In ancient dynasties, if the common people hid swords privately, it was not even too much of a crime, but the crossbow was specially controlled, but what was unexpected was that it was more strictly controlled than the crossbow, and it was not a blade, but an armor.
Some dynasties acquiesced to the private possession of swords and swords by the common people, and even in ordinary blacksmith shops, they could even secretly build weapons without being held accountable by the imperial court.
For example, the Song Dynasty's simple knife is very popular, and all the good men in "Water Margin" travel with simple knives; even military blades can be legally bought and sold, such as Lin Chong can buy knives on the street, Yang Zhi dares to sell knives in the streets; even ordinary blacksmith shops can secretly create military blades, and Lu Zhishen's Zen staff with an axe and a crescent shovel is made by a blacksmith shop that is casually found.
The crossbow is a typical "big killer" in the era of cold weapons.
It is understandable that the crossbow is strictly controlled, because the ancient life basically lacked a bow and arrow, at least a rabbit still requires the participation of the bow and arrow. But the crossbow is not the same, the crossbow is in the ancient era of cold weapons, basically can be regarded as a weapon of mass destruction. Especially after the Southern and Northern Dynasties, after the defensive power of the armor became more powerful, it gave birth to the Tang Dynasty's horizontal knives and strange knives, which focused on piercing blades.
The lethality of the crossbow also began to rise to the level, the song Dynasty's famous god arm crossbow, with a tough mountain mulberry wood for the crossbow, and with a solid sandalwood as the crossbow body, hemp for the string, within 400 meters, the lethality is almost 100%. "Shoot more than two hundred and forty steps (about 370 meters) and half an arrow into elm wood."
Not to mention the bed crossbow, it is even more extremely high, comparable to the medium-range missiles of the era of cold weapons. The bed crossbow is also called "eight bull crossbow", which means that eight cows are needed to pull the bow, in fact, it does take dozens of people to rotate the axle to open the bow, and the range is as high as 500 meters. To exaggerate, it is possible to directly lift a person from a horse and nail it to a tree.
In the first year of Song Zhenzong Jingde's reign, Empress Xiao of Liao and Emperor Shengzong of Liao personally led a large army south and went deep into the Song territory, and Song Zhenzong was forced to almost move the capital, and it was precisely because the Song army used a crossbow to kill xiao Tarting, the forward general of the Liao army, that the entire war situation was changed.
So it is understandable that the civilian absolute ban on crossbows is just like the United States, although it can legally possess guns, it is not open enough to legally possess missiles.
Armor in the age of cold weapons was one of the decisive factors in the victory of war.
Speaking of armor, in fact, its significance in the era of cold weapons is far more important than we think. When we usually say that a country has a strong military, we all say "a million with armor", not a million with a knife. This is actually because in the era of cold weapons, under the premise of the same level of blades, the factor that determines the victory of the war is precisely the armor. Because of the protective ability of the armor, the probability of combat loss of soldiers in war is lower, which means that the combat effectiveness is stronger.
Therefore, the blade is actually impossible to control in the true sense of the word due to the existence of the blacksmith shop. Therefore, the imperial court must control the armor, so as to form the effect of "using the power of the invincible, assisting the way of the people, so that it will win without fighting, win without attacking, and obey the world without labor." That is to say, although you also have a knife and gun, but you do not have body armor, and the other party has, you will be a lot more honest, at least do not dare to take the initiative to provoke the other party.
The meaning and provenance of "one armor top three crossbows, three armor into the earth house".
"One top and three crossbows, three armor into the di mansion" is a folk saying, but the specific meaning of its expression comes from the "Tang Law Neglect Discussion". Later, until the relevant laws of the Qing Dynasty, they all came according to a principle. Here, the meaning of "one top and three crossbows, three armor into the prefectural government" means that the sin of privately hiding one collar armor is equivalent to the sin of secretly hiding three crossbows, and those who secretly hide more than three collar armor will either die.
"One crossbow plus two, one collar and three crossbows flow for two thousand miles, and three collars and five crossbows are twisted." The private creators each add one class. A, called skin, iron, etc. Fitted with armor. That is, those who are left behind, and those who do not send officials for thirty days are the same as private law. - "Tang Law Neglect"
According to the "Tang Laws and Regulations", those who secretly possess one collar armor and three crossbow machines will be exiled for two thousand miles; those who secretly have three collars of armor and five crossbow machines can be directly sentenced to hanging. The privateer is guilty, and the private production is even more guilty. Even if you find it, if you don't send it to the officials for more than 30 days, you will be guilty of the same crime as the private collector.
From the legal provisions, it can be seen that the dynasties actually controlled the private possession of armor by the people was very strict, because the possession of armor was essentially a conspiracy to rebel.
In ancient times, the private possession of the armor was complicit in the rebellion.
The most famous is zhou Yafu of the Han Dynasty, because he is a warrior with great martial skills. When arranging his own posthumous affairs, he thought of getting five hundred sets of armor to bring to the coffin. Ancient people are dead like life, in fact, this itself can be understood. The Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang was also essentially because Qin Shi Huang wanted to have a powerful army underground. However, Zhou Yafu's behavior just violated the law, and he was slandered by people with other people as intending to rebel, and he was imprisoned. Since the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms had been quelled earlier, Emperor Jingdi of Han was not good enough to kill him, and as a result, Zhou Yafu himself went on a hunger strike in prison in anger.
There is also an example of proof that private armor is intended to conspire against him. That is the case of Nurhaci's "armoured soldiers". When Nurhaci decided to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, he relied on the thirteen pairs of armor left by his father. In fact, as long as Nurhaci showed off his armor, the Jianzhou Jurchens knew what Nurhaci was going to do.
After all, the armor was forbidden by Daming's laws to be hidden privately, and as long as Nurhaci did not take it out and hand it over to Daming's official palace, it must be a rebellion.
Similar legal provisions in the modern world.
Even after bidding farewell to the era of cold weapons, armor no longer exists, but body armor with protective functions actually exists. The United States legally owns guns, and more than 200 million people own more than 300 million guns. But in many U.S. states, citizens are not allowed to buy heavy body armor. Even light body armor is only available to some special groups of people, and those who buy light body armor cannot yet have any criminal record, and the procedures for purchasing them are very complicated. In fact, the essential intention is the same as the idea of the ancient Chinese.
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