Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 134 Zhu Yuanzhang was angry because of the Ma family, and Zhang Cheng suggested banning foot binding!

"Chongpachi, don't be angry about this."

"That's just an ignorant rich dude. How could he know that even though I have a sarong and big feet, I am the Prime Minister's wife?"

"Of course it was just because it was rare for him to see people wearing sarongs and not having their feet bound come to the silk shop, and he found it novel."

When Ma saw that Zhu Yuanzhang had been depressed since he came back, he comforted him with words.

Let’s talk.

Foot-binding started in the late Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Southern Song Dynasty.

By the Yuan Dynasty, throughout the south, there were no women from upper-class official families who did not have their feet bound, but many commoner women from the middle and lower classes still did not have their feet bound.

Most of the people who can visit silk and satin shops are officials, so it is difficult to see women with big feet in places like silk and satin shops.

Because Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to buy some good fabrics to make clothes for their children, they took a rare trip to the silk shop, but something unexpected happened.

Even though Mr. Ma was trying to persuade him softly, his face was still livid.

Others say that he is a vulgar commoner and a foolish common man, but he does not get angry.

Basically, when Li Wenzhong asked him to climb trees and dig out bird's nests, he did so; when he asked him to go down the river to fish, he did so.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that the children such as Ma and Wen Zhong would not like the look on his face, so he simply got up and walked outside, picked up the hoe placed by the door, and walked to the fence inside the courtyard. On the vegetable plot, hoe the grass.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that a fire was burning in his heart, which could not be suppressed no matter what.

Therefore, Ma didn't say anything more, and just led the girls in the room to cut the fabric. She also called Li Wenzhong, Mu Ying and other children over to measure their sizes.

Mu Ying turned around and asked a girl to measure her clothes cooperatively, while agreeing: "Here you go!"

"Hey!"

"Muying, let's go!"

As a couple, Ma knew that Zhu Yuanzhang loved to do farm work when he was unhappy, even when he was angry with her.

Seeing this, Mrs. Ma did not restrain herself. She just smiled and said to Li Wenzhong: "After the measurement is completed, you and Mu Ying go and ask Mr. Zhang to come and let him persuade your uncle!"

When Li Wenzhong, who was more courageous, was still taking measurements, a girl who was cutting fabrics across from him, who was about the same age as him, made a face, causing the girl to purse her lips and smile.

As soon as he finished measuring the clothes, Li Wenzhong called Mu Ying.

But as Ma said, this was just a misunderstanding.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang always valued his relatives very highly, and regarded the dignity of his relatives as more important than his own dignity.

Because Li Wenzhong is several years older than Mu Ying, Mu Ying now listens to Li Wenzhong very much.

Li Wenzhong, who stretched out his arms, agreed.

They are both at an ignorant age and don't know anything about love. They only instinctively want to joke with each other.

Even if the trees are high and the wind is strong, the water is as cold as ice.

Li Wenzhong and Mu Ying saw the bright fabrics and knew that they were going to make clothes for them. They both ran over happily and cooperatively asked Ma to measure them.

But if anyone mocks his close relatives and family members, it will be difficult for him to calm down.

And because of this, Muying was beaten to tears by Zhu Yuanzhang with the sole of his shoe several times because Zhu Yuanzhang found out that he was doing dangerous things.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang was fine, Li Wenzhong and Mu Ying told them how knowledgeable and simple Zhang Cheng was. Therefore, they both admired and were curious about Zhang Cheng.

The two of them were also willing to come see Zhang Cheng regardless of anything, hoping to find out more secrets from Zhang Cheng.

Therefore, Li Wenzhong and Mu Ying almost ran to Zhang Cheng's place.

It's a beautiful time in spring.

When two teenagers, one old and one young, came to Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng was instructing the craftsmen of the newly built watch factory on how to understand the principles of the existence of various parts on the drawings.

Therefore, when Zhang Cheng saw the two people coming, he ignored them and only explained the principles of each part of the clock to the craftsman.

Since Zhang Cheng began to make the ironmaking factory independent and let the blacksmiths use the crucible steelmaking method to smelt alloy manganese steel, he began to plan to make more sophisticated machinery such as clocks.

And because the rebels gave them good treatment and treated the craftsmen as human beings, these craftsmen listened very seriously and were very willing to work for the rebels.

Li Wenzhong and Mu Ying also listened carefully at this time.

Even before the craftsman said he understood it, Li Wenzhong couldn't help but said: "Mr. Zhang, I understand. This spring is the lever torque principle you mentioned."

Zhang Cheng smiled and nodded.

Li Wenzhong also laughed.

Then, Zhang Cheng asked Li Wenzhong: "Why did you come to me?"

"Madam, please go there."

Li Wenzhong replied.

Mu Ying then said: "Because my father was unhappy when he came back today, he probably wants to persuade Mr. Zhang to help him."

"Yes, it seems that someone laughed at my aunt for having big feet."

Li Wenzhong replied.

"Bigfoot?"

After hearing this, Zhang Cheng thought for a while and said to Li Wenzhong and Mu Ying:
"You guys go back first and I'll come back after I've finished explaining what's going on here."

"Okay!" So Li Wenzhong and Mu Ying ran back first.

After Zhang Cheng's explanation was almost complete, when he arrived at Zhu Yuanzhang's place, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang hoeing the vegetable patch with a straight face in the courtyard where apricot blossoms flourished.

Ma was already kneading the flour, and several girls were following suit.

There were also a few girls who were making clothes and arguing about how to thread the thread correctly.

Zhu Yuanzhang adopted many boys, and Ma adopted many girls.

Therefore, even though Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma's first child is still in their bellies, there are quite a few people in the family. Just cooking every day is a big project, and everyone has to take turns to eat.

The same goes for work.

Therefore, some girls cooked with Ma first, while others made clothes first.

The younger girls and boys did not have to work. Just like Mu Ying, they stood beside Zhu Yuanzhang's vegetable patch, holding big cakes and gnawing on them, while curiously forming a circle and watching Zhu Yuanzhang hoeing.

Zhang Cheng had to admit that Zhu Yuanzhang was very good at managing land.

A large piece of vegetable patch was well-kept, and the vegetables were growing as plump and as green as emeralds.

It is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang was very diligent in weeding and watering farmyard manure, so that the vegetables grew so well.

Otherwise, Zhang Cheng wouldn't have smelled the strong smell of farmyard manure in this mansion that originally belonged to the powerful men of the Meng Yuan Dynasty.

However, in Zhang Cheng's opinion, this strong farmhouse atmosphere does not match the mansions of powerful people, nor does it match the Chuzhou City, which is now considered to be a beautiful city.

But this is Zhu Yuanzhang's own courtyard. If he likes it, Zhang Cheng has no right to interfere or comment.

What Zhang Cheng was quite happy to see was that the children adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang himself were able to see the hard work of farming with their own eyes, and hoped that they would develop the awareness of saving food and sympathizing with the people from an early age.

After all, education that is influenced by ears and eyes is more effective than preaching when you grow up.

Zhang Cheng thought about it carefully. In his memory, it seemed that the adopted sons adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang during the war did indeed perform well in serving the country and the people when they grew up, but they were not like those incompetent ones among his biological children. There are people who treat people as if they are not human beings.

At this time, Zhang Cheng saw that Mu Ying, who had been taught by Ma to love others since she was a child, went behind Zhu Yuanzhang after eating the pancakes and helped Zhu Yuanzhang pull weeds, pushing the weeds away with her fat little hands. Pulling, the cheeks bulged from the bite.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang was strict, he still felt sorry for his adoptive father.

"Mr. Zhang is here!"

Ma called out with a smile, then personally brought a basket of cakes to Zhang Chengqi and said, "You haven't eaten yet, how about some cakes first?"

"Thank you ma'am!"

Zhang Cheng took the basket, took a piece of cake from the basket and ate it.

He had to admit that Ma's pancakes were quite delicious.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help thinking that Ma's family must be very skilled in kneading dough, so this cake tasted particularly chewy. No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang was particularly sad after Ma's departure in history. It was probably because his stomach had long been damaged by Ma's. Shi conquered, but knew that he would never be able to eat better cakes again, so he was heartbroken.

Of course, Zhang Cheng did not expect that one day he would be able to eat the cakes of the founding queen of the Ming Dynasty. If he secretly took the cake back, no one would believe that it was made by the founding queen of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang also looked over, and while seeing his sister's virtuous and enthusiastic nature, he also saw the talents of her subordinates.

He never thought there was anything wrong with his sister's feet.

After all, growing up in the countryside, he had seen many women with feet like this, some even bigger than Ma's feet. His mother, sister and sister-in-law also had natural feet, and even walked around the village naked in the summer. Go.

But Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that when he arrived in the city and went to a silk shop frequented by rich people, someone would laugh at his sister's feet in front of his face, treating it as a joke that could not be respected.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang specially observed Zhang Cheng.

He found that when Zhang Cheng looked at his sister, there was no such disdain in his eyes!
And now he remembered that many demoted officials did look at them differently when they saw the feet of rebel women, but although he had noticed it before, he didn't really care.

Now because Ma was also laughed at, he started to care.

"Why doesn't Mr. Zhang look contemptuous of his sister because of this?"

But because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang cursed in his heart, and then after thinking about it, he became more fond of and admired Zhang Cheng:

"It seems that a truly selfless person really respects us common people in his heart!"

"Ascend!"

"Let's take a break and have something to eat. If you work without lunch, it won't be good if you get a stomach bug."

Zhang Cheng put the basket on the stone table aside and shouted to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang put down the hoe, leaving Mu Ying to pull weeds in the field, while he walked towards Zhang Cheng and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang is right."

"Mr. Zhang, just try to persuade him."

"He was angry because others laughed at me for not having my feet bound."

At this time, Ma also smiled and talked to Zhang Cheng, then picked up the basket and went into the house: "I'll change the heat for you."

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhang Cheng: "Mr. Zhang, does he think it is a trivial matter for people who laugh at people not to bind their feet?"

"It's not a trivial matter!"

"This is a serious matter that needs to be strictly prohibited immediately!"

Zhang Cheng replied at this time.

Ma couldn't help but stopped where he was.

(End of this chapter)