Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

After listening to Jiang Qi's explanation, Jiang Tuan summarized and concluded that monogamy did exist in Daxia.

For ordinary people and a small number of nobles, due to poor economic conditions or good feelings, a man would only marry one woman.

But most nobles, even those who have a good relationship with their wives, still have concubines.

This situation certainly occurs because some people like beauty and are influenced by social trends, but the inner and most basic factor is to continue the bloodline.

Speaking of this, we have to talk about the dangers of childbirth for pregnant women and the infant mortality rate in ancient times when the Great Xia Dynasty was located.

In ancient times when there was no professional knowledge of obstetrics and gynecology, people did not know what prenatal examinations were, what scientific fetal care was, and there was no knowledge of caesarean sections, pregnancy and childbirth were very dangerous things for women.

When a woman gives birth, she is going through the gates of hell.

Even though modern medicine is so advanced, there are still cases where mothers and children die together, not to mention the ancient times when there was nothing. The risk factor increased exponentially.

Besides, there were not so many contraceptive measures in ancient times, so one could get pregnant accidentally. If one got pregnant, trying to have an abortion might be more dangerous than giving birth to the baby. There was no other choice but to give birth.

If you are not careful, you may get pregnant. If you get pregnant, you can only give birth to the child, and childbirth is very dangerous. For women, this has become an unsolvable and dangerous road, and many women have fallen on this road.

Because it was too dangerous, even some noble ladies would take concubines for their husbands after giving birth to legitimate sons and daughters and having someone to rely on, in order to eliminate this danger at the root.

Does the birth of a child mean peace of mind? Of course not. Children also face various dangers as they grow up.

In modern society, if children want to grow up healthily, they need to get vaccinated, take medicine and go to the hospital when they are sick, and other family members try their best to provide them with the best food, drink and other things.

Under such conditions, no one can guarantee 100% that the child can grow up safely.

In ancient times, there was nothing. A cold could kill a child.

In order to enhance their ability to resist risks, most nobles would take concubines to ensure that they had more descendants and their bloodline could continue for a longer period of time.

After understanding the reality that Jiang Qi wanted to tell him, Jiang Tuan was silent for a while.

Each era has its own way of survival. We should not use modern people's thinking to look at an ancient person, especially when this ancient person is an emperor, his thinking is somewhat ridiculous.

After the silence, Jiang Tuan wanted to stop worrying about whether Jiang Qi had a concubine or not. After all, that was the characteristic of the times and he couldn't change it.

However, for some reason, even though he told himself not to worry about it, he always felt uncomfortable in his heart. Once he felt uncomfortable, his habit of daydreaming came back again.

He remembered watching a video that said Chinese people never talked about aristocratic blood, because if one had to check their blood, one would find that most people were descendants of kings, princes, and generals.

The reason for this phenomenon is that ordinary people in ancient times had a hard life. Sometimes they couldn’t even get enough food or warm clothes. How could they get married and raise children?

Well, even if one generation of ordinary people happened to live in good times, with a stable country and good weather, and they didn’t starve to death, freeze to death, or die of disease, and they successfully got married and had children, what would happen next?

Even though a long time ago, some people had already shouted the slogan "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born of different species?", the threshold of the ancient class was still not something that ordinary people could easily cross.

Ordinary people may remain ordinary people for three or five generations and cannot become aristocrats. They have extremely poor risk resistance. If one generation encounters a disaster or other force majeure, the entire family may be destroyed.

Only nobles who are capable of giving birth to children, raising children, and protecting themselves can leave their bloodline when they encounter danger.

After a long time, everyone will be descendants of nobility.

From the perspective of bloodline continuation, Jiang Qi's statement seemed to be fine. However, this recognition was only a flash, and was immediately erased from Jiang Tuan's mind.

He knew that conditions in ancient times were too poor, and rationally, he should understand the importance of bloodline continuation to most people.

But emotionally, his education and living environment made it impossible for him to accept such things.

Let’s not talk about gender equality or anything like that, let’s just talk about the reality.

Take Lan Shu for example. She married Jiang Qi at a very young age, gave birth to children for him, and took care of the family.

When the other party was fighting for supremacy in the world, she stayed at home so that the other party had no worries. After the other party became emperor, she managed the harem well so that the other party could govern the country with peace of mind.

What did such a great woman get after giving so much?

Yes, she had the honor of being a queen, and she had won a bright future for her children. But what came with it? There were concubines who would steal her husband, and many illegitimate children who would threaten the status of her children.

Is this fair to her?

Jiang Tuan has never met other women, so he doesn't know how they would react if they were faced with such a situation.

Anyway, if he, his father Jiang Jianjun and his future brother-in-law dare to do this, his mother and sister will definitely let them know what it means to lose everything, be disgraced and have nothing.

After thinking about how difficult it was for Lan Shu to be the queen, think about the helplessness of concubines like Yun Zhi.

Did they all become concubines voluntarily? No, it's just that they couldn't control their own destiny.

Jiang Tuan is someone who has watched palace fighting dramas. Although the plots of some of these dramas are simply outrageous to the extreme, some of the plots are real.

For example, some people sent their daughters and sisters to the emperor's harem as concubines in order to gain wealth and glory.

For example, some women, although they had done nothing wrong, became victims of politics and war and were forced into the harem.

For example, some emperors were not human beings. When they saw beautiful women, they wanted to take them into their harem, and so on.

Those women who were forced to become concubines, those who were lucky were able to have children and live safely to old age, while those who were unlucky lost their lives at a young age. Who should they blame?

Jiang Tuan, who has a fledgling complex, has already regarded Jiang Qi, Lan Shu and their two children as his own family members in his heart.

Now seeing Jiang Qi's "cheating" behavior, the moral values ​​he had developed over the years made it impossible for him to accept this scene.

But he also knew that he had no choice but to accept it because it really existed.

It was impossible to change the customs of ancient society, and it was impossible to blame the women who had no choice. The more Jiang Tuan thought about it, the more aggrieved he felt. He had no place to vent, so he went straight to Jiang Qi.

After all, the other party is half the culprit for this situation!