#War Storm #Ancient soldiers fight wars, how to solve physiological needs? Gou Jian thought of a way to follow the millennium (Part 2)
The system of pawn wives also regards people as pawns
However, the badness of the wife system is not only that. "卒" is a very interesting word, the original meaning refers to completion, end, and thus extended to the meaning of death, specifically to the soldiers in service. The pawn in the "wife system" is generally believed to refer to a soldier.
Looking at the system from a modern perspective, its bad points hurt and suppress women, but it goes far beyond that. To borrow From Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the needs of human beings are divided into five stages: physiological, safe, social, respectful, and self-actualized.
The system of choosing a pawn wife solves the temporary physical needs of soldiers and satisfies their insatiable desire to conquer, but it cannot solve the fundamental problem, they are still insecure like pawns, and they are always faced with the fear of killing the enemy.
On the battlefield where the safety of life is not guaranteed and the personal dignity of the individual is not respected, the implementation of such a system that ignores the human dignity of women to the soldiers seems to "help" the soldiers to solve their physiological needs, but in fact, it also makes the soldiers not regard themselves as human beings.
How can a man who can only express desire and have no thought distinguish himself from animals? Many ordinary soldiers at that time were subject to people, grateful for the wife system, and at best a beast that only vented animal lust.
Moreover, even if the soldiers eventually actively fight because they have solved the physiological problems, and the morale is high, how will the soldiers who have defeated the enemy and left the battlefield have to deal with themselves? Do they dare to publicize the feud to their neighbors about the release of lust to their wives? The gouges —and all the kings and generals of ancient times who acquiesced to the system of wives—may not have cared about this.
A system that is popular in the world
The perniciousness of the wife-and-wife system is heinous, and its long-term existence cannot be blamed solely on soldiers.
You know, this has been the case for the wives of all dynasties, and even if some kings decide to improve this system, they are only changing soup and not medicine, such as regular holidays for soldiers, and building a family camp for the wives of middle-level officers.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty later ordered that the search for widows as wives be changed to women in the families of criminals as wives, and they were gathered and sent to the military camp, mainly to undertake the three duties of logistics, art and bedmaking.
However, as the saying goes, even the family of the criminal still has its own human rights, and the improvement of the wife system by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is obviously not very different from the previous version of the reform.
So, when was the wife system abolished? The wheels of history rolled forward, and the wife system existed for a long time until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had experienced the same bottom perspective as Gou Jian, believed that this system should not survive, and the wife system was finally abolished.
Since then, it has been widely tacitly accepted that the system of wife-pawning is undesirable and morally corrupt. For example, the act of setting up comfort women during the Japanese invasion of China has been spurned by tens of thousands of people, and the historical hatred that the people will always remember.
Later, in modern society, the militaries of the United States, South Korea, Japan and many other countries will organize their famous actresses and other famous actresses to come to the army from time to time, of course, the labor army in modern society is only a simple performance program, and the formal significance is even heavier.
Wife evaluation system
Of course, in fact, such a system did not exist only in ancient China, but also existed abroad.
Famous for the Crusades in Europe, there were as many as 5,000 prostitutes accompanying the army in one battle; the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire led the army to fight with 800 prostitutes.
The weasel drinks from the river, but full of belly. All in all, as far as the creation of the pawn system itself is concerned, Gou Jian does recognize that to agitate the soldier's ambition, it is necessary to give the soldier a channel to solve his desires, but he does not really treat the soldier as a person, and the pawn wife system full of endless plunder and neglect of human nature is not a good solution to the problem.
These things may be difficult for us living in peaceful countries in peacetime to empathize with, but just a little bit of the perspective of a young soldier who is unpredictable or born like a duckweed's wife is already frightening enough.
"Take history as a mirror to know the rise and fall, take the history of the righteous people to understand the gains and losses, and use the history to make the wind turbid and clear." We should bear in mind the sufferings of our predecessors and the efforts made to improve the system.
Under war, no one can be left alone, and peace and development should be the themes of modern society.
May there never be a war in the world.
