The first thousand two hundred and seventy-ninth chapters: Song Wanzi, a woman in the workplace
Although the Marriage Committee has given these Fuso women great freedom of choice, there are not many women who plan to be independent like Song Wanzi, really not many.
Among the more than 1,500 women who arrived at the port of Busan, more than 1,000 women went directly on a blind date. They basically found a Tang man at random and married themselves off. Some even married him.
They serve as lovers, and some even serve as maids.
It's up to them how they choose here. Anyway, there is no threshold for blind dates organized by the government. There is only one requirement, and that is that the man who signs up for the blind date needs to pay the Fuso woman's boat ticket.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty men who come to participate in blind dates are more complicated. Some are really looking for wives, but most of them are men from poor families. These people can't even pay the boat ticket directly. The money is basically needed
Payable in installments.
And some of them plan to come to the outer chamber, or even to find maids, and it goes without saying that most of these people are rich people.
Fusang women are not stupid. If the other party is a pauper, they are not willing to be a concubine or a maid.
The blind date conference is officially guaranteed and absolutely free!
Both parties are free to choose, and the rich cannot force it!
However, in fact, there is another thing that happens, that is, some people are more flexible and directly find a rich person to be their outhouse. After asking the rich person to pay for the ferry ticket, they run away within a few days.
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And in this kind of thing, some rich people can only suffer a dumb loss!
Outhouses, maids, etc. are not protected by the law. At the same time, the laws of the Tang Dynasty absolutely guarantee personal freedom. These Fusang women have all registered as household registrations. They are proper subjects of the empire and are protected by the law.
In short, there are various situations,
Human nature is inherently complex, and Fuso women are no exception.
But generally speaking, as long as the man does not go too far, many Fusang women are still happy to rely on their husbands in Datang.
There is no way, they are alone in a strange place. Even if the marriage committee will arrange preliminary work for them, it is not that easy if they want to live. The easiest solution is to directly find a man from the Tang Dynasty to marry.
Even the more than 400 Fusang women who were reluctant to go on blind dates at the beginning actually started participating in blind dates or through other channels after being sent to work in textile factories, trying to get themselves married as soon as possible!
There are still very few women like Song Wanzi who pursue freedom and are unwilling to marry off casually, whether in Fusang or in the Tang Empire!
It's just that these Fusang women who are looking for someone while working are not like the previous Fusang women who just married whoever they wanted.
Relatively speaking, they have to be more cautious and choose a husband while working!
But in the end, they still hope to find a husband!
Because working in this textile factory is really hard, and the salary is not high. If they continue to work like this, they will have to work day and night for several years to be able to pay off such a ship ticket debt.
As for escaping debt, it is more difficult!
In order to ensure that the ship ticket debt was not maliciously defaulted, the marriage committee's funds were wasted and fell into a vicious capital cycle. The marriage committee signed work contracts with them in advance and also withheld their household registration certificates.
Unless someone guarantees them or helps them repay their debts, they will need to be dispatched to textile factories and other factories suitable for women, and then deduct a certain amount of salary from their wages every month to repay the ship.
bill debt.
After all, the funds of the Marriage Committee are also limited. Transporting two thousand people at one time costs a lot of money. Although they are not trying to make money, the transportation costs must be recovered.
In addition, the Marriage Committee also accepted the advice of relevant financial experts. They would not wait foolishly for a few years to recover these funds, but directly used the relevant debt proceeds as a bond and applied for a loan from the Royal Bank.
This kind of business, which is a guaranteed profit without loss, is also a policy matter, so the Royal Bank naturally approves it.
In order to get rid of the hard work in the textile factory as soon as possible, and also for the sake of their own future in the second half of their lives, many Fuso women began to actively participate in blind dates, hoping to find a husband as soon as possible.
However, none of this has anything to do with Song Wanzi!
Although she also worked, she was literate as she was born in a daimyo family, and she followed her father to and from the business district many times. She was very knowledgeable. After she was sent to work in a small textile factory in Busan, she was appointed as the team leader on the spot because of her literacy.
Weaving with a dozen Fuso women.
Just one week later, she became a workshop supervisor managing several groups of female workers, and her salary increased significantly.
According to her salary, she only needs to work for half a year to pay off all her debts!
However, there are very few Fuso women who can be like her. Let alone Fuso women, there are not many women in the empire who can do this.
Just being literate here is enough to keep out 99% of women.
In the empire, even though the empire vigorously develops education, especially primary education, it has to be admitted that the majority of those who can receive education these days, especially formal education, are mainly men. Currently, there are no
An official or private school that publicly declares that it accepts female students.
Therefore, if women want to receive education, they can only receive family education, and those who can do this are usually from gentry families.
It is impossible for poor families to do this. Let alone private family education, even if the school allows female students to be admitted, poor families will not send girls to school.
Why?
No money!
Studying is not cheap these days. If an ordinary peasant family wants to support a scholar to attend primary school at their own expense, they have to grit their teeth.
This ordinary peasant family still refers to a peasant family that has its own fields and houses and can maintain basic food and clothing. As for the children of peasant families who cannot even provide food and clothing, don't expect to receive education. They are the only ones who can obtain education and even the opportunity to get ahead.
The way is to join the army.
During their service, soldiers can attend literacy classes within the military and be able to read and write. After retirement, they can be assigned to work within the system or in factories.
This is enough to change the fate of a poor child or even an entire family!
If this were not the case, otherwise do you think why poor children all over the country are eager to sign up to join the army?
An ordinary peasant family has to struggle to support a scholar, and this is basically limited to primary school. If you are lucky enough to be admitted to middle school, the tuition fees for middle school are beyond the support of any ordinary peasant family, and you basically need to rely on the support of relatives and friends.
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As for the higher preparatory courses, ordinary middle-class families will find it very difficult.
Not to mention university, the annual tuition is a few hundred taels of silver, and the tuition fee in four years is more than a thousand taels of silver, which is enough to put most ordinary middle-class families into debt!
Some decent gentry in the eyes of ordinary people often start preparing tuition fees many years in advance for the education of their descendants to ensure that their children can successfully complete their studies!
Of course, the above is only for self-funded students!
If your academic performance is good enough and you can get a scholarship, you can go from elementary school all the way to university without spending a dime. Not only does it cost no money, but the scholarship can also allow students to meet their own tuition and daily expenses.
Can subsidize the family.
With good academic performance, not only can you go to school for free, but you can also subsidize your family!
If you not only have good academic performance, but are also a real genius, then you can try to apply for the Royal Institute of Technology. Once you get in, you will be an official!
The education of the Tang Dynasty is now heavily geared towards all kinds of geniuses, followed by education that satisfies the upper class of society, and then the middle class. As for ordinary people, it has never been the target of education in the Tang Dynasty.
In this environment, it is actually more difficult for women to obtain education.
Only some daughters from gentry families were able to obtain family education, and in Fusang, it was even worse, as many famous women found it difficult to receive education.
Song Maruko's family's territory is close to the Osaka business district, and her father is relatively liberal. When he hires a tutor to educate his son, he also allows his daughter to observe and receive education.
By the way, the education Song Wanzi received was the most orthodox Chinese education. He can write Chinese quite fluently, and he can even speak it to some extent, but he is not very proficient.
Fuso is greatly influenced by Chinese culture. Basically, the upper class of society uses Chinese characters to write and communicate, and the influence has become even greater in recent years.
Song Wanzi relied on her literacy advantage to work in a small textile factory in Busan. However, she did not want to be confined to this remote small city. She urgently wanted to leave here and go to the many places where rumors spread.
Visit Jiangnan, especially Shanghai and Jinling.
Although she is a little woman and looks extremely weak, her inner pursuit is more than that of many men.
In order to pay off the debt as soon as possible and leave the textile factory, Song Wanzi worked very hard. In addition to receiving a high salary, he also received a bonus.
The management of the factory also discovered a special talent like Song Wanzi. Her Fuso origin, coupled with the unintentional revelation that she was the daughter of a daimyo, gave her great prestige among the female Fuso workers.
The reason why this factory opened here was because it reached a cooperation agreement with the Marriage Committee and tried to use a large number of cheap Fuso female workers to reduce costs. Therefore, it also attached great importance to Song Wanzi, who had great prestige among Fuso female workers.
As for Song Wanzi being a woman, they simply ignored it!
As a qualified capitalist, in order to make money, they can instantly change from the most serious conservative to an enlightened person who supports women's rights.
After only working in this textile factory for two months, Song Wanzi was promoted for the third time by relying on his talents and managing a group of Fuso female workers properly.
She quickly became the production manager of this textile factory, assisting the management in managing the female Fuso workers in the factory.
She has become a rare working woman in this era!
But at this time, she was no longer satisfied with the little Busan!
She desperately wants to go to a big city to pursue her life!