Chapter Thirty-Eight: Little Feet, Big Feet
Li Guo is facing many difficulties now, and he needs to slowly overcome and improve, but Li Guo is a little worried.
At this time, Jeon Zhihuan came back after inspecting the topography of the entire river meander. He brought back good news, first, that there was a lot of wasteland available for reclamation, and if all the wasteland were to be reclaimed, there would be much more land to produce food. Second, Quan Zhihuan found that the waterways that flow through the meanders of the Yellow River during flooding are very easy to manage, not only can the water of the Yellow River be channeled into the entire meander, but also many places can build reservoirs, so that even if the climate is dry, there can be a considerable harvest. Of course, there are many mountainous areas in the eastern part of the meander, which are not included in the plan.
However, the reclamation of wasteland and the construction of water conservancy require a lot of manpower. To set up a cooperative, but also to recruit displaced people, Li Guo thought about what he was about to do. In addition, Li Guo thought of women. In modern times, women can hold up the sky, so women must also be mobilized.
Li Guo heard that in the Ming Dynasty, those scholars and doctors liked women with small feet. Li Guo carefully observed and found that in the Shanxi area, most of the daughters of poor families were bigfoot. The so-called big feet are just normal feet. Most of the small-footed women come from wealthier families. This is because girls from poor families need to work, while the rich do not.
At that time, people were very much touted about small feet, and even reached a kind of pathology. Like the novels of the time, etc., there are detailed descriptions of small feet. And Empress Ma, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, because she was bigfooted, inevitably became the talk of officials secretly.
The poor peasants actually liked small feet, and now that Li Guo had allocated land to them, these mud-legged people had leisure, and some families began to wrap their girls' feet.
This is not good, there is a lack of manpower, and it is not good for all the women in the family to have small feet, and Li Guo also hates this bad habit.
However, none of the girls in the privet camp are small feet, Huang Xiu is not, and neither is Jiang Yingrong.
Huang Xiu has a pungent temperament and refuses to bind her feet, and the girls in the privet camp are not allowed to bind her feet when she accepts Li Guo's orders. But Jiang Yingrong didn't bind her feet because she was afraid of pain.
Jiang Yingrong is the younger sister of Jiang Chang, the former garrison of Hequ, the Jiang family is wealthy, and there were conditions to bind their feet, but Jiang Chang's parents died early, and there is only one sister, Jiang Yingrong. When she reached the age of binding her feet, Jiang Yingrong refused to entangle her snot and tears, it hurt! Jiang Chang's heart softened, and the matter was delayed.
When Jiang Yingrong reached the age of leaving the cabinet, no one came to the door to propose marriage, it was not that Jiang Yingrong was ugly, on the contrary, it was very good-looking. There is no reason for getting married, there is no it, the feet are big!
And those in the same class as Jiang Chang are all people with status and status, and they all like small feet, Jiang Yingrong's feet are big, and the marriage has been delayed. For this reason, Jiang Chang's wife kept complaining about Jiang Chang. Jiang Chang also sighed secretly, blaming himself for not being ruthless enough.
Li Guo didn't notice her. But Huang Xiu was pregnant, and although the children in the privet camp were loyal, the teenage girls were not taken care of well enough after all, so Jiang Chang asked his sister to take care of Huang Xiu. Therefore, Li Guo is now very familiar with Jiang Yingrong.
Jiang Yingrong is two years older than Huang Xiu, nineteen this year. She and Huang Xiu's temperament is completely different, Huang Xiu's personality is like fire, and Jiang Yingrong's personality is like water.
Because of the shortage of manpower and material resources, Li Guo hopes that women can also do some work, and his ideal is to be able to establish a women's rescue association. Women can be very useful, in addition to washing, cooking, and having children, the most important thing is that they can also help with sowing, weeding, harvesting, and most importantly, weaving.
So, the movement against foot binding began.
It's still a meeting, not for women, in the past, men were inferior to women, and if you don't change the concept of the old man, it's useless for the old lady to think about it. Of course, it is not possible to be reasonable, and Li Guo himself does not believe that he has the ability to change the concept of men being superior for thousands of years with his own idea of half a bottle of vinegar. Moreover, this matter was opposed by Nie Xin and others from the beginning.
Huang Xiu and the girls in the privet camp belong to the trend of current affairs, and they can't help themselves, they don't show their faces, don't bind their feet, etc., but they can't make the women of the river meander like men.
Nie Xin shook his head like a rattle, and objected repeatedly, "This matter is inappropriate, no matter how it changes, don't violate the code of ethics." ”
Li Guo looked at the eyes of the others, and probably agreed with Nie Xin's statement.
Li Guo had already agreed with Huang Xiu, so Li Guo did not refute, walked straight to Huang Xiu, and when he arrived at Huang Xiu, he hugged Huang Xiu very affectionately, and gently kissed Huang Xiu's forehead. Such a move is very common in modern times, but Li Guo still underestimated the thoughts of people at that time.
But Huang Xiu is Li Guo's wife after all, and this kind of behavior can still be understood by Nie Xin and others. It's just that Nie Xin and the others muttered in their hearts, after all, our Tiger Master is an amazing person, and he can always do something shocking.
Li Guo looked at Nie Xin and the others in a daze, and when he looked up, he saw Jiang Yingrong who was following Huang Xiu, so his head was hot, he walked towards Jiang Yingrong, and hugged Jiang Yingrong very politely.
Jiang Yingrong's face suddenly turned red, her eyes were moist, and she hurriedly got out and ran out. Li Guo didn't care, thinking to himself, the girl in this era is so good, and he was excited like this after hugging him.
At this time, not only was everyone in a daze, but Jiang Yingrong's brother also opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a moment, but then he smiled, and then yelled, "I support Master Tiger!" ”
Quan Zhihuan has a good relationship with Jiang Chang, and understands Jiang Chang's heart, so he also supports his Li to come over.
Nie Xin and the others looked at Jiang Chang and Quan Zhihuan with a look of disdain. But Jiang Chang finally got off to a good start, Li Twelve, Gu Ying, Li Qiang and other generals had a big personality, although they also felt a little inappropriate, but they expressed their support under Li Guo's sharp gaze.
Nie Xin and the others were helpless, and the helpless part agreed with Li Guo's idea.
Why do you say that some agree with it, it is that Nie Xin and others insist that men and women must not be equal, but it is okay for women to go out to work and show their faces, and it is okay not to bind their feet, and other things are not to be discussed. Li Guo saw that Nie Xin and the others were resolute, so he agreed. In fact, Li Guo does not have the lofty ideal of saving all human women, he just wants to increase the labor force, and now that the goal has been achieved, it is just that.
The ban on foot binding was still resisted by some people, but Li Guo had a way, in addition to blatantly beating a few old men who were blatantly tying their wives and daughters who were binding their feet, he also explicitly ordered that the whole family of foot binders should not be divided. This is fatal, if you don't have land, you won't have anything to eat, you can't live, and you still don't care about your feet?
As a result, the Women's Relief Association was not established, but the Grounding Society was very impressive, and of course the Grounding Association had to work. Huang Xiu and Jiang Yingrong took the girls from the privet camp to the grassroots level, entered thousands of households, and began to work with the aunts, aunts, sisters and sisters of each family.
On the man's side, Nie Xin, Sun Dengke and others had to reluctantly do their work. Under the correct guidance of Li Guo's flying feet, Nie Xin and the others took it seriously.
What does it do? It is to preach that Li Guo, the star in the sky, has been instructed by the Queen Mother in the sky, and the woman now does not have to hide at home every day, she can no longer bind her feet, and the advantage of this is that the whole family is safe, otherwise the family will be restless and so on. And Sun Dengke also referred to some practices of the White Lotus Sect, so that women began to be liberated little by little.
Li Guo is very happy, things are slowly developing towards his imagination. But at this moment, someone came to the door to propose, and the person who came was Quan Zhihuan.