Next, Li Hongzhang also organized a warm welcome ceremony.

It's just that this time it was not elementary school students and junior high school students who welcomed Zhu Fugui.

It's a group of carefully selected ladies.

Although they scattered the footcloths, the two "three-inch golden lotus" that had long been deformed also made it impossible for them to stand well at all.

But even so, the women struggled to stand firm, waving the big red hydrangea in their hands.

To tell the truth, these women who are raised in the boudoir have long since formed their outlook on life, values, and worldview.

It is even more uncomfortable to let them remove their footwraps and show their heads than to kill them and the stubbornly conservative gentry behind them.

In order to explain these stubborn gentry, Li Hongzhang was really worried that his hair fell out a lot.

Li Hongzhang is not Zhu Fugui.

The legitimacy of Zhu Fugui's regime is extremely high, and it does not represent any interest group, nor does it need to represent interest groups.

But for Li Hongzhang, things are completely different.

He himself was a representative of the landed gentry and a spokesman for their interests.

A single gentry, of course, is allowed to be rounded and flattened by Grandpa Li.

But if they reach a collective consensus and resist together, Li Hongzhang's situation will be embarrassing.

It is very difficult for anyone to betray their own class.

It can be said that without the support of these landlords and sages, he Li Hongzhang is nothing.

Zhu Fugui was able to easily attack the landlord class on which the traditional emperor relied for his survival as a terminal producer, also because the environment established by the Ming Empire was too special.

Otherwise, it is impossible to establish a country in the Ming Dynasty without being affected.

After all, Zhu Fugui's father is a landlord himself.

Li Hongzhang is such a person, the culmination of the 3,000-year-old bureaucratic system in China, and naturally he does not dare to betray his own class easily.

Of course, he didn't dare to betray Ming Liangzong.

betrayed his own class, and the big deal was to move his family to the apartment in Fengdu Wuguo City as a public servant.

You must know that Li Hongzhang of the Daming Northern Railway has 15% of the original shares.

Later, because the Ming Dynasty returned all the land that was divided in the early days to the emperor, he also added 5 points as the cost of redemption.

For Li Hongzhang, with this part of the stock dividend, betraying the class can especially be a rich man.

But if he betrayed the Ming Liang Sect, Li Hongzhang knew that he would not see the sun the next day.

Which is more important, he naturally has a scale in his heart.

In fact, if Zhu Fugui was willing to support him as he supported Zuo Zongtang, then he, Li Hongzhang, would have taken Qiu Ba to chop up all those noisy fellow villagers and feed them to the dogs.

The problem is that Li Hongzhang knows that he is not Zuo Zongtang.

And Banzai is not a person who likes to slaughter his fellow clansmen.

It is precisely because people who are familiar with Long Live know that he is essentially a good old man who misses the old love very much, and he is a good old man who holds supreme authority and misses the old love, so everyone is naturally willing to serve such a person.

Li Hongzhang is exactly like this.

In private, he sighed more than once to Zhou Yushan and other absolute confidants: "The so-called mercy is not in charge of the army, but today is a great compassionate person."

The invincible strong soldiers in the world, the unfathomable warehouse, and the solid hearts of the people, without any of them, it is impossible to have a situation where the strong enemy is around, the benevolent monarch is in the hall, and the arrogant soldiers have no other heart.

This sincerity is a strange situation that has not been seen for 3,000 years!

The old man can be in the Dewu Dynasty, without the risk of blue jade and martial arts, and it can be regarded as a blessing in the previous life! ”

These are Li Hongzhang's heartfelt words.

Although compared to Lan Yu, Yue Fei is really stinky and shameless.

He knew that Zhu Fugui did not have high requirements for himself, that is, to be a night pot, pack all the residues of the previous era, and then try not to bleed and take them away decently.

Therefore, in the end, Li Hongzhang only used limited violent measures, supplemented by coercion and inducement, so that some of the village gentry made concessions.

This is also the reason why he trembled and desperately gave Zhu Fugui a gift.

Because according to the requirements of the Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has a first-class vassal state (Sihua), and men's braids can not be cut, but women's small feet must be released.

Braids, in fact, as long as the Manchu Qing Dynasty falls, under the demonstration effect of the Ming Dynasty, it will disappear sooner or later.

The money rat tail is so ugly that even Kangxi Qianlong himself is unwilling to stay, let alone others.

The headquarters of Daming Yinzhou has never issued a ban on braids, but after all these years, it has long been impossible to find a stupid fork with a rat's tail.

But wrapping your little feet is different.

In a sense, this deformed aesthetic originates from the strong concept of chastity of the agrarian Han people.

On the contrary, the Manchu court repeatedly hoped to abolish this bad habit based on tax considerations, which was strongly resisted by the people.

It is certainly wrong to say that it is "Chinese orthodoxy", but in the eyes of many diehards, this is indeed the "law of the ancestors" and immutable, and the "great defense of men and women" cannot be messed up.

Therefore, it is much more difficult to get rid of a woman's little feet than it is to cut off a man's braids.

The orders issued by Da Ming encountered a lot of resistance when Zuo Chu carried them out, let alone Li Tang.

Zhu Fugui sat in an exclusive bulletproof car, listened to Li Hongzhang's description of the practical difficulties, and finally could only say that the problem of small feet must be solved within ten years.

If it can't be solved, I will solve you!

Zhu Fugui asked Yi Bowen to record this passage in the "Notes on the Life of the Son of Heaven", and will publish it publicly to prove that what he said is true, not for fun.

Li Hongzhang thanked him again and again, saying that he would definitely complete the task on schedule.

The reason why Li Hongzhang was given a ten-year grace period was not only to take into account the actual situation of the township gentry under him, but also because there was one thing that made Zhu Fugui more worried.

Because they went to India......

In that hellish place, QJ crime is as common as drinking water.

Zhu Fugui doesn't know if the Indian security news that sounds like a fantasy in later generations has added fuel and vinegar, but he knows that the general direction should be fine.

The original intention of binding the little feet was to restrict women's movements, which has achieved the goal of maintaining chastity, which can be described as quite anti-human Li Hongzhang, and must be resolutely eradicated.

However, in the event of such a misfortune as a woman who did not bind her feet, it would certainly be linked up by people with ulterior motives, and eventually shake the moral foundation of good governance of "abolishing foot binding".

Therefore, Zhu Fugui decided to give Li Hongzhang a little time to deal with those third brothers well, so as to effectively ensure the safety of Chinese women.

Anyway, as far as Zhu Fugui knew, many of the eunuchs in the former Qing Imperial Palace were not with Li Lianying and Wang Chengde, and they also ran to Li Hongzhang's side.

Including several masters of the Jingshifang, they are also in Shanghai now.

These talents, Zhu Fugui, believe that Grandpa Li will also make the best use of them.