Before the Lin family's carriage entered the gate of Rong Mansion, Jia Qiang was stopped by several Huangmen who happened to be rushing from the palace.

"Ninghou, according to the Queen's decree, Ninghou is summoned to enter the palace immediately!"

Jia Qiang recognized the Huangmen servant who announced the decree, and frowned: "Mr. Mu, I am a foreign minister. The queen wants to summon the foreign minister to Fengzao Palace?"

Mu Di smiled and said: "Ninghou and Princess Changle have made a marriage arrangement, so they are no longer just foreign ministers. Besides, Long Live Lord is here too."

Jia Qiang twitched her lips when she heard this, and said to the driver: "Sister Lin, I'll see you in the palace first, and we can play together when you get back."

"..."

Originally, Daiyu was still very nervous when she heard that the emperor and the queen suddenly summoned her. But when she heard such coquettish words, most of her nervousness and worry dissipated. She gritted her teeth and said, "Go to hell!"

Jia Qiang laughed loudly and watched the carriage enter Rong Mansion from Jiaomen. Then she turned her horse and, under the escort of her own soldiers, rushed to the imperial city with a group of Huangmen and Yulin troops.

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"Your Majesty Jia Qiang, long live my emperor and may my empress live a thousand lives!"

In Fengzao Palace, Emperor Long'an and Empress Yin were both present. In addition, there were also the virtuous concubine Yuan Chun, Concubine Duan Ru and Zhou Guiren, as well as Zhao Rong, Cai Concubine and Nu Shi from the same palace.

Before Jia Qiang reached the palace, she only bowed down from a distance at the door.

Seeing this, Emperor Long'an twitched his lips, and Queen Yin even spat: "What kind of courtesy are you getting there? Why don't you come in quickly!"

Jia Qiang shook her head and said: "Go back to your Majesty, in addition to the Emperor and your Majesty, there are several other Empresses in the palace. I am a foreign minister and cannot enter."

Queen Yin laughed angrily and said: "Stop talking nonsense! You haven't even gotten married yet, and your eldest aunt is still here. How can you pretend to be a foreign minister? Come in quickly, and if you keep talking, please be careful! I haven't had any good luck with you today.

!”

Jia Qiang's heart skipped a beat and she guessed what kind of Hongmen Banquet it was today.

After entering the palace, they saw that Emperor Long'an was only wearing ordinary clothes, and he was sitting casually on the phoenix couch with Queen Yin. On the left and right sides of the phoenix couch, Concubine Yuan, Concubine Duan and Guiren Zhou were sitting separately. Concubine Yuan was sitting alone on the east side.

Concubine Duan and Guiren Zhou were sitting on the west side.

Jia Qiang had never met Yuanchun, but he could recognize the one with the most agitated look. After he paid homage to the emperor and empress again, he paid homage to Jia Yuanchun: "My nephew, please greet me, aunt!"

"An, an! Get up quickly!"

When Yuanchun saw his family, his tears couldn't stop falling. He held his hands up and said in a trembling voice with excitement.

Once you enter the Marquis Gate, it is as deep as the sea, let alone the palace gate?

It has been seven or eight years since I entered the palace as a daughter, and I have never seen my family. Although the person who came now is from Dongfu, Yuanchun felt very close to her when I saw him.

Fortunately, she still knew the rules. After Jia Qiang saw the courtesy, she suppressed the sadness in her heart and just nodded to him.

Empress Yin saw this and smiled and said: "This year, the emperor's decree has been issued to allow relatives to visit. Any home in Chongyu's courtyard that can be stationed outside the gate can invite the imperial court officials to enter their private residence, and the concubine can take a look at it.

An affair between flesh and blood. This is a truly unparalleled favor. I heard that your Jia family is also repairing the garden. When it is completed, you can naturally come in and ask for relatives."

Yuanchun stood up with tears in his eyes and prayed to God again with Jia Qiang.

But this time, Emperor Long'an only called Yuan Chun, and then asked Jia Qiang: "I heard that there was a bad atmosphere in the world, so I sent people to investigate. It was the gangsters of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division under your command who were spreading gossip. In the past two days, I have

The imperial court is full of information about your impeachment by the city's imperial censor, what are you fussing about all day long?"

Jia Qiang said: "I didn't do anything! In the past few days, I didn't even go to the government office, and I didn't provoke anyone..."

"fart!"

Seeing Jia Qiang, Emperor Long'an remembered his regret for making him a first-class marquis. In addition, this son had always been outspoken in front of the emperor, and was related to Lin Ruhai, so Emperor Long'an could not speak bluntly and scolded him in front of him. Said: "The rumors about bra wraps are almost turning into a joke! Rumors are spreading everywhere and people are panicking. What are your intentions?"

Empress Yin also said angrily: "What kind of dirty seed is there? No matter what you do, you are talking about these things about your daughter's family. Jia Qiang, what do you say?"

Empress Yin really deserves the words "painting-like eyebrows and eyes", her facial features are beautiful and can be regarded as a model. If it is increased by one point, it will be superfluous, and if it is reduced by one point, it will leave regrets.

This description is somewhat similar to Baoqin, both of which are extremely beautiful.

At this moment, coupled with the elder's angry smile, it is difficult to resist his love for the younger generation...

Jia Qiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I really didn't expect that such a trivial matter could disturb the Emperor and Your Majesty. But I dare to guarantee it with my life, and there are rumors..."

"You dare to say those words have nothing to do with you?"

Before he could finish speaking, Emperor Long'an asked impatiently, his eyes looking evil.

Jia Qiang said hurriedly: "No, those words actually came from my mouth, but..."

"You still have the nerve to admit it? My face has been completely humiliated! The first-class Wuhou of the country and the command of my army and horses have done such a nasty and despicable thing. I don't want you to make trouble and cause trouble, so you deliberately spread the word Yao? Your brain was chewed by a dog?"

Emperor Long'an looked ugly and cursed.

Jia Qiang was not panicked and said: "Your Majesty, have I ever stirred up trouble and spread rumors? Everything I told my subordinates is true! When I was in Jinmen, I met a Western noblewoman, and later when I went to Yangzhou, I met her again. Several Western missionaries and some other Western ladies. During the conversation with them, I discovered that Western women have long since been freed from the tyranny of their breasts and waists!"

"Pfft!"

Concubine Duan Ru was perhaps more innocent. When she heard this, she blushed and laughed out loud.

Although the other maids and concubines in the palace, Zhaorong and Cai, did not say anything, their faces were all red with embarrassment and their eyes were holding back laughter.

Emperor Long'an sighed: "I'm really convinced by your face. Do you have the nerve to say such things so openly and loudly in public?"

Jia Qiang shook her head and said: "Your Majesty, I think this is not shameful at all! Your Majesty, even if you don't mention the Westerners, you don't mention what it was like in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, or what happened in the Song Dynasty, just this dynasty! At the founding of the country, the four kings and eight princes were twenty. The four princes, the Yan army is so powerful that they are invincible in the world!! Look at their mothers, which one of them is a rich lady with a wrapped breast?"

"puff!"

Emperor Long'an was eating ginseng tea. He originally wanted to hear what Jia Qiang had to say. Unexpectedly, the conversation changed to this topic again, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea.

When Queen Yin saw this, she didn't even bother to laugh and scolded angrily: "Jia Qiang! Before my father, please stop talking nonsense!"

Emperor Long'an coughed for a while and then waved his hands and said: "Ask him to continue, the ancestors of the Jia family account for two of the four kings and eight kilometers to the left and right. I want to see what else he says. It doesn't make sense today, so I'll give you all the court battles." Ready!"

Jia Qiang did not show any timidity at all and continued: "In the Yuanping Dynasty, in the palaces of the four princes and eight dukes, the ladies of the country and the marquis all used wet nurses to feed their children. As a result, in the second generation, except for my ancestors of the Jia family, most of them The generals are declining rapidly, and in the next generation, there will be almost no people who can carry the cauldron. Looking at the heroes of Yuanping, just look at the old man in Zhao Guogong's house. The old man Jiang definitely didn't have his breasts covered, so he The life he raised has become a human being!"

"What are you talking about? It's all nonsense! I let you live in peace for a few days, but all you can think about is wrapping your breasts?"

Emperor Long'an couldn't help but lectured.

Jia Qiang's face was always calm and she said: "Okay, even if you don't mention these nobles, Your Majesty, I definitely didn't think of instigating this matter just in the past two days. As early as when I was in Yangzhou, I started to pay attention to this matter after hearing this statement. I More than 20 people were sent to four provinces to investigate the women with dystocia recorded in various medical clinics and pharmacies, and finally obtained detailed data.

In the four provinces, a total of 638 large households were counted, and the number of households with dystocias actually reached 280. Among them, some families who had dystocias did not even report them. No, the total number is definitely more than 40%!

And without exception, the women in these families are all breast-wearing people.

We also visited more than 1,500 farmers, and found that fewer than 200 had dystocia, not even 10%, because they did not have their breasts tied.

This is one! The other is..."

Jia Qiang paused and saw that everyone in the hall, especially the women, began to turn pale. He continued loudly: "Second: We also investigated the heirs of these 638 large families. Six hundred and three Eighteen households, with a total of less than 1,700 new households added in ten years, many children were carefully fed by wet nurses, but in the end, they were still alive, but none of them died.

On average, a large household cannot even raise three adults!

Farmers who have never had their breasts wrapped usually don't have as much food as servants from large families. But even so, a total of nearly 5,000 new households have been added to the 1,500 households in ten years. One household has more than four households...

It is obvious that children who are breastfed by their own mothers live a more solid, stronger and longer life!

Peasant women who don't wear bras and do such heavy farm work to make a living can usually live a longer life, except for suffering from serious diseases.

As for women from high-class families, except for the few who live to a long life, the majority are those who die early and die!

If the emperor feels that what he said is unfounded and is all nonsense, he can send people to conduct a large-scale investigation.

I can guarantee that the wider the scope of the investigation, the more we will find out how many women’s lives have been harmed by a small breast binding, and how many babies have been harmed!

How about your Majesty asking someone to compile a tally of the royal family’s residences and see how many sick children there are and how many died in childbirth... We’ll know after a quick check!”

The expressions of Emperor Long'an, Empress Yin and others all changed from the playful look at the ridiculous scoundrel at first to serious ones.

There is no need to look outside, just think about the Tianjia, and you will know.

The Supreme Emperor Jingchu gave birth to a total of nineteen sons and eight princesses. Only thirteen of them actually lived to adulthood, and more than half died!

Even Emperor Long'an himself gave birth to nine princes and three princesses from the beginning to the present.

As a result, five princes survived, but all the princesses were gone...

If, as Jia Qiang said, it was all caused by a chest wrap, then...

That is really a crime worthy of death!!

"Jia Qiang, have Westerners ever had...the problem of breast binding?"

Emperor Long'an's voice was almost like Bingzhazi. Thinking that his princes and princesses, especially the three young princesses who broke his heart, died because of that idiot, Emperor Long'an felt so violent in his heart that he only wanted to kill people!

Jia Qiang nodded and said: "Western women are even worse. They are required by the Holy See to use the bones of big fish or use gold, silver and iron tools to persecute them. They not only have their breasts wrapped, but also their waists. They are so fat. , but the waist was strangled to be thinner than the thighs, which was extremely terrifying. Later, they overthrew the Holy See and gradually changed this practice. But unfortunately, the Westerners don't know what they think, and their noble ladies are now starting to wear them again. It’s such a torturous thing. Vivian said that it’s never the woman herself who decides whether a woman should wear something, but the man.”

Queen Yin couldn't control the life and death of the Western lady, so she hurriedly asked: "Is there a way to solve it?"

Jia Qiang nodded and said: "I have a guild hall over Xixie Street. The West Road Courtyard is specially designed to entertain the family members. There is a way to solve this problem!"

Even though he was in a very bad mood, Emperor Long'an couldn't help but said sarcastically: "You, the great-great-grandson of the Ning Kingdom and the first-class Marquis of Wu, do you really not feel ashamed of doing this?"

Jia Qiang shook her head and said: "In order to make a living for the people, I don't know what to be ashamed of. The people who laughed at me must be those who forced women to bind their breasts. I am at odds with them! They don't feel ashamed, I am doing good deeds." ,Why do you feel embarrassed?"

Emperor Long'an didn't know what to say to him. No matter what Jia Qiang said, this matter really made a big fuss. Even if he was right, he would be criticized by thousands of people and reviled by thousands of people!

The thousands and thousands of people here are all scholars and scholar-bureaucrats!

Even if Emperor Long'an is scolded by so many people, he will still feel a headache, let alone a minister...

Queen Yin looked deeply at Jia Qiang and asked, "Jia Qiang, do you plan to make a profit from this?"

Jia Qiang hurriedly shook her head and said: "My dear, the solution is very simple. If you want to do it yourself, ordinary people can do it by themselves. Although I plan to make some money from this, my main intention is to make a contribution to the women in the world." Mental effort.

I also hope that women all over the world will bravely get rid of that corset for themselves and their children.

Women are weak by nature, but mothers are strong!

Even if it can reduce dystocia by 10% and premature deaths by 10%, even if I am burdened with a dirty and ridiculous reputation, what do I have to fear?

Wherever the Tao is, even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will go there!

If anyone wants to slander me for this, just let them come!"

On this day, Jia Qiang made his declaration of saving milk in brilliant words in the main hall of Fengzao Palace in the imperial city!

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Chapter completed!