After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 321 This breed is unique
After a long time, Empress Ma thought of a good starting point, and said, "Sir, you asked the women in Lujia Village to get rid of the bad habit of foot binding, and it seems that you have encountered little obstacles. What is the reason?"

"Isn't the reason simple?" Before Qin Yu could answer, Dali's daughter-in-law answered first, "Mr. is a great benefactor of our Lujia Village, and all of us respect him."

"Therefore, we will listen to whatever the gentleman says."

"Although the custom of foot binding has been around for a long time, Lujia Village is remote and the rules are not too strict, so people don't bind them if they don't want to be bound."

"Yes, yes." Qin Yu nodded and said, "I have been in Lujia Village for a while, and everyone respects me. Besides, my lectures have lasted for a long time, and they have subtly changed the thinking of women, so they just Not that persistent."

"Besides, Lujia Village is relatively remote. Even after the feet are not bound, no outsiders will make irresponsible remarks."

"So that's how it is." Empress Ma finally understood.

Qin Yu broke the foot-binding habit of women in Lujia Village, which lasted for thousands of years, and Emperor Zhu wanted to break the thousand-year dominance of Confucianism, although the degree of difficulty is quite different.

But there are also some commonalities.

It is easy for Qin Yu to break the foot-binding habit. One reason is that the villagers trust and respect him.So what he said was in Lujiacun, and he kept his word.

Respect is key.

And when the emperor's cowherd baby was born, scholars all over the world looked down on him from the bottom of their hearts.He felt that he was ignorant, illiterate, and won the throne by barbaric means, so he didn't deserve their respect.

Back then when the emperor had just founded Daming, Lord Yan Sheng, who had surrendered from Shixiu, had dismissed him.

In previous dynasties, Duke Yansheng was the first to surrender to the enemy, even before the establishment of the new dynasty, he had already surrendered.Even the treatment of Mongolia, Yuan, Liao and Jin is the same.

But when dealing with Emperor Zhu, an emperor who restored the Han family, he dragged on for a long time and refused to surrender.

In the end, the emperor had to issue an imperial decree, and Yan Shenggong was afraid, so he obediently surrendered to Daming.

The second reason is that Lujia Village is relatively remote and less bound by secular concepts.Lujia Village is too small and the population is small, and the emperor's sweep of Confucianism is facing the people of the world.

The third is that Qin Yu's thoughts have already subtly influenced the villagers.

Subtlety is the key.

The emperor is still too anxious!Empress Ma sighed in her heart, if the emperor allowed the Renaissance to be implemented for a few more years, and then subtly influence the world for a few more years, it would definitely be much easier to start Confucianism then than it is today.

It will be easier if you can wait for more than a hundred years.

But obviously, the emperor didn't want to wait that long.

"Sir, what if, I mean, if you didn't allow them to bind their feet, what if most of them were unwilling, or even a group of them stood up to resist?" Queen Ma asked again.

"Isn't it a great thing to ban footbinding?" Before Qin Yu could answer, Dali's daughter-in-law interrupted with an incredulous expression on her face. She was a talkative woman who liked to talk.After getting used to the benefits of not having feet bound, I felt that this rule was simply too good, and said: "It is convenient to work and walk easily without binding feet. Is there anyone in the world who would object?"

"Actually, that's not the case." Qin Yu said to Dali's wife with a smile, "The Republic of China completely banned women's foot binding, and some women even stood up to resist it, and even cried to the ground."

"The Qing Dynasty is dead, and people all over the street don't want to cut their braids."

"Others asked them to cut it, and a large group of people rose up to resist."

"There are still such ignorant people in the world?" Dali's daughter-in-law was shocked.Although she couldn't understand the latter sentence, she could understand the first sentence.

"No way, breaking an old thing and getting people to accept a new thing always requires a process." Qin Yu said, "And this process is still very long and difficult."

"Tsk tsk tsk..." This is Qin Yu's teasing voice. Lu Dali's family has a pastoral dog called 'Wangcai', with a white face and a yellow body, very obedient and very human.

Qin Yu likes to tease it.

Putting a piece of meat on the chopsticks and trying to feed it, Wangcai whimpered and drooled, but he just refused to eat the food on the chopsticks.It will not eat until someone else throws the food on the ground.

"In the city, many people regard their pets as family members, and they don't mind feeding them with their own chopsticks." Qin Yu said, "Only foreign dog breeds will eat the food on the owner's chopsticks."

"Our pastoral dog won't."

"Even when it sees other pets eating food from the owner's chopsticks, it will pounce on it and bite it."

"Look, I want to treat it as a family member, but it just refuses." Qin Yu said, "Do you know why?"

"Why?" Dali's wife asked first.

"Because Wangcai learned Confucianism from an early age." Qin Yu said.I also guessed that the village chief's wife came to him this time, probably related to the matter that Lao Huang brought three people to him to judge during the day.

And the topics they discussed were the art of fooling the people and Confucianism.

"You said Wangcai learned Confucianism from an early age?" Dali's daughter-in-law was delighted when she heard the words, "But it's a dog, can a dog read and write? Can it understand human language? Can it read the Four Books and Five Classics?"

"Hehe." Qin Yu smiled slightly and ignored it. She could only understand the superficial meaning of her words.

"Isn't this too... exaggerated?" Empress Ma murmured.

"It's not an exaggeration." Qin Yu said, "Confucianism pays great attention to respect and inferiority, and the concept of father and son is extremely strict. Therefore, when people raise dogs, they will also inadvertently instill in them the concept of hierarchy between master and servant."

"For example, if they dared to eat something off the master's chopsticks, they would beat them hard. Use all kinds of methods to let them know who is the master and who is the slave. Masters and slaves have different levels, just like the father and son .”

"Over time, the idea of ​​hierarchy is built into their bones. Animals have adaptations, and their genes change because of it."

"Pastoral dogs before the rise of Confucianism did not have this quality, because they were domesticated from East Asian wolves."

"Confucianism tames dogs with a sense of hierarchy."

"So, the breed of Huaxia Pastoral Dog is unique in the world."

Empress Ma trembled when she heard the words, and finally understood why Qin Yu said that Confucianism was a thousand-year-old cancer in China.Because of this idea, even the genes of dogs can be changed.

"Unconditional obedience to the master is an excellent quality for a dog, because humans domesticated it in the first place to serve humans." Qin Yu said.

"But if a kind of thinking domesticates people like this, then this thinking is a crime, and the crime will last forever."

"Sir, I understand." Empress Ma said.

(End of this chapter)