Years of continuous warfare had depleted the male population in the Kang dynasty. To stimulate population growth, the imperial court mandated that men aged eighteen and above, and women aged seventeen and above, were required to marry. Failure to comply would result in a threefold increase in land tax.,On the top of Lubei Terrace, stood three young men, a hunchback, a limping man, and the last one, though he had all four limbs intact, his face was sly and shifty, not looking like a good person at all.,They are all like Jin Feng, belonging to the kind of people in the village who would rather let their daughters participate in a lottery for marriage than allow them to be married.。