People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 688 Chen Han has always despised the narrative logic of the heroine
Princess Jiangdu is doing a very good job now, and Chen Han also admires his wife very much for being able to find a better path for herself in the current environment.

To be honest, there are very few people with her ability, and even fewer women with her ability.

When watching costume dramas, many people always feel that the heroines in them seem to be very powerful, able to get along with everyone, and able to climb up by relying on the shoulders of others and then obtain the highest power.

But when watching these TV series, don't some people think about why this is the case? In fact, the simplest reason is that the heroines are all Western narratives, and they have never done things within the framework of Eastern ethics.

Why is this the case? It is because the ancient feudal society in the East did not have the kind of environment that the heroine wanted.

No matter how capable you are, no matter how good-looking you are, if you want to promote the so-called personal freedom and the supremacy of love in the ancient feudal environment, or even want to seize some of the rights of men, it is impossible for women to do so.

Some people will definitely cite the example of Wu Zetian, but why no one thinks that the reason why Wu Zetian was able to do it was because she no longer treated herself as a woman.

Didn't anyone notice this? In fact, it's very simple. After becoming emperor, Wu Zetian still used the same male ways.

For example, she had three wives and four concubines, and she also kept many concubines, which was actually equivalent to having a harem.

For example, she did not transfer her successful experiences after becoming the empress to the next person because no one had the same conditions as her.

The most important point is that it was not because she was a woman and then slowly climbed up, but because she gradually gained power through cooperation with Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi at the beginning.

Why was she able to gain power? First of all, Wu Zetian was not a woman from an ordinary family when she was young.

Her father was not only a successful businessman at the time, but also a high-ranking official and was definitely not an ordinary person.

Therefore, her vision was much higher than that of ordinary women. No one paid attention to this at the beginning. Instead, many TV dramas said that Wu Zetian's family background was relatively humble.

Many people may not know that Wu Zetian had already attracted the attention of Li Shimin because of her beauty when she was thirteen or fourteen years old.

Then she entered the palace and first worked as a female official, and then became a talented person. In fact, she became Li Shimin's woman after entering the palace.

When she was Li Shimin's woman, he was already very old, so it was impossible for him to give her happiness. So, she was very opportunistic and hooked up with Li Zhi, the Prince of Jin, who was the crown prince at that time.

After Li Shimin passed away, she was supposed to become a nun in a temple, but was redeemed by Li Zhi.

She was only in her twenties at that time, so she and Li Zhi started a couple relationship again. For a long time, she watched Li Zhi's achievements in governing the country. Li Zhi achieved the Yonghui Reign, which was a continuation of her father's Zhenguan Reign.

That is to say, during the period of cooperation with Li Zhi, she had actually accumulated considerable experience in governing the country. Because Li Zhi was in poor health at that time, many national affairs were reviewed by her.

Wu Zetian was a very scheming woman. When she was thirteen or fourteen years old, there were some folk rumors that she used some means to tame a wild horse. I wonder if this is true.

But it also reflects from the side that this woman has been very politically savvy since she was very young.

Then, after experiencing the training under the wing of two extremely outstanding emperors, Li Shimin and Li Zhi, how could her political talent not be fully developed?

At the age of fifty, she governed the country together with Li Zhi as the queen. Because her health was very poor at that time, she and Li Zhi were called the Two Saints.

During this period, wouldn't he try to recruit a group of his own people?
That's for sure, and that's why not many people opposed her taking over the throne.

By the time she became emperor, she was almost seventy years old.

In other words, before she became emperor, she had spent more than 50 years accumulating rich political experience and her own team, which enabled her to become the first female emperor of the founding of a country.

However, many plots featuring female protagonists do not pay any attention to this aspect of the story. Instead, they all think that since a female emperor can appear, she must be able to be copied.

There are even many TV dramas with strong female protagonists that completely ignore the situation at the time, and are completely unaware that the reason why Wu Zetian was able to become emperor was due to the right time, place, and her own talents.

Moreover, Wu Zetian herself has always been based on Eastern ethics, and she has never deviated from this aspect, so Wu Zetian’s character cannot be copied, especially in a TV series with a heroine as the main character.

Especially in Qing Dynasty palace dramas, it is absolutely impossible for a heroine to succeed. In the Tang Dynasty, women's potential was fully developed. The reason why a Wu Zetian could emerge at that time must be due to the open system and the open atmosphere.

But how could something like Wu Zetian happen in the Qing Dynasty?
However, some TV dramas try to copy this path of success, but what if they can’t succeed? Then they use Western narratives to force the heroine to succeed.

For example, the emperor is portrayed as a very lame scumbag who only indulges in the harem, causing some female audiences to dislike this emperor.

This will then pave the way for the subsequent mess the heroine will make in the palace, because it is already pre-set that the emperor is a scumbag, and no matter what method the heroine uses to fight back, it will be said to be the awakening of women.

For example, she could have affairs with other princes outside the palace, and it was said that she was pursuing love.

Even though she clearly relied on the power of men to climb up, it can still be said to be the awakening of women.

Many people do not have the ability to distinguish and are simply unable to distinguish. This may be a consequence of Western ideological colonization.

Because in this kind of narrative, a false target has actually been set from the beginning.

For example, tradition is equated with dregs and the West is equated with advanced.

Once this kind of target is set, the impact is extremely bad, because from the subsequent plots of many heroines, it can be seen that a large number of yandere female characters appear.

There is absolutely no logic at all in these female characters. They are designed to curb evil. Even such exaggerated character settings can be arranged as a counterattack after women’s awakening, which is a counterattack against patriarchy.

But they never thought about this kind of counterattack, which is to use male power to attack male power.

After the emergence of this kind of heroine setting, two very vicious legacies appeared.

First, a large number of people simply cannot tell that this is a kind of ideological colonization under the Western narrative. Once this value is conveyed, it will give many young people who lack the ability to distinguish an impression that the ancient times are decadent.

Once this kind of value system is formed, they will be more likely to accept Western ideas, thinking that Western ideas are advanced and ancient ideas are dregs.

When projected into specific actions, it means that we still believe that many things in the West are more advanced than those in China.

They are completely blind and believe that the West must be more advanced than China. For example, they do not refer to any data and think that the development environment in China has been severely damaged.

However, if you refer to the data, you will find that in fact, the country with the most severe environmental pollution in modern times is their spiritual hometown, Damei, followed by Europe, and China is third.

You have to know that the emissions of the whole of Europe are not as great and beautiful as those people’s spiritual homeland, and the emissions of one country are much more.

The reason for this narrative is that many Western countries deliberately put the blame for environmental pollution on China through media propaganda.

But even though it is such an obvious mistake, there are still many people who believe it, and there are still many people who fill the Internet with childish remarks saying how serious the pollution is, how serious the pollution is, how clean Europe is, and how fresh the air is in the American empire.

Isn’t this a concrete manifestation of ideological colonization?

The second vicious regret is the emergence of many people who excessively pursue women's rights.

Because Chen Han realized this, he actually agreed with his wife's awakening. First of all, he did not deviate from the framework of today's Eastern warmth narrative.

It does not talk about so-called free love or personal heroism.

Chen Han didn’t think that things like free love were bad, but there was no soil for such things in the Ming Dynasty today.

Of course, after Chen Han came to the Ming Dynasty, he had a better understanding of the term "equal status".

First of all, the term "well-matched" was originally used to describe buildings.

The doorposts are the stone lions, stone pillars and stone drums on both sides of the door. Only wealthy families or officials can place them, or can afford to place them.

Hudui are cylindrical or square decorations above the door lintel. The more Hudui you have, the better the conditions of your home.

Moreover, the guards can also distinguish whether the family is a civil official or a military general.

For example, civil officials use square shapes, while military officials use round shapes.

The number of household pairs is directly related to the height of the joints.

Therefore, once a matchmaker or an outsider sees the form of the house you live in, they will know the situation of your family. If they introduce a partner to someone, they will also arrange the marriage based on their own family situation and the other party's situation.

There is a certain scientific basis for the emphasis on marrying someone of equal social status.

The first thing we need to understand is that in ancient times the literacy rate was very low, with 95% of people being illiterate. Therefore, the standards and circles of some of the scholar-officials for choosing a spouse were not large, and it was impossible for them to marry ordinary people, or very rare.

Within this small circle, people will be paired up based on your official rank and whether you are a civil servant or a military officer.

To use a very common standard, that is, are the values ​​​​compatible?

The formation of values ​​is definitely related to the family environment. If you are in the circle of civil servants, then you will definitely be well-educated and come from a scholarly family.

If you are in a circle of military generals, then they will definitely wield swords and guns, or when it is passed down to the third or fourth generation, there will definitely be people who can read and write.

Anyway, no matter what, you will always have more knowledge and experience than ordinary people.

The most important thing is that it represents the circle of personal connections. When families marry into each other, they all depend on the personal connections behind the other party and combine them together.

I use your connections and you use mine to ensure the healthy development of our family to the greatest extent possible.

Even in modern times, being well matched is very important. The reason why many people think this is a feudal tradition is that you have received a relatively good education now, which at least allows you to read and write, and at least gives you a certain cultural background, allowing you to understand that there was such a tradition in ancient times.

That’s why you know the term “well-matched”.

To put it bluntly, most of them are ordinary people from the countryside. This kind of marriage between people of equal status, which emphasizes the grassroots and personal connections, will never happen to ordinary people.

Because even in modern times, many rich, powerful and well-connected people still pay attention to matching each other. If you don't belong to this circle, you can't get in at all.

But there are always some ordinary people who feel that they must be unique and different, and must not be bound by the constraints of their circle due to their social status.

Therefore, some Phoenix women and Phoenix men want to marry someone higher up, but after marrying up, they find that their values ​​are not in line with the man's. They either end up being the man's nanny and can only be a pendant on the man's waist for the rest of their lives.

Or he would become a son-in-law who has to depend on others for his whole life and dare not have any temper.

Therefore, after Chen Han came to the Ming Dynasty, he understood this truth even more clearly. He also discovered in many aspects of his life that it is actually impossible to forcibly graft Western narratives onto Eastern ethics.

Even if he was a time traveler, when he arrived in the Ming Dynasty he had to abide by the local ethics and he had to understand that there must be a grassroots level.

In modern society, many people are reluctant to talk about class because it hurts people's dignity.

But in ancient times, you had to pay attention to these things. If you didn't, not only would it be difficult for you to move forward, but you would also be unable to survive.

After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Han never thought of transforming the Ming Dynasty into a society where everyone is equal. He did not have such ability nor such ambition.

What he can do now is to build the infrastructure of the Ming Dynasty and use the information gap to help the Ming Dynasty develop better.

As for the rest, they can only be left to future generations to do, as he has no way of doing so much.

And his wife, Jiangdu Princess Zhu Youwei, was doing the same thing at this time. She had never thought about letting women come out and hold up half the sky.

It is already very good to be able to make many people accept that women can come out to work...

(End of this chapter)