During the period of the Three Kingdoms, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu attacked each other, and the waves were treacherous and endless.

Among the three countries of Wei, Shu and Wu, Wu has always been a special existence.

The Sun family of Wu has always been a wealthy family in Wu, far from being comparable to Cao Cao and Liu Bei. However, after Wei and Shu successively proclaimed themselves emperors, Sun Quan of Wu was slowly and almost ashamedly proclaimed emperor.

Wars were extremely common during the Three Kingdoms period, and several major wars were almost all battles between Shu and Wei. During the battle, Wu Guo could hardly be seen. Even in the famous Battle of Chibi, Wu sent an army of 30,000 people.

Looking at Shu and Wei, when fighting, it is common to invest hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops.

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Sun Quan gave people the impression that he had no ambition and was just trapped in Wu. It's like an old farmer, he has no enterprising spirit, and just wants to live by guarding his own one-third of an acre.

This kind of performance has puzzled us all the time - why does he look so baggy.

The three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu were fighting, but Sun Quan had no ambitions, which was an extremely abnormal thing.

So, does Sun Quan have any ambitions?

Sun Quan, the word Zhongmou. Power, power, conspiracy.

In other words, from the time of the person who named him, usually his father, Sun Jian, there was ambition.

Sun Quan himself is a master of power and scheming.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had the idea of dominating the world and replacing Han with Cao; Liu Bei has the ambition to support the world and protect the Liu dynasty. Wei and Shu were incompatible, but Sun Wu was not completely against anyone. Sun Quan does not have a position to adhere to until death, Wei Qiang is connected to Shu, and Shu Qiang is connected to Wei, it cannot be said that this is a wall grass, but a kind of survival strategy.

Wu was able to become the last of the Three Kingdoms to perish, largely because he was good at changing his strategy and coping with the changes in the situation in the world. Sun Quan is not without ambition, but ambition is difficult to rise.

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At the end of the nineties of the last century, Changsha carried out various constructions, and when the construction was carried out in the Zoumalou, people accidentally found an ancient well underground. In the ancient well, people found a lot of bamboo slips.

These bamboo slips record a large number of Wu contents. There are more than 2 million words in the text, which allows people to have a deeper understanding of Wu Guo.

When archaeological experts were sorting out the bamboo slips, they found a special kind of female existence in the bamboo slips - "female households." ”

"Female household" actually means that a woman is the head of the household.

Looking at 30 years ago, this kind of thing was relatively rare, let alone the Three Kingdoms period.

In ancient times, women had a low status, and they barely had a name, let alone become a head of household.

During the Three Kingdoms period, women became the heads of households, so there was only one possibility, and there were no men in the family. As long as there are men, then the head of the household will definitely be a man.

Among the bamboo slips, "County Officials Huang Shi, the twelfth year old", is even more jaw-dropping.

At that time, Changsha men began to serve in the military when they were twelve years old. This terrible fact was a heavy blow to Wu Guo.

For war, it is better to have soldiers discharged later than to have younger people go to military service. The sooner you do military service, the faster the population will die.

Even those who have not reached childbearing age go to war, then population reproduction will be in trouble. The appearance of "female households" is also understandable.

"Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer".

As long as it is a battle, death is naturally indispensable.

Peace is extremely rare.

The bamboo slips of the Three Kingdoms in the ancient well, the recorded "female households", made the experts sigh: No wonder Sun Quan has no ambition - no one is conquered, where does he have any ambitions?

War will not only deal a devastating blow to a country's economy, but most crucially, it will cause a sharp decline in the country's population. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there were more than 20 million people in the country, and at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, only two or three thousand households were left in the original 10,000 households, eliminating 70% of the original population.

Closer to us was the Taiping Rebellion.

On the eve of the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Chinese population was 430 million. After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Chinese population remained 330 million.

100 million people were consumed by the war. Of course, not all of these 100 million died on the battlefield, some died of cold and starvation, and some died in disasters, but this kind of freezing and starvation and disasters were also caused by war.

It wasn't until 1911 that the country's population recovered to 340 million. So, how did the rulers generally restore the population after the war?

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After cutting off the heroes of the late Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang became the emperor under the expectations of the people and established the Western Han Dynasty.

However, this nascent imperial court is facing a serious problem, that is, the population problem, because of the years of war, many young and middle-aged people have died on the battlefield, at that time, many families are only left with the old and weak women and children, what should we do?

Why is this problem very serious, because in ancient times, young adults played a really great role for a dynasty, not only the main productive force in a small family, but also in times of war, they could also be recruited to defend the family and the country.

The Western Han Dynasty had more women than men, which almost made Liu Bang, the founder of the dynasty, sad to death.

But in the end, Liu Bang always came up with a good way, that is, to punish single women.

To put it simply, if in the Western Han Dynasty, if a woman did not marry by the age of 15, then a tax of 120 yuan per year would be charged.

When Liu Bang's son, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, ascended to the throne, he thought that his father's heart was too soft, so he directly increased the tax fivefold to 600 yuan.

What was the concept of 600 money in the Western Han Dynasty? With this money, a young man can live a year with good food and drink.

Under the oppression of this high-pressure policy, many families hurriedly married off their daughters in order to reduce their burdens, and calling their daughters "money-losing goods" also started at this time.

Although the method that Liu Bang came up with was miserable for women, it achieved great results. When the Western Han Dynasty was established, the population was 15 million, and by the time the Western Han Dynasty fell, the population had risen fivefold to 60 million!

However, in the eyes of our modern people, this method is undoubtedly very disrespectful to women.

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I have another way to respond to feminist protests: that is, if women "split their legs" and "have affairs", they should not be punished from the perspective of Confucianism; On the contrary, it is necessary to encourage it in the social context.

If you are pregnant or give birth, you should give a special prize to encourage you, and the more you give birth, the more you will win!

As for whether any country still adhered to Liu Bang and Liu Ying's policy of stimulating population growth during the Three Kingdoms period, I don't know, but I think some measures must have been adopted.

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By the time of the Jin Dynasty, there were 2.459 million households and a population of 1616.1 people, which was more than twice the total population of the Three Kingdoms era, and it was also the initial result of the Jin Dynasty's implementation of the policy of increasing population.

The Jin Dynasty was in a serious situation of alien population advantage, and the implementation of the population increase policy stipulated that the "five women were restored", exempting families with five girls from servitude and preventing the abandonment of female infants.

In ancient times, sons were favored over daughters, and girls had to pay a dowry when they got married, and most abandoned babies were female babies.

Stipulating that 17-year-old girls are legally married, etc., these have effectively increased population growth, and after reunification, land distribution policies such as the "land occupation system" were implemented, which increased the Han population, because the most basic condition for population increase in the agricultural era was the land for grain production, and the people could not feed many families without land to produce grain, and the "land occupation system" was the main obstacle to population growth, so the population of the Jin Dynasty also increased sharply like the rapid increase in the Chinese population after the land reform at the beginning of liberation.

In the third year of Taikang alone, the population of the Jin Dynasty increased to 3.773 million households, an increase of 1.31 million households compared with the beginning of unification, and 6.6 people per household in the first year of Taikang.

This is the Jin Dynasty's population growth and the lowest range, because in the Taikang Dynasty when there was no war at all, the population growth will be greater, the Jin Dynasty was not until the Jin Hui Emperor in 304 AD to end the Taiping into the war, although there was the Eight Kings Rebellion, but just like the history records that it is only more than ten years, the total number of deaths is 100,000, and it has not affected the basic growth momentum of the population.

It seems that the Jin Dynasty can fight with whom, unfortunately, no one came to provoke.