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Modern people seem to have more pressure on sons, but the ancients did not think so, the ancients were very family concepts, the continuation of incense as the top priority, if there is no son, not only may be ridiculed by others, but also sorry for the ancestors, this is the so-called "no filial piety has three, no posterity is greater." It is not correct to discuss whether this concept is correct, after all, the times are different and it is impossible to judge the ancients according to modern ideas, but one thing is certain, the ancients did want to leave more heirs.
The imperial family need not say more, the emperor married so many concubines, naturally want to continue the royal bloodline, and the ancient medical level is underdeveloped, the probability of the prince dying is relatively large, more than a few relatively safe, in case no one inherits the throne, it will be too embarrassing. For ordinary people, in addition to continuing the incense, raising children and preventing the elderly is also very important, thinking that after the daughter gets married, it is like spilling water, if there is no son, the old age is more desolate, and there is no one to send to the end.
Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Yao, had nearly eighty children in his lifetime, and there were more than thirty princes alone, and this data alone was enough to kill most of the emperors in a second, and only Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty could match him. Because three wives and four concubines were allowed in ancient times, the number of sons born to some ministers was not necessarily less than that of the emperor, such as Tian Chang in the Spring and Autumn Period, who had more than 70 sons, which was simply unbelievable. In order to have more sons, Tian Chang used a special method, which was unacceptable to ordinary people, so why did he say this?
Tian Chang was born into a noble family in the State of Qi, and his father Tian Beg served as minister of state and became a powerful minister who controlled the government. As the saying goes, the dragon gives birth to the dragon and the phoenix, the son of the mouse will punch holes, Tian Chang is more ambitious than his father, after Tian Beg's death, Tian Chang inherited everything from him, including titles and fiefs, thus becoming the eighth generation of the Tian family. Tian Changcheng was very deep, and first instigated Bao Xi's relationship with the Duke of Qi and persuaded him to kill the Duke of Qi.
Bao Xi did not see Tian Chang's ruse, and really killed the Duke of Qi and replaced him with the crown prince Lü Ren as the monarch, known in history as the "Duke of Qi". Tian Chang was vicious in his ways of doing things, but all the ministers who were at odds with him could not escape the end of being killed, including Bao Xi, Yan Bao, and others. In 481 BC, the bold Tian Chang killed the Duke of Qi Jian and proclaimed Duke Qi Jian's younger brother the prince, the Duke of QiPing.
Clear-eyed people can see that Qi Pinggong has no real name, and Tian Chang monopolizes the power of the State of Qi. What Tian Chang did was known to the world, and Confucius really couldn't bear to look at it, and asked lu Aigong to send an army to attack Tian Chang. The Fourteenth Year of zuo chuan and the duke of mourning records: "Kong Qiu three days Qi, and please Cut Qi." However, Lu Aigong refused Confucius's request and asked rhetorically: "Lu wei Qi is weak for a long time, and the son of the son will be cut down, what will it be?" ”
At that time, the State of Qi could be said to be tian Chang's world, his fief area was too large, occupying more than half of the cities and pools of the State of Qi, and the Duke of Qi Ping was not as good as him, not a monarch but better than a monarch. Tian Chang realized a problem, his fiefdom was so big, he had no energy to manage, and he had to let trustworthy people go to the cities. Tian often did not trust outsiders, even his brothers in the family, believing that only his son could reassure him.
Although the idea was good, it was impossible to implement it, because Tian Chang did not have many sons, but he had dozens of cities and pools, and he had more than enough and insufficient strength. As long as the thinking does not slip, the method is always more than the difficulty, Tian Chang racked his brains to think of countermeasures, and finally came up with an idea that he thought was quite perfect, he was so excited that he could not do it, lamenting that he was really a talent, did not dare to look in the mirror, afraid of falling in love with himself.
What kind of method Tian Chang had in mind is not difficult to find in the history books. The "History of Tian Jingzhong's Complete Family" wrote: "Tian Chang nai chose the women in the middle of the Qi country who were more than seven feet long as the harem, and the harem numbered in hundreds, and those who made the guests enter and leave the harem could not help but be." And Tian Changjian, there are more than seventy men. ”
Probably means that Tian Chang expanded the number of wives and concubines to hundreds of people in a very short period of time, and the standards of his selected wives and concubines were higher, their appearance had to pass, and more importantly, their height should reach more than seven feet, which shows that he pays more attention to the genes of his offspring. After that, Tian Chang made a surprising move, arranging for guests to enter and leave the concubine's room at will, since there was such a good thing, the guests of course would not refuse, sparing no effort to help Tian Chang.
This method used by Tian Chang is simply ruined, there is no one who has come after the ancients, and normal people can't accept it, I don't know if he has his head in the water. Before Tian Chang died, he counted the number of sons, there were more than seventy, but no one knew, several of them were his own sons, perhaps in Tian Chang's view, this was not important at all.
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