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  Chapter 675 672【Tomato scrambled eggs】

  Forbidden City, Kunning Palace.

  Fei Rulan hesitated when picking up the pen, and asked, "Do you really want to write like this?"

   "Don't be afraid, there may be criticism at this time, and it will be the consensus of all women in the world after a hundred years." Zhao Han said.

  Ordering the ban on footbinding is only a temporary administrative measure, and the real long-term change is to change ideology. In addition to foot binding, the Ming Dynasty also had the habit of binding the chest, but it was more subtle and less harmful.

   You can say that asceticism is at work, but many of the mainstream underwear for women in the Ming Dynasty also had the function of corseting the waist, so that the waist curve of the woman can be highlighted. This thing may have something to do with aesthetics. Those little yellow books in the Ming Dynasty often used "small breasts" to praise women's breasts.

  Fei Rulan thought hard, and sometimes started to write. According to Zhao Han's request, she added another chapter to "The Commandments of Women".

  This work requires the Queen to do it.

  Zhao Han revised "The Commandments for Women" in Jiangxi, and now in regular girls' schools, what he learns is the deleted version. At this time, a chapter was added, mainly about chest binding and foot binding, which were directly denounced as unfilial and bad habits.

  Why are you unfilial?

   Damage to the body is one reason, and corseting can also cause insufficient breast milk. Ladies and gentlemen can of course let their nurses feed their children, but this is evading the responsibility of being a mother—anyway, it’s just a matter of unfilial piety.

  Fei Rulan continued to write "The Commandments of Women" there, and Zhao Han recruited Fu Qingzhu again.

   "You are a master of gynecology, you should know the harm of women's foot binding and breast corset." Zhao Han said.

  Fu Qingzhu cupped his hands: "I am well aware of this harm."

Zhao Han said: "You write a "Women's Health Record", from girls to old women, all the precautions that are needed by all age groups. Remember, focus on the harm of foot binding and waist binding, and give more examples. The scarier the case, the better! This book will be taken as a compulsory course in girls' schools, so that girls can easily read it."

  Students in girls' schools are basically from wealthy families, and they happen to be the main group of corsets and waists.

  Female students studying in ordinary schools, foot binding is not conducive to work, and breast binding is not conducive to breastfeeding. On the contrary, there is no need for the government to correct it. Like Pan Qimei, she is a child-faced giant who came out of the mountains, and she doesn't know what a corset is.

  Fu Qingzhu said straightly: "Your Majesty's move is for great good, and it is also a blessing for all women in the world."

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "I personally wrote the preface to this book, lest you alone bear the infamy."

   "A little infamy is nothing to worry about." Fu Qingzhu said calmly.

  Following the government’s crackdown on girls’ schools and brothels, and the latest issue of Datong Monthly, which published a full-page article on the harm of chest binding and foot binding, many folks are already talking strange things.

  In the evening, in a brothel on the Qinhuai River, a group of pleasure-seekers were teasing and complaining.

"Small **** and small feet are both elegant things. Now the imperial court allows **** and feet to be released, even this brothel girl is no exception. Just imagine, ten or twenty years later, the brothel will be filled with natural **** and natural breasts." Feet. Fat and ugly, how unsightly is it?"

"Brother Hongdao, don't say any more, my little brother can't bear to listen anymore. When I think of the big-footed women all over the street, and the big-breasted women in the courtyard, my little brother wants to die. Alas, the world is going down, the world is going down." !"

"Everyone, don't panic, haha. Is it what the court says? It's a strict investigation, so I don't dare to wrap the three-inch golden lotus anymore. But it's not easy to check the chest. Which official dares to really take off the woman Clothes? Let’s just talk about this, the officials came here yesterday, and today the girls still don’t corset their breasts?”

   "Your Majesty today, it's really... ahem, Your Majesty is a sage, there must be some **** who is offering slander!"

   "I heard that it is Mao Fan, a Jinshi from Jiashan, and Shangshu asked His Majesty to forbid footbinding. This monster will also become a high-ranking official in the future, and he will also be a person who will cause trouble for the court!"

   "How about we knock on the que and ask His Majesty to deprive him of his fame?"

"Knock at the que? Which door to knock at? You and I are just scholars from the former dynasty, and the officials don't recognize their achievements. Even this year's imperial examination, only former scholars under the age of 30 are allowed to participate. Alas, we are ordinary people. Kowtow Que is not our turn."

   "..."

  There are those who slander, naturally there are those who agree, and there are quite a few of them.

   Zhang Erqi, a big fan from Shandong, specially supported the imperial court's decree at various cultural conferences.

Zhang Erqi held the "Datong Monthly" and said to many scholars: "Your Majesty's imperial pen article, this paragraph is very well written. Let me read it: I have never sung about beauties, and my words are not enough. History is called Concubine Yang Luo socks, called women's round shoes in the Song Dynasty. Han Donglang's poem said: "Six-inch round skin is smooth and smooth", which is not a proof of foot binding. In the past, when people commented on Dongpo's poems, it was like a famous woman's big steps. It is a woman. The beauty and evil do not lie in the size of the feet. Now there are people with thick eyebrows and broad eyes, a big belly and a thick waist. Although the bottom of the skirt has double hooks, it does not fill three inches, so is it considered beautiful?"

   This passage was written with the help of Liu Rushi.

  Starting from Concubine Yang Gui, talking about the beauties of Tang and Song Dynasties, they are all big feet. The beauty and ugliness of a woman does not lie in her big feet and small feet. If there is a woman with a big waist and a pair of small feet less than three inches, can you call her a beauty?

   A scholar interrupted suddenly: "If there is a woman with picturesque eyebrows and a beautiful figure, but a pair of big feet, isn't it a fly in the ointment?"

Zhang Erqi immediately snapped back: "Who said a fly in the ointment? Isn't Concubine Yang beautiful? Does Concubine Yang have bound feet? If bound feet don't hurt the body, the little feet are naturally beautiful. But if for the three-inch golden lotus, the foot bones are broken, redness, swelling and pus, I really can’t see where the beauty is. Going back 20 years, people who have feet bound and hurt their bodies are occasionally heard, but there are very few of them. In recent years, there have been more and more, and I don’t know where the unhealthy trend came from!”

  When the debate between the two sides was the most intense, suddenly an old man came slowly with a bamboo stick.

  Everyone stood up and bowed: "I met Mr. Shi Qu."

   This old man is none other than Wu Bing, the editor-in-chief of "Datong Monthly", who wrote articles praising the emperor.

  Wu Bing said with a smile: "You can't argue for a result, why not write articles, and I will choose a few articles to be published in the next issue of "Datong Monthly."

  When this sentence is said, the nature actually changes.

  Everyone knows that "Datong Monthly" is published nationwide, and if you can write articles on it, you will immediately become famous all over the world. Then in the next pen battle, I am afraid that those who sing the praises of the little feet will all rush to become famous.

  Zhao Han wanted to make them quarrel, the more lively the quarrel, the better. One is to find something to do for scholars in the field, so that they will not panic when they are full; the other is to make the ban on footbinding known all over the world, so that ordinary people can pay attention to it. how to choose.

  Unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in the area of ​​foot binding, the more it is forbidden, the more popular it is. Even combined with the preservation of the customs of the Han family, if a man can't keep his hair, the woman has to keep her feet.

   What Zhao Han founded is not a foreign regime, so there will be no such nonsense effect.

  Forbidden City.

   Pan Qimei and Tian Xiuying planted sunflowers and tomatoes in the imperial garden.

  When the pen battle of Datong Monthly News attracted attention, the tomatoes in the Imperial Garden were also ripening.

  Food from the south is being transported to Liaoning in full swing. The Northeast War is about to break out soon. As the emperor, Zhao Han rarely has time to spare.

  He went to pick tomatoes himself, and then went straight to the imperial dining room with great interest.

  There was no imperial dining room in the Ming Dynasty, and Guanglu Temple was responsible for the emperor's meals. The new dynasty of Datong was established, the royal family was separated from the imperial court, and the imperial dining room finally appeared in the Forbidden City.

   "Meet Your Majesty!"

  When the imperial chef saw the emperor, he was so frightened that he knelt down.

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "Get up, don't kneel, I'm cooking a new dish today, you guys come over and see how it's done."

  The behavior of the emperor has already alarmed the harem, and the concubines came to watch the fun one after another.

  Sisters Fei Rulan and Fei Rumei stood beside them dignifiedly. However, Fei Rumei's eyes rolled wildly, as if she was surprised by the layout of the imperial dining room.

   Liu Rushi, Tian Xiuying, Lu Tianxiang and other concubines smiled and looked at the emperor and whispered.

  Pan Qimei was the most serious, she squeezed to the emperor's side, obviously wanting to learn this dish.

   Zhao Han ordered the selection of concubines among the Zhuang women, but they have not yet been selected. In fact, the Zhuang villages all over the country were vying for the concubine's place, and an armed conflict almost broke out. The Guangxi chief envoy Shangshu asked if they could present two Zhuang concubines at the same time.

  Zhao Han asked the chef to wash the tomatoes, scald the skins with boiling water, then picked up the kitchen knife and started cutting.

   I haven't held a kitchen knife for many years, and it's a bit difficult, but I still have the foundation of knife skills. More than a dozen tomatoes have been cut, and it seems that there are plenty of vegetables to be fried.

  The technique of beating eggs with one hand has not returned to the trend, and the imperial cooks are very kind, and they believe in the rumor that the emperor's ancestors were cooks.

   Tomato scrambled eggs, there are several ways.

  Zhao Han first heated the oil in a hot pan, poured the egg liquid, then put in the tomatoes, sprinkled with various seasonings, and finally thickened the pan.

   "So simple?" Pan Qimei was a little disappointed.

  In this time and space, the world’s first plate of tomato scrambled eggs was soon served on a large plate by the emperor, and it must have spread to restaurants and restaurants in Nanjing this year.

  Zhao Han had a great sense of accomplishment. He picked up a bite with his chopsticks and tasted it. He nodded and said, "It's the taste. Don't be dumbfounded. Come and taste it. No one in the world has tasted it."

  Pan Qimei hurriedly stepped aside and asked Fei Rulan to taste it first.

  Fei Rulan picked up the scrambled egg with tomato, raised her sleeve to cover her mouth, and began to taste it gracefully. The taste is sour and sweet, and the umami taste is strong, which surprised her: "I can't imagine that the tomatoes from overseas, fried with eggs, are so delicious."

   "I'll try it, let me try it!" Fei Rumei jumped over.

  Fei Rumei's movements were much rougher. Although she still covered her mouth with her sleeve, her speed was extremely fast, and she would smack her mouth after eating, which was really not dignified and elegant. She licked her lips and said, "Take another bite, I can't taste it."

  Fei Rumei stepped aside after eating until her mouth was full of oil.

All the empresses and concubines tasted it, and there was still a little left on the plate. Zhao Han asked several imperial chefs to taste it too: "After you practice, you can pass it on to the people. The imperial meal is not exclusive to the royal family. This tomato scrambled egg should be eaten by the common people." .”

   Needless to say, the tomato planting area in the suburbs of Nanjing next year will definitely increase significantly.

   Tomato scrambled eggs are delicious on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is rumored from the palace that the royal family can always lead various fashions.

   In addition to diet, there are clothing.

  Zhao Han has already issued an order that women in the palace, no matter whether they are concubines, officials or court ladies, are not allowed to corset their **** in the future. At the same time, the clothing has to be changed slightly, and the fabric is partially added to highlight the chest.

  The emperor liked big breasts, and some people must follow suit.

  (end of this chapter)