Hou Shufei wore a tube top slim-fitting underskirt and a pink and purple large-sleeved shirt. If this outfit was placed in the early Ming Dynasty, it would be considered very bold.
But it was relatively normal in the Chu harem... Luo Zhixue's aesthetics was that of later generations, so he couldn't get used to small feet, and he hated bound feet.
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Luo Zhi had long ago ordered that foot-binding be banned in the palace, and he also issued an order that all officials were prohibited from binding the feet of his immediate daughters. Those who had already had their feet bound could be let go, and they were not allowed to bind the feet of young girls. Anyone who bound the feet of young girls was not allowed. Those with bound feet are dealt with one by one.
Demotion, dismissal, and even jail are possible.
At the official level, Luo Zhixue directly ordered a ban, but at the private level, he mainly advocated, and at the same time, the law added a crime of child abuse.
Obviously, deforming my daughter’s feet is pure child abuse!
However, since this kind of matter is ignored by the people, it is impossible for the government to really take care of everything. They can only increase publicity and guidance, especially in the Da Chu Di newspaper, which often publicizes the disadvantages of foot binding and calls on the people not to do so. Binding feet.
As for why? In addition to Luo Zhixue's personal aesthetics, what's more important is that his feet are already bound. Who is going to farm or work in a factory?
Even though the foot-binding trend these days is still limited to the middle and upper classes, Luo Zhixue still has to fight resolutely. If the foot-binding trend becomes more and more intense and eventually spreads to the people at the bottom, wouldn't it mean that half of the labor force would be reduced for no reason?
Luo Zhixue, the largest capitalist in the Da Chu Empire, said that this matter cannot be tolerated!
We must crack down hard and strike at the root!
So he directly banned foot-binding in the palace, and also banned foot-binding among officials and women... It would be better for the people to ban it directly, lest those bastards say he is meddling in other people's business.
But he can manage officials.
If you want to be an official of our Da Chu, you have to follow the rules of our Da Chu. It is the rule of our Da Chu that female officials cannot have their feet bound. No matter what you think, you must abide by it, otherwise you will get away with it no matter how far you go. Yuan, Dachu has no shortage of officials like you.
Not to mention, the policy of directly prohibiting female officials from having their feet bound has been implemented quite smoothly!
Never underestimate people's determination to become an official and the price they are willing to pay!
In the old Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Yuan, the leader of the Han Dynasty, believed that officials had family records and could not be trusted by eunuchs, so they reused eunuchs. However, if officials wanted to be promoted and be reused, they had to first carve out their own bodies and become eunuchs. Can be reused.
When you first hear it, you may think it's weird, and subconsciously think that the officials of the Southern Han Dynasty would not agree, but in fact it's the opposite...a lot of people wielded their swords in the palace just to get promoted.
The first thing that those who are number one in the new subjects do after passing the imperial examination is to commit suicide with a sword!
It's weird, isn't it...but it's real, so don't underestimate the appeal of being an official to people.
In order to serve as officials smoothly, these officials will prohibit women from having their feet bound, and over time it will become natural.
What goes up leads to deeds. Most of the time, the social atmosphere of the middle and lower classes follows that of the upper class. When the upper class binds their feet, the middle class will also bind their feet. When the middle class binds their feet, those bitter people will also bind their feet... This kind of society Top-down changes in ethos are common.
What Luo Zhixue has to do is to strangle it directly at the source and directly prohibit officials from binding their feet!
The ban on foot binding is a manifestation of Luo Zhixue's later aesthetics, and then there's the clothing.
Clothes are a direct reflection of fashion aesthetics. In this aspect, Luo Zhixue's aesthetics is also the popular aesthetics of later generations.
As for women's clothing, what he thinks looks good are some modern women's clothing. As for the ancient Hanfu!
What kind of Hanfu does he think looks good?
Well, it’s the kind of Hanfu in movies and TV dramas, the kind that looks very beautiful at first glance!
This is the 'photo studio style' that Hanfu enthusiasts often disparage... However, Luo Zhixue is not a Hanfu enthusiast. He is just a layman. He only sees beauty or not. He doesn't care whether this photo studio style actually existed in history. Hanfu.
That doesn't make sense!
The way Concubine Hou Shu was dressed at this time was actually a slight change from the chest-length skirt of the late Ming Dynasty. In comparison, it was more slim and better able to show off her figure. In future generations, it would also be a proper studio style...
Well, the clothes were limited by the technical issues of the times, and were very unfriendly to the girls who were favored by scholars during the Song and Ming dynasties for their beauty of being weak and flat-chested.
Because this dress has no suspenders or elastic bands, it is only tied with a few thin straps on the back, and the material is soft silk. It is not like a Western dress, where you can stuff a few whale bones or something like that into the dress. support.
As for the chest-length skirt that Hou Shufei is wearing now, if her breasts are not stuck, it will really fall down...
Of course, due to Luo Zhixue's personal preferences, there are no A's in the harem of the Chu Empire, and there are very few B's, and most of them are C or above... So they don't have to worry about this kind of problem.
But after Luo Zhixue glanced at Hou Shufei, he looked from her chest up to her eyes, and found that something was wrong with her eyes...
He withdrew his gaze and looked left and right again. Damn, this is winter. Each of them is wearing less than the other... and they are not afraid of the cold.
Seeing them like this, Luo Zhixue knew that he had become Tang Monk meat again: the kind that was stared at by more than two hundred women and still drooled...
As a result, I suddenly felt that this Yiyiya Kun drama was even more boring to watch.
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On the contrary, Queen Wang was dressed dignifiedly as always, with no bones visible in her stand-up collared skirt. At this time, she also noticed that Luo Zhixue looked like he was bored but still trying his best to endure the show, so she naturally knew this well.
Queen Wang glanced at the many concubines around her, all of them holding back their thoughts.
Queen Wang didn't look angry at all about this, but instead had a casual smile on her lips.
Few of these coquettish bitches truly understand their Majesty’s thoughts.
If he wears less clothes and looks more coquettish to attract His Majesty's attention, then it would be too small to underestimate the horse emperor who has conquered the whole world.
It's not nice to say. What kind of woman has your Majesty never seen? How could pure female lust have an effect on him? In recent years, there have been many women in the palace who have played this trick, and I have never seen one who really relied on her beauty. Superior.
not a single one!
Even concubine Hui, this woman is much more open-minded than ordinary concubines. According to her own words, before entering the palace, her mother hired more than a dozen professionals to teach her various professional skills... But so what, Your Majesty. I was slightly obsessed with him for the first ten days and a half, but as soon as the time passed, I turned around and ran away.
Subsequently, Hui Bin was able to remain in Luo Zhixue's sight and gave birth to a daughter, not because of her professional skills, but because of her knowledge of life.
She visits Queen Wang every day to increase her presence in front of Luo Zhixue...
Queen Wang withdrew her gaze and continued watching the show, not even bothering to pay attention to the women who were trying to attract Luo Zhixue's attention.
Entertaining people with sex, after all, they fell behind. Ten years later, they didn't know where they were, and she was still the queen of the Great Chu Empire!
The most important thing is that her son Luo Xuan (xuan fourth tone) is the eldest son of the Chu Empire!
Luo Zhixue had made it clear very early on that the Chu Empire adhered to the system of direct eldest son, and when the eldest son Luo Xuan turns six years old, he will be officially crown prince.
Luo Zhixue was not going to do anything to establish a worthy person, and he did not want the issue of the crown prince to cause turmoil in the court. Therefore, when Luo Xuan was just born, he had made it clear that the Chu Empire would implement a strict eldest son rule, and it was clearly stipulated as a permanent rule. No tampering shall be allowed in future generations!
The Great Chu Empire seemed to have a high concentration of imperial power and the emperor's power was extremely huge, but this was based on the fact that Luo Zhixue was the founding emperor.
In fact, with the current internal political system of the Great Chu Empire, it is impossible for the next emperor to have as much real power as Luo Zhixue.
Well, maybe it means that on the surface, the imperial power is still supreme, but in fact, the emperor and his ministers rule the world together.
The internal political structure of the Chu Empire created by Luo Zhixue was not simply to allow the emperor to concentrate more power, it was just incidental.
More importantly, it is to prevent the emergence of powerful ministers and prevent a certain department or a certain important minister's family from becoming dominant.
That's why there is a system of ministers, as well as independent systems such as the Government Affairs Council, the Military Affairs Council, the Hanlin Academy, the Inspectorate, and the Supreme Court.
Under such circumstances, in order to avoid turmoil in later generations, Luo Zhixue directly gave birth to his eldest son. As for selecting talents, this could easily cause trouble and cause turmoil in the court.
When the Chu Empire clarified the system of direct descendants, Queen Wang put aside her worries for many years!
As long as nothing happens to her son, she can watch the harem with a smile.
When she is interested, she will play several games of chess from afar and control the lives of several chess pieces. This is one of the rare pleasures she has enjoyed in her harem career over the years.
Luo Zhixue was confused when watching a Kunqu opera. If he hadn't agreed to Empress Wang before, and indeed he hadn't seriously accompanied her to do anything like watching a theater in these years, he would have been there long ago. gone……
Even if you want to watch a play or something, watching the palace dance team dance is better than this!
After finally getting through the scene, Luo Zhixue took a quick look and thought, Damn, there are still two scenes to come... Luo Zhixue immediately turned around and said to Queen Wang that there was still a meeting waiting for him, and he had to go over and deal with it. .
Queen Wang smiled and said hello, Your Majesty's state affairs are important, so go and get busy.
Only then did Luo Zhixue get out of his body and go to the front hall. As for the meeting... it didn't exist before, but now it does.
The accompanying female official from the Palace Affairs Department quickly informed the secretary of the Hanlin Academy Secretariat who was waiting in the front hall that a meeting had already been arranged before Luo Zhixueren arrived.
Guo Quanshu, the Counselor of the Royal Study Room, was the leader, and together with many other officials, the theme of the meeting was to discuss the provincial examination matters in next year's imperial examination.
According to Luo Zhixue's will, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has carried out pilot experiments in different ways and in different places in the past few years to explore the provincial examination, with good results.
Next year, we are preparing to expand on a large scale.
