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Chapter 37
Under the sky, all living beings have their own forms.

Many women looked at the sky, their hearts agitated.

It turns out that women are not supposed to be humble since ancient times.

It turns out that in ancient times, women could lead troops in battles and conduct sacrifices, and queens could have their own fiefdoms and private soldiers.

But why didn’t it disappear later?

I don’t know how many women are thinking about it.

The princesses of the Qin Dynasty looked at the sky, thinking about the possibility of their participation in the court affairs.

They don't think it's too difficult.

After all, the Empress Dowager Xuan was the first example, and Confucianism was not so prevalent in the Qin Dynasty, and there were no books such as the Four Books for Women that imprisoned women.

汉朝
Lu Pheasant glanced at Liu Bang with a half-smile, which made him feel uncomfortable all over.

"What do you want to do again?"

Liu Bang asked Lu Pheasant warily.

Lu Zhi smiled: "I didn't think anything of it, I just admire the woman for being good."

But Liu Bang knew that Lu Fei didn't know what he was planning in his heart.

Lu Pheasant is thinking about the possibility of taking power herself.

Liu Ying is not a good heir. In fact, Lu Zhi is as conscious as Liu Bang, but Liu Bang has a choice, but she has no choice. If Liu Ruyi is allowed to ascend the throne, it will be the death of Lu Zhi, mother and son.

In order to be able to survive, coupled with unwillingness, Lu Zhi has been trying to find ways to support Liu Ying.

What she had been thinking before was that after Liu Ying ascended the throne, she would assist Liu Ying and slowly change Liu Ying, even if it took longer and more energy...

But now Lu Pheasant doesn’t think so.

She doesn't think that Liu Ying is not suitable, so why doesn't she come by herself?
During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Chen Jiao sat in the garden of Nagato Palace, looking at the sky and laughing, tears came out.

"I see, that's it... I'm really a fool."

She was just thinking that after she married Liu Che, she had only Liu Che in her heart, and spent all her energy on maintaining the relationship between her and Liu Che, and wasted on jealousy in the harem.

Her heart and eyes were full of Liu Che, and all she wanted was Liu Che's love.

But now she understands that people change. If you like something today, you may hate it tomorrow. The only thing that remains unchanged is the power in your hands.

If she had actively contacted government affairs and worked hard to develop her own connections.

How could Liu Che destroy her so easily when she had manpower in both the court and the army.

It turned out that her initial efforts were in the wrong direction.

In the Tang Dynasty, the queens and princesses after Empress Zetian were extremely eager.

In the Shang Dynasty, there were women who could not lose to men in the court and in the army. Before them, there was Empress Zetian who became the emperor, so why couldn't they stand side by side with men?

After the Tang Dynasty, the princesses of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were full of sorrow and unwillingness.

Compared with their predecessors, they are really too weak. They are obviously golden branches and jade leaves, but they live a life without any freedom at all.

The worry-free expression gradually became serious.

"During the Shang Dynasty, women could still stand in the court, conduct sacrifices, and command soldiers. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, women were relatively free. Women were encouraged to remarry in the court. Women who had been married and had children were It was very popular. In the Tang Dynasty, both the court and the people were relatively open and tolerant. There were many women walking around wearing men's clothes, and they were not discriminated against."

"In the Northern Song Dynasty, women could still do business outside, and it was unavoidable to go out with others to play together, but after the Southern Song Dynasty, women seemed to be able to only move around in the backyard. In the Ming Dynasty, bound feet and chastity archways prevailed. Women Not only was he tortured physically, his behavior was restrained, but he was also tortured mentally, and he was suppressed to the point of dust."

"If we observe and think carefully, it is not difficult to see that in any dynasty that is powerful and has a large territory, the status of women is higher. On the contrary, in dynasties that are turbulent, weak, and peaceful, the status of women is lower."

"During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, women's clothing was so bright and bold. The girls wore all kinds of bright clothes to go out and play. But in the Song Dynasty, the clothing tended to be conservative. Women began to regard thinness as beauty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was even more important to bind their feet. It also started from this time..."

Having said that, Wuyou released the video and pictures introducing the foot binding.

When people of all dynasties saw the appearance of the bound feet after removing the wrapping cloth, all of them looked ugly, and some even started to retch.

Lu Pheasant, Empress Zetian and others looked ashen. Looking at the pictures of deformed feet, they felt that this was a great shame.

This is simply treating all women as playthings.

It's like catching a bird, cutting off its wings and putting it in a cage.

Qin Dynasty
Shi Huang looked at those photos, and his expression was also very bad.

"What did the kings of later generations think? How could they be so confused?"

He was really puzzled, and couldn't help but complain to Su Fu: "Women are also important laborers in the family. In many families, women do as much work as men, but they break their foot bones like this so that they can't walk. Isn’t there a shortage of half of the labor force in the world?”

Su Fu was also very puzzled.

He looked at those photos and felt sick to his stomach: "I don't understand either, but if I think about it carefully, not only will the world's labor force be reduced by half, it will also increase the chance of dystocia and lower the birth rate."

Shihuang nodded: "Extremely true."

Think about how short of labor the Qin Dynasty had after it unified the six kingdoms. It needed people for farming, it needed people for fighting everywhere, it needed people for repairing straight roads, it needed people for building water conservancy projects... The Qin Dynasty was so short of people that it was almost urgent, and the kings of later generations needed people. To think that there would be no need for so much labor but to have women's feet bound is simply a sign of something wrong with their brains.

Liu Che also had similar ideas to the First Emperor.

He stared at Wei Qing and asked Wei Qing: "Widows are not allowed to remarry? Will there be no shortage of people in future generations?"

You know, in the Han Dynasty, widows were encouraged to remarry. Marrying a woman means something, it means having children, and giving birth will lead to population.

Datang
Li Shimin thought about the current situation where men were almost in short supply, and he really wanted to tell the monarchs of later generations that since you don't cherish women so much, then let me go. If all these women were given to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty would only have [-] women a year. How much more population.

Song Dynasty
Zhao Kuangyin slammed the table angrily: "Who will tell me what happened in the Southern Song Dynasty?"

He also wanted to ask, who was it that brought up the serious breach of integrity?

Ming Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his old wife with tender love in her eyes: "Fortunately, fortunately you didn't bind your feet. It hurts so much..."

In the past, many people secretly called Queen Ma Bigfoot. Before Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, his opponents secretly laughed at his wife for having big feet. At that time, he was very angry and tried to destroy those people. Let no one in this world dare to laugh at his wife.

Whether it was at that time or before today, Zhu Yuanzhang never thought about the disadvantages of women's feet being bound.

Although he didn't think anything about Queen Ma's natural feet, he still felt that it was normal for women to have their feet bound.

But today he doesn't think so.

Seeing the photos on the canopy of those with bound feet, he couldn't imagine what his old wife would look like with such a pair of bound feet.

It hurts just thinking about it, and he felt that his feet were hurting so much now.

Empress Ma used to talk and laugh with Zhu Yuanzhang when she watched the sky.

But today there was no smile on her face at all.

She looked at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Chongba, let's get rid of this foot binding thing..."

(End of this chapter)