Chapter Seventy-Four: The Beauty of Nature

When Li Jiancheng heard that Xiong Tingcongee was pressed back to Beijing, he was really shocked to the ground. Looking back at the historical boundaries, at the beginning of Xizong, at this time Yang Hao's uncle Yang Yuan blamed Xiong Tingbi for refusing to protect Yang Hao (Yang Hao: In the Battle of Salhu, the 120,000 army commanded by Yang Hao in Liaodong was defeated, and since then the strength of the Ming Dynasty has declined greatly, and it has lost its advantage in Liaodong, and has to turn from offensive to defensive. Instead, he was escorted to Beijing. So now that Liaodong is a little more stable, Yang Rong found an opportunity to put Xiong Ting's porridge back, and impeached Xiong Tingbi in the Yushi Feng Sanyuan, the university scholar Gu Wei, and the Shangshu Yao Zongwen, who were not on good terms with Xiong Tingbi, saying that Xiong Tingbi raised taxes in a false name in the border areas, blackmailed the small people, and claimed to build a city to defend against the enemy, which was really a mistake for the country and bullying the king. Ming Xizong ordered Xiong Tingbi to be imprisoned. Zuo Fu Yang Lian was sparse to save him, and then he ordered Xiong Tingbi to be dismissed. The imperial court was replaced by Yuan Yingtai. In less than a year in the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), Shenyang, an important town in eastern Liaodong, and Liaoyang, the capital of eastern Liaodong, fell one after another.

Basically, from the pressure of Xiong Ting porridge back to Beijing is the development of the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Xiong Tingbi supervised the construction of weapons, repaired the castle, and dispatched troops to guard the key points during his tenure in Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi supervised the construction of weapons, repaired the castle, and dispatched troops to guard the important places, support each other, and garrison Dagu. He also personally toured Shenyang and Fushun, met the situation, summoned the exile, and calmed the people's hearts. Xiong Tingbi's strategy was to focus on defense, oppose the wave war, and unite with North Korea to contain the Houjin, which was very effective, so that the Houjin army did not dare to advance lightly for more than a year.

In August of the first year of Taichang (1620), Mingguangzong died, and Mingguangzong ascended the throne. **Hachi led his troops to attack Shenyang again, Xiong Tingbi personally supervised the formation, repelled Houjin, and the situation in Liaodong initially stabilized.

Originally, all this was very good, and after Xiong Ting porridge moved to **Hachi in Liaodong, Jin didn't feel that it would grow so fast. Xiong Ting's porridge left in March of the first year of the Apocalypse Jiannu (Jianzhou + Nu chief, Jianzhou originally referred to Jianzhou Sanwei, that is, Jianzhou Jurchen Department. Nu Chief is short for 'Nu' Erhachi. The army besieged Shenyang. A series of defeats made the Ming court understand its mistakes, so Xiong Ting porridge was used here.

When the Ming Dynasty used Xiong Ting porridge again, he was appointed as the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, stationed in Shanhaiguan, and promoted to Liaodong Economic Strategy for the second time. At the same time, the imperial court promoted Wang Huazhen (Wang Huazhen was a disciple of Ye Xianggao, and when he was the governor of Liaodong, Ye Xianggao also served as the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty. Ye Xianggao's tenure is also the heyday of the history of the Donglin Party in the true sense) as the governor. Although Wang Huazhen had the courage to be strategic, he underestimated the military strength of the Houjin, and advocated taking the initiative to attack and defeat the Houjin within three months.

The two of them are the main battle, and the other is the main defense, resulting in a situation of "economic disagreement". However, the result of the controversy in the court was to support Wang Huazhen and abandon Xiong Tingbi's strategy, as the government presided over by Donglin, which was actually inevitable. Wang Huazhen supported heavy troops to defend Guangning, while Xiong Tingbi had a vague reputation and only a few thousand soldiers. Wang Huazhen did not listen to moderation, and planned to surrender the enemy and attack Li Yongfang as an internal response. Before it could be implemented, in the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), ** Hachi led 50,000 horses and horses to attack Hexi in three ways. Cross the Liao River and capture Xiping Fort. Wang Huazhen sent out the garrisons of Guangning and Luyang to attack the Houjin army, and the 30,000 army was annihilated. At the same time, Sun Degong, a spy sent into Quang Ninh by the Later Jin side, provoked a mutiny and opened the city gate to welcome the Later Jin army. Wang Huazhen escaped from Guangning in embarrassment and met Xiong Tingbi in Youtun. Wang Huazhen cried bitterly in front of Xiong Tingbi.

Sometimes realizing a mistake doesn't mean they're determined to correct it. The party strife of the Ming Dynasty presented an extremely xenophobic and selfish nature, which also meant that they could not think about a country at all, and put their interests before the country. Expand on this issue, as long as Wang Huazhen brings it up, it is a, and they will support it.

Li Jiancheng knew that Xiong Ting Porridge was suppressed and returned to Beijing after Zhi Lu Dao was depressed, and that the Donglin Party was now greatly weakened by himself than its history, but this would stimulate them, and this matter was also an opportunity for them not to be missed, and it would definitely be more fatal than history.

Now Li Jiancheng is most worried about not the problem of Xiong Ting's porridge, he knows that the whole Liaodong is not just a general's problem, nor is it the threat from Houjin in Liaodong. What's the problem? The problem lies in the functioning of its entire country. The first to die was his interior. At this time, Li Jiancheng also realized that his grasp of the overall situation was completely insufficient, and this problem first came from intelligence.

A major general of Liaodong was pressed into Beijing, and as the emperor, he didn't have any information in advance, no matter what the people below did, at least his supervision team was not in place. Li Jiancheng said goodbye to the three ladies in the ** and asked Wang An: "Where is Xiong Ting's porridge now?" ”

Wang An replied: "Back to Your Majesty, I am watching the pressure in Dali Temple. ”

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "Well, don't worry about this matter for the time being, and you don't need to reply to the cabinet!" You go and inform Jinyiwei, the East Factory, and by the way, the West Factory, and let them bring the most competent people to meet me. ”

Wang An was stunned when he heard this, this brocade guard, and the east factory are just that, why does your majesty want the west factory to come to see you? There is no one left in this West Factory! Wang An replied: "Returning to Your Majesty, this west factory is now basically empty except for the factory setting, should this be called?" ”

Wang An was very careful when he said this, he didn't dare to say the previous reputation of this West Factory, after all, this was their eunuchs' business. Li Jiancheng replied nonchalantly: "It's okay, you just call the person in charge, I have my own orders." ”

Li Jiancheng said that he was about to go back to the palace with Wang An, but he took a step and stopped and said, "Call Secretary Shangling to go back to the palace together." ”

Wang An nodded and said yes, Li Jiancheng still didn't want Ling Xuesu to be alone with those ** women, there were various reasons, anyway, Li Jiancheng just wanted to take her away.

Ling Xue was suspicious that she didn't have anything to say about it, and the two of them didn't say a word when they took the car back to the palace, Li Jiancheng was thinking about his state affairs, even if Ling Xue was suspicious of Li Jiancheng, she wouldn't take the initiative to ask.

Li Jiancheng, who was halfway through the contemplation, suddenly turned his head and said to Ling Xue, who was sitting upright: "Last time, you said that women in this world are miserable, and they are bound and forbidden to walk with a bad fate, and they have been playthings all their lives. That's what you say! ”

Li Jiancheng suddenly said such a thing, Ling Xue looked at him with a wide range of eyes, she didn't understand what Li Jiancheng meant. She looked at Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng also looked at her, the two looked at each other for a while, or Ling Xue was the first to avoid it, she dodged her eyes to the side and replied softly: "Yes!" ”

Li Jiancheng smiled lightly at this and said: "I think your words are indeed very reasonable recently, girls in this world are really miserable, what do you think of me saying that I issued a decree to prohibit foot binding in the world." ”

As soon as Li Jiancheng's words were spoken, Ling Xue was stunned, she looked at Li Jiancheng who was sitting opposite her with a complicated expression, she didn't understand what the man sitting opposite her meant, this man had done such a thing for her not once or twice, if he said that he liked himself, it was obviously just a sentence for him, and she couldn't resist at all. But if it's not for what to do, what is it for to do these things again and again? To fool her? Ling Xue looked at Li Jiancheng suspiciously, and she asked him bluntly for the first time: "Your Majesty, I don't understand what you mean!" ”

At this time, Li Jiancheng's heart was not here, and he didn't pay attention to her honesty, anyway, Ling Xue was suspicious of this attitude, Li Jiancheng's gaze moved down and said: "Hehe, it's nothing, it's just that this Tiancheng barefoot is so beautiful, but the world is obsessed with that kind of legacy and bad customs, and they just destroy the beauty of nature, and say that the broken ugliness is beauty to cover up a certain dirty heart in their hearts, don't you think it's ridiculous?" ”

It can be said that there are many theories about the origin of the ancient wind of foot binding, and even myths have legends, but it can be said that the earliest record is in the Sui Dynasty.

Foot binding began in the Sui and also originated from folklore. Legend has it that when Emperor Yang of Sui traveled to the east of Jiangdu, he recruited 100 beauties to pull fibers for him. A woman named Wu Yueniang was chosen. She hated Emperor Yang's tyranny, so she asked her father, who was a blacksmith, to make a lotus petal knife three inches long and one inch wide, and wrapped the knife under her feet with a long cloth, and at the same time wrapped her feet as small as possible. Then he carved a lotus flower on the sole of his shoe, and printed a beautiful lotus flower in one step when he walked. Emperor Yang of Sui was overjoyed when he saw her, and summoned her to get close, wanting to play with her little feet. Wu Yueniang slowly unwrapped the footcloth, and suddenly pulled out the lotus petal knife and stabbed at Emperor Yang of Sui. Emperor Yang of Sui hurriedly flashed, but his arm had already been stabbed. Wu Yueniang saw that the assassination could not be done, so she committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. Afterwards, Emperor Yang of Sui decreed: In the future, no matter how beautiful a woman is, "no woman with a foot will be chosen". But in order to commemorate the moon mother, the folk women wrapped their feet one after another. At this point, the trend of women's foot binding is becoming more and more popular.

Ancient Chinese women's foot binding arose in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Chinese women did not bind their feet five generations ago. The Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo once made a special word for "Bodhisattva Man", and sang about foot binding. "Don't cherish the lotus to take steps, and worry about Luo socks Lingbo; I saw the dance back to the wind, but there was nowhere to go. stealing the palace is stable, and standing double falling; It should be difficult to say delicately, and it must be seen from the palm of your hand. This can also be called the first poem in the history of Chinese poetry dedicated to foot binding.

The custom of foot binding did appear in the Song Dynasty. By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, women's foot binding had become more common, and even in the late Southern Song Dynasty, "small feet" had become a common name for women. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, women's foot binding was not yet popular, and foot binding was mainly limited to the upper class, and foot binding in social concepts had not yet reached the point where everyone accepted it. At the same time, the custom of foot-binding spread from the north to the south, around the time when the Song dynasty moved south.

In the Yuan Dynasty, after the Mongol nobles entered the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty, they did not bind their feet, but they did not object to the foot-binding habits of the Han people, on the contrary, they still had an appreciative attitude. In this way, the trend of foot binding in the Yuan Dynasty continued to develop, and in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, there was even a concept of being ashamed of not binding feet. Women's foot binding in the Yuan Dynasty continued to develop in the direction of slenderness, but there were still many people who did not bind their feet at this time, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lingnan regions in the south. In the Ming Dynasty, the trend of women's foot binding entered a prosperous period and developed rapidly in various places. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhang Xianzhong entered and occupied Sichuan, he cut off women's small feet, and piled up into a mountain, called Jinlian Peak, which can be seen that women in Sichuan area are bound to their feet. During this period, there were also certain requirements for the shape of the foot, and women's small feet should not only be small, shrinking to three inches, but also bowed, and wrapped into the shape of horns.

The most recent was the Qing Dynasty, when the Manchu rulers entered the Central Plains, and at first vigorously opposed the Han people's foot-binding customs, and repeatedly ordered that women's foot-binding be forbidden. But at this time, the wind of foot binding was difficult to stop, and it had to be banned in the seventh year of Kangxi (1668). This incident was once rendered by people as "men surrendering to women who are not satisfied" - the Qing soldiers entered the customs, there was a "shaving order", under the high pressure of force, the Han men had to submit to the execution, so the men shaved their hair, which was regarded as a symbol of submission to the Qing court. At the same time, although women's foot binding was also ordered to stop by the Qing court, it did not achieve the purpose of prohibiting it later, so there is a saying that "men descend to women do not descend". This shows that the practice of foot binding is deeply rooted

The history of foot binding is definitely a strange event in Chinese history. The history of its development is simply speechless, the beginning of history began with beauty, but what developed in the early days? Regarding this issue, Li Jiancheng specially questioned her grandmother when he was a child, and asked what kind of woman should bind her feet. His grandmother once told him: At that time, men who worked outside had to marry a woman with small feet, because women with small feet could not walk, so they could not escape, and they could not steal people. It can be seen that this is a fucking reason for belonging to human beings, and this is also human beings.

At least in Li Jiancheng's opinion, this is the truth, so Li Jiancheng's last words are like that. But his gaze at the moment was on Ling Xue's suspicious feet, and it was self-evident who the natural beauty was talking about. In the face of Li Jiancheng's explicitness, even if she was as calm as Ling Xue, a hint of redness rose on her snow-white face, and she directly covered a pair of heavenly feet with her skirt, not letting Li Jiancheng look at her, nor was she saying a word, nor was she looking at Li Jiancheng. Li Jiancheng looked at her embarrassment but secretly smiled, what a girl after all!

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