If you were an ancient civilian, what should you do about this?

This woman is my concubine, and she is pregnant.

1.Institutional exploitation: Heavy taxation and forced labor, heavy taxation made the people bankrupt and lost their land, and excessive levy forced labor forced a large number of laborers to leave the land for a long time, resulting in serious damage to the normal order of economic life and social turmoil.

Moreover, the frenzied land annexation of the landlord class displaced the common people. The bureaucratic landlords and aristocratic landlords often occupy the vast majority of the land in society, and wantonly encroach on and annex the land of the people, and enjoy the privilege of not paying taxes, while the state taxes and the household registration of the tyrants decrease, so in order to ensure the collection of taxes, the collection of taxes will be increased, and these taxes will be distributed to the registered people, which hasten their bankruptcy and exile, or become vassals of the landlords, and over time, even cause peasant uprisings.

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Just kidding, I think there are three things: conscription, taxation, and war.

The problem of food and clothing, the problem of class oppression, the problem of war.

Settle down and relocate, and farm in peace and stability.

There are two periods, the period of peace and the period of war.

In peacetime, no matter what occupation as long as it is a commoner, the fruits of labor must be exploited by the large landlords.

These large landlords are the lowest level of the government to control the common people, and they can exploit the fruits of ordinary people's labor by all means, and use all kinds of means to dismantle and exploit the surplus value of ordinary people without their knowledge.

Then they have to pay taxes to the state, and the rest can barely maintain food and clothing, and they have to serve labor for the government to work at their own expense for the rest of the labor, and they have to solve the problem of eating and drinking by themselves.

If nothing else, it often takes several generations to accumulate some wealth, buy land to become yeoman farmers, buy more land after a few generations to become small landlords, and then exploit the fruits of the tenants' labor to accumulate wealth. Of course, you can also spend money to send your children to study in private schools, and enter the upper class by leaps and bounds through the imperial examination.

However, the common people are often unable to bear this burden, and the loss of a laborer and the need to spend food and money to support his studies are unbearable for most of the common people, and can only be borne by becoming small landowners.

The civilians in the war period are even more miserable, not to mention the sweep of the rebels and bandits, but also by the local warlords to conscript and levy grain, and these acts are often carried out by the local landlords, the warlords control the landlords and clans, and these people in the troubled times become the fruits of the exploitation of the civilian labor, often the civilians have a labor income of one out of ten, and they still have to owe a debt to the landlords, and some land yeoman farmers inexplicably have to serve a large number of hard labor and harsh taxes and forced to flee the famine. The land was massively annexed by the landlords.

There is no limit to the number of concubines for one wife, and it doesn't matter if you have money to raise a few hundred. Don't believe the so-called flat wife's words, which are thought up by folk businessmen patting their heads, and from the orthodox ancient husband and wife system, they do not recognize the saying of flat wives. So there is only one wife.

The others are all concubines.

A wife and a concubine are as much as they have money.

Yes, if the emperor's surname happens to be this one for a commoner, it is generally necessary to change the surname. Not to mention the namesake. Not to mention the emperor, there was a magistrate who took office in Yunnan, and he was very unhappy when he found that there was an examiner with the same name and surname as himself, so he wrote [Lin Xiangru, Sima Xiangru, the name is similar, and the truth is not similar (like Ru)], and then the person is right [Wei Wuji, the eldest grandson Wuji, he Wuji, this is also Wuji].

In ancient times, the division of labor of people was that men ploughed and women weaved, men were responsible for ploughing the land, labor and other heavy physical labor, and women generally weaving cloth at home. This means that a man who does not cultivate his home may starve, and a woman who does not weave cloth may suffer from the cold. Male ploughing and weaving and self-sufficiency were the main mode of operation of the small-scale peasant economy at that time.

Fan Chengda's "Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous" records that "the day rises in the field and the night weaves hemp, the children of the village are in charge of their own homes, the children and grandchildren are not solved for farming and weaving, and they also learn to grow melons in the mulberry shade." The meaning of this poem is: go out to plow the fields during the day, and come back at night to rub the hemp rope, and the men and women of the peasant family each carry the burden of the family.

Children don't know how to plow, but they also learn to grow melons like adults under the mulberry trees. This is a true portrayal of life at that time. This practice lasted for thousands of years, and it was only in modern times that it gradually disappeared.

There is no doubt that the life of the peasants in ancient times was extremely miserable, first of all, the low productivity, there were no advanced production tools, the land was planted by manpower and animal power, and it was necessary to rely on ploughs, cocoons and other tools to cultivate, there were already hoes at that time, Tao Yuanming once wrote, "Morningside is desolate, and the hoe returns to the moon." ”

Under such conditions, a person in the prime of life can plough a few acres of land every day, but the grass grows very quickly, so it is the level of self-sufficiency, which is still in a good year, if in a famine year, a big drought or a flood, many people will have to starve to death, and there will be locust plagues and other disasters.

On top of that, there were taxes, military service, and all sorts of ways to control the peasants and force them to serve. Liu Zongyuan's "The Snake Catcher Said" once said this situation, and Confucius also lamented that "harsh government is fiercer than a tiger".

Running water, no computer ......The ancients.

But how do you live? In fact, they're no worse off than we are!

Did ancient women shave their body hair?

Commoners in the ancient Western Dynasty could become knights by attacking their own performance in front of nobles, such as saving a nobleman with their own battles in a certain situation, or showing their combat effectiveness through fighting in front of a nobleman, then the nobleman could accept him as his own knight. In short, there is no formal selection for the promotion of commoners to knights in the West, but any nobleman can upgrade a commoner to his knight at any time according to his preferences and evaluation of a person.