Back in the Demon Management Bureau, Zhuang Zhuang was playing games with Su Jie again in the hall on the first floor, and unlike before, he was sitting next to the table this time with mineral water, and the usual drinks were gone.

"Aren't your kidney stones cured, why don't you dare to drink drinks?" Fang Ze asked with a smile before going upstairs.

"If you've ever tasted my pain that day, I'll tell you, you'll never drink again in your life. Zhuang Zhuang glanced at Fang Ze, and then asked, "By the way, what are you busy with these days, I haven't seen you for more than a week." ”

"Busy studying. Fang Ze stretched and went upstairs without saying anything more.

Fang Ze had just stepped onto the second floor, and this week's guests had arrived as scheduled.

"Hello. Fang Ze looked at the slightly dark-skinned, tall and fat guest in front of him and greeted him.

"Hello Mr. Landlord. The guest bowed his hand to Fang Ze slightly, and then said, "In Xia Cao Zhan, the word Mengruan, I don't know what Mr. Landlord is called." ”

"Just call me Fang Ze. As Fang Ze spoke, his head tilted slightly, and he saw the pigtail-like braid that Cao Zhan was wearing, and immediately understood who he was.

The famous author of Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin!

This is indeed a great literati, and a single Dream of Red Mansions has fed many red experts.

Some people say that Cao Xueqin's real appearance is similar to Jia Baoyu in the Dream of Red Mansions, her face is like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and her color is like the flower of spring dawn. The sideburns are like a knife, the eyebrows are like ink paintings, the face is like peach petals, and the eyes are like autumn waves.

Whether the real Cao Xueqin is like this or not, future generations have no way of knowing, but this Cao Zhan standing in front of Fang Ze at this time is indeed not very handsome, just an ordinary, old uncle.

But this is normal, no matter how handsome Cao Xueqin is, it will be smoothed out by time, not to mention that after the decline of the Cao family, Cao Xueqin needs to run for food and clothing every day, even if she is a handsome person, she will slowly become ugly and old, just like the actor who played Jia Baoyu in the first version of Dream of Red Mansions, he was indeed very handsome back then, but search for recent photos, keep it and you will shout out who is this.

"According to the immortal who sent me, it is now hundreds of years from the year I am in?" Cao Zhan then asked.

"Hmm. Fang Ze nodded, then thought about it and added, "The Great Qing Dynasty is dead." ”

Fang Ze's words didn't surprise Cao Zhan much, he just nodded indifferently and said, "After all, hundreds of years have passed, and it is time to die." ”

Looking at Cao Zhan's expression, Fang Ze was slightly puzzled at first, but quickly figured it out.

Although the Cao family is a banner person, it is not actually a Manchu, but a Han military banner, and its ancestral home is in Shandong. The fall of the Qing Dynasty, in his opinion, was the same as the sudden decline of his own family, but it was the reincarnation of history.

"Looking at your hairstyle, I don't know which clan China is ruled by now?"

"The Chinese nation. Fang Ze heard Cao Zhan's question, smiled and replied, "Short hair is for convenience, no matter what nationality it is now, everyone has short hair." ”

"It's the same thing, in the past, I was able to shave my hair and keep braids, and now I can't make a mistake in cutting braids and keeping short hair for convenience. It's better than braids. ”

"There's no one left for your hairstyle now, and you'll be watched when you go out, so I'm going to find you a hat to wear. Fang Ze said as he picked up a cap on the cabinet on the second floor that he didn't know who had put down.

Before Fang Ze said that Cao Zhan had a pig's tail behind him, there was really not much insult in it, and in the early Qing Dynasty, the braid was indeed like a pig's tail.

Don't look at those TV series that played the Qing Dynasty, what brother ministers, they all have long black and bright braids, in fact, they are all fake, the real Qing Dynasty braids are called money rat tails, the front, the top must be shaved, only a little bit of the back of the head can be left, so the braids are not too long at all, and they look like rat tails and pig tails, so they have this title.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the standard of shaving hair was very strict, and whoever dared to keep big braids would directly cut off his head.

Because the reason why the Manchus keep this kind of braid is actually because they avoid blocking the line of sight in front of them or interfering with archery when fighting on horseback, and the hair is too long, which is very disadvantageous for the cavalry archery people.

Moreover, at that time, the Jurchen people lived in the northeast, and when they were fishing and hunting in the wild in winter, they wore cotton hats, and if they sweated on their heads, they would freeze, and the hats would stick to their hair, and taking off their hats would tear off their scalps, causing the head to lose heat quickly, and in the worst case, it would lead to death.

So shaving hair was supposed to be practical and not aesthetically pleasing, but over time, this thing became customary.

However, as a cavalry people, the Khitans who disappeared in history did not have long hair, but they did not keep braids, but grew hair. That is, the top of the head is shaved, only a small circle of hair is left around, and the small braids are combed, or the long and short shaves are optional.

Interestingly, however, the Qing Dynasty required ordinary people and ministers to shave their hair, but the emperor himself did not shave his tail as a rat tail. In all the portraits of emperors before Qianlong, it is obvious that there are hair on both sides under the hat.

In some statues, the ancestors of the Manchus are also long-haired, such as the statue of the legendary Qing Dynasty emperor ancestor Aixin Jueluo Bukuli Yongshun, the image is basically the same as that of the Han people, and it is also a long hair.

So it can be judged that the early Manchu nobles all had long hair, after all, they looked beautiful. Among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, until the beginning of Qianlong, there was no long hair on both sides. To the fourth elder brother Yongzheng, who was widely loved by some Qing women, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty from him onwards also shaved their tails into money rats.

However, this habit did not last long, and by the time of the last emperor Pu Yi, Pu Yi had always had a Western hairstyle and did not keep braids at all. So now some people who are chasing after their ancestors and claiming to be the descendants of Aixin Jueluo for many generations have not left their braids right, and they dare to say that their surname is Aixin Jueluo.

Putting on the hat, Cao Zhan stood in front of the mirror with great satisfaction and looked at it, then sat on the sofa, feeling comfortable on the sofa, and couldn't help but move his buttocks.

"Who is the emperor now? ”

"There is no emperor, after the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty abdicated, there will be no emperor in China. ”

"No emperor?!" Cao Zhan raised his head in surprise.

"Well, no. Fang Ze said, "Do you know the republic of the Zhou Dynasty? It was the period when King Li was driven away and the ministers discussed the state together. It's pretty much the same now as it was then. ”

"Understood. As soon as Fang Ze said the allusion, Cao Zhan immediately understood what kind of governing method was now.

Although there is a fundamental difference between the republic of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the modern republic, if you do not investigate it in detail, it is roughly the same.

There is no emperor, and the various families in the country negotiate to govern the country.