Ever since there were humans, reproducing offspring and solving physiological needs, this problem has always existed. There are only two kinds of people in the world, and that is men and women, and they are both dependent on each other. Tai Chi Bagua also has only two colors, one is black, one is white, white is yang, black is yin, and they complement each other to achieve a balance.
In ancient times, the prescribed age of marriage was that a man could not exceed thirty years without marrying a wife, and a woman could not exceed twenty and not yet married. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Huan of Qi wanted to stabilize the people's hearts because of social unrest, so he formulated that women must marry at the age of fifteen. Then the Yue King's practice stipulated that a woman must marry at the age of seventeen.
These provisions are enough to see that for reproduction and the solution of physiological needs, it has been very important since ancient China. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the various princely states were at their peak, and war was certainly inevitable. The main force of the war is the army, the army must be composed of many soldiers, and these soldiers must be men, in the face of the disproportionate status quo of yin and yang, Yue Wang Gou Jian came up with a method.
In his early years, King Gou of Yue was defeated by the State of Wu and imprisoned in the State of Wu as a prisoner. It was during this period that he often spent time with low-level soldiers, understood the most real needs of these people, and when he returned to Vietnam, he wanted to solve this problem. He established camp prostitutes so that he could help the soldiers solve their physical needs, and the method he had come up with was used for thousands of years.
1. Establishment of camp prostitutes
In fact, long before the Warring States, there must be wars, and soldiers must have the same needs. But the solution to the problem was to win the battle, occupy the city, and seize the women in the city to solve the problem. This will definitely cause the local people to resist, so how to hold the city! Therefore, it was a headache for the rulers at that time.
After a long time, the people in the city will definitely find a way to take revenge on the officers and soldiers. They came to join forces inside and outside, and the city naturally could not be defended. The enemy wants to retake the city and fight another battle. The people did not help them, and as a result, their lives were lost, and the city was lost. The fight is always endless, and the ruler has summed it up, and bullying women is unpopular, and in the end it will definitely lose.
Yue Wang Gou Jian established a camp prostitute, what is a camp prostitute? In fact, the earliest camp prostitutes, in order to defeat the Wu kingdom and boost the morale of the soldiers, the King of Yue drove some widows to a mountain, and then told the soldiers that whoever fought bravely on the battlefield would be rewarded to come to the mountain to solve their physiological needs.
In the end, the victory of the Yue Kingdom over the State of Wu was to understand the needs of the bottom, let the soldiers know their own lord, understand what they were thinking, so that they were willing to fight for him, the soldiers were united, and winning the battle was certain. This is also the cleverness of the practice, the coordination of yin and yang, in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
2. The development of prostitutes
In the early years of the Han Dynasty, there was also a policy of camp prostitutes, but the people selected were slightly different from those who were practiced. They would marry women to a designated soldier and kill their heads if they didn't agree, so it was no different from coercion. The Han Dynasty general Li Ling was about to go out to fight, so he ordered the wives of the captured robbers to be sent to the military camp, let them marry some soldiers, and beheaded if they did not agree.
By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, camp prostitutes were brought to the stage of history as a system. Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty was well aware of the soldiers' thoughts, and he joined the army at a very young age, and some of them left home to fight as soon as they married their wives. In order to make them die for themselves, in order to improve their morale, the system of camp prostitutes was introduced.
By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, the camp of prostitutes gradually expanded, and the names were also diverse. Listening to the name, you know that the camp prostitute is for soldiers, and the official prostitute is for the visiting officials. In some places, the prices of official prostitutes are clearly marked, ranging from several thousand taels. It also reflects that the country at that time in the Northern Song Dynasty must have been worried about internal and external troubles, and his military spirit had been scattered.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the flood of camp prostitutes was not reasonably suppressed, which made the meaning of camp prostitutes themselves change direction. The camp prostitutes helped the rulers to stabilize the hearts of the army, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, they became scattered in the military, and the atmosphere of ideological erosion prevailed. With the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, and the system of one of the camp prostitutes was completely abolished.
Iii. The end of the camp prostitute
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, although he abolished the system of camp prostitutes, he was replaced by another, more cruel method. Zhu Yuanzhang sent all the female dependents of the captured Mongol nobles to the military camp, although it was not explicitly stated, but what was done was the same as that of the camp prostitute, and what was even more excessive was that he also stipulated that generations would be inherited. That is to say, the children of these people will become such people from generation to generation.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di plotted to rebel against the emperor, and the same was true of those loyal subjects who assisted Emperor Jianwen, and all the female dependents of the loyal servants were all assigned as slaves, just as they were inherited from generation to generation and suffered inhuman torture. It was Zhu Di who obviously usurped the throne, but the loyal vassals who defended the country suffered the disaster of the family. Compared with the direct promulgation system of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the approach of the Ming Emperor was much more despicable.
This tacit punishment system continued until the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and these descendants who were tied to the generations lived the lowest level of life. It was not until Nian Xi, Nian Xi, the son of Nian Qianyao, learned of the situation of these people when he was fighting outside, and he made this known to the Yongzheng Emperor. When the Yongzheng Emperor learned of this, he called it a malpractice of the previous dynasty and ordered it to be removed.
The Yongzheng Emperor approved Lehu's change of career to Congliang, and also asked officials in various places to check whether there were untouchables who had the same fate as Lehu, and when they encountered them, they could all be congliang. After that, the idle people of Zhejiang, the yanhu of Guangdong, and the companions of Huizhou were all rescued, and they were no longer tortured by generations, and the whole family could have a day to look up.
4. Summary
From the beginning of the ancient rulers' emphasis on marriage, their purpose was clear. Raise the age of marriage and let people have children quickly, so that more and more people will rule and more soldiers will fight for him. The more people fight, the greater the chances of winning, and appeasing these soldiers who have expanded their ambitions has become something that the rulers have begun to study.
King Gou of Yue suffered humiliation in the Kingdom of Wu and returned to the Kingdom of Yue to taste his guts. It is precisely because he has experienced the lowest level of life that he really knows the needs of these people. It also gave him a way to control the soldiers from the demand, and he invented the camp prostitute place, which fundamentally stabilized the military's heart and made these soldiers die for themselves.
Later, Emperor Wu of Han also understood that this method of fundamentally solving the needs of soldiers was more practical than giving soldiers more officials and knights. He introduced the system of camp prostitutes, and the teams that fought in the war would be followed by camp prostitutes. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the role of the camp prostitutes was distorted and became the source of the soldiers' military disillusionment, which led to the demise of this system.
In fact, whether it was Gou Jian or Emperor Wu of Han, the camp prostitutes were only a means for them to rule the country. It's just that these people are very successful in the process of use, and they have achieved their own goals. It is still the women of feudal society who suffer, who have no freedom and are bound by morality. This is why the prostitutes will eventually perish.
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