because Yuriko is a foreigner and belongs to a very distant Japanese country, this is not suitable. During this period, the Central Plains civilization was very proud and looked down on foreigners very much. However, Yuriko is a very remote country, and the level of civilization is very low, which is much worse than the Central Plains. Yuriko is not reliable than Ashinayun, because after all, Ashinayun is a Turkic person, and the Turkic people were comparable to the Central Plains. They were an equal country. Even if the Turkic country was destroyed, the power of the tiger's death is still there. The Turkic people were still quite high in the minds of the people of the Tang Dynasty. However, even if Japan is not in the ordinary, after all, a remote country does not even have much civilization, so it is not very recognized in the minds of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Jing Wen is no longer an ordinary person now. It is not impossible for ordinary people to marry a barbaric woman as their wife. However, Jing Wen has a different identity. After all, he is a third-rank official in the court. If he is a barbaric foreign woman who is not even as good as the Turks, this is obviously not suitable. After all, Jing Wen can be said to be the example of many people. Japan in this era is not the later world economic power Japan. In the minds of the people of the Central Plains, the Japanese country in this era is not even as good as the Turks or even Tubo Goguryeo. For the people, Yuriko, the princess of the Japanese country, is the daughter of an ordinary tribal chief in the minds of many people. The daughter of the tribal chief wants to be the wife of the third-rank official in the Tang Dynasty. This is obviously not worthy of many Central Plains officials! This is actually caused by inconvenient transportation in ancient times. Although Japan is relatively weak, it is not as different from a tribal leader.
However, since everyone thinks so, Jing Wen cannot go against their ideas. After all, Jing Wen must stay in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty and cannot do anything that is not sociable. Once everyone thinks it is not sociable, it will be a severance of the relationship. Therefore, Yuriko is not suitable.
"Who is the right one? Dugu Xin?" Jing Wen asked again.
Cheng Lin replied: "Dugu Xin is OK, but we have another place to consider! Husband. Then, where will you put Sister Cui Ying and Sister Xiao Wei? Don't deny it. Can you not know what you think of them? Now the Dugu family has declined, and the Cui family and the Xiao family are the most prosperous family. Do you make a woman from a declining family a fair wife? But are you unwilling to make two daughters from a very prosperous family a fair wife?"
Jing Wen was speechless again. Dugu Xin was not a good choice, because Jing Wen also had other ideas about Xiao Wei and Cui Ying. Cui Ying was the daughter of the Cui family of the Seven Clans and Five Clans. Although she could not return home for the time being, the Cui family did not clearly declare that she would drive Cui Ying out of the house. Since there was no clear statement, it means that Cui Ying was nominally the daughter of the Cui family. What would Cui Ying think then? If Jing Wen asked Cui Ying to be a concubine, wouldn’t it be a slap in the face of Cui Tan?
Of course, although Cui Tan agreed to Jing Wen's pursuit of his daughter, there was no rule of a balanced wife before. Now that he has it, doesn't Cui Tan want to win a higher status for his daughter? This is obviously impossible! It was one thing to have no choice before, but now he has a choice that is another thing. So, if Cui Ying continues to be a concubine, it would be a slap Cui Tan in the face.
As for Xiao Wei, the same is true for Xiao Wei. Although Xiao Wei’s father Xiao Yu has retired now, this old guy is still a big family. The ancestors of the Xiao family have been emperors, and after generations, they are also a big family. In addition, the Xiao family is now in the Tang Dynasty. They are a big family, so naturally they cannot be underestimated. When Xiao Wei comes, I am afraid that Xiao Yu will not recognize his daughter as a concubine!
Jing Wen knew that he was trapped in his own way. He proposed the so-called legalization of a wife, which caused many conflicts in his family. Now, there is a problem with whoever is a wife, so Jing Wen has a headache!
If Jing Wen was just an ordinary person, then there was no problem. But now Jing Wen is no longer an ordinary person, and he is still a high-ranking official of the court, so he cannot easily mess around. If Jing Wen dared mess around easily, the impact would be huge and very bad.
"Then I'll let them compete for employment, what do you think?" Jing Wen asked.
Jing Wen is now forced to come up with the theory of competing for employment. Jing Wen later told Cheng Lin that he would let several women work hard on their own, and then everyone should calm down together to see who contributes more to the family, so that whoever can get a position of equal wife.
"Husband, your statement is too..." Cheng Lin had nothing to say.
"How is this? How is this method?" Jing Wen asked proudly.
Cheng Lin shook her head and said, "No! If you do this, it will intensify their struggle! We were originally all trying to please you, and you could also use it as an arbitration. But if they were asked to work hard and then evaluate each other, the final result would be to let them fight by themselves, and the whole family would not be able to feel at peace in the future. In this way, you will open your tripe and turn the original literary fight into a military fight, and the situation will definitely be worse. Because this is a family, not a hard work for the sake of competition for official positions. After all, this is still family affairs, and family affairs cannot be confused with official affairs!"
Cheng Lin’s statement also makes sense. Although everyone wants to get a flat wife position, this is still family matters, not official matters. If you are publicly fighting for official positions, then everyone can do it. But now this is family matters and a warm home. If a family is so official, then what kind of family affection can be expressed?
If you really compete for employment as Jing Wen said just now, the relationship between the beauties will probably be completely disbanded. Jing Wen is actually deliberately provoking competition and letting them fight each other. Once the fight begins, can the family be as harmonious as before? Once a fight occurs, it is not so easy to reconcile again. It is easy for humans to fight, even if it is easy for a family, but it is much more difficult to reconcile the two sides of the fight than to stir up a fight.
If Jing Wen had provoked a battle between several beauties now, even if one of them was obtained in the future, their relationship would not be so harmonious next time. At that time, Jing Wen would have to dig a hole and bury it himself.
"It's true that managing a family is more difficult than governing a country!" Jing Wen sighed. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!