I want to be emperor

Chapter 577
Concubine Hou Shu was wearing a tube top and slim skirt and a pink and purple shirt with large sleeves. If this dress was placed in the early Ming Dynasty, it would be very bold.

However, it is relatively normal in the Chu Palace... Luo Zhixue's aesthetics are the aesthetics of later generations, so he is not used to small feet, and he hates bound feet even more.

Luo Zhi had ordered the prohibition of foot binding in the palace long ago, and also issued an order that all officials forbade the feet of their direct female relatives to be bound, and those who had already bound their feet could be released, and it was not allowed to bind the feet of young girls. Anyone who bound the feet of young women Yes, find one and process one.

Demotion, dismissal, and even imprisonment are possible.

At the official level, Luo Zhixue directly ordered the prohibition, while at the civil level, it is mainly advocacy, and at the same time, a child abuse crime is added in the law.

Obviously, deforming a daughter's foot is proper child abuse!
However, this kind of matter does not raise officials and does not investigate, and the official can't really take care of everything. It can only increase publicity and guidance, especially in the Dachu Mansion newspaper, which often publicizes the disadvantages of footbinding and calls on the public not to bound feet.

As for why?In addition to Luo Zhixue's personal aesthetics, the more important thing is that they all have their feet bound. Who will go to farm and enter the factory?
Even if the custom of binding feet these days is still limited to the middle and upper class, Luo Zhixue still has to fight against it resolutely. If the custom of binding feet becomes more and more severe and finally spreads to the lower class, wouldn't it mean that the labor force would be reduced by half for no reason?

Luo Zhixue, the biggest capitalist in the Great Chu Empire, said that this matter cannot be tolerated!

It must be severely cracked down, from the root!
So he directly banned the foot binding in the palace, and also banned the foot binding of the officials and women's family members... It's not good for the people to go ahead with the ban directly, lest those bastards say that he is nosy.

But he can manage officials.

If you want to be an official of my Great Chu, you have to follow my Great Chu's rules. It is our Great Chu's rule that officials and female family members cannot bind their feet. Don't care what you think, but you must abide by it, otherwise you will go as far as you can , Da Chu does not lack you as an official.

Not to mention, the policy of directly prohibiting official women's family members from binding their feet has been implemented quite smoothly!

Never underestimate people's determination to become an official and the price they are willing to pay!
In the former Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Yu, the empress lord of the Han Dynasty, believed that officials had family members and were not as trustworthy as eunuchs, so they used eunuchs more. However, if officials wanted to be promoted and reused, they had to cut their own bodies into eunuchs first. get reused.

When you first hear it, you might think it's weird, and subconsciously think that the officials of the Southern Han Dynasty would probably not be willing, but in fact it's the opposite... a lot of people swung their knives from the palace just to get promoted.

Those new champions, the first thing they do after passing the imperial examination is to swing their swords from the palace!

It's weird, isn't it... But it's real, so don't underestimate the attraction of being an official to people.

In order to become an official smoothly, these officials will forbid women's family members to bind their feet, and it will become natural after a long time.

And it works from top to bottom, and the social ethos of the middle and lower classes follows the upper class most of the time. When the upper class binds their feet, the middle class also binds their feet. Top-down shifts in ethos are common.

What Luo Zhixue has to do is to strangle it directly at the source, and directly prohibit officials' family members from binding their feet!
The prohibition of binding feet is a manifestation of Luo Zhixue's aesthetics of later generations, and there is also clothing.

Clothes are a direct manifestation of fashion aesthetics. In this regard, Luo Zhixue's aesthetics are also the public aesthetics of later generations.

As for women's clothing, what he thinks look good are some modern women's clothing of later generations, as for the ancient Chinese clothing!

What kind of Hanfu does he think looks good?

Well, it is the kind of Hanfu in film and television dramas, the kind that looks very beautiful at first glance!

That is the "photo studio style" that Hanfu fans often belittle... But Luo Zhixue is not a Hanfu fan, he is just a layman, he only cares about whether the studio style is real in history or not. Hanfu.

That doesn't make sense!

And Concubine Hou Shu's outfit at this time is actually a slight change from the breast-length skirt of the late Ming Dynasty. It is more self-cultivating and can better show her figure. In later generations, it is also a proper studio style...

Well, clothes, limited by the technical problems of the times, are not friendly to the girls who are beautiful with weak flat chests that scholars in the Song and Ming Dynasties liked very much.

Because this dress has no suspenders and no rubber bands, it is only tied with a few thin straps on the back, and the material is still soft silk, unlike western dresses, where you can stuff a few whale bones into the skirt or something support.

As for the chest-length skirt that Concubine Hou Shu is wearing now, if it is not stuck in the chest, it will really fall down...

Of course, because of Luo Zhixue's personal preferences, the women in the harem of the Great Chu Empire did not have a, and even b were very few, most of them were above C...so they don't have to worry about this kind of problem.

It's just that after Luo Zhixue glanced at Concubine Hou Shu, his eyes went up from his chest to her eyes, and he found that there was something wrong with her eyes...

Withdrawing his gaze, he looked left and right again, Nima, it's winter, one wears less than the other...not afraid of the cold.

Seeing them like this, Luo Zhixue knew that he had become a Tang monk again: the kind who was stared at by more than two hundred women and still drool...

In this way, I suddenly felt that this babbling Kun opera was even more boring to watch.

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On the contrary, Empress Wang was dressed dignifiedly as always, her skirt with a stand-up collar couldn't see the chain bones. At this time, she also noticed that Luo Zhixue was bored, but she still tried her best to endure the show, and she knew it well.

Queen Wang glanced at the many concubines around again, all of them were holding back their thoughts.

Queen Wang didn't look angry at all about this, but a casual smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Few of these coquettish sluts really understand the mind of their majesty.

If the dress is a little less, and if it is more coquettish, it can attract the attention of His Majesty, then it is too small to underestimate the emperor who has taken down the whole world.

It's hard to say, my Majesty has never seen any kind of woman before, how can pure female sex have any effect on him, these years, there have been many women playing this game in the palace, and I haven't seen one who really relies on her beauty superior.

not a single one!

Even Concubine Hui, this woman is much more open-minded than ordinary concubines. From what she said, before entering the palace, her mother invited more than a dozen professionals to teach her various professional skills... But so what, Your Majesty In the first ten days and a half months, I had a slight obsession. After the time passed, I turned around and ran away.

Afterwards, Concubine Hui was able to remain in Luo Zhixue's sight and gave birth to a daughter, not because of her professional skills, but because she knew how to behave.

She ran to the Queen's side every day, just increasing her presence in front of Luo Zhixue...

Queen Wang withdrew her gaze and continued watching the play, not bothering to talk to those women who were trying to attract Luo Zhixue's attention.

Entertaining people with sex is a failure after all. Ten years later, they don't know where to roll, and she is still the queen of the Great Chu Empire!
Most importantly, her son Luo Xuan (xuan fourth tone) is the eldest son of the Great Chu Empire!
And Luo Zhixue made it clear very early on that the Great Chu Empire followed the system of heirs, and when the eldest son Luo Xuan was six years old, he would formally establish a crown prince.

Luo Zhixue didn't intend to set up a virtuous person, and he didn't want the issue of the crown prince to cause turmoil in the court. Therefore, when Luo Xuan was just born, he made it clear that the Great Chu Empire would implement strict rules for the eldest son, and it was clearly stipulated that it would be a permanent rule. Future generations must not tamper with!
The Great Chu Empire seems to have a high concentration of imperial power, and the emperor's power is extremely huge, but this is based on the fact that Luo Zhixue was the founding emperor.

In fact, with the current perfect internal political system of the Great Chu Empire, it is impossible for the next emperor to have as much power as Luo Zhixue.

Well, maybe it means that the imperial power is still supreme on the surface, but in fact the monarch and his ministers rule the world together.

The internal political structure of the Great Chu Empire created by Luo Zhixue was not purely for the emperor to concentrate more power, it was just incidental.

It is more to prevent the emergence of powerful ministers, and to prevent a certain department or a certain important minister from dominating the family.

That's why there is a system of ministers of affairs, and there are independent systems such as the Council of Government Affairs, the Council of Military Affairs, the Imperial Academy, the Inspectorate, and the Grand Court.

Under such circumstances, in order to avoid turmoil in future generations, Luo Zhixue directly had an eldest son. As for the selection of virtuous persons, this would easily cause troubles and cause turmoil in the court.

When the Great Chu Empire clarified the heir apparent system, the queen and queen let go of her worries for many years!
As long as her son does not have any accidents, then she can laugh at the situation in the harem.

When the hobby comes, she will play a few games of chess in the air and control the life of several chess pieces. This is also one of the rare pleasures in her harem career over the years.

Luo Zhixue was confused after watching a Kun opera. If he hadn't agreed to Queen Wang before, and he hadn't seriously accompanied her to do things like watching operas these years, he would have left early. up...

Even if you want to watch a play or something, watching the court dance team dance is better than this!
After finally surviving a scene, Luo Zhixue took a look and said, Nima, there are still two scenes to come... Immediately, Luo Zhixue turned around and said to Queen Wang that there is still a meeting waiting for him, and he has to deal with it in the past .

Queen Wang smiled and said hello, His Majesty's state affairs are important, go get busy.

Only then did Luo Zhixue get away and go to the front hall. As for the meeting...it didn't exist before, but now it does.

The accompanying female officer from the Palace Affairs Office quickly told the secretary of the Imperial Academy Secretariat who was waiting in the front hall that a meeting had already been arranged before Luo Zhixue arrived.

Guo Quanshu, the Minister of Counseling of the Imperial Study, was the main one, and together with many other officials, the theme of the meeting was to discuss the provincial examinations in next year's imperial examinations.

According to Luo Zhixue's will, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has carried out trials in different ways and in different places in the past few years, and has carried out experiments on the provincial examination, and the results have been good.

Next year, it is going to be launched on a large scale.

(End of this chapter)