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Born in the city, but with the world in mind and lofty ambitions; suffering a lot, but willing as a glutton, strong and decisive; with the world's able people as brothers, appointing people on merit, the world is in his hands; he has been humble all his life, firm all his life, loyal and courageous all his life. Because of his presence, the country that has fallen apart can be reorganized; because of his existence, people have a stable life; because of his existence, the country has reopened the process of prosperity and glory.
He is a generation of tyrants, Han Gao zu Liu Bang.
Start from scratch
As the pioneer of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang played a role that cannot be ignored in the development of Chinese history.
According to legend, Liu Bang's ancestors came from the State of Wei and were descendants of the Great Doctor of the Jin Dynasty. Despite the prominent ancestral status, the Liu family has developed to the point that Liu Bang's generation has declined and become an ordinary family. At first, Liu Bang worked for the Qin Dynasty as a small pavilion chief, because Liu Bang was extremely sympathetic, so he secretly released the criminals, so he began a life of displacement.
The tyranny of the King of Qin, the people of the world were dissatisfied, and they rose up one after another to overthrow the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. Chen Sheng's Wuguang Uprising was the highest peak of the peasant revolt in the entire Qin Dynasty, and Liu Bang once led soldiers as a supporter to capture Pei County, with the name Pei Gong. He garrisoned Bashang, first entered Xianyang as king, and took in the prince of Qin.
Liu Bang competed with Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, for the throne, and at that time he was in a disadvantageous position at any convenience. On the subject of origin, Liu Bang was only born in the city, while Xiang Yu was a former aristocrat; on talent, Liu Bang did not have any attractive specialty, Xiang Yu could also be literate; on appearance, Xiang Yu was young and full of vigor, and Liu Bang was already forty-eight years old; on combat effectiveness, Liu Bang's army was far inferior to Xiang Yu. But even in the mud, Liu Bang never had the idea of giving up.
Although Liu Bang was born in a humble background and had no special skills, he recruited a large number of wise people from noble births, very talented and talented, and he had a very outstanding ability to discover and make good use of talents; although Liu Bang was born in the city, he never skimped on and made great contributions; although Liu Bang was far from being able to defeat Xiang Yu, he used various methods to attack Xiang Yu's army from the side. In this way, in the fierce Chu-Han War, Liu Bang defeated the invincible Xiang Yu and became a well-deserved Han Gaozu.
From having nothing, starting from scratch to sitting in the world, showing glory, Liu Bang has experienced too much and paid too much.
Strange tricks root
Before Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, the world was still under the rule of the King of Qin. Qin Shi Huang and Qin II's rampant conquests brought heavy disasters to the people, and many young and middle-aged men died of heavy servitude. Not only that, their large number of recruits and conquests also made the mortality rate of men in the Qin Dynasty plummet. In addition, the Qin Dynasty severely punished and was very cruel, and countless people were unjustly insulted to death. Later, after a long war to overthrow the rule of the Qin Dynasty and the Chu-Han dispute, it is difficult to count the number of people who died on the battlefield. After years of famine and war, there is no way to guarantee people's lives.
Population is indeed the foundation of a country's development, and with a large number of people, the country has the possibility of development. Therefore, after Liu Bang initially established the Han Dynasty, the population was only more than 10 million, and restoring the population was the top priority in all work. In order to restore the population, the Han Dynasty took a series of measures.
Strange tricks are implemented
Liu Bang first started from the birth rate and encouraged people to have children. So he enacted a policy that all women must marry before the age of 15, and if they remain in the boudoir after the age of 15, then these women will have to pay taxes. The amount of tax paid was 120 yuan a year, and the concept of 120 yuan was equivalent to three months of living expenses for a person, which was a considerable amount at that time. For ordinary people, this is an extremely heavy burden.
Therefore, most parents at that time rushed to marry their daughters when they saw that they were about to reach the age of 15, and as for the choice of husband's appearance, family, etc., they all forgot about them. For them, this is an extremely helpless thing, if they can, who would not want their daughter to marry a husband who has come out of his own thousands of choices? But time does not allow, if they do not marry their daughters out within the stipulated time, then they can only pay a huge sum of money, which is far beyond their own tolerance.
Not only that, but the Han Dynasty also promulgated another policy to encourage fertility: the adoption of incentive policies. If a couple had a child, the entire family would be exempt from two years of servitude and taxes. This is simply the greatest temptation for the poor people, so as long as there is a condition, every family will have as many children as possible.
Miserable
For men in the Han Dynasty, the preferential policies to increase the population gave them a full advantage. Because women are anxious to get married, men can marry wives, and because the state encourages childbearing, they can stay away from heavy servitude and taxes.
But for women, it is a different world. The woman is still in the cardamom age at the age of 15, and at this stage, the female character has a flower-like face, a beautiful figure, and an innocent romance and childlike heart. At this time, each of them is the treasure of their parents, without any social pressure, carefree, this is the happiest time of their lives.
However, when they were married at the age of 15, the women undertook all kinds of pressure from their husbands' families, and at the moment when they should most dress up, they began to wash their husbands' clothes, cook, take care of the children, do housework, and start a life of hard work, so that it was too unfair to them to enter a busy and stressful life prematurely. At the age of 15, they are still children's hearts, how do they have children as children, and then educate their children?
Not only that, but marrying too early leaves them with no understanding of their husbands, whether it is their temperament or moral character. Without experiencing getting along, the two parties do not understand each other, how can they be sure that the other person is the one who can accompany them for the rest of their lives? Finding a married husband in a panic is a serious deviation from their yearning for good love, and to another extent, it stifles their feelings.
It turns out that although such a population-encouraging policy has made many women miserable, it has actually played an indelible role in the growth of the Chinese population. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the population of the country had reached 36 million, more than three times, roughly the same as the population level in the early years of the Qin Dynasty, which also made Liu Bang a "public enemy" of women in the country. The increase in population also made great contributions to the construction of the Han Dynasty, and a large number of people became the driving force for the political, economic and cultural development of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, will not be forgotten because of the development of the times. Because history will always remember those great figures.