Can ordinary people slaughter cattle at will in Ming Dynasty?

In the Book of Rites Quli, it is recorded that "governors don't kill cows for no reason". There are laws to protect cattle in the Qin law of the Qin Dynasty. It is forbidden to set traps where cattle and horses pass, even if it causes harm. Yuan directly oppressed the Han people into herbivores. Many lands reclaimed by the Han people have become pastures. Eating has become the instinct of herbivores. Eating has become the whole of life! If it is not prohibited, all cows that taste better than grass will be eaten up.

Classical China is a typical agricultural society. More than 90% of the population in China belongs to the agricultural population, and the mode of economic production is self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy. This has caused a problem, that is, the economic production in classical China is based on the family. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an official rule that cattle could not be killed, but in the Han Dynasty, it was necessary to spend money on it! In the Tang dynasty, you didn't have to pay for killing cattle, but you were sentenced. The "prohibition of cattle" in various dynasties includes anyone, even if you are the owner of cattle. Because humans domesticate cows as power animals, no one will slaughter a young and middle-aged cow normally, and it is not just that one cow is worth four or five strong men.

In fact, in the ancient dynasties of China, it was forbidden to kill cattle. Some dynasties were stricter, while others were looser. But in the early Ming Dynasty, killing cattle was strictly forbidden. Slaughtering cattle is a crime: "Anyone who deliberately kills another person's cattle will have a staff member of 70, only one and a half years;" He who slaughters his own cattle and horses privately has a staff of 100. People who die of cattle injury will not report to the government, but will be undressed privately and fined 40. "In the early Ming dynasty, the population dropped sharply and materials were scarce.

The breeding capacity of the first cow is equivalent to five young and strong manpower, and the efficiency is extremely high. At the same time, it is difficult to breed in a limited number. Naturally, it is forbidden to slaughter cattle for life. They work hard to plow and plow. In summer, blood-sucking mosquitoes nailed the cows straight, making them miserable. The owner of the cattle wants to slaughter them to eat meat and then sell them for money. The cows are desperate. They often say, "Don't kill the cattle, don't abandon the watchdog." Everything is spiritual. Is there no reincarnation in heaven? Come to think of it, scalpers have worked hard all their lives to plow fields and pull carts. In the end, a knife is inevitable.