.Imperial style

Hanfu is generous, and even in midsummer, people still wear it very neatly. It may be a little better in Xiangyang, but in Taijin, someone will die.

The children of the Han army were wearing tight armor in such places, so how could they not get sick?

Liu Xie had to spend a few days thinking carefully about the issue of rectifying the military equipment of the Han army. With the development of the Han military system, the armor and clothing of each army could not be unified. This is a hidden danger. For a unified empire, this is a problem that should not occur. He summoned scholars and armed officials in Taijin City to discuss this issue.

Originally it was just an armed issue for the Han army, Liu Xie quickly extended the topic to the clothing issue of the entire Han Dynasty. Since the current court meetings in the Han Dynasty have gradually been abolished, officials at all levels of the Zhiluo Mansion have not seen the emperor once a year. Only the Imperial Mansion often maintains the habit of the court, and Liu Xie did not wear court uniforms most of the time.

In recent years, Roman culture and Han culture have had a relatively large integration effect in Xiangyang and Nanjing. However, in more places across the country, people are still relatively resistant to the integration of civilizations. The most fundamental reason for this resistance is that the Han people do not understand Roman civilization. Because they do not understand, they are afraid that in various big cities with better publicity and promotion, the residents of the city are keen to appreciate Roman dramas. Even if they cannot understand it, this is the trend of the city.

Perhaps, people did not directly pursue Roman culture, but pursued a trend and fashion, but in this process, most intellectuals recognized Roman culture and Han culture. Liu Xie's most intuitive feeling was that court officials and scholars no longer like to describe the Han Empire as the Celestial Kingdom. They usually choose Eastern powers. For Rome, people are also used to using Western powers to describe them.

This is a good thing. As long as the Han people are not complacent, they will work hard to learn new knowledge.

The reform of clothing in the Han Dynasty had reached a point where it was necessary. The territory of the Han Dynasty was from south to north, from east to west. The cross-domain was very drastic. The armor and uniforms of the army must also be changed to adapt to the different characteristics of the army. The center of this reform was the ritual reform of the Han Empire. Some unreasonable and complicated etiquettes must be abolished, and some etiquettes with national spirit and cultural connotations must be retained.

There are too many ethnic groups in this world that do not have their own language, but few ethnic groups do not have their own clothing. The spirit of China's future generations that completely deny Han culture is both admirable but not worthy of praise and full of insults, and the courage to deny the dregs of culture is admirable. But total denial is also a disrespect and self-discrimination against the nation itself, and is the most unpride action in the world.

Recalling the 21st century, ethnic minorities such as Tibetans, Mongolians, Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities all had their own ethnic costumes, but the Han people seemed to have forgotten that they had lost their ethnic costumes: I remember the entrance ceremony of an ethnic sports meeting, and 55 ethnic groups entered the venue wearing traditional costumes of their own ethnic groups, and the Han people finally wore suits!

At the annual ceremony of worshipping Confucius, Korea and Japan were serious Hanfu, while the mainland team wore ethnic Manchu clothing...www.piaotian.com.

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A great nation must have a great appearance and appearance. A great empire must also have great external costumes and inner spirit.

The Han clothing with wide clothes and large sleeves reflects the Han people's outlook on life, that is, they pursue a leisurely and peaceful life, and do not like to engage in intense and adventure activities. The clothing with wide clothes and large sleeves is the most suitable for leisurely life of watching the moon, watching flowers, reciting poems, playing the piano and playing chess, but wearing such clothing is very inconvenient to engage in intense activities such as horseback hunting.

Since ancient times, ethnic minorities around the Central Plains have mostly used narrow-sleeved tight clothing to suit their lifestyle of riding and shooting adventures. During the Warring States Period, King Wuling of Zhao once wanted to promote narrow-sleeved tight "Hu clothing", but because the traditional power was too great, it did not achieve much results. During the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods of the Tang Dynasty, narrow-sleeved tight-sleeved Hu clothing was popular for a while, but it did not have a great impact on traditional Han clothing.

In a great Han Empire, where should the clothing of her land be headed? Liu Xie expressed deep doubts about this. He could not abandon tradition and allowed the nation to retain this pride, but also reformed clothing to facilitate people to engage in adventure and intense activities.

Finally, Liu Xie decided to separate Hanfu and simple clothes and differentiate the concept of clothing. While retaining traditional Han Dynasty clothing, it made the clothing more beautiful and in line with aesthetic views.

Liu Xie summoned the best tailors in Taizhou and Guangzhou to Taijin, and beautified on the basis of the six major dresses of Han Dynasty crown, long crown, dress, temple uniform, silkworm uniform and court uniform, making Hanfu more beautiful, integrating precious and exquisite buttons such as pearl buttons and jade buttons, and stipulated that men's clothes sew on the front to the right, women's clothes sew on the back to the left, and the front cloak is unified in a semi-open style, men are open to the chest, and women are open to the chest two inches.

The belt is changed to a belt, with the narrowest being three inches and the widest being nine inches. It must be decorated with jade rings or cheaper glass rings. The belt material must not be made of leather. You can choose jade brocade, Shu brocade or Han brocade.

Shoes are traditional long boots, and they are required to be thin-sole cowhide, sheepskin or horse leather. They must not be pigskin, which means they need to travel around the world and do not stay at home. They must have the tips and tops of the shoes.

All the ritual crowns and beads are jade, pearls, corals, and glass. Gold and silver are not allowed to be used, which means they should not be slaves of money.

The six clothes of the crown, long crown, dress, temple, silkworm, court clothes are improved into crown, long crown, folk crown, temple, brocade, and expensive clothes, are collectively called Hanfu.

The Hanfu was worn by the Emperor, the Royal Family, the Three Dukes, the Generals, the Dukes, the Dukes, and the Dukes. The Hanfu in the temple was worn by the Empress Dowager, the Empress, the Imperial Concubine, the Three Dukes, the Dukes and the Dukes, and the eldest wife of the Hanfu. It was the most noble and gorgeous among the Hanfu.

The long crown uniform is worn by officials at all levels, generals, scholars, marquis to the new title, and nationals. The brocade uniform is worn by officials at all levels, generals, scholars, marquis to the new title, and the eldest wife of officials at all levels, generals, scholars, marquis to the new title, and others.

The civil crown and noble clothes are worn by ordinary people, and common people and servants are not allowed to wear them.

The Hanfu is stipulated that it can only be worn when the Han Dynasty sacrifices, etiquette, and worships the saints and wise emperors. Hanfu should not be worn at will in daily life. Violators are convicted of disrespect for ancestors. Those who do not wear Hanfu on sacrifices, etiquette and regulations on worshiping the Han Dynasty will also be convicted according to the law.

At the same time, the concept of simple clothing and standard simple clothing dress were formulated accordingly. In the design of simple clothing, Liu Xie did not follow the Roman Empire model, because the clothing in Rome also pursued elegance and luxury and was not convenient. Instead, he chose the reform of traditional Chinese people's clothing. The unified feature was that the lapel was in the center, buttons and leather belts were used. Most casual clothing materials were selected to choose thicker and wear-resistant fabrics and leather, and short shirts and sleeveless shirts were designed. In the convenient clothing in the north, trousers and horse boots were adopted. In the convenient clothing in the south, short skirts were commonly used in Roman civilians and military clothing, and sandals with leather-soled belts were mostly used.

In order to make the simple clothes more colorful and attract the favor of the upper class, the design of windbreakers was introduced. Based on the Hanfu, the middle opening pattern was adopted to extend the concept of collars from the Hanfu.

The characteristics of simple clothing are convenience, warmth and coolness as excellent considerations. The materials tend to be leather, silk, thick fabric, fine cotton fabric, and linen mixed materials, and the design tend to be convenient and simple, with the use of outer pockets, leather belts, buttons, and surrounding areas reaching a peak.

Considering the resistance within the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie first chose to promote simple clothing. Especially in the south, Liaozhou, Western Regions, Mobei, Xingzhou, and then focused on Yangzhou, and finally slowly promoted the strategy to the whole country. The new regulations of Hanfu were announced nationwide in advance, but it did not propose that Hanfu must be worn during sacrifices. Such a major reform requires time to slowly transition, and people must first get used to wearing simple clothing.

Although the simple clothes currently advocated by the Han Dynasty still maintain part of the traditional Hanfu, the simple, neat and light style reflects the characteristics of descendants' clothing. Overall, it is lighter and suitable for urban life with a speed-up rhythm. It is relatively smoothly promoted in southern and coastal cities. It has caused quite a lot of debate among officials at various levels such as Jingzhou and Xiangyang. There are dozens of letters of confession and Liu Xie directly blocked into the cabinet every day. He doesn't even look at it.

Liu Xie believes that the successful promotion of simple service will have a very significant impact on the Han Empire. It will effectively increase the convenience of Han people's adventures and help improve the adventurous spirit of Han people. Especially after softening and tanning, the comfort level of leather has been greatly improved. The use of leather has also improved the living standards of northern herdsmen. A large number of leather provided by major northern ranches continue to pour into the Central Plains, and after processing and dyeing, it becomes the main lichen material. Of course, the relative price is also high, and ordinary people in the empire still tend to buy cotton robes.

Liu Xie himself first chose to wear simple clothes and personally sent a letter to major trading companies to promote simple clothes. Relying on the power of Jingshan Foundation, he used ready-made clothes to reduce the price of simple clothes and promoted them to the people. While promoting simple clothes, he called for the establishment of a sports empire.

In terms of reform of armor, with the development of the military preparations of the Han Empire, the selection and manufacturing technology of armor were becoming more and more sophisticated, and forging technology and steel smelting technology were also rising. Now the mainstream smelting technology in the Han Dynasty was to stir-fry three times in coking coal furnace, and the temperature was controlled relatively high. Generally, the first furnace came out of pig iron, which entered the second furnace to stir-fry in the semi-liquid state, and then came out of cooked iron. The third furnace came out basically steel forging. This kind of continuous stir-frying was first produced from Wuwei, Jingzhou, and requires a large amount of coal (coking coal), otherwise the temperature would not be reached. At the same time, the blowing equipment was also large, and it was impossible for humans to pull it. Generally, water drain blowing was used, and the blowing skin was about four times larger than the usual ones.

This kind of steel is called Jingzhou Steel. It is widely promoted in Shu, Liang, Yong, Jing, Yu and other prefectures. Nanjing Steel, represented by Nanjing, Pengcheng and Jinan, is different from it. Nanjing Steel uses the pouring method based on steel frying, that is, the so-called pouring steel, which has a lower cost and the quality of production can be used.

Nanjing Steel and Jingzhou Steel are two directions of the smelting process in the Han Dynasty. The Ministry of Works and the Military Academy did not intervene too much. However, in general judgment, it is believed that Nanjing Steel is suitable for the production of knives and agricultural tools, and Jingzhou Steel is suitable for the production of armor and horse armor.

The advantages of Nanjing steel are low costs and fast production speed, which greatly reduces the price of agricultural tools. The advantages of Jingzhou steel are that it can be made into steel forged in large quantities and sold in a unified manner, and can be further refined and processed in one step. It can form better quality knives, and small workshops in various places tend to use Jingzhou steel.

Based on the two types of steel, each armament trading company has unified Jingzhou Steel, while the main trading companies that produce agricultural tools mostly use the Nanjing steel production process to directly water the agricultural tools.

Based on the improvement of the quality of Jingzhou steel quality than before, the military trading company designed a large number of new armors based on the buckle scale armor, mainly dragon scale armor, fish scale armor, wide scale armor, fine scale armor, and the uniform direction of progress is the thickness of the armor. It is thinner and tougher, and the scales are no longer a single oval, but are derived from four new lands, including rectangles, prisms, thin strips and wide sides.

With Liu Xie's request for military authority, the style of the armor began to become exquisite, and a large number of tiger heads, eagles, long snakes, and bear carvings were integrated into the armor. Liu Xie set a basic rule for this. Infantry armor was decorated with tiger heads, cavalry armor was decorated with eagles and falcons, and the navy armor used a more majestic rhino headdress, and not water snake carvings. The main reason was that Liu Xie had a strong sense of fear of snakes since he was a child. And it was not as simple as ordinary fears. He shivered all over when he saw the carvings.

The addition of unity is that the two shoulders of the armor must be carved with Tai Chi patterns, leaving a place to hang medals on the right chest.

In the military equipment, the military robe and two types of military uniforms are added, four types of military uniforms, independent navy, infantry, cavalry, and engineering army, military robe and armor are added, and the three types of Eastern, Spring and Autumn and Summer are added. The heavy cavalry armor adopts a full armor design.

The long-patterned dragon scale armor, wide-patterned fish scale armor, fine-patterned fish scale armor, heavy-patterned tiger armor, light-patterned eagle feather armor and cow scale armor, and thick leather armor are used as six unified types of armor. They are uniformly made of Jingzhou steel, heavy swords, round tiger pattern shield, round rhino pattern shield, eagle falcon carved small shield, eagle falcon carved horse sabre, tiger pattern nail hammer, tiger pattern double-edged axe, Xiangyang dagger, Jingzhou strong crossbow, Xiangyang crossbow, Xinye strong bow and other sixty-two items are listed as standard military weapons.

Especially with the increase of the southern navy and the increase in the use of troops to the south, the western-patterned fish scale armor also began to increase the customization volume. This fish scale armor is based on Roman armor, mainly focusing on the protection of the shoulders and upper body. It adopts skirt armor design, ankles and knees with leather protection, and short horse boots adopt exposed toes to increase breathability. It uses a dagger and a round rhino-patterned shield, paired with Jingzhou crossbow, and the helmet adopts a Roman-style full protection style.

The most popular military manufacturing of the Han army from the Roman army was in helmet design. At present, except for Rangers, all armies generally use Roman-style full-protective helmets.

Various scales have also begun to move towards the half-armor and half-scale design idea. Steel armor is used for inactive places such as chest, legs, arms, and regular prism scales are used for joints, abdomen and other moving positions. The unified army has a stronger majestic temperament after marching, which perfectly reflects the deterrent power that a military empire should have.

As the main war equipment and the main war weapon of the navy, the Shenyuan carriage was also required to be further modified. The design of the Shenyuan iron arrow was recognized by Liu Xie, and the new subway arrow was heavier and sharper than the traditional iron bomb. When it was close to each other, it could directly penetrate the hull and enter the enemy ship to burn inside. It was specially designed for the navy.

The Jiangdong main warship, which the empire had been preparing for a long time, began to equip various navy forces on a large scale. With the six trading companies of Jiangdong Ship, Jingzhou Ship and Yellow River Ship also began to take orders through Jiangdong Ship, but most of the profits were detained by Jiangdong Ship, which also taught the two trading companies that they had to spend a lot of effort to design new ships themselves.

Not long after, the Yellow River Arms Trading Company concentrated 1.6 billion yuan and directly chose to open the latest ship manufacturing branch in Antai Port. It has more than 60,000 civil servants and more than 4,000 hired workers. It is the largest ship manufacturing company in the Han Empire.

Jiangdong Ship and Jingzhou Ship, a subsidiary of the Wuwei Armature Trading Company of Jingzhou, are naturally unwilling to lag behind. They each chose strongholds along the coast to establish new branches to further expand the advantages of ship manufacturing.

The three companies have also begun to change from paying money to their own ships in the empire, and have each built new warships and merchant ships in response to the ship needs proposed by the Armed Services Institute in the next ten years.

The army of the Han Empire also began to move from the early various messy design styles to the direction of combining the traditional style of the Han Dynasty and the Roman style. The arms adopted by various arms are becoming more and more professional and detailed. Of course, this change requires a large amount of solid military manufacturing and also requires a large amount of military spending as a support.

The popularity of new-style arms has led to large-scale arms replacements, and the replacement products have been absorbed by local garrisons and reserve troops, which has comprehensively improved the military strength of the entire Han Empire at all levels.

With the end of the civil war and the empire began to fight abroad, the empire's army naturally had to use the meritorious system to improve its combat effectiveness. In the past, it used to be rewarded with money, but now the empire is more mature and foreign wars have also begun to increase. Liu Xie formally drafted the "Stolen War Management Law", which stipulates that in foreign wars, in addition to the cultural relics, materials, and historical materials that must be paid by the state, it is legal income, but the income that needs to be paid becomes personal war income tax.

After each battle, the general is responsible for coordinating the property obtained. Based on the total national income, the general and generals at all levels can again receive 30% of the national income as a reward.

The third-level medal of Venus, Silver Star and Bronze Star are specially formulated based on the military merits of soldiers. Among the Venus Star Medals, the Han Empire Medal, the Han Empire Emperor Medal, and the Han Empire Commander Medal were specially selected.
Chapter completed!