I became emperor in the Tang Dynasty by relying on the palace fighting system

It was her first time speaking in front of so many people and Ruyi was a little nervous.

She clenched her fists and secretly encouraged herself: Ruyi, you must not let Xuan Zun down!

Don’t be afraid. When you become a female official in the future, you will have to speak in public many times. Just consider it as advance training.

Ruyi cleared her throat, unfolded the book and said, "According to the national policy formulated by Her Majesty the Queen, the military merit rewards and punishments for female soldiers are the same as those for male soldiers."

"There is just one thing. The title of female soldier can only be inherited by daughters. Daughters take their mother's surname, while sons take their father's surname."

There was a commotion below. The men were dumbfounded and the women were also extremely surprised.

Children have always taken their father's surname, so why should they take their mother's surname?

The men started shouting, "Why should you take a woman's last name?"

Ruyi choked: "A woman has to go through ten months of pregnancy and even go through the gates of hell before giving birth!"

A middle-aged woman in the crowd sneered, "That's right! What's wrong with that! It's not okay to let the son take the father's surname? Don't you just want a son?"

Another woman said, "You men have enjoyed yourself in bed for a while. You don't have to go through ten months of pregnancy or risk giving birth. You just easily get a son who takes your father's surname. Aren't you satisfied?"

"What's the big deal about our daughters taking their mother's surname?"

Is this what matters?!

The men are going crazy, what matters is that the woman takes her mother's surname and inherits the title!

The men continued to question, “Why is it the daughter, Seung-hoon?”

Ruyi glared at them and said, "What's wrong with giving the father's lordship to the son and the mother's lordship to the daughter?"

"If there are three sons in a military household, and the mother has a military honor, the father has a military honor, and both sons have inherited the honor, who will perform the corvée after the family is divided?"

"Performing labor is to show loyalty to the country. Don't you want to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty?" Ruyi's words were full of daggers.

The men hurriedly denied: "We didn't mean that!"

When Wu Meiniang persuaded Li Zhi and his ministers, she used the reason of Ruyi.

The right to pass on a surname is even easier, because those who join the army are all daughters of military households. They have their own mother and father, and are not children born to their parents-in-law. Chengxun's daughter must take her mother's surname!

After all, only a small number of women could achieve great things, so Li Zhi and his ministers agreed.

Ruyi said with contempt: "A good man has ambitions. Of course he has to go out and make a career on his own."

"Giving the merit to a man, wouldn't that kill his ambition?"

Ruyi's words made sense. Li Zhao also released three [Happy Face Puppets] into the crowd and manipulated them to speak in a weird way:

"Why would a good man want to sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor? Men should be independent."

"How can a man just sit back and enjoy the good deeds of his mother and father?"

"If you don't fight on the battlefield and make achievements yourself, what kind of man are you?"

The men were choked and speechless.

Ruyi continued to flip through the book: "If Chengxun's daughter is still married, whether she is unmarried or finds a son-in-law, the whole family can enjoy the benefits of being an honorary official."

"If she is married, her mother's family and her children will enjoy the benefits, and it has nothing to do with her husband's family."

"You don't want to work hard to raise a daughter, and then win military merit, but not let your family benefit, and instead give the benefits to your son-in-law's family, right?"

Most people nod their heads like chicks pecking at rice, this is the truth.

Someone was dissatisfied and said, "What if a married woman gets military merit? Doesn't her husband's family get any benefits at all?"

Ruyi frowned: "Didn't I say that the children of female soldiers will enjoy benefits? If the child your wife gave birth to benefits for you, doesn't that mean your descendants will benefit as well?"

The man had no choice but to shut up.

Li Zhao wanted women to have power, but she could not ignore all the differences between men and women and ignore the historical background of the Tang Dynasty.

This was the policy she and Wu Meiniang decided after repeated consideration.

Ruyi then talked about the allocation of campsites: "There is a difference between men and women, and the campsites are separate."

"In the military camp, we are all comrades. Male soldiers are not allowed to harass female soldiers, and superiors are not allowed to harass subordinates. Anyone who violates this rule will be castrated!"

Li Zhao: Castration warning, let’s see which horny bastard dares to do it.

All the male soldiers shuddered and clamped their legs together at the same time.

The female soldiers breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. The Tang Dynasty’s military orders were as strong as a mountain, and their safety was finally guaranteed.

Ruyi turned a page in the booklet in her hand and said, "Some women are not as physically strong as men and have their periods every month, so Her Majesty the Queen carefully considered and set up menstrual leave for female soldiers."

"Female soldiers will be selected in the military camp and divided into three female soldier camps - the Women's Group, the Heavenly Doctor Group, and the Rakshasa Group."

"The Women's Corps is composed of ordinary soldiers, and the Rakshasa Corps is composed of elite soldiers. Female soldiers who have their periods will go to the Heavenly Doctor Corps to help take care of the wounded and learn about herbal medicine. They will return to the team after their periods are over."

"The military supplies for female and male soldiers also include a menstrual belt."

Taking into account the physiological differences between men and women, Li Zhao set up menstrual leave, and Wu Meiniang formally proposed the policy of female doctors in military camps.

After hearing this, the female soldiers were completely relieved.

They sincerely praised Wu Meiniang: "Long live Her Majesty! You are so considerate of us women! Thank you, Her Majesty!"

Another meritorious person, Li Zhao, smiled faintly, hiding his merit and fame.

As he was speaking, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd. A tall and thin girl in pink pushed through the crowd, ran to the front of the stage, and knelt down!

"Xuanzun, I would like to join the army and fight against Goguryeo!"

Behind her, a burly middle-aged man in red clothes and walking with a cane, surrounded by a woman in blue clothes and maids, limped and hurriedly caught up with her: "What nonsense are you talking about, you little girl! I won't let you go!"

They were well-dressed and obviously came from a wealthy family.

Li Zhao took a look at the limping man and thought that he was a soldier who had injured his leg on the battlefield.

The man in red walked to the front of the stage and knelt down as well: "Xuan Zun, please ignore this girl's nonsense. Her brother has already gone to join the war, so there is no need for her to go."

The girl in pink said, "I don't have a brother. I am the only child in the family."

Everyone raised their eyebrows. Oh, it turns out that he had to pay money to do the military service instead.

The man in red looked stern and shouted at her, "Children, don't interrupt when adults are talking!"

The pink-dressed girl raised her head, her eyes clear and firm: "Xuan Zun, I want to join the army."

The man in red and the woman in blue must be her mother and father, and they were shaking with anger.

Her mother even raised her hand and slapped her in public: "Shut up! With your small body, you will only die if you go to the battlefield!"

There was a crisp sound, and it hurt the bystanders.

The girl in pink knelt straight and repeated, "I want to join the army. This is my dream."

The man in red burst into tears: "Have you ever thought about what would happen to your mother and I if you were gone?"

The pink-dressed girl said, "If I don't go, what will happen to the boy who took my money? Does he deserve to die on the battlefield?"

The pink-dressed girl said, "Our family is a military household. We made our fortune by relying on the court's preferential treatment of the government soldiers. When His Majesty issues an order, it is our responsibility to join the army."

The man in red was about to say bullshit, but his daughter said, "Father, you can't go to the battlefield, but you taught me how to ride and shoot, and I don't want to waste my skills."

As she spoke, the pink-dressed lady bowed down to Li Zhao and said, "Aye paid to escape from the military service only because he loved me, his daughter, and was confused for a moment."

"I have come to join the army today and am willing to take the blame for my father. I hope that Xuanzun and the court will forgive my father and let the man who replaced me go home."

"Hahaha, good, good ambition!" Li Zhao laughed. He didn't expect to find such a good girl today.

"What's your name?"

After hearing this, the girl in pink knew that she was safe.

She looked up and said with a smile, "Mulan, my surname is Mu and my name is Lan."

Li Zhao looked amused: "The battlefield is very dangerous, do you still want to go?"

Mulan kowtowed again, his tone as firm as iron: "I am willing to buy a saddle and horse for you, and fight for you from now on."

"Good, what a good 'from now on I will conquer'!"

Li Zhao smiled and said, "If the emperor and empress have ordered me to join the army, I will be loyal. If my father makes a mistake, I will advise him, which is filial piety."

"I will pass on my order. Mulan is both loyal and filial. In order to commend him for his loyalty and filial piety, he will be promoted to Guoyi Colonel. When he has made meritorious contributions, he will be officially promoted!"

Next comes the pre-war training.

Such a big case in Qingzhou cannot be handled by one family or one official.

When recruiting female soldiers, the Yuan governor and some officials had some evil ideas.

To their subordinates, Qingzhou officials and those military households with both sons and daughters and who were slightly wealthier told them that for this recruitment, families with many sons and daughters had to recruit one son and one daughter, and those who did not want their daughters to go to the battlefield could pay money to avoid the disaster.

For wealthy families without daughters, the poor would be paid to find daughters from poor families and use their daughters' names as their real daughters.

For poor military families with sons and daughters or without sons, there are not so many requirements. Daughters must go.

After they had recruited all the female soldiers, they used the excuse of gender differences to secretly take the women away in batches and sell them to wealthy families.

When it was time to go to war, no one cared where the daughters of some lower-class people had gone.

In response, Qingzhou officials said that they did not recruit many female soldiers.

Anyway, there are tens of thousands of soldiers being recruited this time, and if there are dozens or hundreds of female soldiers missing, ordinary people won’t be able to notice the problem at all.

Unfortunately, they were unlucky and met Li Zhao.

As expected, the number of female soldiers abducted was not too large, only about three or four hundred, and they were quickly found.

Most of them became slaves of Qingzhou families, and a few fell into prostitution and entered brothels.

Because Li Zhao arrived early, apart from working hard for a few days and being intimidated and hungry for two days, he did not suffer any substantial harm.

Surprisingly, in addition to the female soldiers, there were also many slaves from aristocratic families who wanted to join the war and escape their slave status.

Among them was Zhang Xiaoxiao, a singing girl belonging to the Yuan governor.

Gongsun Li personally asked for their opinions, and most of them were willing to stay in the military camp, forming the first generation of the Heavenly Doctor Group, the Rakshasa Group, and the Women's Group.

enough.

All things are difficult at the beginning. Once you get started, the road ahead will be much easier.

As for other places where soldiers were recruited, Li Zhao personally used Wen Wang Jia and Zi Gu Tong Bao to divine, and did not find any such situation, so he let it go.

The subsequent handling of the Qingzhou family was handed over to the Li Dynasty.

Li Zhao also gave Lu Bicheng and He Xiangning a task and related information, to develop sanitary napkins while making paper.

Lu Bicheng is responsible for the coal and future fertilizer business, He Xiangning is responsible for the grain, oil, medicine and paper business. The start-up capital comes from Li Zhao's salary and is still in its infancy.

There was no progress in the grain and oil sectors, but in order to supply medicines to the army, He Xiangning's herbal medicine business was the first to pick up.

On the first day of training male and female soldiers, Li Zhaoshen mysteriously brought a batch of things over.

After unveiling the mystery of those things, the soldiers were instantly in an uproar.

What a good thing!