As we all know, since Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he has drastically rectified the country, and this period of time has sharply reduced the population of the country. In the later period, the uprisings of Liu Bang, Xiang Yu and others and the Great War of the Qin Dynasty reduced the population of the country that was not prosperous again. This also led to Liu Bang's ascension to the throne as the emperor and the sparse population of the whole country. Ancient China was a big agricultural country, and labor force was very important, so in such a situation he naturally wanted to increase the population and increase the labor force. So he came up with two ways, and the country's population was restored in a short time, but one of the tricks was painful for women at that time.
In the early days of Liu Bang's ascension to the throne, everything was in the stage of everything being destroyed. But it was very difficult to revive the economy at a time when the country's labor force was plummeting. Considering these Liu Bang, he thought about how to restore the population of the country and make the country's economy strong again. For this goal, Liu Bang and his ministers discussed for a long time, and finally they thought of two best ways.
The first way is to recuperate and let everyone in the world live a stable life. In fact, no matter which dynasty has just been reborn, it will adopt such a method to restore the population and restore economic development. Liu Bang and others also adopted this method in order to restore the population, when they liberated all slaves, and even some women who were trafficked out for reasons of war were released to become ordinary people at this time. In addition, for those former nobles, Liu Bang also promoted their official positions by one level, which can be said to be a very procuring move, and such a move can indeed ensure that the country's political and regular operations are not unexpected chaos.
The second approach is somewhat unacceptable. Because this method is actually to force women to marry and have children. After all, the country wants to increase the population, and there is no way for women not to marry, so Liu Bang wants to make a fuss about women. In order to allow women to get married earlier, Liu Bang set up a special regulation at that time. The rule goes like this, if a woman does not marry before the age of fifteen, she is required to pay a tax of 120 yuan per year. It is likely that many people do not have a particularly clear concept of this number. In fact, this amount of money was a month or so of expenditure for many families at that time, but now they have to pay a month's living expenses for the whole family because the daughter has not been married, which is a great pressure for many families, so many families can only marry their daughters before they are 15 in order not to pay this tax.
After having such a law, many families will find someone to marry their daughter early when they are young, and even in order to make their daughters complete the marriage as soon as possible, sometimes there is no pickiness about the selection of their daughter's husband, and what is more excessive is that some families will marry their daughters to rich families as each other's concubines. This will not only eliminate a large amount of overhead, but also earn back a lot of dowry money. And such things gradually became more and more in the private sector, and slowly the population of the country actually increased in this way.
However, the population has indeed risen, but these practices have indeed caused great harm to the women of the world. Marrying early not only can not choose a suitable husband, many women also because of too young to give birth to children lost their lives, for the women at that time can be regarded as a pain can not say it, behind can also see how low the status of women in ancient society.