Chapter 80: Li Jing's Insights
After this Qinhuai event, the four of them already had a certain degree of fame, and this event was even more popular, directly crossing the first-line Oiran of the Qinglou, and directly called the four Qinhuai families. The songs of this grand event also quickly spread to the whole city of Jinling and Jiangnan the next day.
It's a pity that Condensation Xuan was then redeemed and bought by Li Gongzi. Others are also hard to come by. Various courtyards also took the opportunity to hype, and now it is difficult to see Zheng Toniang, Gu Mei, and Bai Xiaoman. The price of listening to a song through the curtain has risen to 100 taels.
It was very unexpected, I thought that it was not easy to redeem the top brand, but Li Jing was ready for them to be knocked hard with their lion's mouth. As a result, people don't want money, and they don't collect cash tickets, on the condition that they want 10,000 catties of steel ingots.
The best Sugang in this era costs three coins of silver per catty. However, the quality of Li Jing's medium carbon steel is indeed far better than that of Suzhou Iron and Steel, and there are already agricultural tools and household knives, such as guillotines, kitchen knives, watermelon knives and so on. After it was placed on wholesalers, it was well received.
The cost of large-scale steel smelting in these blast furnaces is actually very low, and mining is blasted with gunpowder. Greatly ahead of this era, the cost is further reduced, the finished tool is hammered with water hammer to save labor and effort, assembly line operation, and the output is very large in one day.
This 10,000 catties of steel ingots can be worth about 4,000 taels to 5,000 taels of silver according to the market price. Buying an Oiran can be said to be a good price, and there is no lion opening his mouth. But the fate of steel of this quality is very sensitive.
Li Jing agreed to the deal after making sure that it was not sold to the Mongols and Jiannu, nor to the Japanese Kou.
This batch of steel ingots is enough to make 200 sets of pure steel armor, or 2,000 high-quality waist knives. Or 5000 spearheads. If you do arrows. It can create 100,000 50-gram heavy-duty armor-piercing arrows. 300,000 light arrows. Li Jing did not track down the buyer behind the scenes. He believed that it would be a matter of time before the weapons appeared on the battlefield.
Early the next morning. Li Jing opened his eyes with a splitting headache, he really drank a lot last night.
Last night, the rain was sparse and the wind was sudden, and the heavy sleep did not kill the wine. Looking at the red plum blossoms blooming on the collapsed Luo Xuan, the begonia sleeping in spring next to her showed her fragrant shoulders and pulled the quilt on her, Li Jing and Condensation Xuan returned to the Li family, Li Jing's temporary residence Fuyunxuan last night, after a long time, she only slept three days ago, and this girl was sleeping dead at this time when her physical strength was exhausted.
On the whole, Li Jing is still very satisfied, Luo Chuan cabbage has its own love, Li Jing's favorite is not a woman with good looks but good muscles and bones, Ning Xuan's skin is cool and smooth, but it is as warm as clotted fat, and the ecstasy touch in her arms is indescribably comfortable.
The women of the Qinglou are all cultivated since childhood to serve people, and although they are Qingqi people, there are a lot of people in the meeting. At what age were they bought, in addition to reading and literacy, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and various high-end trainings of temperament cultivation, they had to sit in the tank for two hours every day. If your legs are caught between the inside and outside of the cylinder wall, some parts of your body will form a state of heavy doors after a long time.
Last night, Li Jing asked about the legendary secret technique of condensing Xuan. Although Condensation Xuan was shy, she still told Li Jing in detail what was going on in the tank.
Sitting on the cylinder is a special secret technique for training women in ancient Qinglou. At first, they should sit for at least one hour a day, and then sit for longer and longer, until the days go by, the water tank will become larger and larger, until the girls reach the age of thirteen or fourteen, and then they will be taught the art of rooming, teaching them how to attract men and please men.
The overlapping portal is because the rim of the water tank is not wide, and if a person wants to sit on it, not only must maintain balance, but also the legs must be clamped, then the whole thigh and butt meat will be squeezed together, and over time, the muscles of these two parts will be tight and elastic, so they will also become fat and complex, as if there are layers of portals.
When Li Jing heard Ning Xuan's explanation, he suddenly understood. Why wrap a woman's little feet. If your feet are too small, it will be difficult to stand at all. She had to strain the muscles in her thighs. The muscles of the legs, which have been tight since childhood, will have the same effect as sitting on a tank over time.
To put it bluntly, men force women to suffer this kind of torture for their own enjoyment. After a long time, it became customary that only poor farmers would marry women who did not bind their feet, because the purpose of marrying wives was to reproduce offspring and work for survival, and it was not to be enjoyed.
There are too many incredible things in this world, in fact, there are profound reasons, but everyone is reluctant to say it. Just like why there are so many people to be eunuchs, the reason is very simple, rich people have three wives and four concubines, and the ratio of men and women is normal under normal circumstances, they are all one to one, and it is impossible for a large number of poor people to marry a wife, and they will never meet a woman in their lives. There are some things that have no useful chance, so it's better to enter the palace to find a job for yourself, and you can get ahead if you mix it well.
In this kind of thing, Li Jing feels that those Europeans are indeed more civilized than us, and for the same purpose, they invented high heels. There is no difference between such painful shoes with toe force and torture instruments. However, shoes that also need to taut the thighs to stand firm can make a woman appear upright, that is, strengthen the height, and at the same time raise the chest, but also significantly increase the peak, and at the same time improve the temperament. Let the women automatically and spontaneously pay not to mention, but also suffer their own crimes.
Li Jing doesn't think they are more cunning and better at tricks than us. At least being willing to analyze a person carefully, understand a person, and adopt a way that she can accept to achieve her own goals is also essentially a kind of respect.
The Ming Dynasty ignored women, and the scholars and doctors did not care about their joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and the methods they adopted were simple and rude. Directly on the belt, to death, even crying must be secret, otherwise you will be scolded. Not to mention in the Qinglou, if you don't ride to the vat, you will directly serve with a leather whip and thorns.
In so many novels in ancient times, women were bullied and insulted, just like Water Margin, Jin Whatmei, although it exposed the darkness of society and the ugliness of human nature, but the role of women is either a strange Sun Erniang, or a commodity like Jin Lian. is really the first to be positive and write about women with an attitude of respect and equality, and there is only one copy of Cao Gong's Red Mansion.
But fortunately, although Condensation Xuan's feet are small, they are rare and natural, which is why he saw the desire for freedom in her eyes, and was willing to fulfill her and accept her. A woman with bound feet does not take off her shoes when she sleeps, otherwise she will frighten her husband. Long-term wear will definitely have a taste, so there is a saying that the footwrap of a lazy woman is smelly and long. Therefore, the crystal jade toes of Condensing Xuan Tianzu made Li Jing like it even more.
Li Jing knows very well that he is now lustful for Condensation, and what kind of love he talks about is nonsense. They fell in love with each other after a good night's sleep, and this love was too cheap. Every love at first sight is actually a temporary mood. In addition to each other's talents and appearance, they also need a lot of time to get to know each other. Whether love can be produced or not, it will take a long time to live together for a long time in the future.
The only difference is that the procedure here is to get on the bus first and then buy a ticket. But this is also very real, sleep for a while to see if you can sleep out of feelings, but she is the most, in addition to desire, Li Jing can also get Li Jing's love here. Condensing Xuan's background doomed her to be a concubine at most.
People are social animals, and to live in the Ming Dynasty, they must abide by the rules of the Ming Dynasty. He also clearly knows that marriage, love, and desire are three completely different things even in the 21st century. It's just that morality at that time required you to do three things into one thing, so you had to compromise and make trade-offs.
It is impossible for the vast majority of people to manage their marriage so perfectly. You can only suppress and control some of your own ideas in the face of morality and law. It's a good person to be able to do that. It is not easy to achieve complete unification.
Marriage considers reality, and this era is that marriage is a combination of two surnames, that is, an alliance of two families. It has nothing to do with love.
Love considers emotions and likes from the heart, and the real object of love is unique, and it has never changed since ancient times. As long as you are human, you can't change it. Because it comes from human nature. No matter how amorous a person is, if he meets true love, it is the same. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty are also people, and they also have the need to fall in love, and the place to fall in love in line with social morality and law is the Qinglou. Jumping over the wall to fall in love with a young lady like Zhang Sheng is called a hooligan in this era. Therefore, in this era, Qinglou women are divided into two completely different kinds of people: prostitutes and prostitutes.
Desire, on the other hand, comes from the animal nature of human beings and refers to all groups of the opposite sex who are not related by blood. Any male animal fights to get more opportunities to reproduce and spread his genes as widely as possible. Inferior Qinglou also provides this service. Of course, there are also many people who belong to the relatively tasteless according to the moral standards of this era, and realize their demands by going out of the wall, hooking up, wild/he, and picking ashes. The righteous man of the Ming Dynasty expressed his contempt for it.
The system of planting flowers since ancient times is actually humane, marrying a wife and family interests first, taking concubines second for personal preferences, and going to Qinglou to satisfy their own desires third. You are allowed to do it. This is the grace of a scholar, and it has nothing to do with morality.
If you are a serious person, you should first consider your family's interests and marry a proper wife through marriage. The most important thing between her and her is to reproduce offspring and protect the interests of each other's families through marriage. Only by surviving can we talk about anything else.
Therefore, since ancient times, husband and wife have been one and the same status. Marrying a wife is very serious and grand, Nacai, asking names, Najib,
Recruitment, invitation, welcome. The most important thing is to worship heaven and earth. The ancients were extremely respectful and serious about heaven and earth. Telling heaven and earth is more serious than telling the ancestors, and the combination of the two is to inform heaven and earth. This is clearly a covenant. Bow to the high church, for their life is given to you. And you have enjoyed this most precious gift, and you will have descendants to repay them. Husband and wife worship each other, indicating that the two are equal. This worship, from now on, one's life will be entrusted to the other party, and this kind of entrustment is the biggest and important entrustment of one person to another.
The country of flowers has always been monogamous, even in this era, if you can find love in the main wife, and she can satisfy all your desires for the opposite sex. Then there's a good chance that you won't have any other women. Unless she doesn't give birth to a son. There were several emperors in the Ming Dynasty who only loved the queen in their lives. There has never been another woman, and Li Jing expressed envy, jealousy and hatred for this.
What era he lives in, he demands himself according to the morality of this era, which is beyond reproach, and Li Jing doesn't know if he can meet true love. However, he will cherish and treat every woman he meets who he likes and likes him, to understand her heart, respect her feelings, and give her the life she wants.