He had more than 70 sons in his lifetime, but the method of creating people is a bit green, which is difficult for ordinary people to accept!
In ancient times, there was a saying: "Many children and many blessings." That is to say, the more heirs there are, the more blessed they are. When it comes to the largest number of heirs in ancient times, it must be the emperor. However, there is such a person, more than seventy are just sons, even if you count your daughters, the children of this minister are probably more than a hundred, and the head of King Wen of Zhou is steadily suppressed, and it is not a legend, it is a true thing, and it is recorded in the history books.
This powerful minister of the State of Qi was Tian Heng, Tian Chengzi, because his family was from the State of Chen, so he was also known as Chen Heng. Tian Heng's ancestor was Chen Quan, the son of Chen Ligong, and after Chen Ligong's death, Chen Quan fled to the State of Qi for refuge. In the generation of Chen Quan's fourth grandson, Huanzi, he slowly began to have ambitions.
Because Qi Pinggong was supported by Tian Heng, he was equivalent to a puppet. After Tian Heng took power alone, he killed the Bao and Yan tribes, and the fief was even larger than the area directly under the jurisdiction of qiping gong. In order to ensure that his fiefdom was not divided among other families, Tian Heng decided to divide it like the Zhou royal family. But what if he doesn't have so many sons? Therefore, in the national selection of beautiful women, the height should be more than 1 meter 7, all put in their harem.
Because there are too many concubines, and Tian Chang's own ability is limited, he cannot be all pampered. So, he thought of a way, that is, to let his guests come and go in and out of the harem at will, and there was no need to tell him which concubine he was looking for, as long as he helped him add a son. In this way, from the time Tian Chang came to power to Tian Chang's death, at best, there were more than seventy sons in more than ten years; how to arrange more than seventy sons? Quite simply, after becoming an adult, he was assigned to various parts of the State of Qi as a feudal lord, and in the past ten years and twenty years of effort, the seventy or so cities of the State of Qi have all become the territory of the Tian family.
On the surface, he suffered a great loss, but in fact, the descendants of the guests worked for his family for generations. By the time of Tian Heng IV's grandson Tian He, he abolished the Duke of Qi Kang and established himself as the monarch, officially replacing jiangshan of the Jiang clan. Therefore, the wisdom of politicians cannot be measured by common sense. However, although this method "gives birth" quickly, in terms of morality, such a method violates the moral bottom line and is to be spurned by future generations.