[Comprehensive Wear] It's hard to be a princess

The autumn is crisp and the wild geese are flying south. Horse-drawn carriages are heading out of the city along the concrete road that was just paved two years ago. The regulations of these carriages are obviously good. Gai, or Honggai Honggai, at first glance, I thought it was a group of clan women traveling together.

In fact, it is similar. Among the women in this group, there is at least one with the title of Township Lord, but except for the headed one, the rest are not real clans.

These are of course Fengyu Keqing and the others, but Keqing is now in her teens and the autumn harvest has just ended. The various crops and utensils on their farm are shining brightly, even the pickiest people will be satisfied. It is said that the women who are in charge of these things are the pillars of the country, don't say that women are not allowed to give up to men, and such a man should be ashamed to ziha when he meets such a woman!Because of their contributions, Tu Jingchen not only canonized them one by one, but also gave Grace to open the Nanshan Palace for half a month, allowing them to play as much as they wanted.

Feng Yu has come up with several soil fertilizer formulas over the years, but before the advent of the industrial age, the output of these soil fertilizers was actually limited. Therefore, Feng Yu found a sea merchant to mine fecal rocks from the islands where migratory birds often land. After these fecal rocks are crushed, they become high-quality fertilizers. Together with the hybrid varieties cultivated in Huangzhuang in various places, one mu of land can now produce seven to eight hundred catties of rice and four to five hundred catties of wheat.Insect pests are also a problem. On the one hand, Fengyu developed the artificial hatching technology, which allows folks to raise poultry such as chickens and ducks at a lower cost, and scatter the poultry into the fields to eat various pests. A kind of insect comb, which can be used to comb the seedlings in the ground, and the insects attached to the seedlings can be combed out.

Now the development of agricultural technology has forced steel smelting. After all, although some of those agricultural machines can use wood, steel is still used in many key places. Now Liu Fu has broken the unspoken rule that concubines are not allowed to take real jobs. He officially took over the job of the Ministry of Industry, led a group of people to build a small blast furnace in full swing, and then thought about turning coal into coke first, so as to increase the temperature of the furnace and improve the quality of steel.Liu Jiong, together with Liu Xianglian, followed Feng Yu's tips and wondered if it was possible to build a steam engine that could be put into use first.

This also makes many scholars at a loss, saying that these are all strange skills, but it seems that the whole Daqi can benefit from it from top to bottom. Over there, a lot of craftsmen who could only bury their heads in their work, and would take the blame if they were not good, suddenly became popular, so that they turned themselves over and were no longer controlled by those officials above, and had a huge impact. Autonomy, and correspondingly, the reputation and income obtained have also increased a lot.After all, there is no mandatory binding of professions in this dynasty, and it cannot be said that if you become a master craftsman for the Ministry of Industry, you can no longer do it elsewhere. There is no place for you to stay here, and you have your own place to stay, not to mention those wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River That is, those noble clansmen in the capital, watching the movement of the two princess mansions, all have red eyes.Now that the world is peaceful, there is not much going on in the court, and for these noble clansmen, there is no way to fight for power, so they can only pursue profits!Compared with those methods of merging land and stealing plunder, find some skilled craftsmen, and have some good ideas, even if you follow the trend of the two princess mansions, as long as the speed is fast enough, you can grab enough benefits, and it will not hurt you. Fame, who doesn't like it! .

In addition, in the local area, people don't just want to read sage books. After all, things like imperial examinations are really not that easy. There are only 100 Jinshi in three years, and only 1 in 1 years. How many people are there in Daqi now?It is already over [-] million, that is to say, among [-] people, don’t even think about having a Jinshi. Those who have been educated for generations have to be removed here. A Jinshi is even more so for the people at the bottom.

Therefore, for the middle and lower classes, it is more cost-effective now to study for a few years in elementary school, know some commonly used characters, and know basic arithmetic, and then enter those big workshops and learn crafts from the master. It can almost satisfy the life of a family. If you marry another daughter-in-law who owns a loom or works in a weaving workshop, then the family will become a well-off local family.If you have qualifications, luck, and can be a master craftsman, then it will be even more extraordinary. If a master craftsman is produced in any workshop, you must not sacrifice it!

Confucianism is originally a learning that has been constantly improving. Therefore, Confucian learning has begun to be ashamed of empty talk and has begun to pay attention to practical learning.In particular, folk women began to occupy a pivotal position in economic life, and Neo Confucianism began to become outdated.Originally, in the middle and late period of the former dynasty, the study of the mind had a prosperous situation, but it has not become the mainstream all the time, that is, it is just lecturing among the people, but now, the study of the mind is making a comeback under the name of the unity of knowledge and action, and the study of things to learn , In the court, many people also changed their positions and became fans of Xinxue.Some families have various workshops themselves, or students who have a certain relationship with these industries have also begun to study these knowledge.

These people originally had a good foundation and extensive knowledge, and they also found various books on natural science brought by overseas missionaries. They felt that other people's translations were inaccurate, so they translated them themselves.In addition, part of the textbooks written by Feng Yu and Ke Qing inevitably leaked out.

However, compared with their studies, which are still difficult to form a system for the time being, the progress of those women who have successively devoted themselves to Ke Qingfengyu's school over the years is still much better.Like Daiyu, if it weren't for being the daughter of a courtier, she wouldn't just be a princess.In fact, Feng Yu once suggested giving a serious official position or even a title. It is not without precedent to confer titles on women. There were such things in Qin and Han Dynasties.In the past, these people didn't have the credit for these women now. How could they be knighted, but now they can't?

Tu Jingchen has a lot of ideas about this. In his opinion, no matter men or women, as long as they can do things for themselves, who is not a seal?In comparison, the cost of conferring a woman is actually lower, but this kind of thing is very difficult to pass in the court, so it has to be done slowly.Canonizations such as county lords, county lords, and township lords are very easy to pass in the court. To put it bluntly, these canonizations sound good, but in fact they have no real power and do not require too much expenditure. Even more expenditure is Walking away from the clan's mansion, so even if you are an old-fashioned person, you don't have much to say. After all, they have made such a great contribution. If you don't even give this bit of title, then how many things have you done? Do you have the face to occupy a high position?

For this group of women, they are already satisfied with the treatment they are receiving now. After all, they never thought that women can also be knighted for meritorious service, and now they can rely on their own abilities instead of relying on their father and brother With their current status, they can already feel proud.

The only thing that is criticized is that these women are not willing to marry at all after they have a certain status.

Like Daiyu, the Lin family is very open-minded. When they allowed Daiyu to follow Keqing to engage in agriculture, they were ready to raise Daiyu for the rest of their lives.What's more, after Princess Fengguo promised not to marry, all the benefits suddenly increased. Even though many people knew that Princess Changning did as well as Princess Fengguo, she was still a little worse in many things.As a daughter of the Lin family, Daiyu married a foreigner and became another wife. One is to bring glory to her mother's family, and the other is to bring glory to her husband's family. There is a big difference!

The knowledgeable people of other families also think the same way. Instead of spending a large dowry to send their daughters to other people's homes to be cattle and horses, it is better to keep the daughter at home. She has her own salary, reputation, and ability. I can continue to do what I want to do. After I get married, the hard work of these years can only be an embellishment to the reputation of my husband's family. For example, how about my family? Isn't it a drop in price!

That is to say, some people who are not at the same level worry about this. They raise a daughter in their family, and many times it is actually for a good marriage, but now the daughter is more promising than the son, and the son will be laughed at when he goes out, and then some People who have good intentions or are simply full of bad intentions tease and ridicule them openly and secretly, and immediately regret it, thinking that it is of no use for a daughter to be successful, and it is a shame to not be able to marry at this age.

For such a family, Keqing's approach is to find Tu Jingchen directly and give these women a house and property so that they can be independent households. Whoever wants to come here, you have to be qualified to come. , you can come to preach and even insult once or twice with the help of blood and family, how can you not come to the door ten or eight times!

For example, Xue Baoqin, her mother and elder brother have no opinion on her not marrying. After all, Xue Baoqin will inevitably lose confidence in marriage because of the Mei family incident. Besides, Xue Baoqin is now a village lord. She is very self-aware and knows herself. The qualifications are actually not outstanding among the female officials, so these years, they only specialize in the improvement of one crop, that is, corn, which is also an imported product from overseas. At this time, the output is actually very average. There are seven or eight ears, but the ears of corn are not big, and the corn kernels on them are sparse, so the folks are actually not happy to have more varieties.Xue Baoqin was lucky, and found several parents with outstanding traits. After several years of repeated crossbreeding, he finally bred a large-eared, early-maturing durum corn variety, which more than doubled the corn yield. Through testing, it was finally found that corn is more durable than rice and wheat, and Fengyu tried to make sugar from corncobs with great success. In this way, the economic value of corn increased by a large amount, and Xue Baoqin was awarded the title of Township Lord.

At this time, the Mei family licked their faces and brought up the marriage again. After being rejected by the Xue family, they slandered all kinds of things behind their backs. The Xue clan also wanted to get a share of it. After the mansion was given, Xue Baoqin simply moved there with his mother. Xue Biao also bought a house next to the Xiangjun's mansion and lived there with his wife and children, which saved a lot of trouble.

Xue Baoqin is proud of the spring breeze, but Xue Baochai's side is full of chicken feathers.

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