Chapter 202 Foot-binding fines the entire family(2/2)
Environmental issues are necessary for industrial development and cannot be avoided. As for how much impact the environment will have on people, Cheng Shijie thinks it is nonsense.
Hansteel Group is a heavy industry group, especially workers on the front line of production. They are directly faced with high temperatures, strong magnetism, and high radiation. So how many sub-health problems do steel workers have? Yes, but very few, at least compared to white-collar workers in big cities.
healthier.
Entering Xinghai City, the situation is obviously different. This is Cheng Shijie's pilot project of agricultural technology, so wherever you go, you can see the farmers in Xinghai City carefully fertilizing their crops. The fertilizer they apply is of course
There are many types of fertilizers, including phosphate fertilizers produced in primitive ways, plant ash, and organic fertilizers.
However, the chemical fertilizer has a strong smell. Zhu Weiti pointed to the military households in the farmland on the roadside and asked: "What are they doing? It smells so bad!"
"They are all fertilizing the crops. Even if they sprinkle it little by little, this fertilizer is hard-won and is directly related to the harvest. They cherish every bit of it."
This time when he came out, Cheng Shijie really discovered a problem. Many children were pulling weeds in the farmland. This scene reminded Cheng Shijie of his past.
He is from a rural area. When he was young, because his father Cheng Weiguo was a veteran, he was placed in Hansteel Group, but his mother had a rural registered permanent residence. At that time, their family did not have a house in the city and could only live in the countryside.
live.
At that time, the mechanization era had not yet entered, and primitive harvesting methods were adopted. When Cheng Shijie was very young, he had to help his mother work in the fields.
This situation lasted until around 1998. At that time, during the last welfare housing allocation by Hansteel Group, Cheng Weiguo was allocated a building with two bedrooms and one living room, with an area of 68 square meters. Of course, this was the actual usable area, and there was no shared room for six
A house of eighteen square meters.
Although Cheng Shijie invested a lot of money in education and provided free school uniforms, free breakfast and lunch for the children, the problem is that there are still too few schools, and school construction cannot keep up with the growth of immigrants.
This is a serious problem.
Zhu Weiti was very happy. There were still more than ten miles away from Xinghai City. Originally, Cheng Shijie could enter the city immediately, but he suddenly thought that in such weather, wouldn't it be possible to have a picnic?
As soon as he thought of it, Cheng Shijie ordered to stop in front of a river beach.
"Commander, what are your orders?"
"The scenery here is nice, let's have a picnic!"
"yes!"
Dozens of maids and eunuchs got busy immediately. Although Zhu Weiti had a carriage and RV to rest, they still built a tent for Zhu Weiti.
To say that Zhu Weiti's princess airs are really not small, these palace maids and eunuchs took off wooden planks one by one from the carriage and built them directly in front of the river beach. These are wooden planks and structures that can be combined at any time. After a while,
, the parts of the three carriages were used to assemble a small wooden house for Zhu Weiti.
The area of the wooden house is really small, about thirty to forty square meters, occupying half of the river beach, and there is a small terrace.
Cheng Shijie looked at his horse-drawn RV and suddenly felt a little off.
No matter how comfortable a carriage or RV is, it gives people a very depressing feeling due to space constraints, but this kind of wooden house is different. It is nearly a foot high, especially the roof of the wooden house, and the waterproof awning, so you are not afraid even if it rains.
After the wooden house was officially assembled, there were still a few steps that could be extended directly to the river. Several maids pulled up the curtains, and Zhu Weiti sat on the steps and released her feet from her shoes.
Cheng Shijie saw the problem. Originally, Zhu Weiti did not have her feet bound, but now she did.
Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Weiti and said, "You obviously didn't bind your feet, why do you want to bind them now?"
Zhu Weiti smiled slightly: "In the past, when I was in the palace, I deliberately didn't bind my feet. I had big feet, so I couldn't get married. But it's different now. I married my husband and I can't embarrass him!"
Only then did Cheng Shijie remember the legend of the so-called three-inch golden lotus. Foot binding, as the name suggests, is to wrap the feet with cloth to prevent their natural growth and development, making the feet pointy and small. This is an ancient evaluation of whether women are beautiful or ugly.
An important criterion for a woman with natural feet is that no matter how beautiful her face or figure is, she will be disliked.
But the cost of doing this is that the soft tissues of the feet contract, and the feet look like they have been burned by fire, turning into a severely distorted and deformed fleshy lump with abnormal skin color, which is very ugly.
Of course, the ancients did not see it this way. They thought it was beautiful, but they did not realize that the price paid for this beauty was that women became disabled and lost their ability to work. Arthritis would accompany women throughout their lives and make them suffer.
Women's feet are disabled and it is inconvenient to walk. They can only support their husbands and raise children at home. They cannot go out or step outside the door. This is in line with the requirements of the ancients for women since the Song Dynasty.
In fact, the practice of foot binding was not very popular in the Ming Dynasty. It was mainly concentrated in wealthy families because they had people to serve and could bind their feet, but it was different for ordinary families.
Many people say that foot binding was very serious in the Ming Dynasty. This is actually a slander against the Ming Dynasty. Foot binding really spread. Starting from the Qianlong period, foot binding, which was not very popular in the south, became popular even in the northwest and southwest.
Some ethnic minorities have also contracted the custom of foot binding.
It has to be said that this kind of request is very abnormal. From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, no dynasty ever required women to be banned from walking, and there was no literati in any dynasty who strongly praised the ban of women. However, since the Song Dynasty, the trend of banning has spread.
Of course, it is no accident that the trend of confinement spread in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Song Dynasty was extremely passive in the war against the northern nomads. From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, it was always in a position of being beaten. This made the men of the Song Dynasty full of frustration and could only fight in the Song Dynasty.
Women look for their broken dignity. They cannot make themselves stronger, but they can make women weaker. Since ancient times, men's strength has been set off by women's weakness.
In later generations, the status of women has improved, and transvestites have become common, because transvestites can embody the masculinity of women. To be honest, those sissies will make a man feel disgusted, because women like them, so they will operate commercially.
I have to say that this is the tragedy of the times.
Cheng Shijie picked up Zhu Weiti's foot-binding cloth and threw it directly into the river: "No foot-binding is allowed in the future. What kind of foot-binding is good? This binding will not make the feet crippled!"
Zhu Weiti smiled bitterly and said: "If you don't bind your feet, you will embarrass your husband..."
"Ha ha……"
Cheng Shijie pointed at Zhu Weiti and said, "What kind of logic is this? Do you think you are binding your feet for my face? I don't believe this evil. You lose face to yourself, and face is given to you by others. You are not allowed to bind your feet!"
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Zhu Weiti still wanted to explain.
Cheng Shijie said directly: "When you enter the Cheng family, you are a member of the Cheng family. The Cheng family will never bind their feet. I will also legislate that anyone who binds their feet will be fined one tael of silver a year."
"Only one tael of silver?"
"The next year the fine will be 2 taels of silver, the third year the fine will be 4 taels of silver, the fourth year the fine will be 8 taels of silver and so on!"
Zhu Weiti said: "Nowadays, those who bind feet are all wealthy people, and they are not afraid of fines at all!"
"hehe……"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "No matter how much property they have, I can punish them until they lose everything!"
"How can this be?"
Zhu Weiti silently calculated in her mind, and she found that it was true as Cheng Shijie said, no matter how much money she had, she would be fined to the point of bankruptcy.
Chapter completed!