During China's feudal dynasties, regime changes were always frequent, almost every time less than 300 years, and it was inevitable to experience a major chaos. When there is turmoil, there is naturally war, and when there is war, there will be phenomena such as killing and slaughtering cities.
According to historical records, during the period of war and turmoil in ancient China, the population decline was the largest during the Three Kingdoms and Taiping Heavenly Kingdom periods. According to incomplete statistics, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, we reduced the number of people by nearly 100 million. During the Three Kingdoms period, we lost nearly 80 percent of our population. What a horrible number?
And in history, there was no great scuffle of more than 300,000 people during the Three Kingdoms period, so why did so many people die? In fact, the answer is very simple, that is, the slaughter of the city is continuous. Those historical figures we are familiar with, except for Liu Beibu, who did not slaughter the city, the other people were all happy to kill. But what is interesting is that even when the city is slaughtered, there are some people who can escape, these people are girls under the age of 20. So why?
As stated at the beginning, the era of our most population loss was the Three Kingdoms and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is understandable that the population losses during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were severe, because at that time there were famines and diseases, as well as wars at home and abroad, and a significant decrease in population was foreseeable. But the Three Kingdoms period is too strange, because there were basically no major wars during this period, and there was a relatively long period of stability. So why did the population decline so much during this period?
The answer is simple, that is, almost everyone in this period liked to slaughter the city, except Boss Liu. If you don't believe it, we can look at the records of Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. What we are familiar with is Liu Bei tu Xuzhou, which is almost a corpse mountain and a sea of blood. But what makes people desperate is that Cao Cao slaughtered countless cities in his lifetime, and the massacre of the people of Xuzhou City was only the tip of the iceberg.
Not only that, other rulers and generals also basically slaughtered the city, such as Lü Bu, and Yuan Shao Yuan Shu, especially Lü Bu and Yuan Shu, these two people kill people without blinking, and every time the army passes, it is a grass.
Therefore, compared with these people, Liu Bei can definitely be regarded as a gentleman in a chaotic world, which is much more real than the image of Renyi Liu Bei in the novel.
But then again, although these commanders will lead to a drastic reduction in population through the slaughter of the city, they seem to retain the last trace of humanity in addition to their madness. That is, they will make a choice when they kill all of them, and some of them can escape death. This group of people is not a privileged class, just a group of ordinary women, and they must be women under the age of 20.
Many people will definitely wonder when they see this, in order to achieve the point of rapidly attacking the city in the war years, tucheng wants that kind of shocking effect, to scare the other side before waiting for our side to attack and surrender, why just let these women go?
There are many reasons behind this, but it is safe to tell everyone that this is not the so-called light of human nature, but another perverted choice of those commanders.
As emphasized in the Shang martingale transformation law, the root of the state lies in the population. With enough people, enough troops and enough taxes can be provided. However, during the Three Kingdoms period, although the population was important, the slaughter of the city was inevitable. why? Because the wars at that time were too frequent, today it was Lü Bu who beat Cao Cao, tomorrow it was Yuan Shao who beat Yuan Shu, and then Cao Cao beat Liu Bei.
Everyone is in the land of 4 battles, and everyone has to attack from a distance with a small number of troops. Therefore, with the fewest army to capture the most land, the strength of the army alone is not enough, using fear to force the other side to surrender, and stabilizing the rear is the best choice.
But we also know that if we kill all the people, then the land we have taken will not be planted, and we will not be able to replenish the army. So what to do? On the one hand, in order to preserve the population, and on the other hand, they must not violate the purpose of intimidating the other party with fear, so they thought of a compromise, that is, to keep women from killing.
There is actually a lot of thinking about this, and we can even refer to Genghis Khan's way of using soldiers. At that time, the Mongols had only a total of more than 100,000 troops, so if they wanted to occupy such a large territory, they had to force the other side to obey and surrender in time by slaughtering the city.
However, the soldiers' constant fighting will certainly produce a sense of fatigue, for example, Alexander the Great was forced to return home by his men. Therefore, to motivate these soldiers, it is not only necessary to allow them to loot and get rich after breaking the city, but also to release them from the pressure in the course of the war.
Therefore, everyone in the city can be killed, but the woman must be retained, because the woman can release the pressure and can soothe the restless heart of the soldier.
During the Three Kingdoms period, I am afraid that this aspect was considered, and there were indeed many princes who robbed women as military prostitutes at that time.
However, this is only one aspect, because the princes of the Three Kingdoms period had to quickly make up the population. In historical records, in order to promote the growth of the population, Cao Cao and others actually encouraged widows to remarry, and they even led by example and took multiple widows.
But it was clear that encouraging marriage was not enough to boost population growth, so the rulers set their sights on these women, who were under the age of 20, so there was still a long reproductive period. Therefore, these women can quickly create more new generations. Moreover, monogamy is not very productive, and these women can be used as fertility tools and can be responsible for having children around the clock.
Obviously, this idea is very vicious, vicious to women, and even more so to the shameful behavior of women's instrumentation. However, for the rulers of the time, human life was not even as good as a piece of bread, so it was already a great fortune for women to survive.
And what is even more ironic is that it is not only the Three Kingdoms period that is like this, but also in the later feudal dynasties, except for the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, most of the time this tradition was maintained. As long as the slaughter of the city is carried out, then it is a dead man and blood, and a bunch of women are wailing. We can't imagine what kind of hell that would be, but what is certain is that this is what we see in the TV series, the dark side of those wonderful heroic eras.
In this regard, we may have to put forward a point of view, human beings from barbarism to civilization need a long process, no matter how much honor we have in the past feudal era, that can only become the past we remember. The feudal era was the feudal era, which was a society in which people ate people, and there was neither the equality of the people as it is now, nor the so-called human rights.
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