In recent times, with the intensification of the "Russia-Ukraine conflict", the word "war" has become a topic that many people are most keen to talk about after dinner.
It is precisely because of this that we realize that war is not far away from us.
is indeed the case.
Open the history book and you will find that from Qin Shihuang to establish Qin Dynasty , the period when there was no war in 30 years is basically zero. As for the Qin Dynasty, let alone it be. War King When King Wu destroyed King Zhou, he enfeoffed eight hundred princes, and there were still a few left in the Warring States Period !
War represents killing and death.
This is a man-made disaster.
could have been avoided and shouldn't have happened.
In fact, compared to war, there is another kind of man-made disaster, which is often even more destructive and more heartbreaking. However, due to the deliberate concealment of vested interests, most of them dissipated in the long river of history.
After the chaos, we met the village elder
(first stanza)
The past chaos and declined, and the old man lived in a broken village, and what happened in the village would not hurt the soul.
Because there is no mulberry tree for the village, it is the descendants of the village soldiers.
The author of this poem is the late Tang Dynasty poet Du Xunhe . What the poem describes is the scene of the desolate and dilapidated rural areas after the Huang Chao Uprising was suppressed.
A broken village, a decaying old man.
has no breath. Why did
become like this? Was it plundered by the peasant uprising army?
is indeed related to the peasant uprising army.
But this matter was not done by the peasant uprising army, but by the local government. Because the peasant uprising army fought guerrilla everywhere, the local area always had to make some preparations.
If you prepare, you need to have a camp, right?
So a good village was demolished, and all the mulberry wood, zhemu were used to build military camps.
With a camp, there must be soldiers, right?
So the old man's descendants were arrested and joined the army. Later, he died on the battlefield, leaving only such a bad old man.
No matter what, the war is finally over, it’s time for a good day, right?
However, it does not.
After the chaos, we met the village elders
(the second stanza)
still like Pingning taxes, and the prefectures and counties have not yet been kept safe.
Until now, the chickens and dogs are scattered, and the mountain leans on the door alone before the sunset.
In order to fight, the old man's house was demolished and his descendants died! Logically speaking, the old man is considered , , and should be treated preferentially.
How can the truth in the world be said according to the truth!
In fact, the old man not only did not receive preferential treatment, but his life was even more difficult than before.
Why?
is also like Pingning tax.
The taxes and taxes that should be paid are the same as when there was no war, and no one cent can be lost!
After all, after this battle, the vested interests above also suffered a lot of losses. Now that there is no war, people should live a life, and they should live a good life.
You must always learn to think from the perspective of others, right?
But a war has caused trouble, and one of the young and middle-aged laborers is not yet available. Without young and middle-aged labor, who will engage in agricultural production? Without agricultural production, where can we get the money and property payments?
However, people don’t care about these things. Anyway, a single cent of tax cannot be reduced.
In this way, anyone who can still leave, after suffering from war, has to abandon his home and go out to flee. Only the old man in the poem, who leaned alone against the wooden door in the afterglow of the sunset.
What will happen to him?
You can imagine it without even using your toes.
Ming Dynasty Ma Zhiyuan has a poem that says "Rise, the people suffer; demise, the people suffer." In theory, what does a dynasty have to do with the rise and fall of a dynasty have to do with the people? Don’t you have to pay taxes!
But the reality is that the people are the ones who suffer the most.
And this kind of pain is only experienced, no sound. So after one or two generations, I was forgotten all over, and it seemed that it had never happened!
Is it strange if you say it is strange!
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