How did the hooker wipe the slate clean? These blush-inducing, large-scale stories are just too good to be true

The ancients worried a lot about house (birth) matters (parenting).

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Q: How did King Goujian of Yue snowed the former shame?

Su Dongpo gave the well-known answer: to taste the gall.

However, the words of such historical inventors as Su Dongpo are not to be taken seriously.

In fact, the real answer is even simpler than Su Dongpo's. It's just three words: have a baby.

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

The characteristics of the small peasant economy are twofold: first, under the constraints of objective factors, capital cannot be accumulated in the long term; second, it is not possible to break the technological ceiling in the short term, so we can only wait for the quantitative change to trigger a qualitative change.

Therefore, the dependence of smallholder economy on productivity is the dependence on manpower.

In other words, the size of the population determines the economy, and further determines the national power.

Goujian, who was still alive, enforced a man-making program on the whole country under the advice of Fan Li and Dafu Seed.

First, there was the mandatory requirement of marriageable age.

When a girl reaches seventeen and a boy reaches twenty, she must marry or her parents will be imprisoned.

Secondly, if they did not have children after marriage, they were taxed heavily as a compensation to the state.

It is conceivable that such a strong policy, if it is to be implemented, must be accompanied by welfare benefits.

Indeed, the welfare benefits in Vietnam are not bad.

The family gave birth to a boy, rewarded with a dog and two pots of wine; gave birth to a girl, rewarded with a pig and two pots of wine; gave birth to two children, regardless of the sex, the whole family free food; gave birth to three children, directly assigned nannies to help raise adults.

The enthusiasm of the people of Vietnam to give birth to children was mobilized in this way.

Under the conditions of the time, with the population base, the country's wealth and strength is a matter of course.

Therefore, it is nonsense to put the blame for the downfall of Wu on the great beauty Xi Shi.

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The art of rooming-in was very popular during the Warring States and Han Dynasty.

People made up a lot of reasons for this: to relieve injuries, cure diseases, strengthen the body, and prolong life.

Carefully analyzed, it is not difficult to find that these reasons mask the real starting point of the art of room sex: the satisfaction of personal pleasure.

After tearing off the veil of mystery, the main idea of the art of room at a glance:

Both the pleasure of sexual desire, but also free from the pain of raising children.

Anything that forms a fad is bound to go to extremes.

During the two Han periods, the pursuit of the art of room sex, up to the dignitaries and nobles, down to the people of the city, showing a frenzied trend.

The extreme consequence was that countless babies were killed alive.

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

This was recorded, and the number of babies who died innocently, without records, is unknown.

As early as Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a population crisis was looming, leading to the famous "Fertilization Order".

There were two general rules:

First, couples who gave birth to a child did not have to pay taxes for three years;

Second, a pregnant woman was rewarded with three ducats of grain during her pregnancy, and her husband was also exempted from paying taxes for one year.

These two decrees need to be briefly explained.

The tax is a kind of tax during the Han Dynasty, commonly known as the poll tax, which is 120 cents per person per year.

A couple who gave birth to a child, *** exempted from the poll tax for four years - *** eight times, that is, 960 money.

Measured against the prices of the time, the price of a stone of rice floated in the mid-50s.

That's quite a lot of money!

This is certainly benevolent governance, but if you look at it purely as such, it is too superficial.

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

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There's a famous comic strip about hitching a baby.

The comic book originated in Beijing and Tianjin, and the hitching of dolls is a local custom that epitomizes the long-standing concept of fertility.

The process of men and women copulating and then having children is familiar to the people, but if they can't have children after marriage, they have to resort to the power of the gods.

Zhejiang area, after one or two years of marriage, not see the birth, the man's friends and relatives with glass lamps painted unicorn to send a son, drums and gongs sent to the woman's home to beg for children.

Wenzhou old custom, after the marriage of women who are not pregnant kneel down in front of the City God Temple, showing the shoulders of the female partner to beat, in order to pray for the birth of a child.

Anhui has "hold mud child" custom. Pick a good day, to the temple to hold a mud child home; until after the family has a child, the mud child dressed up, returned to the temple.

All of these things, and more.

In ancient times, fertility was more of a practical consideration for ordinary people.

Without enough children, they would be ridiculed by the neighbors around them, and furthermore, when it came to violence, having fewer children was invariably the target of bullying.

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Q: Why are there two Kings of Qiwei recorded in the Historical Records?

The reason is simple: the history of Qi is divided into two parts, the first half of which is Jiang's Qi, and the second half of which is Tian's Qi, each with a Qi Wei King.

The person who caused the history of Qi to be divided into two parts was a ruthless character named Tian Chang.

How ruthless was he?

Just after he took over the power from his dead father, he instigated his minister Bao Mu to kill the king of Qi, Duke Mourning, and installed a new ruler, Duke Jian of Qi, who became the left minister.

Kan Zhi, the right minister, shared power with him and was a thorn in his side. He did not hesitate to lose money, using a big bucket when he lent grain to the people, and a small bucket when he asked for it back.

This trick worked, and the people of Qi immediately embraced him.

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

He killed Kan Zhi and Duke Kan of Qi, and made the younger brother of Duke Kan of Qi the king of Qi.

In order to stabilize his position, he took out all the powerful families such as the Bao and Yan clans.

The best was yet to come.

Not only was he ruthless to others, he was not at all kind to himself.

He knows that his family is very powerful now, but there are not enough people in the family, and the future generations will surely be retaliated against.

What to do?

I don't know who came up with a plan, but it was practical, if not glamorous.

He did so immediately.

He held a beauty contest in Qi, and the requirements were extremely strict: you had to be at least seven feet tall.

Eventually, hundreds of women came to his backyard to become his concubines.

The climax comes.

He orders his guests and attendants to come and go as they please, with no one allowed to stop them, on one condition: that the child bears the name Tian.

This strategy had an immediate effect, and his backyard was bustling with activity every day.

Those who knew, knew what he was doing; those who didn't, thought he had turned the Xiangguo State Center into a brothel.

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

But what he did, he did not like.

Even today, anyone who reads this story will have their three views shattered.

And the reason why he did all this is simply related to procreation.

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