The minister, who had more than 70 sons, had a shameful and unacceptable approach
The origin of Tian Chang
This legendary story, which is recorded in the canonical history, may be a record of the Guinness Book of World Records if placed today.
Able to give birth to more than 70 sons, this Tian Chang is not an ordinary minister. His family was none other than the Tian family, the eighth chief of the State of Qi.
Tian Chang was originally a native of Chen Guo, his original name was Chen Heng, because he obtained the fiefdom of Tian, his surname was changed to Tian Chang, and during the Han Dynasty, he was renamed Tian Chang in order to avoid the name of Liu Heng, the Emperor wen of Han.
Tian Chang is bold and ambitious. Just after inheriting the throne of his father Tian Qi, he instigated a coup d'état to kill Kan Zhi and the Duke of Qi Jian successively, and then pretended to support the Duke of Qi Ping as the monarch, but in fact he enjoyed the power of the State of Qi exclusively from then on.
The Zhuangzi 胠箧 records that Tian Changshi called him a princely thief. It was he who began the Tian family to formally take power in the State of Qi.
After Tian Chang took power, he did not stop the "princes", but on the contrary, he intensified his efforts, wiping out all the major forces and families around him in one go, so as to save himself from worries about the future.
But the long-term struggle for power and profit has made Tian Chang's mind different from ordinary people. He adopted an open "harem" and selected hundreds of wives and concubines for himself in order to conceive offspring. The requirement to choose a wife and concubine is also a bit strange.
Criteria for selecting wives and concubines
Tian Chang was not the minister as he was conventionally called, and after he successfully seized power, he could also be regarded as a hegemon and monopolize power.
There is not much difference from imperial power. So he has the ability to add a harem for himself. According to the main history, Tian Chang selected women to enter the harem first to see the height and proportion of women. Women in the Country of Qi who are seven feet tall must run for the election.
Seven feet of men and seven feet of men, it can be said that seven feet is a high level of height in ancient times. It is about equal to the height of more than one meter and seven meters today.
In today's era, girls over one meter and seven are also very high. Not to mention the ancient State of Qi, although women over seven feet are difficult to find.
However, with Tian Chang's strength, he still found more than a hundred women in the territory of the State of Qi that he was satisfied with.
Tian Chang does not have a special preference for tall women, but from the perspective of "a nest of high mothers", he selects excellent maternal genes for his offspring.
Expanding the harem is not for your own pleasure, but for the sake of passing on your ambitions. Taking advantage of the height of their wives and concubines, they are allowed to conceive the next generation of prominent births.
It was difficult to accept the green hat, but he took the initiative to put it on
Whether in ancient times or in modern times, men regard the "green hat" as the greatest shame, and wives and concubines are their own and cannot be defiled.
This kind of thing not only makes the man's face dull, but also the offspring produced by the "green hat" are a disgrace to the entire family.
What ordinary people avoid, he took the initiative to do, and was willing to eat.
Tian Chang has a unique idea, as one of the representatives of the fierce heart, he is also extremely cruel to himself.
In order to add offspring to his own name, he did not hesitate to open his harem to guests and attendants to let them come and go as they pleased.
It can be seen that he does not care whether the descendants are his own bloodline, but only seeks to expand the number of family members and extend his surname, thereby extending the influence and power of his family. The tolerance created by such ambitions gives rise to a chill behind them.
This is the so-called big husband who can bend and stretch, and can endure the ninja that ordinary people can't. Those who can achieve great things will also do everything they can to keep their hard-won achievements.
The offspring under the green hat, he did not discriminate
Tian Chang conceived more than 70 sons in his lifetime, due to the chaotic open harem. Even I couldn't tell who was my "own son" in the end. However, Tian Chang did not care whether the successor had his own genes and bloodline.
Tian Chang only cared about two points, a successor must be handsome in appearance, tall and majestic. The second successor must have learned and at the same time be bold, and do things accurately without procrastination. Tian Chang had only one purpose, to preserve his surname inheritance, and to let him be the son of anyone in blood, nominally only my son.
With the idea of quantitative change and qualitative change, Tian Chang carefully cultivated more than 70 sons and let them compete with each other.
Not only did he not prohibit it, but he also leisurely watched and secretly scored his sons. In order to choose the most suitable heir for his own country, those who can take on great responsibilities must not be afraid of this little wind and wave between brothers.
I have to say that Tian Chang's move is too dangerous, not to mention how his wife and concubines have prejudices against him and how they will teach the children to turn against him.
Isn't he afraid that people with hearts will have true feelings with their wives and concubines, and secretly assist his sons in seizing the rivers and mountains he has laid?
However, this is all an afterthought, in reality, Tian Chang's jiangshan is very stable, after all, after a series of killings and feudal lords, no one dares to confront them.
The great forces were completely uprooted by him, and there was no room for recovery. No one in the State of Qi had the ability to compete with him.
People would only be deterred, and the guests and attendants were also people who knew Tian Chang relatively well. How can a man who is meticulous and can seize other people's rivers and mountains in a short period of time be defenseless?
The price of this pride and ambition is not something that ordinary people can afford, and few men in ancient and modern China and abroad can have this open-mindedness and advanced courage.
Tian Chang's dangerous move came to the end, or he chose the best heir in his heart, Tian Xiangzi. Tian Xiangzi is also known as Tian Pan, Tian Xiangzi is worthy of being the dragon among more than 70 sons, and has not lived up to Tian Chang's expectations and high expectations.
After Tian Chang's death, Tian Xiangzi took the throne and continued his son to inherit his father's business as the Duke of Qi Xuan of the State of Qi. During his reign, Han, Zhao, and Wei united to kill Zhibo and occupy his fiefdom.
Tian Xiangzi immediately made a decision, taking advantage of the large population of clan brothers, and instantly sent his clan brothers to various important cities and pools in the State of Qi to serve as doctors. Consolidate the Fiefdom of the Tian clan in the State of Qi.
The clan brothers were also able to communicate directly with Tian Xiangzi. Reduce the risk of foreign interference in the Tian regime.
This can be seen that Tian Chang's vision is far-sighted, although more than 70 sons are not all biological, but after all, the same family and the same surname, can help the Tian clan to stabilize the regime.
In the face of great right and wrong, in the face of the stability of the family. Tian Chang chose to sacrifice his man's self-esteem for the sake of the human race, but not only based on the comments of later generations. As long as the Tian clan can consolidate its power in the State of Qi, what about sacrificing the ego?
