"Contemptible people don't understand, how the imperial court legislated to protect the rights and interests of young children is torture, how is tyranny, in my opinion, this is good governance, is benevolent government, Mr. Yan will allow young children to be humiliated, allow young children to be mistaken by vulgar and filthy content, if this is the case, Mr. Yan can have granddaughters, there can be schoolchildren in the family, all let him be humiliated and defiled!"

Tang Bohu and other royal literati also began to refute the remarks of Yan Hong and others.

And Yan Hong and others who are spokespersons for the gentry group, because of the contradiction between their lip service for benevolence, righteousness and justice and their essential desire to maintain their own privileges, cannot refute the success of Tang Bohu and others, so they can only stomp their feet in anger and scold Tang Bohu and others for being traitors to Confucianism.

But in fact, Tang Bohu and others became more and more famous, and they were more and more sought after by the low-level people, and even many decent civil officials began to respect Tang Bohu and others.

Yan Hong and others are becoming more and more unpopular because of this.

As a result, "Confucianism and Righteousness" became more and more despised by the people, and even some great Confucians believed that this journal did not advocate the words of Confucian sages, but only did things to maintain Confucian orthodoxy.

And Yan Hong and others not only began to be abandoned by the mainstream public opinion of this society, but also began to suffer from the blows of the imperial court.

In order to prove it to the emperor, without the presence of Dongchang, these civil officials can maintain a bright future.

Therefore, after the Ministry of Rites issued a decree prohibiting the publication of vulgar publications and cracking down on vulgar publications, the civil servants of the local government effectively implemented it.

Local civil servants frantically copied all kinds of vulgar publications.

Yan Hong just finished pouring fire on a young man beside him, and walked out in a well-dressed manner, and said proudly: "The court prohibits playing with children, and wants to ban me from being a Confucian and elegant thing, and the old man wants to do this elegant thing, I think what his court can do to me, is it possible that he can still run to my house to arrest me?!" ”

"Master, it's not good! The government is here! ”

When Yan Hong was proud, a housekeeper from the Yan Mansion ran over.

Although the imperial court has explicitly prohibited the storage of slaves several times, there are policies and countermeasures, and the rich and noble families will still keep slaves in the name of adopting their brothers and sisters, so there are still "slave stewards".

After all, the wisdom of the people has not been opened, and the productive forces have not yet advanced to the stage of civilization progress, although the imperial court prohibits the storage of slaves, as ordinary people, in order to live better, they will still be willing to be slaves and maids in large families, after all, they can wear silk and silk without hard work, and they can bully the common people of the same class as themselves.

Merchants can sell their country for profit, and people can sell their dignity for their own benefit.

For example, at this time, the young man in Yan Hong's mansion did not feel that his dignity had been violated, and the twenty taels of silver that the master Yan Hong gave him made him feel that it was a good deal, and even felt happy because of it, and he was grateful to Yan Hong, thinking that Yan Hong was a generous master.

Laziness is human nature, and the pursuit of profit is also human nature, so people like to get something for nothing, if you can get the benefits of needing to work for many years or even if you work for many years, you will never get it, there will be people who are willing to be slaves, to be a servile person, even if the ruler does not ask him to be a slave, or even forbids him to be a slave.

Civilization really needs the progress of the productive forces in order to make progress, even if the thinking of the ancients is to adhere to benevolence and righteousness, but also to respect human rights, but if the productive forces do not progress to the point where they can easily obtain everything without selling their dignity, there will still be lazy people who are willing to be slaves, and no one can liberate them.

And the current Ming court is obviously not a court that is willing to let the common people at the bottom be the slaves of the landlords, and the productive forces of the empire have developed to the point where a large number of laborers are needed to participate in the new industry, and these common people cannot be liberated if they want to.

As soon as the words of the housekeeper of the Yan Mansion landed, the officers and soldiers of the Shuntian Governor rushed in, and one of the hundred household officials of the Fubiao Battalion directly ordered: "Take Yan Hong!" Take! ”

"What are you doing here! This official, the old man is the former left deputy capital of the imperial history, you dare to trespass on the private house! You are ignoring the king's law in vain! ”

Yan Hong shouted fiercely.

"You have been demoted to a commoner, and you still think of yourself as an official, but let you know that we are not trespassing on people's houses, and we are on the orders of Lord Futai to arrest you, a lawbreaker who spreads vulgar content!"

The hundred household officials waved their hands as they spoke: "Take it away!" ”

But at this time, the young boy shouted and asked, "Master, what's going on?" ”

"Sir? Dare to deliberately be a house slave! Bring this little guy here! ”

As a military attache who was already dissatisfied with civil officials, this Baihu official was also a fan of Tang Bohu, deeply influenced by the ideology of Huangming Bao's propaganda, and was extremely disgusted with literati like Yan Hong who only knew how to protect the interests of scholars and doctors, so he also took Yan Hong very seriously to find the guilt, as soon as he asked the little guy to be brought, he took a closer look, and saw that the young man was walking wrong, and there were whip marks on his body, so he immediately said:

"Not only do they keep domestic slaves, but they also humiliate young children! When the time comes, the official will tell the governor the truth! ”

As soon as the officials of the hundred households said this, Yan Hong also realized that if the matter of raising domestic slaves was played, the consequences would definitely not be light, so he hurriedly shouted: "Slow! He, he is a contemptible nephew, not a domestic slave! ”

"That's even more important, even my own nephews and nephews won't be spared!" The 100 household officials replied.

Immediately, the officers and soldiers of the Shuntian Governor took Yan Hong to the place where the newspaper "Yulou Xiangmeng" was distributed not far from his mansion.

At this time, the officials of the hundred households directly ordered: "Smash me!" Burn me! ”

Therefore, a group of officers and soldiers rushed directly into it, smashed the printing equipment in the "Yulou Xiangmeng" newspaper and periodical, threw all the newspapers and papers outside and burned them, and even threw pen and ink into the fire.

"You guys, don't go too far! You, you are oppressing the good and harming the people, and the old man will sue you! ”

Yan Hong shouted angrily, he is indeed very angry and heartbroken now, because the newspaper "Spring Dream of the Jade Building" brings him thousands of taels of silver every month, which is his dashing capital, and it is also the source of funds for him to run the "Confucian Righteous Path".

But Yan Hong naturally couldn't go against the imperial court.

Soon, Yan Hong himself was sentenced to death for the crimes of keeping domestic slaves, insulting young children, and publishing obscene publications, and was finally deliberated and approved by the Criminal Department and Dali Temple.

Gu Lan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was also arrested for participating in writing vulgar content, and was fined 5,000 taels of silver, and was dismissed from the preferential treatment of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and was demoted to a commoner.

Within a few months, starting with Shuntianfu and gradually extending to two capitals and 14 provinces (with one more Hetao), many publications that disseminated vulgar content were shut down due to the order of the Ministry of Rites, while dozens of Confucian newspapers and periodicals that had also ceased operation were also suspended, and dozens of literati were arrested.

The entire literary circle, the media circle of the Ming Dynasty, suddenly defended Confucian orthodoxy and became less and less.

Zhu Houzhao naturally achieved his goal of cracking down on public opinion that was unfavorable to his reform of the Ming Dynasty through the means of cracking down on the rights and interests of children in the Ming Dynasty.

But the magnates and gentry were depressed by this.

Yan Hong's death made many people afraid to play 0 anymore, after all, everyone now knows that it is a crime to do it again.

What made it even more difficult for the scholars to accept was that the imperial court also forbade women to bind their feet, and even the official media reprimanded them for making women suffer a lifetime of pain in order to satisfy their selfish desire to play with the three-inch golden lotus, which made it difficult for the scholars and doctors to refute.

"Give back to her parents the girl named Green Tea who was just put into the house, give her three thousand taels of silver, and let her leave the Wang family! Tell her parents that when she grows up, find her a good family! ”

Wang Qiong, a cabinet scholar, was very depressed at this time and ordered his son Wang Chaoli that he would not dare to disobey the will of the imperial court and poison a thirteen-year-old girl again.

"Master, please, don't let the slave family go, the slave family really has a three-inch golden lotus! The slave family wants to serve you for the rest of their lives! ”

But the result was unexpected, Green Tea was reluctant to leave, and kneeled in front of Wang Qiong and cried begging Wang Qiong not to drive her away, after all, she finally entered the university scholar's mansion, and she was considered to have entered a wealthy family, and now Wang Qiong suddenly changed her mind and let her leave, she was naturally unwilling.

"Three-inch golden lotus! I'm embarrassed to mention the three-inch golden lotus! Remove her footcloth from the old man and put it in the furnace and burn it! The three-inch golden lotus is against the evil customs of the family, and it is the decree of the Son of Heaven to abandon the bad habits and good habits, the world is changing, and the old man, as a minister, naturally has to change first! Pull it off! Find a few grandmothers to remove her! All the ladies in the house are not allowed to bind their feet anymore! ”

Wang Qiong drank in a depressed mood.

So, several grandmothers in the palace forcibly removed the green tea's footcloth, so that the green tea had to stand barefoot on the ground, looking at Wang Qiong aggrievedly: "Master, you, didn't you say that you like the three-inch golden lotus?!" ”

"Bastard! When did the old man say this", Wang Qiong shouted angrily, and suddenly thought that the Son of Heaven now intends to protect the young people, so he changed his tone, forcibly suppressed his anger, and said kindly:

"Old man, I haven't said this, don't call me old man, I don't have slaves in the Ming Dynasty, you are a sensible child, take the silver and go home, fortunately, the old man didn't have time to break your body, and then find a good man to marry!" Good boy! ”

"Master, sir, you are a good family here!"

This green tea said very aggrievedly, thinking that he had finally entered this pavilion old mansion, why did this pavilion old man change his hexagram in a blink of an eye!

Wang Qiong himself is also very depressed, he knows that the girl in front of him is a person who wants to join a wealthy family and be a master regardless of whether he is an old man or not, and it is suitable for him to be put into the room to play, but today's son advocates that the world's powerful people clean themselves and not abuse children, therefore, in order not to lose the emperor's favor to him, he can only turn his head and close his eyes now, and order his son Wang Chaoli: "Let her go, let her go!" ”

The girl named Green Tea left the palace sadly, but she did not take the silver given by Wang Qiong to find a good family, but went to Yangzhou to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and made Yangzhou thin horses.

Of course, people's pursuits are different, and this girl named Green Tea cannot be forced to become a civilian wife and a civilian mother.

And Wang Qiong married an older woman from the countryside as a continuation of the string a month later, so the older woman was hired by Wang Qiong as the continuation of the string because of her big feet.

Wang Qiong also did this to curry favor with Zhu Houzhao, saying that she, a widowed cabinet scholar, took the lead in marrying a woman who did not bind her feet.

Zhu Houzhao was also very happy when he found out, and immediately issued an order to canonize Mrs. Wang Qiongxuxian as a first-class fate, so this rural older woman became a first-class lady in a blink of an eye.

When officials all over the world learned about it, they accepted women who did not bind their feet as concubines.

Lu Zhaoji, the left servant of the Ministry of Ministers who learned the principle and resigned, had no choice but to lament: "The king of Chu has a thin waist, and many people in the city are starving to death. Foot binding and keeping festivals is a woman's virtue, and it can be changed lightly! Today's queen does not govern the mulberry and does not abide by etiquette, so that the emperor has no intention of advocating women's virtue, it can be said that the pepper room (referring to the queen) is not virtuous, and the imperial palace (referring to the emperor) is unknown! ”