Hai Rui is so poor, why did he marry three wives and two concubines?

Hai Rui was an honest official all his life, and his family had no money to spare, but he married three wives and two concubinesIt's not for pleasure, it's just for filial piety. The ancients said that "unfilial piety has three nos, and the queen is the greatest", Hai Rui's two sons died one after another, and the Hai family did not have another male for a long time, and the old mother was very anxious. In order to give birth to a boy as soon as possible and comfort his mother, Hai Rui had to marry three wives and two concubines.

1. A brief biography of Hai Jui

Hai Rui, whose name is Gangfeng, was born in 1514 and died in 1587, a famous Qing official of the Ming Dynasty. He has experienced the four dynasties of Zhengde, Jiajing, Wanli and Longqing in his life, and has served as the state judge, the head of the household department, the director of the military department, and the imperial history of the right capital. Hai Rui was innocent all his life, not only strict with himself, but also jealous and hateful, daring to resolutely fight against bad tendencies, and even daring to write a book to severely criticize Emperor Jiajing, whose name of honesty and honesty shook the world.

Second, Hai Jui's troubles

Hai Rui has experienced several setbacks in his life, several demotion and several appointments, and was even imprisoned by Emperor Jiajing, but he was calm and fearless, thinking that it was his own business. But he also has his own troubles. Hai Rui had two sons in his early years, Hai Zhongliang and Hai Zhongtuo, but they both died in infancy, and the Hai family has not added any more men since then.

The ancients often said that "unfilial piety is the greatest", and Hai Rui has always been deeply disturbed by this. And his old mother is a person with a strong traditional concept, thinking that Hai Rui's delay in having no heirs will make the Hai family cut off the incense, which is absolutely unacceptable, so she urged Hai Rui several times to let him marry a few more wives and concubines, and strive to give birth to a man as soon as possible.

Hai Rui was a well-known Qing official, who barely bought any land, property, house and family wealth during his official period, and his life was already very poor. But in order to comfort his mother, he had to cut back on food and clothing, squeeze money out of his teeth, and repeatedly marry wives and concubines.

3. Hai Rui's regrets

Hai Rui tried his best to marry so many wives and concubines, but fate played a malicious joke on him, so many wives and concubines, but in the end he still failed to give birth to a boy. Hai Rui, who was honest all his life, finally did not have a male queen, which became the regret of his life.

It can be seen that Hai Rui married three wives and two concubines, which is essentially different from those high-ranking officials and nobles who are greedy for pleasure, and his purpose is just to have a descendant.

He was a dutiful son, and he married three wives and two concubines for the sake of his heirs. His three sons and three daughters died. He was not well paid, and he was a clean official, so he was very poor.

Because it was a social and cultural tradition of the time, everyone had to abide by it, regardless of whether they were rich or poor.

Because he wasn't poor all the time, and later he still had a little money, so he was still able to marry a few wives.

Hai Rui was actually born in Qiongshan, Hainan, in an ordinary family. His father died when he was 4 years old, leaving him and his mother to live together. The reason why Hai Rui marries wives and takes concubines so frequently is mainly because of filial piety first.

Because he attaches great importance to the inheritance of his heirs, he can only let himself have a son by frequently marrying wives and taking concubines. If he can't give birth to a boy in this life, then his life will be regrettable.

What is Hai Jui's background?

Hai Rui was born on January 22, 15 14 A.D., in Qiongshan, Hainan, in a very ordinary family. His father died when he was 4 years old, and he and his mother have lived together since then, thanks to the dozens of acres of fertile land that can make them sustain their livelihood. His mother is very strong, and after her husband died, she pinned all her hopes on Hai Rui and sent a royal notice, and she was very strict with Hai Rui.

Hai Rui is very sensible, he has studied hard since he was a child, and he is also very filial and never disobeys his mother. He was promoted in high school at the age of 35, and later gave up the imperial examination when he was nearly 40 years old. In 1554, he was promoted to the magistrate of the county because of his outstanding performance, and later became the head of the military department, Shang Baocheng.

Why does he frequently marry wives and take concubines?

Hai Rui has married a total of 5 wives, three wives and two concubines. Among them were two ladies, who died because of him. But he didn't have a particularly good attitude towards these five wives and children.

Xu, the wife of the hair, was divorced by Hai Rui because he never gave birth to a boy. The second wife, Pan, was kicked out of the door only a month after passing through the door. His third wife, Wang, gave birth to two boys, but neither of them grew up in the end.

Hai Rui, who was close to the age of confusion, did not have a son, so he began to take concubines. Therefore, Hai Rui's frequent concubines are mainly for the sake of being able to have a son to pass on the incense.

What is the end of Hai Jui?

Although Hai Rui was honest all his life, he was too foolish and filial to his mother. caused him to marry wives and concubines one after another, and he attached too much importance to incense, so he was still marrying concubines in his 70s. If only he hadn't been so blind to his mother at first.

Divorce the wife of the hair, maybe it won't be like this.

He came from a poor family. was ridiculed by many people, including those girls, so he frequently married wives and concubines in order to mock those girls.

He is a ** in the Tongzhu Ming Dynasty, and he is very honest, and he has also been praised and admired by many people. This is because every child he touched died when he was young, so he let the other party give birth to his own children by agitating him to marry a wife and take a concubine.

Hai Jui is an honest and honest person. Hai Jui and his mother let the orphans and widows depend on each other. Hai Ruitan's mother is a very good and strong woman, and she is very strict with Hai Rui.

Hai Jui listened to his mother very much, so when his mother wanted Hai Jui's sons who had children, he also listened to his mother's words.

A good official who is honest, upright, and resolute, clean and self-loving, and deeply loved by the people has married three wives and accepted two concubines, and it is rumored that he has been married nine times, and still accepts young women as concubines in his old age, and it is rumored that his family is poor, how can he afford so much money?

First of all, Hai Rui served as the county magistrate not long after the 28th year of Jiajing, which was the beginning of his career, and it is assumed that when he served as the county magistrate, the living standard of ordinary people must be higher, and his salary level must not be lower than the ordinary consumption level, and at that time, no matter what kind of meat the price was about a few cents per catty, it is likely that he can't afford meat is an exaggeration, in other words, even if he really can't afford meat, this situation only exists when he first took office.

Secondly, marrying three wives is not something that happens at the same time. Hai Rui's first wife, Xu, had two daughters for him and had no sons. Hai Rui is a very filial person, some people speculate that it is because Confucianism pursues the idea of filial piety that there are three unfilial pieties and no queen is the greatest, and some people speculate that Xu and her mother-in-law are at odds, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have deep contradictions before they were abandoned by Hai Rui.

After Hai Rui and Mrs. Xu divorced, he married Mrs. Pan again. However, less than a month after Mrs. Pan arrived at the Hai family, she was abandoned again, and the reason for the abandonment is unknown.

Then he married Mrs. Wang, Jiajing forty-three years, Hai Rui went north to serve, because Mrs. Haitai could not stand the cold in the north, therefore, let Mrs. Wang stay to serve, then Hai Rui accepted the first concubine, Longqing two years, Mrs. Wang died of illness, the day before his death, Hai Rui's concubine suddenly hanged herself. Wanli returned to officialdom in the thirteenth year, and Hai Rui, who was seventy-three years old, had two concubines by his side, so it seems that not every wife and concubine were jointly supported by Hai Rui. Therefore, the pressures of his life did not lead him to a situation where he could not even afford meat.

In addition, according to historical records, Hai Rui owned about 40 acres of land in his hometown, and he could obtain a certain rent by leasing the land to tenants. And from the fact of his official promotion, it can be known that his income has actually increased to a certain extent, and with the additional income from leasing land, he can cover the living income of his family and the expenses of his wife and concubine.

In the end, in my opinion, the reason why Hai Rui can still marry a young and beautiful concubine after his age is closely related to his personality charm, although he treats his wife relatively coldly and coldly, and has never really loved one of them, but he has a good literary style, a very high reputation, is honest and honest, and has a certain personality charm, which is the result of his wife and concubine serving left and right.

Because Hai Jui is not so poor, history just deliberately portrays Hai Jui as a poor person.

Because of the misunderstanding of time, Hai Rui did not marry so many wives when he was so poor that he couldn't even afford meat, but he could afford meat when he married so many wives.

That's because he was very charismatic personally, and these ladies were willing to marry him.

Because he has charisma, those women like his people, not his money.

"Hai Jui's poor can't even afford meat" is a fallacy. Indeed, Hai Rui usually "picks the door" and pays no attention to dressing, which leaves the impression of poverty on the people and netizens. In fact, Hai Jui was not poor at all, and at that time he was a rich man with small assets.

Many people question whether a "poor" Qing official like Hai Rui can afford to marry 3 wives and 2 concubines? Rest assured, Hai Jui's family conditions are enough for him to support his five wives. The Ming Dynasty's Yulu was notoriously low, but Hai Rui's father and grandfather were both **, and decades of accumulation of silver made it no problem for the Hai family to become a well-off class.

Besides, Hai Rui has gone through four dynasties and has been an official for more than 40 years, and there are dozens of acres of land at home, plus the Lu rice distributed by the imperial court, so he doesn't have to worry about not being able to marry a wife. Besides, Hai Rui's monthly salary after his promotion was as high as 24 taels**, which was considered a "millionaire" at that time. <

So why did Hai Jui leave the impression of poverty on netizens and ordinary people? The main reason is that he is unkempt and has no requirements for food, clothing, housing and transportation. It's light tea all year round, and even if you go to Beijing to do business, you wear a torn robe, and now it's probably a raunchy "otaku rich generation".

It is said that Hai Jui does not eat meat all year round, and only goes to the vegetable market to buy some pork on his mother's birthday. In Hai Rui's own opinion, this is a "necessity" for his birthday, but in the eyes of ordinary people and netizens, Hai Rui bought pork with filial piety and "gritted his teeth" in extreme poverty.

The misunderstanding about Hai Jui doesn't stop there. It is recorded in the history that Hai Rui once starved his daughter to death because she had "physical contact" with a neighbor's boy, which is in fact a false rumor. It is true that Hai Rui is a clean official who adheres to the bottom line, but he has never done such a thing, and he is not an extremely pedantic "antique".

NopeNot to mention, in such a "flattering" era, it is not easy for Hai Rui to adhere to his original heart, actively redress the grievances of the people, and help the people who have suffered unjustly to seek justice. This is also the reason why he became a celebrity and a Qing official through the ages, and he was once able to "compare" with Bao Zheng.

Although Hai Rui was very poor, he had a very high status in the Ming Dynasty, and he was a second-class member of the imperial court when he was the official to the Nanjing Military Department. Because Hai Rui has a high status and a good reputation, he can take three wives and four concubines.

Because although he has no money, he has status, background, and the support of bigwigs behind him.

Because he must have a certain talent, so that he will attract the attention of women, and there are many women who are not for money, but simply appreciate the charm of this man, so he will marry so many wives.

Because his career is getting smoother and smoother, and his income in the later period is also a lot, he also has a certain economic ability.

Because he married the daughters of some poor families, their parents sold them, **very low, not even a pound of meat**, so he can afford to marry.

Hai Jui was honest and honest all his life, and he was a famous clean official in Chinese history. Because he is honest and honest, he never bends the law for bribes or favoritism, and he is so poor in this high position that he can't even afford to eat meat.

There is no way, the ** Yulu of the Ming Dynasty is very low, if you only rely on the Yulu of the imperial court, although you will not starve to death, it is impossible to live a superior life.

In this case, why can Hai Rui, who can't even afford to eat meat, still marry 5 wives?

Let's analyze it from the official positions that Hai Jui has held.

Hai Jui's path to the imperial examination was not smooth, and he was only admitted to the examination when he was 35 years old. But in the next two examinations, Hai Rui was named Sun Shan. However, when he was 40 years old, the Guangdong political envoy arranged a position for Hai Rui, to go to Nanping County, Fujian Province to be a teacher, that is, a teacher who had a formal establishment and could enjoy the imperial court.

It can be seen from this that although the 40-year-old Hai Rui has no official position, at least he has been favored by a provincial governor-level bigwig.

At the age of 44, Hai Rui was appointed as the county magistrate of Chun'an, and now he is the county magistrate, a department-level cadre, and Hai Rui has also entered the official career. And even now, a 44-year-old director-level cadre is very rare.

When Hai Rui was 50 years old, he was appointed as the head of the Yunnan Department of the Ministry of Households. The household department is similar to today's Ministry of Finance, and the Yunnan Department is similar to the various departments under the Ministry of Finance, which means that Hai Rui became a department-level cadre at the age of 50.

At the age of 52, Hai Jui was transferred to the Ministry of War, which is equivalent to today's Ministry of Defense. Later, he was transferred to Dali Temple, which is equivalent to today's Supreme People's Court. Zuo Tongzheng, who was appointed to the Department of General Administration when he was 54 years old, is equivalent to the director of the State Bureau of Letters and Visits, which is already the level of a deputy ministerial-level cadre.

At the age of 55, Hai Rui served as the governor of Yingtian and served as the imperial historian of the right capital. These two official positions, one is equivalent to the current provincial governor and the other is equivalent to the current deputy procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and these are both positions of ministerial-level cadres. At this time, Hai Rui was a high-ranking authority, and he was the feudal official in charge of one party.

And these two official positions are also the highest positions held by Hai Rui in his life.

Back to the previous question.

Indeed, Hai Rui is really poor, so poor that he can't even afford to eat meat. But no matter how poor he is, he is a court official and a feudal official, and his social status is not comparable to those who are rich.

After all, since ancient times, China has paid attention to agriculture and industry, Hai Rui is not only a scholar, but also a feudal official, poor is poor, what is wrong with marrying him? After all, Hai Jui's official position is there, who can't respectfully call Mrs. when he sees it? Naturally, there will be many people who are willing to marry Hai Rui.