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After eating a delicious lunch, Wei Daya and Wei Mu went back to work in the factory.

Stepping on the spinning machine, Wei Daya basically has nothing against coming out to do work in her heart.

Even if there is no salary, as long as he can eat that kind of food every day, it is already like a paradise for Wei Daya who has not had much food since birth.

The work in the spinning mill is not too heavy, and they can rest for a quarter of an hour in the afternoon. On the first day of entering the field, during the rest time, a nun gathered them together and talked about the rules and regulations in the mill, and finally They said that because they had just started working in the factory, if they had difficulties at home, they could advance one month's wages in advance.

Hearing the news, Wei Daya discussed with Wei's mother. Although their old Wei's family was not in a bad situation, they still followed the trend and paid Wei Daya's first month's salary in advance.

On that day, Wei Daya and Wei's mother carried one or two half of the silver in their arms, because the old lady Wei was in charge of the money at home, so this was a large amount that the mother and daughter had never seen before. On the way home, they were very careful and pretended to be It looked very natural, and I didn't breathe a sigh of relief until I entered the house.

When Mrs. Wei saw the mother and daughter coming back, she came out immediately to greet them. She wanted to ask how the two were doing, but as soon as she came out, she saw the mother and daughter panting. They looked worried for a while, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Look, I thought the mother and daughter had caused some trouble.

Mrs. Wei just opened her mouth to scold, but Aunt Wei saw what Mrs. Wei was thinking, and directly took out the money in her arms, and handed it to Mrs. Wei.

Seeing the silver, Mrs. Wei's eyes turned green. She snatched the silver and bit each one with her teeth. After confirming that it was real, she carefully put the silver into her bosom. It got better a lot, and I asked what was going on.

Wei Daya explained the cause and effect clearly, and Mrs. Wei nodded appreciatively, thinking that Wei Daya and Wei's mother did a good job.

Pay Wei Daya's salary in advance, so that he won't look out of place with other people, and it will appear that the Wei family's conditions are good, food and clothing, etc., and it won't make others think that the old Wei family's conditions are poor and need A lot of money is like filling a hole.

Seeing Yinzi, Mrs. Wei's attitude towards the mother and daughter of the Wei family was much gentler than before.

Afterwards, as Wei's mother and Wei Daya brought back more and more money, Mrs. Wei treated them better than the two golden grandchildren and Wei Laosan of the old Wei family.

Not for anything else, just for these money that can support the family.

The eldest grandson of the old Wei family has always been the favorite of Mrs. Wei, and now seeing that Mrs. Wei treats Mrs. Wei better than herself, he is very dissatisfied, and makes trouble with Mrs. Wei.

But it's useless, Mrs. Wei has her own scale in her heart.

When Aunt Wei and Mother Wei couldn't make money, no matter how much work they did at home, Mrs. Wei felt that they were just eating rice and wasting food. He can support his family, so he has a good attitude towards his grandson.

But now Wei Daya and Wei's mother are the ones who can take money home, especially Wei Daya, who can bring back two taels of silver a month, and maybe more in the future. Madam Wei's treatment here is naturally not as good as the two of them.

Of course, that's only the case on the surface. In fact, in Madam Wei's heart, the grandson who can pass on the family line to the old Wei's family is more important.

What's more, what other members of the old Wei family don't know is that Mrs. Wei is still planning another thing for the sake of the two grandchildren of the Wei family——

Now Wei Daya's monthly salary has increased to two taels of silver, which is still only one month in the factory.Therefore, Mrs. Wei felt that if Wei Daya was given some more time, she might be able to earn five or seven or eight taels a month. For the wages, the old Wei's life is not bad.

But Wei Daya is old after all, and it will be easier to get married with this salary. If she really gets married, then the salary must belong to someone else, and Wei Laoniang is not reconciled.

Therefore, Mrs. Wei thought that there must be a way to keep Wei Daya at home, so that Wei Daya's wages in the future will also belong to the old Wei family.

Even, not only Wei Daya, if Erya and Sanya can make money in the future, Mrs. Wei wants to keep them all in the old Wei's house and let them earn money for the old Wei's house in the future.

Don't take advantage of the people next to you.

But the daughter in the family does not marry, and the reputation is not ordinary if it is said. I am afraid that it will be difficult to marry a daughter-in-law in the future, and more money will be added, so the old lady Wei is thinking about whether to let Wei Daya and the others set up a government in the future The so-called "female household".

Mrs. Wei has inquired that as long as a woman establishes a female household, she will be the head of the family in the future. At that time, she can choose to marry, or choose to recruit, or even never have a family for the rest of her life.

It’s definitely not going to work if you don’t have a family for a lifetime. Although Mrs. Wei doesn’t want to give up her family’s "labor force" to others, she can’t see her granddaughter will be old and homeless, and no one will care if she can’t do the work. In order to let Wei Daya set up a female household to recruit relatives.

Most of the men who can join their families are soft-headed, and there are also orphans without parents. They can't care about anything in the future. When the time comes, Wei Daya and the others' wages will still be in the hands of Wei Laoniang.

Of course, Mrs. Wei thinks that she is not cruel, and she will not make life difficult for her granddaughter's family. If her granddaughter's future child is named Wei, she will leave one or two of her monthly wages to her granddaughter's family. If the child takes the father's surname, After that, five dollars will be left every month to save people with foreign surnames.

However, Mrs. Wei felt that since she was a married woman, it was more likely to have her granddaughter's surname.

Oh, these granddaughters won't be born in vain by then!

Thinking of this, Mrs. Wei became more and more happy in her heart, and even began to think about the future things——

Even if Wei Daya can only be promoted to an intermediate worker in the future, that month will be three and a half taels of silver, leaving one tael to Wei Daya's family, and she can get two and a half taels, which is 18 taels a year, plus The wages of Mrs. Wei, Wei Erya and Wei Sanya...

Mrs. Wei felt that even if the two grandchildren gave birth to ten or eight great-grandchildren, their old Wei family would be able to support them now!

When Mrs. Wei was calculating, she never thought about whether Daya Wei and the others would agree to this kind of thing.

In other words, Mrs. Wei felt that she was sure that Daya Wei and the others would agree.

This is the sense of superiority that arose when we wasted Wei Daya and their mother and daughter casually in the past ten years, thinking that Wei's mother, Wei Daya, Wei Erya and Wei Sanya, four mothers and daughters, would definitely listen to him.

But it's a pity that Wei Daya today is no longer comparable to the past.

Wei Daya became an official junior worker after only one month in the factory, so she changed the place of work and entered another workshop, where she met Qi Ruolan who she had met when she first signed up.

Because the workstations were next to each other, Wei Daya quickly became acquainted with Qi Ruolan.

Qi Ruolan is different from any girl Wei Daya knows, she has a kind of light that Wei Daya yearns for very much.

From Qi Ruolan's mouth, Wei Daya learned something about Qi Ruolan——

Qi Ruolan's family is worse than the old Wei's family, and Qi Ruolan's biological mother died of dystocia when giving birth to her, so Qi's father hated Qi Ruolan to death, because Qi's mother was "bought by him at a big price to carry on the family line", and in the end he only gave birth to Qi Ruolan died as soon as she was a baby girl, so the deal was a loss.

Qi Ruolan's father never wanted to see Qi Ruolan since he was a child. If Qi Ruolan's grandma hadn't been kind, Qi Ruolan might have died long ago.

Later, when Qi Ruolan was five years old, Qi's father finally saved enough money again, remarried a daughter-in-law and came back, Qi Ruolan also had a stepmother.

Qi Ruolan's stepmother is bitter and mean, Qi Ruolan beats and scolds, Qi's father has always turned a blind eye to it, especially after the stepmother gave birth to a son, and after the stepmother's two sons grew up, they grew up with their two sons. mother school.

Although Qi Ruolan is not cowardly, her form is stronger than others, and she dare not act rashly, she can only endure it silently at home, and she dare not even take revenge secretly, because if something goes wrong in the family, it will definitely be vented on her.

At that time, Qi Ruolan thought that when she grew up, it would be good to marry someone, but she didn't want to, Qi Ruolan overheard her stepmother discussing with her father one day, and wanted to sell her to a fool to be his daughter-in-law. The younger brother will marry a wife later.

This made Qi Ruolan completely collapsed. She originally thought that if she married someone in the future, she would be able to change her destiny, but she didn't expect that since her stepmother and father Qi were so cruel, it didn't matter if they ruined her first half of her life, and planned to ruin the second half of her life for money. .

At that time, Qi Ruolan had the idea of ​​dying with her stepmother, Qi's father, and their two sons. After all, what's the point of her living like this?And it would be even more useless for her to leave by herself.

When Qi Ruolan was planning how to kill her family, news suddenly came out from the government that the holy concubine, who had descended to the earth as a goddess, had promulgated a "female household" and a series of policies to improve the status of women.

Qi Ruolan heard from those officials that if a woman establishes a female household, she will be able to be the head of her own family in the future, and the holy imperial concubine has also built some kind of factory so that women can work in it to support themselves.

After Qi Ruolan listened to what the official said, she felt that she had the hope of surviving, so she gave up her thoughts of dying with the Qi family.

Afterwards, Qi Ruolan went directly to the government office with her household registration and asked about the female household registration. Qi Ruolan gave herself a female household registration as soon as she gritted her teeth.

Seeing that it was Qi Ruolan who came by herself, the government figured out what was going on in Qi Ruolan's family, but the government didn't refuse, after all, there was a big radish hanging on Bai Qingyin's side, and the more women who voluntarily set up female households, the people in charge would be able to The more benefits they get, so they are happy to have someone like Qi Ruolan come.

Regardless of whether her family members agree or not, since I have come to set up a female household, it is okay!

The person in charge happily set up a female household for Qi Ruolan, and gave Qi Ruolan a "relocation fee", which was also paid by Bai Qingyin.

Moreover, after asking whether Qi Ruolan moved out of the Qi family, but did not have a place to live, he sent someone to help Qi Ruolan find a dental office to rent a house, help Qi Ruolan move, and even asked Qi Ruolan to trouble her if the Qi family set up a female household by herself in the future , then Qi Ruolan can go to the Yamen, and the Yamen will make the decision for her.

This made Qi Ruolan a little flattered.

Because she didn't have a mother when she was a child, Qi Ruolan didn't have her feet bound, so she set up a female household. After moving out of Qi's house, Qi Ruolan relied on her "natural feet" to go to the government to collect food, plus the rest of the rent. "Resettlement fee", Qi Ruolan's short-term life is not a problem.

After that, the Qi family came to the door, and her stepmother wanted to beat her. Now that Qi Ruolan has moved out of the Qi family, she naturally didn't want to be beaten and scolded by her stepmother, so she avoided it, and Qi Ruolan asked someone to find her in the Yamen. Yamen was worried that there would be no opportunity to "make meritorious service", so they rushed to arrest Qi Ruolan's stepmother as quickly as possible to set an example.

After Qi Ruolan settled the matter of the Qi family, she went to sign up for the spinning mill arranged by Concubine Shenghuang, after all, she couldn't just sit and eat.

When she arrived at the spinning mill, Qi Ruolan inquired with the supervisor, and felt that the spinning mill was really a job with "bright future".

Not only was it built by the government, but the wages are generous, and the holy concubine who descended from the goddess is still paying attention to this place. If this job is done well, it will fall into the eyes of the holy concubine...

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When Wei Daya heard Qi Ruolan say these things, Qi Ruolan could be said to admire her from the bottom of her heart.

Especially after hearing that Qi Ruolan was able to fall out with her family and set up a female household by herself.

Aunt Wei felt that this was something she would never be able to do in her entire life. No matter how bad Mrs. Wei treated her at the beginning, she didn't dare to resist Mrs. Wei at all.

Qi Ruolan didn't think there was anything wrong with what Wei Daya said, after all, everyone has their own ideas.

Qi Ruolan also felt that Wei Daya's kind of thinking is a normal person's thinking, and people like her are very few existences.

Qi Ruolan never thought of changing herself, nor did she think of changing other people.

But Wei Daya understood that although Qi Ruolan didn't try to persuade her, just listening to Qi Ruolan's description of how life has become after leaving the Qi family is enough to make Wei Daya's heart flutter.

Spinning mills go to work every day at the hour of the hour and end at the hour of the hour. Every seven days of work, there is one day off.

Compared with other jobs Wei's father has done, this job is already very easy, but Wei Daya will still feel a little tired after doing it for a long time.

But no matter how tired you are, you won't be able to rest directly when you go home. There is still a lot of work to do, especially on the day of rest.

But Qi Ruolan is different. She is paid two taels a month, and she is the only one in the house, so she only needs to cook breakfast and sweep the floor every day at home.

Qi Ruolan eats dinner at the neighbor's house, and gives the neighbor a bucket of rice and a penny every month, and the food is said to be very good.

On days off, she doesn’t need to do laundry, she just asks someone to do it for her. One wash only costs [-] cents, and Qi Ruolan still has a small amount of money left over every month, except for food, drink, and Lazard. I can still go out to the next restaurant and buy some jewelry.

But Wei Daya, both of them earn the same salary, she just can eat seventy percent full at home.

All the money was given to Mrs. Wei, and not even a penny was her own.

When she didn't know Qi Ruolan's life at first, Wei Daya compared her life with her own, and felt that it is like heaven now, but people are most afraid of comparison.

Now Wei Daya feels that her life is a bit aggrieved.

Although she was dissatisfied, Daya Wei was a coward, she couldn't be like Qi Ruolan, and she didn't even dare to bargain with Mrs. Wei, so she could only feel depressed in her heart.

But Wei Daya occasionally thinks, if he can also set up a female household in the future, what will his life be like?

Wei Daya still doesn't know that Mrs. Wei is thinking about letting her set up a female household at this time, and if she doesn't become tough in the future, even if she establishes a female household, she will not be able to get rid of Mrs. Wei, and most of the money she earns will be handed over to Mrs. Wei, I can only keep something for myself to chew on.

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Purple Bamboo Pavilion,

"The female household policy has been implemented for a month, and only five people came to set up female households, and four of them were established because there was only one girl in the family, to prevent relatives from being wiped out, and to facilitate future recruitment..." Bai Qingyin looked at the official's hands. The statistical report that came up sighed.

"This effect is really not ideal, but it is within my expectations."

Bai Qingyin also knows that there are various disadvantages in establishing a female household in ancient times.

Women were originally a disadvantaged group in ancient times, and it was not easy to become the head of the family even with her support.

Therefore, Bai Qingyin didn't expect that once the policy of setting up female households came out, how many people would flock to them, rushing to set up female households.

Even when the policy was just implemented, there was a Qi Ruolan who did not set up a female household because of her only daughter's family. It can be said that Bai Qingyin was very surprised!

"Your Majesty, don't be discouraged. The women and servants outside don't know about it, but many maids in the palace now say that after leaving the palace at the age of 25, they must set up a female household by themselves, so as not to be exploited by the family and make random appointments." Xia Mian comforted With a white tone.

Bai Qingyin smiled, "I'm not discouraged, after all, this kind of thing has been thought of for a long time, but I didn't expect the palace to respect female households so much."

Xia Mian smiled and said, "It's natural."

"The court ladies have to be 25 years old to leave the palace. By that time, they will already be old girls. They will either stay at home and be exploited. After all the money saved in the palace is taken out by the family members, they will be looked down upon in various ways, or even kicked out directly. In the family, if you choose to marry, you can only marry an old bachelor or a widower, maybe you will become a stepmother directly, and life will not be easy. That's why there are so many court ladies who don't want to leave the palace even if they comb themselves."

"Nowadays, the female household policy of the empress and the place where women do work can be said to make so many maids feel grateful to the empress. At least in the future, I can be the head of the family and have a place to do work to support myself without having to go out. The palace sees the faces of others come alive."

"How nice it is!"

"Yeah, that's great." Bai Qingyin smiled, feeling that what she did was very valuable.

Although not many women have been rescued from the sea of ​​suffering and their minds have been liberated, a group of women have already benefited, and that is enough.

"It's okay for the female household to slow down a little bit, but I didn't expect the factory to be full so soon, and there were even many people who signed up but were not recorded." Bai Qingyin turned to the next report, and felt that the benefits were indeed touching. .

At the beginning of the registration, half of the places were empty, but now that I saw the benefits, the [-] places were not enough.

"The minimum one-two-and-a-half silver for a month's work, before putting it aside, the servants are also excited." Xia Mian said with a smile.

You know, a salary that promises to be only 30 taels a year, let alone an ordinary court lady.

Before Xia Mian was promoted by Bai Qingyin, she only had three taels of silver and some material subsidies every year. Although she could get some rewards during the holidays, they were not many.

But Xia Mian wants to be filial to her aunt and give some to her family, so it is good to think about earning a living and earning more than one hundred and eighty Wen.

Bai Qingyin couldn't help smiling when she saw Xia Mian's little money fan.

Now Bai Qingyin feels more and more that she is right, and more and more that she should stand up.

This is for the good of the world!

After all, if Bai Qingyin backed down and made concessions to Kangxi, where would the result be now?

Four thousand women have employment opportunities, which also means that they now have a certain degree of voice at home, and the status gap between men and women has somewhat narrowed.

Although there are not many and not obvious now, Bai Qingyin believes that as long as she continues to work hard, in her lifetime, Daqing will become the same as the world she used to live in, where men and women have equal voice.

At least on the surface.

And if Bai Qingyin still has extra time, she will make this situation not only on the bright side.

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Qianqing Palace,

Kangxi has been reflecting on himself these days, and feels that he has indeed been messed up by Bai Qingyin, so he tries to calm down and think about how to "counterattack" Bai Qingyin.

In other words, there is no need to fight back against Bai Qingyin (after all, he has nothing to do with Bai Qingyin), but to think about how to "use" Bai Qingyin.

Kangxi felt that Bai Qingyin did everything for a purpose, but in conclusion, it was all to create a world that Bai Qingyin wanted.

What kind of world does Bai Qingyin want?

Bai Qingyin didn't reveal much, but Kangxi felt that it was probably a world where the status of women was improved and the common people lived and worked in peace.

In such a world, Kangxi felt that it was not a bad thing for Daqing.

Although Kangxi had a little prejudice against women's status because of Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, the matter was settled, and Kangxi did not intend to continue to confront Bai Qingyin.

Therefore, Kangxi is currently planning to use Bai Qingyin's desire to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, to create a strong Qing Dynasty in his ideal.

Although part of the credit will definitely go to Bai Qingyin, Kangxi feels that he can also snatch part of it for himself.

Moreover, Bai Qingyin is not a person who is good at playing with power, and he doesn't seem to care much about power, so Kangxi feels that as long as Bai Qingyin is coaxed so that she feels that she is not against her, the Qing Dynasty is still in his hands .

It's just that sometimes he feels a little aggrieved as the emperor, but the situation forces it...

Kangxi thought very well, but unfortunately he didn't know it, he thought it was too late.

In the past, when Bai Qingyin had no ambitions and only wanted to be a salted fish, she would naturally follow Kangxi's wishes.

But it's a pity that Bai Qingyin has now tasted the beauty of power and enjoyed power.

Rights are to people, but a poison that cannot be cured!