On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the concubines took their daughters and sons to Kunning Palace in the early morning at the order of the queen.

In front of the palace gate, the concubines found that today's greetings were a little more solemn than the morning ceremony of the first month and winter solstice, except for the crown prince and the prince did not come, the queen's large and small stewards, the left young eunuch, the eunuch, the right young eunuch, the palace eunuch and other eunuchs.

There are also female officials of six bureaus and one division, such as Shanggong Bureau, Shangyi Bureau, and Gongzheng Division.

The concubines pulled the little princess and took the little prince into the Kunning Palace, and saw at a glance that there was an extra throne in the middle, which was His Majesty's Dragon Chair.

Except for a few young princesses making noise, the inside and outside of Kunning Palace were quiet and neat.

Not long after, the emperor and the queen walked in from the east gate, and Si Zan sang: "Worship!" ”

The concubines took the princess and the princess to kneel down together, and read:

"Concubine Li/Ning...... Greetings to Your Majesty, Queen. ”

All the eunuchs and female officials inside and outside the Kunning Palace bowed down.

Zhu Yuanzhang pulled Queen Ma to sit down, and said casually: "Get up, the etiquette in the back is saved." ”

The eunuch Sizan sang again: "Long live the Lord has a will, exempt from courtesy." ”

Only then did the crowd get up and stand with their heads bowed.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to speak, but when he saw his daughter Zhu Shanqing, she was looking up at him with big black eyes, the little princess was only four years old and looked very cute.

"Qing'er, come here."

Zhu Yuanzhang beckoned to her with a kind smile, Zhu Shanqing was stunned for a while, and it was not until her mother asked her to go over that she stumbled towards her father.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel distressed when he saw his daughter walking, and when the little princess came to his side, he picked her up and looked down at his daughter's feet.

A pair of very small shoes were worn on his feet.

"Qing'er, your mother also let you bind your feet?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Many concubines below didn't know why, even Queen Ma looked at him suspiciously, and then looked at her own Tianzu, and her face couldn't help but be ashamed.

When Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet ruled the world, the enemy would often scold Zhu Yuanzhang by the way, calling her Ma Dajiao!

Guy was blamed for not binding her feet when she was a teenager, which made her feet too big, and because she was queen at the time.

"Well, Daddy...... Foot binding hurts. Zhu Shanqing said pitifully, "Qing'er doesn't want to be entangled, but the mother concubine wraps it in a cloth every day, and it hurts to death." ”

"Qing'er, don't mess around!"

Zhu Shanqing's mother, Concubine Hui, Guo Shi, hurriedly stood up and explained.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "From today onwards, Qing'er doesn't have to bind her feet anymore!" ”

"Huh?"

The little princess froze.

Concubine Hui fell to her knees in fright and begged Her Majesty not to punish her.

After all, His Majesty had ordered that only the daughters of beggars were not allowed to bind their feet!

"From today onwards, no foot binding is allowed in the palace!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said another sentence that could be called thunder, which made the eunuchs and female officials inside and outside Kunning Palace, as well as the concubines, stunned.

"Those who are binding their feet, from now on, untie them immediately, and they must not be entangled again! Those whose feet have been shaped can wear small shoes and socks. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang emphasized again.

Only then did Queen Ma come back to her senses and whisper to him: "Your holy decree that you are not allowed to bind your feet is also instructed by Chu Zhenren?" I'm still in the dark. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "The body is skinny, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it at all...... None of the women of the Han and Tang dynasties were bound to their feet, and the wind of foot binding has intensified since the Song Dynasty...... Caused by the distortion of aesthetics by the corrupt Confucian doctors! ”

After saying a phone call, there is only one purpose expressed:

From now on, in the palace and the prince's palace, princesses and county lords are not allowed to bind their feet!

In addition, all palace maids and concubines are not allowed to bind their feet, and those who bind their feet cannot enter the palace, and princes and princes are not allowed to marry foot-bound women.

Except for those that have been bound to the feet.

"Daddy!" The little princess understood her father's words, and asked with a smile on her face: "Qing'er doesn't need to bind her feet in the future?" ”

"Yes, you don't need to wrap your feet, if you bind your feet again, you won't be Daddy's daughter!"

Zhu Yuanzhang pinched his daughter's little nose, put her down, and ordered Concubine Hui to take her back and not let the little princess bind her feet again!

"The concubine obeys the order."

Concubine Hui hesitated, and then said: "Your Majesty, but now everyone in the world regards women's small feet as beautiful, if Qing'er is ......"

"There is no small foot for beauty in the future!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and said loudly to everyone inside and outside Kunning Palace: "From today on, women all over the world are not allowed to bind their feet, regardless of the nationality of the people and beggars, and all of them are not allowed to bind their feet!" ”

Empress Ma knew that he was leaving, so she said: "The concubine will order the women in the palace to untie the footcloth, and Your Majesty will go to the court first." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and asked her to give her will in place, and those who secretly bound their feet would be severely punished.

After he left, Queen Ma summoned the eunuchs and female officials into the palace and ordered them to immediately notify all parts of the palace that no more little palace maids were allowed to bind their feet, and the specific regulations would be promulgated later.

The eunuchs and female officials did not dare to slack off, and after receiving the order, they withdrew from the palace and conveyed the emperor's will as soon as they returned.

Your Majesty even delayed the early dynasty, just came to Kunning Palace for this matter, how could they not see that Your Majesty attached great importance to this matter?

"Give lychees!"

Queen Ma ordered with a smile, and Concubine Hui, Concubine Li and other concubines raised their heads one after another.

The matter of His Majesty and the queen eating lychees last night has spread all over the palace this morning, and the eunuchs and palace maids are all talking about it, and they are excitedly discussing whether the master they are serving can get one.

The concubine is not worried, there must be one of them in the lychee.

But after all, there are only three or two concubines, and the rest are all concubines, with different degrees of favor, different backgrounds of their mothers, and different children born, no one knows who Queen Ma will reward lychees to.

At this moment, as soon as the queen said "give lychees", many concubines couldn't bear the desire in their hearts and looked up one after another.

Sure enough, I saw more than 20 palace maids, holding exquisite plates and walking in, in the center of the plate, there was either a bright red fruit, or a huge ...... Bayberry and strawberry?!

How can bayberry and strawberries ripen so quickly?!

"These lychees, strawberries, bayberry."

Queen Ma sat on the throne and said to everyone with a smile: "It was planted by Chu Zhenren, and Your Majesty is waiting for me, so I bought it from Chu Zhenren and gave it to you to taste." ”

"Thank you for your majesty's reward, thank you for your mother's reward."

Regardless of whether the concubines received it or not, they all knelt down to thank him first.

A palace maid handed a piece of written paper to Si Zan, who immediately understood, and read aloud with the paper: "Give Concubine Hui Guo's lychee!" ”

"Thank you for the gift of the queen mother!"

Concubine Hui Guo showed excitement on her face, and in the envious eyes of many concubines, she took the plate sent by the palace maid.

Si Zan read them one by one, and all the concubines were rewarded, either lychees or strawberries, and the remaining ones were rewarded to a few young princesses and little princes.

Inside and outside Kunning Palace, there was a hustle and bustle.

……

Zhu Yuanzhang came to the Huagai Palace, the six Shangshu, the squire, the left and right of the Imperial History Terrace and other officials were already waiting, and after seeing him coming, all the officials knelt down one after another.

"No courtesy."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chair, looked at their faces, and said with a smile: "Zhong Aiqing has something to do?" ”

“…… Your Majesty! ”

Cheng Anran stood up in the left imperial history, "There is a matter of ministers, it is about the right prime minister Hu Weiyong......"

"Hu Weiyong has ordered the prince to preside over the trial, so there is no need to mention it again."

After hearing the emperor's words, everyone didn't dare to mention Hu Weiyong again, and they already understood in their hearts that the right prime minister had completely fallen.

"Your Majesty!"

Li Mian, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, stood up, "I heard that there is a lychee reward for the concubines in the palace, this lychee...... Your Majesty, I still remember Tang Xuanzong......"

"How can I not know about Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, "But how do you know where the lychee I gave to the queen came from?" You don't know anything, you just give advice! ”

The ministers looked at each other, this lychee was not transported from Lingnan, could it have fallen from the sky?

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Compared with Hu Weiyong and Lychee, there is one thing worth discussing!" ”

"Your Majesty, I don't know what it is?" The secretary of the ministry stood up.

"Foot binding!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at them, "Give me a decree, from today onwards, I will not be allowed to bind my feet!" ”

The various ministers, squires, and officials of the Imperial History Observatory were shocked again.

Women are not allowed to bind their feet, they are bigger than the right prime minister Hu Weiyong?