Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

The few scholars who smashed the shop were shackled and imprisoned in full view of the public.

Immediately afterwards, rumors spread from the prison, saying that these people were tortured in prison.

Word of mouth spread, and then all the scholars in the capital became excited.

Regardless of whether he is a scholar with any reputation or not.

The next day, they all quietly appeared outside the magistrate's office, and there was a crowd of people kneeling outside the magistrate's office. Even the road for pedestrians outside was blocked.

The appeal of these scholars is very simple, that is, those who were arrested are not guilty. They say that those people just did what every scholar should do, and those shops that insult civility should be smashed.

They demand the acquittal of those imprisoned.

If you want to arrest them, let the prefect's Yamen arrest them too.

What could have been settled in a low-key manner suddenly turned into a mass incident.

Then Liao Jun came out at this time, pretending to be sincere and persuading these scholars.

He said that he also acted according to the law, but he had no choice but to do so.

"I, Mr. Liao, am also a scholar, and I passed the imperial examination step by step. I feel the same way about what you are doing, but it is difficult to violate the national law!" Liao Jun shouted in pain.

"What is difficult to violate is the national law, or his Yang Xian's law!"

"He openly hawked women's indecent clothes on the street, and gathered thousands of women to serve him alone. What Yang Xian did was offensive to morals, and he is not worthy of being a scholar, nor is he worthy of being the Duke of a country."

At this moment, someone in the crowd took the lead in shouting, and then someone threw a stone at Liao Jun, hitting him on the head.

"Let's go to the Duke's Mansion and kneel down!"

Under the leadership of thoughtful people, these scholars were excited and began to move the battlefield towards the direction of the Duke's Mansion in the capital.

Liao Jun stretched out his hand to cover the spot where his head was hit. Red blood flowed out from the gaps between his fingers, while shouting loudly, asking everyone not to be impulsive.

But my heart was already filled with joy.

In this way, the contradiction is completely transferred.

Even if he was held accountable afterwards, he just followed the rules and couldn't make any mistakes.

Li Xiang arranged for two more officials to intercede on his behalf.

In the worst case scenario, it would only end up in a disadvantageous situation, at most it would be demoted, and the official uniform would be saved.

Over the next two days, the crowds of demonstrators grew larger and larger.

Their demands also changed from the initial release of the few scholars imprisoned by the Jinling government to asking the court to deal with Yang Xian.

Fang Xiaoru, who took the lead in making trouble, looked at the black crowd behind him and felt a sense of pride in his heart.

I am not alone.

This two hundred and fifty thought that all this was because of his influence.

Little did he know that he was just a poor guy who was being used and pushed to the forefront.

As the protest ranks grow larger, their composition becomes more and more complex.

At the beginning, it was really just a group of scholar friends like Fang Xiaoru. What they wanted to oppose was the Jiangnan Meng Clothing Store selling women's obscene clothes on the street, and the Jiangnan Textile and Garment Factories organizing female workers to work.

As the matter fermented, some scholars who were already resentful of Yang Xian also joined in.

These were the losers in the previous wave of imperial examination reform. These guys could only study the Four Books and Five Classics. Because of Yang Xian's imperial examination reform, their ten years of hard work were wasted.

For them, they have studied hard since childhood and learned nothing more than Zhu Zhitan. Is Yang Xian's proposal to depose the eight-legged essay different from the former Yuan Dynasty's dethronement of the imperial examination?

They had long hated Yang Xian until they gritted their teeth.

It's a pity that Yang Xian's achievements over the years are so incredible that no one dares to touch him.

These people have also tried to take part in the new imperial examinations, thinking that those so-called studies of studies and other trivial matters are not easily accessible to those who have studied sages since childhood.

After a few failures, then the incompetence and rage started.

He began to crazily belittle the new imperial examination.

In recent years, this force has shown signs of slowly rising, but Zhu Biao has always been suppressing this matter, and no one dares to mess around.

At this time, while Fang Xiaoru was taking the lead in making trouble, this group of people also joined in.

There are also the civil servants who secretly supported the Jiangnan Consortium. Song Lian was so angry that Yang Xian that he vomited blood and fell ill on the bed. They still remember this.

Finally, there are those guys like Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong who are eager for Yang Xian's downfall. They are secretly fanning the flames and watching the fight between tigers and tigers.

Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Zhu Yuanzhang slammed the report in his hand to the ground.

"Bastard thing, bastard thing!"

"What are these guys going to do? Are they going to rebel?!"

The roar of the dragon echoed throughout the hall.

Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong and other ministers who were called over for discussion knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down."

"Is the prefect of Jinling free of charge? If you don't arrest these people who gather to make trouble, are you waiting for me to send out the imperial guards?"

"Mao Xiang!"

Zhu Yuanzhang had just finished speaking.

Mao Xiang appeared quietly not far away.

Seeing this, Zhu Biao quickly advised: "Father, please don't force this matter! If you let the guards take action now, it will harm Yang Qing and make him gain the reputation. The most important thing now is Yes, how to stop this storm quickly."

At this time, Li Shanchang also spoke: "What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is true."

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was furious, calmed down after hearing Zhu Biao's words.

When he heard the news just now, he was really furious. A group of scholars dared to surround the Duke's Mansion, and even dared to blackmail him into dealing with Yang Xian.

Everything else is secondary, and this is what Zhu Yuanzhang can't bear the most. This world belongs to my old Zhu family, so of course it must be managed according to my method and your Confucian method, so in the end is this world mine or your Confucian one?

If Zhu Biao hadn't stopped him, Zhu Yuanzhang would have sent people to arrest the troublemaking scholars and put them in jail.

Seeing that Li Shanchang seemed to have something to say, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him and said, "What do you think Mr. Li should do about this matter?"

Li Shanchang was obviously well-prepared. After considering his words, he replied: "Although those scholars who made trouble were doing something wrong, it cannot be said that they are completely unreasonable. Regarding the selling of women's undergarments on the street and the gathering of female workers in Jiangnan textile factories, I have also heard about these two things, so I naturally believe that Duke Yang Guo has no other intentions."

"It's just that these practices are indeed against Confucian etiquette. I wonder if you can ask Yang Guogong to remove the female workers from the textile factory and let the women work at home. Isn't it the same pattern in the textile industry in Jiangnan in the past? The textile factory has arrived Just come to collect them when the time comes. Why bother to gather together specifically for this? The impact is really not good."

"As for the hawking of women's obscene clothes on the street, it's really outrageous. The leader of these scholars is called Fang Xiaoru. I also know him. He is a disciple of Scholar Song. The young man is young and energetic, and seeing such a dishonorable thing , it’s understandable that I can’t bear it.”

"If I were thirty years younger, I might be in it."

Before Yang Xian launched underwear, they were not sold in any ready-to-wear stores.

In today's era of strict etiquette, all women's underwear is made of cloth.

Just such a piece of cloth, let alone selling it, even if it is for daily cleaning, it must be hidden from others, and it must be dried in a place where others will not bump into it.

Yang Xian asked Jiangnan Meng Clothing Store to sell underwear. This move was indeed a challenge to the ethics of this era.

Yang Xian originally went there for this matter.

What Li Shanchang said was extremely objective.

Zhu Yuanzhang tasted and considered it carefully, and felt that it made sense.

In essence, Zhu Yuanzhang was also a traditional man who lived under feudal ethics.

The husband sings and the wife follows, that is the order of heaven and earth and the order of human ethics.

In his opinion, it is really not appropriate for a woman to run out and show off her face all day long.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, turned to look at Zhu Biao, and said, "Boss, ask Yang Xian to come to the capital."

"Yes." Zhu Biao hesitated, opened his mouth, and finally responded.

If Yang Xian is moved, Zhu Yuanzhang will naturally not move.

For the sake of the future of the Ming Dynasty, even if he killed all the scholars gathered in front of Yang Guogong's mansion, Zhu Yuanzhang would not be able to harm Yang Xian at all.

However, according to Li Shanchang's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang could do it by asking Yang Xian to lay off the female workers in the textile and garment factories and close the shops selling women's underwear.

In this way, the current crisis can be resolved.

Yang Xian has his own intelligence network, and he knows everything that is happening in the capital these days.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Biao arrived, he already knew Zhu Biao's intention.

Zhu Biao told Yang Xian the whole incident, Li Shanchang's suggestions, and Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts.

Yang Xian nodded slightly and said three words, "I understand."

Zhu Biao thought that Yang Xian didn't know how critical the situation in the capital was to him at the moment, so he patiently analyzed Yang Xian's current situation to Yang Xian.

Yang Xian looked at Zhu Biao with a smile on his face and said, "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness."

"Don't worry, Your Highness, things are far from as bad as you think."

Yang Xian and Zhu Biao before returning to Beijing.

Wang Yuemin, under Yang Xian's arrangement, arrived at the city one step ahead of them, and entered the palace to meet Queen Ma.

Capital City, Imperial Palace.

Kunning Palace.

Naturally, Queen Ma had heard about the turmoil in the capital these days.

She also knew in her heart that Wang Yuemin entered the palace this time precisely for this matter.

After a brief chat, the two finally talked about this topic.

Wang Yuemin said: "Many of the families who come to work in our textile factory urgently need the financial support of the woman's job in the textile factory. Some of their families don't even have enough to eat, and their husbands have either lost their ability to work, or they have lost their ability to work. Even if there is a sick person in the family to take care of, it’s already this time, why are you still adhering to those old-fashioned etiquette, women can hold up half the sky, when it’s time for us women to stand up, we should stand up, we can also make money and do things, Yue Min thinks It’s the right thing to do.”

"Of course, in order to avoid outsiders making irresponsible remarks or causing discord between husband and wife, our textile factory and clothing factory only accept women. It is considered a female factory. Even the managers are all women."

"Can a woman hold up half the sky?" Queen Ma looked up at Wang Yuemin, showed admiration, and smiled. "Yue Min, where did you hear this? Compared with those men who shout about the three obediences and four virtues all day long, 'Starving to death is a small matter, being disobedient is a big matter.' Your words make more sense. There are many things in the world, just men. It’s not enough to do anything.”

"Yes, this time it was precisely because of our textile factory that the entire Ming Dynasty lowered the price of cotton, allowing ordinary families to wear cotton clothes. To take credit, these are all the textile factories under my control. It’s all thanks to the female workers.” Wang Yuemin quickly followed.

In fact, in ancient times, women had many things to do. It is not an exaggeration to say that they hold up half the sky.

This is also the reason why Wang Yuemin's words resonated strongly in Empress Ma's heart.

In ancient times, in addition to doing housework and raising children, women also needed to work.

Peasant women have to work in the fields, raise chickens and feed pigs;

Those in the city do weaving, tailoring, starching, and embroidery;

Those who do business also need to visit stores and settle accounts.

If the words "women also do something to supplement the family income" appear in some literature, it means that in this family "the wife earns more than the husband" or "the wife works and the husband eats soft food."

Because in ancient times, especially after Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism became popular.

When a man makes money, he is called "supporting the family," while when a woman makes money, it is called "subsidizing the family."

What ancient women said, "I simply support the family," is actually a modest way of saying it. The so-called supplementing the family actually means that women earn a lot of money and can support their families. In ancient times, a woman was not qualified to use the word "breadwinner". Even if she earned money to support the whole family by herself, she was not qualified to be said to be supporting the family. She could only be said to be "supplementing the family income".

In ancient times, county annals, articles and novels, once the term "women "supplemented the family income" appeared, it basically meant that at least half of the family was supported by women, and anyone who earned less was not qualified to use the term "supplementing the family income."

All this is because scholars want to save face, just like the scholars who gathered in front of Yang Guogong's mansion to make trouble. They think that it is against Confucian ethics for those women to go out to work and show their faces. They do not think that it is wrong for those women to weave at home.

This is what makes these rotten Confucians, these disciples of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism disgusting.

They never stopped women from working, they simply refused to acknowledge that women "did the work."

In ancient times, when men went to the fields, who cooked the food at home? Who cleans? Who cares about the children? Who will serve the parents-in-law?

"Housewife" does not mean that a woman sits at home, but it means that she takes care of everything in the house. If I have free time, I still need to weave and embroider to support the family.

Even the grandma of a wealthy family still has to "head the family". Just look at Sister Feng in Dream of Red Mansions. She is much more tired than a group of big men who are eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

Empress Ma was originally leaning towards Yang Xian. After some communication with Wang Yuemin, she unswervingly insisted on this view.

When it comes to moral ethics for men and women, no one is more suitable than Queen Ma. (End of chapter)