Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 332
Yang Menglong really does not intend to continue to develop in the north. Luoyang is already his bottom line.

As far as he knows, in the next few decades, the natural disasters in the north will become more serious every year, floods, droughts, and locust plagues will continue, and it will become colder every year. It is inevitable that a large number of crops will be reduced. This harsh climate will continue By the early Qing Dynasty—the natural disasters in the early Qing Dynasty were also extremely frequent.Moreover, the Central Plains was the site of the Four World Wars. Frequent natural disasters and heavy taxes led to the swarms of refugees in the Central Plains. A single spark would ignite a prairie fire and reduce all order to ashes. When Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng moved to the northwest, they let the officers and soldiers Chased him all over the world, and after entering the Central Plains, he drove officers and soldiers all over the world. When Li Zicheng was beaten the worst, only a dozen or so cronies were left. However, when the officers and soldiers relaxed their siege, he led With these dozens of cronies going down the mountain, hundreds of thousands of troops were raised in just one year, which is already very illustrative.Continuing to develop in the Central Plains, the right time, the right place, and the right people are not available, and in the end it will only make you burnt out.

Yang Menglong's ideal development direction is the Jianghan Plain.The Jianghan Plain is the alluvial plain formed by the Han River and the Yangtze River, with an average altitude of only 27 meters, making it one of the lowest plains in China.This plain covers an area of ​​more than 50 square kilometers. The land is fertile, the rivers and lakes are densely covered, and the water resources are extremely abundant. This is crucial for the development of industry.There are also abundant phosphate rocks in Yichang, from which a lot of fertilizer can be obtained. At the same time, the Yangtze River leads directly to the sea. The goods produced can be continuously transported to the prosperous Jiangnan through the Yangtze River, which is much more efficient and faster than land transportation.Salt and iron from Nanyang, grain and phosphate rock from Hubei, as well as water power, everything needed for the development of industry and agriculture is available here, and the Jianghan Plain is much easier to defend than the Central Plains, just be careful, don't let Zhang Xianzhong , Zuo Liangyu and others come in and everything will be fine.The most important thing is that even if the Manchu Qing finally ruled the Central Plains according to the historical development, he could use the Jianghan Plain as the base and Nanyang as the bridgehead for the Northern Expedition—this is the most favorable strategic situation, and he can die in Xiangfan if he retreats. Withstood the attack of the Qing army, they could go out of Heluo via Nanyang and Yingchuan, and point directly to the Central Plains. Since the two Jin Dynasties, the Han regimes that retreated to the south have followed this route for the Northern Expedition, and every time they have shown extreme The strong counter-offensive momentum, on the contrary, is that the nomads from the north want to go south along this route but feel sad. Xiangfan will stand in front of them like a gate of hell.As tyrannical as the Yuan Dynasty, it mobilized elite soldiers and generals from most of the Eurasian continent, as well as countless heavy equipment such as return guns and fuel injection vehicles. It took more than [-] years of hard work to win this line of defense and wipe out the A small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty in a peaceful corner.If you don't use such a favorable situation and focus on developing to the Central Plains, then your brain will be trapped by the door!

Fang Yizhi didn't know that this bastard was so extravagant, but when he heard that Yang Menglong was not interested in Luoyang, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and left happily.Zhu Yujian obviously had something to say, but seeing Yang Menglong yawning and looking like he was about to fall asleep, he swallowed his words and followed Fang Yizhi away.Yang Menglong sent them away with a smile, but before they could say "please stay", he closed the door and ran to his bedroom while complaining: "It's too bad, the thirty-year-olds also come to eat until midnight , and let no one sleep!"

Getting under the covers, Xiao Yufang was already asleep, but she was woken up again by the noise of his going to bed. She opened her eyes and asked with a smile, "Is everything settled?"

Yang Menglong yawned straight away: "It's not that easy, I can only say that we have negotiated a framework... Alas, from this year onwards, we may have to move to Nanyang."

Xiao Yudu smiled: "Then you can move there, you are a person who wants to do big things, you can't always stay in such a small place like Wuyang."

Yang Menglong held her catkin and said, "You move there with me."

Xiao Yufang said: "I won't move there anymore. I think it's a good place. Everything is so familiar. The most important thing is that there are a large group of children here waiting for me to teach them how to read and write."

Yang Menglong was startled: "You like children so much?"

Xiao Yufang said, "Who doesn't like children? By the way, let me tell you something."

Yang Menglong stuck closer: "Speak, I'll listen."

Xiao Yufang said, "An Ning should have her feet bound."

Yang Menglong was stunned: "Foot binding? What kind of feet are bound?"

Xiao Yufang said: "If you don't bind your feet, you will grow a pair of big feet, and it will be very difficult for you to get married in the future."

Only then did Yang Menglong recall 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 sharp and small. This is an important mark for evaluating women's beauty or ugliness in ancient times. A woman with a pair of natural feet has a face No matter how beautiful you are, no matter how good your figure is, you will still be disliked.It’s just that the price of doing this is that the soft tissues of the feet are contracted, and the feet look like they have been burned, turning into a severely distorted lump with abnormal skin color. With some special effects, it can be used as props for horror movies up.Of course, the ancients did not see it this way. They thought it was beautiful, but they did not realize that the price of this beauty was that women would become disabled and lose their ability to work. Arthritis would accompany women all their lives and make them suffer.The woman's feet are useless, and it is inconvenient to walk. She can only support her husband and children at home. She does not leave the door, and does not walk through the second door. This is also in line with the requirements of the ancients for women since the Song Dynasty. It has to be said that this kind of requirement Very perverted.From the pre-Qin period to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was no dynasty that required women's foot restraint, and no literati in any dynasty strongly praised women's foot restraint. However, since the Song Dynasty, foot restraint has spread so much that when the Manchus entered the customs, they wanted to Women's freedom of feet was strongly opposed by women all over the country, and in the end it had to be left alone.Of course, it was not accidental that foot ban 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, they were always in a position of being beaten. Women look for their own broken dignity. They can't make themselves stronger, but they can make women weaker. Since ancient times, the strength of men has been set off by the weakness of women, isn't it?
The pre-Qin era swept Liuhe, from Shaanxi to Guangxi, and they were invincible. They didn't need to find confidence in women;

The big man sealed the wolf and lived in Xu, and drove the Huns all the way to Europe. They don't need to find self-confidence in women;

The Great Tang eradicated the Turks and Goguryeo, and their troops went straight to Central Asia until they fell apart. Those local governors still suppressed the northern nomads, and they didn't need to find confidence in women.

But after the Song Dynasty...

Yang Menglong has never been afraid of any opponent, so he doesn't need to use women's weakness to set off his strength. When he heard the word "foot binding", he frowned and said, "No! What kind of feet should be bound properly? If you wrap it around, you won't be able to cripple your feet!"

Xiao Yufang said: "If you don't bind your feet, you can't get married..."

Yang Menglong said: "I don't believe in this evil! I want her to grow up healthy and happy. It's great to see her jumping around like a happy sparrow all day long. Why do you have to make her so weak? Sick? Not only will I not be able to bind her feet, but I will also teach her how to ride a horse, how to shoot an arrow, and even teach her boxing skills so that she can beat anyone who dares to underestimate her into a pig's head!"

Xiao Yufang shouted: "Then she will become a wild girl!"

Yang Menglong said: "What's wrong with a girl being a bit wild? The world is getting more and more chaotic. If you want to survive, you have to turn yourself into a wolf. A weak lamb has no way out. As for whether she can marry, I have no idea." Don't worry, my sister is so good-looking, there's no reason why she can't get married!"

Xiao Yufang was silent for a moment, then said: "Well, according to you, don't bind her feet anymore... In fact, I would rather see her jumping around all day instead of sitting in a thick footcloth. Crying like hell in bed."

Yang Menglong asked: "Have you pestered me too?"

Xiao Yufang said: "I was pestered, it almost hurt me to death, my grandma loved me so much, she let me go secretly, and then there was a lawsuit at home, and my father was so devastated that he couldn't take care of me anymore, so I escaped a catastrophe ..."

Considering foot-binding as a catastrophe, it seems that this talented woman does not like to see this bad habit.

(End of this chapter)