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Q: How did Gou Jian, the King of Yue, take revenge?

Su Dongpo gave a well-known answer: wage labor, taste courage.

However, if you listen to the words of the historical inventor Su Like Dongpo, you should not take them seriously.

In fact, the real answer is simpler than Su Dongpo's, with only three words: having children.

In traditional China, the main economic type of society is small-scale peasant economy.

Small-scale peasant economy has two characteristics: first, under the restriction of objective factors, capital cannot be accumulated for a long time; Second, it is impossible to break through the technical ceiling in the short term, and only the waiting of quantity will produce qualitative change.

Therefore, the dependence of small-scale peasant economy on productivity is the dependence on manpower.

In other words, population determines the economy, which in turn determines the national strength.

Gou Jian, who lives in the world, pushed the plan of having children to the whole country at the suggestion of Dr. He Zhong.

The first is the rigid requirement for the age of marriage.

When a girl reaches the age of seventeen and a boy reaches the age of twenty, she must get married, or her parents will go to jail.

Secondly, if you don't have children after marriage, you will be levied a high tax, which is considered as compensation for the country.

It is conceivable that if such a tough policy is to be implemented, there must be supporting welfare benefits.

Indeed, the welfare benefits in Vietnam are not bad.

Give birth to a boy at home, send a dog and two pots of wine; Give birth to a girl, send a pig and two pots of wine; Give birth to two children, a man and a woman, and the whole family will distribute food free of charge; Give birth to three children and directly assign a nanny to help raise people.

In this way, the enthusiasm of the Yue people was mobilized.

Under the conditions at that time, with a population base, it was natural for the country to be rich and strong.

Therefore, it is totally nonsense to blame the Great Beauty Stone for the demise of the State of Wu.

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Room art was very popular in the Warring States and Han Dynasties.

People have invented many reasons for this: reducing injuries, treating diseases, keeping fit and prolonging life.

After careful analysis, it is not difficult to find that these reasons cover up the real starting point of sexual intercourse: personal happiness.

After uncovering the mystery, the theme of sex art is clear at a glance:

It can not only get the pleasure of sexual desire, but also avoid the pain of raising children.

Everything, after forming a trend, will inevitably go to extremes.

In the Han dynasty, the pursuit of indoor art, from officials to dignitaries, and then to ordinary people, showed a fanatical trend.

The extreme consequence is that countless babies are beaten to death.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jia Biao, the magistrate of Xinxi County, saved thousands of babies' lives with severe punishment.

This is recorded, and those babies who died innocently without records don't know how many.

As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population crisis was imminent, so there was a famous "fetal order".

There are two "Fetal Support Orders":

First, the couple have one child and do not pay taxes for three years;

Second, pregnant women third, they like to eat during pregnancy, and their husbands are also exempt from tax for one year.

These two laws need a brief explanation.

Taxing is a kind of tax in the Han Dynasty, which is popularly called poll tax, and everyone has to pay 120 yuan every year.

A couple with children are exempt from poll tax for four years-eight times in all, 960 yuan.

Measured by the price at that time, the price of one stone of rice fluctuated around 50 yuan.

This money is considerable!

Of course, this is a benevolent policy, but it would be too superficial to simply regard it as a benevolent policy.

After all, the ultimate goal of this benevolent policy is to encourage fertility.

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There is a famous joke in cross talk: tying dolls.

Crosstalk originated in Beijing and Tianjin, and tying dolls is a local custom, which is also the epitome of people's concept of fertility for a long time.

Men mate with women and have children. This process is of course familiar to ordinary people, but once they are infertile after marriage, they have to resort to the power of the gods.

In Zhejiang area, I didn't have children for a year or two after marriage. The man's relatives and friends painted unicorns with glass lamps and sent them to the woman's house to beg for children.

According to the old custom in Wenzhou, a woman who is not pregnant after marriage kneels in front of the Chenghuang Temple, exposing her shoulders for her partner to pat, in order to pray for the birth of a child.

Anhui has the custom of "holding mud". Choose a good day and go home with a mud boy in the temple; When you have a child at home, dress up the clay boy and send it back to the mountain temple.

All these, to name a few.

In ancient times, for ordinary people, fertility was more from practical considerations.

If there are not enough children, they will be laughed at by their neighbors. Moreover, when there is violence, there are few children, which invisibly becomes the object of bullying.

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Q: Why are there two Qi Weiwang recorded in Historical Records?

The reason is simple: the history of Qi is divided into two parts, the first part is Jiang Qi, and the second part is Tian Ji, each with a Qi Weiwang.

The person who divides the history of Qi State is a heartless person. His name is Tian Chang.

How strong is he?

When he took power from his dead father, he instigated Baum, the minister, to kill Qi Daogong, the monarch, and established a new monarch, Qi Gong Jian, as a left-handed country.

His right-hand man stopped sharing power with him, which was a thorn in his side. He did not hesitate to make money at a loss, lent grain to civilian vats, and got it back to use small barrels.

This move really worked, and the people of Qi immediately supported him.

With the support of the people, he further expanded his power.

He seized the opportunity, killed Kan Zhi and Qi Guo, made Qi Guo's younger brother king, and monopolized Qi State's power.

In order to stabilize his position, he killed Bao, Yan and other powerful families.

The best is yet to come.

He is cruel not only to others, but also to himself.

He knows that his family is very powerful now, but there are not enough family members, and future generations will definitely be retaliated.

What should I do?

I don't know who put forward a plan. It's not glamorous, but it's practical.

He did it at once.

He held a beauty contest in Qi, and the requirements were extremely strict: he must be over seven feet tall.

Finally, hundreds of women came to his backyard and became his concubines.

Here comes the climax.

He ordered that his guests and entourage could enter and leave his backyard at will, and no one could stop them. There is only one condition: the child born must be called Tian.

This strategy is immediate, and his backyard is very lively every day.

Know, know what he is doing; I don't know. I thought Guo Xiang's home had become a brothel.

By the time he died, concubines had given birth to more than seventy sons.

However, what he did made the world look down upon him.

Even today, people who see this story will be shattered by three views.

And the reason why he did all this is only related to fertility.

About the author:

Burning Qin and cooking cranes may spoil the fun, but it can help you understand the world clearly.

I'm He Laoshi, a brand-new perspective, calm and objective, which will give you unprecedented reading pleasure!

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