In 318 BC, King Shenliang of Zhou was in the third year, King Kang of Song was in the eleventh year, and Zhuangzi was 52 years old.
In this year, King Song Kang began to claim the throne.
In the same year, King Kang of Song sent troops to the east to attack the state of Qi and captured five cities.
Attack the state of Chu to the south and seize 300 miles of land.
Attacking the Wei army to the west, the results were fruitful.
As a result, it became hostile to Qi and Wei.
King Chu Huai of the State of Chu was incompetent and did not react for the time being.
In this year, due to the war of aggression launched by King Kang of Song, the people of the Song Kingdom began to be unhappy.
In order to expand his military strength, King Kang of Song changed his previous conscription policy, no longer taking care of the family burden of his people and future population development, and all healthy adult men must serve in the military.
This year, Zhuangzi's two sons-in-law, the adopted sons of begging half-and-half and begging families, were forcibly dragged to serve as soldiers.
Because the two of them entered the army and were pulled to the battlefield before they had time to train, they were unfortunately killed in battle.
On the battlefield, the death rate of recruits is high.
However, without new recruits as cannon fodder, the chances of winning the battle are slim.
If the army is full of veterans, although it can win the battle.
It's just a small chance.
Recruits only know how to charge and kill the enemy, but they don't know how to dodge.
And veterans generally rush to the front when there is no danger, bringing up the morale of the recruits.
Then, when they saw that they were in danger, they shouted at the recruits to rush forward, and they hid behind the recruits.
Of course, the military regulations are there, and the veterans can't completely hide behind the recruits, but also have to rush forward with the current.
So the veterans also suffered some casualties.
In short, the veterans are as cunning as they are, and the mortality rate is smaller.
Zhuangzi's son-in-law, who is the adopted son of the two beggars and beggars, both of whom have learned martial arts from their stepfathers, and neither of them knows the height of the sky.
So after fighting a few battles, I thought I could make a meritorious service.
As a result, he was soon killed in battle.
They died fighting for King Song Kang, but each of them left behind several children, orphans and widows.
Two families, the elder family has four children, three sons and one daughter.
The second family also has four babies, two daughters and two sons. and the beggar and the beggar, each gave birth to four children.
Now that the adopted son is dead, all the burden falls on the elders.
Zhuangzi and Mai'er had no choice but to take out the hidden silver at home and subsidize their two families.
Zhuang Ping and Zhuang Geng escaped because they fell ill when they first came to forcibly recruit soldiers.
The family burden of the two was too heavy and too tired, so they got sick.
In fact, it was not entirely that they were really sick, but that they learned that King Song Kang was going to forcibly recruit soldiers, so they began to pretend to be sick.
The sons and daughters are all trained by Zhuangzi and Mao'er, and they are all obedient, and they can find a way to survive in this troubled world.
But after all, the son-in-law is someone else's family, and he was trained by someone else, not a complete Taoist.
From the autumn of 318 BC, the life of the Song people was ordinarily sad.
As a direct result of the war, the population was declining dramatically and the burden on the families of the people was increasing.
When King Song Kang raised his glass to celebrate the victory, the people were crying.
King Kang's victory was won with the lives of countless Song people, sons and husbands of countless Song families.
From this year onwards, in order to help his son's and daughter's families survive, to help the people around him survive, and to take out the gold and silver hidden in his family to help others, Zhuangzi had to live a life of borrowing debts everywhere.
In fact, borrowing debts is fake, and it is a disguised use of the gold and silver at home, and it is said that it is borrowed.
Of course, in this troubled world, you don't expect others to pay back the money you lend to others.
Zhuangzi did this out of compassion.
Life is just a process of life, forget it when you die, what do you want to do with so much gold and silver You can only take care of your children while you live, and you can't know what will happen to your children when you die.
In this troubled world, if you are not a real human body, you may die at any time.
It's really a matter of life Therefore, it is not wise to save money for children and grandchildren.
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The children and grandchildren died unexpectedly, and the children and grandchildren used up the money of their ancestors, in short, the children and grandchildren have to face their lives as well.
In the face of life, we must have our own way of survival, not dependence.
You give money to your children and grandchildren, and your children and grandchildren get dependence.
After relying on it, they have to face life and face the difficulties they face.
There is also Taoism that focuses on integrating into life, rather than living in isolation.
To integrate into life is to live like the people around you, not to be different, not to live better than others, and to live worse than others.
If you are worse than others, others will look down on you and ignore you.
If you live better than others, regardless of the life and death of others, others will hate you and curse you as much.
Even framing you, killing you, and when you are in trouble, others will not help you.
There's even a schadenfreude mentality, waiting to see your jokes.
Therefore, Taoism pays attention to living like the people around you.
That's what it means to fit into life.
The amount of silver that was left behind at the beginning was not only for the children and future generations, but also for use in the current troubled times.
In order to take out the gold and silver and use it, Zhuangzi had to borrow money from everywhere to make an illusion, and then he could take out the gold and silver at home and use it.
Otherwise, where did you make up the gold and silver?
The source of your wealth is unknown The youngest son-in-law is a disabled officer who has retired from service, so naturally he does not have to serve in the military.
But he lost his labor force and could not do many things, so he could only take care of the house and do housework.
Therefore, the actual income of Zhuangzi's family is not much, so they rely on Mai'er and Zhuang Lian to embroider.
In these troubled times, in these difficult years, embroidery is not a good profession, and not many people can afford to spend it.
Therefore, the embroidery income of Maier and Zhuang Lian is not much.
Moreover, no matter what profession you are engaged in, King Song Kang will charge a professional fee.
In other words, as long as you are in this business, you have to pay a fixed "salaries tax" every year.
Since Zhuangzi got married, he no longer knitted straw sandals and had no source of income.
The people who should have borrowed it have been borrowed, and Zhuangzi really has no way to think about it, so he remembered his youngest son Zhuang Su.
Since the youngest son Zhuang Su "married" to the family of Jianhe Hou, except for Zhuang Su who came back a few times, the two families have almost not interacted.
Zhuangzi was unwilling to associate with this prison river marquis, and he was equally unwilling to sell his son, but the prison river marquis still wished for this.
Because the Marquis of Jianhe is a hereditary nobleman and has a network, Zhuang Su, as the son-in-law of the Marquis of Jianhe, naturally does not have to serve in the military.
There was no way, and he was anxious to take out the gold and silver hidden at home and use it, so Zhuangzi decided to go to the county to find this in-law and borrow some silver back.
Anyway, there is money at home, and the money borrowed is for others to see, and it is said that it will be repaid on the same day, that is, it is a matter of changing hands.
"His dad won't go," the seller stopped.
"If you don't go, what can you do and watch others die," Zhuangzi said.
"People look down on us and are afraid that we will stick to their house, but his father will not go," the seller strongly discouraged.
Zhuangzi didn't listen, so he still went to the county seat of Mengxian County to borrow grain from his in-laws, the supervisor of Hehou. aa2705221: