All states and counties across the country put up announcements, in addition to publicizing military victories. A large number of patterns were also posted, on which the comparison between traditional clothing and Manchu costumes, especially the comparison between Ming Dynasty hair ornaments and Manchu oaths, told the people what is the traditional Han clothing.

In addition to these non-emotional propaganda, the most advantageous propaganda tool that Zhou Lang could think of was nothing more than propaganda through opera and other means.

A large number of local dramas began to appear in the era of shaving hair and easy to wear, and various characters with heavy makeup and light makeup appeared on the stage, stepping on civilian characters one after another, holding knives in their hands, and shouting in their mouths, "If you want hair or head".

It is a Chinese tradition to smear and satirize the previous dynasty, and Zhou Lang is not a black belly, he is basically just restoring reality. Because there was really no need to discredit the Manchus, this alien regime, with the moral level of the nomadic stage, broke into an agricultural society with the highest degree of civilization and development in the world at that time, and the ideas brought to people must not be good.

The entry of the Eight Banners and the southward movement of the Mongols left behind a large number of incidents that conflicted with traditional morality, especially the Manchu shaving of hair and easy clothing, which was a means that even the Mongols did not expect.

The ancient Chinese used various ways to express their differences from Yidi, clothing culture is one of the most important cultural symbols, such as the distinction between left and right, in the era when there were no buttons, clothes were tied with belts, wrapped from the shoulders, and tied with a belt around the waist. Nomads generally go to the left, and Han people choose to go right. For example, the hair of the nomads was distributed in their heads, and the Manchus combed their braids, and the Han people developed a more agreeable oath culture. These are basically only used to sign "I'm different from you" function, some people believe that the right side is more inconvenient to draw a bow and shoot arrows than the left side, and the wide robes and large sleeves of the Han people are not suitable for fighting, and too troublesome swearing, and it is not born for fighting. Therefore, in order to improve his military strength, King Wuling of Zhao adopted the policy of riding and shooting in Hufu.

These symbols may indeed be inconvenient, but if you force them to go there, it is an insult to the spirit of the Han people, even if a person is unkempt, has a lot of lice on his body, and smells, he himself may feel uncomfortable, but a person comes and shaves his hair, brushes him clean, and sprays him with perfume to cover the smell, this person will not feel friendly, but will be disgusted. Even a homeless man can't accept others forcibly changing himself when he doesn't feel decent, let alone the cultural symbols that the Han people are proud of, so it has caused a fierce resistance.

Now Zhou Lang is recreating this history in an attempt to stimulate national feelings, but the effect is not great. Because of the cost, it can only be confined to the city, but the vast majority of people live in the countryside, and the cost of going to the countryside to publicize is too high and unrealistic. In addition, the results of the propaganda are only useful to the readers, and only they know what is going on. A farmer who doesn't know big characters and has never been out of the house, you say that you want to restore the tradition, he still thinks that the braids are left by the ancestors, and if you dare to cut his braids, he will play with you. And tell them that the braids were left by their ancestors, precisely those who read.

Change must start from the intellectual class, the old master in the countryside Zhou Lang can't control it, anyway, he can't kill people for a hairstyle, and Dolgon can't do this kind of thing if he keeps his hair and doesn't keep his head, and Zhou Lang can't do it.

So Zhou Lang only demanded that the public officials of his government must shave their hair, and as the elite of society, they must take the lead.

To this day, because there are never hard regulations, there are still a large number of civil and military officials with braided hair in the government.

Zhou Lang has always felt that this kind of thing is a symbol, symbolizing the recognition of the new regime by these people, he is observing, and seeing how much everyone recognizes the new regime from the heart, so it is not compulsory. Wang Fuqian, these old people, cut off their braids and grew long hair as early as when they were in Taiwan, and they can't be seen with hats on weekdays. They cut their hair with a revolutionary mentality, to cut ties with the old regime. But after arriving in Fujian and Guangdong, a large number of officials began to wear braids in the official government. Maybe it's to leave a way back, in case Zhou Lang is defeated, they are easy to hide.

With the victory and the passage of time, there are more people who follow the example of Wang Fuqian and other old people to cut their hair. But there are still people who cling to tradition and keep their hair in braids.

Zhou Lang originally thought that this was a sign of his subordinates' psychological identity, and cutting his hair represented identification with himself. But later he found that he had misunderstood, those who followed Wang Fuqian and followed the example of their own hair, may not really agree with the new regime, but more out of a purpose to get closer to their superiors, and a psychological factor of "what is good at the top and what is good at the bottom must be followed". Compared with emulating Wang Fuqian to keep long hair, it is more to follow Zhou Lang's short hair, Zhou Lang is for convenience, these people are for Zhou Lang's pleasure, at least they don't want Zhou Lang to be disgusted.

This made him a little embarrassed, there are too many smart people, and smart people will not label themselves as Manchu.

On the contrary, those who are unwilling to cut their hair, they are by no means expressing their allegiance to the Manchus, but rather expressing a kind of nobility without flattery in the general environment, these people are more stubborn, but they are not flattering.

Some people continue to advise Zhou Lang, suggesting the implementation of hair growth and easy clothing, so that people all over the world can "remove the disguise and weave the hair". These people all took the initiative to grow their own hair, and they expressed a heart-wrenching attitude towards the Manchu Qing Dynasty's easy to shave their hair.

But Zhou Lang did not believe that these people were admonished because of their loyalty to traditional cultural symbols and their hatred for the Manchus for cutting off the hair of their ancestors. It's as if the people who gave advice to Dolgon to shave their hair and make it easy to obey were actually Han civil officials, and most of these people just did what they liked. Among them, the most fierce demand for hair accumulation was not the civil officials recruited by Zhou Lang himself, but the Manchu officials who surrendered, such as Chen Huai and Fu Gang.

The whole world implements hair growth and easy service, Zhou Lang doesn't plan to do it, for this to kill people like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it's too low-level. The era of industrialization has arrived, and you are still obsessed with this? I'm the emperor, not your father, and I care about your clothes and food!

As for some ministers, like those literati in the early Qing Dynasty told Dolgon, saying that this is a sign of submission to the people of the world, Zhou Lang doesn't care, or that sentence, I am not the father of the people of the world, no matter what they wear.

Zhou Lang thought that by shaving his hair and saving his hair, he could see that others recognized him, but because of the secular and sleek literati culture, he lost his role, so he didn't care much about this issue.

But as events unfolded, he chose to issue a political order requiring all officials to shave their braids. Tell them to either shave off their braids or quit their jobs and go home.

This is not because most officials have shaved off their braids out of sincerity or falsehood, and turned their heads to ask the emperor to give an order for the people of the world to cut their braids, nor is it that Zhou Lang wants to get other people's loyal ministers in this way, he is not so low-level, he just discovered a phenomenon, in his government, there are still braids, all of them are a group of old stubborns.

Most people were forced to cut their braids under the pressure of the environment, or took the initiative to get closer to the leader, but these people still kept it, thinking that in order to show their nobility and integrity, they couldn't even follow the crowd, Zhou Lang felt that it was not suitable to stay in his official mansion.

In the peaceful years, such people may make a difference because of their strong principle, but now is an era that needs change, and these people can't even follow the crowd, and the cost of pulling them to catch up with the era of great navigation and industrialization is probably too great.

Zhou Lang is not interested in spending time with these people, but those "shrewd people", even if they are just trying to figure out what they want, but at least they are willing to change. Those who are willing to change will not become an obstacle to their own change, so we must eliminate those old stubbornness.

So this executive order was issued, not to show the submission of officials to the emperor, not for other purposes, but only to crack down on stubborn thinkers.

After the order was issued, many officials did resign, and they left the officialdom with a proud mentality. There are also a group of people who shaved their hair immediately, because the purpose of their braids is not because they care too much about the braids, but because they want to express an attitude of "I don't tend to be inflammatory" to show people, hoping to make their bosses think that they are not people who follow the crowd, they are principled, and thus be reused, which is another opportunistic way, which is more clever than following the trend of cutting braids.

Through this wave of forced braiding, the braids among government officials were lost, and as the elite class of society, under their leadership, slowly scholars would grow their hair, as for whether it was long hair or short hair did not matter, and then ordinary people kept their hair, and the hair ornament of the money rat tail would slowly die out.

But Zhou Lang doesn't care about these, because he is never obsessed with clothing and hair, he thinks that these are just symbols formed in the initial stage of civilization development, and the truly advanced civilization symbols are never what clothes to wear or what hairstyle to wear, but what kind of language to speak, what kind of words to write, and more advancedly, what kind of music to listen to, what kind of paintings to paint, and the most apex culture is what kind of thought.

Zhou Lang always believed that in later generations, other civilized countries in the world were assimilated by Western thought, and everyone began to generally look at problems and structure the world with Western thought, which is the real demise of civilization, rather than losing some cultural symbols.

Zhou Lang felt that standing at the height of the emperor, if he still thought like those people in Dorgon more than a hundred years ago, it would be too cheap. He must consider deeper issues, and if Chinese civilization wants to flourish, then he must let others think about problems with Chinese ideas, and use Chinese ideas to structure the world.

But there is a long way to go to accomplish this, and it is far from being as easy as giving an order to make people cut their hair.