Chapter 15: Feminism (1)

"Don't worry, don't I still have some money on me now, you can tell me some things that you should pay attention to, such as where you have to use money, how much can you spend on food and housing? By the way, is change generally copper coins? Wan Qiyang's words are too surprising, why? This is basic common sense! He is also very familiar with Uncle Ma's family and is not an outsider, he thinks that at most, Uncle Ma will treat him as the kind of young master who is used to enjoying his family, and he will be followed by a servant when he goes out, so he doesn't care if he goes out with money or not, and how much he should pay. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Yes, copper coins are the most commonly used, this is the Apocalypse Tongbao, you see." Uncle Ma said as he took out two copper coins from his arms and handed them to Wan Qiyang.

Wan Qiyang looked at the 'Apocalypse Tongbao' in his hand, and couldn't help but think of the apocalypse in this era, which was the first time to diversify the layout on the back of ancient coins!

"Tianqi Tongbao" was cast during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, and has more than 50 varieties. There are many kinds of words on the back of the coin alone, including the name of the discipline bureau and the name of the place, such as household, work, high, Zhejiang, Fu, cloud, dense, town, government, courtyard, and new; The discipline is heavy with one penny, one penny and one cent, one penny and two cents, etc. Apocalypse money has two coins, but it is not much. There are many types of ten coins, different sizes and weights. Therefore, some people believe that the "Apocalypse Tongbao" minted during the Ming Dynasty opened a precedent for the diversification of the reverse layout of ancient coins in China.

"Apocalypse Tongbao" was first cast as a small flat coin, and then opened as ten coins. In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, due to the excessive and inferior coinage of the official and private coins, the minting was ordered, and the silver was issued by the imperial court, and the ten coins were recovered, and the minting period of the big coins was only three years; The weight of the Apocalypse money was originally set to be three cents of one penny, and the weight of the thousand coins was eight catties and eight taels, but later due to the excessive abuse of the official casting, the small money weighed only seven cents, and the thousand coins weighed only four catties and eight taels, and the copper content was less than three percent. Apocalypse Xiaoping money is divided into two categories: back without text and back with text, the back text is more complex than Wanli money, and there are many types of star and moon patterns cast on the back; There are memorizations, notes, bureaus, and places on the back. The word "order" is the word "order", which means that the eunuchs and ministers were ordered to do things and make money at that time. "Apocalypse Tongbao" small flat money not only has many back words, but also other things such as the size of the characters, the level of the text, the width of the wheel, and the structure of the money is also very complex and changeable.

At this moment, the "Apocalypse Tongbao" in Wan Qianyang's hand is a small flat coin, when it is used for ten coins, it is still a kind of text on the back, what Wan Qianyang does not know is that these copper coins are relatively rare after more than three hundred years, and they should still be quite valuable. At the same time, Uncle Ma also explained to Wan Qianyang about some rules in the capital, don't let anything happen, so he talked in great detail, but where can he remember so much, and finally Uncle Ma suggested that it was best for him to find a guy who often runs errands in the city to be a guide for him, so as to ensure that he will be familiar with the situation in the capital within a day or two.

As soon as Wan Qiyang heard that this method was good, he decided to use this method when he entered the city. So the two exchanged some opinions on the family affairs of the pillar, after all, the other party's parents are scholars, and there will definitely be some red tape, and he will need to deal with it then, and Uncle Ma really let him be the master. Think about it, what idea was Wan Qiyang's idea, even the gift money was prepared by him, it seems that the happy life in the future of the pillar has been added to him.

Dinner was still two dishes, but with a taste of soup, of course, this soup was the first meat dish that Wan Qiyang came to this Ming Dynasty world, because there was a fish in it. Yes, Uncle Ma went to Ma Xiaoyu's father to buy a fish, usually Ma Chengkui also fished and went to the city market or sent it directly to a fixed restaurant, but today it will definitely not work, not to mention that such a big thing happened, the key is that no one wants to send it if he wants to! I couldn't even find the restaurant, it all collapsed. So today's fish had to be taken home, Uncle Ma heard the news and went to buy one back, and Ma Chengkui thought that Uncle Ma heard the news and deliberately came to buy his fish to help their family, so he was naturally grateful. I deliberately chose a big fish to calculate the ordinary size of fish money, and both sides were very happy, so why not!?

"Uncle Ma, why didn't Auntie come out to eat together?" Wan Qiyang still couldn't help but ask.

"She, because the child and his mother have to take care of my mother, so she also ate with her mother in the back room by the way." Uncle Ma explained.

Wan Qiyang looked at the pillar and had a sense of wanting to say goodbye, but in the end he still didn't speak, and Wan Qiyang immediately understood the meaning of this. Wan Qiyang understands the history of the Ming Dynasty during this period, especially in terms of women's rights, and the social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty is simply low to an extreme.

Because women can be bought and sold, and they can be traded to pay off debts. Take Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch who is now in power, this person is extremely shameless, he was called Li Jinzhong before he changed his name, he is a very shameless ruffian hooligan, idle all day long, addicted to gambling, forced his wife to death before entering the palace, and finally went into debt and sold his own daughter for low debt.

Women are the vast majority of women in the buying and selling, whether they are girls or young women, they are at the bottom, and it can even be said that they come from the bottom of the group without any rights. Women have always existed as a vulnerable group. In the patriarchal world of the entire feudal society, women were just their appendages.

* In a world of men's interests, where the state is in danger and can sacrifice women in exchange for temporary peace - peace; If the family life is embarrassed, a woman can be used to "help" - sell his wife and daughter; When the food is clothed and eaten, there must be many women to serve - concubines. When successful, women are pawns of men; When she fails, women become "red faces" again. In short, keep the good for yourself, and push the bad to the woman.

Luo Yin, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem - "Xi Shi": "The rise and fall of the family and the country comes from time to time, why should the Wu people complain about Xi Shi." If Xi Shi dissolves the Wu Kingdom, who will the Yue Kingdom die? "It has always been absurd to attribute the root cause of Wu's death to a woman Xi Shi, which objectively exonerates the ruler from his guilt. Or Luo Yin's poem broke the heavens: who is the Yue Kingdom when it dies? As far back as the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, after King Wu destroyed Shang, he clearly played the banner of "women do not interfere in politics", and they believed that a large part of the reason for the demise of Shang was attributed to the favored women of King Shang. Since then, women have been squeezed out of the political arena, and the status of women has plummeted. It was not until after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty that the world changed, and women finally saw the light of day again, and a generation of empress Wu Zetian appeared.

In the Song Dynasty, Cheng Zhu Lixue began to rise, but the spread and influence of Lixue and other cultural forms, are gradually deepened and gradually played a role in social life, in general, the entire Song Dynasty's constraints on women, the impact on women's concept of chastity is not too great, and in the Ming Dynasty, this binding force broke out, especially the influence of the concept of chastity reached the point of no return. The Ming Dynasty is the most powerful era of rewarding chastity, Ming Taizu at the beginning of the founding of the country, that is, the first year of Hongwu issued an edict: "Civil widows, thirty years before the death of their husbands to abide by the system, after fifty do not change the festival, the table of the door, in addition to the exemption of the family servitude." ”

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