Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and also the founding emperor of China, the lowest starting point, no one is lower than him, because his starting point is simply the lowest point of life, he is a monk and a beggar, such a starting point, so that the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, from the beginning of the source reflects many of its own characteristics.
Because Comrade Lao Zhu was born into poverty and deeply resented corrupt officials, he formulated the most severe measures in Chinese history to punish corrupt officials, and the amount of money given to officials was also particularly low.
But what people never expected was that after his death, this set of harsh punishments and ultra-low salaries could not maintain the operation at all, and as a result, the Ming Dynasty's officialdom was not corrupt, especially everyone felt that this salary was not enough, so the Officials of the Ming Dynasty already regarded the income outside the salary as normal income.
Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang has been diligent all his life and designed a complete set of perfect and complex systems for Daming, at least in his eyes, it is perfect, and future generations do not have to do anything, they only need to follow this set of systems they designed.
But as strong as Zhu Yuanzhang, he can not resist some historical laws and economic laws, people's hearts can be suppressed, but will not be completely erased, as long as the environment is slightly relaxed, many policies of the Ming Dynasty will be relaxed, especially in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang with administrative orders to impose many things.
The most obvious is that Zhu Yuanzhang's era divided people into different occupations, each occupation corresponds to its own clothing, what kind of people wear what kind of clothes, which is a very important part of Confucian etiquette, Zhu Yuanzhang played it to the extreme, different grades and different occupations, there are clear rules for the wearing of clothes.
However, these regulations, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, were already extinct in name only, especially the merchant class that Zhu Yuanzhang hated the most, and their rise made the various dress rules formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang's era for demeaning merchants, which simply became a blank piece of paper, because in the late Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan's economy was developed, everyone only recognized money, and when merchants had money, they could wear whatever they wanted.
We look at the gorgeous clothes described in "Jin Ping Mei", in fact, those are obvious trespasses, such as Ximen Qing's wife, Wu Yueniang paper can only barely be regarded as Lady Wupin, but wearing a big red robe sleeve dress that can only be worn by Lady Yipin.
When the other female dependents traveled during the Lantern Festival, they all dressed so gorgeously, according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, all of them were arrogant, and if the female dependents were still a little bit only about the wind and moon, Ximen Qing's clothes were completely disregarding the etiquette.
Ximen Qing once set up a banquet to entertain Eunuch He, and Eunuch He casually gave Ximen Qing a "flying fish green velvet coat" because Long Live rewarded the eunuch with a python robe.
The official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, the patterns on the top have strict regulations, are the most stringent regulations in all the costumes, what grade to wear what kind of official clothes, this can not be wrong at all.
But this time Ximen Qing could be regarded as a serious trespass, but because it was rewarded by Eunuch He, he seemed to be jealous, but he knew that this was illegal, and the defendant even wanted to kill the head, but Ximen Qing still couldn't help but upload it at home.
On this occasion, it is necessary to arrange an outsider to come in, otherwise this dress is not worthless, so his little follower Count Ying came, and after coming, the pair of clothes was a high exaggeration, after all, Count Ying is a person who knows the goods, this kind of psychology that wants to show off and is afraid that too many people know is really very delicate.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the whole society was like this, extravagant, the emperor did not pay attention to the government, the ministers did not care, it happened that the imperial court did not care about anything, most of the officials had no intention of pursuing a career, so it created a high degree of prosperity in the Jiangnan region, officials were often rational and secret, and making money became the consensus of the imperial court, in this case, the collusion between officials and businessmen was inevitable, and many regulations could not be enforced.
But after all, the rules are placed there, many times to do things seem very grotesque, the funniest thing is that you see Ximen Qing's home, his subordinates, even these concubines, all manage Ximen Qing a mouth a father shouting, managing Wu Yueniang called the mother, at every turn said, daddy said how, daddy said this is good or not.
Although "Jin Ping Mei" is a very bold book, at this time, Pan Jinlian called Ximen Qing a father, but it has nothing to do with fengyue and is related to a system of the Ming Dynasty.
This system is that the Ming Dynasty is not allowed to buy concubines or buy slaves, which was originally a measure to sympathize with the poor people, can not buy and sell the population, ancient society is often in the poor no way, selling children and women selling wives, that is a common thing.
The Ming Dynasty banned these vices, but could not stand this demand, if the demand is there, but this demand can not be obtained through reasonable means, he must have some kind of deformation plan, so the Ming Dynasty appeared a large number of adopted children and daughters.
I bought a concubine, registered in the official government is an adopted daughter, this is a means of risk avoidance, but also a kind of darkness and helplessness in the society at that time, this is due to human nature, but also caused by economic laws, the rich will definitely want to get more resources, this road is not feasible, it should go elsewhere, as long as there is money, in Ximen Qing's eyes, there is nothing that cannot be done.
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