Like Han Xiuniang, there are many women whose family status has been improved.
Tradition is difficult to change, but where there are advantages, there are no disadvantages.
One more labor force means one more income. With this income, it is a dish on the table, new clothes at the end of the year, and a new house in a few years.
Simple people actually see it very clearly.
Especially in the Jiangnan area, even if there was no Red Scarf Army uprising, order still existed. Huang Daopo decades ago still led the women to grow cotton, weave cotton cloth, and embark on the road to prosperity.
Today, the Zhu Jiajun side has lifted restrictions from the law and can go to school, work, and even become an official!
This is very important. In the past, women went out to work in workshops. If something bad happened, how would they deal with it? Don’t think that people sympathize with the weak. In fact, many people would jump out and say that women don’t follow the rules of women, so why don’t they grow old?
Really staying at home?
If you go out to work and show your face, you are not a serious person. If you encounter misfortune, you deserve it!
Is it weird?
It seems that until a few hundred years later in a magical country, when a woman was rudely offended, it was still the woman who was wrong.
To sum it up, isn’t it still that women are not given property rights and are not treated as human beings?
Therefore, before the basic principles are established, pushing women into the workplace to create more wealth will often backfire and achieve the opposite result.
Parents are afraid to let their daughters go out, and husbands are worried about their wives entering the workshop... No matter how much income you have, it cannot make up for the lack of safety...
But when the new law was announced, women's situation became much better. At least the court's attitude was clear... If a woman encounters any problem while working outside, the yamen will definitely make the decision to redress her grievances.
With this attitude, thousands of women came out.
When tens of thousands of Zhu Jiajun put on the mandarin duck war coats made by female workers, most of them will be inclined to let women come out to do things...
Zhang Ximeng believes that he has made a good start. He is not sure how far he will eventually develop, but now that he has taken this step, he is unlikely to stop.
It will always get better and better.
Zhang Ximeng told himself this, but he didn't expect that some things don't need to wait too long, and can indeed have immediate results.
Zhu Yuanzhang mobilized 65,000 people this time, starting from Jinling and heading straight to Hongdu.
The navy was still the weak point of the Zhu Jiajun, so Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Ximeng just asked Yu Tonghai and Liao Yongzhong to hold on to the existing front.
If you want to achieve results, it depends on the army.
This group of troops came out and headed towards Lishui first, then Xuancheng, Shexian, then Xiuning, Qimen, and then Fuliang Prefecture. Maybe everyone has no impression of Fuliang Prefecture, but Fuliang Prefecture
There is a town down there that most people will have heard of. It’s called Jingdezhen!
Zhang Ximeng has a special liking for this town.
"Mr. Fenglin, you are very knowledgeable, but do you know how much money Jingdezhen can make every year?"
Zhu Sheng laughed and said, "Mr. Zhang, this is not a problem for me. To be honest, I have a friend named Shen Xiu. He died a few years ago. Otherwise, if you invite him over, you will definitely be able to discuss money with Prime Minister Zhang."
road."
Zhang Ximeng was startled, and then said: "Is this Shen Xiu called Shen Wansan?"
Zhu Sheng smiled and said: "Indeed, some people call him that. In the early years, the Shen family worked hard to cultivate the fields and could only be regarded as a middle-class family. But Shen Xiu was good at management. In the early years, he went to sea with tea and silk, and every time he came from abroad When he came back, he could earn tens of thousands of taels of silver. He told me that if a ship of porcelain was sent out, half a ship of silver and half a ship of spices would come back, and half a ship of spices could be exchanged for three ships of porcelain. The benefits were so great that it made people Jaw-dropping!"
Seeing that they were chatting happily, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but said: "This Shen Xiu has been overseas. If he were alive, we would really like to invite him over and have a good chat."
Zhang Ximeng just rolled his eyelids and said to himself, you better stop speculating, otherwise you will take the blame again.
I believe many people have heard that Shen Wansan built the Nanjing city wall, but was jealous of Zhu Yuanzhang and almost lost his head. It was Empress Ma who came forward to persuade Shen Wansan to save Shen Wansan's head. Later, the Shen family still did not escape Zhu Yuanzhang. Poisonous hands, under constant attacks, the Shen family fell, Shen Wansan was sent to Yunnan, and died!
This story spread so widely that many people believed it to be true.
Moreover, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, it was also written openly in the biography of Empress Ma. Official history says so, so it can’t be wrong, right?
But the problem is that according to the Wujiang County Chronicle, it is clearly written that when Zhang Shicheng occupied Suzhou, Shen Wansan died, and his two sons helped Zhang Shicheng, a loyal minister of the Yuan Dynasty, to transport grain to Dadu.
Since Shen Wansan died long before Zhang Shicheng occupied Suzhou, it is impossible for him to help Lao Zhu build the city wall and be killed by Zhu Yuanzhang no matter what.
There is a conflict between the county annals and the official history, which one should be believed?
In fact, this is not difficult. As long as you have a little common sense, you can figure out that repairing Yingtian's city wall is an important part of the capital and the foundation of Lao Zhu's family.
Will it be left to a businessman?
And can building a city wall be done if you have money?
Such a large project would require almost all the efforts of the country, recruiting hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of civilians, and the bricks and stones used in the city walls would have to be specially fired locally.
Countless officials from the Ministry of Industry to local governments have poured their efforts into the city walls. If something goes wrong, heads will roll and blood will flow like rivers.
At this time, a businessman came forward and said that I was rich and could build city walls, and could do a better job than the yamen at all levels... If you don't believe me, let me try!
Then the king of the country agreed, and the government offices at all levels had nothing to say, so he actually built one-third of the capital city wall!
This kind of jokes is almost the same as the level of unfashionable jokes used in teahouse chats.
But if this is the case, why is it written into official history?
This brings up another very interesting thing. Is the history of the Ming Dynasty well studied?
It seems good, after all, most of the mainstream academic circles praise Ming history.
But there are also a group of people who do not overestimate their capabilities and think that the history of the Ming Dynasty was poorly compiled. This does not mean that the history of the Ming Dynasty has blackmailed the old Zhu family and compiled the history of the previous dynasty. Who can say anything good about it?
The problem is that the history of the Ming Dynasty is very dark.
Just like Shen Wansan, it is obviously a folk legend. Even the local county records found it to be false and no one believed it.
But those who compiled the history of the Ming Dynasty wrote it in a grand manner.
There are countless examples like this.
It took more than a hundred years of studying the history of the Ming Dynasty to produce something like this. You are right to say that the people who compiled history are evil-minded... but the level is so low, they are both good and fun-loving, and it is really speechless. .
Zhu Sheng talked eloquently. He really knew Shen Wansan quite well. This man made his fortune by doing overseas trade. Among them, Jingdezhen porcelain accounted for 30% of his income, and he earned 50,000 taels every year.
After Shen Wansan made money, he used some of it to help Zhu Sheng run the school.
Until a few years ago, when Shen Wansan passed away, there was no interaction with Lao Zhufu.
Zhu Yuanzhang belonged to the army of cooks and took the blame.
"According to my rough estimate, Jingdezhen's overseas business alone makes a profit of three to five million taels a year. If domestic business is included, the profit is really huge."
Zhang Ximeng asked: "Mr. Fenglin, do you think there are female workers in this porcelain workshop in Jingdezhen?"
"How could it be!"
Zhu Sheng couldn't help but shook his head, "Xiang Zhang, you are confused. The craft of porcelain making is a family's job. It is passed down from generation to generation. It has always been passed down from male to female. How can there be female workers?"
Zhang Ximeng still refused to give up, "Even if the key porcelain firing techniques are not taught, female workers can always do those simple paintings, right?"
Zhu Sheng muttered: "Of course it can be done, but I'm afraid no one is willing yet... I mean, Mr. Zhang, why do you keep staring at the female worker? You don't want to get married, do you? Haha!"
Zhang Ximeng gave the old man a hard look and said, "Mr. Fenglin, do you really not understand? Just like tea picking, weaving, and porcelain making, women can be responsible for most of the crafts, and men must use them. Not many. For example, there are three men in a family, all working in a porcelain workshop. They work hard to support a large family. But if women can enter the workshop and take over the men's work, the men can By joining the army, you can become a civilian, and the number of troops we can mobilize can even double!"
"Mr. Fenglin, you have understood the secrets of heaven and asked the lord to build high walls, accumulate food, and slowly become king... Why didn't you think that if women were allowed to enter all walks of life, our one million people would be worth the entire world? 1.5 million people, two million people! We only have one province's territory, which can be equal to their two provinces. This is a matter of doubling the force! Maybe we can win on this, you say How can I relax?”
"this……"
Zhu Sheng was speechless. The old man thought about it silently and realized that this was really the case!
Zhu Yuanzhang's territory was not very good, and he was in a place of four battles.
Neither the population nor the territory can compare with Tianwan. He also formulated the nine-character strategy based on the actual situation. However, if the power of women can be brought into play, more young men can join the army, and the shortcomings of the Zhu family army can be made up for. ...Now the Zhu Jiajun is fighting on two fronts. The troops are already insufficient, and they have to be divided into two sides. The pressure is really high.
As a result, there is a way out there that can greatly increase the number of troops. Can you refuse?
Zhu Sheng was speechless, "Xiang Zhang, why didn't you say this truth when you were in Yingtian?"
Zhang Ximeng chuckled, "It's not too late for me to tell you now! Could it be that Mr. Fenglin hasn't felt this march all the way?"
What do you feel?
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"Master, you can go and go. I can do all the work in the fields! Mr. Wu Guogong has been kind to us. Now we are going to war. We don't need us to charge into the battle. We are just transporting military rations. How can we still complain? Father, mother, and children, I can take care of you too."
The man lowered his head and said, "I know, you should be more careful at home."
The woman agreed vigorously, then stretched out her hand to help her husband push the cart, and escorted him out of the house and onto the road... One after another, the peasants gathered into a long and continuous queue.
The population of Fuliang Prefecture was less than 100,000, but nearly 30,000 civilians suddenly came out to send Zhu's army to the front line of Hongdu.