From the death of Zhu Yuanzhang in May last year to April this year, for nearly a year, the world has been stable and there is no sudden change in the accumulated ups and downs of the Hongwu Dynasty.

Jiangnan taxes were reduced, the people were grateful for this, the imperial court successively sent twelve envoys to the world, deposed corrupt officials and corrupt officials won a lot of praise, all over the country recommended talents to Beijing as officials, and ushered in many good stories, the people's hearts are stable and prosperous, indicating that the prosperity of the liberal and diligent Jianwen is coming.

In the face of this situation, even Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was jealous, and after his weak nephew, who had always looked down on him, became the emperor, he quickly gathered people's hearts to promote morality and politics, and this year's wind and rain were smooth and the country was peaceful and peaceful, and the ministers worked together to sweep away the violence of the Hongwu Dynasty, and the balance of victory and defeat was more and more inclined to the young emperor.

Most people will be afraid and retreat in the face of adversity, and a few will go against the odds, there is no doubt that Zhu Di is the best among the few.

In the face of the apparent weakness and submission of Zhu Di, who was famous for his military achievements, Zhu Yunwen was satisfied and gave Uncle Wang the respect he deserved, when King Yan had just left Beijing, in the following month, the ambitious Emperor Jianwen and his confidants were a little carried away, and they put aside their fear of the kings and staged a series of jaw-dropping dramas.

First of all, the imperial court received a report from the officials of the Hunan Wangfu that Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, had the intention of plotting rebellion by printing treasure money privately, and the imperial court sent envoys to arrest the king of Xiang and enter Beijing.

Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, summoned the officials of the palace and sneered: "This king has witnessed many ministers of the first emperor who would rather commit suicide than be humiliated, as the son of Gaozu, how can this king be insulted by the prison officials in order to pray for a way to live?" ”

Then under the horrified gaze of everyone, Zhu Bai gathered all the concubines and children and closed the palace gate. The flames were so bright that the smoke billowed into the sky, and he actually burned himself to death.

Zhu Di, who was halfway there, was furious and immediately wrote to the court, asking why he forced the King of Xiang to death? Demand the execution of the rumor-mongering officials and the relevant ministers to deal with the matter.

Zhu Yunwen, who couldn't hold his breath, was immediately enraged, and ordered the arrest of Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, who was accused of rebellion, and Zhu Rong, who was known for his military exploits, was immediately arrested and escorted to Beijing by the imperial court for solitary confinement.

At that time, King Yan stayed in Dezhou Mansion in Shandong, only a few days away from King Qi's Mansion in Qingzhou, and seeing that his younger brother who was close at hand had no power to resist, it was obvious that the imperial court had premeditated, and Zhu Di was overjoyed. Rushed back to Beiping with people overnight.

Soon the king of Qi Zhu Rong was deposed as a commoner, ten days later on the Datong Mansion acting king Zhu Gui was demoted to a commoner because of his irritable personality and many lawlessness, in just one month, the three princes or died or abolished, soon the world was shocked, and the rest of the kings were all panicked.

Zhu Shangbing, the king of Qin, and Zhu Jixi, the king of Jin, who were originally loyal to the emperor, were afraid of following in the footsteps, and hurriedly repaired the book Beiping to show favor to the emperor's uncle in order to protect themselves. hopes that King Yan can come forward to fight for the imperial court for the royal family, and this time the balance of victory began to slowly tilt towards Zhu Di.

Zhu Di really did not disappoint them, and wrote to the court several times to express his dissatisfaction, and the previous sentences were extremely weak and submissive. But at the end of each time, the emperor will be hidden out of the ancestral teachings of the emperor, faintly warning the court.

Xu Hao, who got the news, shook his head slightly, and Zhu Di left to recruit Chen Ying and others, who were greedy for money, and others, which was a big blow to Yanwangfu. The Hongwu Dynasty embezzled sixty taels of silver and had to be executed, and the prince bribed officials if the public opinion was properly manipulated. Yan Wangfu will be disgraced immediately, and it will definitely become a laughing stock all over the world.

What I didn't expect was that Zhu Yunwen actually let the great opportunity slip away in vain, not to mention, but also made a big stupid move, Zhu Di was in the capital at that time, why didn't he insist on the punishment of the Hongwu Dynasty, severely punished a cadre, and ordered King Yan to stay in Beijing to think about it behind closed doors after creating momentum, and put him under house arrest in disguise?

It can only be said that the will of heaven is like this, Zhu Yunwen is not a nerd, Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and even Fang Xiaoru are not stupid people, they are all human spirits, but unfortunately they are good at small abacus and do not have a big vision, borrowing military terms from later generations, they all lack strategic thinking.

However, there is no shortage of honorable military attachés such as Xu Huizu, but it is a pity that the literati are in charge, and each has their own concerns and plans, which makes everyone silent.

Among them, Xu Huizu definitely doesn't dare to build a lawsuit against his brother-in-law at the moment, he can't afford to betray his relatives, and Zhu Yunwen doesn't want to do anything to the fourth uncle who is very famous and has not found out the exact evidence of rebellion, otherwise how should he be evaluated in the future? Someone has to expose it first, and even if you do something wrong, you will be bewitched by a traitor.

Xu Hao guessed so, it doesn't matter if it's right or not, the important thing is that Zhu Di came back as if nothing happened. The king of Qi deserves it, and no one will say anything if he is degraded to a commoner, but it is sighing when time is rushed, especially if he should not do it to the famous King of Hunan first, is it a crime to issue treasure money? Even if the crime should be punished, it will not force people to death, I'm afraid that you, Emperor Jianwen, are the culprits who issue treasure money indiscriminately, right?

The advantages that have been built up hard for a year have instantly come to naught, exposing the court's mean and unkind side to the vassal kings.

Of course, the views of the illiterate people are not important, and it is easy for learned people to change their minds, and there are people who are literate all over the world who understand why the imperial court is rushing to cut down the feudal domain.

Except for a few people in Beiping City, most people were not affected by the imperial court's feudal cut, and in the hearts of the military and the people, Yanwangfu still represents the imperial court, and the imperial court is Yanwangfu.

In the blink of an eye, it was the Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, and in the early morning of the same day, incense wormwood was inserted on the door of every house, and everyone carried a falling tiger on their chests. The school is closed, the boudoir is closed, and the girls in the family give each other the zongzi, red dates, sugar cubes and other things wrapped by themselves, and the inner house is extremely lively.

The weather also became cool and pleasant, after morning tea, the girls and maids all came out to wander and play in the garden, only to see everywhere Danruo saffron, daylily green leaves, with the warm breeze blowing from the south, indescribably comfortable and refreshing.

After lunch, the whole family followed the old lady or rode in a carriage or a sedan chair. Hao Hao went to the small Tangshan royal family courtyard in the north to soak in the hot springs.

On one side of the big lotus pond is a natural hot spring pool, modified by Xu Hao, there is a swimming pool mixed with hot and cold water in the middle, and her own women lack exercise and lack of sunlight, and there is no better exercise than swimming.

Lao Taijun and other elders are not used to bathing with people, and almost all of them hide in the room or take a bath in a quiet small pool, while most of the girls in the family have been infected by Xu Hao tirelessly for many years, and they don't care much about bathing with many people.

Of course, for shy and shy girls, the swimsuit invented by Xu Hao was born, which is nothing more than a belly pocket version of a swimsuit sewn with various colors of satin material.

in the room. Everyone stared at the red leaves and green bamboos that came out with their chests up, and saw that they were covered with two thin pieces of thin satin on their chests, wearing triangular crimson mattresses on their buttocks, and a pair of jade feet on beautiful high heels, which made their legs slender and round, looking so charming and sultry, and looking so upright.

Mu Ningxue was wearing a slightly conservative one-piece swimsuit, and without Xu Hao's guidance, she sewed a pleated skirt around her waist. Will cover the knee perfectly without any blemishes.

High heels have been popular in the Xu family for several years, but there is no doubt that only when you don't wear a skirt that reaches deep to your feet can you show the elegant charm that high heels give to women.

Momiji turned around proudly. Said proudly: "In the future, whose girl will still bind her feet?" It's smelly, sour, long, painful, and disgusting, hum! ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao sneered: "The three-inch golden lotus is all touted by that poor and sour literati, this literati has a bad stomach and no good intentions, but poor young ladies have been forced by their parents and relatives to tie their feet and strangle their bones since they were young. It's scary to think about it, and the most ignorant thing is that you still think you're superior, and foot binding has become everyone's lady? Pathetic and ridiculous. ”

At that moment, everyone started to complain. It is said that the girls of the Xu family have insisted on not binding their feet since they were children, and even the practice of foot binding has been almost extinct in recent years, the advantage is that they do not have to wrap the long footcloth every day when they walk briskly, and the disadvantage is that they are often criticized and ridiculed by outsiders.

Mu Ningxue said: "Hao'er said well, we have to live for ourselves, not to meet our husbands or the eyes of the world. Our ancestors were born recklessly, and they never forced their daughters to bind their feet, so whoever wants to say it is up to her to say it, in short, I know the bitterness of it. ”

For the ladies of the Xu family, what does it matter if the foot is bound or not, and the daughters of the powerful families will be worried about marrying? Nowadays, the so-called big feet are also relatively speaking, and the maids have no attention to foot binding, just like the women who have to work in the people, how to serve people when walking is a problem?

Since the Song Dynasty, foot binding refers to wrapping the feet slender rather than bent deformity, of course, it will affect the physical development of girls, in order to ensure that the feet urinate dare not walk too diligently, in the long run, the body is weak and thin, this poor appearance is more and more loved by the literati, the so-called weak wind to help the willow also, Yangzhou thin horse may come from this.

The most terrible thing is that with the frequent poetry praise of the small feet by celebrities such as Li Houzhu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the vigorous promotion of the Shilin literati, the customs gradually went to the extreme, and the atmosphere of foot binding gradually spread in the Yuan Dynasty, and gradually expanded from the southern generation of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lingnan to the whole country, and the legend of the three-inch golden lotus made the foot binding become foot binding, fortunately, it was only circulated in some scholarly doors in the early Ming Dynasty.

When the real foot was wrapped to the peak, one was in the late Ming Dynasty, it was recorded that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, and ordered to cut off the woman's small feet in a frenzy, piling up like a mountain, called the Golden Lotus Peak.

One is the Manchu era, when people from all walks of life were proud of marrying small feet and ashamed of big feet, and the most terrible thing was that even the women themselves thought so. The so-called statement that in order to vent his dissatisfaction with the Manchu Qing Dynasty's shaving of hair and customs, men actually let women insist on binding their feet in order to maintain national integrity, which is really speechless.

No one knows if the appearance of high heels will change the bad habits of the whole nation, probably it can only be said to be a good wish, but it will definitely affect some people. If all literati were so ignorant and stubborn, the centuries-old catastrophe from the end of the Ming Dynasty to modern times would be the bitter fruit of Confucianism itself.

Xu Hao has basically given up the idea of persuading others, is it useful to bother with labor? No emperor will fight against the entire Shilin for a small foot binding, Xu Hao is already dead set on all kinds of hopeless drawbacks of the feudal dynasty, as long as he does not let the women in his family bind their feet in his lifetime.

What he has to do now is to run the family and related interest groups, just like the chaebol family behind the scenes that manipulates the direction of the world in later generations, with his life's work and the prophecy he left behind, so that future generations can transcend the world. (To be continued......)