bookrebus Chapter 115 Saving Queen Ma’s Son and Grandson 25
Chapter 115 Saving Queen Ma’s Son and Grandson 25
Xu Huizhen finally became a respected figure in the court. So sometimes, no matter how powerful you are, what matters in the court is who lives longer!
Xu Huizhen fought for a new path for women in the Ming Dynasty. It turns out that women can also be made dukes and prime ministers on their own!
Now Xu Huizhen likes to hang out in the court whenever she has nothing to do! Even though those old scholars hate her to death and think she is just a hen crowing at dawn!
But Xu Huizhen doesn't care, she just likes the way you dislike me but can't get rid of me!
After so many years of Ming Dynasty's explosive technological development, women have finally appeared in the court and various technical departments! Although their numbers are few and far between, a single spark can start a prairie fire!
That day, Xu Huizhen stood up straight and came to the court again, all for the sake of fighting against the recent evil trends!
It has only been a year since the new emperor Zhu Xiongying ascended the throne, and these civil officials have been causing trouble again. They are promoting Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism like crazy, and those literati in Jiangnan have even launched a disgusting football club!
They highly recommended praising the three-inch golden lotus, and just in time for the palace selection, this group of people actually allowed many people with three-inch golden lotus to participate in the selection!
This group of civil servants feels like this! Taizu is dead, Taizong is gone too, the sky is clear, the rain has stopped, and they feel like they are doing well again! Over the years, the royal family and nobles have made a lot of money, while the civil servants have been living a miserable life!
The civil officials believed that the killing in the dynasty was too severe and that the people should be given time to recuperate. However, a few corrupt scholars actually wanted to restore the Zhou rituals and, citing classics, argued that the imperial examinations should adopt a recommendation system!
Xu Huizhen was so angry that she laughed. This is really against the will of heaven! If you believe these wicked words, you won't even be able to wear pants in the Ming Dynasty! It turns out that in history, Fang Xiaoru gave Zhu Yunwen this idea, and Zhu Yunwen, this fool, actually believed it!
What happened was that after just a few years, Zhu Di took over the government!
Fortunately, Zhu Xiongying is not that idiot like Zhu Yunwen! After studying with Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao for decades, even a piece of rotten wood can become a talent! Besides, how could Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao let an idiot take charge of the Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Xiongying first launched a purge of the imperial palace! Unexpectedly, a disabled person was chosen to enter the palace during the imperial selection! This showed that they didn't take him, the emperor, seriously!
Don’t tell Zhu Xiongying about the swaying three-inch golden lotus, she can’t even move her legs like a tumbler!
The women Zhu Xiongying had been in contact with since childhood were figures like Empress Ma, Chang and Xu Huizhen. How could there be such a shy person!
There is also the popular science information provided by Xu Huizhen to Zhu Xiongying!
Xu Huizhen found two prostitutes and bought them for eight hundred taels of silver, just to show the royal children how terrible foot binding was!
When the two brothel girls took off their embroidered shoes, Zhu Xiongying and the royal prince saw a pair of bound feet wrapped in white cloth!
It looked small and delicate, not even as big as a human palm. Xu Huizhen looked at the group of people coldly and ordered the brothel girls to take off their foot bindings!
Under the layers of foot binding cloth, there was a pair of twisted and deformed feet!
All four toes were broken off and stuffed under the sole of the foot!
The arch of the foot is deformed and the heel is stepped on into a square shape! How can this be aesthetically pleasing? This is clearly a horror movie!
The brothel girl had several corns on her feet, and her entire feet were deformed!
Anyway, Zhu Xiongying and a group of royal princes didn’t eat lunch that day!
Starting from Zhu Yuanzhang, the imperial court issued a decree banning foot binding. At that time, foot binding was not so crazy, and only a few prostitutes would bind their feet!
I didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty was becoming more and more powerful, and such a trivial matter as foot binding could be played so crazily by these civil servants!
This is intolerable! Xu Huizhen was also angry!
Zhu Xiongying also issued an edict, strictly prohibiting foot binding for women in the Ming Dynasty! Violators would be fined 100 taels of silver!
The people of the Ming Dynasty did not like to bind their daughters' feet. It would delay their work and they would be fined. So these scholars and civil servants set up a foot-binding society. A group of women with bound feet wore exquisite embroidered shoes and competed for the size of their feet. What was even more heartbreaking was that this group of people promoted the idea that only women with bound and gentle feet could marry into a good family!
Today was a fierce battle. The royal princesses, the marquis Xu Huizhen, and the few female officials came together to debate with the scholars! They were going to open a new chapter in the issue of bound feet!
Get rid of this evil trend! Xu Huizhen will never forget the humiliation in her memory!
In the original history, the military was lax in the late Ming Dynasty, and the literati and generals were treated like stray dogs! Women considered three-inch golden lotus feet beautiful! Girls with the appearance of flower buds were tortured to the point of disability!
During the Qing Dynasty, the intellectuals were ruled so harshly that they lost their backbone. Foot binding almost swept the entire country!
These groups of literati brought disaster to the Ming Dynasty, and now they are begging for mercy from the rulers of the Qing Dynasty!
Xu Huizhen hated this group of troublemakers to the core! They were good at nothing but making money!
The eunuch had just finished saying that if there was something to do, he would report it early, and if there was nothing else, he would leave the court, when the censor jumped out and began to refute the emperor's decree to abolish foot binding!
Censor Liu was talking excitedly: "Your Majesty, women should be graceful and elegant. If a hen crows at dawn, the country will be in chaos! A good girl should never leave the house. How can women serve in the court nowadays? What the emperor likes must be criticized by the people! Many women in the countryside do not stay at home to take care of their husbands and children, but go to work in workshops.
"They have absolutely no idea what the Three Obediences and Four Virtues are! This is a collapse of ritual and music. Our Great Ming is rich and powerful, so why should we trade with foreign nations? A nation's strength lies in virtue, not power! Imagine the Zhou emperor, whose virtue spread throughout the world, ruling his subjects with his hands clasped. I hope Your Majesty will be close to the noble and stay away from the villain. Promote the Zhou rituals in the Great Ming and recommend virtuous people to serve in the court!"
This really caused a huge uproar. The nobles and military commanders could no longer sit still. This was not just about foot binding! This was a move aimed at the interests of everyone!
The royal family's military commanders and nobles have been making a fortune over the years, and the civil officials can no longer hold back! They collectively launched a rebellion at the morning court!
The stubborn ones in the civil service group all came out, Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai all jumped out to support Censor Liu!
The six ministers and other high-level old foxes are all watching!
Duke Cao Li Jinglong sneered and replied to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Censor Liu's remarks are bringing disaster to the country and the people. Overseas expansion is the ancestral family law established by Taizu. Foot binding was once explicitly banned by Taizu and Taizong!
"The hair and skin of our bodies are given by our parents, how dare we destroy them lightly? Filial piety is the beginning! All the people of the Ming Dynasty are your majesty's subjects. To destroy one's body is to disrespect the emperor and father. How evil! In my opinion, this evil trend must be stopped. Your majesty, you are still too kind. In my opinion, from now on, those who bind their feet and disrespect the emperor and father should have their parents, brothers, sisters, and three generations of their family barred from taking the imperial examinations!"
The court was divided into two factions and the quarrel was more lively than a vegetable market!
Zhu Xiongying was so angry that his eyes hurt! He grabbed the paperweight on the imperial desk and threw it down!
All the quarrels were silenced like quails!
Zhu Xiongying: "Well, you guys really don't take me seriously! Why didn't I see you dare to do this when Grandpa Emperor was alive?"