I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Invincible soldiers, unfathomable warehouses, and people's hearts as solid as Mount Tai, if any of them are lacking, it is impossible to have the current situation where powerful enemies are surrounded, benevolent kings are in the hall, and arrogant soldiers have no second thoughts.

This is a strange situation that has not been seen in 3000 years!

The old man can be an official in the Dewu Dynasty without the danger of blue jade and Yuewu, which can be regarded as a blessing in his previous life! "

These are Li Hongzhang's heartfelt thoughts.

Although compared to Lanyu Yuefei, he is really shameless.

He knew that Zhu Fugui didn't have high demands on him, he just wanted to be a chamber pot, pack up all the dregs of the previous era, and take them away with dignity as much as possible without bloodshed.

So in the end Li Hongzhang only adopted limited violent measures, supplemented by intimidation and mainly lured, so that some of the country's sages and gentry made concessions.

This is also the reason why he trembled and desperately gave gifts to Zhu Fugui.

Because according to the requirements of the Daming Honglu Temple, each of the first-class vassal states (Sihua) of the Ming Dynasty, men's braids can not be cut, but women's feet must be let go.

Braids, in fact, will disappear sooner or later as long as the Qing Dynasty falls, under the demonstration effect of Daming.

The rat tail of money is so ugly that even Kangxi and Qianlong himself are unwilling to keep it, let alone others.

The Yinzhou Headquarters of the Ming Dynasty has never issued a ban on braids, but after all these years, it has long since been impossible to find any idiots with rat tails.

But bound feet are different.

In a sense, this deformed aesthetic originates from the strong chastity concept of the farming Han people.

On the contrary, based on taxation considerations, the Manchu and Qing courts repeatedly hoped to abolish this bad custom, which met with strong resistance from the people.

It is definitely wrong to say that it is "Chinese orthodoxy", but in the eyes of many diehards, this is indeed the unchangeable "ancestral law", and the "defense of men and women" cannot be messed up.

So it's much harder to get rid of a woman's tiny feet than a man's braid.

Zuo Chu encountered a lot of resistance in carrying out the orders issued by Daming, let alone Li Tang.

Zhu Fugui sat in his exclusive bulletproof car and listened to Li Hongzhang's practical difficulties. In the end, he could only say that the problem of small feet must be solved within ten years.

If you can't solve it, I will solve it for you!

Zhu Fugui asked Ibowen to record this passage in "Emperor's Living Notes" and publish it publicly to prove that what he said was true and not just for fun.

Li Hongzhang thanked him again and again, saying that he would definitely complete the task on schedule.

The reason why Li Hongzhang was given a ten-year grace period was not only to consider the actual situation of the sages and gentry under him, but also because there was one thing that worried Zhu Fugui.

Because they are going to India...

In that damn place, rape is as common as drinking water.

Zhu Fugui didn't know whether the Indian security news that sounded like a fantasy in later generations had been enriched, but he knew that the general direction should be the same.

The original intention of binding feet is to restrict women's movement to achieve the purpose of maintaining chastity. It can be said that Li Hongzhang is quite anti-human and must be resolutely eradicated.

However, if such a thing happens to a woman without footbinding, it will definitely be connected by people with ulterior motives, and eventually shake the moral foundation of the good governance of "abolishing footbinding".

Therefore, Zhu Fugui decided to give Li Hongzhang some time to deal with those third elder brothers in order to effectively protect the safety of Chinese women.

Anyway, as far as Zhu Fugui knew, many of the eunuchs in the imperial palace of the former Qing Dynasty were not with Li Lianying and Wang Chengde, but also went to Li Hongzhang's side.

Several master masters, including the cleaning room, are also in Shanghai now.

These talents Zhu Fugui believes that Mr. Li will make the best use of them.

Chapter 693

For safety reasons, Zhu Fugui did not stay in the Huai Army camp where fish and dragons were mixed, but in the former American Concession along Yangshupu North and Hongkou area, and later the Minglijian Concession.

The location of the Minglijian Concession is close to the Suzhou Creek, which can be said to be a very elite plot in Shanghai.

Zhu Fugui didn't know the exact price of housing here in later generations, but it must be an astronomical figure.

But now, after several years of construction in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Lijian Concession is also the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty.

Along the way, Zhu Fugui saw all kinds of buildings, and also saw merchants coming from south to north, who came here to wholesale all kinds of Ming ash, Ming cloth, Ming socks, Ming nails... and then shipped them to various parts of China for sale.

Objectively speaking, it was Daming who personally killed the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy in Shenzhou and destroyed the pastoral life of men farming and women weaving here.

Although this kind of pastoral life, the young bourgeois who are full of pastoral songs in later generations can't stay for a day.

An old farmer farming in the mountains of Fujian, a woman weaving in Nanxun, a charcoal seller in Zhongnan Mountain cutting firewood and burning charcoal...

These industrious and simple working people were victims at the beginning.

No matter how industrious you are, can planting rice on the terraced fields of Wuyi Mountain be compared to the land reclamation warriors driving combine harvesters at Xinjin Farm?

No matter how hard it is to burn charcoal manually, can it compare to the cheap anthracite and finished charcoal produced by Daming?

The answer is definitely no.

Under the impact of dimensionality reduction and crushing low-cost bright goods, they were all wiped out.

However, what Da Ming destroyed was the ecological niche they depended on for survival, not their bodies and souls.

Daming, without the pressure of the red line of arable land, will soon be able to find a new means of livelihood for them.

Even if you can't find it temporarily, it's easy.

To build roads, reservoirs, and canals.

These are infrastructure projects that can absorb a large number of labor and employment.

In a sense, taking advantage of the extremely low labor costs in the Shenzhou area, relying on a steady stream of bright noodles, bright rice, and enough rich and noble sausages, it is possible to hire tens of millions of laborers at low wages. , Zhu Fugui believes that it is time to create a spectacle.

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In fact, the name Ming Concession has never appeared on the official level, it is just a common people's convention.

The buildings here can be divided into three types according to time.

Old buildings from the mid-nineteenth century and before.

Western-style architecture after the mid-nineteenth century.

And the Daming style, Han and Tang style reinforced concrete buildings that have been built in recent years.

The Ming Concession seems to be a microcosm.

The decadent Qing Dynasty, the hypocritical Western powers, the emerging Ming Empire, three cultures, three values, and three beliefs competed with each other in this small area, and finally won when the iron fist of wealth fell. burden.

However, despite the decisive victory, as the four confident Ming courts, they did not demolish all the bungalows here.

Some things are left to remind future generations that when the dragon takes a nap, the insects will bite its ass.

Of course, Zhu Fugui never disliked bungalows.

He himself is not a Han Confucian fundamentalist.

Anything, once caught in the trap of fundamentalism, tends to become extreme.

Han and Tang, the two most powerful dynasties in China, have always dealt with Western imports with a tolerant attitude.

But it must be pointed out that this kind of tolerance must be based on looking down, not kneeling and licking.

Zhonghua looked at them, and his mentality must be, "Hey, it's not bad, all the townships and things are interesting, and Allah can try it."

Instead of seeing it as the light of human civilization, as the lighthouse of the world.

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Zhu Fugui, who has no taboos, lived in the Anglican Church built immediately after the bishop Wen Huilian of the American Episcopal Church and the deputy Shanghai Road Wu Jianzhang made an oral agreement.

This church is still quite new.

In 1864, when Ming Dynasty was established in North America, this church had just been demolished and refurbished.

The refurbished church was first designed by Scott, an expert in Gothic church architecture. Because the original design required too much money, Shanghai-based designer Kaidner was invited to modify it.

However, in Zhu Fugui's view, this thing still can't change the taste of the foreign monk's temple after changing it.

Zhu Fugui didn't like this kind of gloomy place at first.

But looking at it from another perspective, as a haunted house, it's a different feeling to take your wife on an adventure together.

After all, the majestic son of heaven, with the aura of a real dragon, can easily dispel the smell of foreign monks.

However, there was a small person in the group accompanying Shengjia going south, looking at this tall and pointed church, but firmly grasping the hem of Yin Weasel's flying fish suit, his whole body trembled.

Shirley, an Inuit girl rescued by Yin Were from the dissecting table of the Kamloops Indian Boarding School two years ago, has been by his side.

Two years have passed, and the skinny little girl at the time has become carved like jade.

Every time Zhu Fugui saw the little tail behind Yin Were, he couldn't help but think of Ivana.

Ivana was such a cute little girl back then, she liked to follow her all day long.

It's a pity that time flies, and Ivana is now a young girl.

And Zhu Fugui himself has become a 26-year-old man.

Zhu Fugui felt that every time Ivana returned to Fengdu, she would look at her strangely.

Kind of scary.

In contrast, Shirley is much more harmless to humans and animals.

Sometimes, Zhu Fugui couldn't help teasing Shirley when he saw Xue Li's clingy look.

But this little girl doesn't even give the emperor face, only Yin Were can make her show that sweet smile, and her eyes become crescent moons.

Zhu Fugui didn't expect that Yin Weng's Heitan head, who played Zhou Jie's version of Bao Qingtian, who didn't need makeup, was so friendly.

It can only be a wonderful arrangement of fate.

At this moment, standing in front of the original Shanghai Anglican Church, Yin Were bent down, gently rubbed Shirley's soft hair, and said, "I'm here."

"Ah."

The little girl nodded, then jumped up and grabbed Yin Weasel's waist, hanging on it like an oil bottle.

Yin Were was allowed to drag him into the door of the church.

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Zhu Fugui's office was originally the bishop's chapel.

Sitting on the soft leather chair, Zhu Fugui couldn't help feeling that the clergy is really a rich profession.

In fact, Ming Dynasty had an institution dedicated to the management of religion.

And it wasn't Zhu Fugui's original creation.

There have been such institutions in all dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, it was the Shangshu Provincial Temple Department. In the Ming Dynasty, it was Taichang Temple, and the second division of monks and Taoists.

Monks and Taoists must have a certificate issued by the second division, otherwise they are wild monks and Taoists, and the government will ask for it.

In the fourth empire of Ming Dynasty, the presence of Taichang Temple was actually not very strong.

Because Zhu Fugui didn't worship Buddha at all, nor did he practice Taoism.

Except for offering flowers and offering sacrifices to the Hall of Martyrs every Spring Festival, they basically do not appear on any religious occasions.

However, with the re-entry into the old place of Huaxia, the importance of Taichang Temple has increased.

At present, the Minister of Taichang Temple is from Iihiro, a Japanese.

This is an expedient candidate when the Ming Dynasty was founded and there was a shortage of talents.

Later, he managed Zhu Fugui and Yin Susu's big wedding, and he also managed the Martyr's Shrine, and he showed very good ability, so he continued like this.

However, Hiroto Ii is now 65 years old, and it is time to retire.

What Zhu Fugui meant was that the father-in-law, Bai Zhixin, was almost 50 years old after all.

It is dangerous for the boss to go to the battlefield to fight and kill.

If something goes wrong one day, Xia'er won't cry into tears?

So Zhu Fugui discussed with Bai Xia'er in private, and when the war was over, he would take the father-in-law back to Fengdu to take care of him, and let him be the Minister of Taichang Temple.

It's not just the name of the royal relatives.

Master Zhixin was also a famous eminent monk in Jingci Temple back then, even more famous than the abbot, and there were not many pilgrims who came to buy roast pork from him.

It is naturally reasonable for such an eminent monk to be the Minister of Taichang Temple in Ming Dynasty.

As for the specific work, there are naturally two Shaoqing, two Sicheng, two chief bookkeepers, four doctors, six Taizhu, and a lot of Fengli Lang, Xie Lu Lang, recorder, editor, and review officer. .