Everyone admires Xu Xiake, but few people know Xu Xiake's descendants. In fact, Xu Xiake has four sons, 1 daughter. Among these four sons, only one is Li Ji, a well-known celebrity, and the rest are ordinary people.
Xu Xiake is a noble family in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province. His family is rich, otherwise he wouldn't have the money to travel. Xu Xiake married four wives and concubines in his life. Zhou Yuan, her biological mother, was Xu Xiake's third concubine. Zhou and Xu Xiake get pregnant first and then get married.
After marriage, Xu Xiake went on a trip, and as a result, Zhou was unpopular at home. His wife, worried that Zhou was out of favor, kicked Zhou out of the house on the pretext that Xu Xiake was not at home and Zhou was pregnant, and at the same time gathered people to remove Zhou from the genealogy.
Being removed from the family tree in ancient times meant that a person broke off the relationship with the family. Even his biological father and son, once removed from the genealogy, have no relationship in name and law, so Zhou and the children in his belly left the Xu family.
Later, Zhou married a man named Li with a child. Thus, Xu Xiake's son became Li, named Li, which means patron. Fortunately, Li Ji studied hard since childhood and was very filial to his mother.
Although he is nominally a member of the Li family, he still has a relationship with Xu Xiake, especially Xu Xiake's global travel, which has also had a great influence on him. Li Ji also travels like his father Xu Xiake, but he must take care of his mother and give up.
When Li Ji 18 years old, his talent and fame have been admired by people in his hometown. At this time, the Li family has fallen. He and his mother live in Ann, which is a place like a temple. As an adult, Li Ji began to teach in a private school to support his family.
During this period, I also tried to return to the Xu family, but he was deleted from the family tree and could not make it. Since then, Li Ji has been taught by experts, and has been teaching around Jiangyin County for 16 years, taking care of her mother while teaching, and has never been married.
1652, her mother Zhou died of illness and was buried beside the mountain house. After her mother died, Li Ji took the men's examination in eight counties and won the first place. However, since then, he has no intention of imperial examinations and lived a life of traveling and writing.
Li Ji is not as rich as his father Xu Xiake. Most of the money he goes out is sponsored by friends. He has many good friends. In his later years, Li Ji devoted himself to writing. Unfortunately, only "Introduction to Military Guides" has been handed down from generation to generation. At the age of 60, he began to sort out his father Xu Xiake's travel notes.
Since then, Li Ji has spent nearly 10 years collecting, sorting out and editing a relatively complete travel book of Xu Xiake. Without Li Ji's arrangement, I'm afraid there wouldn't be this book. Li Ji played an important role in making Xu Xiake known to future generations.